So...whats for dinner?
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Wally - every bit of your meal sounds delicious.
I had to register residents for our subdivision pool from 5 to 9 tonight. Thank heavens it was only 94 degrees. We'll see how tomorrow morning goes. Needless to say when I got home - eating was a non-starter. Glad I planned ahead and had two hot dogs at 3pm.
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Thurs night we walked to Regalia—I had the special bone marrow & arugula app, we shared spaghetti cacio e Pepe, and my entree was the tuna carpaccio app. Today wa the Flight Delay From Hell: 10 am flight to Toronto didn’t take off till after 3pm. Stuck in Midway since 8 am. Oy. Then waiting on the tarmac in Toronto while earlier delayed flights got their gates and went through passport control/customs. Checked into our hotel around 7pm—and here wee were worrying about how to kill time before a 9:15 dinner. Had just enough time to unpack, change, & freshen up.
So dinner was the tasting menu at Canoe atop the TD Tower. Started with a PEI oyster cooked with truffle, squid ink,pancetta & pea purée. Then a “seviche” of swordfish, Wagyu & smoked mussel. Next up were sweetbreads with a chicken-mousse-stuffed morel, Mac & cheese, chicharonnes, & hazelnuts. Then halibut with crispy chicken skin, braised lettuce, and lobster-tomalley mousse; smoked veal strip loin stuttfed with foie gras & smoky bacon; a semi-dessert of a white asparagus/miso custard, with dessert being wild strawberries, vanilla Bavarian cream gelato, and strawberry-filled croquettes. Finally, petits-fours—-but seeing as how long we’d been up & how sleepy we were, we packed the petits fours to gp
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9 15 dinner?? by then Sharon and I have been asleep for about an bour! :-) There are no curtains-blinds on the windows yet, so it's sleep when it's dark, wake when it's light. Dark is about 8pm and light is around 4:30am. The neighbors are about 1/4 mile (400 meters) distant and the "trees" block the views, so the lack of windows is not really a privacy issue.
Illimae....hoping the new treatments work. $__($@ cancer.
Minus, too bad you couldn't have registered everyone while in a floating chair!
Sharon has "whatever I had" and is feeling like I did earlier in the week. :-( I'm almost over it..still taking it easy The COVID was negative, so probably flu over the cuckoo's nest.
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Thurs night we walked to Regalia—I had the special bone marrow & arugula app, we shared spaghetti cacio e Pepe, and my entree was the tuna carpaccio app. Today wa the Flight Delay From Hell: 10 am flight to Toronto didn't take off till after 3pm. Stuck in Midway since 8 am. Oy. Then waiting on the tarmac in Toronto while earlier delayed flights got their gates and went through passport control/customs. Checked into our hotel around 7pm—and here wee were worrying about how to kill time before a 9:15 dinner. Had just enough time to unpack, change, & freshen up.
So dinner was the tasting menu at Canoe atop the TD Tower. Started with a PEI oyster cooked with truffle, squid ink, pancetta & pea purée. Then a “seviche" of swordfish, Wagyu & smoked mussel. Next up were sweetbreads with a chicken-mousse-stuffed morel, Mac & cheese, chicharonnes, & hazelnuts. Then halibut with crispy chicken skin, braised lettuce, and lobster tomalley mousse; smoked veal strip loin stuffed with foie gras & smoky bacon; a semi-dessert of a white asparagus/miso custard, with dessert being wild strawberries, vanilla Bavarian cream gelato, and strawberry-filled croquettes. Finally, petits-fours—-but seeing as how long we'd been up & how sleepy we were, we packed the petits fours to go—they'll make a great snack. Still haven’t touched them—the previous guests left their Doubletree walnut chocolate-chip cookies in the fridge.
Breakfast buffet at the hotel was scrambled egg, Asian veggies, bacon, and melon chunks. Dim sum brunch at Treasure Palace: hot & sour soup, spareribs in black bean sauce, shrimp siu mai & spring rolls, BBQ pork fun rolls, Chinese broccoli in oyster sauce, and sesame balls stuffed with lotus paste (in Chicago, they usually come with red bean paste). Dinner at Adega (Portuguese seafood): bread service came with EVOO and oil-marinated black olives; next came their version of antipasto—peri-peri shrimp, chorizo, wood-grilled sardines with sautéed peppers & portobello, squid with grilled pineapple; and cheese very reminiscent of fresh mozzarella. Main course was a cataplana (like a bouillabaisse or cioppino): shrimp, mussels, cherrystone clams, Atlantic salmon, cod, squid, carrots, green beans, potatoes in a tomato broth—served in the hinged metal bowl in which it was cooked
Tomorrow night, Lai Wah Heen in our hotel (Doubletree—small, more of a 3-star than 4-star). Was wondering what a AAA 4-Diamond restaurant was doing in a modest hotel—but a walk around the ‘hood revealed we are smack-dab in the middle of Asian restaurant heaven: Japanese, Korean, every version of Chinese. Were we to stay here a week, we could have a different meal at every restaurant within a 3-block radius and never hit the same place twice. Haven’t made a Tim Horton’s pilgrimage, but I am rationing my carbs & sugar appropriately.
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Rained all day, which I never care about since rain is a precious commodity these days. So instead of grilling our Italian sausage, I oven roasted it. Baked beans and slaw to go with. Leftovers tomorrow.
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Thurs night we walked to Regalia—I had the special bone marrow & arugula app, we shared spaghetti cacio e Pepe, and my entree was the tuna carpaccio app. Today wa the Flight Delay From Hell: 10 am flight to Toronto didn't take off till after 3pm. Stuck in Midway since 8 am. Oy. Then waiting on the tarmac in Toronto while earlier delayed flights got their gates and went through passport control/customs. Checked into our hotel around 7pm—and here wee were worrying about how to kill time before a 9:15 dinner. Had just enough time to unpack, change, & freshen up.
So dinner was the tasting menu at Canoe atop the TD Tower. Started with a PEI oyster cooked with truffle, squid ink, pancetta & pea purée. Then a "seviche" of swordfish, Wagyu & smoked mussel. Next up were sweetbreads with a chicken-mousse-stuffed morel, Mac & cheese, chicharonnes, & hazelnuts. Then halibut with crispy chicken skin, braised lettuce, and lobster tomalley mousse; smoked veal strip loin stuffed with foie gras & smoky bacon; a semi-dessert of a white asparagus/miso custard, with dessert being wild strawberries, vanilla Bavarian cream gelato, and strawberry-filled croquettes. Finally, petits-fours—-but seeing as how long we'd been up & how sleepy we were, we packed the petits fours to go—they'll make a great snack. Still haven't touched them—the previous guests left their Doubletree walnut chocolate-chip cookies in the fridge.
Breakfast buffet at the hotel was scrambled egg, Asian veggies, bacon, and melon chunks. Dim sum brunch at Treasure Palace: hot & sour soup, spareribs in black bean sauce, shrimp siu mai & spring rolls, BBQ pork fun rolls, Chinese broccoli in oyster sauce, and sesame balls stuffed with lotus paste (in Chicago, they usually come with red bean paste). Dinner at Adega (Portuguese seafood): bread service came with EVOO and oil-marinated black olives; next came their version of antipasto—peri-peri shrimp, chorizo, wood-grilled sardines with sautéed peppers & portobello, squid with grilled pineapple; and cheese very reminiscent of fresh mozzarella. Main course was a cataplana (like a bouillabaisse or cioppino): shrimp, mussels, cherrystone clams, Atlantic salmon, cod, squid, carrots, green beans, potatoes in a tomato broth—served in the hinged metal bowl in which it was cooked.
Tomorrow night, Lai Wah Heen in our hotel (Doubletree—small, more of a 3-star than 4-star). Was wondering what a AAA 4-Diamond restaurant was doing in a modest hotel—but a walk around the 'hood revealed we are smack-dab in the middle of Asian restaurant heaven: Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, every version of Chinese. Were we to stay here a week, we could have a different meal at every restaurant within a 3-block radius and never hit the same place twice. Haven't made a Tim Horton's pilgrimage, but I am rationing my carbs & sugar appropriately.
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I always dread posting after Sandy! But here goes. Last night's dinner was a pork steak cooked on the grill and corn cut off the cob and sauteed in a skillet with butter. Later dh had an oatmeal raisin cookie purchased from the Amish tent along with a small glass of milk. I had a dark chocolate truffle.
Tonight will probably be pasta with Raos and Italian sausage. Also a romaine salad with additions.
The corn on the cob from Walmart was very sweet.
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Eric, you and Sharon are on a similar schedule as myself. I've gone to bed when the sun was still shining! Good thing I have room darkening shades, as my bedroom windows face NW! How are you liking these winds???
Comfort food yesterday, meatloaf, mashed taters and corn.
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The winds remind me of when I was growing up....start about 5pm on Friday and end around 3am Monday with the rest of the week being calm. In other words, calm when I was in school and windy on the weekends! :-) Now that we're retired it doesn't matter.
I put a flattened cardboard box in the bedroom's west facing window to keep the sun from blasting the bed in the afternoon.
We're still both low energy--need to rest up to get the energy to take a nap. But, the aches and such are going away so we are getting better.
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Leftovers (Italian sausage, baked beans and slaw).
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Lunch was late, because we had our TSA/CDC-compliant COVID test appointments and had to wait 15 minutes for the results. Negative (whew). Bob needed a beer to celebrate and we had a pretty light breakfast (though I did carb it—one “stick” of French toast with maple syrup, which didn’t taste very maple-y. (Isn’t it illegal for restaurants to serve fake maple syrup in Ontario)? Also a mini-croissant and about a half-cup of oatmeal (steel-cut, otherwise I wouldn’t have eaten it) with walnuts, pistachios, coconut flakes and dried cranberries to make it palatable.
So we found ourselves on the patio at the Queen & Beaver Public House. While we drank & waited for the kitchen to open, we had some salt & vinegar chips from BC that were better than any kettle chips I’ve had anywhere in the U.S. (If I weren’t going back on Atkins Induction first thing Tues., I’d be all over Amazon trying to order them by the case). When the food arrived, we had English spring pea soup with pesto & EVOO—huge bowls, very thick and studded with whole peas, accompanied by great whole wheat sourdough (I ate only the crust, my favorite part). Then Bob had a sausage roll and I had crabmeat & whitefish pate (more like a chunky salad with lump crabmeat) with housemade pickles atop brioche toast. (Yeah, I was weak—I had one piece, gave Bob another, and ate the topping off the third). We walked back to the room, napped a bit, then walked off some of the lunch around Nathan Phillips Square (iconic TORONTO sign, fountain, city & provincial bldgs, museum—closed, alas, skater ramp covered in chalk graffiti (as was the plaza itself) courtesy of the chalk provided by the city.
Dinner at Lai Wah Heen was something of a disappointment: dining room less elegant than the photos, not much of a view besides construction. The waiter assured us that the entrees on the special menu were intended for one person, so we ordered one apiece. Big mistake. Began with the house dim sum (veggie and shrimp spring rolls, pork siu mai topped with a disk of scallop & smelt roe, crystal shrimp dumpling), which was almost a meal in itself. Next was soup—large bowls of very thick hot & sour for Bob & shrimp “wonton” (actually four entire shrimp in delicate Then the entrees: a whole lobster wok-fried with garlic, ginger & veggies (bok choy, baby corn, peppers, bamboo shoots, Chinese broccoli) and “Peking duck meat” in a tart & salty sauce with pineapple, peppers & carrots. (Basically, the second course you usually get when you order Peking duck after you’ve had the slices of breast meat & pancakes). The lobster was very tricky to eat with chopsticks, as it was so slick, and there were no lobster picks. I had to swallow my pride and use knife & fork. The two of us almost made it through the dish—one leg cluster and some veggies sit in the fridge, along with half the duck course and one portion of rice (which I didn’t touch). Dessert was a cold mango-tapioca soup with a lone lychee floating in it. Just too much food—well-executed but we’ve had more ambitious Chinese food (and are surrounded by all sorts of Asian restaurants both here and to a lesser extent on Argyle Street back home).
We may skip the free breakfast buffet (meh), nuke the leftovers in the downstairs “market” and bring it up here to eat—too close to bedtime to snack on it now. Will pack (actually, all my stuff is Chico’s so I just roll it up & put it back in my suitcase after I take it off—so my “packing” will consist of gathering up my toiletries, hair tools and electronic doo-dah) and shower tonight, and get up decently early tomorrow—Bob is a slow and sorta sloppy re-packer (our HK packs him at home). Tomorrow after breakfast we’ll check out, ditch our bags with the valet, and take the sightseeing bus tour before picking up our stuff and heading to the airport for our 5:45 flight
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Carole, lol dreading to post after Sandy! Surprising that the WalMart corn was good. Most fresh fruits/veggies around here (AZ) have no taste, especially fruits, such as strawberries, canteloupe, watermelon, peaches, etc.
Eric, funny you say that about the cardboard. I have cardboard in 5 of my living room windows, that are 5' tall and in front of the patio door! Amazing how much heat it blocks.
I made sweet/sour chicken with fried rice. Fried my rice a little long, as I had crunchy bits in there.
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Sandy, your meals sound exquisite!
I'm going to take the last italian sausage and make a socca "pizza" with it.
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But ladies & gents - all of you are actually cooking meals - and those sound very good to me.
My dinner was tuna w/mayo, fresh tomatoes and sauteed asparagus - served with one Hawaiian roll. Desert was Ms. Thinster's coconut cookies dipped in chocolate.
Tarragon was not great on the steamed yellow summer squash. Oh well. What spices would you all use in an attempt to cut back on salt?
I saw an idea the other day for pizzas made with flattened Pillsbury jumbo biscuits and TJ's frozen meatballs cut in half. Wonder if that would be as good as Naan bread?
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When I add lemon juice, I am able to reduce the salt I "need" by about half.
The exception is for where the salt is needed for reasons other than taste...such as bread.
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Minus, I love tuna and mayo. I've convinced DH that tuna melts are a good thing since canned tuna never appealed to him. I've got a convert.
Garlic powder is my go-to spice when I have no idea how to season something. That, and onion powder.
If it is plain zucchini (grilled, steamed, etc.) I don't do much to it...if I saute it, I add some canned corn, diced onion and make it "mexican" spiced...cumin, oregano and a little cayenne. If I have an open jar of salsa, I'll add some of that to the mix.
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My comment about following up on Sandy's meals was a poke at the plainness of our meals. Last night's dinner took place following a scary storm that brought down trees in the campground. I can look out of the rear window of our 5th wheel and see an upside down tree top sitting on its branches just 20 to 30 yards away in the narrow road. Several campers have trees on them.
Fortunately I had done the main cooking during the afternoon, turnip and radish greens with small white turnips steamed on top of the greens. My, the dish was delicious. I bought a bunch of lovely red radishes and a bunch of "salad turnips" from a vender at the farmers market. I had never known of salad turnips but they're wonderful. I seasoned the greens and turnips with diced ham, a third of a ham steak I found on sale at Coburn's Supermarket. I also found pre-cooked prime rib in a sale bin for half price. So I bought a couple of packages.
The power went off during the storm but we have a gas stove. I was able to heat the pot of turnips and greens and warm up one package of prime rib in a skillet. DH mixed up a horseradish sauce with sour cream. Pepper vinegar is a requirement for me with cooked greens and I could not find it so I bought a jar of hot pickled jalopeno slices and used that vinegar.
A combination of relief that we'd survived the storm and hunger made for enjoyment of this unusual meal. I'm sure Minus will approve!
Lacey, you must be excited about the Celtics.
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I'm going to be refurbishing a small diesel generator to power our well pump and the electronic controller for the propane heater. Since we're 12 miles outside of a small town, I don't expect to be a high priority for utility power restoration efforts. :-)
Sharon is making a kimchee stir fry tonight.
Both of us are feeling better, but neither of us are at normal energy levels. We did get the washer and dryer unloaded from the trailer and installed....an hour job that took 4 hours when rest periods were included.
Carole, pepper vinegar is good with just about everything! I've even tried it with french fries. :-)
Plain zucchini is bland to me, so it gets spiced up with whatever is available, usually with what Wallycat mentioned.
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Carole - so glad that the downed tree limbs missed you!!!
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Carole, indeed, glad to hear the trees missed you.
Leftover socca "pizza" and slaw.
Tomorrow may be a "Linner" of grilled cheese. DH is having his procedure and we're not sure when we'll get home. He has to fast 6 hours before and it will be warm ...I think 76..warmest all year, so I have to figure out an outfit that I won't die from the swelter, LOL. Man do I hate summer.
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Carole, whew on that close shave with the trees!
Lunch was a fried egg and small piece of low-carb toast with coffee. Went to Hooked on Fish and picked up not only the Copper River salmon but a pint of smoked salmon spread and a tin of Spanish smoked razor clams. Might do a tapas dinner tomorrow night with them, plus sardines, boquerones (white anchovies), olives, jamon iberico and Spanish cheeses (mahon, manchego, soft queso de cabra--sort of like a drier, hard-rind version of chêvre). Probably also make an arugula salad with a sherry vinaigrette. (Walnut oil is the traditional partner to sherry vinegar, but it goes rancid so fast that it's pretty much useless if not from a freshly opened bottle--so will go with either Meyer lemon or arbequina EVOO again).
Tonight, the feared storms never materialized, so I was able to grill the Copper River along with 10 shishito peppers (all of them sweet this time) and a Caesar salad with grated Parm-Regg. and grape tomatoes that were getting a bit past their prime. Seasoned the peppers after charring with Arbequina EVOO and Maldon flake salt; just salt & pepper on the flesh side of the fillets before grilling them. Served lemon wedges on the side and offered lemon-pesto aioli, but they didn't need the latter. Bob didn't want a starch, so may have to blanch & freeze the ear of corn I bought today.
I figured out the way to grill fish without sticking: get the (gas) grill screaming-hot (at least 30 min. with the lid closed); clean off whatever schmutz from last time hadn't burned off; then oil (canola blend) the grates with a paper towel wad, close the lid and repeat every minute or two four times. The fish released perfectly.
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Hello all!
I was down for the count for a week. No, not Covid again, but a real bad case of Bronchitis. Sigh. Ended up going to urgent care on Monday, came home with an albuterol inhaler, abx, Prednisone and another eyedropper for more conjunctivitis. Today after 24 hours with abx starting to feel better. But enough is enough. My sugars are skyrocketing, so is BP. Yay. Ugh. But I felt good enough to make a casserole from my home chef. Had to throw away the cooked noodles in the package, but everything else was usable. Since my sugars were 300 when I wasn't even eating, I upped my insulin a bit for the meal. Couldn't eat much anyway. What fun! Hope you all decide to remain as healthy as you can. This sucks. So does my regular side from abx. LOL. It's the dinner thread, I'll not go there! LOL. Much love
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Sorry about your lungs mistreating you, Monica! Hope the combo of inhaler & abx knocks it out STAT. I understand a little of what you're going through. The only times I was afraid I might not make it through the night were when I had bronchitis so bad that even my inhaler didn't make a dent, and I had to resort to the nebulizer. (Should probably get a new box of Duo-Neb vials just in case--this is turning into a brutal allergy season and it's only May). Also bummer about the glucose. Good call on tossing the noodles.
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Last night's main dish was cabbage and carrot chunks cooked with smoked Polish sausage in chicken broth. Condiment was mustard for me and ketchup for dh. Side was a tossed salad. The veggies were cooked perfectly and tasted good.
I've been looking at some food kits for vegetarian meals. Any recommendations?
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Sandy, I'm impressed with a fish on grill grates and not sticking, especially the pricey copper river. They fly that fish here from Alaska, make a big to-do and can't find a single one in the stores. Too expensive for most folks so I think they don't even bother. Love Copper River. I just called our local fish monger to see if they can get walleye and I'm waiting for a call back. I may hve to buy 10 pounds, but that is fine with me. I put our sockeye on foil and put the foil on the grates. If the grill is hot enough and I put down some oil, I get a nice fish-cracklin and easy clean up and guaranteed not to stick to the grill, LOL.
Moon, I hope you feel better.
Tomorrow will be chinese take-out, DH's b-day and his choice for dinner plans. We'll see how he feels after today's experience this afternoon.
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Moon, I'm glad you're getting better.
And I feel kind of silly not mentioning the trees missing your trailer, Carole...sorry...
I think Sharon and I have been in a "fatigue fog".
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We are home. Long day. Costco had Copper River salmon for $15 and change/pound. GRRRRRRRRRRR. And of course, we got to the clinic, the temps were 71 and cloudy so I could have purchased the fish and stored it in my freezer bag we use in the car. DRAT.
Now we hope DH will respond to the cortisone shot. If anyone has had this and can comment, much appreciated.
I had the grilled cheese in the car at 4 and am having a cabernet for dinner.
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This might be first since I first joined the dinner in 2008. Absolutely NO posts for 24 hours. I do understand how frustrating it is on this "work in progress" BCO site and just wish they would at least fix the font & the light gray. Oh well.
Since my car was in the shop all day getting a new radiator (grrrr), I spent a good portion of my time slicing & dicing & prepping for several meals. And since tomorrow is garbage day, I wanted to get all the scraps & wrappings in the trash. Started out with potato salad. I didn't have green onions so I used "sweet" onions. I did have some tired celery and plenty of dill & hard boiled eggs. I make my potato salad with sour cream & mayo and no mustard. That turned out to be my dinner tonight.
Dropped 6 or 8 small Campari tomatoes in 10 seconds of boiling water so I could easily pull off the skins. I'll find a good use for them later in the week, whether it's salad, or pasta sauce or even just as an appetizer with sliced English cucumbers & baby carrots & radishes.
Moved on to prep for fried rice dinner. Organic, vegan brown rice cooked and in the fridge. I had a very thin round steak in the freezer that I cut in even thinner strips which I'll saute with some more chopped sweet onions. Cut some leftover asparagus in 1" pieces, and I have 1/2 a can of bean sprouts that I'll add at the end. Maybe water chestnuts but we'll see how full the pan is by then.
And finally started on Chicken Florentine. The chicken is a huge breast from a previous Costco rotisserie chicken that I pulled from the freezer and sliced. I pinched all the stems off a bag of spinach & ended up tossing probably 1/3 as too far gone. Sauteed sweet onion (since I didn't have shallots) and garlic & fresh mushrooms in butter, then added some dry white wine & reduced. Then sprinkled with flour to thicken and finally added heavy cream. This was the point that the repair shop said my car was ready. Luckily I hadn't added the chicken or spinach yet since I never got that far. So have everything ready in the fridge for another delicious meal. I plan to serve over Rummo egg nest Fettuccine. I've tried this recipe with shrimp and it was delicious so we'll see how the chicken meets the test..
As I'm typing, I'm sipping a glass of Bailey's Irish Cream. Seemed just the thing after potato salad. (Well, we long ago established that I have eclectic meals). Definitely not 'one pot' meals, but I hand washed the bowls & pots as I went along so there's no big mess. And really when I said 'one pot meals' in a previous post - that's just the end of the prep. It takes lots of bowls & pots to get to that point. Now finishing each meal will be a snap.
Fortunately the temperature outside dropped to 79 last night (OK, OK) and it only made it to 93 today. I'm not cooling the house below 78. Grateful for small things.0 -
Dinner last night was mashed potato salad (no onions, mayo and mustard) and breaded chicken breast cutlets. With no panko or bread crumbs on hand, I crushed some whole grain crackers for breading. Condiment was jarred chutney.
I'm not having any problem logging on and have come to accept the appearance of the page. Clearly it is what it is.
I hope Lacey is doing well and enjoying watching her Celtics.
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Does everyone like to cook? Some days it's such a chore for me, other days I am okay with it. Sometimes the biggest chore is figuring out what to have. There are times I make a simple meal and dh and I say, “this is better than you'd get in a restaurant." I like take-out, but not all the time. After vacation, I'm always happy to get back to home cooking.
What is your favorite meal to cook? I especially like meals that are easy but seem like they took a lot of work! Lately I've been making ribs in the slow cooker, use Sweet Baby Rays bbq sauce and broil them a few minutes before serving. I usually steam some frozen broccoli, make scalloped potatoes from a box and and corn muffins. It makes a nice, colorful plate and doesn't take much work.
I also wanted to mention that earlier this year I started using salt substitute due to high blood pressure readings. I got Dash, which used to be called Mrs Dash. They have numerous different seasonings now, I just use the original one. A very little bit of it used in cooking has made a nice different in flavor. I never used much salt while cooking but was starting to use it on my plate. Now I use it less.
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