So...whats for dinner?
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My weight-mgmt. didn't tear me a new one over the modest weight gain (I'd lost 2 lbs. since the last time I got on the scale and freaked out), but did lecture me sternly about not getting enough exercise and about thinking that I can eat like a normal person so long as I'm on an aromatase inhibitor. (Would that the gain had been the result of a true binge, but nooo....). So I freezer-foraged tonight and found a low-carb entree from Trader Joe's (bought just before the first lockdown last March): bay scallops, mushrooms & peas in an Emmenthaler cream sauce. I "fleshed it out" with some snow pea pods and enoki mushrooms. I served mine over leftover broccolini, but put Bob's over jasmine rice. Will defrost a couple of wild salmon filets for tomorrow night.
Breakfast was an olive-oil-fried egg (I love those crispy lacy edges--first encountered eggs cooked that way in Barcelona in 2015), and a small slice of keto toast with salt butter. Late lunch was a small slice of avocado toast (guac, shallot, cilantro, & tomato on high fiber-low-carb bread) and an almond-milk breve cappuccino.
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Mac and cheese was our chilly day dinner. I added fresh tomatoes to my normal recipe. This time the cheeses were vermont cheddar and emmentaler. Brownies done spur of the moment for desert. We have not been interested in salads lately due to the weather I guess.❄🌨
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DH has not been very hungry for dinner the first part of the week, mainly due to eating a late lunch and arriving home late. He is not a fan of eating dinner and then almost immediately going to bed - he is an early to bed person, often by 9pm. I am totally the opposite, lol! He is also having some problems with routine labs - his thyroid med is not working at the current dosage, so he had a US, and there appears to be something on his thyroid... also having some above range values on potassium, hemoglobin, and hematocrit. Repeated those labs, don't have those results yet, but at a minimum he needs eval from a thyroid specialist. The kind of nice thing about being seen on the base is that they are experts in pretty much nothing, so refer out to civilian providers immediately - they don't try to solve any problems themselves.
Dinner last night was an experiment - chicken apple sausage sauteed with chopped kale and then added to penne in a creamy spicy sauce - yummy!
chisandy - I have now been off letrozole for three years, still can't eat like a "normal" person without gaining, albeit a slow creep, but most definitely carb related. Sorry for that announcement, and hope that won't be the case for you.
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I blamed a number of ills on taking arimidex, weight gain, higher cholesterol, higher bp. However, these ills did not go away when I stopped taking the little white pill after almost five years. Hmm... Getting older? Becoming less active?
Last night's meal kit was Mushroom Risotto. There in the brown paper bag was arborio rice (white) which I never buy since I'm brainwashed into eating brown rice. The preparation was a little lengthy but I didn't mind missing Wheel of Fortune. The finished dish was tasty and attractive. We didn't have a side.
DH laughed when I offered to let him delve into tonight's brown paper bag and prepare dinner. Then he agreed. I will check the instructions and see if there is diced onion. His dice and my dice are two different dices.
I suspect this Hello Fresh subscription has something to do with alleviating boredom. It is nice to have all the ingredients in just the right amount, including garnishes which I normally do not have on hand.
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The most noticeable difference for me when ending letrozole was not having so much joint pain and stiffness. Weight loss - not so much. BP is always good - which it should be with three bp meds. Sheesh.
I like the idea of Hello Fresh just to keep from agonizing over what’s for dinner. I usually make my DDIL make risotto because I detest standing over the stove stirring for hours. She’s more patient than I. (My impatience has ruined many a roux.). I was delighted to discover that the instant pot makes a decent risotto with no stirring!
Last night was chicken parm carry out from a local Italian joint. Tonight will depend on whether the counter guys and the plumber get my kitchen up and running today or tomorrow. In the meantime, I’m off to Costco (double masked) geezer hour for staples. Maybe I’ll find something there that tickles my fancy.
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Yesterday, while I was at PT, DH went to the grocery store, and as I left PT I realized I left some items off the shopping list we drew up. So, after picking up some fish from the truck that sells from Volante’s parking lot, I also stopped at the food store and managed to buy additional items that DH would not even give a tumble. So we are well stocked for the coming week when we might be seeing a Nor’easter. Ugh! You know you’re old when the idea of a big snow storm triggers terror and not excitement!
Last night I made fresh cod with veggies in Rao’s puttanesca, which I served over whole wheat penne pasta, with a big side salad. Tonight we’ll have baked salmon. I’d love to coat it with pesto for a change, but I have no fresh basil, and the jar of pesto I have in the cupboard is made with cashews, to which I am allergic. Darn. Next time I shop I’ll have to pick up some fresh basil somewhere and make and freeze pesto in cubes for future use.
Have many of you received a first Covid vaccine shot yet? Our 75+ age roll out has been a user unfriendly mess, (only online appt options, no calling options so far, tho that is about to change after many citizens expressing their concern to the gov’s office). We were unsuccessful with many tries and may wait to hear from our med providers in the next few weeks. On Sunday I decided to drop off a casserole of kale/ turkey meatballs at DS2’s house (not revealing the “secret” ingredient...and they never guessed it!), and we were so excited to see little Mila while we took a brief distanced walk in their neighborhood. Such mini non-contact visits makes us all the more impatient to get vaccinated! She pretty much figures these two people live in her Dad’s iPad! Last week, DS2 sent a video of her relating to an image of my DH on the iPad, and as she was doing her toddler chatting “at” him, she happened to drop the device and exclaimed, “Oh NO! PAPA!” How odd are these screen relating experiences to little developing minds?!
Nance, I have started wearing two masks for any (rare) indoor errands.....a KN-95, and a self-sewn cotton one (with two internal chiffon layers) over it. So I figure that’s about nine layers of protection!? I was surprised at how comfortable the two (eventually) felt.....but would not want to breathe that way for more than a fe hours.0 -
As You’ve probably seen in the news, Missouri is 50th in it’s s vaccine rolllout (in)efficiency. We are on three lists and have heard not a peep from any of them, even though we are in the compromised tier and eligible. It’s pretty shameful but pretty typica for this state. We always seem to be in a race to the bottom.
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Nance, we too are on three lists and two other sites daily. Frustrating.
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Lacey, no vaccine for me. I’m only in the 1b group because of cancer and MDA is now having patients schedule a spot but I had severe reactions to my first two tries at chemo. Taxotere resulted in a BP drop to 80/60, a tremor (tested but no evidence of seizure) and back pain. Taxol was next and it landed me in the ER with a BP spike to 170/110, back pain requiring morphine and the ER doc said the last time she saw that reaction, the person coded.
I’ve messaged my MO but with this history, I don’t think it’s recommended, so I remain cautious, fortunately I’m a loner, so the lack of socializing isn’t a big problem.
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I'm in the 1a group, but the appointments fill up about 30 seconds after they open the website and I seem to get there 45 seconds after opening.
So, for now, I'll just be careful....which is no different than if I did have the vaccination.
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Obesity runs in my family--my mom got slim only after her GI read her the riot act about her diverticular disease. She asked him if she had to give up popcorn, tomatoes, cucumbers or berries, and he replied, "just stop eating crap." So she became a "clean eater" and within a year went from size 16 to 6. My sister still struggles with her weight--she's doing WW just to maintain and keep her blood sugar in check.
Last night Bob brought home some more of that Natural Ovens Keto-Friendly (0 net carb) white bread, so I made a bedtime snack of grilled cheese (was watching A Little Late with Lilly Singh, and she & her guest did a "20 questions" sort of back & forth. One of the questions was "favorite 1:30 am snack." When they both simultaneously replied "grilled cheese" I knew what I had to do.
Brunch was a guacamole BLT on keto bread. Dinner tonight was pan-seared Alaskan salmon (just salt & pepper, no oil or even lemon), sauteed snap peas with sesame seeds & roasted garlic; plus the last of the roast brussels sprouts with pepitas (pumpkin seeds) Bob brought home from WF on Wed. night (he had jasmine rice too). Might snack later on a satsuma mandarin, now that my paper cuts have healed (ever try to peel & eat citrus with cuts on your fingers? Owwwww....).
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Looks like beef stew tonight.
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I feel really fortunate to report that dh and I are scheduled for our 2nd shot of Phizer vaccine on Tuesday. I'm prepared to experience some side effects afterward like flu symptoms for a day or two. I'll wait two weeks and then venture to the gym for Senior exercise classes again. AND go out to dinner, maybe to our golf club which has a Prime Rib Dinner special in late February.
Last night's Hello Fresh dinner, prepared entirely by dh, was very good. Italian Sausage Rigatoni with Creamy Sauce. He made quite a mess in the kitchen but no complaints. I took a picture but will have to post it from my phone. He made the comment that we could make the dish without the meal kit, and that's certainly true of all the meals we've had so far. It is convenient to have the ingredients in the right amounts in a paper bag with detailed instructions.
Tonight is chicken cutlets with green beans and mashed sweet potato. The chicken has a maple sauce.
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Carole, I’ve made a few hello fresh meals from the recipe cards alone and many of the ingredients can be found easily at the grocery. I do think that I wouldn’t have thought to make a lot of them in my own though, hello fresh has been a great inspiration for something other than meat and potatoes. I’ve made the Korean Beef Bimibap many times, it’s delicious.
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Bob had planned to stop by the steakhouse Petey's Bungalow en route home from Christ Hospital late this aft., but when he called ahead to order he found they don't open till 4pm. He wanted to get as much of a jump on the snow as possible (it started earlier down in the SW 'burbs than up here), so he decided to head as far north as he could before driving through Boston Market. He brought home a cut-up chicken plus a couple of sides (creamed spinach, steamed mixed veg.) for me, and a turkey dinner (breast, gravy, mac & cheese & creamed spinach for him). We're not hungry yet (I didn't have brunch till after the Zoom call I was on), so they're in the fridge for now. Need to use up some Bibb lettuce & tomato, so will make a salad and perhaps heat a can of lobster or tomato bisque: with the snow flying & the wind howling, hot soup sounds comforting.
Brunch was eggs scrambled with the edible remnants of asparagus tips & scallions in the crisper, plus chopped lox.
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Homemade vegetable beef soup and dinner rolls tonight. No more snow for us but steady rain all.day.long. Ugh. Soup will taste good.
Countertops are in. Yay! Tile man coming to measure Tuesday for backsplash. Hope we don’t have to wait months for that.
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Nance - hooray for the countertops.
DInner started with Ancient Grains rice mix that I cooked earlier this week. That already had onion & garlic & etc sauteed before boiling, but I sauteed more onion and added mushrooms & water chestnuts. Added grains & soy (yes son, the light variety) and water chestnuts. Topped off with a full bag of spinach. Delicious. Desert as Mrs. Thinsters coconut cookies dipped in dark chocolate.
Had my first Pfizer vaccine yesterday - in my thigh due to LE. Since they said to exercise the muscle, I walked 7 miles. (ooo lala). The site is a bit swollen and a bit tender - not really sore. The main SE was exhaustion.
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I was the chef last night and made the spicy maple chicken cutlet with roasted green beans and mashed sweet potatoes. I forgot to use one of the little packets. The meal was satisfying with no WOW factor.
Seven miles, Minus! I'm impressed.
Dinner tonight will probably be a rib eye and a big salad. Maybe a small baked potato.
I saw a different technique for cooking a steak on ATK or Cook's Country yesterday. Place the steak in a cold non-stick skillet on the stove. I forget whether high or medium. Turn the steak every two minutes while a crust and brownness develop. Cook until the right temperature. Rest 5 minutes. The sliced steak cooked to 125 looked delicious. Oh, the steak is salted and placed in the refrigerator for an hour before cooking.
DH will probably cook our rib eye on the grill.
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Leftover beef stew
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Carole, it's high heat till the final two flips, then medium till the temp hits 125F. Kind of hard to find steaks that thick now that most butcher shops are on-hold except for curbside pickup. None of mine (which I get bimonthly through ButcherBox) are thicker than 2/3-3/4" so I have to adjust times accordingly. I'd always used the "flip every 2 min." method in a preheated & lightly lubed cast iron skillet, but I'm gonna try it this way next time. It's the way I pan-sear salmon now, without the "ball-bearings" of kosher salt & coarsely ground black pepper.
Dinner tonight will be some form of leftovers plus salads. We've had over a foot of snow now, still coming down. Not going anywhere, and nobody's going to be able to deliver anything but pizzas, if that. Bob doesn't even have boots (he refuses to let me buy him anything but sneakers), so he can't (or I won't let him) go to pick up anything on foot. Driving is impossible, because even SUVs are getting stuck in alleys, acc. to my housekeeper who's seen Jeeps spinning their wheels. He has a dental appt. followed by Union Health on Tues., but he has enough immunity now (3 wks. since shot #2) that he can safely take the train if he's careful.
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I’m up next for it. From what I have been seeing and hearing, it is going to be very nasty. Hubby went out earlier and got a few extra things so we wouldn’t have to go out in the storm.
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Nasty storm last night! But only about 10 inches or so. Hope you are all doing well. I do love my Home Chef boxes! It gets you out of your rut, and usually leftovers are nonexistent. I do like leftovers, sometimes, but not when its regular stuff. Chili, soup, stews, pasta, those are all pretty good leftover. But, anything in liquid and noodles not so much. LOL. Also if I dont get to the store, its great to have stuff on hand. Its easy to put a hold on things, and I usually get an box every other week. It takes me a week to use it up, because there are always leftovers when i cook from scratch. LOL. And gotta use those up. I always freeze the proteins, and only thaw them when I plan on making the recipe.
Life us very busy right now, so we just keep plugging along. I see my Onc tomorrow fir my 3rd annual. It took me 6 years to make it to yearly visits, so Im grateful. Going on 9 years for me.(for treatment) 10 years in Dec for diagnosis.
Aurora Heakth just notified me Im on their list, but I have to diwnload an app befire I can sign up. I feel sirry for anyine who diesnt kniw how to do stuff like thst.
Much love.
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Tried a new potato method tonight - served with a sauteed Waygu burger patty. Calls for red or Yukon Gold potatoes. Cut to size. Boil with lots of salt. Cook 10 minutes until fork tender. Drain. Stir with a spoon. Toss with EVOO, rosemary, garlic, celery salt & cayenne (called for Old Bay but I don't have any). Spread & roast on a sheet pan 15-25 minutes at 450 degrees. Toss several times. Turn the oven off and leave in the oven for 10 minutes. Apparently that last step is the key. They were delicious.
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We have a foot of snow on the ground--but because it's wet, heavy "heart attack" snow, we likely had more like 14-15" fall from the sky before compacting to 12" over the course of 28 hrs. Our landscaper's snowblowers stalled trying to make a third pass through it. He's going to come around dawn and see what he can do. Of course, even if he can plow out the "apron," we still can't negotiate the alley--unless the city runs a Sno-Cat through it to tamp it down. (Maybe a few of us on the block can chip in and have a service send one down the alley). Our side streets will be plowed tomorrow, but the city never plows alleys--to do so would basically be creating berms that seal people's cars into their garages. Bad enough that happens on the side streets--major aggravation, after digging out one's car, to have a plow come through and create embankments that have to be dug out. That's why we didn't take the cars out of the garage yesterday and park on the street, because neither of us is in shape to dig out our cars and we don't want to put out "dibs." (We'd probably never see those lawn chairs again).
Nuked the rest of the rotisserie chicken & leftover veg, plus made a tossed salad and green beans almondine. Brunch was 2 fried eggs over arugula, plus low-carb toast for me, and one fried egg, arugula and two sausage biscuits for Bob. We didn't even attempt to order for delivery--though our grocery deliveries did arrive on time.
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Last night's rib eye was delicious. Only side was "baked" potatoes cooked in the microwave and served with butter and sour cream.
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It’s a comfort food night here tonight. Ham steak, salad and home fries.
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I am in the vaccine boat with illimae - I am allergic to everything - DH says I will end up living in a bubble. I test reactively to multiple foods, many drugs, topical antibiotics, adhesive, pollen, had an allergic reaction involving pretty severe swelling to Taxotere which ultimately left me with bi-lat lynphedema, I had a full body rash reaction to the antibiotics given after BMX, the topical irrigant used in the OR, the tegaderm, and the bandaging. I even get a reaction to the EKG leads. I am not in an eligibility group yet because I am still 64, but I don't think I will get the vaccination at this point. I have adapted to staying home, so will just continue doing that and hoping for the best. I am equally scared of both COVID and the vaccine - at least for me as a party of one. DS and DH have both received injection #1 as a first responder and essential military personnel respectively, both get #2 this week - although I have not seen DS in over a year. DH is still working minimum manning, most of his folks are teleworking, and he is always masked and socially distant at work - no more meeting in conference rooms, etc. DD had symptomatic COVID last month, she was down for the count for a couple of weeks, but is OK and testing negative now, and back to work - we have no idea where she was infected - nobody at work is sick and all tested neg, and none of the few people she has had contact with tested positive either - but such is the disease. I only leave the house on average once or twice every two weeks and haven't socialized or seen friends or family - and am not planning to for at least another six months. Bleh.
Dinners recently have included taco salad, late last week was ramen with stir fried beef strips and veggie additions, another night had teriyaki noodles with chicken, peppers, scallions, and topped with Thai sweet chili sauce, and another night was Greek salad. Last night was Angus burgers on onion rolls with sweet potato fries. I have a couple of pork tenderloins in the freezer, so am thinking of that for tonight, not sure of sides but I have some kale that needs to be used - may saute it with red peppers and have rice pilaf with almonds.
I am a fan of potatoes in any form, so minus - may try your roasted potato recipe! First I need to get some potatoes.
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Holy Crap Special - those allergies are amazing! You are a wonder and I admire your ability to soldier on having to deal with all of that. I'm allergic to mold, some antibiotics and other drugs, topicals and adhesive and that's annoying enough. Thankfully those around you are getting vaccinated.
Sandy and Monica - yike! Stay safe and warm! Right now our temps are moderate but we're due for an arctic blast by the weekend. I won't be going out much. If we're unlucky enough to get snow it will stick around I'm afraid.
I took out flank steak for dinner but Special's taco salad sounds better so I may switch it out for ground beef - pounds of which I just got from Costco. I wish I had a cucumber and/or avocado but I may venture out to find some. Of course, if I made the flank steak I could make Minus' delicious sound potatoes. Another meal in the planning stage I think.
Working on taxes. Of course, I'm always missing one form sigh.
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I'm working on taxes too, but still missing 4 forms.
I owe you an apology Special. I haven't written up the summary from the new bone endocrinologist. Interesting stuff too about Prolia and the research in the EU on Reclast. This week for sure!! That's because of tax prep but also because I've been reading The Silent Patient. I promise you can't put it down.
The potatoes were truly fantastic. Looking forward to your thoughts &/or revisions if you try.
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auntie - I am a delicate flower, lol! I have said that for years and then found these socks!!! Needless to say, I purchased those socks post haste! I even developed some new weird allergies in the last 15 years - I am now allergic to epoxy resin, which made me allergic to the frames of my reading glasses, and cocamidopropyl betaine, which is the surfactant in all lathering things like shampoo, bar soap, laundry soap, etc. It caused a plaquelike rash that was initially thought to be lupus - nope, just allergic to weird crap. Also allergic to several essential oils, so candles and perfumes can be an issue. I make taco salad often because I always have the ingredients on hand - except for avocado sometimes. I started getting those individual guacamole cups to have in case I am avocadoless, I don't love them but they are a good stand in when you need them.
https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Womens-Delicate-F-king-Flower/dp/B01HSL1LOW
minus - no worries! I look forward to hearing about what you've learned!
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