So...whats for dinner?
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Dinner was a mix of sides, corn on the cob, cauliflower with melted cheese and some hash browns I prepared for the weekend but didn’t fit into the container.
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Leftovers: my salmon & veggies from last night; roast chicken stir-fry (snap peas,mushrooms, scallions) for Bob. Supplemented with an heirloom tomato-basil salad (dressed with lemon white "balsamic," blood orange olive oil, and orange sea salt (from when we visited Sicily in 2015). Dubouef 2020 Beauj. Nouveau went well with it. Bob will bring home a tomahawk ribeye, more 'shrooms, and Cabernet from the Palm ("Slab & Cab Kit"). I will defrost a container of collard greens for the green-leafy component.
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Carole - I'm intrigued by the pork loin w/rosemary. I usually use tarragon and am ready for a change. Anything else noteworthy in your seasonings?
I'm trying to decide whether to do the small Cure 81 ham or a pork loin for my Thanksgiving for ONE. No getting together with anyone. 1 in 6 people in Houston have the virus. Both meats are in my freezer. Ham would provide wonderful leftovers for hamhock & beans. Pork leftovers would be great for lots of things but I'm hungry for a big fried rice dinner. And "horrors" - stove top stuffing & canned yams.
Three days of plumbing leak repairs this week including a new water heater. Then today a new furnace. I can imagine how frustrated Beaver must be. I'm sick of this stuff. I will have to get a quote on re piping the rest of the house after the holiday. The 50 year old galvanized pipes keep 'sprouting' pin holes.
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Think I may defrost a large heritage pork chop Monday night (when it'll be hard to find a place that delivers). We should still have leftovers from tomorrow Sunday night. I still have a bumper crop of rosemary (very hardy, as is the mint and even some thyme). The basil, OTOH, is a distant memory.
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Today was spent getting the stuff I need to fix the part of the sprinkler system that waters the plants. A pipe (actually plastic tubing) that only has water in it when the plants are being watered, developed a leak and the tubing was, after it was installed, covered over with a cement slab...so there is no way to fix the leak without cutting a hole in the concrete. I'm having to redesign the system and do a re-pipe with the stuff taking different routes in the yard.. At least it's outdoors and doesn't affect the indoor plumbing, so there is no rush to completing it other than I want to get it done so I can go off and do other things.
I put a new water heater in a few months ago when it was convenient. The old one was working fine but was 16 years old with a 10 year "won't leak" warrantee. Now, I shouldn't have to worry about it for awhile.
JHL. I did a double take when I saw your post. My late father's initials are (were?) JHL.
Chi, 50 years life for galvanized pipes is normal. They'll probably replace it with PEX pipe, which is much easier to deal with than rigid copper or galvanized. PEX used to have a problem with degrading when carrying chlorinated water, but that "kink" has been worked out.
As for Thanksgiving, DD is going to spend it at her boyfriend's parents' house. It is still not easy for MIL to get around and she wants to wait a bit for the celebration, so we will have a late Thanksgiving. For the actual Thanksgiving day, Sharon and I will likely take the dogs and go camping out in the "boondocks" where distances between people of different families are measured in miles.
Carole, I, too, am one of the "when it's my time, it's my time", but that doesn't mean I will work to hasten the inevitable "it's my time" by being careless! :-) I do go visit friends but they are also careful as well.
Sharon cooked BBQ chicken and rice tonight. I'm baking more sourdough bread.
Edited to add...
It appears my sourdough starter is quite "happy". Now that I'm baking a couple of times per week, the starter will get the bread to rise just as fast as commercial yeast. I put the dough into the bread pans for the 2nd rise and it had doubled in volume in about an hour. It used to take about 4 hours to double the volume. Even though the rise time is fast, the bread still has a quite a distinctive sourdough taste.
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Must have worn myself out on healthy-ish dinners this week. Tonight was delicious takeout pizza washed down with jam jar shiraz, my favorite sweet red wine.
I'm with Eric on the "when it's my time it's my time "philosophy but do not believe it's wise or even biblical to rush it. 😷🤗
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Dinner tonight was roasted brussels, a mix of truffle alfredo (back in stock at Trader Joe's)/sauteed portabellas/chicken sausage poured over cauliflower pasta. Very easy to whip up - made it earlier this week as well.
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I made a shrimp scampi. Served with Kibun refrigerated "natural noodles" imported from Japan - gluten free, sugar free, fat free, dairy free, cholesterol free, etc. etc. Very boring noodles. No taste, no texture. Definitely made the shrimp blah even though I added some red chili. Should have done linguine. This is the second time I've tried these noodles. The other two packages are going directly in the trash in spite of the starving children in whatever country my Mother would cite now to get us to clean our plates.
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minus - I was such a smart-ass child that I offered to package up the unwanted dinner and mail it right off to said country. The parental ploy of making you sit there until you ate never worked with me either - I could wait there forever. I probably should have apologized to my mom once I was old enough to realize what a PITA I was.
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Bob didn't have to go in to work today (elective stress tests are canceled) so we didn't order for pickup from the Palm. Brunch was gyros from the stand around the corner (didn't eat the pita). Dinner was Tex/Cal-Mex: fish (tilapia) taco, al pastor bowl, "southwestern" chopped salad (beans, corn kernels, chicken breast, avocado). We have enough leftovers for tomorrow night's dinner (will freeze the free fries that came with the gyros).
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Tonight was breakfast for dinner, pancakes with an egg over easy.
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Oh Beaver I love breakfast for dinner. Yum!!! And I do have a bunch of eggs in the fridge.
Special - we were admonished to clean our plates of every day "normal" foods. Or if my eyes were bigger than my stomach and I loaded up my plate and then didn't finish. Things that were new & weird (then) like asparagus or Brussels sprouts - we were only served & required to eat one bite to taste it. Fortunately my Mother didn't like & never cooked liver.
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Oh the "clean plate" rule! I used to sit at the table, trying to chew & swallow certain canned vegs (like asparagus - always got the "woody" bits). Sometimes, I got away with needing to use the bathroom where I could get rid of my "cud" by flushing it down the toilet.
Will be making brunch in a few minutes - Latkes, shroom & cheese omelet, chopped avocado, bacon, large spoonful of baked beans (a British thing). Later on, salmon salad (canned salmon w/mayo), capers, chopped tomato & cucumber. Ok - time to get cooking!
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When I would come into the house after sifting gravel, the dust on my clothes would "follow me" inside and the tile floors felt like I had spilled talcum powder on them.
So, today, we decided to clean the house. It's sort of like the joke, "If it moves, salute. If it doesn't move, paint it.". All the furniture has been moved and every bit of floor has been vacuumed and mopped. The floors feel a lot less slippery. While waiting for the floors to dry, we've been dusting. Fortunately the vacuum cleaner has a bag designed to pick up, and more importantly, hold, plaster dust, so we should "gain" on the dust--if only for a few days.
I'm still not done with the dirty work as I'm still working on landscaping, so this will likely need it again....it was just driving us crazy....
Dinner tonight is going to be the left over rice and BBQ chicken.
I remember being given brussels sprouts for dinner and not liking them. Mom decided I'd sit at the table until I ate them. They went to bed and I was still at the table. :-)
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Red beans and rice with cornbread for dinner. It’s excellent and the cornbread is incredible!
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Leftover Mexican food from last night.
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I keep making cranberry sauce and eating it all. Every night a pot of cranberry sauce. Now I'm concerned if it interferes with letrozole.
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So long as you don't put grapefruit or bitter/Seville orange into your cranberry sauce, it shouldn't interfere with letrozole. What's more, cranberries enhance the effect of letrozole. (Unlike swigging grapefruit juice with an angiotensin-receptor-blocker antihypertensive, which makes the drug so much stronger that it can quickly cause a dangerous drop in blood pressure).
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eric - see, this is why we’re friends! I was still sitting at the table when my parents threw in the towel too, lol!
Dinner tonight was chicken and pinto bean tostadas. DH has fasting labs first thing in the morning - routine for his thyroid med refill - so needed to eat kind of early
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Saturday night we had dinner with another couple at Rip's on the Lake in Mandeville. I had made a reservation for a table on the balcony. We enjoyed the social interaction and the meal was excellent. But the tables were placed too close together, even though it was outdoors. I doubt we will go there again during Covid season.
I had a cup of crab brie soup which had lumps of crabmeat in the rich yummy soup base. Every mouthful was wonderful. For my main dish I had the butter lettuce wedge salad with the house blue cheese dressing and bacon crumbles. With the addition of a few fried oysters. Again every bite was delicious. DH had the shrimp remoulade salad for his main dish and he also had the crab brie soup.
We were vendors yesterday at the Madisonville Made Market. A young Asian woman was serving a couple of vegan food selections at her booth. For my lunch I bought a meal of her Chinese dumplings. The dumplings were tasty with a thin sauce she provided. DH bought a burger and fries meal from another food vendor. The burger was stuffed with brie and he said it was good. The fries were frozen crinkles.
For dinner I warmed up leftover chicken and leftover pork tenderloin slices with a vinegary barbecue sauce and made a boxed Cracker Barrel mac and cheese.
No thoughts on dinner.
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Moosewood baked eggplant parm again. Never fails and is DH fave. Easy as I freeze the baked eggplant slices from summer. With it I baked a spaghetti squash (made pasta for him). I've been wanting to try it since I haven't baked one in years. It was very tasty with a little sauce on top. Continuing to try to cut carbs where I can.
Carole the seafood sounds devine.
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reader - I love spaghetti squash, and treat it like pasta. I usually halve the squash and remove the seeds, oil the inside and salt and pepper, then place cut side down on a baking sheet lined with foil and bake 40 mins at 400 F. It has been foolproof - I have put meat sauce over, or also cooked and crumbled hot Italian sausage with sauteed onion and garlic and parm sprinkled over.
I just put a small pork shoulder that I rubbed with spices in the crock pot with onion and pineapple at the bottom. Planning to make al pastor style soft tacos, topped with shredded cabbage, a squeeze of lime juice, sliced avocado, and crumbled goat cheese. Probably make a Spanish rice side.
What is everyone doing for a pared down Thanksgiving? I got two small turkey breasts and a half spiral ham, will do traditional dressing and pan gravy, twice baked sweet potatoes with pecans, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole (for DD - she loves it), Brussels with roasted with diced bacon, onion, and drizzled with aged balsamic, and homemade cranberry sauce. DD is making the corn casserole and an appetizer of artichoke dip in her Traeger grill and then bringing it over. Also, making an apple pie - none of us are pumpkin pie fans, although last year I made pumpkin bars using the Sally's Baking Addiction recipe - so, so good! All of that food is for three people, lol! Yes, I am completely insane.
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Something simple. Tomorrow night is going to be the same, especially since it is my birthday tomorrow.
Anywho, started prep for Thurs. Only going to be hubby, me and the fur kids. Made my maternal grandmother's cranberry relish. Almost had a panic attack because I couldn't find the recipe. Finally found it in with the other ones from various family members.
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mommy - Happy Birthday!!!
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MOmmy, happy birthday tomorrow!!!
Dinner tonight??? Thanksgiving for the two of us, have a Costco oven browned turkey breast to reheat and serve with gluten free gravy, making a new veggie recipe (butternut squash, red onion, kale, tomato, yellow potato all layered with provolone and parmesan cheese and baked), both cooked and raw cranberry sauce, rolls, and DH's favorite, pumpkin walnut pie.
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Mommy, happy birthday!
For Thanksgiving, I'm not sure yet, except for a pumpkin pie to use up some of the pumpkins that have been sitting on the table, waiting to be used.
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Our catered "just us" T-day dinner from Cellars: roast turkey breast & gravy, cranberry sauce, dried cherry & wild mushroom stuffing, brussels sprouts with bacon, roasted mixed veggies, pecan pie and Beaujolais Nouveau. (We're buying a bottle of cabernet from them, but that's mostly for Bob's overnight bag for the nights he'll have to stay in Oak Lawn). Plus leftover pumpkin pie (assuming there is any) for Bob.
Tonight? Not sure--whatever Bob brings home from Costco, perhaps Pompeii. (If pizza, I can eat the toppings). For when the kids come over (masked, distanced, hopefully outdoors): antipasto of deviled eggs, olives, nuts, cheeses & charcuterie; pumpkin pie & vanilla ice cream; and cocktails (Rusty Nails, Old Fashioneds, mojitos--gotta use up that mint!--hot toddies, and gløgg), plus coffee/tea.
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Greetings all! Though I haven’t posted in a while I’ve been following everyone’s posts. We’ve been very busy painting and switching out fixtures, coming back to the apartment exhausted and too tired to be very creative about dinner. Tonight was a grilled ham steak, scalloped potatoes and creamed spinach.
We’ve decided not to get together with the kids for thanksgiving. All of us agreed it was for the best given the surge of COVID-19 in our area. We’re trying to hold on for the vaccine! I snagged a10 pound turkey that I’ll spatchcock and cook along with stuffing (from a box), gravy, baked corn and cranberry chutney. I was lucky to find 6” pies from a local bakery and bought a pumpkin and pecan. I’ll make a mascarpone/whipped cream topping for the pumpkin and we’ll call it dinner. We’ll FaceTime the kids and the rest of the family we normally celebrate with.
The new appliances have been installed in the new place and I’d love to cook on the new stove but until we move in two weeks, it would be too much trouble to drag everything over there. I think I can manage the pared down menu in the tiny kitchen.
If I don’t manage to post again for a while I hope you all have a wonderful thanksgiving however small your celebration.
Oh and happy birthday mommy
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So everyone's cooking except ChiSandy.
Happy Birthday Mommy. I've been trying to post a lovely picture but can't get it to work, So imagine a virtual picture - sort of like virtual hugs.
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Auntienance, good to hear you are making such great progress on getting your new home in order!
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