So...whats for dinner?
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Wallycat, I am very interested in any recipe that gets an OMG, would you mind sharing?
Tonight is an Avocado ranch salad with chicken, red onion, cucumber and fried won ton strips. I piled it way too high though, impossible to mix up the dressing now, oh well.
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Illimae, it was a wow for us, but it may not be for everyone. It worked very well to offset the oily fish. I used hon-mirin instead of agave syrup and I upped the ginger and garlic.
https://www.healthyseasonalrecipes.com/ginger-lime...
I also did not drain it from the marinade and just cooked all of it. Made a nice sauce, of sorts.
Illimae, do you make your ranch dressing from scratch? If yes, please share. Drool on that picture.
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Thanks wallycat, I'll check that out.
I didn't make the dressing, I went the easy route this time and bought a bag of pre made salad (Avocado Ranch) from the grocery and added more lettuce & kale as well as the chicken, onions and cucumber to serve as a meal for three (our niece is with us for a while) instead of just a side. Funny that niece sounds so young because she's only 4 years younger than me but is a grandma, that just cracks me up since I still think I'm 25.
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I have zero family history, because I was adopted. It has been frustrating with the medical questions - I wish I had a dollar for every time I have been asked about it at various doctor visits, I would not be rich, but would have some extra dollars, lol! I have had DNA tested by both Ancestry and 23andMe - both for medical/ancestral info, but also to see if I can find birth family. I did not do this until my adoptive parents had passed away because I didn't want them to feel any sort of way about a search. My adoptive brother looked while the parents were alive and I could tell they understood, but their feelings were a little hurt - they were complicated people... I have found no close relatives, but have discovered a number of second cousins (share great grandparents) but I really need my original birth certificate and the non-identifying background from Los Angeles County before I contact anyone. I have about one million fourth cousins, lol! I need to work on getting my documents, but think I may need to get that original BC in person, to show my adoption papers with the original and corrected names before they will give me the original certificate with the actual birth info. I was told, when I was an adult - by my adoptive parents, that I am German/English (that part was mostly accurate - I am also French and Irish, but 100% western European, which is somewhat unusual) and that I have two older sisters, which I believe are half-sisters. I have no illusions about finding parents, I am pretty sure they are gone now. I did do family trees for my DH, ran into the same thing as illimae - could only go back a couple of generations for my FIL's side because they emigrated from Poland too recently and all the records are there - with phonetic spellings or are in Polish, many in churches. If you don't know where to look it is hard to start. DH's cousin actually went to Poland, had help, and still couldn't make sense of it. MIL's side - different story - long history in PA, back to pre-Revolutionary War, with excellent record keeping because of the Quakers in that area. They wrote EVERYTHING down. I did a tree for my adoptive parents as well, which I could take back to England and Ireland at the beginning of the 1600's, but several other family members did most of that legwork for me previously.
carole - that was me with the SL annual cookbooks - I just kept the two for the years my kids were born. I have had success donating to thrift shops - people who like old cookbooks seem to shop there and the beneficiary organizations get the profit. Win-win.
wally - I have a decent Ranch dressing recipe. Funny story - it is from a military wives' cookbook from one of our squadrons. The recipe was submitted by a woman whose husband thanked her at their farewell as they moved to another base for getting up before flights, which were sometimes at 3am, and making him a full-on breakfast. You could hear the audible groan from the wives who didn't do that - which was all the rest of us, lol! Here goes: 1c. buttermilk, 1 c. mayo, 1 t. onion powder, 1 t. garlic powder, 1 t. dried parsley, 1/2 t. salt, 1/4 t. dried thyme, 1/8 t. pepper. Whisk together, and chill for a bit before using to allow the dried herbs to soften. I often add more herbs, garlic, and pepper, and alternatively, you can cut the ingredients in half if you don't need that much dressing, or modify the spice amounts. I like the body of this dressing - it is thick enough to coat the salad ingredients, but not gloopy. You could also add some sour cream and less mayo but I think the ratio of even liquid and creamy is good. Keeps well in the fridge - I usually make it in a mason jar.
auntie - I did a couple of all-nighters doing the family trees - it was hard to tear myself away!
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Special, thank you for that recipe! I never have buttermilk on hand so I'll have to make this "planned" for.
For those on statins (all the previous posts), this was some good news for taking it: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/02/2202...
(slows down mets)!!
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wally - I just found buttermilk powder in the grocery store recently - I found the flavor similar, little less tang, but if you mixed according to the package it was too thin. I will experiment and report back, as I don't usually have buttermilk on hand either. I used to be able to find small containers of it, but don't see them anymore. You could try just using sour cream and mayo. The Pioneer Woman Ranch Dressing recipe uses a one part mayo to half part sour cream ratio, with the same basic herbs/spices. You could thin with milk or half and half, if needed. DD has a recipe for a salad she had in AZ at a restaurant that calls for another buttermilk based dressing, it is the Citizen Public House Chopped Salad, so I used to try to time it right and make both to use up the buttermilk. Alternatively, you could bake with the leftover part? It is good for cakes and cornbread. Here is that recipe for anyone who has heard of this particular salad, or who likes these ingredients! I am not a salmon girl - smoked or otherwise, so it is not my fave.
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No buttermilk, just add a T of vinegar to regular milk. It’s one or two T’s to make it a cup of buttermilk in total. Please check online as I really just wing it now. No need to plan ahead. Quality may be slightly compromised for drinking, but awesome for recipes.
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Special - I NEVER have buttermilk on hand and usually mix mayo & sour cream for dressings.. Funny, my Mother used to love to drink buttermilk. Uck. But I'm going to look for powdered buttermilk. Please do report on your experiments.
TB90 - thanks for the work around.
I ate the last of the meatloaf as a sandwich on Pumpernickel. Delicious with lots of mayo. Tonight I'll either warm up the leftover asparagus or the leftover zucchini. I was going to add the asparagus to an omelette but I'm just not that hungry.
The sun was actually out all day. What a relief after the days & days of grey & damp. Even the cold doesn't feel as bad with the sun shining.
Mae - forgot to thank you for the Beef Stir fry recipe. I'll probably change to pork or chicken, but looking forward to trying it.
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I had breakfast for dinner tonight because I was home alone, my husband went to a meeting with dinner included and my daughter had already eaten dinner at her sister's apartment. I made an egg omelet that included onions, spinach, sausage crumbles and cheese. I also had two slices of whole wheat toast and a cup of milk.
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Today was a very late lunch of a walleye sandwich from Culver’s. Consequently, dinner was a chefs salad with what vegs remained in the refrigerator. It was quite filling. Included in the salad were some free range eggs that DH picked up at the store. The yolks are bright orange - much more so than the pasture raised eggs that I usually get. I’m quite enamored with them. Even the free range chickens I raised myself didn’t produce yolks like this. Don’t know what those chickens are finding to eat outon that range
I’ve had good success freezing buttermilk in 1 cup containers. The taste is the same and much preferable to me than the substitutes. I don’t even care much for the powder.
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I finally made the socca salmon melt thingie and it was delicious! Leftovers tomorrow.
I never have milk in the house; DH is lactose intolerant. No buttermilk, sourcream either. I do have cream, so I can always tweak that with some vinegar.
AuntieNance, I'm so envious of your walleye.
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Hi Wallycat, are you drowning in port townsend? I have a water moat around my roses bushes here in Renton. Kinda like the pineapple express.
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Meow13, we are in the rain shadow. We've gotten a few sprinkles, one day of actual rain but mostly very ugly wind the last two days. We lost power, twice. Hate the winds. Right now, our skies are blue. I live for the gray and cloudy and overcast days but this rainshadow gives me waaaay too much sun. We were actually in drought. It was really scary the last few years, so rain is welcome! Too bad nature can't dole it out "as needed," LOL.
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Wow! I get busy and don't connect for a while and I come back to a totally different site. Tonight was roasted carrots with lemon zest, smashed little potatoes and steak with a teaspoon of pomegranate molasses. I love having these simple sheet pan dinners. Last night was smoked paprika salmon, rice pilaf and TJ sweet peas.
I bought some farro on Saturday. I've had it in a restaurant and liked it. Does anyone have any recipe suggestions?
I'm trying more whole grains to help me feel full and keep losing weight. (I've still got about 25 pounds to go, and Tamoxifen is not helping.
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More moving stuff all day. The house is getting *very* empty. On Friday we'll call the real estate agent (they were 'warned' a few weeks ago that we would be calling) and have them come look at the house.
Tonight was a Costco fennel, sausage, pasta, tomato dish that was "heat and eat". I can tell there was lots of salt in it. I've had 2 quarts of water in a couple of hours and I'm still thirsty! :-)
I was also surprised today when I came to the site and saw it had changed. The pages seem less cluttered, so I'm fine with it. I've always liked "clean and simple" looking web pages. I guess it reminds me of when "gopherspace" was a thing! :-)
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I wish the font were darker and slightly bigger.
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Does holding the ctrl key down and tapping the + key enlarge the fonts?
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cyathea - most of the recipes for farro I am familiar with are for salads - Giada di Laurentiis has a bunch and Ina Garten does as well, her Charlie Bird Farro Salad is right up my alley flavor-wise! I have seen both of them make farro salads on their shows, and I googled their names with farro and salad and the recipes came up - although I think, like orzo, you could do almost any combination of ingredients and a vinaigrette and have a good combo. I have not eaten it because it does have gluten, but I think the salads sound yummy!
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Short grain brown rice "bowl" with bok choy and 2 fried eggs.
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Thanks for the ideas, SpecialK. Ina’s salad looks very good. I don’t have any arugula on hand but I have some romaine and baby spinach that will work well. Tonight was chicken breast, Israeli couscous and green beans with cardamom and orange marmalade. I worked late so I had to make a quick dinner
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DH and I celebrated our 42nd wedding anniversary by going out to our favorite Italian restaurant Charlie Gitto's. I had my usual wedge salad with the house dressing and linguine with clams in a wine garlicky sauce. It was wonderful. Or anniversary was actually yesterday but the restaurant was closed yesterday so we had jambalaya in honor of Mardi Gras.
I'm really disliking this new format. REALLY hard on the eyes
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Happy anniversary!!
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Happy Anniversary!
Finally able to log in after trying for several days.
Last night's dinner was chicken scampi with garlic parmesan rice for my son,I tried a spoonful and it was delicious; and a caprese salad with for me.
Tonight will be pork spare ribs (currently in the crock pot) I'll add some BBQ sauce for my son and after I take out my portion, roasted sweet potato and the remaining caprese salad.
I have a book club meeting and was asked to bring dessert so I made Tiramisu (my pic did not upload
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I've complained to the mods about the font/print and asked if we could adjust our own screens to suit; not yet. I also cannot go back to previous pages. Trying to let them know, but their link doesn't work
Happy Anniversary, AuntieNance!
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Sous vide pork loin "chops" with the leftover veggies and rice from yesterday.
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Tomorrow is our 33rd anniversary. It seems like it's been only a couple of weeks. :-)
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Congrats, Nancy & Eric!
Wally, sable is my absolute favorite fish. And when I lived in Seattle, we called your part of the Olympic Peninsula the "banana belt," with Sequim as its epicenter. It got about 300 dry days a year, and was warmer than east of the Sound.
Today for breakfast I had black coffee and half of a small chocolate-filled paczki and decided the deliciousness nonetheless wasn't worth the cheat. We have 2-1/2 remaining; Bob decided that for Lent he would hit the treadmill every time a sweet craving hit him (unless I was asleep, as the treadmill is in our bedroom); my HK wants nothing to do with them (and her DH has advanced T2DM and not much of an appetite). When I got back from my mani, I made guac and spread it on fiber toast with a dry-fried small pastured egg (Trader Joe's). After purging my crispers of science projects (aka "guess what this used to be") I went produce shopping. I'm glad everyone was still wearing a mask, so I too could perform a public service and shield everyone from my fierce avocado-toast garlic breath. Dinner was chicken soup (TJ's), insalata Caprese, roast chicken, sauteed broccolini, and mushrooms in butter & Madeira with over-the-hill black truffles. (My slicer bit the dust, so I had to use a rasp grater instead).
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I've been absent for a few days because I had a tummy bug--which at first scared me into thinking I'd gotten an Omicron BA.2 infection only a month after Omicron Classic; both a negative home test and the Immediate Care clinic's P.A. reassured me I didn't. (Well, sorta reassured: see below). After we got home Sunday night from Shaw's Crab House (three Hood Canal oysters, riceless gumbo, a T. each of creamed spinach & steamed broccoli and a stone crab claw for me; and the other three oysters, regular gumbo, veg, jambalaya and crawfish etouffee for Bob), I pulled a Butcher Box sockeye salmon filet out of the freezer to defrost in the fridge. I forgot to take it out of the cryovac until it had nearly thawed; by Mon. evening there were still a few ice crystals on it and I deliberately overcooked it (145F--supposed to be 120F) so I figured I was safe. Later that night, I overindulged in pistachios, sugar-free chocolates (sweetened with not just Stevia but also "sugar alcohols" that can cause gastric "excitement"); plus some chips (both flour tortilla & chickpea) and a couple of "real" dark chocolate nonpareils. I also didn't take my 8-hr. Tylenol at bedtime because I didn't want to overmedicate myself. Bad idea.
Mardi Gras dawned and I awoke with a back on the verge of spasming. I figured an Aleve would work faster than Tylenol. I drank my black coffee and held off on breakfast, waiting instead for paczki delivery...an hour & a half late, and they arrived ice cold. By then my empty stomach had begun mightily protesting the NSAID-and-coffee-acid assault but I ate half of one anyway. And my temperature was rising as the weather got colder due to the infamous "lake effect." Took a home rapid-antigen test: negative. I began to wonder if that salmon-defrosting mistake might have had undue consequences, so I consulted Dr. Google (I know, I know) and found a bunch of articles warning me about botulism and to seek medical attention STAT. By then every kind of thermometer I own (no, not that kind) registered "fever" so I hightailed it to the Immediate Care clinic. They assured me I almost certainly did not have a B.2 variant infection, but wouldn't PCR swab me for flu because the analyzer could register "COVID+" through the end of April. They also said that botulism would have given me neuro-visual symptoms and other foodborne illnesses would have caused "productive" double-ended GI distress. They even took an EKG to rule out a heart attack, and declared I had "gastritis, perhaps viral." They sent me home with instructions to take Tylenol till the fever disappeared, push fluids (water and Pedialyte) and make sure I got enough calories via the BRAT diet. (I hate bananas, and plain white rice isn't worth eating). Too shivering (and by then, temp nearly 101) to stop off and buy Pedialyte, so when I got home I popped a potassium pill and licked some sea salt off my finger before knocking back a liter of water, a couple of Tylenol, a little cup of applesauce and a piece of matzo. (The only bread in the house was hi-fiber...nope). And I slept and slept and slept, waking only to pop more Tylenol on schedule. Spent most of Wed. napping, drinking water (and an espresso to cure the caffeine-withdrawal headache) and taking Tylenol until my temp stayed below 100 for 4 hours straight. Woke up today feeling much better--but again, with a caffeine-withdrawal headache. (Unfortunately, woke up 3 hrs. earlier than I'd hoped, thanks to the city's Streets & San. crew madly chainsawing and digging up every tree on the block to prep for sewer & water main replacement--not even earplugs helped).
Let me tell you--there are three things that reset your dietary willpower more effectively than anything else: an impending weigh-in (and consequent scolding); the humiliation of needing even the flimsiest of shapewear to get into a dress two sizes larger than anything else I own; and having no appetite for 48 hours. Talk about intermittent fasting! Tonight, I looked at every sweet & starchy no-no in the house (even the "keto-friendly" labeled kind) and shuddered. May the discipline last, at least into Passover.
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I'm so sorry you were that unwell. Ugh. I've had the productive double-ended GI distress with the jarred oysters I got from costco. I always thaw my fish still vacuum sealed. I know there is a risk for botulism, I just don't believe that it is a pristine vacuum and botulism requires an anaerobic environment. Maybe I'll regret it one day.
Hope you're feeling better soon. If you figure out what it was, let us know. Hope Bob didn't catch it.
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Thanks for the anniversary wishes and sending some to you and Sharon Eric!
Ugh Sandy - glad you are on the mend. Hoping the upside is that you fit easily into your MOG dress! I've never given a thought to thawing vacuumed stuff in the package. Guess I'll be rethinking that!
Meals have been unexciting. Tonight will be calzones stuffed with sausage, peppers and cheese and a salad.
My local upscale grocery store is offering fresh grouper (my favorite) this week. It's $30 a pound. Sigh . . .
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Cooking Loch Duart (Scottish) salmon tonight, because Bob is observing Lent. Probably accompany it with stir-fried snap peas and (reconstituted dried) shiitakes--with some sort of nuked grain packet for Bob. Been up for a couple of hrs., had my coffee--gonna go fry an egg and nuke a couple of bacon strips. Bob wants steak tomorrow night, so we will walk to Regalia for their bistecca alla Fiorentina and a salad.
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