So...whats for dinner?
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Thanks Cowgirl. I did hear from Magari and she's still in SF. I can hardly wait to make the trip and have lunch with you. I was there in Sept 2019 and that's FAR too long without seeing the Pacific.
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Dinner was spaghetti with meat sauce, one of the few things I could eat tonight. I fell yesterday while taking a walk, led with my chin and broke two teeth ( upper center, #8 &9 if you know dental numbering). Can chew on the sides as long as I can get the food in my mouth!
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Oh Beaver No. I'm so sorry. Looks like you're in for a few days of mashed potatoes and applesauce & scrambled eggs. Do you think crowns will work or will you be stuck going with a bridge or implants? Hope your dentist can get you in quickly.
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Both teeth were crowned, one broke off part of the crown and I think that will be a replacement. The other broke the tooth off at the gum line which means removing what's left of it. My preference is to have an implant. Back to the dentist next week for him to remove the stitch in my upper lip and discuss moving forward. Right now my chin is in technicolor, wearing a mask is a blessing!
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Beaverntx: Use arnica gel on your chin and the bruises will subside much sooner. It was recommended by my dentist post surgery where she inflicted some nice facial bruises. She was shocked when she saw them and LOL, I delighted in telling her that I told everyone she was the cause. I was off from work so no one knew except my DH and I what had happened but the look on her face was priceless. Meanwhile the arnica works wonders for unsightly bruises and reduces the pain.
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Ouch Beaver! Glad you’re ok.
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So sorry to read about the dental ouchies and dermatological issues on today's posts Beaver and Minus. Hoping the best from here!
Lillimae your dinner looks awesome.
Made Burgundy Beef in the crockpot today, served over amish noodles with a side of boiled squash with butter (DH newest request) and applesauce.
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Lots of ouchies going on! Beaver and Minus, hope your issues can be resolved with minimally invasive treatment.
Dinner tonight was reverse seared thick pork chops with apples and cider pan sauce, buttered noodles. I braised some green beans but they turned out so salty as to be inedible so they ended up in the garbage disposal. Not sure what happened there. It was plenty of food without the beans.
I will be happy to get a bigger kitchen so I can make my own chicken broth and pasta sauce again. I hope I remember how to cook.
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Yikes, Beav & Minus! Too many owies among us! Feel better (and look better) soon!
Ordered out yesterday for butternut squash soup, and bourbon salmon over grilled sweet potatoes & julienne veggies. Ate half and had the leftovers tonight with a slice of buttered low-carb toast. Dessert was a large handful of pistachios--keeps my hands busy shelling them--and a keto cookie. Brunch was a 3-egg fresh herb/Boursin omelet.
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Yikes, indeed, Minus and Beaver! I, too, hope that you can both heal with minimally invasive treatments. It's nice to hear that mask wearing provides a secondary gain, post fall, Beaver.
I'm also a fan of Arnicare, which a trainer recommended to me a few years ago for sore muscles/joints. Good to know it's also helpful for healing unsightly bruises more quickly.
Minus, so far, we are doing okay at home. "Most" of the colleges have been responsible with testing and isolation of Covid positive students, and we are remaining homebodies except for our walks and trips to the grocery stores. I'm back to my sewing table, and cooking a lot. Our greatest entertainment is being "virtual fans" at the Celtics' playoff games...done safely from our family room! Tonight that may end, though, unless our young Cs can pull off a win over Miami, who is proving to be a much stronger team with a perfect blend of seasoned stars, sharp-shooting rookie talent, and their superb coach.
Nance, I doubt you will be losing your cooking (and baking!) skills any time soon....but I do feel for you as you manage in your limited kitchen space.
I know I've mentioned how DH is thriving as our "designated food shopper" since Covid's arrival. The unintended consequence of that has been more pressure on the resident cook! Our refrigerator now often has protein selections and tons of produce awaiting prep for the dinner table since I prefer not to freeze meats. This week, after the pork tenderloin dinner, we had grilled salmon fillets with butternut squash and salad. Then last night, I stared at the chicken breasts for a while before the inspiration to bake them with pesto topped with mozzarella and parmesan. I served those over “little ear” pasta, with a salad and crusty bread (no keto followers in this kitchen!) dipped in evoo garlic and parm in a cute little “grating” pottery dish I bought for DH this summer. See pic below.
Earlier this week, I snuck in a veggie meal of roasted cauliflower “steaks”, which DH (after anticipatory groans) discovered he liked...yay!
Tonight we’ll have “jump ups” of the pesto chicken and pasta. This weekend we are daringly heading over to see DS2’s family. Will be masked up, bring pizza and my salad, and safely eat outdoors since the weather is back to being warm. Can’t wait to see that baby! She is a full-fledged very active toddler now...and still sporting minimal hair! It always feels so weird to have her relating to us as masked grandparents.I hope everyone has a safe, healthy, and delicious weekend!
Little grating/dipping dish on the left, designed for the garlic and the parmesan to be grated on the pebbly bottom before adding the evoo. I figured DH would enjoy it since he has never met a crusty bread he doesn’t love. I covet his metabolism!
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Lacey, I want that! Looks delicious.
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I love the "grating" dish. Interesting about the pebbled bottom.
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Had the same thought as Minus about the pebbles bottom. My dipping dishes (sized for individual use) have smooth bottoms.
Thanks for the reminder about arnica, sending DH out to get some!
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Everyone needs to stay upright!!! No falling down!
minus - what part of your nose is this new spot? I had one MOHS on the left side of mine, kind of in the crease where nose meets cheek. He had to go very deep and could not close the skin without cutting and swinging a piece of skin down to cover. I am shocked that the scar is not more noticeable - he is a MOHS master. DH is doing well, worked half days from home this week and the only upset was a couple of tech glitches. Will work full time from here next week and then return to the office first week of October. He has continued to be surprised by how sapped he feels - gives him a new appreciation for all of us and the surgeries we have had!
The painting projects at DD's were successes! The cabinet is super cute and the window sills DH painted look fantastic. Yay!
Dinner last night and tonight was penne with mushroom and meat sauce, and garlic toast. I had a cute top on last night which I promptly dropped a sauce laden penne noodle on - I had a cotton camisole on under, it was a floaty drapy type of top - so I whipped it off and put it in the sink with some detergent and carried on with dinner, lol!
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Ouch, Beev.. I hope the teeth can be fixed without a lot of hassle.
And, Minus, I hope the MOHS part 2 isn't needed.
There isn't much else happening here. I've been busy renovating landscaping and working in the heat is a powerful appetite reducer. :-)
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Thank you, Eric. I'll know more about how much hassle when I see the dentist next week after, hopefully, the swelling has subsided. Do know the roots of one tooth will have to be removed, hoping then it can be replaced with an implant; hoping the other one can be a replacement crown. Probably looking at several weeks...
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I have an implant. It's so good and trouble free that I have to stop and think , "OK which one is it?" when I do the special flossing routine for that tooth. And, when getting the implant mount placed, I was all ready for "this is going to hurt" and it ended up hurting a lot less than a stubbed big toe.
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75 degrees even at 9 pm! Only 2 more days of summer weather till the cold & rain roll in on Mon. Dinner on Cellars' patio tonight--sesame-crusted seared ahi appetizer, fish & chips entree (subbed a Caesar salad for the chips) with coleslaw. Did a calorie-splurge: dessert was Black Dog double-chocolate gelato. Going to the Barn in Evanston (tent seating) for early steak dinner tomorrow.
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Eric, I,too, have an implant due to a tooth that was adsorbing (not a typo) itself. That's one reason I prefer an implant to a bridge. The other is that a bridge requires daily "fiddling" while once past the early stages an implant is treated more like any other tooth.
Sandy, double chocolate, yum!! I always thought you could not have too much chocolate until I tasted a five chocolate dessert and it was just too rich. Double sounds just right.
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Special - I previously had double MOHS for basal cells on each side of the nose by the creases. Both were about the diameter of a pencil eraser. My talented surgeon was also able to pull the skin over so it's not very noticeable. I'm just not sure there's more skin left to pull if we have a 'do-over'. But I'm going to stick my head in the sand and not worry about it until the end of next month.
Nance & Lacey & Carole - and all the rest of us who buy Raos - I thought this snippet about Ina Garten was illuminating. If it's good enough for her, it's certainly fantastic for me.
When it comes to store-bought pasta sauce, there's only one brand Ina trusts and that's Rao's. Garten revealed Rao's is the only brand she trusts to buy from the store during an interview with Today last year.
Eric - I agree. Working in the heat takes away any appetite. All I want is a cool Gin & Tonic. Amazingly it was down to 69 this morning. But least we get excited about fall, it was over 90 by noon.
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Was feeling a bit punk so DH, instead of getting us his favorite cuban takeout as we had planned earlier in the day, made grilled cheese sandwiches with tomato basil soup. Perfect.
Tomorrow he'll grill some cheddar bacon burgers (if all goes as planned) and I'll make my mother's delicious potato salad to go with it.
Minus, also a Rao's fan here! 😍
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Rao's is my go-to, even at Whole Foods prices when I can't get to Costco. I even use it for shakshuka (adding a little harissa & za'atar).
Breakfast was 2 fried eggs & black coffee. We went for an early dinner (more like "dunch") at The Barn of Evanston. Parked on-street (metered), 1/3 the price of (and safer than) valet. Dined in the tent, which was a good thing: though the thermometer said 78F, the wind had other ideas. At one point, we had to anchor the menu QR-code card under a vase because it blew off the table. I did carb-cheat: app was the "Grand Central Caviar Sandwich" of bowfin roe, crème frâiche and chervil on home-baked toast; and I had half of one of their whole-grain sourdough rolls. Bob had a Little Gem salad (like a wedge, but with those small leaves). His entree was filet mignon with potatoes; I had pan-roasted halibut over Brussels sprouts and a grilled asparagus/bell pepper medley. Sides were creamed chard with cipolline onions, and sauteed wild mushrooms. We took home half. I will save mine as my "fast-breaker" meal Monday night after Yom Kippur; my Cellars leftovers from last night will be my pre-Kol Nidre dinner. Since I am not "sick" (no longer in active treatment and no symptoms) I am not forbidden to fast.
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Last night was a salad with the leftover half of a bagged kale salad. I hadn't bought this salad in many months since I had grown tired of it way back when. But I bought a bag on impulse and enjoyed it as a change from romaine salad. I added avocado. In addition to the salad we had a small frozen pizza that was given to us by one of the couples in the resort. They were emptying their refrigerator and freezer before departing.
I will be giving my unused freezer items to Hugh, a man who lives in one of the two condos. He's always willing to take anything offered to him. He's a seasonal worker at Itasca State Park and is very thrifty, probably out of necessity.
The weather has turned gloomy and we are planning to depart on Thursday. So next week will be busy with preparations for abandoning our 5th wheel camper to survive a cold winter. Unfortunately, I will probably feel less safe in my parish in Louisiana where Covid cases have been much higher than in this rural county. I'm hoping I will be able to go to the gym but I'm doubtful. Recently I learned that two of the women in the golf association at our club had Covid. Both recovered but one was very ill for three weeks and lost a lot of weight.
Normally, I watch three political talk shows on Sunday morning but current happenings are so stressful that I am not watching them today. I will read the NYT and WAPO online.
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Carole: I saw this on BCO and agree totally with your by-passing TV shows. Sad but true. Like you, I'm getting my news via real "paper" or newspapers on line, which I can always put down. My brother who sends me at least 6 links to read/watch every day did not think it was amusing - but it certainly applies to all sides of the issues.
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I don't think the cartoon above is political, but I'll be happy to delete it if anyone is offended.
Don't know what got into me but I was slicing & dicing & cooking up a storm Friday & Saturday.
My Mother never made Tuna Noodle casserole with pasta noodles - only with La Choy Chow Mein noodles. Also I wanted to use some of my Kirkland canned Salmon, but didn't want to use Cambell's soup as the liquid. I ended up converting a sort of Hungarian Noodle recipe that used sour cream & cottage cheese as the sauce base. Then I tossed in most of a big bag of fresh spinach towards the end. Could have used more spices, but not bad.
Yesterday I cooked ham hock & beans with celery, onions, carrots - and used Anasazi beans instead of navy beans. I forgot that the Anasazi don't need to soak as long so it's a bit soft, but their flavor is delicious. Also made potato salad, deviled eggs, and cucumbers w/onion & dill marinated in sour cream.
To top it off, I had some leftover cold rice that didn't get turned into fried rice last week and decided to see if I could make rice pudding. My Mom always made it in a double boiler and used un-cooked rice, but turns out there are several recipes with leftover rice. One was baked in the oven and two were cooked on the stove top only. I chose stove top, but probably not much difference in heating up the house since I had to stand & stir for 30 minutes. I had some OLD small snack packs of raisins that softened nicely when I added them early. I know my Mom never did this, but all of these called for a beaten egg towards the end. It definitely changes the dish to more of a 'set' pudding, but using leftover rice the grains had pretty much lost their shapes anyway. It wasn't what I intended or thought I was making, but it was very good. Out of the 1-1/2 cups of pudding, I ate almost all of it last night and had to force myself to put down the spoon.
Needless to say, no cooking today - or tomorrow, or the next day. I have too much food to finish in an entire week.
Anybody know if I could freeze ham hock & beans?
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I think the cartoon is funny.
Enough politics from me.
As soon as I cool down, I'm going back work on the landscaping.0 -
Broccoli-cheddar quiche and mesclun salad with balsamic vinaigrette at brunch today. Will reheat my Fri. leftover fried fish and eat it with leftover Caesar salad before Kol Nidre services begin tonight. Saving the quiche for break-the-fast tomorrow, and last night's leftover halibut & veggies for a slightly late dinner.
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Cooler most places - so who's cooking?
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No food today, because it's Yom Kippur. Because Reform online services are short, we usually finish before sunset even when they're held in-person at temple. But because they're pre-recorded (and on YouTube), they're even shorter and will likely end even earlier! Will have a little challah & wine for the Kiddush afterward (as they serve at temple). Dinner will be my leftovers (1/2 slice of quiche, salad, fish--ahi & halibut & veg, starting slowly and gradually). Bob is working, so he will eat at the hospital.
Taking a break right now from YouTube Yom Kippur services--afternoon starts back up at 3:15. I couldn't volunteer to take part (blessings, ark-opening, etc,) in the August recordings, because at the time I had the big lead patch on my eye, and then even with no patch my R eye was not ready for public viewing. But the services turned out fantastic--including even Jeff Tweedy (leader of Grammy-winning rock band Wilco) and his two sons singing one of the hymns, with wife Susan behind the camera. (Yes, they're temple members--we are so lucky to have them).
It was a bit weird to see the chat scrolling along the side, with greetings & comments by the rabbi & cantor in real time. At one point last night, there were over 300 people logged in, from all over the country. And I discovered this morning my TV has YouTube built in! No way to do live chat on it, of course, but I can always mute the audio on the computer and type while I watch live on TV. I watched archived morning services (slept in because of fasting), but will do the rest live, till the last blast of the Shofar and the subsequent Kiddush. (blessing over wine & bread, which I'll have at the ready), Havdalah blessings & celebration.
Raining again now--we really need it!
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I guess it's cooler here...as in steel is no longer boiling. I'm getting ready to can some more broth...outside....
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