So...whats for dinner?
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Tonight was the "Night at the Bistro" French wine dinner at Cellars (last big event before Nov.'s hibernation begins). The food was terrific (and classic), and a great match for the wines*. First course was a fried oyster Rockefeller with mignonette sauce. Next was a classic French onion soup--hadn't had that in years! Then came a salad of roast duck breast with lardons, shaved Brussels sprouts, lentils and topped with a sunny-side up pullet egg. Baguette with honey butter, too. Then classic steak frites with herb butter. Dessert was a trio of creme brulee, chocolate pot de creme and raspberry tartlet.
Cellars will be open Wed. nights for live jazz guitar, then Thurs-Sat. nights and weekend brunch, but not serving on Sun. nights. It plans to close from 11/22 till spring 2021--but may have an event or two in Dec., despite furloughing most of the staff. The landlord would have no takers for that corner property in this crisis, so it's in their mutual interests to work something out during "suspended animation."
*see the "How about drinking" thread
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Dinner last night was ravioli stuffed with squash with a little olive oil drizzled over it. I needed to eat something soft since I have a new temporary crown. I also had linguini with pesto sauce which was really good. It was carbohydrate heaven. Wish I had had some ham to put with the linguini. Dinner tonight was the ravioli and then I had some chicken salad for my protein, and topped off with yogurt w/raspberry sauce. I can tell that tomorrow night with be steamed salmon and probably a green salad. I will want to round off all the carbohydrates from the last 2 days.
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Cowgirl, I can identify!! Fell and broke front teeth 4 weeks ago, had a temporary bridge put in a week ago ( after having one tooth pulled), still too tender to bite down with the temporary. Have been experimenting with instant pot chicken recipes this week--the chicken is tender and in small pieces so I can eat them fairly easily.
Sending healing thoughts your way.
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How terrible to break your front teeth and go through what you are going through. Healing thoughts going out to you. My crown & filling were a piece of cake.
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Chili
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Dinner last night was a big salad on a dinner plate with strips of chicken breast on top. DH had a zoom wood turning session and ate his dinner at his computer.
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Dinner last night was kung pao chicken with brown rice, green beans and fruit salad (app!e, grapes, banana with honey/ lemon drrssing). Tonight will be a choice of the three chicken dishes I have experimented with in the Instant Pot over the last few days. Love leftovers, get tired of planning meals.
Edited to correct autocorrect!
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Ah Kung pao - my favorite! I’m sorry to hear of the dental issues - no fun at all. Special - your dh must be getting weary of the ent stuff. It seems like he’s been suffering for quite a while.
Closing on the house is November 6 with moving planned early to mid December. The only thing worse than moving in the middle of a pandemic is moving twice in the middle of a pandemic once in December. There is so much to do to the house - new appliances, countertops, flooring, painting, fixtures, etc. I hope we can get a lot done before moving. I’m anxious to get started but can’t do much until we get possession. Adding to my stress is my knee which refuses to calm down. Was unable to complete the anti inflammatory treatment due to it causing stomach issues even though It never did before. so now I’m back to wrapping and ice. Sleep is non existent.
I’m spite of all this there has been food- chicken and leek pie, butter chicken and plain old grilled burgers with oven fries, among other things. Today I’m making corn chowder (DH’s fave). Normally I’d make dinner rolls but not in the tiny kitchen. We’ll run up to the local bakery for some good bread in a bit.
It’s gray and dreary here too adding to my Eeyore mood.
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Minus - I envy you completing your Christmas shopping. I can’t even imagine what Christmas is going to look like this year.
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Minus, I just started mine.
Got my chili in progress.
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Oh Nance - so sorry about your knee. Pain is bad enough, but no sleep is worse. Your new house sounds exciting. I too hope you are able to get most of the work done before you actually move. It might actually be worth staying in the rental place through December??
All the other meals sound delicious but the chili sounds especially good. Woke up this morning with 56 degrees. Brrrr. And the high today is only 69. Nice walking weather but no worries - it will be 80 again soon.
Breakfast was a deviled egg and 4 mini chocolate chip cookies. Dunch will be sushi - a California Roll I picked up yesterday - and a small salad. Or maybe a can of Bar Harbor New England Style Crab BIsque that I found in the cupboard to celebrate the change of seasons.
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Night before last was spaghetti with meat and mushroom sauce, last night pork chops with sour cream and chive mashed potatoes and steamed broccoli with lemon pepper. Tonight I think will be potstickers with honey/soy/scallion dipping sauce and fried rice.
auntie - moving is never fun and I sympathize with trying to get stuff done during ongoing covid - our downtown house buying was stressful - negotiating and providing info while we were in Hawaii - too many time zones away for good overlap with the east coast, then finding out all the stuff that was wrong and needed addressing - after we closed, then the hot water leak debacle during the shutdown. Sorry too about your knee pain - have you tried a cortisone shot?
Both of my children are about to change jobs - DS took the same position he has now firefighter/paramedic at Ft. Belvoir, at Ft. Carson Colorado. Has to be in place by Dec. 6. DH will fly up to VA and travel across country with him to help drive/move. DD is leaving the job she has had for 3.5 years with a personal GPS device company - she is a regional sales manager - and taking a boat sales job with a local company. No more travel - yay! - and regular hours, but after this first quarter with a guarantee and salary, she goes to full commission. That said, they (and two of her friends who work there) say it is hard NOT to make money, even on commission. One of her friends who works there - she has now worked with him twice - probably makes triple than what he made at the previous jobs. She needs something to challenge her and making money linked to how hard she works will be more rewarding than the deal she has now.
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Special, congrats and best wishes for success to your kids on their new positions. Your family has a bunch going on. Hope DH is healing well. Are you guys excited for the Rays? I usually follow baseball during the playoffs, but this has been such an odd year with basketball just finishing that I am totally out of sync with the other sports.
Reading about the dental issues makes me shudder a bit. Last night DH suddenly smarted during dinner and spent all morning today researching possibilities for some major dental work he needs to have done, which is going to cost astronomical fees. Ugh! Our former wonderful dentist just retired, and my recent cleaning visit unveiled a small loose filling that needs repair, but while I was there, the periodontist who is attached to the “new group” happened to be there that day and he wants to biopsy a tiny white area of gum that has been that way for at least three years, unchanged, and no pain or other consequence. It is NOT cancer....the former dentist was bot at all concerned. When I saw the huge bill after this Cleaning and “looking” session, I decided to do my Dr. Google research and decided that my gum is fine the way it is, so cancelled the periodontal part of the next appt. I’m usually a fairly compliant patient, but I get the sense that this new dental group, part of a larger corporate entity may not be my cup of tea. DH has already abandoned them, but I was hanging on for the hygienist I am happy with. Decisions, decisions...
We have been eating a lot of chicken lately, and as I write this, DH is at the store picking up some fresh cod which I’ll cook with Rao’s puttanesca sauce, summer squash and onions, to serve over wheat pasta. Last night, we had very little for salad fixings so I used a combo of anything green and raw veggies in the fridge for salad, to go with some leftover mushroom sauced chicken. I did have a big head of red cabbage, so made a sweet and sour cabbage that included balsamic vinegar, and was pretty good side.
Minus, I also admire that you make serious meals for yourself. I would be so tempted to just eat “here and there” on my own. It must be frustrating to have to “use things up” that don’t come in small sizes.
We had the toddler terror here on Tuesday when her daycare had to cancel, and I really enjoyed watching her try new foods. She is a great little eater, which is certainly not genetic since both parents were selective eaters as youngsters....and one still is.
Nance, I’m excited for you to get closer to the new home, but can also empathize with the “work needing to be done” and moving during the pandemic. We’ve experienced that with DS2 this summer albeit with just one move. You were clearly motivated to get this done. Sending you energy to get through it!
Well, DH is walking in the door loaded down with grocery bags, so I’d better get crackin’ withour late dinner!
Hope everyone is able to do whatever is needed to stay safe as the surge expands!
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lacey - I am excited for the Rays, but nervous for them too. I watched the first game and they got blown out. Decided to let superstition reign and didn't watch the second game, and they won! However, I didn't watch last night and they lost so not sure what to do, lol! DD came close to an arranged date with KK, the center fielder - though a mutual friend, and I have met Kevin Cash's mom at a cute boutique where she worked part-time, and she is very sweet. We usually go to see the Rays play at least a couple of games a year, but of course, not this year. The base has an area at the Trop where they seat all military folks, and we have received free tickets a few times. We prefer to sit between home and third, in the second deck - less scary foul ball territory.
I sympathize with all the dental woes - I have a lot of dental work in my mouth and it seems to be an ongoing thing for some of us - as someone who had two root canals and crowns before I graduated from high school - which was just the start, the dentist's office is scary, lol!
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Nance, how exciting that you will be moving into your new home. With all the updating, it will be just the way you want it to be. I'm sorry about the knee pain and the sleep loss.
SpecialK, too bad that your son didn't get a job a little closer so that you could see him more often.
Lacey, we're always happy to see photos of your busy little toddler. Hint. I wish I could buy the Rao Puttanesca sauce. It is never available here. I can tell than Rao's is growing in popularity. It's now available in more supermarkets. Sam's Club has it again at a good price. Two jars for between $8 and $9.
I bought 10 lbs. of really nice fresh shrimp yesterday, headed them and divided into meal portions. As always, I freeze the shrimp in water. So now I can add shrimp into the meal rotation. Last night we had the first meal with brown rice and asparagus. I sauteed the shrimp, stir fried the rice in olive oil and butter, added the shrimp back into skillet with the steamed asparagus cut into pieces. I sprinkled a little soy sauce and sesame oil. The dish was quite good. DH doused his portion with more soy sauce. I sometimes wonder if he damaged his taste buds during the years of pipe smoking.
Earlier I stuffed a pork butt roast with green onions and garlic seasoned with salt and cayenne. I will cook the roast in the oven for dinner tonight. The sides will probably be small baked sweet potatoes and romaine salad.
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I see there is a named storm, Zeta, in the Gulf, heading north toward Louisiana or Mississippi. I'm on call in November and I hope the storm is a non-event. And, even if I wasn't on call, I hope it's a non-event! :-)
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Yup I just saw this storm notice too Eric. Hard to believe this late in the year. Fingers crossed.
I tried a new sauce 'envelope' for dinner. Red Hook Sesame & Ginger Vegetable Skillet sauce. Actually I used only the stalks of fresh asparagus since that's what I had that needed to be cooked. I blanched first then stir fried in this sauce. (saved the blanched tops for salads). Served over rice. It was actually pretty good. I'll cook some carrots and add to the leftovers another day. It's a soy based sauce with onions, lime juice, oil, rice vinegar, ginger, garlic, brown sugar, molasses, sesame oil, crushed red pepper.
Carol - oh how well I remember buying 10 or 25 lbs of shrimp off the boat and spending a day de-heading them. I always added salt to the water before freezing. Do you? After reading your post it makes me think I could add shrimp to my leftover sesame/ginger sauce w/the asparagus and make a meal.
Lacey - it was really hard to break in our current dentist after he bought the practice when our long-time dentist died. The new one wanted to try all sorts of things & most of us just wanted to maintain. He finally calmed down & figured it out.
Special - GREAT news about the kids jobs. I agree, CO is a trek, but will be a nice place to visit again once the fires are gone - and once we can travel again. I'm not familiar with Ft. Carson. We always turned West on Hwy 50 to Salida. And I hope the commission story is true for your DD. She's a hard worker, but boats are definitely a luxury item. Oh wrong, if I remember correctly - a hole in the water in which to pour money. Still, I miss having a boat. I miss going offshore fishing. Or water skiing in a lake. Or for that matter, just watching the sunset or sunrise from the deck of a boat.
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Bob made it home in time for dinner, so we ordered delivery--this time from Pearl's Southern Comfort. Smoked chicken gumbo, New Orleans BBQ shrimp, collard greens, slaw, and KC-style spareribs. I had 1/2 c. of the gumbo (made with roux, of course, which is something of a no-no for me) and Bob had the rest (about 12 oz). The ribs were quite meaty--only needed a couple of them, what with the soup, shrimp & veggies,
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No, Minus, no salt in the water.
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Dinner ended up being my only meal today. I HATE it when I wake up at 2am and can't go back to sleep. Read until 7am then slept until 9am. I made sure I left the house to run 4 or 5 errands once I got up so I wouldn't nap and walked from 4:39pm to 6:30pm for the same reason. So dinner was a large spinach salad and two pieces of toasted french bread. Talked to my BFF for 45 minutes. Hopefully now I will head to bed and CRASH at 9:30pm.
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I had some chicken broth left over from chicken noodle soup so I used it to make some rice and tossed in some corn and steamed zucchini and broccoli. It was regrettable.
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Minus sweet dreams!
Dinner was a 3 lb. Butterball Turkey breast I got a while ago on sale. I wanted to try it in the crockpot and it was moist and good. That and stovetop stuffing (don't judge) and mixed frozen vegetables was dinner.
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Reader, no judgement from me on stovetop stuffing. I'm avoiding gluten and a box of stovetop works for DH. May make some gluten free bread to use in stuffing this year and see how that works. Enjoy your turkey and stuffing!
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Bob ate dinner at the office so he could make it home in time to watch the (disastrous) Bears game. Everything else on TV tonight was depressing too, but I won't get into that on this thread. So I had "eclectic leftovers:" pansit noodles with chicken & a few shrimp, palak paneer, coleslaw, and collard greens. Dessert was keto butter pecan ice cream. (Brunch was a small low-carb BLT with homegrown tomato--the last of my slicers, as all the rest are cherry tomatoes).
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Reader & Beaver - I'm a Stovetop Stuffing fan all year long - until I actually stuff a turkey at the holidays. When I want to go upscale, I use a bag of Pepperidge Farm Herb dressing and add onions, celery, sage, etc.
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Minus, I use the cubes too in addition to other breads and my moms Hungarian style (add paprika) stuffing recipe. Can't wait for it and my after thanksgiving sandwiches of mashed potatoes, gravy, turkey, stuffing and green bean casserole on toasted white bread 😋
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Oh good Mae, I'm not the only person who puts stuffing (dressing) on my turkey sandwiches. Leftovers are the best part. How are you feeling? Less nausea? When do you get the results of the latest MRI?
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Brain MRI is mostly stable/decreased, however, there is a spot in the brain fluid. It is suspicious for lepto/central nervous system disease, which has a terrible prognosis (weeks to months) but I’ve had this scare 3 times now. It’s been ruled out previously but I’ve come to accept that it’s likely in my future. For now, I feel normal, Xeloda is hard but I think I’ve got the right meds now to ease SE’s, we’ll see.
Heading to the cabin later this week but returning in December for scans. Dinners will likely be easy meals as we have no oven or plumbing yet.
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Wishing the very best for you lllimae
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No apologies for boxed stuffing here. It’s my least favorite part of thanksgiving dinner but dh is crazy for it. Although I like Walmart’s store brand cornbread stuffing way better than the name brand. I do make it from scratch for thanksgiving if there are more than just the two of us but any other time it’s out of the box.
Tonight is reverse seared pork chops and scalloped potatoes plus green peas for color. Last night was Stellar Swiss Steak with mashed potatoes. I accidentally left the burner on under the leftover mashed potatoes while we were eating (I hate electric stoves) and was left with a challenging mess in my stainless pan. After an overnight soak and an intense bout with a scouring pad, I emerged victorious.
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