So...whats for dinner?
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minus - I had a new horizontal excision about six inches across, in addition to the same size incision in the IMF, in the area that has been previously operated on about six million times now. They used the hypoallergenic version of tegaderm by 3M because it wasn’t on my list of troublemakers - because it had never been used before. It’s on the list NOW, lol! Due to the fragility of the area the tape was directly on the incision. Bad news all the way around. Things are improving now but it will still be a bit before it is sufficiently calmed down and I’m praying the level of inflammation doesn’t compromise the incisio, but I’m feeling better physically. It’s sucks to recover from bi-lateral surgery with a bunch of fat grafting and then have that level of allergic reaction on top.
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SpecialK, sorry to learn about the problems with allergy side effects in addition to the surgery itself. I hope your body can recover and heal.
The crappie fillets were delicious. They were small. I breaded them lightly with Louisiana fish fry after seasoning with s & p and cayenne. I used an iron skillet on the burner on the outdoor gas grill and grapeseed oil. Our side was homemade potato salad.
Tonight we'll have the eggplant lasagna again.
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Oh Special, I’m so sorry. I’m tape allergic too and suffered infections with my lumpectomy and a previous surgical biopsy although not as severe as yours. Hope you’re starting to heal.
Carole, I wish your crappie fishing neighbor lived next to me. I hope this coming storm doesn’t impact your LA home much.Last night was Navajo tacos. I hadn’t made them in a long time so they were enjoyable. My allergies are bothering me horribly today so we’re having breakfast for dinner - eggs , toasted English muffins and ham pieces.
I got my first pedicure today in over a year. It was sheer bliss
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Special, allergies can be horrendous to endure. People who don't have them make fun of those of us who do--if only they really knew. Yours are worse than mine.
Monday night I had potluck--leftovers plus gazpacho & veggies from the farmers' market and a scoop of tuna salad. Tues. night we walked to Indie Cafe, our neighborhood Thai/sushi joint. I had goma-ae (spinach with peanut-sesame dressing), miso soup and the chef's choice sashimi platter. Our drinks were delayed, so they brought us some free steamed edamame. It would have been more pleasant had there not been a bloviating conspiracy theorist at the next table who wouldn't shut up.
During the day Tues. I picked up the order I placed Sun. from Hooked on Fish (our local seafood CSA): sablefish and walleye pike. Didn't want to stink up the kitchen cooking the fish, nor heat up the kitchen. So Wed. night I fired up the grill and used it as an outdoor gas range. I pan-seared the sablefish--which was amazingly moist, almost silky--nuked the remaining leftover asparagus & 'shrooms, and steamed some broccoli rabe on the grill in foil with olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, red pepper flakes & sea salt. Thurs. night, I did the same with the walleye, and sauteed sugar snap peas with ginger, garlic & sesame seeds.
Fri. morning we awoke to find our neighbor's linden tree had been struck by lightning overnight--it fell mostly in the gangway but also on the front corners of our houses. Until the city crews arrived, our front porch & stairs were totally blocked. (See the Drinking thread for pics). Amazingly little damage. So we were able to walk to the train station to take the L to the Cubs game after all. (First time on transit for either of us since early March 2020). We ate beforehand at Swift & Son's Tavern (formerly Dutch & Doc's, it's the north side branch of the steakhouse where we ate Sun. night). It was oyster happy hour (E. Coast oysters were half price), so we had 6 of them and 3 Hama Hamas from WA's Hood Canal. We also shared a steak salad, which hit the spot. No ballpark food.
Our seats were great--field level behind home plate. The game? I am indebted to the late great Anthony Bourdain for the term "goat rodeo." We gave up after the 7th inning when they were losing 10-2. It was so bad that for the 7th inning stretch, they ran video of the late "Mr. Cub" Ernie Banks conducting the crowd singing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game." Really? They couldn't find a living celebrity to do it???!!! Anyway, we threaded our way (Bob painstakingly but gamely hobbling with his bum knee and using a shillelagh for a cane) out the plaza along the barricades to the corner crosswalk and then back the other way to the first restaurant (other than Mickey D's) that was open: Mordecai, in the Hotel Zachary. We shared cheese & charcuterie, with the usual accompaniments.
Today's game was even worse (11-1), so I'm glad I resisted the temptation to buy bleacher seats and go by myself today. For dinner, I fired up the grill again and had a Polish sausage and a pasture-raised beef hot dog, on the last two unspoiled keto buns from a package that wasn't holding up well in the heat & humidity. Heated some sauerkraut and dressed the sausages with it, Creole mustard (couldn't find the kosher-deli-style buried in the fridge) and dill relish I picked up from The Pickle Guy's stand at the farmers' market. Also bought a jar of his olive salad to make a quasi-muffulatta on low-carb whole grain bread tomorrow for brunch. (I'd go to Cellars but they're closed this weekend because most of their staff is out of town--every place is desperate for servers & cooks but nobody wants to work for tips & subminimum wage any more...till unemployment runs out).
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Dinner last night was a fish fry provided by Brad, who was in the hospital for months last fall with Covid. He caught all the fish, walleye, and cooked them. Sides were a delicious pasta salad made by his wife, Tamra, and two baked beans, French fries, and sheet cake baked by my neighbor, Mary. It was a perfect evening for the occasion, which took place at Brad and Tamra's site in the resort, not too hot and not cold or raining!
DH and I were tired after spending the day being venders at the Dorset boardwalk art fair, where we had two fabulous customers during the first hour who bought five of our nicer bowls with no concern about price. Then a long boring day with few sales.
Today we're having a rainy day, the rain badly needed.
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Eric - Happy Father's Day. Hope the trip is continuing to go well.
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I'm lucky we have access to fresh fish. I like batter-fried fish & chips as much as the next person, but a simple pan-sear or steaming in parchment reveals the fish's real flavor. I had no idea that sable (aka black cod) could taste that wonderful (I'd only had it smoked from the deli), nor that walleye could be so delicious "naked." I just placed this week's Hooked on Fish order: Alaskan halibut, and Norway sea trout (aka Arctic char). Bought a pound of each this time, so I could freeze half. Got only 1/2 lb/ ea. of the sable & walleye--big mistake, as we could easily have eaten more (especially of the sable).
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Thank you. We're spending a couple of days in Sturgis, SD (motorcycle mecca). With two cars, we can't split the driving and Sharon, after a week, wants a day to recover-relax-cook-bake-do laundry-shop. I'm doing laundry and Sharon is buying groceries.
DD went to a Detroit Tigers game. The Cubs and Tigers had similar performances.
It's raining intermittently here and the rain is equally welcome.
I looked on the map and when we crossed Minnesota on route MN-210, we were probably 50 miles from Dorset.
Special...hope the "poison ivy tape" quickly goes away. I lucked out with allergies... shots fixed my pollen problems.
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Our first crop of black raspberries is ready. Ahead of the anticipated storms, I picked about a pint. And for the first time, we're getting some tiny wild "fraises des bois" beneath the bushes--amazing what you can reap from the poop birds sow a season earlier!
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Father's Day dinner was salmon with a spicy brown sugar glaze, green peas, and potato wedges crisped in a skillet. Wine was a August Ridge (now closed California winery) Barbera. Cooked with the stove top, microwave, and air fryer to avoid using the oven!
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Thanks for the good wishes everyone, I appreciate my kitchen table mates!
eric - Happy Dad’s day! Tapeageddon is easing and I’m feeling better.
auntie - stay away from the 3M hypo tegaderm -for me, zero difference between my reaction to it and the regular kind
Since I was feeling more human I decided to tackle dinner tonight - made some artichoke heart dip for an app, and I had some skin on, bone in chicken thighs so made the Barefoot Contessa crispy mustard chicken, some garlic red skin mashed potatoes, and roasted carrots with thyme. DD and DBF brought DH’s fave - an ice cream cake! Yay! Now I’m exhausted - even my ribs hurt. I was careful and had DH handle the big cast iron skillet. DS is on shift at Ft Carson but he managed a nice long phone call.
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Potluck tonight: defrosted a portion of pulled pork, mixed with sugar-free BBQ sauce, on a keto bun with dill pickle chips; leftover cheese & charcuterie from Fri. night's postgame supper, slow-roasted garlic bulb (like an idiot, at the farmers' market I'd thought it was a knob onion), olives and kale-Brussels sprout slaw. Dessert was a strawberry and a chunk of very dark (88%) chocolate with a pour-over decaf. Waiting for the storms to hit, sometime around 11pm and ending (hopefully) by 2am. Praying for no tornado, flood nor winds strong enough to knock out power. It's been cool enough all day here by the lake that I didn't have to turn on the AC. Got all my devices (and this laptop) plugged in & fully charged so I can stay in touch and in the know. (And have an LED flashlight on a lanyard--hoping the kitties are willing to follow me to the basement if need be).
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Glad you're feeling better, SpecialK. I thanked you in my thoughts last night as I took out a bag of frozen pasta. It's so handy to have cooked pasta on hand along with a jar of Rao's sauce and half a lb. of thawed ground beef. Easy tasty dinner with a romaine tossed salad with additions.
This morning the temperature is 50 degrees outside. We're using the heat pump in the camper. Summer in MN.
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carole - yay for frozen pasta! Happy to be of service, and yes, it is great to have a quick dinner available just because you cooked extra pasta on a previous night.
DH has returned to work so we should be reestablishing our regular pattern other than I can't drive yet. I have nowhere to go, so it works out... I think I will be needing to think about meals earlier in advance to be sure I am selecting easy things that don't need heavy pots and pans. Maybe I should do a couple of crockpot things this week if I can remember to have DH get the crockpot out. Mine is an All-Clad and it is big!
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I just spent entirely too long standing at the kitchen island and stove, prepping corn tortillas and everything else needed for some enchiladas that came out just okay. The first time we tried this recipe, it was too spicy and had wayyyyyy too much cheese and no veggies. So I tried tweaking it and it's healthier, but also blander, so I'll have to keep experimenting. Not sure I'll want them again for dinner tonight, but there are two left from lunch, and then two containers of them in the freezer for the next time I don't feel up to cooking! My teenager, luckily, said they're kind of bland "but still good" and that they'll be a fine dinner for those nights when I'm exhausted and he might otherwise have to microwave a frozen meal.
More successfully, made a batch of strawberry-dragonfruit smoothies that look tempting and which he loves.
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DH made beef burgundy but I ate it before remembering to take a picture, fortunately this was a really good batch, so here’s round 2.
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Pan-seared wild salmon (using the hot side of the gas grill as a stove) and grilled veggies (red knob onion & asparagus from the farmers' mkt., shishito peppers), with wilted arugula instead of a grain as the bed for the salmon last night. Huge veggie & provolone omelet for lunch; Picking up my weekly Hooked on Fish order in about an hour: wild Alaskan halibut, sustainably-farmed Norwegian sea trout.
We'll likely have to dine out tonight, as Bob desperately needs a new sport coat or blazer (no time to alter a suit) for Thurs. night's physicians' recognition dinner at a SW suburban country club. We're third on the wait list, as guaranteed admission is only for this year's honorees (his next turn is not till 2024). We may not get to go, but he has no suits nor sport jackets that fit him any more--and the newest one in his closet is >20 yrs. old. (He lives in golf pants, jeans, long sleeved shirts--mostly from Duluth Trading, and which he insists have pockets--and the occasional T-shirt, none of which are appropriate even in these days of relaxed dress codes). Not really looking forward to either the dinner (long drive through sketchy neighborhoods, and blah country-club cooking) or the shopping (I suspect he'll find nothing at Men's Wearhouse--the only place open late enough--that fits, is decent quality, and appropriate). I need to buy a new dress for our 50th anniv. party Sat. night. I could wear the one I wore to the last wine dinner, but I'd rather have something spiffy which nobody'd seen me wear before. But I'll have to do that tomorrow afternoon.
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Last night's dinner was walleye fillets, cut into pieces and lightly coated with Louisiana fish fry and cooked outside in the electric skillet in grapeseed oil. Side was a large tossed salad and dh made tartar sauce. The electric skillet works very well for this purpose.
Tonight we're invited to a brisket dinner here in the resort. Wayne is using his smoker to cook a large brisket supplied by John from Texas. The weather forecast calls for possibility of thunder storms so an outdoor gathering may not work out. We're departing for Illinois tomorrow and it's looking like we may be driving in rain and thunderstorms, not to mention attending dh's sister's memorial on Saturday in rainy weather. Best laid plans.
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We are in Goshen County, Wyoming..heading toward Denver in about an hour.
Dinner was pulled pork at a horse trainer show. In about 1-1/2 hour, the trainer very gently took a 2 year old "yearling" that had never even seen any tack to being (mostly) tolerant of being ridden. The horse was still very green, but the quick progress was amazing.
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Dinner at Bonefish Grill last night was grilled New England haddock with lemon butter, broccoli, & spinach. Gonna make the halibut tonight on the grill, maybe with a caprese appetizer.
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eric - the horse training thing sounds interesting, did you happen upon it?
chisandy - how was the shopping? I'm vicariously excited about your anniv celebration this weekend! Congrats in advance!
Dinner here has been all over the map - the last two nights have been kale steak Caesar for DH with homemade croutons from some ciabatta I had stashed in the freezer. I have been eating dribs and drabs, but did have a nice salad last night. Tonight will be some Aidell's sausage cut into slices and cooked with peppers, scallions, and pineapple with sweet and sour sauce over brown rice. We are still subsisting on the grocery shop I did prior to surgery on the 8th, but running low on produce. My post-op is not until Monday, so not cleared to drive, but I may be able to accompany DH to the grocery store over the weekend for a restock.
minus - how are the house things going?
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DH made chicken curry and I “riced” the cauliflower to go with it, tasty and less spicy since I can’t handle too much.
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I was so happy to take one of my healthy, pre-prepped frozen meals out of the freezer for dinner tonight. Popped it in the oven for 50 minutes, and it was done! Unfortunately, I didn't notice the smell of burning plastic until I got close to the oven. *headdesk*.
Yup, took it out of the freezer and popped it in the oven -- without taking the plastic container off the top. It is now cooling on the side porch.
I ate a gross spinach spring mix-based salad with some cherry tomatoes, basil, and mozzarella. Unfortunately, none of the delicious add-ins covered up the spinachy taste. My inner 4 y.o. is miserable.
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Lol saltmarsh, I hear you, sort of, I love cooked fresh spinach but raw or canned, no thanks.
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Special - house is on hold for the contractor to come back & finish the 2% plus the punch list. Actually I'll thrilled to have my space again and not be tripping over crews of workers. And to be able to leave the house to run errands that I've been putting off. So far I've unpacked two boxes. (that's two out of 75). Since I've managed w/o the stuff for 2-1/2 months, I may just let it sit.
So glad to hear you're coming up on post opp. You do know to not overdo!!! (yes mom)
Eric - welcome back to the heat - slowly but surely. I'm sure you're monitoring the fire & forest closures around Flag.
Dinner was Hawaiian Sweet roll sliders - adjusted to use the leftovers I had. So they were made with sliced rotisserie chicken breast and Monterrey Jack cheese instead of ham & swiss. The "sauce" could have used a bit more Dijon mustard with the melted butter & Worcestershire & onion.
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Dinner tonight was an Instant Pot chicken and rice. Supposed to have mushrooms in it but dinner guests are not fans of mushrooms so sauteed them to add as desired. Also sliced green onions to add. Banana nut muffins (made to use some over ripe bananas) available for dessert.
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Clothes shopping (blazer for him last night, dress for me tonight) was suboptimal. At Men's Wearhouse, we had to wait an hour after signing in for our "appointment." And he had to go up a size in "classic fit" because the "executive fit" doesn't come any smaller than 48L. He used to wear 41L, slim fit, back in the day. His current suits & sport coats (which he hadn't worn since way before the pandemic) are so old that they all have labels proclaiming "Made in the USA with Union Labor." BTW, gotta love menswear shops' euphemisms for "big & tall." Besides Men's Wearhouse's "Executive" fit, Brooks Bros. calls it "Prominent." Men have such fragile egos--if we wear anything larger than 14 or "XL," we must make do with "Plus Size" or "Women's Plus."
Tonight, I went to Nordstrom. Their selection was extremely limited--except for four-figure-priced items by St. John, they basically had nothing between formal evening gowns and ultra-casual sundresses & baby-doll minis. Unless you're an ultra-wealthy octogenarian or a teen-to-twentysomething, forget it. I snagged the one size 10 reasonably-priced dress (a navy & dark olive green floral on white midi-length shirtwaist) that didn't either drag on the floor or fail to even reach the top of my knees. And it has sleeves--this time of year, tough to find. Sleeves are a must, what with my flabby "bat wing" hanging upper-arm skin. The only weird thing about the dress is that the buttons are on the wrong side, like a men's shirt. Were I shopping for a beach vacation or cruise I'd have had more options. I did also get an Eileen Fisher unconstructed linen jacket in the same dark olive to go over it. (Cost twice the price of the dress). Otherwise, I'd have had to go with what's already in my closet. Naturally, my search for a pair of navy flats or pumps came up dry--everything now is gladiator-sandals, stilettos, Crocs, UGGs, Birkenstocks or sneakers. (Really tacky hideous sneakers, at that). Will have to go with black dress flats in my closet--walking in the rain wearing sandals? Nope.
Thanks to the pandemic shutting down in-person shopping for almost a year, they no longer have a Petites (nor my old plus-size standby "Encore") department--for that you have to go online. And I've learned that unless I'm ordering separates from Chico's, Old Navy or Land's End, buying clothes online without trying them on is a slo-mo fustercluck. Buy, wait, wait some more, open package (assuming you can retrieve it before the porch-pirates do), try on--and if it doesn't fit, go back online and apply for a return authorization, print out label, re-pack and ship it back. Lather, rinse, repeat.
We aren't going to the hospital dinner--none of the honorees canceled, so the waiting list is S.O.L. Sort of unfair, because physician staff dues pay for that annual free dinner--but this year we got cheated out of it. Oh, well, it was bland SW Side country club food anyway, and the country club is an hour-long rush-hour drive partly through a dangerous neighborhood (gang territory) before crossing the city line into that suburb. So we're going to Wildfire downtown instead.
Tonight I pan-seared halibut on the grill, with cilantro-lime seasoning, sea salt & pepper, and olive oil. Steamed a red knob onion in foil, grilled asparagus with lemon-butter, and grilled an ear of corn for Bob.
This is taking forever to type because Happy is sitting between me & the laptop, obscuring my vision, occasionally hitting the trackpad, and purring. But he's 14, and has IBD, so we need to cherish every moment we have with him.
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Tonight is a pan seared pork loin chop with a balsamic glaze, roasted rainbow carrots, roasted rosemary fingerling potatoes, creamy garlic Swiss chard and very large steamed Brussels sprouts.
I cooked for 4 since we have two friends as houseguests temporarily, one decided to order pizza and the other hasn’t been seen today, their loss.
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illimae,
Indeed that is their loss! Your plate is so beautiful! My mouth is watering just thinking of the combination of flavors. It looks like most of those can be reheated for tomorrow. Our heat wave has started again in N CA so we are having a salad tonight. I don't want to heat up the kitchen.
Jane
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Still working on leftovers. I had some turkey drippings in the freezer. Simmered & thickened and added heavy cream. Had a leftover a rotissarie chicken breast. Boiled up some penne pasta and combined it all. Really quite decent.
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