So...whats for dinner?
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Tuna, can refer to a prickly pear.
And in some parts of the US (Brooklyn), asking for tuna, might result in a piano tuner showing up. :-)
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Love it Eric - LOL.
102 degrees so no cooking. Dinner was a serving of a 2 avocado guacamole with Rotel Tomatoes & Chilies since I didn't have any fresh tomatoes. I still added a large dollop of Mrs. Renfro's Green Chili Salsa. On the side - 1/2 a cup of leftover fried rice. Served with HEB Deli Rosemary Crackers and the last of a Yellowtail wine (not to be dignified with a name & should have been poured it down the sink). Desert was two of Mrs.Tate's Buttercrunch Cookies. If you haven't tried Mrs.Tate's cookies yet, they are delicious. My BFF swears by the coconut. But VERY expensive so take your credit card.
Goldie- so glad you are home & starting to recover. What a long, unexpected episode. I trust you are treating yourself gently !!!!!
Jazzy - I hope you're just changing positions and not changing employers?? As we head towards retirement, major changes are NOT fun.
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Eric, is something going over my head? Which isn't unusual. My DH always told me I needed a zoom net to catch those things and then determined my "zoom" net had a hole in it. Then he would tease me and call me scarecrow, and tell me everything will be ok, we'll get you some more straw! I've not heard of tuna being called prickly pear. I do get the piano tuner tho, I caught that one!
Minus, I don't think Jazzy posts here. You're in the wrong lounge, I mean on the wrong thread. Musta been the Yellowtail!
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Spanish word for the fruit of a prickly pear cactus.
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Goldie, I found the recipe pretty quick, enjoy!
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I always thought "tuna fish" referred to tuna salad sandwiches; when used in tapas, vitello tonnato, salade Niçoise, pan bagnat or pissaladière, even canned tuna is referred to as just "tuna." And the fresh stuff? Around these parts, it's "ahi," whether seared, tartare, poke or carpaccio. And Eric, in Boston as well as Brooklyn, "tuna" is the other component, besides "amplifyah." in a "receivah."
Last night I made Caesar salad (not grilled), and a grilled grass-fed bison Polish sausage (back in Brooklyn, we called them "specials") on a keto bun with sauerkraut and kosher-deli mustard--working my way through a jar of Ba-Tamp-Te. Then Bob brought home wings (fried "naked" with sauce on the side) with celery sticks & ranch.
Brunch today (after 3pm, since I left the house at 10 sans breakfast or coffee and my podiatrist appt. out in the near-boonies took forever) was a fried egg, and one slice each of bacon & low-carb/hi-fiber toast. Tonight I skillet-blistered shishito peppers, then made a charcuterie plate with country paté, jamòn Iberico (a gift from the kids), very ripe Brie, and 10-yr-old cheddar. Followed it up with some more wings & celery. Speaking of veg., I harvested my first tomato--a large cherry that had ripened to orange, so I rescued it from the squirrels. It's ripening on the sill.
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Goldie sorry to hear about your illness and surgery. I have bowel cancer and have had 3 surgeries on my bowel and it's not nice at all. Hope that you recover quickly.
Have been eating spaghetti Bolognaise, chicken patties, wedges and vegies. Not very exciting but I don't have much taste sometimes.
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Meatloaf Monday at Clancy's last night. DH chose the meatloaf and I had nachos. We both had iced tea and were impressed with how not ordering alcoholic drinks lowers the bill. We enjoyed our martinis prior to driving the mile to Clancy's.
We're thankful this morning that our thunderstorms last night weren't the violent variety. No hail to pummel our pickup parked out in the open.
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Ha ha Wallycat, good question regarding "tuna fish", you make a valid point, however, I don't an answer!
Eric, thanks for tuna lesson!
"Native to Mexico, the nopal cactus is sometimes called prickly pear cactus, but the plant's Latin name is Opuntia. In Spanish, cactus fruit are called tunas. The fruit grows on the rounded edges of cactus paddles and has a thick skin covered in small spines."
Illimae, thanks a heap for the recipe. I'm going to share it with my brother and daughter. We LOVE brussells!
Sandy, enjoy that mater!
Aussie, and everyone else, thank you for the kind words re my surgery. I'm recovering very well! Aussie, I'm sorry about your bowel cancer and hope your prognosis is good.
Carole, many years ago, that happened to my DH's truck, dimpled the whole thing. He was so upset by it, couldn't look at it, so he sold it!
More tuna yesterday, as I make 2 cans. I like to mix regular with white, I don't like either by themself.
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I like to make my tuna salad with olive-oil-packed (Cento, Pastene or the line-caught stuff sold at WF), and use the oil itself plus a little lemon juice instead of mayo. I add chopped celery, celery seed, parsley, and fresh dill. We don't even keep water-packed or "vegetable-oil-packed" tuna in the house any more--it just doesn't taste as good, especially on its own atop a green or Niçoise salad. The water-or-veg.oil-packed stuff is loaded with additives & chemicals (soy protein isolate, MSG, salt), and is usually not sustainably-caught.
Brunch today was an olive-oil-fried egg, small piece of buttered low carb/hi-fiber toast, 2 turkey sausage links, and half a tomato broiled with Parm-Regg. and herbes de Provence over a Little Gem lettuce leaf.
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Sandy, that's a great idea on no mayo. DH prefers mayo, which I can take or leave. Hate draining the tuna since any omega-3s are bound in there. My favorite "tuna product" is tuna belly. For canned tuna, if I get albacore, Ortiz is amazing (sadly, the price lets you know that) and I use that in tuna salad. Otherwise, Ventresca (tuna belly) is my favorite (again Ortiz brand) for eating as is, no mashing it up. For "every day" tuna, I buy Genova yellowfin stuff. All of it, in olive oil.
Frozen burger with slaw and the last of the rice. I'm just reading cooked rice shouldn't be kept more than a day because it can grow some nasty toxin/bacteria. I'm on day 3.
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I forgot about Genova. Definitely delicious. The other line-caught stuff from WF is Pole & Line (be careful because the company also makes a tuna cat food)!. They also have Wild Planet canned without water or oil.
Just too hot out to walk anywhere, sit on a patio, stand over a grill or heat up the kitchen. Tired of driving--it was 100F to & from PT & the Evanston Hosp. lab for my CBC draw; and I'm also trying to conserve gas. Bob agreed. We had some roe (salmon, golden whitefish, American sturgeon) and sour cream in the fridge--so I toasted a couple blini for Bob & 0-net-carb white bread rounds for me, and supplemented with Finn-Crisp for him and Atkins crispbread for me. Will likely put together a Caesar with tomatoes, olives & sardines if we're still hungry. No Niçoise, because I have neither spuds nor green beans. Or maybe a tapas plate with smoked mussels, jamon, cheeses and pate (lettuce on the side). It's still in the 90s, and neither of us is very hungry right now. Dessert will be berries & maybe brie.
But what I really want is pasta or pizza--and that's not happening, especially considering tomorrow is the dreaded weigh-in. I want what I'm not allowed to have (and it comforts me late at night to distract from the physical pain in my L foot & right leg/hip because I can't take the kinds of meds that work). And I am bored silly with what I'm allowed to eat, especially veggies, that may fill me up but don't satisfy me. Will discuss tomorrow whether Noom or WW might be a better fit for me at this stage of the game. (My diet would have to be restaurant-friendly).
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Goldie unfortunately my bowel cancer is stage 4, I've had it since 2015, chemo for life, 65 so far. I had breast cancer in 2012, 10 years ago.
I did some shopping today and didn't really buy anything interesting to eat. I will need to go back tomorrow and buy some proper food. Just watching Jamie Oliver now making a yummy roast dinner.
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aussie, I'm sorry to hear of the bowel cancer diagnosis. You've been living with it for awhile now. It can't be easy, but as one living with mbc, I admire your perseverance.
I'm happy to hear that many of you like tuna. I've always made and loved tuna and egg salad. In early 2021 (before the vaccine came out), I was very sick and in bed two weeks with Covid which included severe nausea. I was so hungry, but could barely look at food! One saving grace was tuna and egg salad on a slice of bread rolled over. One a day. It sustained me!
Tuna has fallen out of favor with the younger generation. Finding a tuna melt on the menu in restaurants is more difficult these days. It's been awhile since I made them at home. I might try again this summer.
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A tuna (fish) melt sounds good. We ate having some friends stop by today, so today's meals are set....so, tomorrow...
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Goldie - thanks for the update & glad to hear you are TRYING to take it easy. I thought Jazzy has pulled up to the table at the dinner thread a couple of times, but I could be wrong. I'll pop over to the other thread & ask her.
Another attempt to install an ice maker today - which I purchased w/the new fridge in early March and was back ordered (four times). Second try earlier this month was the incorrect model & wouldn't plug in. This time, the model/stock number on the box they shipped directly to me was correct & was what they ordered from the National Parts Warehouse (because now Best Buy doesn't sell this anymore). The instruction guide inside the box was for a different model number. Oh oh. And the actual icemaker itself? Yet a third model number!!! It's getting so ridiculous I can't help laughing. Luckily I still had the blue Rubbermaid ice trays in the attic.
Dinner will be something to do with spinach, which needs to be used.
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Socca bbq chicken "pizza"
The ugly warm-up will hit us here next week. I remember our 3 days of 99-100 but don't think it will get that bad on our little boot. Ugh. Hate climate change.
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Last night's dinner was a pork steak roasted in an aluminum pan in the grill's oven mode. Sides were a broccoli salad and sliced golden beets sprinkled with white balsamic vinegar. I bought the beets at the farmers market and they are very good.
My mother used the name "tuna fish."
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Minus, Jazzy may have posted here before. I just don't recall seeing her at the table.
Funny, all the talk about tuna, or tuna fish! I had a friend that would put grape jelly on his tuna fish sandwich.....eck!
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Tonight we'll have the other 1/2 of the socca "pizza" and not sure if I'll add a side.
I've learned to try weird combinations because you just never know...a co-worker (I was in my 20s) brought PB and pickle sandwiches to work. I scoffed. Tried it. Never looked back. It is the only way I'll eat it now.
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Weighing in on the tuna discussion - I would say it is an Americanism - but tuna fish or salad refers to the canned or jarred version combined with other things - olive oil, mayo, onion, relish, celery, etc., while tuna refers to a tuna steak? That would be my interpretation. I definitely say tuna fish, and I don't really eat much of any other kind of fish except freshwater trout on occasion, and usually only in citrus wine sauce with toasted pecans.
I roasted some giant chicken breasts, like dinosaur sized ones - skin on, bone in - and we have been eating the results for the last couple of days. DH had some the evening I prepared them with Brussels sprouts and some mashed potatoes. Last night was a salad for him with romaine, julienned carrot, red onion, chicken, avocado, and sliced almonds with balsamic dressing. I made some chicken salad with apple, celery, and vegan mayo and also had some of the leftover loaded baked potato salad. I just have a little left after also sending chicken for the last two of his lunches, so I need to go in a different direction tonight! I have some hot Italian sausage and some cauliflower pappardalle so may go that route, with an alfredo-ish sauce.
minus - I feel ya on the ice maker! Same story, but different - we had all of our glass doors replaced and they were ordered in Feb. of 2021. They are custom doors due to the height of 96" so we knew it would take a minute to get them. They were supposed to be held at the warehouse until all three doors arrived - they were coming from differing manufacturers. That didn't happen and they were delivered one by one over the course of several months. Had to keep them in the garage instead of my new car. Meantime they resurfaced our streets in my community, my car was filthy for a month. When the last door arrived they were installed. One half of the French door was warped. In addition to the custom size, the mullions were also custom to match the interior French doors in the house because they are all visible from any vantage point. A new half door was ordered but when it arrived - three months later - the mullions were all wrong, so the two doors were different. The door had to be ordered again - another three month wait - and it was finally installed less than a month ago. I just got a congratulatory email from the store that my installation was complete, and would I take a survey about my level of satisfaction. Um...they seriously don't want to hear from me... This is after the refrigerator fiasco, 11 month wait for it when I ordered an entire suite of appliances and the cooktop and wall oven/micro arrived in a reasonable amount of time.
eric - I am late on Father's Day wishes for you! Hope you had a good day.
goldie - hope you're feeling better each day.
I am not much of a weird combo person, but I do have a recipe that I have made many times that is an appetizer - it is a creamy bacon and cheddar spread with pecans, green onion, and cayenne, that is served with strawberry jam and crackers - it is an epic salty/sweet/spicy/crunchy mix. My MIL also had a crazy jello salad she made for holidays that had three layers - one was raspberry jello with whole berry cranberry sauce, middle layer was lemon jello with salted pecans and cream cheese whipped together, last layer was lime jello with grapefruit slices. This was served with a dollop of mayo, which is bizarre, but somehow worked. All of my DH's sibs love it, all of the following generation - including my children - won't touch it with a 10-foot pole. Lol!
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Nice day today (highs in the 70s)--will try to suck it up and don socks (as loose as possible) & sneakers and do my walk--with the cane if necessary. Got read the riot act by my weight loss NP yesterday, who told me I have to try to tolerate more exercise and intermittent-fast--especially not eat ANYTHING after dinner, much less the carb pity-party I've been throwing myself. She said that it's more important not to lose my inhibitions at night, in order to keep the insulin & therefore glucose "spikes" down. Tough to stick to an 8-hr eating window, especially with Bob's work hours so unpredictable. Dinner at 8 most nights is as early as we can eat--often, much later depending on new admissions and traffic woes. As it is, I have to wait till after 2pm most days before solid food touches my lips. (That's not a problem for him, as he fears eating before leaving for work will "get him going" during his commute, with nowhere safe on the South Side to make a pit-stop en route). She says I can't let him dictate my eating hours any longer--but if I eat alone I tend to overeat out of sheer boredom, since I really need the distraction of personal interaction rather than either watching TV or staring off into space.
So she suggests eating out less often, and not drinking when eating at home alone (it loosens my inhibitions against cheating and night-snacking). She also says one slice of low-carb hi-fiber wholegrain bread a day (preferably at lunch or brunch) is fine, but switch to the keto (labeled as such) white bread or buns for other stuff. She wishes she could eat it, but it has "vital wheat gluten" as its starch and she has both celiac disease & Type 1 diabetes. I need to be more careful about what websites call "dirty keto:" fake versions of carb-y snacks, even Birch Benders waffles & pancakes. Sugar-free chocolate is okay, but if I limit myself to one small square of "normal" very dark chocolate she says that's preferable because it's more satisfying and won't trigger cravings.
Last night we went to Regalia for my "farewell to undisciplined eating" meal. We shared everything. I did eat the complementary rosemary-shallot foccaccia (small piece) to dip in the cannellini-olive oil dip. (One of the few upscale restaurants these days that doesn't charge for bread service). Appetizer was Wagyu carpaccio with toast and pumpkin seeds (I had the seeds, Bob had the toast). Next, a house salad--basically a Greek salad but with mesclun greens instead of lettuce. We shared spaghetti cacio e pepe--I had 1/3 of the plate. Finally, a veal chop Parmigiana. Haven't had veal Parm--or a veal chop--in three years. I scraped off the breading (easy, as it fell off anyway as I cut each piece). It came with Vesuvio potato wedges (I forgot to specify veg. instead, so Bob ate half the spuds and we brought home the other half with the leftover veal). No dessert or limoncello there--we were stuffed and slightly tipsy anyway. (We walked, of course). When I got peckish later, I had a small slice of the coffeecake ring his patient baked, and a little chunk of sugar-free halvah.
Done eating well before midnight. Not going to eat brunch till after 3pm. (Nursing a pourover of Ethiopian coffee right now). So it's a 15-hr fast. If he makes it home for dinner tonight, I'll give him the veal and make broccolini & a salad for the both of us. I'll grill a duck breast I defrosted overnight. If I have dessert, it'll be plain Greek yogurt and whatever fresh berries Bob didn't kill off during his middle-of-the-night fridge raids. (I think he "sleep-eats"). And it'll be several hours before my head hits the pillow.
Speaking of the frozen duck breast, I bought it yesterday at Wild Fork. I'd driven past a few outposts of it and thought it was just another gourmet grocery. Turns out it sells only frozen foods--no fresh produce, dairy or eggs. But the meats, poultry & seafoods are reasonably-priced and tend to be cuts that most grocers don't sell: the aforementioned duck breasts, heritage pork, fully-cooked zero-sugar sausages (including blood--no rice!, weisswurst, knackwurst, several kinds of brats, even bison hot dogs), ostrich & bison filets, and seafoods that Hooked on Fish has only occasionally as its fresh weekly selections. I like that I was able to buy a single small duck breast rather than a package of two large ones, which Whole Foods occasionally has. I can steam the sausages atop a choucroute.
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Oh, and I could never stomach tuna melts. I may not have a microscopic drop of Italian DNA, but I grew up eating in enough Italian restaurants that I believe seafood & cheese simply don't go together (at least not on the same plate).
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I'm saving my leftover socca for tomorrow, when we get back from Sequim. DH has decided he wants to go there tomorrow so I can maybe find a pair of glasses I like at Costco. It figures the pair I have, I love, but they no longer make the frames and these are getting sorry looking on the nose/bridge area. I can find the frames on line but no idea how much they would charge to switch the lenses.
I'm making a riff on Mapo tofu and instead of rice, DH wants udon noodles.
Sandy, I'm sorry about the stress of the eating/weight loss. I'd offer you tips but you have probably heard them all (maybe). I guess the only thing I can repeat is to think of eating as a way of life not a moment to lose weight. Hard, I know. I guess the only good thing for me is that if I eat really late at night, I have a hard time falling asleep because it feels like it just "sits there" and doesn't make me feel great. DH and I had long agreed that just because we love each other doesn't mean we need to eat together. Sure, we try, but when he worked crazy hours or I got hungry, or went to night school, it was just too much work to figure it all out.
I tweaked my back lifting 3 big bags of compost 3 days ago, then a bag of ammo and guns to get to the range yesterday. Trying to be kind to it before it flares worse. I hope your PT goes well.
Sorry to all with appliance hell.
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I love tuna melts and have added tuna to the shopping list. Seared tuna steaks are great too, DH won’t touch it though, traumatic memories of his granny forcing fish oil down his throat as a kid. More for me then 🙂
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Latest possibility is that my son may come Saturday or Sunday for a day or two. His Dad tells me that he'll go home Tuesday morning. Guess I'd better cut my 'honey-do' list by a factor of 5. (it's currently 2 pages, single spaced). It will be easy to cut the outside stuff. It's just too hot. He hates Houston summers, but I haven't seen him in a year so he will try to make it.
Meal choices have also changed. I really don't want the oven on since I have a French Country Kitchen - and the table is way too close to the oven. I will still do Hawaiian Sliders (both ham & turkey w/swiss & cheddar) for the night he arrives. I can prepare ahead and it's only a few minute in the oven. I'm going to try Laurie's Mexican Chicken with pre-cooked rotisserie chicken breasts and make it in my electric skillet with the black beans & salsa. IT will be interesting to see if the flavors "meld" correctly. And his other choice was pork medallions with brandy cream sauce. Kroger no longer carries the small Hormel tenderloin, so I bought a couple of tenderloin chops & will cut to size. Better than cooking a whole large loin in the oven.
As for me - tonight is leftover guacamole. Tomorrow is sauteed spinach with fried egg on top.
Oh meant to add - weird foods. Our kids all took lunches to school. One of my son's friends would take only butter & brown sugar sandwiches. Another would take only mustard & pickle sandwiches. My son took peanut butter - which I guess is no longer allowed.
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My twin had to have cream-cheese and jelly sandwiches. Blech. But she always got her way.
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Some odd sandwiches I haven't know about. Also have not ever eaten a tuna melt.
We joined a couple for dinner at Clancy's. Early, for us. 5:30. Normally we have cocktails at 5 and eat at 7. We met them years back when they rented a site in the resort and had a camper behind our site. We've seen them most summers, even stopped at their town in southern MN one year on our way north. They're vacationing in the area for a few days.
Clancy's wasn't crowded on a Thursday at that early hour. We sat at a booth overlooking Island Lake, "our" lake which we can see from our deck. The special was tacos. I had two beef taco's (without onion) and the salad bar. DH ordered the same. I enjoyed my meal and am beginning to favor a short drive to Clancy's over cooking.
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More on tuna...I guess I've never had good tuna. Only ever the stuff in a can such as Starkist. Of course growing up, tuna noodle casserole was a cheap dinner, not a fan tho. I do like macaroni salad with tuna.
Wallycat, can you call Costco and ask them if you order the frame if they would switch out the lenses?
Illimae, lol at your DH and the fish oil!
Minus, I hope things go smoothly this time around with your DS's visit. Where is he coming from? Those are some weird sandwiches! I can remember as a kid just having Miracle Whip sandwiches.
Had lunch with my doctor's wife yesterday, Peninni sandwiches and strawberries with homemade yogurt and raw sugar. Dinner was just some Cheez-its!
Carole, I always eat early, usually betweet 3-5. Heck, most nights I'm in bed by 7!
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Many pages back, someone converted our founder Laurie's Salsa Chicken from oven to crock pot (maybe Carole?). Now my neighbor wants to cook it in an Instant pot. Anybody done that yet?? Oven is 1-1/2 hours on 350. Crock pot is 3 hours on high. Thoughts on an instant pot? I don't have either of the above 'pots', but to beat our 102 degree heat, I bought a huge Costco rotisserie chicken yesterday. I will simmer the beans & salsa in my electric skillet & add the chicken breasts just enough to warm. Likely won't be as good, but needs/must.
Goldie - I still don't know where my son might be coming from, and that's IF he gets on a flight. Maybe Washington, D.C., maybe San Francisco. I'm still planning on Hawaiian Sliders (both turkey & ham) for tomorrow night since I can make them ahead. After I pick him up at the airport (whenever), it's only 10 minutes in the oven.
I'm trying to eat up the things he doesn't care for to clear the fridge - so yesterday was guacamole (and that will be breakfast tomorrow) and tonight was steamed spinach with two fried eggs on top.
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