So...whats for dinner?
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Dinner was leftover curry chicken thighs and brown rice, corn cut off the cob sauteed in butter, and salad with tomato, cucumber and avocado. The corn was very sweet. The leftover rice and chicken was ho hum.
I bought two pretty eggplants yesterday at supermarket. A layered eggplant dish is in the near future.
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RE: Colonoscopy - I was told to stop nuts & seeds several days before - including things like peas & beans. And then nothing red for 24 hours. But of course the prep drink & resulting time on the porcelain throne is worse than the procedure. Early on I had polyps that were removed & call backs every year or two, but now my last procedure after five years found NO polyps. Hopefully I'm through manufacturing them, but at least I got a pass for another 5 years.
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Minus - thanks. Peas were on my list too but not beans curiously. This is a new doc this go around. I’m a big polyp producer too so frequent flyer. Hoping for a better outcome this time.
Lunch is the remains of the shrimp cocktail, a leftover bbqd rib and some potato salad. Dinner will be the aforementioned chicken enchiladas and some yellow rice.
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Nance, I've had 4 colonoscopies over the last 14 years and every time the prep instructions have been different, even tho the last two were only 3 years apart with the same doctor! Prep has gotten better over that time, though. Not saying that it is wonderful, just improved.
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Breakfast was cream cheese and lox (with tomato, onion, dill & capers) on one slice of low-carb whole wheat bread. Dinner was a panino on two slices of the same bread (prosciutto, provolone, tomato, bell peppers and mushrooms with rosemary from the garden). Bob made it home too late for dinner.
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Tonight is leftovers
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Dinner last night was home-made hamburgers with a side salad of cucumber and avocado.
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carole/minus/illimae/any other TX & LA peeps - as much as I am glad neither Marco or Laura are coming to Tampa after an initial forecast with that possibility, I am now worried about you guys.
Dinner tonight will be pulled chicken over Napa cabbage, additional veggies, with a sweet and sour dressing. DD has to travel for work over to the east coast of FL this coming week so DH will be staying over at the downtown house to take care of the little orange parrot and the chickens, so I will be ferrying dinners and his work lunches over there. I need to paint the two exterior doors on the back of that house, and do some odds and ends inside. We have replacement (hurricane strength) windows going in starting on the 31st, and continuing Sept 1 & 2. We had no choice but to do impact resistant glass as that house is in the >139mph zone, but it tells me why they did a whole house remodel in 2018 and didn't replace the windows.... I am glad the house doesn't have any more windows and sliding doors than it does, this is not an inexpensive undertaking. We really have to do this though because the original metal windows have gaps and water and bugs can just come right in. There were two additions in a previous remodel but the installer says he can make the front look good - the good news is that the two like windows are in the middle and the unlike are on the outsides so it will look symmetrical in any case. We will be doing a final (hopefully) termite resolution kind of simultaneously as opening up the window locations allows us to get some treatment in those spots. I am unwilling to tent because of both the rain, and the fact that it will only treat what is currently there. This area has a lot of old historic trees that are full of termites - I would have to tent every spring at $1200 a pop - nope. Will drill into the ceilings and spot treat, thank you very much. We did do treatment for subterranean at $1500 because those are harder to treat yourself.
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Brunch was an egg Benedict (on a Mikey's keto muffin half, with tomato, prosciutto and hollandaise). Was going to grill a burger or fish for dinner, but we're having pop-up thundershowers. So will likely do whole wheat pasta supplemented with zoodles.
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Hi all, I've been a cooking fool (for me) lately. Friends with a farmette and small vineyard loaded us up recently. I made simple tomato sauce in the crockpot from tomatos they grew; blueberry muffins; sauted squash with dinner tonight of bunless three cheese burgers and slow baked beans. I've been maintaining a 9 lb weight loss but its back on the healthier eating train tomorrow.
Special 🙏 for your DH. I am prone to sinus infections and can't even imagine. Glad he seems to be on the right track now.
Sandy 🙏🙏for you as well.
Nance, All the colonoscopy talk reminds me to make that call soon. People always say its "better" now but I think that's just a marketing ploy. 🤣 Hope all goes well.
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We are in McCall, Idaho tonight. Vege-burgers and corn on the cob for dinner.
The visibility is around 5 miles/8km due to smoke from the multiple nearby wildfires.
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Reader - lol, I can’t say that anything has improved either.
Minus and you other coastal folks, please hunker down and stay safe. Carole, glad you are out of harm’s way. Eric, you be wary too.Special, that house doesn’t sound like any fun at all.
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auntie - it has been a learning experience! It never occurred to me to determine wind zone - our house is more in the ‘burbs and well out of any wind zones, so we had no experience with that concept. The flooring issue was caused by the silly appliance installer - and was covered by their insurance - but happened right as everything went into lockdown. Bleh. The termite thing - eh, this is Florida... even the fancy houses on Bayshore get regularly rented. The good news is that it’s super cute, but there have definitely been a few headaches.
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Dinner last night was a bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios for me and left over hot and sour soup for my husband. We will bake a 1/2 chicken for tonight probably have baked potatoes and vegetables. Will wash clothes today and prepare for twin hurricanes coming our way, in anticipation of power outages. As of this am, Marco weakened to a tropical storm but Laura is strengthening, so please keep us in prayers!
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Celand, I hope you stay safe and comfortable. Where in Louisiana do you live? If you don't mind revealing location. DH and I live between Madisonville and Covington in St. Tammany Parish but we are in northern MN until October if all goes according to plan.
Last night was my eggplant lasagna dish with a romaine salad with favorite additions. Leftover eggplant dish will provide another meal.
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Carolehalston,
We are in Lafayette, the heart of Acadiana. We are about 45 minutes west of Baton Rouge. We know the drill, as you do too, glad you and DH are out of harm's way for these two storms. I hope and pray that your family and friends here are safe and that you all don't get significant property damage or flooding. We have lived here for 33 years but have never flooded, although did have a couple of close calls (like when we have gotten over 20 inches of rain in a day).
Eggplant lasagna sounds good, did you bring Tony Chachere's seasoning with you?
Celand
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It looks like a very light sprinkle rain here, which, if it happens, is excellent for the fires....turns them into a slow moving tame fire that burns out the dead pine needles/twigs on the ground without hurting the trees. This consumes the fuels so a big wildfire is less likely.
Stay safe everyone in hurricane alley. I'm on call in September and, no offense, but I'd rather not meet you when I'm on the job! :-)
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Celand, Carole--praying that you stay as high & dry as you can. I have a dear friend who lives in the Carrollton neighborhood of NOLA--she is a musician (singer, songwriter, guitarist and fiddler extraordinaire--besides her solo career she moonlights in Bruce Daigrepont's band); even before the pandemic she was just making ends meet, and barely made it through Katrina. And now this impending double-whammy...
Late lunch was guacamole toast (had half an avocado I needed to use up). For dinner I'm freezer-foraging: chunks of Filipino skewered pork & a couple of lumpia (mini-spring rolls) made by Bob's medical partner; likely accompanied by cauliflower rice or grilled asparagus. Bob's working late again tonight, so just "nuking" for myself. Hotter than blazes out and only getting hotter; tomorrow night we were planning to dine alfresco but I hope it's cool enough and we can score a table in the shade. Certainly not going to our sushi/Thai spot, which is out in the open on a treeless blvd. with no table umbrellas.
UPDATE: As the (supposed) pork began to thaw, I noticed it was really roasted potatoes. Oh, well. Back to the drawing board...
I defrosted an Alaskan salmon filet, and prepped the remaining snap peas. Fired up the grill (didn't want to heat up the kitchen) but also knew that no matter how many times I'd oil the grates (and how hot they got) the fish would still stick. So I decided to use the grill as a burner and make the filet the way I do on the stovetop, in a cold nonstick skillet with salt & pepper as "ball bearings." Nope--just wouldn't get hot enough. So I sighed and made the salmon on the stovetop while I sauteed the snap peas in garlic-ginger oil and toasted sesame seeds. Squeezed lemon over the fish. Ate out on the deck, even though it was 90F, because I was in no mood to have Happy jump on to the table or my lap (which is what he does whenever I eat). It was actually quite pleasant, because the sun had set.
I have to shake my head when I recall what I was taught in 7th grade Home Ec (and later in a local--Brooklyn--WW chapter mimeographed "cookbook"): "Fish should be cooked fast and hot in a broiler, till it flakes with a fork." By that point, it's overdone and tastes "fishy." It should cleave in glistening slabs--and the way to pan sear it to achieve that is to monitor it with an instant-read thermometer: for Atlantic, 125F, for Pacific, 120F. Works every time.
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Pork cooking has undergone a similar transformation.
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chisandy - just bought some salmon, and don't cook it often, so will follow your advice with the thermometer - I have an instant read digital one. I think I will cook extra and make salmon tacos another evening with an avocado crema. Debating trying to use DD's Traeger while she's out of town - should be interesting as we have not used a pellet grill before. She is sponsored by Traeger and receives weekly shipments from them - sauces, rubs, and different flavored pellets. How are you feeling?
Last night was beef short ribs - seared on the stove, then braised in the oven in a mixture of chili sauce, pineapple with juice, onion, Worchestershire, honey, and garlic. I made risotto with parm and broccoli to accompany. Tonight I need to take dinner to DD's as she will be gone and DH is staying there for the remainder of the week. That house is half the distance to his office as our house, cuts his commute from an hour to 20 mins. He is feeling crappy in the run up to his surgery so any additional rest is a good thing. His ENT couldn't believe he can even function, but he was medicated around the clock with ibuprofen - can't do that for the two weeks prior to surgery date, has to settle for Tylenol which is not as effective for him, but better than nothing. I am thinking mac n cheese - was going to add bacon and chipotle, but realized I am out of thick cut peppered bacon, so will have to come up with an alternative. Later this week will be a pesto and goat cheese flatbread - maybe on the grill... Will also prob do something in the crockpot - when we cleaned out my MIL/FIL's house DD ended up with a crockpot she has never used. I have a chuck roast in the freezer, that could work - maybe with French onion soup and mushrooms, extra onion.
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Thanks for asking, Special. My eye is slowly improving, though as the sutures dissolve and make their way out of the eye they do hurt, like a grain of sand in my eye. I'm seeing well enough to try driving, except the pupil is still dilated (and both will be dilated in tomorrow's exam) and will remain so until 1-2 wks after I've stopped the nightly atropine drop. The other drops (antibiotic & steroid) are a PITA, but at least I'm down to twice a day. I have another issue--I was exfoliating (hadn't taken care of my face in weeks) and a whitehead popped--the "plug" was very hard, like a tiny seed. (At first I thought it was one of the cleansing grains). I messaged my derm (with photos) but she hasn't responded. It didn't bleed. I washed it immediately with soap & water, blotted dry with a sterile gauze, applied antibiotic ointment and covered it with a little "spot" Band-Aid. Hope it doesn't get infected or scar. No way I can see my derm--she's way up in Lake Bluff (almost an hour north) and I'm not yet cleared to drive. My full-skin exam is scheduled for Sep. 10. (Rescheduled from May due to the pandemic).
But mostly I'm nervous & anxious and my appetite is off. (Worried about my eye and the biopsy, my friends in NOLA and Houston, and whether I will get my mail-in ballot in time). It seems my cats eat oftener than I do. At least Happy doesn't vomit daily. Heidi is a finicky little princess and doesn't always finish her wet food in one sitting--so I have to protect it & her kibble from Happy, who will basically eat anything except his prescription food.
We're in for a very hot one tomorrow--at least 98F (stop laughing, Eric), heat index 105-110. Ugh. And of course, my HK--who is dropping me off at UIC--can't wait with me at my eye appt., and we're not allowed to mill about indoors after I call her to pick me back up--so I might have to wait outdoors.
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So deeply in your pocket Sandy for today’s results.
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Celand, my sister Linda lives in your "neck of the woods." She lives at Four Corners, near Jeanerette and also Franklin and Patterson. Lafayette has some good restaurants. About a mile from my sister's house is a little family owned restaurant where she can get good oyster poboys or seafood dinners. I think she does take out occasionally. She and her dh are recluses with their own little zoo.
Hurricanes are one of the three H's that influence us to leave home for the summer. The others are Heat and Humidity.
Last night's dinner was leftover eggplant casserole. It tasted even better warmed up. The side was a salad with tomato, cucumber and banana pepper I picked off a bush in Mary's little garden. On impulse I made a sort of garlic toast with two buns advertised as Kaiser buns that I had bought for home-made hamburger night.
I don't use Tony's but do use onion and garlic powder and cayenne regularly. Tony's has a lot of salt. Another sister, Michelle, uses Tony's on every meat dish she cooks and even in beans.
The tagalong storm, Laura, is looking like a serious threat.
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chisandy - hope the exfoliating situation is nothing to worry about and that your derm gets back to you. I just had my delayed skin check last week - had a mole removed - from my face - not one that I was concerned about other than it was getting larger. They called yesterday to tell me it was benign, first time I have heard that from them, lol! I am 100% for skin cancers on things they have biopsied, so it was refreshing to hear nothing bad. It was sliced off at the skin level, so will now look like a large freckle. I hope. I realized afterward that I could not get my Vivera retainers in and out because the bandage was at the corner of my mouth. First world problem, I know. I feel you on the worry and anxiety - I think we are all doing a good job of holding it together until there is just one more thing to worry about and then we realize the tipping point for each of us has shifted - I totally get it. I had to laugh at the animal goings on at your house, I have a similar situation. Our cat is inordinately interested in the dog's prescription kibble, but if he eats a couple of them, he throws up. The dog has to be convinced to eat, and likes to graze, but I can't leave the kibble in the bowl or the cat thinks it belongs to him. The cat has also taken to napping on the ironing pad on the counter that I am using for pressing the masks I am still making. It is a good thing they are cute, they are getting on my last nerve. Hang in there, and fingers crossed for some smooth sailing for you.
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No results yet. (Ocular onc. says possibly the tumor was too small to get an adequate sample). Should wait another week. But he's happy with my progress--tumor hasn't shrunk yet (that'll take weeks) but cell damage has begun, which is the point. I can taper off the drops--including the atropine, so my pupil will gradually become reactive again in 7-14 days. Acuity and swelling improving (though I get an occasional "zinger" as a dissolving suture makes its way out). I have permission to drive--short distances in familiar territory, to judge my depth perception, when the sunlight isn't too bright (until my R pupil can constrict again). Followup in Nov.
Good news on the derm front--I just need to keep the area clean and apply Aquaphor or Vaseline, no bandage necessary. Should not scar, just look like a large pore. Mederma is also an option.
Today is just about the last day of my pity-party (my appetite has been sucking of late--heat, inactivity, political angst and medical worry have all combined). So basically, I've been eating what I want (not far off from what I should) when I want (not often enough). Bob suggested my HK & I stop off at the drive-thru at Pompeii in Little Italy (right near both UIC & Union Health, his lunch spot of choice). Ordered a slice of pizza "al taglio"--square cut, slightly thick crust but not as thick as Sicilian or deep-dish--sausage, pepper, mushroom; and (don't judge) a cannoli. (Plain--chocolate-dipped is a bit over the top). So brunch was 3/4 of the slice of pizza. Dinner will be the other 1/4 and a small Caprese (a couple of homegrown tomato remnants I need to use up) over baby arugula. Will have half the cannoli tonight, and offer the other half to Bob when he gets home. (I realize now I forgot to order arancini--maybe Bob can bring one home tomorrow, stashing it in his office's or hospital fridge till he leaves). I prefer arancini to suppli--the former is crunchier and the latter too tomato-ey.
Carole, Ilona, Minus, and everyone between NOLA and Houston--hope you've gotten far enough north to high & dry ground ahead of Laura, which has the potential to be worse than Katrina. (Carole, hope you're still up in the north woods)!
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Sandy hurrah on the pizza and cannoli dinner. You sure earned it lately with all you've had going on.
My dinner after a hike with hubby today was a wonderful mango, walnut and parmesan green salad (delish) along with one of those gigantic soft pretzels topped with a local favorite, crab dip. This was at a place we stopped after our walk. They immediately embraced outdoor, distanced dining and we like to patronize them.
A serene picture from today to wish everyone well in these trying times.
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Thanks for the hurricane wishes. Last night before I dark I took in all my hanging & potted plants and my porch furniture. But as you know, the storm didn't come to Houston - so today I took them all out again. Sorry to hear about La., but glad we dodged this one.
After my early walk, I spent much of the 99 degree day re-potting plants, pruning and watering. Truly hotter than hell when I finally quit around 3pm & started a load of wash. Sorry to report I probably got some sunburn - but I'm not good at quitting when I'm in the middle of something.
Once I cooled off, my meal of the day was a spinach salad w/carrots & cashew nuts and the last two ears of corn - served with a lovely Sauvignon Blanc.
Special - interesting about your derm appointment. Hooray for benign. I usually go in every 6 months and they often have to freeze 12-15 spots and do at least one biopsy. But I think you're still ahead of my 7 MOHS skin cancer surgeries. My derm doc has severe asthma so my March appointment was cancelled. She had just started back when our numbers soared - so my July reschedule was cancelled. Now I have one scheduled for October. But who knows what will happen with the great 'return to school' experiment. Not to mention that our gov is chomping at the bit to open the bars again.
Reader - I love your walking path. I could have used some trees today.
Carole - did you hear that your house is OK?
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Reopening bars is just plain stupid. You can't social-distance and wear a mask in one. Why do people go to bars? To hang out with friends, and meet people (and drink). Bars are by nature crowded and convivial--and noisy, so you have to lean in just to hear each other. When a bar is serving its intended purpose, it's basically a Petri dish with background music. On my occasional walks, I peek into our neighborhood dive bar down the block. After the cops threatened to pull its license, it is complying with social distancing. And it is a sad place--two or three people sitting there picking glumly at bad burgers (bars have to serve food to be allowed indoor service), drinking cheap beer and watching TV. A bar where nobody interacts is basically a place for people who want to get wasted but won't--or can't--do it in their own homes.
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When one area dodges the bullet, another area gets hit. The New Orleans area escaped the devastation that Lake Charles is dealing with. Thanks for the inquiries. This is looking like a very active hurricane season. Warming oceans aren't a plus.
Dinner on Wednesday night was chicken enchiladas. They were really tasty. I had the leftover serving for lunch yesterday. Last night was smashed new potatoes flavored with butter and sour cream and broasted dark meat chicken from Clancy's restaurant.
I have fresh green beans and fresh beets in the refrigerator. They will figure into tonight's menu.
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Glad eastern LA was spared, Carole--as was Houston. (Gordy & his GF--who is from Katy--are also breathing a sigh of relief).
If we can't dine out tonight, I will probably make a choucroute garnie (with bacon, juniper berries, caraway seeds and a splash of riesling) topped with bison kielbasa and chicken bratwurst.
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