So...whats for dinner?
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Yes please stay safe Eric and all in harms way.
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Stay safe, Eric, Special, Petite, Spookiesmom. and all our west & central FL sisters. (My FL cousins are in Parkland & Melbourne, so they're ok). Have dear friends just outside Charleston, and hope Ian can miss them or they at least get further inland where there's a bit more elevation.
Cyatheah, Shana Tovah to you too!
Yesterday for brunch before going to my DEXAScan, I had half a keto bagel, schmear, lox, tomao & onion, (The other half was today's brunch). Last night we went out to RPM Steak for dinner, to celebrate that I'd lost 4 lbs. Carb cheat was one of their awesome popovers. Apps were New Brunswick oysters & hamachi crudo. Bob had a grass-fed bison bone-in filet (which he finished). and I had a grass-fed bone-in ribeye (most of which I brought home, along with half the broccolini & hen-of-the-woods mushrooms). Dessert was a small Baked Alaska, just because. (Last dessert for the time being). Tonight was yesterday's leftovers--fleshed out with more broccolini, tomato/arugula salad, sauteed mushrooms, and leftover Jason's cauliflower "mac" & cheese.
About that DEXAScan--unfortunately, even though I've been off letrozole since April, my last Prolia shot was in 2018, so I now officially have osteoporosis. It's worst in my left femur & L4-5. So b'bye, PPI (Dexilant) and hello, endocrinologist (but first another metabolic panel & vit. D level, to see if it's safe for me to resume taking Ca citrate & D3). And as much as my foot hurts, I have to walk more because it's weightbearing. The neuro PT exercises I will be doing must be tweaked to avoid twisting my spine.
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Sandy, try DGL (stevia sweetened is available) to counteract the rebound PPI withdrawal. Good luck.
Tuna melt tonight with some broiled zucchini.
Tomorrow starts the low residue diet so I can basically eat anything I want that isn't fiber/healthy, LOL. May have our frozen burgers with overcooked vegetable of some sort.
My oncologist, who has walked me off the ledge more times than I know, took my DH under her wing when he was dx and has been by my side for nearly 12 years, is retiring.
I asked if I needed to do anything right away and she said I can find a good PCP and have them order all my MGUS labs and she says I probably won't need an oncologist for years, if not permanently. From her mouth to god's ears, no? I'm sure some of that is to ease my stress since who amongst us can predict cancer recurrence....so she is basically saying "I'm free to go..." Bitter sweet.
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I did pretty well in using up the food in the freezer but there will be a few donations. Today I cubed up a pot roast and made beef vegetable soup for dinner tonight. I will also make a tossed salad. We had meatloaf sandwiches today with slices from the cooked meatloaf I had frozen.
We were busy today with packing and also drained the icemaker in the refrigerator. Tomorrow should be a fairly easy day and then Sunday morning we'll winterize the camper by pumping antifreeze into the pipes. Take a look around. Lock up and take off! Back to our Louisiana life.
Cooking in my big kitchen again will be a pleasure.
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Wally, years ago when I was still in an HMO, the doc assigned as my "gatekeeper" primary was very big on complementary medicine and put me on DGL. It didn't work. Maybe it was because I took it as capsules rather than chewable, but I hate black licorice anyway (and red or brown really aren't licorice). He also put me on black cohosh (Remifemin) for dysmenorrhea, but that didn't work either. My primary is on board with my slow weaning off Dexilant, but cautions to do each stage for two weeks. So the next stage will be one night Dexillant, next night Pepcid, next night 30mg. lansoprazole, lather, rinse, repeat. He prefers to prescribe oral bisphosphonates (alendronate, generic Fosamax), but with my GERD that ain't gonna happen). I will leave the question of resuming Prolia (and for how long--the literature now says up to 10 years for osteoporosis) to the endocrinologist. (My main MO won't make that call now that I've crossed over from osteopenia).
Sadly, the earliest endocrinologist appointment I could get is Jan. 11! My main (bc) MO says to wait on a chem panel & vit. D draw till then, because she (the endo) would want to order her own tests. I'm seeing the melanoma MO Nov. 21, but even that is too long a wait, IMHO. My primary just put in the order for labs so I can have an idea of just how high my calcium & D3 levels are. But he, my main MO and the wgt.-mgmt. NP all say it should be fine to resume taking a combo calcium citrate/D3 pill twice daily (just have to remember not to eat spinach within 2 hrs. either way). The Walgreens version (315 Ca, 250 D3 per pill) is easier to swallow than even Citracal Petites, whose sharp edges often "catch" on the way down.
Bob is eating at the hospital tonight (new admissions), so I'll grill a Feltman's natural-casing grass-fed Kosher-style hot dog on a keto bun with juniper sauerkraut & brown mustard. I don't think my gut is ready for all that cabbage in a choucroute garni, but I think I csn handle a small Caesar with a couple of cherry tomatoes. I have to be in the Loop by 9am (!) tomorrow for solo auditions followed by vocal rehearsals--the city is raising all the bridges over the river starting at 9 so boaters can sail from the marinas to inland dry docks; this will happen every Sat. till Nov. I figure i'd have to leave the house by 8am whether i take the CTA or drive--and the closest SpotHero garage to the Bar Assn. HQ is $20 (train fare is <$3 each way).
Tomorrow night is the Little Co. of Mary Physicians' Dinner-Dance at the Chicago Yacht Club. I remember I overdressed the last time (too glitzy, the Yacht Club is more "dressy-casual") so I pulled out a knee-length trapeze dress with trumpet sleeves and a flouncy hem; red & yellow flowers on a black background. Sise S, and I can finally fit back into it without Spanx. Just hope the thigh-high hose come up high enough. (I don't have pantyhose, and the sight of my scarred and blotchy legs is a powerful appetite-suppressant). Bob put us down for surf (salmon) & turf (filet), but wants to get there early enough for the passed hors d'oeuvres (a carb-challenge for sure). Will have to resist the bread basket, ubiquitous potato, and dessert as well.
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Tonight was Thai coconut chicken with asparagus over Palmini hearts of palm “rice”. Definitely a hungryroot meal I’d order again but I would add carrots or other additional veggies next time.
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Hi all
I'm in the hospital on this nice Saturday morning waiting for surgery. I'm having a stent put in my right kidney as I have a blockage. I haven't eaten anything since yesterday. I usually get quite sick after surgery but hopefully not this time. Hope that everyone has a good weekend.
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Aussie - holding you in our thoughts. Hope the surgery goes well.
Mae - great to see a your picture of a lovely dinner. How is the beach house working out now that you have electricity?
Sandy - as someone else answered you on another thread, my endocrinologist also has me on Prolia for a LONG time, if not life. Just had shot #13
Carole - I know you'll be glad to get home. Safe trip!!! I remember the days when you used to pull the trailer back & forth....
Met my ex-DH and his wife for lunch yesterday after my Omicron vaccine (#5) at a restaurant I've been missing. I had grilled rainbow trout with French green lentils and warm spinach & pecan 'salad'. It came with delicious home made bread - sourdough, rye with 10 seeds and cranberry walnut.
Today's meal was 1/2 a bag of Ruffles (which I only buy twice a year), 3 little pieces of leftover seeded rye and 2 Chocolate Mint Truffles.
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Aussie, hope your stent procedure goes well. In my prayers tonight.
Minus, how's your bivalent booster treating you? Mine was Moderna (as were the preceding four shots) and it really threw me for a loop for 36 hrs. Bob had Pfizer and his arm wasn't even sore!
Trout over green French lentils? (Lentilles du Puy)? One of our favorite French meals is salmon atop a little crock of lentils. Been eons since we've had it--the Chicago restaurant where we first had it went under when its owner died and his widow retired; and the last time was in a little bistro in an arcade off the Champs-Elysees...in 1999. I ought to make it.
Skipped the Caesar tonight--not that hungry. Grilled a couple of asparagus instead. A small square of Chocolove 77% as dessert.
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Minus, the beach bar is progressing some but everything is waiting for DH to install the mini split AC. He hasn’t been motivated lately, so I’m nudging him gently. I’ve touched up some interior paint yesterday and plan to put up the beach scene wall sticker this afternoon. I have treatment on Monday, so whatever doesn’t get done this weekend will have to wait until the coming SE’s settle back down. I’ll post some pics later 🙂
Not sure about dinner yet, maybe a hungryroot meal, maybe leftover pork roast.
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aussie - hope you do well with your surgery, will be thinking of you.
chisandy - I had my second Pfizer boost this summer - trying to time it so I was continuing to be protected until the new boost came out - will get it in Nov. So far, my first boost was the worst in terms of side effects, this last one not as much, but still 24 hrs of feeling somewhat yuck. Totally worth it. After multiple exposures without getting sick I am starting to wonder if I am a super dodger though. Also, interesting that DH had a pretty severe case of Covid in mid-May, previously had no response to two vaccinations and a boost, but his latest boost did produce side effects. I think his immune system said hey, I know what this is!
Food has been uninteresting - numerous friends/fam have stopped by for hot showers and to be fed - none of them had power until yesterday and this morning. Mostly sandwiches, but also steak from the freezer that I cooked in advance in case we lost power too. I am unusually tired - I think it is stress, but I did manage to clean up the yard yesterday and some of today. DH went over to the downtown house (which just got power this morning - DD has been using a generator and solar power bank) to clean up over there. HE is at work today clearing his email cache before going back to work on Monday. The horse is back to his stable from his cinder block stall at the fairgrounds as of last evening. I was reminded on another thread that the HQ for my cancer center is in Ft. Myers - and all the chemo meds come from there - that is a problem that will ripple through the state as this is the largest private cancer center in FL. There are delays in the schedule already and I hope they can do a workaround quickly. Chemo is stressful enough without the addition of delays and post-hurricane issues. I am having a hard time looking at much of the destruction on TV and the internet - it is so overwhelming, I just can't imagine what all of those people are going through, it is so sad.
One of DH's co-workers is the new parent of a hurricane baby! We were stationed in Guam for a number of years early in DH's military career - and had two typhoons (Vanessa and Bill) while there. They made all the pregnant women who were 8 months and more stay at the hospital when a typhoon was coming - the low pressure in the atmosphere causes them to go into labor.
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Special - so glad your checked in and your family is OK & you have power. Of course we've been worrying. Yes, I can imagine you're exhausted. Having lived through 4 or 5 hurricanes, I know the pictures don't begin to describe the horror and devastation for the families. Sad to hear about the Ft Myers Cancer Center.
Thursday was my 5th Covid shot and it was Pfizer. 4 Pfizer and 1 Moderna so far. My butt is sore (I don't use my arms for ANYTHING), and I was tired for 24 hours - other than that - no side effects. Maybe it's because of the glass of Bonny Doon Grenache that I had with lunch.
Mae - good luck with the next treatment. You're getting those in West Texas - right? So you don't have to drive to MD Anderson. Hope this round will treat you more gently.
Oh no - Costco is discontinuing the Godiva Dark Chocolate Ganache Hearts. And in favor of some stupid Godiva milk chocolate assortment when they already have 3 other Godiva milk chocolate assortments. The manager unearthed & put aside 8 bags for me. Actually there were 25 bags left, but living in Houston with our heat I was afraid they'd be ruined before I could eat them if I bought them all. I often have two small pieces at night before I go to bed and that's usually the total extent of my sweets/desserts. On a happier note, my Costco is now carrying Utah Milk Chocolate Mint Truffles. Those would be 2nd in line. Or rather 3rd in line because See's Butterscotch Squares will always be first.
Lunch tomorrow with my niece who's coming to town this weekend for a concert tonight. I haven't see her and my two grand-nephews in probably a year. It will be fun to see how much they've grown at ages 6 & 8. And how they interact with their cousin - my 7 years old grand-niece who lives here.
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Final dinner at Pine Hollow this year. We'll have more beef veggie soup and some freshly made mashed potato salad. There will be leftovers of both. I may check with neighbor Hugh and ask him if he's interested. He would need to add onion to the potato salad.
The truck is hooked up to the cargo trailer, which is packed.
Our neighbor Brian from Fargo brought the golf cart we bought from a friend of his father's. It is bright yellow and is very cute. We hope to use it next summer at the nearby golf course, Eagle View. It will be stored here during the winter.
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minus - thanks, we are very grateful to all those who have checked on us and worried about us - I have heard from far away friends that I have been out of touch with, so that is always the silver lining. We are happy to all have power and be comfortable, while constantly thinking of those who have not been as fortunate. DD has a bunch of solar lanterns and solar phone chargers that were given to her by their manufacturer after the bad hurricane in the Bahamas, so that she could try to get them into the right hands. She will inquire with our local Sherriff to see the best way to get that stuff in the right hands. She went to the Keys after Irma, was one of the first few let in and took water, pet food, and gas - saw a lot of things she will never unsee - and we had to talk her out of doing SAR in Ft. Meyers/Sanibel/Captiva with this storm. The resources are better in this area than they were in the Keys - sadly.
carole - my DH has the golf cart that belonged to his parents - he loves that thing! Rides around on it all the time.
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Minus, yes, El Paso, I only go back to Houston for scans.
Dinner was steak, asparagus, ribbon carrots and roasted cauliflower. Dessert will be the last 1/4 of a mr goodbar.
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aussie12, I hope your surgery went well.
The photos from Ian’s destruction are so sad. I’m glad that my family and Special came through the storm OK, but my heart goes out to those who lost loved ones and their homes.
I made chilli today with garbanzo beans, brown beans and quinoa. I accidentally put a bit too much chilli spice for DH, but I can still eat it. I didn’t have cornmeal to make cornbread, but I had flour and yeast so I made angel biscuits instead. I used Trisha Yearwood’s recipe online, but I’ve been making these since high school. They are so good, but I rarely make them because they aren’t very healthy. Today, I put a sliver of Manchego cheese in them, and it was treat
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Mae - looks delicious. I have both fresh asparagus & fresh zucchini in the fridge. But dinner was French toast with sourdough bread.
Special - glad you talked your daughter out of going this time.
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Hi all
The surgery went well, I was nauseous but not as bad as last time. They gave me a roast dinner which I actually ate some roast meat and potatoes. I didn't leave the hospital until 7.30 pm. I'm feeling tired today but not in pain. Thanks for your well wishes.
Have been seeing the destruction on the news about the hurricane. Best wishes to anyone impacted by it.
Just trying to decide what to cook for tonight, probably vegies and chicken. I still don't feel that hungry.
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Eric, hope you are safe, along with anyone hit by the hurricane. So heart wrenching to watch. Special, glad you have power and are safe.
Aussie, hope your surgery goes smoothly.
Illimae, as always, your photos are drool-worthy! How did you prep the asparagus?. YUM.
Carole, hope your drive back is scenic and uneventful.
Sandy, keep us posted on your withdrawal.
I had a frozen burger, peeled zucchini cooked in chicken broth and a skinless garnet sweet potato. I hate low residue diets. Today is day 2. I think I will make a salmon burger, white Japonica rice and either spinach or canned green beans.
Monday I will make mac and cheese so DH has leftovers for my no-food Tuesday and then hopeful all goes well on wed and I can get back to normal life, LOL.
Sending good thoughts to those without power and dealing with the clean up. I can't even wrap my brain around the devastation.
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Wallycat, I just pan fried them in EVOO with salt and a little pepper, super easy. Everything was pan fried since we don’t have a finished kitchen and oven hooked up yet.
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Illimae, thank you. You make everything look so great and do it with simplicity and ease. I've never pan roasted asparagus, so on my to try.
Aussie, you must have posted before I saw the post. Glad you are doing well.
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Wally - that's the way I've been doing my asparagus lately - but cut in 2" sections w/garlic & with a little water added.
My niece was in town for the weekend so I met her family (boys 5 & 7) and my nephew's family (girl 6) at the Hare Krisna temple restaurant. Since it's always vegetarian (& vegan 3 days a week) my niece's husband was not that excited. But the grounds has a wonderful playground for children. Since we all arrived separately, the kids could run & play before we ate. And run & play again after eating before my niece had to drive 4 hours home. The adults had plenty of time to visit without kids trying to sit quietly at the dinner table.
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Decided to make some lentil soup that I can eat throughout the week. I have a basic recipe I follow but needed to use up some kale and pancetta I had in the fridge so I added those in. Topped it with some lemon zest and it ended up really good. It would have been great with some skillet rolls but my energy ran out so I settled for crackers. Still a filling meal and now I've got about a weeks worth if I don't get sick of lentils first.
I've been watching the Junior British Bake Off on Netflix and very much enjoying it. I am blown away how talented these kids are. I enjoy all of the Bake Off shows but have especially enjoyed the Junior version. It just makes me smile.
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minus - I spoke too soon - DD went to Ft. Myers yesterday. She has a good friend whose parents live there, the friend was down there too, and she saw a plea she had posted about what they needed. DD has a connection with a company that makes and distributes solar lanterns and phone chargers so she took all of her cases of those because she trusts her friend to get them into the hands of folks that need them. She has also contacted the company to get more since they will be without power for a long time down there. We went to our warehouse store - which by some miracle had everything we needed - and loaded up with trash bags, non-perishables, gas cans, ziplocks, rags, etc. - went to the gas station and filled up 10 gas cans, and off she went in her lifted off-road vehicle which was packed like a Jenga game. Some of that gas was needed by her to get back home too since so many stations are closed. She took cases of water leftover from her annual event as well. She spent some time with the friend/parents and got home late last night. It is a very sad situation down there and I am sure she will make another trip. I was just glad she didn't take her boat and try to rescue - I am sure she wanted to. She has an app on her phone for SAR and she showed me all the dots indicating people who needed water rescue. Ugh. Hopefully the professionals have scooped all those folks up.
eric - hopefully wherever you are you are doing ok. Thank you for what you do.
Dinner last night was chili, made with ground beef I had cooked and frozen prior to the storm as part of my prep. DH went to the store for a few things and was shocked by how empty the shelves were. I assume this is due to disruption in shipping rather than anyone hoarding. I followed DD from the gas station to her house and it was my first opportunity to see the area - lots of big trees down and widespread minor damage, but we were so very lucky.
emac - I too am amazed by young participants on the baking shows! I wish my DH liked lentils - his mom, who was an amazing cook, made them with kielbasa, but he was not a fan. I like them but am less likely to make them just for me.
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Special, people like your daughter and Eric give me hope for humanity, which right now, is pretty shakey.
Lentil sloppy joes were the gateway for my DH to accept lentils, LOL. I don't understand why people dislike them. They're just a bean...but there are people that don't like beans either. Sigh.
Last day of low fiber (I'm going to make mac and cheese tonight) before the fast tomorrow. Not looking forward to any of this, LOL.
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Dinner will likely be a Mexican plate, enchiladas maybe that we’ll pick up on the way home from treatment today in El Paso. I was down 7 lbs on the scale today. I suspect it’s due to light meals and less snacking as we’ve been busy repainting the deck/railing and working on my beach bar, DH thinks it’s because I finally depleted my candy supply. While grocery shopping afterwards I came across a 2lb bag of assorted jelly bellies, picked it up, thought about and put it back, sigh.
Oh well, todays steroids should carry my through for a couple days, so back to work tomorrow.
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Rooftop has cell signal.
https://flickr.com/photos/asprgov/albums/72177720302495502
The "tents and parking lot" pictures are of the unit I'm with. These are all from the HHS public information group.
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Thanks for sharing Eric. SpecialK - your daughter is really "special".
Today's meal was sauteed things from the fridge - 1/2 an onion, garlic, 3 small zucchini, 5 Campari tomatoes, fresh mushrooms, and bacon - with just a dribble of Garnacha wine towards the end.. Yum. Also made some garlic toast w/the last of the small pieces of bread from Sunday's outing. I'm too full to even move.
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Illimae, congrats on the weight loss; I hoped to lose weight on this prep but the low residue diet is not ideal and I suspect my blood sugar is not happy.
To add to my stress, I realized I lost my CC and had to get a new one so I'll have to contact a few places to update payments. At least I tested negative on the pre-procedure covid test.
I won't come back here till after the procedure and I can eat again.
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Bob's former office nurse had retired last year to Ft. Myers--she finally got her cell service and reported that her neighborhood was devastated despite being inland, and her house sustained major damage but thus far still habitable. Sanibel is still cut off--no way in or out except by boat or air. Even the emergency cell towers had to be brought in by boat.
To those of our sisters here observing YK, I wish you an easy fast.
Sat. night's dinner-dance had better hors d'oeuvres than the main meal. Mini-beef Wellingtons, bruschetta, salmon & ahi sushi, Wagyu beef tidbits, mini-crab cakes, chicken satays, shrimp. As for the dinner: butternut squash bisque (way too sweet), butter-lettuce salad with hearts of palm, surf & turf (forgettable filet mignon, which I suspect was probably "baseball" steak, but a juicy perfectly-grilled salmon fillet), grilled asparagus, and risotto (which I left untasted, as Bob pronounced it not "carb-worthy"). Dessert was a chocolate mousse torte with berries on the side. I ate the berries and the mousse on top; the ganache separating it from the devil's food cake beneath stuck to the cake when I tried to lift it, so I left it. The steak was unusually chewy for a mid-rare "filet," and I temporarily dislocated my TMJ on it. Fortunately, I was able to sleep it off.
The wife of one of the hospital's big-shot donor doctors was extremely high-maintenance. Before anyone at the table was served, she insisted the server bring her the teabag assortment chest. She also hogged the bread baskets, taking all the whole grain rolls. The choices were surf & turf, chicken breast or quinoa pilaf. She insisted they bring her three salmon fillets--and when they arrived, she complained they were too rare, that she hated asparagus and that the presentation was "unappealing." We had to wait to start eating until she finally got what she wanted: nearly-incinerated salmon, assorted sauteed vegetables and flower (orchid) garnish. When we had coffee & tea service after dessert, she demanded one of us donate a spoon--she'd used her own spoon instead of her fork for the mousse torte, and therefore it was too "dirty" to stir the cream and several sugars into her tea. BTW, lest you are getting the mental picture of a stereotypical glutton, she was tall, designer-dressed (right down to her Hermes head scarf and Louboutin stilettos) and reed-thin. I was shocked--you're not supposed to treat a banquet as if it were a restaurant. (I can understand substitutions at a 100-guest banquet if they are for dietary or religious reasons, but mere personal preference is, IMHO, spoiled and entitled).
Our main meal yesterday was brunch at Big Jones (Bob walked the mile-and-a-half down there to watch the rest of the Bears disaster at Calo next door, and had an order of fried calamari with a bloody Mary, so he didn't want any supper at all). I drove and met him there. He started with gumbo ya-ya, I didn't need an appetizer. He had eggs Benedict on popovers; I had an omelette "Bayou Teche"--chevre, crawfish tails, tasso ham. As our sides, we both opted for Boston lettuce salad. We did share a "cheat" dessert of beignets, which were definitely "carb-worthy." As a late supper, I spread taramosalata on keto bread.
Today for brunch I made keto French toast. Dinner was a veggie/Provolone/coppa panino on low-carb hi-fiber bread. Tomorrow I'm picking up 1 lb. Alaskan sablefish and 8 oz. walleye from Hooked on Fish; Bob doesn't think he'll be home till 7, and services are at 8. He won't be attending (he's not Jewish). So I will make myself an early dinner of chicken soup, seared walleye and asparagus, to get me through till Wed.'s "fast-breaker" kiddush after havdalah service. (I do "cheat" my fast with water to take my meds and black coffee to keep my asthma at bay).
We're finally getting a restaurant in the space vacated by the closing of Broadway Cellars: a branch of the Chengdu Impressions chain. It'll be interesting to see if I can eat anything on the menu other than hot & sour soup & veggies (Sichuan cuisine is rather high-carb). But it's got to be more diet-friendly than En Lai around the corner, which drowns everything--meat, poultry, seafood--in the same gloppy sweet brown sauce and deep-fries all its appetizers.
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