So...whats for dinner?
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Grey & gloomy & damp & cold (for us). The high was only 44. Just could not get warm all day. I wanted the oven on longer so pizzas were deferred. I baked cod in lemon/pepper/dill w/melted butter & other spices. I baked it sealed so probably sort of poached. Delicious. Served with whole grain brown rice w/quinoa and left over sauteed asparagus.
We are in the middle of early voting (yeah, I know) and the damn phone doesn't stop ringing. Annoying since I voted a week ago.
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Minus, good luck with the voting. hope ok to post this...hope the rep. screwed themselves by limiting voting and their own counts will die. Just sayin..
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Oh we could talk about Texas and voting - but yup, not in this thread. Thanks for your thoughts.
I feel guilty not making Lacey's or Jazzy's cod recipes since they are certainly both much healthier. But not guilty enough to give up the two brownies before bed every night. Geez - it was only an 8x8 pan I made last week, but that's lasting forever.
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Last night I made the rice-chicken dish that I often make and took it to the jam session. The dish tasted good, but was "somewhat of an epic failure".
The older gentleman's dentures were not ready in time and the inner part of the rice is tough enough to need teeth. Earlier this week, the retired vet started having blood sugar issues (may need insulin) and the Jasmine rice isn't kind to that condition. Another had a not known to me nut allergy and there are pine nuts in the dish. Another has an extreme sensitivity to sugar and there is a little bit of sugar in the dish.
They thawed some meatloaf and Sharon and I ate the rice dish.
I guess I'll need to come up with low glycemic index, no nut, no sugar dishes.
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Oh my Eric - I think the rice dish sounded wonderful. My nephew is now Vegan. I don't have any trouble whipping up vegetarian dishes, but Vegan is another ball game. I'm at a loss w/o milk & eggs.
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We had the last of the udon/shrimp stuff. No idea what tomorrow will bring.
Egg subs for vegans = ground flax seed
Milk = any plant milk (almond, oat, soy, hemp)
I will either make refried bean nachos or a riff on tuna melt using canned salmon and a socca base.
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Thanks Wally. I just can't get interested in cooking w/o milk & butter & eggs & cheese.
My nephew's wife & his daughter are not even vegetarians. Usually when we go out & he has a salad or vegetables or fruit while his wife has the biggest steak she can find. On Sunday, we are all going to Govinda's at the Hare Krishna Temple. Sunday is one of their 3 'vegan only' days every week. His wife's parents, who are Chinese, are joining us but they prefer meat or fish or fowl dishes (think Peking Duck) to vegetables. It will be interesting to see what they think of the restaurant. I on the other hand know I will eat WAY too much of their delicious buffet selections.
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Oh, and kind of soft food as well. All of the needs will be interesting. :-) I think I posted the recipe on the thread a long time ago, but if not, or it can't be found, and anyone would like it, I can repost it.
The only problem I've had with "no eggs" is that for a few baking recipes, none of the substitutes work. Milk has never been an issue. Cream, if the coconut flavor of coconut cream doesn't work well, can be an issue, but after some "fiddling" with the recipe, I can usually make it work.
DD is a strict vegan. Sharon and I are "most of the time" vegan. My cholesterol measurements dropped 60 points when I went on a fairly strict vegan diet. With the "most of the time" vegan diet, my cholesterol levels came up about 15 points, from the "strict" diet, but it's still far below the level of concern. I'll be disappointed if I ever end up on statins as I LOVE LOVE LOVE grapefruit juice and grapefruit.
Today was a VERY busy day and we didn't eat lunch until around 4pm, so dinner might just be an apple. :-)
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Hubs and I collaborated on yesterday's dinner (more like late lunch). Sauteed mushrooms, broccoli, wild shrimp, Rogan Josh sauce, and basmati rice. Naan on the side. It was very tasty, and enough for 2 more meals.
DD is a "most of the time" vegan and does a lot of vegan baking. Red velvet cake (no icing, though) is one of her specialties.
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cholesterol and heart disease are now being rethought. Some statins actually increase the amount of small VLDL and cause more problems.
Minus, that Indian buffet sounds incredible. Yeah, I'd overeat too. I'm trying to remind myself that health and vitality are more important than my figure because I swear, eating even the healthy things, for the portions recommended, is a quagmire.
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The statin-VLDL-hyperglycemia-AI thing is all interconnected. AIs raise LDL & VLDL. Statins raise glucose. And another factor in hyperglycemia? High LDL & VLDL. Vicious cycle. As I continue to age I learn you can't fix one thing without breaking something else---lather, rinse, repeat. Pick your battles, prioritize risks. Nothing is perfect.
Wed. night we went out to early dinner at Big Jones, our local (almost-neighborhood) Carolina Low Country restaurant (multiple James Beard awards) for their Mardi Gras menu. Tried my best to "eat around" the carbs. We shared a Little Gem/blue cheee/pecan salad with champagne vinaigrette; the "Boucherie Board" (various charcuterie, pickles, benne seed crackers & crostini); "barbecue" shrimp (unlike the russet-brown-sauced NOLA version, these were giant prawns in a slightly smoky cream sauce. Worth the incredible messiness of peeling & eating them--the heads actually have as much yummy stuff as do crawfish heads. Shared a fried half chicken--I picked off half the coating from my chicken thigh. Bob had the white meat--the breast was too big for him to finish. And we split a side of Gullah greens (I carefully avoided the bits of torn cornbread). No dessert--I was still tasting the few swigs of my Hurricane (before I gave the rest to Bob).
Last night we had the Big Jones leftovers. Tonight I made myself a Caprese over arugula, followed by four hot wings and celery sticks. Before I could carb-cheat, I got stuck online and then on the phone with SW Airlines. We decided that our original flight would get us to NOLA during rush hour and to the hotel no earlier than 7 pm--our BFFs were flying out of Midway at zero-dark-thirty and would be nodding off in their gumbo by the time we'd sit down to dinner. So I went online to see if we could get a flight that would get us to the hotel about 4, which is check-in time. To my shock there was a banner atop my itinerary page: "There was a problem with your flights; see revised ones below." I was horrified to see our new flight wouldn't even be landing till 9:45 pm! And our new flight home wouldn't get into MDW till nearly 1 am. Mind you, we weren't even notified: I found out only because I logged in to change to an earlier flight than our original (booked in Nov.).
So I booked new flights (not happy about leaving MDW at 8:50am, but it beats our friends' 5:45am)--but the confirmation page then listed our original ones as well for our itinerary. Decided to call--and was on hold for over an hour. The agent said there were systemwide spring schedule changes made today (hence the insane phone wait times), and we were in the queue to be notified by e-mail & text tomorrow. Good thing we caught it early. Not crazy about not having nonstops, but at least we can stay on the plane in San Antonio and avoid luggage snafus.
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Minus, your group of dining companions at the buffet are an interesting mix.
We had home-made crab cakes, steamed asparagus and a tossed salad for dinner last night. Since crab meat by the pound is so expensive, I bought half a lb. Still less expensive than dining out.
Since we're having what is probably our last "cold spell," actually cool spell, I plan to make soup today. Potato leek soup with ham. Tomorrow dh will cook a pot roast using one of the two beef roasts in the freezer. No vegans in this household. Just overweight oldies.
DH can't take statins. He tried all of them and they cause a debilitating leg pain. He has been taking a med called Rapatha, an injection twice a month. It reduces his cholesterol drastically. It's very expensive but he gets it at reduced cost.
Eric, I cooked your chicken rice dish a few years back and it is very good. But I probably substituted brown jasmine rice. I'll have to look it up. Your "whoops" experience was awkward funny. I remember when your DD loved the dish.
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Carol, has your DH tried taking coQ10 along with a statin? That should alleviate some of the side effects of statins.
As an aside, some studies show that too low a cholesterol can increase mortality risk. In some people, the more they try to reduce it, the more the body fights to make it...it is necessary for our bodies. I think Sandy hit it right...at some point, we have to choose how we die (not her words, but ....)...if we are lucky, we can make choices that give us the best outcomes for the longest times. Those of us on this board realize, sometimes, it isn't up to us at all.
I think tonight I will make a socca topped with salmon salad, a-la-tuna melt, but salmon. Maybe a side salad or some steamed spinach.
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Wally, yes, he did. His use of Rapatha was an experiment for his cardiologist because Rapatha was recommended for patients who also took a statin. DH tried it and it worked for him. I do worry about him because he completely disregards the so-called heart healthy diet. He eats whatever he likes. Eggs, luncheon meats. He goes to the gym about 3 times a week and plays golf on the average of twice a week. He's a very talented wood turner and spends hours in his workshop most days.
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Eggs are fine. Eating cholesterol does not raise lipid levels: dietary cholesterol is not the same as serum cholesterol. If the former seems to correlate with elevated lipid levels, it's probably because many cholesterol-rich foods (all of them animal proteins) are high in saturated fat. And even that is beginning to be decoupled from lipid levels. Interestingly, consumption of simple carbs (sugars, refined starches/grains & white potatoes) is now thought to raise trigyceride levels (one of the "bad cholesterols"). Egg yolks contain saturated fat--but they also contain iron & vitamin A. Egg whites provide just protein & texture (especially volume & airiness when whipped).
To further upset the applecart, successful lowering of "bad lipid" levels doesn't necessarily lower the risk of arterial plaques causing heart attacks & strokes. It's a very complicated calculus involving genetics (familial hypercholesterolemia, for which Repatha was developed), hypertension, high blood glucose (thickens the blood), atrial fibrillation (causing blood to pool in the heart & coronary arteries and less effectively be pumped throughout the body--as well as form clots), and the major culprit: inflammation. Inflammation causes release of cytokines like the stress hormones epinephrine & cortisol--which irritate the arterial walls and cause otherwise "stable" arterial plaques (which narrow the inside, aka lumen, of the arteries like scale in plumbing pipes) to become "friable," breaking off and adhering to clots that cause ischemic (vessel-blockage) heart attacks & strokes. That's why Type 2 diabetes (even prediabetes) causes heart disease as often as (or more often than) it does kidney disease or retinopathy.
For breakfast, I nuked a Trader Joe's "eggwich:" TJ's knockoff of the no-carb Jimmy Dean version of an Egg McMuffin (or sausage/egg biscuit). It's two flat round mini-omelettes instead of a biscuit or English muffin, filled with a turkey sausage patty and a slice of American cheese. When nuked, the cheese tends to ooze out the sides and stick to the damp paper towel in which you're instructed to wrap the sandwich. So I discarded the paper towel (American cheese is blah anyway); removed the bottom "bun," inserted an "ultra-thin" slice of Swiss and replaced the bottom. To make it firmer and more like an English muffin, I then briefly seared each side in a skillet coated with olive oil.
Bob will be working late tonight (biweekly hospital hell weekend), so I'm defrosting the remaining half of an 8-oz. sablefish fillet to pan-sear. Will steam or sear asparagus and dress them with Hollandaise--either the remainder of the open jar of Reese's in my fridge, or the far easier-to-heat shelf-stable Melissa's. Bernard Potier brand seems to be unavailable online, but my local Jewel supermarket has the identical packets of Melissa's. Trying not to have even a low-net-carb starch for the next couple of weeks (except one or even a half of one pačzki on Fat Tuesday) before my weigh-in (which will be a disaster). My longer-term goal will be to lose enough weight before the wedding to not have to wear a minimizer bra or compression camisole under my dress. Waist-cinching is not in the cards--I have a LOT of waist to cinch (the belly fat and the panniculus--the hanging "apron" of lower-ab skin & fat from my C-section in 1984). I want to enjoy the wedding, not wince in pain from my innards being squashed.
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Interesting cholesterol discussion. I looked up Repatha & will discuss with my cardio guy in the fall, but you're right about the price Carole. I'm still trying to get my LDL down w/o taking statins (my HDL & triglycerides are terrific). I guess I'm 85% vegetarian. I rarely eat red meat (less than once a month) but I won't give up butter. I take CoQ2 w/o statins and also niacinamide. I was reading last night that Vit D3 can raise LDL, but having osteoporosis (thank you chemo) I don't want to give up that supplement. It was better when I was walking every day but I got out of that habit when they were working on my house last year after the pipe leaks. Sigh. Come on spring!!!
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I certainly saw enough patients with "perfect" cholesterol who had had a heart attack and patients with horrible lipid profiles that (as long as I worked there) had no heart issues. My triglycerides are elevated--for women, that is more telling than a high LDL, which I also have. My HDL is very high...but of course, now I am reading that some HDL profiles are actually as damaging and bad as LDL. And yes, do drugs cause other problems? Do we wait it out and hope our lipids won't kill us? There is so much new info that the things we were taught seem outdated. My ratio is good so (knock wood) no doc has suggested statins yet; I can kick that can down the road, LOL.
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I have always had freakishly-high HDL (as did my mom). Because of my low Franmingham score, my late PCP wasn't going to put me on a statin until I told him my family's trainwreck of a cardiovascular history: dad had 3 MIs, the third of which killed him at 72, 21 years after the first two; mom had metabolic syndrome and died of "cor pulmonale:" congestive heart failure triggered by COPD, at 85; maternal grandfather & both grandmothers had multiple MIs--maternal died at 92 from her fourth one (or third stroke) and her first husband at 64 from his only one, a day after FDR died; paternal grandma had an MI at 61 and died of her second one at 66; and my mom's brother died at 49 of his first & only MI. I have outlived three out of four grandparents (paternal grandpa died at 36 of the 1918 "Spanish" flu). So me PCP put me on 5mg. of Crestor--and neither he nor Bob thought I should take CoQ10 unless I got myalgias. My weight mgmt. NP (who works in Skokie Hosp.'s Cardiology Dept.) decided that despite a normal a1c, my blood sugar was too high and caused by too-high LDL, so she doubled my Crestor to 10mg. I had to temporarily discotinue it while on Paxlovid, because the latter increases the blood levels of Crestor and was giving me thigh myalgias (a feature, not a bug). After a week I was allowed back on it at 10mg--despite research from Public Citizen alleging it lowers GFR (at 57, mine is just barely on the low side of borderline, which is why I was given only a half dose of Paxlovid). But my NP's cardiologist boss--whom I'll be seeing for my weigh-in--and Bob both think that's b.s.
Dinner tonight will be pan-seared sable, with a small Caprese (my basil plant is getting sparse) and either asparagus stir-fried with mushrooms or caulifower "lite" cacio e pepe (TJ's cheese seasoning) with shaved black truffle...or both. Eataly had a sale on black truffles, and they sent me two 1-ouncers instead of one. Can't eat scrambled eggs every day, now, can I?
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Dinner was leftover cod with a bit of Raos added while warming, served with zucchini sauteed with garlic & onions.
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Sandy, you certainly know your family history. I don't know much of mine. My dad didn't speak much about family and he lost most of his during the holocaust, so I am clueless on my genetics. The people I do know about and was told about...I am the first to get cancer...so history is interesting but not always telling. It was nice to read that you are doing well and that modern science has been able to extend your life further than history would lead you to expect. You go, girl!
We had a 4-1/2 hour power outage; I pulled out our butane stove and pulled some cans o stuff and heated it up for dinner. Power came on for an hour, then back off for another 1-1/2 hours. Hope it stays on till we get to bed. Needless to say, it is howling windy out there.
Tomorrow, I hope we can make the socca salmon-melt.
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There's no cancer at all on my mom's side; on my dad's, a half-aunt had cutaneous melanoma in middle age and died at 77 of bile duct cancer, and my dad's sister died at 64 of esophageal cancer (she was a heavy smoker & drinker). Her son--a fitness fanatic--died at 73 of MDS that turned into "explosive" ALL.
I haven't been able to trace my mom's side back past her grandparents (they managed to escape the pogroms), courtesy of Ancestry.com. On my dad's, a French genealogist traced back to my great-great grands on my grandmother's side, when a cousin in Paris (whom I never knew I had) died and left a small intestate inheritance. On my paternal grandfather's side, I pretty much came up empty beyond the ship's manifest and census when my dad was a toddler (just before the 1918 flu pandemic). Couldn't find a death certificate or burial record. And everyone I could find with that surname on various genealogy forums was Gentile (Swedish Lutheran or Alsatian Catholic). Considering that 23&Me found me to be 99.4% Ashkenazi Jewish (and only .3% Scandinavian) going back to the 1600s, those were a dead end. The Alsatian said that he had ancestors who were vintners, traveled to Russia (in the Pale of Settlement), and one married a Jewish girl and converted--but though it sounds sort of romantic, I have no Central European ancestry in my DNA.
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Sandy, you really have worked hard to learn about your family medical history. I’m not sure that I would ever have the energy to explore and sort out mine to that degree. What seems relevant to me for health purposes is that my mother’s family did have a cardiac and breast cancer history, and my father died from non-cancerous lung disease, very little medical history passed on from his family. While I follow a fairly healthy lifestyle, certainly with food choices, I tend to be rather fatalistic and figure I’ll do what I can not to rush my expiration date, but don’t really need to know about all of the as yet unknown familial pathologies that may or may not impact that date.
Last time I wrote, we were anticipating a long weekend with our little toddler DGD, who seems to have moved into pre-schooler mode since the last time she was here. A really nice experience for us to enjoy her being fully “trained” and being way more self-regulated, physically and emotionally than even a month ago. So much development occurs between 18 months and three years, which she will be at the end of May.So we had fun baking cookies, corn bread (that I baked in my madeleine trays) and making eng muffin pizzas for one of her dinners. On the only non-freezing day we enjoyed going to the local tot lot, and the bonus there was that our commuter train went by in the distance. She always hears the train whistles/horn when we go for walks and has been dying to see it since her town does not have such a sound. I haven’t wanted to take her to the town center to see it pass since the whistle would be so loud and she has really acute hearing. So our park serendipity was perfect!
Unfortunately, while here, DGD was incubating a virus which seemed pretty mild, but took over us after she returned home. DH and I have been dealing with sore throats, headaches and congestion, and intermittently antigen testing to rule out Covid. Mine is taking a long time to resolve, and I suspect I’ll be heading into bronchitis if it stays true to my usual URI pattern. I had to reschedule my ONC appt, so will head into DF on March 8th.
So dinners here this week have been pretty easy for me. DH has ordered a few take out meals, and one day I did bake salmon coated with a Trader Joe’s lime/cilantro marinade. Easy and tasty. My big effort each night was to make us a big salad. But tonight I even skipped that while we ordered Thai soup, chicken satay and Pad Thai. No idea how meals will go tomorrow if this lingers.
Our NJ son’s family is coming up here next weekend for a white coat ceremony for my DDIL’s cousin in dental school, and I suggested they stay long enough to go to the Celtics/Nets game with us on Sunday. They are going…yay! So it will be fun to be with our 11yo grandson who is a growing basketball fan and player. We’ll have brunch with them before the game.
Sharing a pic of the salmon we had, and hoping that when I get a new phone that my pix will have a similar tone that Illimae’s pix have! I love how your food imageslook! 😉
BTW, I am impressed with all of the cook book culling and recipe organizing many of you are doing, and hope I can implement that behavior soon. And Carole, I certainly had more than just those two pieces of eggplant pizza!
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Lacey, I've learned from experience (and confirmed by reading and my doctors) that home rapid-antigen tests are great for ruling in COVID but (except to determine you've recovered) lousy for ruling it out. A positive antigen test is almost 100% accurate; a negative one can be--depending on brand--as much as 40% inaccurate. It takes a PCR test to rule out COVID. Fortunately, more and more facilities have the latest electronic analyzers to give a rapid PCR result. (Mine came up positive in about 15 minutes). So before you assume you're negative, you should get PCR-tested since you're eligible for the latest therapeutics (both infused & oral).The same "brain-stab" sample can also rule in or out flu--both A & B strains.
When Bob rapid-antigen-tested positive, I immediately tested myself: negative. I re-tested every other day. When after my fourth negative, I was definitely feeling symptoms, I went to my health system's urgent care clinic, to test for flu. (There are strains going around that aren't in this year's vaccine). I was surprised to learn I was COVID+, because my temp never got above 100.1 (at the clinic it was 98.9) and I didn't feel any worse than a mild cold (or bad allergy day). The sooner you can get a definitive reliable answer, the sooner you can start the treatments that'll keep you out of the hospital (and back into the outside world in under a week). I wasn't home more than 5 minutes after returning from the clinic when my health system's infectious disease specialist phoned to tell me to go pick up my free Paxlovid.
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We received our free Covid tests this week. Two small boxes with two tests per box. Neither dh nor I have been tested. It's good to have them while hoping they go unused.
The potato leek soup was/is delicious. I used a ham steak for the ham seasoning and did not dice it until after the soup was cooked and blended with my new stick blender. The recipe calls for no cream. The potatoes provide the creaminess. No doubt cream would add richness for those fortunate slim folks.
I bought a fennel bulb as an impulse buy and now will need to figure out how to use it in a menu.
DH is in charge of the kitchen for dinner. The beef roast thawed overnight and we have the traditional pot roast veggies on hand. His sister hated pot roast and we always think of her when we cook it.
Lacey, your exposure to a virus from your DGD reinforces my willingness to wear a mask when I shop. It's not just Covid that I would like to avoid but any illness. I hate not feeling good. I relax my caution in the gym when I participate in the senior exercise classes. Most of the oldies like myself are vaxed and I enjoy the interaction enough to take some risks.
It's an ugly day so far. Gray and gloomy. We've had some light rain, judging from the wetness of the patio and driveway.
I took a canvas tote of cookbooks to the Friends of the Library on Thursday and I felt like I was leaving them at a book graveyard. The situation looked dismal to me. The building is small, something they can afford, I would assume, and not attractive. It wasn't open to visitors but I got a glimpse of the jumble inside. I think I will gift the rest of the books to another charity. On the little porch was a table with free books and among them was a box of the Southern Living recipe books that someone on here mentioned. They were in good shape and apparently weren't desirable enough for anyone to purchase.
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Reading and eating but nothing I haven’t already posted photos of before (salads, chicken & veg). Prepping for a trip back to the cabin to complete install of kitchen wall panels and hook up the new convention oven along with minor electrical work. I’ve always had a gas range, so this will be an adjustment but DH insists that I’m gonna like it.
I too find genealogy very interesting, I’ve got info on my material side going back to 1700’s in upstate NY from Liverpool but only have paternal info from the 1930’s when grandparents and their siblings arrived from Hungary and Australia. I don’t speak or read Hungarian, so I’m unable to verify anything beyond that.
DH made chicken fried steak and biscuits last night, so tonight will be a lighter meal.
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Carol - your description of the Friends of the Library made me sad. Especially the Southern Living books, of which I was a fan.The potato leek soup recipe I use calls for buttermilk and is really delicious. Gives it a nice tang and creaminess too. If you're interested, this is a good and easy recipe for pork tenderloin and fennel.
https://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/browse-all-recipes/sheet-pan-pork-with-fennel-and-apples
The genealogy talk is interesting because just yesterday I spent a fair amount of time researching some ancestry I'm always reluctant to start looking at it because I get sucked into days of following link after link (kind of like Pinterest lol) It's fascinating stuff
I bought several varieties of paczki from different places - chocolate, lemon (my fave) and Bavarian cream. They are no doubt going to go stale before they get eaten which is just as well because they are certainly not heart or any other kind of healthy food but they certainly are delicious .
Tonight I think will be grilled lamb chops, a baked sweet potato for me and something green - possibly asparagus . DH will turn his nose up at the lamb chops because he thinks he doesn't like lamb, then remark at how good they are. appens every time
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Carole - when I posted the above, autocorrect on this site typed “Carrots”. When I corrected that it then posted “Carol”. I do know how to spell your screen name even if this site won’t. I know I should use the plain text editor but I always think it’s going to work right. Silly me.
Lacy, I really hope your respiratory problems resolve and don’t turn into bronchitis. Ugh.
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Before Covid... I was all set to become a volunteer at the location that sorts all the books donated to the library from the entire City of Houston. Yup - - it's like a warehouse & not pretty. Maybe it's a good thing that Covid intervened. I can see myself coming home with half the things I'm sorting.
Currently I'm re-reading The Scarlett Letter. It's been 60 years since I first read that. Lunch discussion included Shirley Jackson's The Lottery. My 40 year old niece is reading Dune for the first time and determined to read all 6 books in a row. Sorry to carry on. I know this is the dinner thread & not the book thread.
So..... vegan buffet. Food was excellent as usual, and plentiful. The regular desserts were vegan banana cake & chocolate pudding. We ordered the special "vegan cheescake" this time. O my - it was truly wonderful. Large slice for $1.00 extra. My niece-in-law's Chinese parents brought me a bouquet of flowers - just because. I hadn't seen them since we met in San Francisco in 2019. They both read a lot, but in Chinese. And of course speak both Mandarin & Cantonese. Even the 6 year old is being raised bi-lingual. I took French in High School and spent a fair amount of time not having a clue what we were talking about.
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My mom, besides a NP-midwife, was also an amateur genealogist. For both sides of my family tree, she kept medical info back through my great-great-grandparents. Except for blood pressure stuff, nothing was diagnosed before age "mid 80s" and (besides war/work injuries and smallpox), my dad had the shortest life (age 91). Everyone on my dad's side of the family tree, including me and my brother have high blood pressure. The family was hit with the 1918 flu, but no one died from it.
Then, like Wallycat said, family history is interesting, but not the whole story. MIckey's family did not have any unusual cancer history, yet ovarian cancer at age 21.....
I finished changing the oil and car maintenance stuff today before I put all the tools into storage. 1950 and 1964 Jeep CJs, a 1957 cabover Jeep truck and two modern vehicles.
Dinner tonight will be at the music jam. It's "Mr and Mrs Pilot's" turn to bring the main dish which means all we're bringing is the garlic cheese biscuits, so I have a little while to figure out something to bring. Yesterday I noticed the store had some oat based noodles. Maybe that and home made sauce. Hmm... :-) I'll have to get a box of the noodles and see how they turn out.
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My plans for dinner have changed, again. This time it is because the co-op had some amazing looking black cod (sable fish) and it was actually nearly affordable, LOL. I'm trying a new marinade for it and will serve corn and broccoli with it. The socca-salmon thingie gets pushed out another day or two.
Editing to add: OMG on the marinade. I didn't follow the recipe exactly but WOW. And how beautiful a foil for the fatty sablefish.
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