So...whats for dinner?
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My oven works! So I made pizza. It's hard to see in the dark, so tonight cold pizza! (which we all know is better)
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Joyce- Oh wow what a dinner i would of loved every bite LOL! I think the movie was on the gmc channel you might be able to watch full episodes of it.
Apple- I love polenta. your recipe sounds good and will deffinately be making that!
Michelle- Your dinner sounds amazing and gourmet too, did you post the pear salad recipe here already?
Carrie- I dont know how stage1 will explain the tast of tumeric to you, but to me it is a little earthy and pungent- I put it on my cottage cheese with lots of pepper, its suppose to be for inflamation and all kinds of good stuff, i told my sister to try it and she hated it, so i think you either love it or hate it, it is also used in a lot of indian dishes.
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Laughing hysterically about the husbands packing. I assist mine as well...he is worse than a girl and will bring more shoes than anything else. He also likes to throw extra stuff in shopping bags...how tacky! Stay calm Deb. Whatever he forgets maybe you can buy on the island.
Well, my mom doesnt really feel like eating but when I showed up with the Christmas cookies, she immediately said for me to bring them in the living room and leave them on her table. ha ha she ate two. Maybe they will sweeten her up!
My DH is cooking steaks on the grill...brrrrrr...baked potato and salad.
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Oh and Laurie I am so proud of you!!! If anyone needed a night like that it's you! Glad you got some party therapy.
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Merilee- Welcome, we are a great bunch of ladies if i do say so myself LOL!
Hauntie- Sorry to hear about the heat problems, especially this time of year, I know it's got to be hard on everyone involved. ((((((hugs)))))))
Deb- That is hilarious, My husband packs his stuff very neatly and almost too perfect, Im a terrible packer myself.
Laurie- They say no taxi is too expensive- Good for you that you had a great time last night and still got things done today!
Making a hamburger steak with gravy and broccoli/cauliflower- Might make a spinach salad if im up to it.
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Today my 11 year old grandaughter and I trimmed m;y tree...............such fun, and after that we played The Price is Right on my computer..........................finally time to take her home, and when I got there was asked to stay for a "great spaghetti dinner"..............my daughter cooks a mean pot of gravy (italian for sauce), even though she is only 1/2 italian.......................it doesn't get better then that.................hugs.
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DH is feeling like he's coming down with something so didn't feel like eating..... Soooo pretty much a cereal night....
Made cookies all afternoon and am all baked out!
Hauntie,
One of the cookies that I made were your Frosted Italian Cookies!!! They are sooooooo good! Thank you for the recipe! It's definitely one I will make every year!0 -
My little cookie decorators...they had a great time as you can see. And they left the healthy food behind in favor of cookies, go figure! We had a wonderful grown-up dinner while the kiddies did their thing. The rib roast was delicious, and everything else was good, too! Then we watched "Elf" which I hadn't seen in a long time and the kiddies had never seen. They loved it! The second load of dishes is in the works, DH cleaned up the stove and counters, and I'm quite sure neither of us is doing another thing tonight. I'm "good" tired!!!
Here's the link to the Roasted Pear Salad:
This time, instead of endive and chicory, I just used a bag of field greens. It was just as good and less hassle. Finding endive around here is not so easy.
Laurie - so glad you had a good time AND took a taxi home. I worry about this with a couple of my kids, I know they drink too much and then get in their cars.
Joyce - we didn't see much of the Patriots game so we were glad to turn on the tv and see that they broke the Tebow spell!
Duckyb1 - sounds like you had a wonderful day, too! I just love spending time with my grandkids.
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Thanks gals for the support, after 41 years you would think he would get it. ARGH.
Probably make chicken parm tomorrow for supper.
Michelle, looks like those kiddos are having a great time.
Prices of food and clothing in Bermuda are very very high. My DD took a picture of a package of 3 peppers, a red, green and yellow pepper on her cell phone when she and Nick did some grocery shopping, $8.99 for the package of 3 peppers. Her comment was OMG!
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AHHH grandkids, hopefully sometime in 2013 I will be a Nana.
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Michelle,
A picture says a thousand words and those beautiful faces say it all!! Glad to hear your night went so well! Elf is a favorite here as well!0 -
I'll bring back some pink sand.
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Is that real? I've never even seen a picture of a pink beach before.
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I'll find out next week, going to spend Christmas with my DD and FSIL in Bermuda. Leaving Tuesday morning.
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Oh I do think it is real! And I really, really want to go to Bermuda some day. That is a beautiful picture.
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Michelle - it looks like your grandkids had a great time. Christmas vacation week I promised my friends son that I would come over and make Lynda Auntie cookies with him (the italian frosted ones).
Seaside - I'm glad you liked the cookies. That recipe has been in my family for as long as I can remember. My Auntie Tina used to bring them to every family party - now I do. I was running low, so I had to whip out another batch of anise flavored ones tonight. I still have to make vanilla flavored ones for my friends son. That should be the end of my cookie baking. I have to frost all of his blue. As he told me when he was about 5 (he's 21 now) - "Everyone knows the blue ones taste best."
Deb - stay calm and carry on
Lynda
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Ducky- Sounds like a wonderful day with the Grand-daughter! Does your DD share her spegg recipe?
Seaside- I hope your DH gets better soon, seems like it is going around. take care of yourself so you dont get sick too.
Michelle- You have the cutes grand kids, they looked like they were really enjoying themselves.
Deb-Oh my gosh that is so beautiful. I will have to go there some day.
Im out of popcorn and chocolate, boohoo! I cant belive i dont have anything sweet to eat.
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Wow, this thread is busy...about the tumeric in the stew..I think it gave it a "kick"...tumeric is kinda like using dry mustard. It is hard to describe in the stew. My DH just thought I added extra pepper, but just a teaspoon of tumeric gave it a great taste, along with the dry red wine. I used the pressure cooker, the little bit of meat I used was "oh so tender"...onions, carrots and potatoes. I think the secret is not too much of anything..we ate the leftovers this evening.
I have been snacking on Brazil nuts, good for something, can't remember...
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Regarding turmeric...it is one of the flavor ingredients in bread and butter pickles. Many years ago (like 30 or so) I actually made some homemade pickles and my first husband liked B&B pickles. Some of you have probably eaten it and not realized it. It's also used for food coloring in yellow mustard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turmeric
The wiki link states that there are 61 registered clinical trials involving turmeric (also called curcumin).
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turmeric you can just about eat it straight.. it's really more of a color spice than a flavor spice. altho it does have a bit of Indian 'aroma'..
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Luvrving oh that picture of the little cake decorators made me feel so good. They are wonderful! It makes me remember being that age.
Deb I am so jealous. I'm definitely going
Carberry, I used to live in the Arctic with polar bears walking through town, Barrow AK. In august one year it got up to 60 and all my friends had a cookout, no coats, nothing. right on the arctic ocean. I thought they were nuts.
All your recipes sound great!
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DH's day off, he gets up at the crack of dawn, i like to sleep in, so with him home i have to skip breakfast and go straight into lunch, (I make him breakfast the night before and put it in the fridge) I sound like a bad wife i know, but he really does enjoy his breaksfast this way LOL! Made steak sandwiches for lunch with peppers and green onions, jack cheese on grilled chibbata bread, it was so good!!
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mmmmm Debbie- your steak sandwiches sound really good. And you do sound like a good wife, you made him breakfast right?
I'm hungry!
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Laurie- His breakfast is pretty easy all he likes to eat is 2 hard boiled eggs that i mix with mustard so i can just put that in a tupperware bowl and its ready the next morning, I do set out his vitamins, a fork and water for him LOL!
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Debbie, you're a great wife. My DH has to fend breakfast for himself. And he usually makes the coffee for me. Tonight, I made curry chicken. It was just with a bottle sauce from trader joes, was good though. Had baked potatoes, salad and nan too.
Bedo, you lead an exciting life. I would love to hear about AlSka.
Echo didn't turn out well, not worse, but not better either. They said I would go back on herceptin on Thursday though, they'll just watch me closely. And now I have a second prescription for the heart. sigh. I feel fine though.0 -
Back from rads #14, they were running about 30 minutes behind so we really hit the commuter traffic. My skin is getting red and itchy. I'm sure the RO will tell me tomorrow that I am "right on schedule" ... LOL! I'm using hydrocortisone cream and that does provide some immediate relief.
We ate our leftovers from yesterday's dinner...nice and easy. I need to think about tomorrow's dinner. My DS will take me (the reasonable driver, not the one with the lead foot). And my DD who is finishing her last college classes is taking me on Wednesday. She has two papers due and some postings for her online History class that is due by Friday. Woohoo!!! Couldn't be prouder of her!
Debbie - you're a good wife! I always make the coffee; but most of the time, DH gets his own breakfast. I will cook breakfast once in a while, more often on weekends. But during the week it's each man for himself! Steak sandwiches - good idea! I might have to do that one of these days.
We're having roast pork loin on Christmas Eve. I was just having this discussion with DD. She may get a recipe for squash mac&cheese from her next door neighbor. She said it was really good, and she doesn't eat squash normally. This should be interesting!
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Debbie,
Tonight was thin sliced steak sandwiches with peppers, onions and cheese... I would call it a Philly cheese steak but, I'm sure it is not what the real Philly girls here would call it....lol! Was going to be dinner last night but, DH was feeling not so good.... He seems to have bounced back today....
Just made two holiday snacks.... not sure I'd call them cookies.... but these would be right up your alley since you like the salty/sweet.....
http://www.katrina-runs.com/prancing-and-pawing-2011
and
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/pretzel-turtles/
Both get a big thumbs up!!
Bedo,
Yikes!! A polar bear walking down the street!! The only one I have ever seen was in the Bronx Zoo and I could not believe how enormous it was..... Same thing with seeing a Moose in Maine.... Never imagined they were that large!
Kay,
So sorry that the news wasn't better.... But not worse is good news too!! Glad that you feel OK... Hugs!
Joycek,
We like DD coffee here too! They have it on special from now till Christmas... Buy 3 get 1 free....
Those pork chops sound great and, even though I m in the minority.... I love beets!! Just wish I could have some success with growing them... planted them the last 2 years and have had no luck!0 -
Michelle,
I was told at the beginning of rads that right around the end of week 3 I would see some changes and, for me, it was correct right down to the day.... It was then that I started with an itchy rash.... In fact I was really worried that I was having problems so early but, while I did have some burning, my skin held up fairly well... It was the itching that really bugged me! Keep up with your lotions and, don't be afraid to ask for something different if what they have you on isn't cutting it!
Would like the squash mac and cheese recipe if it turns out! Sounds good!0 -
I wonder if this is the recipe that my DD's neighbor used:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/rachael-ray/butternut-squash-mac-and-cheese-recipe/index.html
It does sound good!
Kay - (((hugs))) I'm thinking it must be a little scary to proceed with herceptin knowing you've got some heart issues. Have they given you any statistics on the risk from a recurrence vs the risk of a serious heart problem? I think I'd want to know...
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Thanks guys. I will see the cardiologist on Thursday. I will ask her about the relative risks. My onc had a baby on Nov. 30 and will be out until feb. I really wish she were around for an opinion. I don't think I care that much what the NP thinks. My heart function is now low normal, so I guess as long as it doesn't get worse I will be okay.
Squash Mac n cheese sounds interesting. I don't like squash either, I am interested to hear how it is. The pretzel turtles sound good too, but I am still swimming in the cookies I made. I am going to do them, but after Christmas.0
