So...whats for dinner?
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Made Chicken Picatta with artichoke hearts and mushrooms yesterday with a wine sauce (my first time). It was too thin, so I added some heavy cream. It was just meh! So a bit disappointed. Now I have a bunch of left over breaded chicken chunks that I don't know what to do with, not to mention more Chicken Picatta! Suggestions? I was thinking maybe a sweet and sour chicken? The chicken has lemon on it, so I think that would be ok.
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I baked siurdough in the new oven. My regular bread pans are still 200 miles away, so I had to use the pan from the camper.
The loaf turned out well and, even better, the starter seems to be "happy" with the well water.
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Here's what I made for brunch yesterday:
Today, guacamole toast with EVOO-fried egg. Going to Jilly's Cafe tonight.
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Pasta e fagioli tonight; leftovers tomorrow...maybe the next day. Didn't turn out a "wow" but comfort food at its best.
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Jilly's at 7:15 on a Friday night was surprisingly uncrowded. Might have been due to threatening weather (which didn't materialize till after 10pm); that its location on Green Bay Rd. between a tailor and an auto repair shop doesn't get foot traffic; or that people have been spooked by Evanston reaching the "high-transmission" level of COVID (though it's literally a couple of blocks from Wilmette). We were the youngest people there, and the only ones wearing masks. (We kept ours on till we began eating & drinking).
Along with the bread & butter came a scoop of liver pate so smooth it was nearly a mousse. I ate it with a fork instead of on bread. My app was seared foie gras in a cassis sauce with Granny Smith apples, crispy fried strands of butternut squash, and a little glass of Sauternes (though sweet, it's the traditional pairing with foie gras). It was wonderful and worth the cheat. Bob had escargot, which were topped with little puff pastry discs. We shared a spinach salad, which came liberally laced with thick lardons and a large slab of chêvre. We each ordered the bouillabaisse (for a very slight upcharge, with lobster tail). It was slightly undersalted (I guess considering the senior sodium-averse demographic), but otherwise perfect. The portions were huge--we could easily have shared it, and so we took home half--I'll gently reheat it tonight with a bit more salt, grape tomatoes and maybe some garlic & saffron (perhaps put together a rouille). Had my leftover spinach salad today with the goat cheese spread on low-carb toast.
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Sandy, your menu reminded me of why I loved living in Paris. Escargot that made me reek of garlic for 3 days. Oh the memories. I thought Foie gras was illegal, but seems only in 2 states. Good to know. DROOOOOOOL on the liver pate. It is making me really not look forward to my pasta e fagioli
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We may supplement the leftover bouillabaisse tonight with a tomato-basil-arugula salad and country pate (Trois Petits Cochons, on sale at Whole Foods) with Finn Crisps & a new jar of fresh Dijon. Maybe some salmon & whitefish roes as appetizers. Even considering making the leftover lobster tail into lobster rolls, and just having the broth, mussels & salmon chunks as a soup course.
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Hello all! Where does the time go? Geeze. Hope all is going well with you. Though I read that Covid is rearing up again in Florida, SK? Hope evetyone else is through with the worst of it.
Life has been hectic. My son finished Chemo and rads, he avoided the feeding tube though, thank goodness!. Mass shrunk from grapefruit to walnut size, they are hopeful it will shrunk more for a couple weeks. It is also now small enough they will do surgery if it isnt gone. So not done yet, but looking much more hopeful.
Still have to get through recitals, and a graduation. But the grad, my DD2 isnt walking, because both of her daughtets are in the recital....LOL. shes ok with it, cause she walked the stage for both LPN, and RN graduation. Not to mention her BS's in Chemistry and Psychology. (One reason medical care is so expensive in USA. She was required to get it) LOL. So, we got her a cap and gown anyway for pictures and we will go out to dinner and celebrate her and the 2 grandaughters and make her wear it then.
I took a neighbor who doesnt drive to see his wife at the hospital yesterday. She had a knee replacement. But, SOLLYS is across the street! LOL, so we stopped for lunch during her therapy, and I had a butterburger, dripping with the signature butter and onions. Oh. And a cup of soup. Ready for this one? Lobster bisque! LOL. It was amazing, and lobster bisque isnt a usual choice in the midwest. LOL. We got in just before the lunch rush, got the last 2 seats. By the time we left, the line was out the door.
Tonight supper was a simple pressure cooked chicken dish, with salsa and orange. I made rice and treated us both with rice to go with. The meal had carrots, onions, peas added in after PCing, so still nice and crunchy.
Much love to all!
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Glad to see you checking back in, Monica! Mazel tov on your DD2's (additional) graduation and her kids' recital (of course the performances were stellar). Good to know that you can get lobster bisque in coastal WI!
Tonight, I tweaked the leftover bouillabaisse with: saffron threads (I'd been storing them in the fridge after having infused some hot water with them for another dish a couple of months ago); several pressed cloves of garlic; diced grape tomatoes; a little kosher salt; a couple grinds of black pepper; half a large bulb of fennel I'd sliced and blanched; parsley from my garden and some chopped fronds from the fennel. I served it to Bob over all the leftover croutons (I had mine w/o any bread). Much improved, if I do say so myself. Dessert was what I could salvage from some over-the-hill strawberries drizzled with balsamico, and a square of Alter Eco 85% dark chocolate.
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refried bean nachos with manchego as the melted cheese.
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Moon - so great to hear from you. Glad things are going OK there.
Yesterday I never got time to eat so my meal at 7pm was guacamole and rosemary crackers. Dinner tonight was two gin & tonics followed by 2 hot dogs on slightly stale buns with yellow French's mustard, served with some leftover 3 bean salad.
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Nothing for me tonight. We made another trip to Phoenix to get more stuff loaded tomorrow morning. On the way down I started feeling bad. Not COVID, so likely a cold. I'm hiding from MIL and just laying down.
I did get the 1950 Jeep into the trailer and tied it down. Tomorrow we'll just (slowly) stack boxes around the Jeep and Sharon said she will drive home so I can just ride and sleep.
I going to bring gas cans along and use those to fill the truck with "small town gas". Gas in Phoenix is a about $1 gallon more expensive than in the small towns along the way.
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Feel better, Eric!
Last night Bob worked late, so for dinner I made a bag of Trader Joe's shrimp & veggie stir-fry. The whole bag was under 200 calories, and I didn't use the seasoning packet (in order to cut back on sodium). Instead I pressed garlic, grated ginger, and mixed a little rice vinegar with sesame oil and a few drops each of sriracha and coconut aminos.
Tonight Bob came home for a late dinner (which he told me in advance he'd do). I grilled a grass-fed ribeye, steamed some asparagus and nuked hollandaise; and sauteed ramps (did the white parts like shallots and the leaves at the end), mixing them with sliced mushrooms in butter, parsley and Madeira.
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I thought of you today Minus. We went to Trader Joe's for the first time in a long time. Among many other things I bought a box of the almond windmill cookies. Two of them with a cup of coffee is my favorite afternoon snack.
Since TJ's made it easy, dinner will be chicken and pork tamales with some pinto beans and angel hair cabbage lightly dressed with olive oil, garlic and lime juice.
Last night was jambalaya. Some of the leftover brown rice will make it's way into some red and yellow stuffed peppers tomorrow night. Yay! Two nights I don't have to wonder "what's for dinner?"
Eric - I hope your illness is nothing more than a cold and you feel better soon. Terrible to have so much on your plate and feel lousy on top of it.
Monica - congrats to DD2! And good news on DS! Always loved kid's recitals. We don't have any wee ones anymore. Even the grand nieces and nephews are grown up. Geez I'm old!
Carole - safe travels on your journey north!
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black rice with tofu, shiitake mushrooms and baby broccoli/spinach "fried rice."
Eric, hope you get well soon. DH goes in for his cortisone back procedure tomorrow. Wish us luck. If this doesn't work, they are talking the "S" word (Surgery)...at his age, it frightens me.
Sandy, thanks for the chocolate feedback. Maybe you and I are the only chocolate lovers
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Dinner was leftover chicken piccata, Israeli couscous and a salad. I’m trying to keep the menu “low fat” since my gallbladder has been giving me pain and nausea the last few days. It hadbeen trouble-free for about a year, but I fear it might be time to have it removed. 😖
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I don't know everyone very well here, but Moonflwr, glad your son was able to escape the feeding tube, and hopefully beat whatever cancer he has.
Minus2, you crack me up with some of your meals!
Eric, hopefully you are feeling better by now. I always fill up in Payson, they seem to be the cheapest. I had to go to Scottsdale Monday for treatment. Left here and 8:30 am and got home at 8:00 pm!
Cyathea, sorry about the gall bladder, hoping you can espcape surgery.
I pulled out some turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing and corn that I had froze previously. I have several meals I do like that. Make lots and freeze meals.
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We have arrived in MN and are partially settled in. Last night's dinner was nothing. We stopped at a Pizza Ranch in Park Rapids for a heavy lunch. It's an awful place and I won't go back there. We joined Happy Hour on Mary and Lyman's deck with our martinis in hand, vodka for me, gin for dh.
I made a list when I got up this morning and will soon venture off to Walmart's. I shop at the other two supermarkets, too, but Walmart's has the best prices for the basic supplies and it is well located.
I will also stop at Eagle View Golf Course and pay for a membership and will probably go to Any Time Fitness and pay for a summer membership. It will be an expensive day!
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Dinner at Mon Ami Gabi last night--we shared a half-bucket of mussels and a salade Lyonnaise (frisee, bacon, poached egg) as apps; for entrees we each had the coq au vin special (I subbed green beans for the pommes puree). Bob finished his, I took half mine home. Assuming we don't spend this evening cowering in the basement (there's a tornado warning--multiple cyclones sighted--off to the western suburbs SW of Elgin, and there will be a tornado watch here by the lake starting at 6pm as a further-south storm moves northeast toward us), I will have my leftovers and make Bob mahi-mahi and broccolini. Brunch was leftover steak from Mon. night and scrambled eggs.
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Wally - oh there are LOTS of chocolate fiends here. I was raised in CA so my favorite candy is Sees. Hard to get in Houston in the summer when most companies won't ship chocolates in the heat. But I have at least two pieces of chocolate every day. (and sometimes a variety of chocolate dipped cookies of covered pretzels in addition). Current selection is usually Godiva's Dark Chocolate Ganache Hearts. Or Sanders' Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Caramels. I like Sweet's Dark Chocolate Orange Sticks (and Cherry Sticks) - but that's related to the fact that my Grandmother always had those in her candy dish when we visited. I also like Utah Mint Truffles, which my brother sent me for Christmas last year. They are milk chocolate, but still very good. (just had to eat one of my few remaining pieces to make sure - and yup!!) In an emergency, I usually have some variety of Dove dark chocolates around.
Dinner was a mixed plate. The last of the three bean salad in the center, English cucumber slices, radishes, a sliced avocado and two Hawaiian rolls with packaged salmon drained & mixed w/sour cream, mayo & dill.
Carole - glad you arrived safely. Who cares about food when you can sit on the dock & watch the lake!!! I expect it's going to be strange with your friend John gone. Did you get signed up at the gym & the golf course? You are so much more ambitious than I am.
Goldie - so glad you're making it a habit to join us at the table. Sorry the pests ate all the beans you planted. I always cook for 5 or 6 and package leftovers individually for the freezer. Even a jar of Raos gets divided into 3 or 4 different containers & frozen.
Nance - love your Trader Joe's meals or embellishments. I don't think I've had the 'windmills'. I found some new cookies I really like - Cooper Street 'Twice Baked'. Several flavors but I'm enjoying lemon & fresh blueberries.
Eric - hope you're feeling better and Sharon didn't pick up the bug.
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Minus, I thought I rememberedthat it was you who also found it hard to resist the windmill cookies but now that I think about it, I think it was Luvmygoats, someone we haven't heard from in a long time.
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Last of the fried rice with a side salad.
Our day was not how we wanted. Got up super early to get DH going for the procedure. We were 1/2 mile or so from the Hood Canal bridge (have to cross it to get to silverdale) and there was back up. Radio announcement said the bridge was opening for boat passing; 1/2 hour later...someone was indicating the holdup was not only that but a 4 car pile-up 1/2 block or so from the bridge (I may not have my distances precise) and fatalities. 4 ambulance, 2 fire engines, 2 fire support, 2 or 3 squad cars and then we heard the helicopter was coming. We were lucky to be able to turn around and get home (hence the hodge-podge for dinner). No way we were going to make the cross in time for his appointment, poor guy. So we rescheduled for next week...and it is later. Not sure if that is good or bad.
I'm having wine. Hopefully, lots of it. Didn't sleep well and this day is most unwelcome. Then I got a call that medicare effed up my insurance with supplemental. Hope that is fixed. Like we don't pay enough for that. RANT.
Minus, love your chocolate share!
Eric, post back to let us know how you are doing.
Moon, so glad your son is doing well.
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Hey all - I have not fallen off the face of the earth. Yet.
Dinners have not been exciting here - mainly because DH lost his sense of taste - but it is back! Yay! Dinner tonight is mac n cheese, pulled pork retrieved from the freezer, and green beans steamed and topped with lemon pepper. He is returning to work tomorrow, but our numbers have ramped up here in Tampa. I still can't believe I managed to escape infection - some kind of miracle.
On the chocolate front - I am definitely a milk chocolate girl, but I find it so hard to resist chocolate that I try not to have it in the house. I am incapable of exercising moderation...
carole - glad you made it safely.
eric - hope you're feeling better soon.
My post-op with the surgeon for my mouth was delayed due to my exposure to DH, but that was yesterday - he was pleased with how things looked but I think this will not be a one and done fix - rather we will be re-visiting this on a regular basis in an attempt to keep the implant functioning.
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Wally. I hope DH's back procedure works.
Carole, glad you're getting settled.
Not Covid, but probably flu. The fever peaked to 102.F (sounds like an FM radio station) but "broke", more or less, about two hours ago. I sort of slept most of the day.
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I just lost my post. Fortunately it was short. Dinner last night was a simple chili made with canned pinto beans and diced tomatoes and ground chuck. Seasonings were sprinkled, not chopped. The chili tasted good in this 50 degree weather (40's a night) with grated cheese, sour cream and corn chips.
Not sure what tonight's menu will be.
I feel very sad for the bereaved parents in Texas. Thoughts and prayers will probably continue to be the only solution offered to prevent future mass slaughter.
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Hi everyone!
I am popping in after what feels like a year, but has likely been several months….trying things again after frustrations I have not felt like dealing with in the technology. Today I got in with little problem….and I wanted to just share with some of our old time posters that today is our “founder”, Laurie’s birthday! I will be sending Happy Birthday wishes to her on Facebook. She seems to be doing well, and her boys are happily and entertainingly enjoying their tween and teen years.
Things have been busy here….never did have Covid several months ago when I had all those miserable viral symptoms. BUT…..DH managed to contract it during one of our TD Garden trips for Celtics playoffs. Three days later I joined him in virus! We were both prescribed Paxlovid, which did what it was supposed to, stopping the cells in their tracks while our immune systems killed them off. DH was fine in six days. I thought I was fine right after I stopped Paxlovid…then three days later WHOMP!!! I spent a few days sick in bed, and felt pretty good a week later, except for post Covid fatigue, which is still pretty bad some days. Hopefully, I will get past this over the next two months.
Glad to hear that you have arrived in your summer happy place, Carole!
And much fun hearing about your afternoon treat of the almond windmill cookies Nance! I also recently found them, and have always been fond of those.Minus, I always think of you when my Stepmother send us Sees candies! And they have recently been featured in our local grocery store. Yay!
Moon, I am relieved for you and your family that your son is responding so well to his chemo treatment!
Tonight I am making hake puttanesca which I think we’ll have with quinoa since we do not need any more pasta this week! Even hake is ridiculously expensive but the local cod was priced higher than I can count given my lack of brain food!
We are heading to the lake to open up tomorrow, returning Sat since GDG is coming for an overnite visit from Sun to Mon to give her Covid recovering parents a break. They need it!
Will try to not be such a stranger….Have a goodMemorial Day weekend!
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Roasted purple potatoes in duck fat, corn on the cob (first time trying to microwave it in husks--not bad!) and a frozen burger patty (costco).
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I’m too far behind to catch up, so jumping in here.
Brain mets have been unruly and are too risky to zap this time, so after many additional tests, they are not lepto yet (3rd lepto scare) and a change in treatment is all that we’re doing now. This is actually preferred and my first infusion with Enhertu was uneventful 🙂.
Dinner was my favorite pasta from Giacomo’s ciba e vino, tagliatelle with chicken and so many veggies (broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini, carrots, red peppers, Brussels sprouts and mushrooms).
We’re in a hotel in Houston since we moved a couple weeks ago and will make the long drive home on Saturday but I happy to get back to finishing the cabin build.
I hope everyone is doing well and eating delicious food.
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Lacey, what a pleasure to see a post from you! But sorry to learn that both you and your dh had Covid. Hope you avoid the long Covid that is described in the news.
Illimae, also glad to read your post. Best wishes for a positive result to your treatment.
Another simple dinner last night. Nathan hotdogs cooked in the microwave with the leftover chili. I had a bun but dh decided to omit the bread. Our side was coleslaw made from a bag of cabbage mixture. It was crisp and tasty. I heaped my coleslaw on top of the hotdog and bun.
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Illimae, you and my DH are my heroes. Best wishes for outstanding results. I had to google Lepto.
Spent 1-1/2 hours weeding this morning/afternoon (came in when someone started power washing their driveway...OY on the noise).
Tonight will be crab omelet with a side of steamed spinach and the leftover roasted purple potatoes.
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