So...whats for dinner?
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Thanks, Chi. I never knew what to call it. My grandmother showed me how to use one, but never told me the name :-)
I use it for, as you mentioned, pie crusts and also when I make zimt kuchen.
Still no internet other than 0-1 bar of cell signal. Supposedly the cable burial crew hasn't buried the cable...yet that was done last Tuesday.
I did bring up some better antennas and cables for my signal booster, so I should get the signal to 2-3 bars, which will help a lot. Currently, my connection speeds are so slow that it takes a couple of minutes to load a BCO page. When I'm done, I'm expecting the pages to show up in 10-15 seconds
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Eric, I am surprised you like the oxo can opener. I have 3 different variations from them and hate them all. It selects which can it decides to open.
Leftover penne w/ sausage tonight.
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The only can type my oxo can opener can't open are the cans of a store brand of sweetened condensed milk. For those I have to use a "P-38" can opener. Even the bigger "P51" opener has a problem with those cans.
Tonight I made the chicken-jasmine rice dish.
We brought up another load of stuff from Phoenix..loaded the trailer when it was 112F degrees..ugh..
It was lots of parts for the old Jeeps and a lot of cast iron cookware.
It was obviously a heavy load as the F350 truck was under 40mph towing the trailer up rhe hills (and under 7 mpg for fuel mileage). Normally the truck will pull rhe trailer up the hills at 50-55mph and get about 9 mpg for fuel mileage.
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Sorry Carole - thank you Special K for the frozen pasta idea. It really works great - especially cooking for one.
Carole - I love the cream cheese/sour cream idea. I will be trying that.
Wally - I'm going to try to persuade my son to bring some Sees candy from the SFO airport when he comes the end of the month. At least peanut brittle - which doesn't do well in the heat either.
Dinner was fried rice w/white rice for a change. (I know, I know...) Sauteed onions & bell peppers, added rice & a small amount of low sodium soy sauce, added fresh mushrooms, added cooked (frozen) peas, added two beaten eggs in the middle of the pan & mixed it up as they cooked. YUM. Served with cold Pinot Grigio. (YellowTail and not worth drinking, but it was part of the stash from my ex-DH's wine fridge so I won't mind using it for cooking only or pouring it out.)
Dessert was a piece of chocolate pudding Bundt cake on sale at Kroger this week. Definitely too hot to turn on the oven here (100 again). But actually I cheated and ate the piece of cake before I even started cooking the fried rice.
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walleycat, the penne and sausage sounds good. Sausage was always a food that was okay to me but lately I love it. There’s a popular meatball and sausage sandwich shop we go to that’s been in business 50 years in the same small building. That’s all they sell, sandwiches or in bulk. Strictly take-out, cash only, You are in and out in no time, every time. I used to like their meatball sandwich but I’m all about the sausage now.
A pastry blender isn’t something I’d need. I’m a Pillsbury refrigerated Pie Crust girl. Has to be Pillsbury. A pie dish is a nice size, similar to the 8x8 pan, for dessert. An easy but delicious pie I make is lemon meringue using Jello cook and serve pudding.
Next time I need a can opener, I’ll check out the Oxo ones. Opening cans is not my favorite thing to do, hard on my thumbs and fingers!
SpecialK, I laughed about your not trying to take it personally that the food service you use keeps discontinuing products you like! Why do companies do that?
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Divine - one of the recipe cards I got at a kitchen wedding shower in 1966 was lemon meringue pie with Jello cook & serve pudding with a Pyrex pie plate. I still have the card with the givers name & handwriting - and in fact still have the same pie plate. The only difference is my version has a wonderful crumble crust - mixed in the pie plate and then patted onto the sides. I've been making it ever since and everyone always raves. I see no reason to change unless Jello quits making the lemon cook & serve (or "until" since everything changes every darn day).
Chocolate cake for brunch. Dinner will be leftovers but not sure which yet. 100 degrees again under the patio on the North side that never gets sun.
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Leftover curry tonight.
Not sure what tomorrow will be; we're heading back to Silverdale for DH's followup.
Our heat kicked in this morning (lows in the 40s) and the sun is finally making an appearance (not a fan). We may hit 61 before our next cool down.
Minus, you are made of sturdy stock to endure those temps. It's not even summer. I worry about folks dealing with these heatwaves.
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It's 100F here in Snowflake, AZ, but unlike Minus' 100F, our humidity is very low, so sweating does more than just drip off one's nose. :-)
100 in Houston is UGLY hot. I was working near there (Orange, TX) when it was 100F. I felt like I had crawled out of a sauna and I probably looked worse.
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It's 100F here in Snowflake, AZ, but unlike Minus' 100F, our humidity is very low, so sweating does more than just drip off one's nose. :-)
100 in Houston is UGLY hot. I was working near there (Orange, TX) when it was 100F. I felt like I had crawled out of a sauna and I probably looked worse.
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Hello all - it's hawwwwt here too. We've broken numerous records with 100 plus temps and will probably break several more as it's supposed to remain this way at least for the next week. A bit unusual to have this much heat here this early. It's not a dry heat either. I'm over it. Our poor ancient hvac is struggling to keep up. Four large skylights without shades don't help.
Dinners have been those which don't require heating the oven. I had a large lunch out with the ladies in the neighborhood (a monthly event) that consisted of a generous bowl of gumbo with a square of grilled cornbread. I've had the gumbo from this particular eatery (in fact its what I almost always order there) and it's some of the best I've had anywhere - even NOLA. Dinner that night was two poached eggs on an english muffin. Tonight is bratwurst poached in beer then grilled. Side will be a salad.
I sent DH out today to purchase a new toaster oven. I got rid of our old one when we moved. It rarely got used and we'd had it a good long while. DH wants a steak and baked potato for father's day on Saturday and the kids are coming Sunday for a combination DS birthday/fathers day dinner. For the birthday dinner DS requested homemade pizza and peach cobbler with ice cream. Bad timing on those things with the heat, but at least now I can bake the cobbler and baked potatoes in the toaster oven. The pizza will require the big oven but at least it's only a short amount of time. Now all I have to do is find the real estate for the toaster oven.
I have lots of OXO stuff too. The thing I use most often is a hand held mandoline that has two settings - thin and thinner slices. I find myself using it several times a week in spite of my initial disappointment in it's limited settings.
I had more to report but the heat has fogged my brain. Thanks for the carrot cake recipe - perfect for two!
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Minustwo, yep, I use a nine inch Pyrex plate for my pie, too! I've tried different sizes and pie pans made from ceramic and porcelain, but the simplest and best is 9" Pyrex. The crumble crust sounds pretty good, and if you care to share the recipe, I'd love to try it. That's nice you still have the recipe card from 1966. I did not marry until the late 80s, but dh and I still joke that he married me for my lemon meringue pie skills. Lol!
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Wally - hope the followup goes well.
Dinner ended up being sushi - half a California Roll with Rothchild Lemon Wasabi sauce.. Cold things from the fridge are on top of the list.
Speaking of OXO, my newest OXO purchase was a pair of toilet bowl brushes. (TMI???)
The absolutely no fail PIE CRUST CRUMBLE:
Sift into a 9" pie plate: 1/1-2 cups flour, 2 tsp sugar, 1/2 tsp salt. Combine 1/2 cup cooking oil with 2 Tblsp cold milk. Whip with a fork & pour over flour mixture. Stir with fork til mixture is moist. Pat around pie pan & form an edge with your thumb. Prick with fork. Bake at 425 degrees for 12-15 minutes.
I actually found a similar recipe in a magazines once for two pie crusts that calls to mix everything together in one large bowl - then divide in half & place in two pie places and pat down. The main difference was to bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes.
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I've had the same hand-held OXO can opener for 20 years. Anything it can't open, the five-buck supermarket Swing-A-Way will. But the OXO's big ovoid "key" is a lot more comfortable to turn.
Last night we went to Calo for baked clams, and grilled seafood over rapini and cannellini beans. Tonight at the Little Company of Mary Physicians' Recognition dinner (at Ridge Golf Club), the meal was an okay tossed salad, a nicely cooked surf & turf (Atlantic salmon and filet mignon), Duchesse potatoes (I left them over) and three hefty grilled asparagus spears. Saved my carbs for the cheesecake & berries (left the crust).
Down to a positively Arctic 77F right now. Good sleeping weather...with the ceiling fan on and the AC set to 66,
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Last night's dinner was a slow cooker hodge podge, using the small slow cooker. Ingredients were a can of rinsed cannelini beans, a can of chick peas bought in error (thought I was grabbing a second can of cannelini beans, a quarter of a ham steak, a can of diced tomatoes, sliced leek, diced carrot, and chopped cooked linguini added the last hour, powdered seasonings. The end result was quite tasty. I added grated romano to mine. Some chopped greens would have been a good addition, Swiss chard, spinach, kale. I didn't have any on hand.
Tonight may be chicken thighs and sweet potatoes cooked on the grill in oven mode.
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It looks like it might rain here, but I have the long time desert dweller's skepticism about rain.
I installed the better cell antenna and the signal is very much better. It is "2 bars" instead of "0-1 bar" of signal, so at least now is not annoying to use.
Tonight's dinner will be the leftover chicken-jasmine rice. Since DD is in Michigan, it lasts a lot longer. :-)
I hit post accidentally.
Chickpeas are a common addition to meals here. We keep about 5 pounds of dry beans and pressure cook them as needed. Tomorrow's meal will likely be like your hodge podge...to use up the older stuff in the refrigerator.
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Minus, thanks for the good thoughts. We may need to repeat the cortisone for DH; not many options and those available are scary. Sigh.
Managed to get back in time to eat dinner at home; unplanned, so we had leftover curry and I poached an egg for each of us to "top" it and fleshed it out with some spinach.
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Not much to post on eating for this girl, been in the hospital since last Sunday. Had to have emergency surgery for an obstructed bowel.
Eric, have we talked about your DD in MI.? Traverse City? I'm originally from MI. I hope we got a decent amount of rain! But most likely not.
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Goldie - i've been following you on another thread and OH MY you've been through the wringer. Glad you're back on regular food again - even if it is soft food. And glad that you'll get to leave the hospital - maybe tonight?. Good that you have a friend to stay with so you don't have to make that long drive immediately. Holding you in my thoughts.
Met my nephew & family for early dinner at a new Japanese restaurant. Of course I had to read the menu on line first since he is a vegan. I was psyched for a shrimp tempura meal - nope only on week days for lunch. I was looking forward to green tea ice cream - nope only a green tea mochi. Ended up sharing some vegetarian goyza and calamari for appetizers. I had an Udon noodle dish. The 7 year old had seaweed salad. Her Mom had a Ramen with beef & chicken & fish & shrimp & etc...Food was OK & we're all full, but probably not worth going back unless we are going to have sushi.
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Goldie, I'm glad you're getting better.
Would you like Sharon and I to check your place?
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Goldie, hope you are back to eating as soon as possible.
Minus, at least the company was good.
I was weary yesterday afternoon after doing the farmers market the first half of the day. We had mashed potato salad and hamburgers without buns for dinner. Simple and satisfying.
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Eric, that is very kind of you, thank you. My neighbor has been doing that for me, plus I have cameras. I'll be heading home this morning. I'm meeting that same friend in Payson (half way), she is meeting with her daughter and exchanging out grand kids. So I will follow them.
Ribs, potato salad, cole slaw, and baked beans......summer foods, yum!
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Goldie, I was stunned to read about your situation but happy that all is good now. Do they know why it impacted? I suspect they sent you home with instructions. Scary stuff.
I made a hodge podge of stuff: venison roast in the crockpot with onion/mushroom gravy, sushi rice and roasted cauliflower.
Tonight, I'll fix rock fish and have the rice and the cauli as sides.Our local QFC was selling copper river salmon for 12.95/# but it looked so sad, I skipped it. Maybe they'll have it flash frozen and sealed for sale this year, which is when I'll stock up.
I'll be watching 2 neighbors' yards while they travel so maybe I'll lose some weight. Or I can indulge in a bag of chips...my heroin of choice. I have a bag of blue-potato chips sitting on the counter for our anniversary celebration on Bastille Day. Funny how the small things can make me happy these days.
Editing: corn on the cob will replace the rice tonight. I'll poach eggs and serve it with the rice tomorrow.
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Friday night we went to Jameson's Charhouse in Skokie. We started with Manhattan clam chowder (I "ate around" the potato chunks) and then split a classic wedge salad. My entree was "Greek-style" wild-caught halibut & asparagus (instead of rice pilaf). Alas, the fish had definitely been floured before cooking. Sigh. Bob had his usual filet mignon but also opted for veg rather than starch.
Last night Bob worked late, so I grilled walleye filets (with chimichurri sauce), half-rings of Delicata squash (salt, pepper, cinnamon & nutmeg--the recipe also called for maple syrup but the squash is sweet enough on its own) and the asparagus left over from Friday night's dinner. I had a fish fillet and half the squash left over, so that was Bob's midnight snack.
I can't help carb-loading late at night--the tastes & textures of sweets and crackers comfort and distract me from my worsening sciatica, backaches, foot and hip pain. (PT seems to be aggravating it). I haven't stepped on a scale in weeks because I'm afraid to. Dreading my Wed. weigh-in and scolding. (Still on the waiting list for psychological counseling...nearly a year and counting). Seeing a new podiatrist tomorrow. Hope I can get some sympathetic answers rather than a runaround.
Tonight I will probably either nuke hot wings or grill a couple of chicken brats on keto buns with kraut. (Had a keto bagel for brunch with lox, schmear, and the trimmings--keto bagel was fairly tasteless but a good lox-and-schmear delivery device with fewer carbs than low-carb whole grain bread and better texture than keto white bread). Yesterday's brunch was a 2-egg + 1 white veg & Swiss omelet with a turkey sausage. (The white was left over from Friday's 2-egg + 1 yolk French herb/chevre omelet).
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Tonight DH made his creamy garlic Brussels sprouts, he had pork chops with his and I pan seared mahi mahi for myself, both were delicious. Tomorrow is my 2nd cycle of Enhertu and while I certainly plan to control nausea and vomiting better this time, it’s unlikely I’ll be doing much cooking and eating from about this Wednesday through next.
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Mae - wising you an easy Enhertu infusion & LOTS fewer side effects this time.
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Sandy, trouble with being vegetarian is I can’t find anything at Jameson’s, except a salad, though haven’t been there since pre- Covid when we’d go to Northlight. Went to Hot Tameles in Highland Park last night for Queso Fundido, jicama and double avocado salad, black beans with bananas. My favorite these days is Big Jones, but that’s all carb loading with biscuits, popovers, neither of which I can resist. Weight stays the same though.
What I was interested in though was your saying PT might be aggravating hip pain. I am very impressed with my PT, Katlin, but she works me hard for my left knee( which she thinks has full ROM and has nothing very wrong with) and with the muscles and tendons of left leg. I am very sore the day after I’ve seen her and the next day can barely walk. I’m going to cut back on the exercises and try walking fewer than my 10,000 steps. It’s too painful to limp along like this. Also, still struggling with my reluctance to use a walking stick or cane, negotiating curbs and such. Know she’s right that I need to. I suppose I think that after 8 weeks of PT, I should be in less pain, walking better than when I started. Have 3 sessions left, then will maybe go back to Skokie Ortho clinic.
Also, wanted to ask if stopping Letrozole has made any difference in joint pain( or in anything else.)
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I couldn't think of anything I wanted to cook for dinner last night and it was too hot to cook anything inside. I had boiled eggs in the refrigerator, also celery, and packets of tuna in a kitchen cabinet. So I made tuna salad. Also romaine salad. So we had salad with salad for dinner.
Today is supposed to be another hot day with temperatures in the 90's. Tonight a cool front collides with the heat and moisture to create storms, possibly dangerous ones. I always hate the mention of baseball sized hail when the truck sits outside.
Hope you have an easier time with the second treatment, Illimae.
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Wallycat, corn on the cob with poached eggs?
Illimae, would love the creamy brussel sprouts recipe please. They look so yummy! Wishing you all the best on your next treatment and keeping that nausea away.
Took me 45 minutes to drive my 6 mile dirt road, which usually takes 25. The bowels were obstructed. Scar tissue had grown around the bowels and twisting them. Also part of the bowel had adhered to my abdominal wall. Emergency surgery, NG tube down my nose, throat and into the stomach. You should have seen what was coming out of there! I will leave there, since this is a food thread! Incision about 8". Surgeon said I could come back in 2 weeks, that means staples will have been in for 3 weeks. I'm thinking that is way too long! Dinner was a tuna fish sandwich and some chips.
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Goldie, the corn was with the rockfish and roasted cauliflower. Tonight, I'll use up the leftover rice, mushroom gravy, add what fish we have left (not much) and flesh it out with a poached egg over it, almost like a "bowl" presentation, with whatever veggies are leftover or I can find.
I can't believe your ordeal. I'm glad you're on the other side of the situation and hope you recuperate quickly.Illimae, I'm sending good thoughts that your next treatment will be easier and that it kills those nasty cancer cells.
Language question: is it a regional thing to say "tuna fish?" No one ever says salmon fish, sardine fish or grouper fish...or do they?
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Wally - interesting question about tuna. I was raised in CA. Have lived in Utah, New Mexico & Texas. I've stayed with friends or family in all of the Western states - including long stretches in Hawaii. When talking about sandwiches, my Mom usually said tuna fish. Salad might be tuna salad or tuna fish salad. But of course if you're going to have a lovely tuna steak, it's just tuna. I love word use questions.
Edited to add, perhaps it has something to do with whether it is fresh fish or canned tuna?
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