So...whats for dinner?
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Seafood feast, DH for the win
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Bithday dinner last evening was take out chicken Olivia for me and chicken enchilada with mole sauce for DH. Tonight was the second half of each meal.
Illimae, another gorgeous plate of food!
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Seafood envy there illimae!
It looks like we’ll be spending at least Christmas Eve alone. The kids will probably come for a brief visit Christmas Day, possibly something like brunch. It’s disappointing but I’m ok with it. It’s going to be hard to get the house together by then anyway so a simpler meal will be easier on me. They are worried about exposing us and I worry about that too. I think DH is pretty disappointed about it all. Here’s hoping for a better 2021. DH took some kind of on line survey that showed us in phase two for the vaccine with 55 million people in front of us. And we’re geezers with underlying conditions. Not encouraging.
Tonight I fixed beef stew in the pressure cooker. Really good and leftovers for lunch. I picked up some dinner rolls at the bakery of a local grocery but found when I got home that they were moldy. This is a higher end store so it was aggravating. When I picked them up a guy was standing in front of the shelf talking on his phone so I couldn’t get a good look at them without getting close to him. I just reached around and grabbed them without looking. Clearly a mistake.
I hope tomorrow to find time to unpack my clothes. At least I packed my underwear separately in a recognizable box.
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Is there any free spot for me at the dinner table? Mae, that dish is delish! What seafood is the one in the middle? Beef stew sounds wonderful. I feel I can even smell it
. We are locked inside the house because of a major snowstorm. DH made a couple of steaks my kids and him devoured and I ended up eating the salad. I'm glad I put boiled eggs, chickpeas, tomatoes, and avocado in my salad.
Meantime, I'm watching British Baking Show.
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Tonight I reprised a ham potato cassarole i had made, from the freezer. I had a few small tomatoes i needed to use so I baked them (cut in half, butter, panko, parm and parsley). Also had to use up some fresh cranberries and my husband has loved me making some just for dinner in a mini-crockpot. I keep reducing the sugar each time. Not a bad mish-mash.
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Oh, Illi--first prime rib and then that seafood fest! You're making me drool all over the keyboard!
Last night we ordered out from our favorite Italian restaurant, Calo, in the Andersonville 'hood a mile south, where we used to live. We've been going there since we moved to A'ville in 1979. It's the neighborhood gathering place--block club meetings, pizza parties galore, bringing Gordy there first in his baby carrier, then stroller, then walking up the block and learning car brands from their hubcap logos... It's takeout only now, since they never did put up a patio. Bob had rigatoni Barese & pizza bread, and I had the grilled seafood assortment (calamari, octopus, shrimp, scallops) over spinach. We shared a salad. Tonight, more of the same. Tomorrow, who knows? So far so good avoiding the late-night carb-crave cheats.
I've been using Turbie Twist towels too--I actually sew buttons on them, poke a hole in the other end and loop a ponytail elastic through the hole. Lately, though, I've discovered a bit larger waffle-terry microfiber hair towel that's not only more absorbent but has an elastic loop on the back to draw the twisted end of the towel through. I stopped using bath sheets in favor of those foam "swim chamois" quick-dry towels--super absorbent. Then I rinse & wring them out and store them damp in their containers. (I ruined my first one by letting it dry out. Ooops).
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Lilly, those were crab cakes. I thought about blackened snapper too but knew we already had more than I could eat, so I’ll do that another day.
Tonight we’re going to finish the rib roast.
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The multi cooker came out of the cabinet yesterday. I made beef stroganoff with a slab of London broil. I cut calories and carbs by using a small amount of Zanthum gum as a thickener before adding some light sour cream. Instead of egg noodles I made cauliflower mash and we spooned the creamy sauce over the cauliflower. The side was a romaine salad of many ingredients with vinaigrette.
The beef strips were overcooked by the time the stroganoff was done. Using a tender beef with a minimum of cooking would probably be better.
Tonight will be pork tenderloin, probably with pan roasted root vegetables.
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The leftover rib roast was wonderful again. I added a small corn cob, garlic bread and an individual scallop potato that I found at Phoenicia (a specialty market of mostly foreign foods), which was a real treat, creamier than I imagined. Very satisfying.
The plus side to all my trouble eating earlier this year is that my portions are small enough that I can basically eat whatever I like without concern for calories, my main interest now is all about taste and so many things taste great!
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Oh and dessert is 1/2 a piece of Chocolate Delight from Mandola’s. One of the best things I’ve ever tasted. The 1st layer is mostly finely ground pecans mixed with butter, 2nd is a cream cheese/sugar/whipped cream blend, 3rd is a mix of chocolate and vanilla pudding, 4th is whipped cream topped with chocolate shavings.
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I haven't been to Phoenicia since Covid but Ilove the idea of an individual scalloped potato.
Drove to the Woodlands today (45-60 minutes) for lunch with my BFF on a patio. I haven't seen her since March. She is in an "independent living" apartment and non-residents are not allowed in the common areas. I wasn't comfortable in her apartment since she is out & about to restaurants with other friends all the time. Clouds came rolling in & dropped the temperature, so we moved into to her garage. Lunch was chicken salad from HEB on "Bare" bread. Interesting - no crusts like she said her mother used to make for her. My Mother said crusts make your hair curly. Sangys had cranberries & almonds & served with black & green olives, and baked PT chips. Dessert was selections from a box of Sees candy I received from my SIL.
I had to use or toss 3 avocados since today was trash day. I ended up chopping them small then mashing and adding lemon, green chili and tomatoes for a quick guacamole. Some of that was dinner with Triscuits.
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Oh my goodness Mae - that chocolate delight sounds & looks delicious. No calories, right?
Lily - you're always welcome at the table. Glad to have you & read what you're cooking.
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Illi, if you keep making me drool on my keyboard my computer will short out!
Brunch was keto (Birch Benders mix) lemon-ricotta pancakes. (Added the ricotta, lemon and an egg--folded in the beaten white). Filipino leftovers tonight: chicken adobo skewers, one lumpia (mini-spring roll), romaine-and-tomato salad with blood orange olive oil, lemon white "balsamic" vinegar, and Sicilian orange sea salt. Dessert was cottage cheese with monkfruit sweetener, vanilla and cinnamon.
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Dinner was cooked on a sheet pan in the oven. Sweet potato and parsnip chunks on one end and the pork tenderloin on the other end. I put the veggies in first and ended up taking them out and transferring the tenderloin to another cooking dish to finish up to 145 degrees. No other sides except cooked fresh cranberries.
What to do with the leftover pork? Maybe a mixture of soba noodles with the pork, broccoli, cauliflower and a homemade "Asian" sauce.
I am liking parsnips which are not a veggie I usually buy.
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Carole - or thin slices of the loin warmed in a brandy cream sauce over noodles. Or fried rice. Or sliced on sandwiches. I LOVE pork for the ease if cooking and the myriad of things you can do with the leftovers. I've never tried parsnips. Guess it's time to rectify that oversight.
Special, Lacey, Nance - how are you & your families? Any cooking going on?
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Avocado toast this a.m., made with guac from scratch (the 1/4 of the avocado that was still green, a squirt of mayo, 1/4 chopped Fresno pepper, salt, pepper, lime juice, garlic powder & cilantro), topped with more cilantro, chopped shallot & tomato and an olive-oil-fried egg.
Unless we order out from Everest tonight (it's their last meal ever: lobster appetizer, ballotine of pheasant, Alsatian chocolate cake--none of which will likely float Bob's boat, as he's a red-meat guy), I'll likely grill a steak, make a caprese, a green veg. and some sort of starch for him. He got his vax today, and picked out something spectacular at the jeweler (they'll be custom-making it), so I owe him even more. He says he has no idea what he wants for Xmas beyond the e-books he requested and I already gave him.
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Minus, we are all so far so good and hoping to stay that way. After much deliberation, the kids decided to come Christmas Eve and spend the night. We all have mixed feelings about this but we will do our best to socially distance. We won’t be getting together with anyone else and neither will they. We haven’t seen them other than FaceTime since July. Here’s hoping for the best. At least I’ll get the giant rib roast out of my freezer. Sides will be scalloped potatoes, something green (probably green beans) and dinner rolls. DDIL will make dessert. The main feast will be a late lunch so I’ll fix a cheese board for snacking into the evening. Although maybe that’s not the best idea. I’ll have to rethink that. I saw some pictures of individual cheese boards that I thought were clever. Maybe something like that would work. At any rate, it’s going to be a different celebration for sure.
We cleaned the apartment today and moved most everything left there except some clothes which we’ll get tomorrow. I thought it would take a couple of hours but it ended up taking most of the day. I’m exhausted and sick of boxes and second floor apartments Poor DH has done the bulk of the carrying. Because of my wonky knee I can only hold stuff on one side so I can hold onto the stair handrail which greatly limits how much I can carry
I’m spite of this I am fixing dinner although an easy one - frozen manicotti and cannelloni from the Italian market with Raos. I might make a white sauce too to top it off I can drag my tired self to kitchen. A very simple salad with a vinaigrette and a couple of dinner rolls will be sides.
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Tonight was French onion chicken, roasted carrots, sautéed garlic butter zucchini and garlic bread. Very good but had a late lunch and just can’t finish it yet.
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DD accepted a marketing job. So, on Jan 4, she'll be among the employed. :-) The interviewer must have noticed that she loves animals because she will be working on the marketing for pet stores, animal shelters and the county "dog catcher"/rabies control office.
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Tonight, DH cooked ratatouille with leftover veggies. It was delicious but the kids refused to eat it.
Mae, your dish looks delicious as always. I bet my kids would have loved it!
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Dinner: Insalata Caprese, grilled grass-fed ribeye (chilly out there on the deck, but no rain or snow), sauteed shiitakes, and broiled asparagus. Dessert was Halo Top mocha chip low-carb ice cream. (Not quite keto but close enough). And no cast-iron pan to clean up.
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I don't know why the kids wouldn't like the ratatouille. (shrug) It looks good to me.
Illimae, I've also been drooling on my keyboard. The garlic bread...I love garlic bread! And, of course the "Chocolite" Delight. It is lite. Right? Question, for the carrots.....did you use a regular oven?
Chi, there are keyboard covers that waterproof the keyboards so they can be "Covid cleaned" with a disinfectant spray...perhaps that would work for the drooling problem. I should get one for me :-)
We've been experimenting with all sorts of "don't usually buy" vegetables, like parsnips and turnips being cooked in the air fryer. It's still in the "next time try....." stage. The first few attempts used some oil, salt, pepper and garlic powder. The turnips and parsnips seemed to be overwhelmed by the garlic, so "next time" will be no garlic, but I'm not sure what to try instead.
Minus, I still get cookbooks, although with Covid, I'm not at my "haunts" (either the thrift stores, or the "dollar table" at the local Barnes & Noble store) so I haven't been adding to the collection. Still, when we move I think there will be probably 8,000 pounds of books. I think I'm trying to out do the library. There is just something about real books that, to me, will always be better than books on the various electronic readers.
Special, my mom told me that about a week before the last military move (I was almost 3), dad caught me looking in the liquor cabinet. I apparently tried to put the bottle back, but hit the bottom of the bottle on the cabinet and broke the bottle. Mom said it faded the floor and they had to go get 2 more bottles of the $11 per bottle (in 1963) "booze" so they could mop the floor with it to get an even floor color. She said the less expensive stuff didn't hide it properly, so they had to go with the expensive stuff to not get gigged by the housing inspectors. Dad said the neighbors thought they had lost their minds :-) I wonder if it would have been cheaper to let the housing inspectors gig them for the stained floor. If it was $11 in 1963 from a class 6 store, it must have been "real good stuff"
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Minus, I wonder why southerners don't grown parsnips. I'm sure my mother had never heard of them until latter years when she watched cooking shows. I had not eaten broccoli until I went to college and tried it in the cafeteria. We ate veggies that were grown in the garden, green beans, potatoes (white and sweet), summer squash, eggplant, cabbage, turnips, mustard greens, butter beans, field peas.
What is on the menu for Christmas dinner? We are having a prime ribeye and probably twice baked potatoes and salad. Unless I weaken and buy a small prime rib roast. Illimae is tempting me!
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Eric, yes, the carrots were roasted in our oven (back in Houston for a few weeks). I tossed them in EVOO and seasoned with S&P used the middle rack for 20 minutes at 425. Roasted carrots are a frequent side with the Hello Fresh meals and I’m glad they are, I never really considered them, other than as a snack.
No idea about Christmas dinner yet, DH and I don’t celebrate it but our anniversary is on Christmas Eve, not sure about that dinner either.
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Dinner was fresh baby carrots cooked in the microwave in butter & dill, fresh spinach sauteed with onions, Red potatoes cut in half & boiled - served with butter. Very satisfying and I'm oh so full.
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When I was a kid back in Brooklyn, the only fresh veggies we had were lettuce (mostly iceberg), cucumbers, and tomatoes (mostly unripe mealy winter ones) for salad. The rest of our veggies were either canned or frozen. It wasn't until I got married, moved to Seattle, and encountered gorgeous fresh produce that I began eating fresh veggies. (Never even saw a fresh asparagus spear outside of a restaurant till I was 21)! My mom, when she visited us, stood awestruck in the produce aisles at QFC, marveling at not only how fresh & beautiful everything was, but that you could pick it out yourself and buy as much or as little as you wanted. At the greengrocer, we weren't allowed to touch--we had to just point, say how many and have the guy weigh & bag it for us. And in the supermarket (Waldbaum's or Key Food), everything was shrinkwrapped on styrofoam trays--as often as not, when we got it home we found the underside had begun to rot.
Dinner tonight, from Boston Market: dark quarter of chicken, creamed spinach, steamed mixed veg., and cornbread (gonna take a starch-blocker).
Brunch was a diced-veg./Provolone omelet. Learned the hard way this morning not to handle Hatch or Fresno chiles w/o gloves--even though I washed my hands afterwards, when I brushed a fingernail past a corner of my eye, yeeeeOUCH!
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Last night's dinner was navy bean soup and romaine salad. The soup was a big success even though I started it out against all the rules of cooking dry beans. I put all the ingredients in a large pot, including canned tomatoes. Sure enough the beans resisted softening but eventually did become tender without falling to pieces. The meat for flavoring was a couple of slices of ham hock. Veggies besides tomato was onion, celery, carrot.
Tonight's dinner will include a small beef pot roast out of the freezer.
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Lacey - just saw that Legal Seafoods has been sold. Wonder what the new owners will change??
Carole - I don't remember my Mother ever soaking or pre-boiling beans. She just simmered them for most of the day.
Cleaning out the fridge. Night before last was sauteed spinach, leftover fresh baby carrots simmered in dill and boiled new potatoes. Last night was green peas with mushrooms with a hard boiled egg on the side. This afternoon will be salad. And I need to eat the guacamole I made last weekend to use the avocados & tomatoes that were nearing EOL. I really haven't been in the mood for salad since it's colder - so I need to stop buying so much and throwing it away.
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eric - yay for DD!!! One of my good friends here in Tampa (my former boss) has a daughter who has worked two different marketing jobs since she graduated from the U of FL. First was a non-profit, now for Ikea - she loves it! Funny story about the liquor spill - agree that $11 in '63 had to have been some special stuff! When we were in Guam (longest three years of my life...) we not only had the Class 6, it was duty free so the alcohol was really cheap. DH said we are saving money drinking, so we did, lol! We were young and child-free so it made living on a rock in the middle of the ocean a little more bearable, but some of that time is a blur.. As Hamilton says to Aaron Burr in the musical - "I don't know, it's a blur, sir..."
minus - produce nearing EOL, that made me laugh! I found some decent sourdough at Trader Joe's and thought of you! It is TJ's brand sliced sourdough boule.
chisandy - I did that once with a jalapeno, unfortunately it was while visiting my college boyfriend's family for the first time. Not the impression I was hoping to make as I cried out of one eye through dinner...
Just returned from DH's second eye surgery - now he has a matched set. Again weird not to be able to go in with him - this is the third time this year. Today will be spent monitoring icing and tylenol. He was NPO until we got home at around 2pm, so he had an egg salad sandwich on the toasted sourdough mentioned above. A little hard to eat (or manage hand/eye/mouth coordination) with an eyepatch! I am trying to do odds and ends around the house in the 30 minute icing intervals. I have some presents to wrap and am in the middle of laundry.
We had salads for dinner last night, I am thinking something easy to eat tonight but haven't decided what that will be yet, I thought about chili but not sure about DH eating with a spoon. I need to grocery shop tomorrow for a standing rib roast and potatoes, etc. for Christmas Eve, supplies for sticky buns and mimosas for Christmas morning, and a few other odds and ends. Hope the grocery store won't be too crazy.
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Bummer about Legal. Been to every branch in the Boston area (including Logan Airport) at least twice, plus Tyson's Corner in VA, Roosevelt Field Mall in LI, and Boca Raton Town Center. My concern going forward (assuming it'll be safe to dine inside restaurants before too, too long) is not so much menu prices but quality and consistency of their recipes. When my committed-carnivore WI-based singing partner & I were on a Middle Atlantic tour a few years ago, Bob, Gordy & I took him to the Roosevelt Field branch and urged him to try the Pacific salmon. Made him such a convert that he became an activist for Musicians United to Save Bristol Bay, AK (the Pebble Mine's permit application was finally denied). Coincidentally, Bob's bringing home salmon as part of Whole Foods' entree+2 sides deal tonight.
Last night I had 1/3 of a Quest "Supreme" (pepperoni, sausage, veg & cheese) pizza for dinner. Crust was meh--but at least (unlike most other 'zas, even cauliflower) I could eat it rather than have to gnaw the toppings off it.
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