So...whats for dinner?
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Concur about RBG - what an example of a life lived with both heart and purpose. She will be missed but will continue to inform and inspire
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Sad here too. What a fighter and inspiration she was.
Dinner tonight is shepherds pie using the leftover mashed potatoes and other refrigerator bits and pieces. I picked up some of the Godiva chocolate pudding Minus mentioned. I have to say, I’m not a fan of instant pudding usually but this stuff is way better than the average bear. Can’t wait to try the dark chocolate. It’s especially good with a (heathy dollop of whipped cream 😋
Hope you Gulf coast folks aren’t in harms way again.
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Also mourning RBG--but vowing to fight.
Went to brunch (outdoors, tent) today, but there was a chilly breeze off the lake--we didn't make it out of the 50s. Bob insisted I didn't need a jacket over my sweater-knit long tee--but he hadn't spent much time outdoors this a.m. Going out to Gibson's Oakbrook tomorrow night for early dinner outdoors--will dress much more warmly.
Brunch was broccoli/cheddar quiche and salad, but the portion was humongous today--had to take half of it home. Dinner tonight will be leftover brisket, broccolini and tzimmes (supplemented with more carrots, prunes & dried apricots). Bob will have his leftover brunch potatoes too.
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Nance - glad you liked the Godiva. I've been making it with a 'smidge' less milk and it seems to set better.
Brunch was two hard boiled eggs. Supper was cottage cheese with Campari tomatoes. That's likely to be it for the day. I've been fighting for two effing hours to make a stupid USB headset & speaker work so I can give my financial report at at Zoom meeting Tuesday. All I've succeeded in doing is disconnecting my regular speakers. I can ONLY hear through the headphones now but still can't make the microphone work. URGH. Shutting everything down in favor of a large drink and some distracting novel.
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I'm gonna have to record part of a quartet song (trying to find a wall in my house with a large enough blank expanse, otherwise get a green screen) for the Bar Show. I suspect even that'll be easier than rehearsing by Zoom. (The first cast meeting last week went well, but none of us were singing or talking simultaneously--ah, the mysteries of the "mute" button)! When I record my part, I'll have to wear an AirPod rather than play the pre-recorded accompaniment on a separate speaker. Glad I'm not the one who has to edit & mix!
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I've been doing really well at 'creative' meals with whatever I had on hand, so I determined not to run to the store just because I was out of something - milk or lettuce or whatever. I'd planned to use frozen spinach instead of fresh in tomorrow's meal (bean enchiladas) and had pulled leftover rotisserie chicken out of the freezer for tonight's fried rice. However we have this storm with the stupid name headed this way. Who ever heard of a storm named "BETA"? So I went to fill my gas tank & pick up the items on my list I'll need for a week at home.
Looks like the main issue for me will be 8-12" of rain, and of course some wind. Depending on the progression of the storm & the updated target, I'll take plants & lawn furniture into the garage tonight. These are the times that make me wonder why I have more than 25 potted plants & hanging baskets.
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The storm naming folks ran out of names this year, so they go to Greek letters...there was a storm named alpha. Hopefully they don't need to go farther into the Greek alphabet!
Dinner last night was a mac & cheese dish with brussel sprouts baked in the air fryer. Neither Sharon or I have decided about dinner tonight.
I think she'll do the cooking tonight. I've been out doing yard work for the past several hours....103F/39C temperatures and it was also very dusty. Normally I wear a N95 mask when I'm doing this kind of work, but I'm saving those in case I need to fly to a deployment. I can say with some certainty that the procedure masks don't well. I feel like the dwarf, Sneezy!!!
The flour supply has normalized so I'm back to the normal sourdough backing schedule. Yeast, which I don't need, is still hard to find and canning jar lids are *g*o*n*e*. Fortunately I have enough lids for the next batch of vegetable stock (broth?),so I'm OK there.
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Stay safe, Minus. Hope Beta isn't a rerun of Harvey.
I think the storm-namers have gotten lazy--they say they don't use Q, U, X, Y or Z because there aren't names for that. Well, if they can come up with "Isaias," they sure as heck can come up with Quentin, Quincy, Quinn, Ursula, Uta, Uma, Ulrich, Xavier, Xena, Yetta, Yolanda, Yvonne, Ysidro, Ynez, Zachary, Zak, Zena, or Zelda before dipping into the Greek alphabet. (Or the Spanish numbers like Uno, Dos, etc,).
We did the full Rosh Hashonah thing for dinner last night: leftover brisket, "augmented" tzimmes (carrots, prunes, apricots added to the leftover side dish), sauteed broccolini, and roasted spuds left over from Bob's brunch. Dessert was apples, honey, and a round raisin challah Bob found at Whole Foods (their last one). Couldn't fall asleep (too much caffeine during the day, pulsatile tinnitus driving me nuts, cats on the bed making my throat tickle), so came downstairs and had a hi-fiber carb snack or two (I get those cravings when I have insomnia) while I did a crossword and took some more CBD. Slept in till 11:30, when it was cat-feeding time--but had no appetite, not even for coffee, till 3 pm (when the Bears pulled another win out of their butts). Had my leftover quiche & salad. Probably gonna have some tuna on a tomato tonight for late-ish dinner. Neither of us were up for a large steak dinner--and Gibson's Oakbrook had room only indoors. Nuh-uh. Only indoor dining I'll do is at Cellars, and only for the winemaker dinners--and if there's no other choice. (They put up a canopy 2 wks ago, just added tent walls, and will be buying torch-type heaters). When the weather makes even that untenable, it'll be back to ordering out or cooking in until late spring.
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Brunch was a cup of leftover watermelon. Supper was two tuna 'sandwiches' on the small Hawaiian rolls. Accompanied by not one - but two glasses of Kirkland Old Vine Zinfandel from Sonoma County. 2015 - one of the good years.
Eric - be still my heart for the sourdough baking!!! When we can travel again, it's worth a flight to Phoenix to taste some of your bread.
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A slow easy Sunday after a long hike yesterday. Tonight's dinner was a grilled, marinated not-by-me flank steak and a Lee Bailey tomato, red onion, and black olive salad drizzled with balsamic vinaigrette. (Also added shredded parm...he suggested feta). Then in a small burst of energy I also made corn cakes. (Fresh corn off the cob, yellow squash, 2 eggs, cornmeal and seasonings mixed up and sauted in olive oil. My husband was seduced by our local butcher/fishmonger shop and I was not along to restrain him so I'll be cooking for the next few days. Salmon tomorrow...
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Reader, that looks really good.
For dinner tonight I had a green salad with my homemade vinaigrette (EVO and balsamic vinegar, which I'm doing pretty well with) with sliced avocado and chicken salad. I used the half of the avocado this afternoon and then put the other half in the fridge. Mistake, because the avocado was too cold to have much flavor. I have to say, I feel like it is a miracle that I can make a decent vinaigrette. So encouraging.
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Yummy food pics!
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👍👍👍
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I found this about the hurricane names. https://www.news4jax.com/weather/2020/09/09/why-isnt-there-a-q-hurricane-name/
I can remember, as a radio operator, when the typewriter had the original and 5 carbons, it got hard to tell QO and UV apart on the deeper copies...so maybe someone else had the same problem. :-)
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cowgirl - I recognize a Cali avocado! Your salad looks yum!
Dinner last night was nothing for me initially, but some broccoli salad later, made a stir fry of shredded beef, onion, cabbage, and julienned carrot atop ramen noodles with most of the cooking water poured off for DH.
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Nourishment after my 4 mile walk this morning was 2 hard boiled eggs. Supper was fried rice with celery, mushrooms, onion, broccoli, leftover rotisserie chicken - and of course rice - with low sodium soy sauce.
Looks like the storm is dimishing.
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DH had his first day back to half day work from home. Seemed to go well. He likes the commute, lol! Dinner last night was pork chops, baby red potatoes with parsley and butter, and aforementioned broccoli salad.
Going to DD’s this afternoon to finish rehab of a bookshelf for her foyer area. It is the hutch from her old desk sitting on a bottom piece of a different color that has drawers and a lower shelf. I painted it with gray chalk paint - the predominant decor color In adjacent rooms - and we are wallpapering the inner back. Lowe’s carries a “”re-stick-able” wallpaper and we got a gray leaf pattern on white background. DH is planning to paint the exterior sills where the new windows were installed. The old windows had been painted black on the perimeters, which looked good contrasted with the house, which is white and has black shutters. The new windows are white, because black hurricane framed windows were ridiculously expensive. Our thought is to paint a black border around the window, In the recessed opening, but not the frame itself. Hope it looks decent
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If we don't dine out tonight, I will probably make myself a Greek salad with sardines.
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Tonight was Rosemary Demi-glace pork loin with Brussels sprouts, roasted carrots and red onions and mashed cauliflower. Turned out really nice.
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illimae, set a place for me, I'll be right over!
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Me, too, Illimae! :-)
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Oh Yum - me too. I've been in a zoom board meeting for the last 2-1/2 hours so dinner didn't happen. Too late now. Maybe I'll just have a bowl of cottage cheese & peaches.
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Minus, please have some evening nourishment! You are so busy taking care of others and your community that I worry a bit about you making space for yourself as far as meals go. Also hoping you are escaping any of the reported flooding from the latest gulf storm. Will take my mama hat off now....
Special, your energy and creative abilities continue to impress! The house improvements certainly sound like they are coming along nicely.
I, too, have been very sad about the passing of RBG, but even more distressed about the events following her death. I cannot imagine how painful it must be for her family to experience all of the political garbage that immediately started and eclipsed the importance of her life (in the media) once the announcement of her passing was made. Some of the people taking center stage in this post mortem drama should have an ounce of the intelligence, compassion, and understanding about justice that RBG possessed.
Illimae, our dinner tonight almost matched yours...marinated, grilled pork tenderloin, Brussels sprouts, farro, and a big ol mixed greens and veggies salad.
My plated salad doesn’t look as yummy as it did in the bowl, so I feel compelled to share that pic, too.
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Great dinner pictures! Makes me want to get a pork tenderloin for next week 😍
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Lacey, great minds.... beautiful dinner and delicious I’m sure.
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Lacey, I totally agree with your views on the response to RBG's passing. We live in a terrible political climate. DH and I are backing off from watching cable news because it's too disturbing and we get too angry and upset. All we can do is donate to candidates and vote. And hope for good things to happen. Or at least for better things to happen.
On the food front, I took out some frozen home-made meatballs for dinner last night and reached into a cabinet for the Rao's. WHAT??? No Rao's! I was forced to get out some cans of diced tomatoes bought despite the fact I don't really like diced tomatoes. The manual can opener has been acting up and it refused to work. So I had to get out a "church key" and used the pointed end to gouge open the cans of tomatoes and tomato paste.
The resulting red sauce tasted good but different from Rao's. The pasta was a package of linguine which cooked up to be more round than flat. Hmmm. We have leftovers for another meal.
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Carole, for those marinara emergencies:
https://www.marthastewart.com/328007/raos-marinara-sauceI saw Frank Pelligrino on Martha’s show a long time ago where he made this sauce and Rao’s Lemon Chicken. I still make the lemon chicken. I agree with a lot of the comments on the sauce that it needs more cooking. I now make sauce in the pressure cooker using a Serious Eats recipe that is outstanding.
In spite of having reached my saturation point with politics, I think tonight will be Senate Bean Soup with cornbread.
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Tonight is Beef tenderloin with a shallot pan sauce, with mashed cauliflower, Swiss chard and squash.
Taking reservations, lol
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Oh Mae - I wish. Lacey - are you doing OK surrounded by all those colleges & universities? Carole - I've been watching your temperatures. Nance - I wrote down the emergency marinara recipe. Special - has your DH settled into the 'working from home' routine? Eric - I remember the 5 carbon copies. Missed too many days so HI everyone else.
I had to be at the derm doc in the med center this am. Unfortunately she thinks I may have a recurrence or a new cancer on the side of my nose & on top of prior MOHS surgery scars for BCC. Since it was a substitute derm doc, I just got her to freeze it and I'll talk to my regular doc next month. I've seen for 25 years and she knows my skin so we'll biopsy then if necessary. I sincerely hope not since there's no more skin to pull over and I don't want go the skin graft route.
Breakfast was at noon when I got home - All Bran with raspberries. Half milk & half heavy cream.
Then I had a hectic day with computer issues. Cooking plans got scrubbed and I just had a can of smoked oysters with Triscuits. And now I'm going to try to read three days of the morning paper that I've neglected. Crazy week.
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Smoked oysters with Triscuits sound great! Sounds good that it wasn't your long term dermatologist who had concerns. Fingers crossed for your visit with your regular derm.
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