So...whats for dinner?
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Spaghetti and marinara sauce augmented with extra garlic, mushrooms and serrano peppers.
"Smoke" from cooking peppers, in the camper, is like tear gas. :-) Fortunately, with all the windows and door open, the breeze clears it out.
Hopefully this post makes it. Cell coverage for internet is 0 bars.
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Sandy- Still feeling guilty about your barely tolerable Avli experience. But here’s a good one and not too carby in Logan Square:
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Chicken enchiladas. The sauce was Hatch brand green sauce. Filling was roasted chicken thighs shredded chicken, black beans, chopped mild chili's (also Hatch brand), grated cheddar from a bag, and some of the green sauce. Corn tortillas. One of my favorite meals.
Side was guacamole made by dh.
Tonight will be a package of wiener-like sausages out of the freezer, purchased by dh, and canned baked beans and home-made coleslaw. Not one of my favorite meals. More to dh's liking.
Not a lot left in the freezer. Soon I will be grocery shopping for the day's dinner.
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Thanks for the suggestion, Judy. I've heard great things about Mi Tocaya--she's got a Michelin star. We walked through the chilly drizzle to Regalia last night. Bob had the tortilla soup, and I shared my tuna tartare appetizer (dressed with just a tiny bit of serrano pepper) with him. We then split a burrata Caprese. We each had the entree special of wild boar osso bucco--Bob had the polenta, I had extra veg. We brought home leftovers, so I'll make a surf & turf with the Arctic char fillet from Hooked on Fish (running out of freezer room to store it)--perhaps make a piccata sauce for it.
Brunch was the last two of my Happy Eggs (one blue, one brown) in olive oil. The brown one's yolk broke, and it streaked the white with deep orange. No point searching for "pasture raised" as such till the bird flu blows over, since even the pasture-raised birds are all indoors for the duration to protect them from goose-and-duck droppings. (Waterfowl are carriers but don't themselved get sick). I noticed that Hooked on Fish's website lists "free range eggs" in lieu of "pasture-raised." I do still prefer to buy Vital Farms, as they treat their hens more humanely even when--you should excuse the expression--cooped up. And their eggs still tend to taste better and have darker yolks than Blue Sky, Pete & Gerry's or Farmer's Hen House. VF have blue-shelled ones, but I haven't seen them anywhere; Happy Eggs' heritage breed eggs are up to nine bucks a dozen now. At $7 they were worth it, but not now.
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Udon noodle with tofu, bamboo shoots and green beans.
I miss DH's brothers being here.
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Happy Mother’s Day! We don’t have children, but I’m grateful to have “won the lottery” with my mother. Although we are separated by almost a thousand miles, we are together in spirit.
What to do with leftover scallion mashed potatoes? I usually just pop them in the microwave, but for something a little different, I toasted a tablespoon of butter with some Panko bread crumbs in a skillet and topped the heated potatoes. I wish I could post a picture. It was a nice side to our sea bass with pineapple-cilantro-lime salsa with fresh steamed asparagus
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Happy Mother's Day to those who are Mothers - but also to those who have or had Mothers - and to those who are dog or cat Mothers.
Yesterday through out the day I managed to eat all the small, single portions of everything that was left in the fridge. Weird mixture of fried rice, potato salad, hard boiled eggs, strawberries & cream, topped off by the last of the Ruffles and 2 chocolate ganache hearts for desert. And even more weird - I lost 2 pounds. I just ate the last piece of cold Naan pizza for brunch today. Yum.
I need to make guacamole today to use the ripe avocados, but I have no fresh tomatoes. I thought I had canned diced tomatoes. but only Rotel tomatoes & chili - so I'll experiment & add some of those.
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Minus, when I don't have fresh tomatoes to make guac I cheat with either pico de gallo or chunky salsa. (Heresy to a Texan, I know--my DDIL and her parents would likely be aghast).
Last night the wild boar leftovers (especially Bob's, which had polenta) were so filling I didn't bother with the Arctic char, which I froze. No breakfast or brunch today, as we had a 3:30 dinner res. at Froggy's up in Highwood (and Bob nibbled on Cheez-Its and Oreo Minis after donating blood this morning). So except for black coffee I intermittent-fasted 16 hours--far easier than I'd expected.
We started with hot apps: Bob had scallop-salmon mousse timbale wrapped in bacon. I flouted PETA by having seared foie gras with currant sauce and red onion confit. Salads were butter lettuce, baby spinach, shaved beet and Dijon vinaigrette. Bob's entree was beef Wellington, mine duck breast with cassis sauce, mashed potatoes, yellow squash and broccoli. We took home half (I had none of my spuds). For dessert, Bob had the trio of sorbets (lemon, raspberry, passionfruit); I had the cheese plate--(relatively) giant slabs of bleu d'Auvergne, Gruyere, Brie and Herkimer cheddar accompanied with grapes, apple slices and walnuts (I took half of that home, along with the croutons). Not at all hungry yet--might have some veg. or a single egg later (but no later than 11pm).
The place was just as I remembered it, and packed to the gills for Mother's Day. They even had a valet (five bucks), a pleasant surprise because I'd always had to cruise and pounce for street parking. No lobster with vanilla sauce (which I'd been craving), but the chef said to call a day ahead so he could have it on hand. They now have wine tastings and cooking classes once again. We'll be back--the drive up was only 40 min. and we felt safer than going downtown.
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Not much going on here that is exciting for dinner - I still have a mouth full of stitches and the implantoplasty was surprisingly uncomfortable, so eating has been all soft food to date. I am on an antibiotic so have been eating yogurt to stave off GI symptoms, which I haven't eaten in six months - so not sure if the meds or the yogurt are causing issues. Things seem to be settling down a bit, but I will be glad to end the abx tomorrow and return to no dairy.
minus and chisandy - I usually use salsa or pico de gallo when I make guacamole - but I also drain it first so it adds less liquid to the finished product.
DD and beau came for brunch yesterday - I made a Keto frittata with eggs, cream cheese, a little bit of goat cheese, cheddar, cream, some parsley, a spoon of sambal oelek, and peppered bacon. I cooked the diced bacon in a skillet, removed it but left some of the grease to keep the frittata from sticking. I added the rest of the bacon grease to another pan and made home fries with onion, and rounded things out with a fruit salad. I sent the leftover frittata home with DD. Keto is definitely working for her, so she is motivated to stay the course. I had a bite of frittata just because I wanted to taste how it came out for future reference, half a Oikos Triple Zero lemon yogurt, and a little bit of watermelon. Bleh. Dinner was soup, lol!
I am going to put a Boston Butt in a low oven mid-day today and that will feed DH for a few days in assorted variations - pulled pork sandwiches, add some pineapple for al pastor style tacos, pulled pork over baked potatoes, on salad with Ranch/BBQ sauce dressing, etc. I also made Ina Garten's Brussels sprout slaw for the first time on Sat, which DH loves! I am pleasantly surprised because he has been a reluctant BS person - I usually roast them and put balsamic glaze on them, but he is a big fan of the slaw. Kind of comedic - I usually use a mini food processor that I have had for a thousand years. The slicing disk and shredding disk both broke many years ago, I now just have the chopping thing. So I had to break out the big food processor and had never used the slicing disk in it before - had to read the instructions, which were the equivalent of Ikea assembly instructions. I finally figured it out but it was more of a struggle than it should have been!
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I should try the brussel sprouts slaw sometime. DH is not a fan of sprouts.
Dinner last night was delicious. Four small catfish fillets seasoned and breaded with corn meal and baked to crispiness in a hot toaster oven. Side was chopped spinach cooked with small amount of butter and cream cheese. One of my favorite veggie sides. DH made his tartar sauce.
Tonight's dinner menu hasn't revealed itself.
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Dinner last night was Dots Southwest flavored pretzels. :-)
Tonight will likely be bean burgers.
I decided to feed my sourdough starter and I'm making a loaf of bread from "the discard". Both the home builder and the real estate agent have asked if I could save the excess starter (they left jars) the next time I feed it. I guess my starter will have some "children".
Special...hope the stitches dissolve or come out soon.
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Special, sending good thoughts on speedy healing. Did I mention I hate teeth
.Last night, leftover udon noodle/tofu thingie and I added a poached egg and shiitake mushrooms, so more like an udon bowl.
Tonight, I made cauliflower, Indian style. Carole, it is page 256-257 in "our" cookbook. Of course, I tweaked it. I added 1/2 an onion. I used only 1 tbs of butter and a small glug of EVOO. This was going to be our main meal so I added a can of garbanzo beans and some of the black rice I froze from our "company" side. Next time, I would use less water so it is less brothy. I was surprised I liked it as much as I did (I had seconds) without garlic or ginger. Since I added the rice, no bread. Oh, and the original recipe called for potatoes, which I did not have on hand. Potatoes would be better than rice, IMHO.
DH wants to try sous vide pork chops, so I may slather them with BBQ sauce and let him have at it. The Indian would work as a side dish, so that would be an easy dinner tomorrow.
Editing to add: all my labs are stable...I can breathe for a bit again.
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Wally - great news about your labs. I agree - I HATE DENTISTS, even though I like my dentist personally.
Special - How long do you have to stay on soft food? The BS slaw sounds good. I'm still working on replicating the Korean Brussels Sprouts that I loved at Eddie Vs.
Eric - I love Dots Pretzels, but I hide them in the top of the cupboard because of all the salt,
I always add a spoon of Mrs. Renfro's Green Chili salsa to my guacamole, but I also usually chop up fresh tomatoes. I still added the salsa, but the addition of the (drained) Rotel Tomatoes & Chiils in place of fresh tomatoes turned out fantastic. I'll definitely do this again.
So today's meal was guacamole with Rosemary crackers and an apple. I was outside most of the day and it was just too hot to eat, let alone cook.
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Low-carb guac toast with an egg for brunch--18 hours after my last bite of food yesterday. Tonight's dinner was leftover duck breast & broccoli, with a small chunk of tenderloin from Bob's leftover beef Wellington (which I put back in the fridge with the spuds), and some red & yellow peppers & mushrooms I sauteed in olive oil with herbes de Provence. Dessert was half of the leftover cheese plate. Put down the fork at 9:40, and will try to hold out again till at least 12:30pm tomorrow (likely a couple of Birch Benders keto toaster waffles with Lakanto syrup, maybe a slice of bacon). Dinner will be halibut I'll pick up from Hooked on Fish. I think I might try making it piccata (with some linguine for Bob and konjac "noodles" for me), plus broccolini.
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Linguini from the freezer with Paul Newman's marinara with ground beef. A large delicious romaine salad with additions. Easy enjoyable meal. Leftover pasta with sauce for another meal.
Yesterday I bought some packages of Camellia dry beans to take to MN, where the dry beans selections are pitiful. Also the smoked sausage selections. But the choices for brats can't be criticized and dh is looking forward to "summer sausage" cold cuts for sandwiches.
Tonight will probably be thin sliced chicken breast fillets and broccoli.
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The chops turned out OK. DH decided sweet potato and roasted broccoli for sides and we'll have the Indian leftovers tomorrow.
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Meal was two hot dogs, 4 pieces of Dove dark chocolate and 2 gin & tonics. I'd planned on a salad, but I was gone most of the day & too tired to cut veggies when I got home
.Carole - do I remember seeing somewhere that you leave the 19th? Mae - hope you are relaxing at your cabin. And Goldie is having a great time with her family in the North. Nance - how are you? And Lacey??
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Dinner was an vegetarian experiment. I had mushrooms, leeks, and cauliflower that needed to be eaten soon, so I decided to make stuffed mushrooms. I added some celery, thyme, Panko, butter and some shredded mozzarella to help bind the filling. I had some leftover Israeli couscous and I topped that with a reduction of balsamic vinegar with grape tomatoes. I added a simple salad to complete the meal.
Not all my experiments work out, but this one did. DH asked me why I had not made this before. Sometimes dinner is just a combination of whatever is in the frig and pantry
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We went to a community meeting last night so we ate dinner on the way to the meeting....Firehouse Subs in Showlow.
The home closing date has been changed from May 20 to May 13, which is good news.
Right now the internet is between "bad and even worse". I type on the phone and then hold it up in the air, wait for it to get service and then hit "submit". Wired internet is coming on the 23rd.
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Hi all, I’m still here, just caught up on several pages. We were out and closed by April 29th, then in a local Houston hotel for a week for scans (body is good, brain is bad), additional scans and results. Probably going to need more brain radiation and a change in treatment meds but won’t have a plan until the tumor board gets back to me. We arrived at the cabin on Sunday and have been unloading our vehicles and planning the immediate projects. Meals have been nothing to post about, mostly sandwiches.
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cyathea: My husband calls those kinds of meals "loaves nd fishes" You take scraps of this and that and combined them together and end up with a meal that is delicious. I get that "You should write this recipe down" No recipe. Just what's in the fridge that needs eating
mae: didn't you say that the brain was at least NOT lepto? But more rads --- ugh.
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Illi, hope you can have as idyllic a time at the cabin as possible. Rads when you get back, ugh.
Tues. night I pan-seared halibut and made a piccata sauce for it, along with sauteed broccolini. Appetizer was an heirloom tomato (tricolor) Caprese. Trying to get the last tsp. of 12-yr DOP Reggio-Emilia balsamico tradizionale out of the bottle--run under steaming hot water, shake till a couple drops run out, repeat ad nauseam. I have a brand-new bottle of the 25-yr Modena version, but this stuff is so expensive I wanna use up as much of it as humanly possible. I even have some disposable plastic eyedropper/pipettes on order so I can extract the nectar as it melts.
Last night was Bob's "low-residue diet" day preceding tonight's colonoscopy-prep. He went to Calo for linguine with white clam sauce. I had his leftover beef Wellington (the meat and the foie gras and tiny shaving of truffle) and the remainding chunk of bleu d'Auvergne; he didn't want the mashed potatoes. Since today was my mani-pedi, last night I also had Buffalo wings with celery sticks & blue cheese dressing.
Today's lunch (no breakfast or brunch--I made it 17 hrs. intermittent-fasting) was homemade lemon-dill tuna salad (I used lemon juice & the olive oil from the tuna can in lieu of mayo, plus lemon juice fresh dill, parsley, celery & celery seed) with lettuce/tomato/onion on low-carb hi-fiber bread. Tonight, not sure. Maybe grill a grass-fed natural casing hot dog, preceded by a Caprese (maybe bite the bullet and open the new bottle of Balsamico?). Had to explain to the nail salon owner this a.m. why the bottle of Old Town Oil "Reserve Balsamic" she got as a gift is NOT real balsamic. (Anything short of an IGP-designated Aceto Balsamico di Modena is not real balsamic--at best it's a little bit of the IGP stuff cut with red wine vinegar and honey or corn syrup and cooked down; the supermarket stuff isn't even cooked down. "White balsamic vinegar" is an oxymoron). The cheaper stuff is just fine for most vinaigrettes, sauces and deglazing pans, though.
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I had a Caesar salad topped with fried shrimp at Pontchartrain Poboys for early dinner yesterday afternoon. DH had the shrimp and catfish basket with potato salad as his side. We met my sister, her dh and her granddaughter at the popular restaurant, which was not crowded on Thursday at 5 pm. The food was good and we had a leisurely visit.
Sandy, whatever the ingredients of white balsamic vinegar, we like the taste and use it regularly. I don't like my salad looking brown.
Dinner will feature leftover pasta.
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We've finished the leftovers over the last 2 days. DH wants his second booster so we'll stop at the grocery store. Chicken drumsticks are on sale. I may get some of those and cook them up for dinner. No idea how/what it will become yet.
Nachos on Sunday.
My B-day is on Monday and I think I will make shrimp cocktail with the big costco shrimp (wild), Caesar salad and if the blue potato chips I ordered arrive in time, some of those.
My favorite vinegar for salads is red wine. If I don't have that, apple cider vinegar. I do love blue cheese dressing and Caesar salad dressing (with anchovies), but I rarely make either. I love balsamic drizzled over fresh strawberries, plain vanilla ice cream. or shaved Parm.
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My favorite vinegar always & for ANYTHING is Tarragon vinegar. It's been hard to find so I finally ordered half a dozen bottles from Amazon earlier this year.
We got together today at a neighbors to celebrate the birthday of one of the 5 of us. There is one man that still shows up in lieu of his deceased wife, who was a good friend to all of us. They have a game room & she always had women over for cards, dominoes, to work puzzles, for lunch, etc. He commented once that he misses "hearing the girls laugh" - so we're glad to include him. Usually one person coordinates ordering everyone's choices & another picks it up. Sometimes it's deli sandwiches, sometimes salads, sometimes BBQ. Often someone makes a dessert. Today each person selected their own 8" pizza. Too much food & the pizza was only OK - certainly not great. But one of the ladies made a buttermilk pie which was delicious.
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Happy birthday wallycat.
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minus - we need to strike a deal - I send you Raincoast Crisps and tarragon vinegar, you send me HEB Texas Pecan coffee, lol!
Still eating soft food and stitches are still undissolved. I have a history of that type of stitching staying put. Mouth is still a bit tender. Last night I made DH a kale salad topped with chicken, orange segments, almonds and an Asian vinaigrette dressing. Dinner tonight, for DH, will be leftover pulled pork and prob mac n cheese. If he wants a cold dinner again I will make a green salad and top with the pulled pork and Ranch/BBQ dressing. I may be able to manage the mac n cheese. I’ve been eating pretty much once a day, and that has been ok. Not really hungry.
Happy Birthdsy wally!
Happy new house eric/sharon!
DH and DD are joining DS and girlfriend in CO for several days to look at property. Thinking we may buy some land and build. I was originally going but now have too many appointments to try to coordinate with DS limited schedule of availability. He is 48 on and 72 off, but all his 72 off periods I had someplace to be, lol! Plus I need altitude acclimation time, so it is easier for them to go.
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Happy birthday, Wallycat! I don't like my salads brown, either--I rarely make vinaigrettes with the cheaper balsamics. (When I do put balsamico DOP on a salad, it's literally drop-by-drop, with EVOO--sometimes blood orange or Meyer lemon--and finishing salt first). I have an arsenal of vinegars, for different purposes: Balsamico DOP, "regular" high-end supermarket balsamic, champagne, honey/apple-cider, sherry, malt, red wine, white wine, a couple of flavored ones (blueberry, raspberry) and (for soaking my retainer) good ol' cheap white. I use the supermarket balsamic to deglaze pans as well as to finish pan-seared or grilled asparagus or carrots; the red wine for a little acidity in a dish; sherry for making skate with brown butter & capers; malt for fish & chips (which we haven't had since Cellars closed); and the others for various vinaigrettes, especially with flavored EVOOs & salts
Last night I made a tricolor heirloom Caprese over baby arugula. I ran the Reggio-Emilia DOP Balsamico bottle under hot water, but though some melted and slowly oozed down the inside, only a couple of drops dripped out. I found a crab-picking tool with a tiny spade end and literally dug out some of the sludge to dress the tomatoes. The plastic pipettes just arrived from Amazon--I will use them to precisely dole out the new Modena stuff once I have thoroughly extracted every last drop of the old bottle. I then grilled a grass-fed kosher-style natural casing hot dog and ate it on a keto bun with Creole mustard (I was out of Gulden's and somehow Dijon didn't seem right).
Tonight we're walking to Regalia with the kids (it's getting on the chillier side here by the lake again even though it's in the 90s inland, but at least the rain will hold off till after midnight). The owner will be making Gordy & Leslie a special steak tartare with all the trimmings as a wedding present. Speaking of whom, I'm gathering wedding pix from my phone and hoping to post more. They promised to forward them to me.
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We have the keys. :-)
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Mazel tov, Eric & Sharon! Here is a virtual loaf of bread, bottle of wine and salt for housewarming!
Dinner with the kids at Regalia: The owner made an exquisite steak tartare at the table for the four of us (ground Wagyu with EVOO, herbs, shallots, flake salt, egg yolk, Tabasco over buttered toast points). Gordy & Bob had the coconut-shrimp bisque, Leslie a Caesar salad, and I had grilled baby octopus with arugula-bell-pepper salad. Entrees: Bob had fettucine "mare e mare" (mussels & Manila clams); Gordy & Leslie shared lobster ravioli with shrimp; I had seared Alaskan cod over cold Sicilian caponata and arugula. We shared the almond semifreddo flambe for dessert.
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