So...whats for dinner?
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Carole - also wishing you a happy anniversary.
Son just left. Whew - 70 hours of non-stop 'honey'dos'. Well, we did sleep from 1am to 6am (eeek) but otherwise never sat down. Garbage can full & 6 more bags already lined up. Recycle container is full and 5 more boxes lined up. Car loaded with 4 boxes & 6 bags for shredding on Wednesday and will fill at least two more tomorrow. 12 electrical projects completed. Three pieces of furniture repaired. Entertainment system set back up - TV, VCR, DVD, Receiver, Record Player, etc. Backyard drainage project designed to test the problem. Lots of computer upgrades and lessons. Can't even begin to remember what else.
First night dinner started out as Laurie's Mexican chicken w/rotisserie chicken breasts, but I added sour cream and then forgot the melted cheese. Quite tasty. Served with wild rice & Olathe corn from the freezer. Second night we went out for Tex-Mex enchiladas- a requirement since that's what he grew up with. Last night he went to eat with his Dad - steaks at Perry's. I had leftover asparagus & rice. He refused home cooked breakfasts and went every morning to get breakfast tacos made with smoked brisket at a BBQ place. Dropped him at the airport a while ago where he will eat before his flight and I'm on my second rather strong cocktail. Bed is calling soon.
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Carole congratulations on your anniversary. Enjoy ❤
Minus sounds like wonderful progress -- and definitely time to sit down, feet up.
Crockpot pork tenderloin barbecue from scratch along with sides from the other night of foil baked red potatoes and onion drizzled with olive oil and " boating slaw" from the Mystic CT seaport cookbook. Its oil and vinegar based so it will keep for a 9 day sail ( or so the recipe says). ⛵🛥
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Oh dear….earlier today, I wrote a long catch up after doing a read catch up, and had to put it aside to attend to something else. IT IS GONE….and my brain is unable to rewrite it on a screen. Darn!!! I should have copied it before putting it aside like I sometimes do.
So I will post a few pix and hopefully reconstruct my lost post at a later time about our Ptown stay. We are home tending to medical appts before heading to NH to finally open up the lake house.
My attempt to recreate a meal we had at Mac’s Seafood. Not exsctly the same, but pretty tasty…a good thing since scallop purchases practically require a bank loan these days! These were on sale at $20 a pound. But really delicious!
DD2 brought his little crew on the Fast Ferry from Boston to visit one day to show his DW and little one the sandbar he spent hours exploring on Cape Cod Bay during our weeks there. Here DGD is with her favorite guys heading out to the sandbar to find more shells and cool rocks. Happy to see she has the beach gene!
Santa Fe Shrimp at Napi’s…very spicy and delish!
Portugese fish platter (not their stew) at Napi’s ordered by DH our first night. This restaurant is right near a popular parking lot (but in fact they have their own free lot behind the restaurant), so it looks like a tourist trap due to location and outside decor. In fact it has a delightful warm and kooky artistic decor inside and delicious ethnic seafood dishes. DH never misses getting their Portugese seafood stew, which we returned for later in the week. The host and most servers there were wearing masks, which the host told me, as we chatted, he was wearing more for his own protection since they have no idea where people are from and if they are vaccinated or not. WELL, was I glad for him after hearing on last night’s Boston news that there are now outbreaks of Covid in P-town despite the 100% vaccination compliance rate of residents there. Kind of hard to reconcile trying to keep financially afloat by risking your life serving unvaccinated “guests” from out of town. Upsetting situation.We returned home early from Ptown to host my sister who travelled from VT to Falmouth to pick up two Springer Spaniel “brothers” who were recently surrendered on Martha’s Vineyard by a family who could no longer care for them. Then she drove back to our house for a few days. I would be challenged by these dogs too! They are handsome, energetic pooches who need a good bit of training, but certainly not the most challenging of rescues DS has had. Our house needed a good bit of cleaning after they headed up to VT.
DH and I are exhausted…and fully understand why we no longer have dogs.
I hope everyone is doing well, no longer experiencing earthquakes, healing from surgeries and allergic reactions, getting some decent summer weather (unlike the cold rain here) and enjoying some tasty meals!
I’m still chasing lingering concussion symptoms, (PT has been useful for the lightheadedness) but hoping they will remit over this next month….before our sons and their families arrive to visit us at the lake in mid-August.
Of course this ended up being way longer than intended and I will now tend to my headache.
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Oops! Lost my Happy Anniversary to you and DH, Carole. Hope your dinner out was delightful and delicious!
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TL;DR Petty rant ahead
What I really wanted for dinner: For my husband and I to make a nice dinner together, even if it was simple, like pork chops and roasted potatoes and canned beans heated up.
When it became clear he didn't want to cook, I hoped at least we could figure out something simple and I could make it and we could eat here.
Nope. He said he's going to either Five Guys or McDonalds and offered to bring me back food.
I reminded him how hard I've been working to eat right and exercise, and said thanks but no thanks and started casting about the kitchen.
He asked what he could make me because he could see the light fading in my eyes and he wanted to be helpful. After a couple of ideas that amounted to eating junk we have in our cabinets for him and my son, he asked if I'd like for him to heat me up some soup. (Dear Reader, here is where I really, REALLY should have known better...)
I said yes, please.
That man took a can of tomato soup out, put it in a bowl that was far too small for it, dumped a can of water in, and microwaved it in the microwave that is too high up for me to reach, that I've been begging him to clean for a month, and he didn't even put a cover on it.
I should have known better. I should have somehow known he would do that. How did I have visions of him taking a pan out of the cabinet and heating soup for me on the stove? How could I ever have imagined he'd use milk to make it taste good, like I always do? He has never respected food. I should have known better. I don't know who I'm more aggravated with right now -- him or myself.
I just stuck my spoon in it and it is not heated through and it's full of lumps. *headdesk*
Currently my dinner plan is blueberries and Triscuits. I can't decide whether I should eat this soup as penance and a warning to myself for future evenings, or throw it out because it is a bowl of disappointment and we all deserve better.
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Thankful not to have experienced events in saltmarsh's post.
Nice food pictures, Lacey. It's good to have you check in.
Last night's dinner was easy and simple but satisfactory. Beef patties cooked on the grill, corn cut off the cob and cooked with butter in the microwave, a delicious salad of spring mix lettuce, avocado and blue cheese.
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Saltmarsh, hoping you did not eat the soup. Having all that happen was punishment enough! And undeserved at that!
Dinners around here have not been anything to post about -- basically some meat or fish from the freezer, a starch and a veg (often from the freezer too).
Lacey, so good to hear from you and may you continue to heal.
Carole, a belated Happy Anniversary to you and your DH.
Greetings to all.
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saltmash - bummer, on several fronts.
Dinner last night was beef enchiladas and I also made chili with steak pieces instead of ground beef - weird, I know, this is summer in FL - but I am leaving on Sunday morning to travel to VA for a funeral and wanted to make some things for DH that I could freeze now so he has food while I am gone. Will also make some fresh things. DD and I are making this trip and will be gone until late Wed night. Will stock up on a few things for him, and am also planning to make a sun dried tomato and kale frittata and some roasted potatoes. He takes breakfast and lunch to work when he leaves at 5:45am, and has been staying pretty late due to a new boss. The good news is that he likes the new boss a lot, but he didn't get home last night until 8pm. Not unusual behavior for him but he is tired as the week wears on, so I want to leave him with prepared stuff. Slightly trepidatious about travel even though I am fully vaxxed - mainly because I haven't done it in so long. Will double mask on the plane and metro in DC, and will be eating in restaurants for the first time. Excited to go to one in particular - I used to work there and I love their food!
Dinner tonight is TBD. Maybe a pork tenderloin, steamed green beans with dill, and sweet potatoes. Tenderloin works well with timing as DH has an hour drive home - more if it is raining, which it has been lately. You would think people in Florida would know how to drive in the rain, but they don't. Also don't know how to drive in the not rain... Gives me time to get the roast ready and pop it in the oven - but this only works if he texts me to tell me he has departed the base.
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saltmarsh - Hopefully waiting to hear that you threw out the soup.
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Saltmarsh, I'm convinced that men screw up household chores so we'll never ask them to do them again. I'd have ordered out for a lobster, and not allowed him to eat any of it.
Mazel tov, Carole. Glad you're on the mend, Lacey,
Our farmer's market sold out of their fresh eggs in 20 minutes. But I did score some Michigan sour cherries, two peaches, freshly roasted "Anticonquista" coffee beans (the owner of the farm roasts them in Chicago) and a bunch of squash blossoms. This morning I stuffed three of them with a mixture of Boursin & feta, dipped them in a beaten egg, and pan-fried them in butter & olive oil. Yum! If Bob doesn't make it home in time to go out to dinner tonight (the few good places open on Wednesdays close by 8pm), I may make the rest of the squash blossoms with a tomato salad. Last night I grilled swordfish and topped it with capers crisped in oiive oil, herbs and an anchovy; leftover green beans & mushrooms from RPM Seafood; leftover green salad from Sunday brunch; and tomato with basil.
I fear for our favorite restaurants: how can they make overhead when they're open only Thurs-Sun or Wed-Sat? They can't add days because of the labor shortage: too many eateries chasing after too few waitstaff.
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That tomato soup does NOT sound very good at all....... :-)
I like to cook and am not sure why more men don't like cooking.
More sourdough is in the oven. We were down to about 1/2 loaf of bread that I had put into the freezer before we left for Michigan, so it's time to "recharge". I'm amazed at how well the bread keeps when it's frozen.
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DH likes to cook breakfast (and I like to let him) but hasn’t learned the technique of cleaning up as you go along. Most days though my breakfast is half a toasted bagel and a banana so he gets off pretty easy.
So glad to hear from you Lacey. Wish the healing was going faster for you.
Tonight was chicken night so it was Portuguese style chicken, which was nothing more than a sofrito with colored peppers and a pan seared chicken breast in butter and shallot/wine reduction. It was simple but mighty good. Usually served with rice but I had a largish yellow squash that needed to be used so made a casserole with onions, cheese, egg and bread crumbs. DH has a limited veg tolerance but does like yellow squash. His lack of enthusiasm doesn’t stop me from serving a variety o him but I haven’t managed to get him to eat a Brussels sprout.
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Wow, some of y'all know how to eat! ChiSandy, I have never had a stuffed squash blossom but reading about yours got me fixing' to try.
Some of you will be happy to hear: I did not eat the soup.
Also, my husband cleaned the microwave today while I was at the doctor's.
Also, after the catastrophe that was last night, I decided today would be different, so after I walked the dog and made coffee this morning, I prepped potatoes to roast for dinner. And took pork chops out of the freezer and put them in the fridge, and threw a rub together in a bowl. So when I came home at the end of the day, all I had to do was coat the pork chops with the rub and roast everything! And while I didn't manage to make anything green or vegetable-like to go with it, I did serve these with unsweetened applesauce from the farm down the street. And my husband and I were both very happy with our dinner.
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So Bob got home too late to make any of the BYOB places, as well as find on-street parking. Weather forecast too iffy to walk to the Mexican place (which looked full anyway). So we went to our old standby Calo (where we've been eating since 1979), which has its own parking lot. I had a Caesar salad, no croutons; and broiled whitefish with sauteed spinach (and a couple of fried onion rings, which will be Bob's midnight snack). He had a house salad and rigatoni Barese (meat sauce, mushrooms, and chunks of sausage). We brought home leftovers--he will nuke his for lunch at work tomorrow.
It's a particular kind of torture to stay near-keto at a place renowned for its pizzas (four styles of crust) and pastas. But fitting into my clothes and not getting scolded by my NP is more important.
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Good for you Sandy. It is so hard to keep my weight down as I am short and small framed. I am swimming now and trying to increase activity but know i can't outrun a bad diet.
Dinner was miscellaneous leftovers since I had an in-person meeting I had ro run out the door for. Crockpot pork barbecue, green salad and slaw. And some fettuccine bolognese from a local restaurant.
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I wish I could outrun a lousy letrozole-slowed metabolism--but my left foot is so bad that it hurts to walk distances or pedal my exercise bike while wearing closed shoes, much less socks. (Giant painful callus at the tip of my third toe, plus a bunion and chronically ingrown toenails. Podiatrist says to just suck it up and get my monthly pedicures at the nail salon. He doesn't seem interested in anyone who's neither a serious athlete nor a diabetic senior--Medicare won't cover podiatry services for non-diabetics).
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DH likes the store made brats with cheddar because they are moist. Yesterday I bought two variations. Cheddar and jalapeno and cheddar and bacon. We had the latter last night. They were good but I couldn't detect any bacon taste. Our side was a very large tossed salad.
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DH made chicken soup with just about everything in it (chicken, broccoli, squash, zucchini, cauliflower, carrots, onion) and it’s so good. Fortunately, the AC is doing well, this is definitely not a summer soup.
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I had intentions to use thawed boneless chicken thighs in a marsala dish last night, also intentions to make cauliflower mash. It was too hot to go to that trouble or eat a hot meal. So I made chicken salad with the thighs and heated up leftover pasta concoction from our anniversary dinner out. Also made a large romaine salad.
This morning I will get out the slow cooker and stuff a pork roast.
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Unpacking boxes. I think that will be my song for the unforeseeable future. Took 11 more 42 gallon contractor bags full of documents over to be shredded. Such a great deal. The company is only a couple of miles from my home & offers unlimited free shredding two afternoons a week. Our City trash is large rolling containers for automated PU. I filled my recycle container to the top for PU today. Filled my regular garbage container and my neighbors container. AND the nice garbage truck driver dumped my trash and then waited while I filled it back up & dumped it again. He got both a coke & a bottle of water. Salvation Army is scheduled to PU again on 8/3 and I already have 5 boxes full of stuff. And 3 boxes of books to donate to the Friends of the Library. And 3 boxes for the battered women's home. Whew.
Yesterday's meal was a large bowl of guacamole - 2 avocados & 2 tomatoes w/garlic, onion, salsa. Today will be a spinach salad. And since today was trash PU, I got sidetracked & cleaned out my garage freezer and the one w/the fridge in the kitchen. I defrosted a raspberry Kringle that I'd forgotten about for nibbling today and two pumpernickel bagels for tomorrow w/cream cheese & salmon. Also found a stack of single serving meals that I froze when they were originally created - beef & mushroom in cream sauce, spaghetti & meatballs, black-eyed pea casserole & several others. If they're still good once I defrost them, I'll slot them into upcoming meal plans.
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Wow Minus, your accomplishments are astonishing! I envy your energy and drive. You are going to feel very light lol.
We’re still plodding along with our sifting. Another trip planned for Monday to the storage unit, this time with DH’s sis and BIL to see if they want some pieces that belonged to their grandfather. I hope they take them. The pieces are large and bulky and it would clear a good space in the unit.
Tonight is a tri-tip roast that I will reverse sear, a small twice baked potato casserole using some leftover mashed potatoes, steamed broccoli and a large sliced Amish tomato.
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Tonight was pan seared pork in a garlic cream sauce with spinach, roasted broccoli/cauliflower and a huge baked potato. It took over an hour to eat that potato but it was worth it.
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Looks delicious! I love a good baked potato.
We had BLTs on fresh sourdough tonight due to our patio tomatoes coming in.
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Chicken & mushrooms. It thinned out in the freezer so I ate it more like soup/stew - served over penne pasta.
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Tonight was BBQ chicken and coleslaw. We're cleaning out the freezer.
Sharon cooked while I cleaned the inside of the refrigerator. I am amazed at how quickly the dirt/grime/crud builds up in a refrigerator. At age 4, DD had a saying for such things, "Eeeeeeewwww!" :-)
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Unbelievably, I was able to get a keto-friendly breakfast at the O’Hare food court: scrambled egg, jack cheese, bacon & coffee—under $10 (tip included). No traffic getting here (I drove, Bob drove home, I’m taking the CTA home tomorrow). Nice not having to pay for rideshare/taxi or parking at this end, because cabs from LGA-Manhattan and back are likely to be about $100 each way. Unlike JFK, LGA still doesn’t have a rapid transit option. My flight is on time, as is my sis’ train from DC. She’ll get to NY first, as she only has to get to the hotel from Penn Station. TSA Pre was a snap, even with all the surgical metal in my body
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My favorite farmer at the farmers market had green beans and new potatoes Saturday so we had both cooked together on Saturday night along with leftover pork roast and gravy.
Last night was lamb patties (no buns) with more new potatoes and tossed salad.
Hot summer weather continues. At least the humidity isn't as bad as Louisiana summer.
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Yesterday the kids came over for dinner - a combined birthday dinner of sorts for DDIL (the 4th) and me (tomorrow.) I fixed a sheet pan dinner of hoisin basted pork tenderloin roasted over brussels sprouts and tiny yukon gold potatoes, and topped with a garlic chive butter. I also made braised green beans, because neither DH nor DS would touch a brussels sprout if their hair was on fire and it was a fire extinguisher, and dinner rolls. DDIL's favorite dessert that I make is a white chocolate raspberry cheesecake, so I made a small one for dinner and another for her to take home. There were no leftovers except two small pieces of cheesecake.
Tonight is spaghetti and meatballs using most of a jar of Rao's and some meatballs from the freezer. We had a large lunch so I don't know if a salad will be added or not.
Tomorrow, my birthday dinner will consist of a small lobster and dungeness crab legs from a local seafood joint. This is my favorite birthday dinner, which will be followed by my favorite cake - white cake with white buttercream (aka wedding cake) and my second favorite ice cream - spumoni.
Three whole days without rain. Life is good.
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Happy birthday nance 🎉 That cake looks wonderful.
Tonight was lettuce wrap burgers and roasted potato wedges.
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Happy Birthday, Nance!!!
Your birthday dinner and that beautiful raspberry topped cheesecake looked/sounded so delish, as does your actual shellfish birthday dinner. Enjoy your day! I'm envious that you've had three dry days strung together! We have had one dry day in all of July so far. Ugh!
We're in NH briefly before heading home Thursday for my last concussion PT session, then to the Cape for a neighbor's son's wedding….then back here for a month. Need to do some serious planning for a mid-August multi dayvisit here with both sons' families, and possibly my sister. I am dreading having to set the limit of no canines (since there are four) but will need to since we'll have a houseful with just the human element.
Our recent meals have been pretty basic….grilled meats (marinated turkey tips, tonight a rare allowance of a steak, teriyaki chicken breasts) and sweet potato and salad. One night we decided to try a vegan pizza recently promoted at a House of Pizza, in anticipation of the “docvegans" being here in August. It was disgusting…and thus crossed off the food options list for them.
Tomorrow, if the sky is actually clear we may go blueberry picking.
Sandy, have a great trip!Carole, I admire your restraint withholding a bun for your lamburger. DH has had a yen for lamburgers for the past two nights, but ground lamb not always easy to come by up here, and the pub that makes them was closed last night when we called. That's how we ended up with our red meat (steak) tonight.
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