So...whats for dinner?
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Today was final prep for the movers tomorrow. Still have to unplug and pack up computers but otherwise I think we’re ready.
Of course we’re exhausted so Door Dash delivered chicken wings and garlic bread for me and toasted ravioli for dh. We split a house salad which was nothing but lettuce, provel cheese and croutons from a bag (won’t be ordering that again). New York cheesecake for dessert. We haven’t eaten the cheesecake yet but everything but the salad was delicious.
I don’t like a lot of sauce, or cheese for that matter, on my pizza. I’m all about the crust. DH is just the opposite. He likes LOTS of stuff on his especially sauce. Flatbread pizza works better for me than him. Although truthfully, if I put anything on his plate and called it Pizza he would like it.
Nice food pic illimae!
Lacey, I have the exact same feelings about Christmas. I’d dearly love to see the kids but we’re so close to getting through this stuff, I would hate to jeopardize any us now. I feel like we’re taking a risk as it is with the move. It’s a dilemma that we need to make a decision about soon. Good luck with your marvelous pizzelles Lacey!
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beaver - I somehow missed your post above - Happy Birthday to you too! Yes, 2020 gets a one star review...
Our Christmas will be as quiet as our T-Giv. My California BFF was supposed to be here visiting right now but we both decided it was too risky - she has been as cautious as I have, so we agreed she should wait. Fortunately her tickets were on Southwest and they allow you to bank the fare for later. We will reconsider in the early spring. I had the opportunity to go to the Buccaneer game today but declined - Florida is too hot a spot for me to feel comfortable around that many people, even distancing in a mask. I will do a driveway gift drop off with a couple of friends sometime this week. My good friend and gym partner (when we were going...) has been home schooling her grandchildren up in Gainesville so I need to check when she will be in town, so I can drop off her gift. It’s all food - things that remind me of her, or we had together. Walker’s shortbread, Savannah Bee honey, Hungry Greek dressing, Texas Pecan coffee, blackberry syrup for sangria, and several other items all in a batter bowl. I wanted her to know I was thinking of her and remembering the fun we always have together.
auntie - good luck on the move tomorrow - sending you positive energy
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Nance, thinking of you this next week 'cause we well know that moving is not a one day thing! Take care of yourself. My criteria with a move has always been that so long as I have a bed to sleep in, a place to sit and eat and a working bathroom the rest will get worked out. Glad you are going to be able to get settled in your new digs.
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An early Happy Birthday Beav.... Yes, we December babies need to stick together! :-)
I managed to text ET (evil twin) during the short time where I was older. Every year I text her, "I'm getting old." and she replies, "Shut up". We get a good laugh over it. :-)
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Bob was still carbed-out from brunch, so the tzimmes stayed in the fridge. Used the remaining dark meat from the roast chicken for a stir-fry with red bell peppers, Spanish & green onions, celery, mushrooms (button & shiitake), Coconut Aminos (fake soy sauce), Red Boat fish sauce, garlic, ginger, five-spice powder and a drizzle of toasted sesame oil on top. No cornstarch (and I couldn't find the mirin buried in the cabinet anyway). Side dish was blistered shishito peppers--amazingly, not a single one turned out to be a scorcher. Usually anywhere from 1 in 10 to 1 in 4 shishitos turn out to be incindiary, but you can't tell from the outside.
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Tonight is crispy cheesy chicken with roasted broccoli and red potatoes.
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I already had dinner but Mae's dish makes me hungry again
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Lilly - glad to see you "at the table" again.
Dinner was three eggs over easy with English Muffins. Thomas makes English muffins with Cranberrys on a limited basis at the holidays. They are hard to find but delicious.
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I too am all about illimae's dinner - love me any kind of crispy chicken.
minus - I get the cranberry english muffins here too, also corn,cinnamon raisin, and occasionally banana bread ones. DH and I traveled to the FL panhandle for a military reunion with our best man and his wife a few years ago and we stayed in a condo on the beach. We ladies grocery shopped while the guys entertained themselves somehow, and we found french toast english muffins and pancakes with syrup english muffins! They were so good, and even though we were shopping in the same grocery store as my local one here I have never seen those flavors down here. Several years ago I was in a restaurant supply store and found some sourdough bread with cranberries - it was super, but haven't seen it since either and I check regularly!
edited to add - eric, DH and I both have birthdays in Oct and mine comes first. For about two weeks I am "four" years older than DH instead of the usual three, and he points it out multiple times over the course of the two weeks. After 37 years you would think he would stop, but no... he thinks he is hilarious. The really crazy part is that when we met he lied about his age because he was afraid I wouldn't go out with him if I knew he was so much younger. About a year later he confessed to being less than truthful, but had forgotten how old he had said he was (I didn't catch on because we were in separate states by that point) so he only corrected himself by a year. I flew overseas to marry him a year later and arrived the day before his birthday so we could spend it together. Someone asked how old he was but he didn't hear them because we were in a crowded beach bar, so I answered. He heard me and said, no, he was one year younger than my answer. Every birthday I got older and he got younger. I carded him on the spot, so didn't learn his actual age until about a month before we got married!
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That chicken does look delicious! Also the broccoli and potatoes. I wish Illimae did delivery!
Our dinner last night was leftover pork roast and gravy. DH had the rest of the brown rice. I used a slice of whole grain bread as a rice substitute. We often spooned gravy over bread (white) in my family. The salad was a mixture of bagged crunchy kale salad and lettuce with additions.
Tonight will be more leftovers. Mustard greens cooked with pickled pork and cornbread. A salad.
Tomorrow night it will be back to cooking!
No idea what our Christmas dinner will be. Again, dh and I will stay home. Our neighbors always have a Christmas Eve open house. If they continue the tradition, I don't plan to go over. They both had Covid recently.
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My grandpa loved bread and gravy - my grandma's homemade white bread of course. Thanks for jogging the nice memory Carole. Also he often ate a bowl of bread and milk for supper. We thought he was so funny to prefer that to cheerios.
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Yes, memories! My brother loved to have two or three pieces of bread with gravy after he had eaten the rest of his meal. He was 6ft, 2 inches as an adult and skinny his entire life.
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One of my fave things is either hot roast beef or turkey with abundant gravy over bread with a generous spoonful of mashed potatoes - I think also known as Roast Beef (or turkey?) Manhattan or diner style? Definitely comfort food.
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DH cooked a beautiful rib roast and I am all over it!
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Oh Mae - is it too late to head to your house? YUM. I may have to do that for Christmas.
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Minus, I think they’re still on sale at Kroger.
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We’re in! The move itself went quite smoothly with an awesome team of movers - professional, helpful and efficient. Came in at half the quoted estimateand best of all - they didn’t break anything. We had a beautiful day, sunny and in the 40s. Everybody wore masks and of course the doors were open the entire time, so I felt a bit reassured about the whole thing. We managed to get the bed made and find the toaster and coffeemaker so we could have breakfast this morning.
I actually managed to go to the store today. I was able to find and unpack enough stuff to make a real dinner tonight - garlic stuffed pork roast, roasted golden beets and leftover scalloped potatoes. About half of the kitchen stuff is unpacked. I already can tell that I’m soon going to be rearranging the contents of the cabinets I just filled.
I still don’t know what our Christmas plans are but I bought a beautiful standing 5 rib roast. If we don’t get together with the kids we’re going to be eating rib eyes for a long time. I only hope the kitchen will be organized enough to cook it.
DH thinks gravy is magical. He readily pours it over nothing but bread. It pains him dearly when I throw gravy away lol.
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Hello friends, last night was salmon and sweet potatos. Tonight ravioli in rose sauce. Not feeling very inspired lately but we're eating 😉
Mae, agreed, that roast looks fabulous!
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I stood and pondered whether to buy a lovely rib roast yesterday at Rouse's. I didn't buy it because it would be a lot of roast beef for two people.
I had no idea that other people ate gravy on bread! My father also liked bread and milk with some sugar added.
The leftover mustard greens were delicious last night. We finished them up and also the leftover cornbread. The side was butternut squash.
Now I really must get back to a WW style of eating and try to lose some weight. The prospect is not enticing. Tonight will be thin sliced chicken breast. I may use a recipe that calls for spreading mustard on the chicken and pressing grated romano or parmesan on both sides. Then cooking in skillet on medium heat until the cheese forms a browned crust.
I also want to introduce more roasted veggies into our menus. AND, very important, cut down on portions for myself and encourage dh to do the same.
Illimae, you could be a "food stylist." Your photos of your meals are always very appealing.
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Meal portions - it really did work for me to start using smaller plates. I've started using 9" plates instead of 10-1/2". Even eating by myself, I found it embarrassing to have a plate overflowing with food and no room to cut your meat so I served less. The other thing that helped is to serve my plate from the stove. My Mother would be appalled, but if there are no serving dishes on the table, it's harder to reach for seconds.
In my memory, plates were smaller, but that could be just in my head. My Mother was so excited to find large plates she called "chop plates" in the early 1960s to use when Dad served 1/2 a chicken for everyone from the BBQ. Replacements.Com says chop plates are 13"; dinner plates are 9-1/2 to 11; luncheon plates are 8-9"; salad or dessert plates are 6-8". I just measured one of the old Limoges plates I have from a grandmother. I was fortunate to get six of them. They are 9"
I know for a fact that towels were smaller. I still like those old smaller towels to wrap my head after I washing my hair & used to look for them at elderly neighbor's garage sales. (oops - now that's me) And there was no such thing as 'bath sheets'.
Nance - good news. I can't believe you are already cooking full meals.
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auntie - yay for a smooth move! So glad you had a professional crew to help out - makes all the difference. One military move from Alabama back to Virginia I had the very nice guys (or so I thought) wrap my white sofa, which they politely did. We bought them lunch, and we all shared the popsicles left in the freezer just before we left - it was hot, July in Montgomery. Then they stole that nicely wrapped sofa, my Oneida flatware, the computer, and my Farberware pots and pans - a wedding gift. That stuff never made it off the transfer truck onto the moving van.
minus - my neck can't handle a bath towel wrapped around my head after I shampoo so I started using Turbi Twist towels, have you seen those? I like them because they stay on and are super lightweight. I also like a smaller plate for daily use, I have some larger salad plates from Crate and Barrel that have a slight upturn at the edge, and I like those but also often use a pasta bowl as a plate. I have a couple sets of four of various sizes and depths that are about 8" across. I use the Crate and Barrel 11" coupe bowl for main dish salads because they are shallow and wide - you get to see all the pretty salad stuff spread across the dish. Those are also big enough to use as serving dishes for sides, particularly if the side is something that looks good kind of piled up.
https://www.amazon.com/Turbie-Twist-Super-Absorbent-Colors-Vary/dp/B00TUPFFTM
Last night was a chuck roast in the slow cooker with french onion soup and mushrooms, sides of egg noodles and broccoli. I removed the liquid and cooked it with a cornstarch slurry, then added some sour cream. Haven't decided on tonight's dinner but I think it will involve chicken. Tomorrow DH has some minor eye surgery on one eye, next week the other eye, and will be home through the holidays - need to stock up on stuff as it has been several weeks since the last grocery shop.
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Carole, thanks! I love pictures and had 3 years of photo in high school and I very much eat with my eyes too. A beautiful and delicious meal is so appealing, especially after not eating for so long. I find plating almost as exciting as the forking, lol
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illimae - agree! I am a very visual eater too and have said to others that the plate aesthetic is my form of artistic expression. Don't ask me to paint or do ceramics - I am not good! As a caterer I was all about the lemon twists and strawberry fans and tomato roses as well as the food itself, lol!
Edited to add - I always forget to take photos though! Too excited about eating, ha!
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Found a new 'used' bookstore today. The last one close to me closed for good in April. This one isn't as conducive to wandering around the shelves and grabbing exciting finds, but they do have everything on computer so you can ask for a particular book. AND - they have shelves of 'bargain' books out front.
This was right by "Chicken Salad Chick". Bought large broccoli salads for a neighbor who's wife used to make them and another friend recently out of the hospital - and for myself. I also bought myself a chicken salad sandwich with cranberries & almonds on a croissant. Side was pasta salad which was not memorable.
Eric, you'll be interested to know even after shipping you all those cook books, I still can't stop looking. Bought a book for $1.00 from 1963. A Cook's Tour of San Francisco - The Best Restaurants and their recipes. Since I left the Bay Area in 1962, I know a lot of the places. Looking forward to reading this one. BTW - if anyone has fond memories, the Cliff House closed forever this week. Huge 'fight' with the National Park Service.
Special - thanks for the link. I'll check out those twistee towels.
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Special what a terrible ending to your moving story! In this case the virtue of sharing had to be its own reward. 🙄
I love the turbie twist towel! Mine is so old it has a little button to close it . I'm not sure newer ones have it.
Tonight was semi-homemade personal pizzas and salad. I used Mamma somebody's pizza sauce and mini crusts. 🍕🍕🍕
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minus - I saw an article about The Cliff House closure. Also, the turbie towel things are also at Bed Bath & Beyond in case you have a coupon.
reader - 28 years of military moves means something will be stolen at some point. They didn’t move liquor initially, so most of us had parties right before a move to consume it. They began moving it though and the first time they marked a box “alcohol” it disappeared between the pick up and the delivery. Unfortunately, it also contained cut crystal highball glasses - another wedding gift. My turbie towel has a little loop of elastic and I pull the little end of the towel through it
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When we moved in July we thought the movers stole two boxes of liquor. DH thoughtlessly labeled the box “LIQUOR “ in big black letters. . However, today in a visit to the storage unit, we found both boxes. Yay! They did, however, steal a cordless drill and hand cart. But e also found the Christmas decorations in the storage unit. Double yay!
More box unpacking today. Dinner was an uninteresting but easy oven fried cod and potato slices air fried in the oven. The only other side was applesauce.
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auntie - a little nay (drill and handcart) with your yay (liquor and decorations), but we have to celebrate the wins, right? What did you end up doing for appliances, I remember you were making decisions a while back, correct?
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Special - we ended up getting all GE appliances except for the fridge which is a Whirlpool almost identical to our previous one that we liked a lot. I’m very pleased with the stove particularly. The microwave and dishwasher are nothing too fancy but are adequate for our needs and do what they’re supposed to.
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I can't imagine stealing another person's "things." I hate to think of thieves living in my world.
Minus, I enjoy reading cookbooks but now resist buying them. I think about re-reading my collection which I seldom use. When I need a recipe, I usually just turn to Google. Somehow I have never become a Pinterest fan.
Yesterday at the dermatologist's during a two-hour wait between application of a product to my face and the blue light treatment, I investigated oven roasting veggies on my phone. For dinner I assembled broccoli, carrot, onion chunks held together with toothpicks, parnsnip, and cherry tomatoes and roasted them on a sheet pan. The meat was pounded chicken breast slices as described in my last post. But I spread only one side with mustard and pressed the coarse grated romano into the surface.
The parsnip and tomatoes were particularly flavorful. I should have held the tomatoes back about 15 minutes. The chicken was delicious. DH, the condiment king, had some chutney with his chicken.
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