So...whats for dinner?
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My favorite is the vinegar based sauce too. That make me weird since I live in Texas.
My nephew & his wife & 4 year old daughter came up today for a picnic at our neighborhood park. They picked up a big bucket of original, greasy KFC w/biscuits, mac & cheese & coleslaw. I dearly love KFC but don't think I've had any in probably 10 years. AND it was really nice that it was all their idea and their treat. Interesting that my nephew is a vegetarian so he packed his own lunch. The 4 year old brought her bike to ride the paths and had a good time on the playground equipment. After awhile, we returned to my back porch and she played with my exercise ball and ended up coloring state maps while we visited. It was a lovely afternoon.
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Nance - Kitchen cabinets, counters and back splash look great! We got vinyl flooring for our kitchen re-do as hubs was not in favor or either wood or tile. Must say it is nice & cushiony compared to tile. Enjoy selecting your flooring!
1st Moderna vaccine done on 2/26. No soreness in arm or other effects.
Dinner tonight was lobster rolls (I like them with melted butter/lemon, using Luke's Lobster meat available at Whole Foods) and coleslaw. For the roll, I use ALDI's brioche hot dog buns (they have a split top) and smear with melted butter, toast lightly on both sides. Yummo!
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Thank you all, as I said I’m getting used to the kitchen but I dearly miss my 8 foot island!
Had a bit of side effect from the Pfizer - a bout of nausea very early this morning that woke me up. Unlike Monica, I broke out the zofran and by mid morning I was fine. I wasn’t really expecting this with the first one so I guess we’ll see what happens with number two.
Dinner was a pot roast with celery, onions carrots and potatoes and a side of applesauce from the freezer.
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Still chilly and rainy here so tonight we had blueberry pierogies and cheese pierogies, with sour cream and apple sauce. I baked them with onions and melted butter. Quite a treat-dinner.
Nance your kitchen looks beautiful.
Minus i love days like you described. Perfect.
I enjoy everyone's posts. Have a good start to your week.
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Nance, love your choices for your kitchen. Also do understand missing your 8ft island. Our kitchen is wide enough that we added a rolling cart as an island, it is moved out when we have a group dinner. If course have not had one of those for a long time!
Dinner tonight was jump up of lasagna soup. Like the casserole for which it is named, even better the second time around.
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Last night's dinner was Salsa Chicken made with a giant chicken breast with bone. I took off the skin. The last time I cooked this dish it had too much liquid so I rinsed the black beans and didn't use a whole small jar of salsa. I also added a small can of Hatch mild chopped chilis. The chicken resisted getting tender and I could not taste the chilis but the meal was good. At the last minute I sprinkled grated cheese over the top and got out the sour cream.
We had ripe avocados on hand so dh made a guacamole.
Nance, your kitchen is very pretty. The installers are scheduled for tomorrow with our 2nd set of white quartz countertops. I hate that my choices fall into a trend. I opted for the white quartz to brighten up our kitchen after years with a dark green formica originally selected to offset natural cypress cabinets built by dh. Now I'm learning that white quartz is popular. This one has a faint gray tracery.
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Love Sunny Paris, especially in eggs but I use it everywhere a lot.
Today is our41st anniversary so no cooking for me. Can’t decide where to carry out though Not in the mood for steak. We don’t have the variety that Sandy enjoys without driving miles and miles. DH’s seafood tolerance is limited. We may end up picking up a walleye dinner from a new place not far from us. Stay tuned, it could change.
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auntie - Happy Anniversary to you and Mr. auntie! Hope whatever the dinner ends up being is yummy and worthy for a 41 year celebration! Congrats!
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Carole, I know what you mean. But I’m usually behind the trends - hence the granite counters. I was mostly thinking of resale value without investing tons of money since at our age, I don’t know how long we’ll be here. But who knows what the “in” stuff will be by then. What we’ve done and will do is pretty “middle of the road”. So I’m hoping that and the area (Lake community) will be enough to keep it desirable.
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Congratulations auntie!
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Happy 41st, Nance and DH! I hope your dinner choice is worthy of that celebration!
I’ll enjoy appreciating the kitchen upgrades everyone posts, while staying in our somewhat dated digs. We redid our kitchen fifteen years ago, and the one thing I regret is not being able to add an island, or even a peninsula due to the main chimney being “in the way” on one side. So for as large as it seems, it is really not a comfortable two person prep kitchen. We have wonderful ideas about how it could be expanded and grand with a great room, but figure that is best left to the next owners or the developer who razes and rebuilds!That is basically what is happening in this town with 100 yesr old homes.
Last night I made a balsamic honey sheet pan dinner with chicken, sweet potatoes and lots of veggies, along with a cuke salad. Leftovers tonight.
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leftovers
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Happy Anniversary, Nance! Hope the meal was tasty.
We are more than two weeks past our 2nd Pfizer shot so Saturday night we ventured out to the club for a prime rib dinner. The tables were spaced apart and the servers wore masks. The dinner was very good.
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Tonight's fare was something called Millionaire spaghetti...beefy, cheesy (4 kinds I think). I used pasta from Buitoni/fresh so it was extra yum.I told DH if he wanted a salad he'd have to make it as I was tired 🤗
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thinking omelettes and a salad
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Last night was Subway.
Nance, I didn't mean to imply that quartz has become more popular than granite. I think granite is still very much "in."
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Tonight was a tenderloin steak, steamed broccoli, roasted squash/zucchini/red onion and a small arugula salad.
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I was at the Med Center for my Prolia Shot #10 today, so dinner was quick & easy - but really delicious. I'll buy this again for a freezer "emergency" - or just because. Trader Joe's Mushroom Risotto. I served it with sauteed fresh spinach.
Stopped by Penzey's for some spices but they are only taking curbside PU orders. Oh well, I placed an order to PU next week when I'm back in that part of town again. Along with my order to PU at total wine.
Houston now has all of the virus variants. But apparently "we" have jettisoned masks & distance precautions in Texas. I can't begin to tell you all how angry I am. I was looking forward to going out to dinner by May, but now....
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Minus, the only good part so far is the number of stores that have announced they will continue to support mask wearing. Otherwise the situation is both aggravating and depressing. The irony is that DH and I are scheduled for our second Moderna vaccine on March 10, the same day the "opening" is to occur.
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The Texas governor is "changing the subject" after the nationwide attention to the collapse of the electrical grid.
Last night's dinner was a medium thin crust pizza from Domino's ordered online and ready for pickup in about 15 minutes. We took advantage of a coupon offer and the cost was $5. It tasted good.
I have a lunch date today and tomorrow. Italian today and Mexican tomorrow.
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Our 32nd wedding anniversary is today. Sharon celebrated by renewing her driving license and I celebrated by doing some more work on the yard landscaping. I'm not sure what's for dinner tonight.
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Happy anniversary Eric and Sharon!
Tonight is orange chicken with stir fried veggies, brown rice and spring rolls. I’m using Popeyes chicken tenders (cut up) because I didn’t want the frying mess so we’ll see how that goes. I got mild but I’m thinking spicymight have added a nice kick.
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Ditto on the happy anniversary!
Dinner tonight, let's see, I have leftover chicken, cooked pasta, a jar of light Alfredo sauce, parmesan cheese, think it will be chicken tetrazzini. May add some peas and mushrooms. Also have spinach that needs to be used while it is still good so will saute that for a side.
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Mazel tov, Eric & Sharon! Nice new kitchen, Nancy. Special, could it be something in or on (soil in which grown, pesticides, fertilizer, even the water that irrigated them) those particular tomatoes (or even the particular variety) that was the culprit, especially since you hadn't had problems before?
Dinner last night was grilled heritage pork chops (honey-brined, then coated in olive oil, Galena St. rub, and chopped rosemary from my garden--the rosemary survived the snow & deep freeze, the mint is coming back), heirloom tomato (purple & yellow) insalata Caprese, and sauteed "romesco" broccoli (the kind with pointy florets that look like fractals).
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Happy anniversary Eric & Sharon.
Dunch was a treat. I totally forgot I received a Pappadeaux gift card for Christmas 2019!!! And then the virus. When I found it last month, I realized that they have curb side delivery. I ordered the huge Cobb Salad with shrimp, tomatoes, eggs, onion, bacon, avocado, blue cheese, several kinds of greens. etc. and they brought it to my car to go. I was only able to eat 1/2 of it and that was at 3pm. I'm still stuffed at 8pm.
Carole - the other thing I heard about the gov who calls himself "a leader" is that he timed the 100% opening (in addition to no more mask mandate) for Spring Break. That way all the college students in the nation can come drink & party during their breaks - leaving the virus strains they brought with us and taking back more infections to their own states. And their own grandmothers!!!
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Eric - Happy anniversary 🎉
Dinner was a big salad full of all may favorite things. Green leaf, spring mix, red and green cabbage, red and green onions, grated cheddar, grated carrot, radishes, cucumber, chickpeas, sesame sticks and ranch dressing.
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These salads sound great; and I love the idea of using Popeye's chicken as part of the stir fry.
Here, we had rotisserie chicken-based chicken enchiladas from Holly Clegg's cookbook series. Makes a big pan and I freeze half.
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That Governor in question--retaliating against characterization of lifting mask mandates as "Neanderthal thinking"--accused the WH of "spreading COVID" by letting asylum seekers across the border (never mind that they get tested), in essence saying Latinos carry diseases. And TX has more cases of the Brazilian variant than any other state. I suggest that sensible Texans should get outta Dodge and come up here for spring break before the idiot maskless party animals descend upon Austin & Padre Island. We have lovely clean hotel rooms and socially-distanced, capacity-limited mask-enforced restaurants galore. We have a beautiful lake that will be fully-thawed by then. And our zoos & museums are open for capacity-limited timed-entry. (Except the Immersive Van Gogh exhibit, which is sold out till the end of time).
So I went to Cellars tonight for their reopening. Everyone was being careful about wearing masks not just when interacting with staff, but also when not actively eating & drinking. The redecoration (shiplap walls replacing exposed brick, which mortar had been crumbling on to the booze bottles) really brightens the place considerably--and "shiplap is the new exposed brick" anyway. Was going to cheat on my diet with the Marblehead shrimp sliders on King's Hawaiian buns, but those sold out within the first hour. So I had the appetizer-sized black sesame-seared ahi over Asian slaw. (Upon his return home from work, Bob was crestfallen when I told him that tomorrow night he will not be able to enjoy his favorite root vegetable pot pie for Lent--turns out practically nobody but he ever ordered it so it's off the menu. But he still has his choice of grilled salmon, two seafood pastas and eggplant parm over linguine with marinara).
En route home, I stopped off at Jewel for my low-carb ultra-filtered milk. Had to get FairLife, because nobody seems to carry Organic Valley's version any longer. I read an article on a coffee-geek blog (1st-Line Espresso, IIRC) that the low-carb plant milk that froths the best is cashew. So I bought Silk's unsweet version. Neutral taste, but when frothed it separates into bubble-bath foam and plain thin hot milk. I guess the site tested the sweetened kind, but that would defeat the purpose. Gonna stick with either the FairLife (fewer carbs than the regular cashew milk) or Almond Breeze Unsweetened Vanilla, which froths almost as well as dairy milk--and with a few drops of erythritol-sweetened vanilla syrup, tastes just as good. But what I did find at Jewel was Enlightened Keto Cheesecakes (I got strawberry), 2 gm. net carb each. Thawing one in the fridge overnight and will report back in the morning.
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Last night's dinner was a shared pork steak, cauliflower mash and romaine salad.
Happy Anniversary, Eric and Sharon.
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e & s - Happy Anniversary! Yay!
chisandy - no idea on the tomatoes, and it is not just one kind or just raw, cooked things like mass manufactured marinara and salsa are causing trouble too. I am starting to wonder if it is nightshades in general as I often eat Horiatiki salad which has both tomatoes and peppers. I plan to avoid for a period of time, continue with daily probiotics, then try adding one by one in isolation to see what happens. I don't seem to be having an allergic reaction in the form of rash, throat swelling, etc. Before moving from Virginia to Florida I experienced sudden onset plaque rashes over large areas from the waist up. Doc thought maybe lupus, but a biopsy revealed straight up allergic reaction. I underwent drug and cosmetic testing (had regular allergy testing many years before - allergic to anything with pollen, a bunch of animals, some foods, so basically the world, lol!) which showed several drugs that I am allergic to, topical antibiotics, an infused drug for kidney infection, but also epoxy resin (my glasses frames), many glues like on postage stamps, the ingredient in shampoo, bar soap, and laundry soap that creates lather, and a bunch of essential oils. The plaque like rash was caused by the shampoo allergy as the lather rinsed off in the shower, and the rash behind my ears was from glasses. I asked the specialty derm why this suddenly happened and he said in allergic people it is not uncommon for new allergies to come out of the blue. I think as someone who has some digestive issues and a bunch of allergies I have become sensitized to some foods I have eaten for a long time. Will experiement and see what happens. I use Almond Breeze unsweetened vanilla milk for almost everything, good to know it foams well, I can't believe I have not been barista-ing while I have been home so much.
Made stuffed shells, but didn't eat any because of the marinara, night before last. Was not feeling good and had zero appetite - went to urgent care yesterday for a UTI. Last night was a buffalo chicken salad for DH, and just some chicken, couple pieces of cheese and an apple for me. Mainly just so I would have something in my stomach to take the UTI meds.
Had my annual MO appt yesterday. MO not worried about my low WBC, he thinks it is my normal now. he looked back at the values historically and said they have always been on the low side, although I am not one to be susceptible to communicable things - never have been. I have a silent rupture of my right implant, revealed on a routine MRI in late December that I requested because I have textured implants. He planned to communicate to my PS that I am good to go for surgery, and I see her next month to plan. I was also contacted the day before by my center and offered the vaccine, although it was supposed to be only for 65 and over. Don't know how I got into the database as I turn 65 in October, but my MO did give me a letter that defines me as "extremely vulnerable" and Florida just opened that category to people under 65 for vaccination, I believe just this week. I would really prefer to be vaccinated at the MO because there are docs on site, and it is on the hospital campus, in case I have issues, but he thinks I should go ahead and vaccinate whenever and however I can. He pressed his folks a bit to see if I could do it yesterday while there, but they were still working their over 65 list, so refused. For those who are classified as "extremely vulnerable" under 65 you have to go to a federally supervised site, which in Tampa is the now defunct greyhound park. Also betting they won't vaccinate me in the thigh there, will have to use the less lymphedema affected arm, bleh. I have not started the process to register - still on the fence, but it makes sense to try to safely vaccinate before surgery which would likely be in May or June.
Dinner tonight will likely be small reverse seared sirloins with mushrooms, red potatoes with butter/parsley, and Jack Daniels glazed carrots.
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