So...whats for dinner?
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SpecialK, the brown sugar and mustard crust on corned beef sounds heavenly; I can practically taste it just thinking about it!
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B'way Cellars used to make a mustard-crusted corned beef, with a side of colcannon, for St. Pat's Day and then Reubens till the meat was gone. Hard to believe that their last time doing that was three years ago, 2020, just before indoor dining was shut down citywide--when March 2021 rolled around they were closed for the month, not even doing takeout. Their last hurrah was brunch on Labor Day 2021.
I bought a few thick slices of deli corned beef. Bob hates cabbage, so if he decides not to follow the Chi. Archdiocese's edict against corned beef because "Friday" outweighs "St. Patrick" (the only permissible workaround is to give up something else today or perform a penitential or charitable act) I will either serve it with broccolini (a brassica is a brassica, and he likes that one) or make him a Reuben. I still have half the prime rib & green beans he brought home Wed. night from a dinner with our stockbroker, so I can share that with him too. If he wants spuds, I can boil or roast some of those "peewee potatoes" I bought to make salade Niçoise last week. All the other N. IL dioceses (Rockford, Joliet, Peoria) have issued the usual dispensation--so maybe I'll suggest he pretend we're in DuPage County tonight.
Will have one final slice of Costco soda bread as dessert, and then back to low-carb. Next weigh-in is 3/28, and I want my BMI to be below 30 for that.
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Corned beef and cabbage here too. DH did it in the crockpot and while it didn’t fall apart like he wanted, it tasted great to me. I love cabbage, so that was a huge part of my plate.
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Here’s mine!
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Looks yummy!
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Sandy, listened to you, as always. Went to Brasserie CandC last night. It was wonderful. Being vegetarian and definitely non-keto had the butter basket which was spectacular, curried cauliflower which was on the fixed price menu and beyond delicious, and portobello enchiladas, divine. Our friends had salmon and the 3 course fixed price with little amuse stuff , like venison, thrown in. Really fine, so thank you.
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Two votes for the slow cooker corned beef so I will dig out the very much unused slow cooker.
I made pork piccata with the pork tenderloin. Sides were brown rice and steamed artichokes. Artichokes were on sale for $1 each at Winn Dixie. They were small but very fresh looking. I bought four so two are left over.
We have an outdoor barbecue with dh's woodworkers guild today and the temperature is not supposed to be above 49 degrees. I kept hoping it would be cancelled but no such luck. I signed up for a broccoli salad which is still ingredients this morning. The barbecue is always held at Gerald's camp and he does the cooking. His barbecued chicken is the best I've ever eaten and there are usually leftovers for people to bring home.
Keywestfan and Sandy, you both live in restaurant heaven.
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Carole, I am truly in restaurant heaven, as several of them are in easy (depending on weather) walking distance. Judy, glad you liked Brasserie C&C. We'd go tonight, except it's bitterly cold & windy and Bob is fighting a cold (at the stage where the nasal stuff is easing but before it hits his lungs). Colds were so rare these past 3 years that people tend to forget how awful they can feel, even compared to a Paxlovid-treated case of COVID. Despite the frigid temps, the tree pollen count is creeping up--and our cedar out front (part of the juniper family) is doing its best to let the wind spread its reddish pollen around. And the maple & buckeye across the street are starting to release their yellow-green yuck. Our garage is the saving grace, as we don't have to park anywhere outdoors long enough to have to clean anything other than road schmutz off our cars. But my ears & eyes are itching like crazy (wanna scratch one all the way through to the other).
Last night I made Bob his reuben: low-carb hi-fiber wholegrain bread, corned beef, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese, homemade Russian dressing (mayo, Tabasco, grated horseradish, ketchup, Creole seasoning)--buttered & pan-grilled. I had mine sans bread & cheese, but with wholegrain Dijon mustard. Then half the leftover prime rib & green beans, with a little au jus and creamed horseradish that "came with" (as they say here in the Midwest).
His office nurse sent him home with a loaf of homemade soda bread--no contest, it blew the Costco one out of the water. She used a variety of raisins. I will restrain myself from hereon in, as my weigh-in is on the 28th and I have definitely gained.
Tonight, if he doesn't want to go out, I'll defrost some whitefish to nuke Greek-style in parchment with herbs & veggies, accompanied by sauteed broccolini. Will also slowly defrost & reheat last week's leftover half of my branzino with asparagus, and divvy up the two. Maybe use up the rest of the beef & green beans as a surf & turf.
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Not sure why I thought the site would be down completely, so I have not been checking in. Trying to catch up ...not much excitement with food on my end...
tofu with bok choy, black rice "paella" with diced sausage, tenderloin stroganoff, blah, blah. I always get into a funk around this time when the sun is out too much and the temps rise. I mowed the lawn yesterday and sneezed for an hour afterwards, LOL. Supposed to get some rain next week so maybe that will help. And thankfully, back into the 40s; high 40s but at least not 50s or more. I'm wishing my life away for summer to be over (and sadly, it hasn't even started!!
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We still have winter--calendar-spring officially starts tomorrow, though meteorological spring started March 1st. 40s-50s all week. Rain-snow mix next Sat. Around here, March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb...a rabid lamb...on steroids...with anger management issues. We've had measurable snow as late as April 23 (4", the night of a gig in 2018, and we had to clear it off the car before we could load out) and flurries as late as May 4.
Dinner last night was fridge-and-freezer-foraged surf & turf: the surf being leftover prime rib, the turf being defrosted leftover halibut and parchment-nuked fresh whitefish with herbs, peppers & grape tomatoes, roast eggplant from WF's hot bar, and various leftover veg. Probably walk to Regalia tonight (alas, Brasserie by C&C is open only Th, F, & Sat nights).
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Sandy, I lived in WI for 45+ years. The best part was the late spring and super-duper winters. I know there are others like me, but we are simply rare.
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I am not a winter person--I have no use for snow unless I can play in or cross-country ski on it (and at my age with osteoporosis & the risk of falling, the chairlift has ascended away on that). I hate bundling up, and cold air makes me wheeze and my nose run like a leaky faucet. Never could skate, either. Not a fan of tropical or low-desert summers, though as long as I have A/C i'm okay. I grew up in Brooklyn, and IMHO all snow was good for was no school for a day. Tried making snow angels, but when the snow gets down your clothing? Yuck. City snow is pretty at first, then dirty and partly frozen. I enjoyed my seven years in Seattle--only once did it snow enough in the city to be inconvenient. I never minded the rain--you don't have to shovel it or clear it off your car. And when we lived there, it never rained hard or flooded (well, maybe one county to the north once).
We walked to Regalia for dinner. We shared a Mediterranean house salad and wagyu beef carpaccio with toasted pumpkin seeds (I gave the crostini to Bob). He had veal cutlet Parmigiana, and I had the special veal chop Marsala with wild mushrooms, spinach & Calabrese cauliflower (instead of mashed potatoes). No dessert. Yup, we have leftovers.
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Wally, we recently had visitors who lived here in Louisiana for quite a few years and intended to retire in the South but ended up retiring in Wisconsin to be closer to their families. They have a home on a lake and are happy with their decision so far. They do miss the Louisiana seafood and good restaurants. Upper midwestern cooking is on the blah side in comparison so they vacation in the New Orleans area.
Speaking of upper midwestern cooking, Cook's Country had a tator tot hot dish on the tv show I watched this weekend. Also some history on the "hot dish." The origins had to do with feeding large families cheaply.
We had a skillet hot dish last night with leftover brown rice and the meat from barbecued smoked sausage, chicken, and pork ribs we brought home from the windy cold barbecue on Saturday. DH had as his side dish the leftover broccoli salad I made for the barbecue, which turned out to be popular. There was only one helping left. I had as my side dish a cold steamed artichoke from the refrigerator.
Tonight will finally be the corned beef brisket with cabbage, carrots and onions kept intact with toothpicks.
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If I moved back to WI, it would be for family/friends. The summers are brutal and the mosquitoes, unbearable. Although I adore the snow, the main reason I like winter (and fall) is the cold temperatures and the shorter daylight. In a perfect world, I could afford an apartment in Australia and fly there when it is summer here...a gal can dream, LOL.
I'm using up the last 2 Polish sausages (not sure they are authentic; grass fed from Costco and a tad too smokey for us) with slaw and sweet potato.
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Last night’s dinner was supposed to be steaks but we ended up getting tipsy in the bar and eating chips and guac instead. Steaks tonight with mini potatoes and broccoli.
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Mae - I'm glad somebody besides me does those crazy things. I think I posted about my dinner of 1/2 a can of beer nuts. And sometimes I just have a can of smoked oysters - with or without crackers.
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I saw that episode of Cook's Country. The tater tots looked delicious, but what lay beneath looked, uh, "predigested" to me. Casseroles were never a "thing" in my family when I was growing up--but there were only four of us. Closest we got to casseroles were "noodles & cheese" (broad egg noodles with butter & farmer cheese) or sweet "noodle kugel" (baked with an egg custard and studded with raisins & candied fruit).
Dinner tonight was leftovers of last night's veal chop marsala, Calabrese (spicy baked) cauliflower and sauteed spinach. Dessert was a couple of Catalina Crunch keto chocolate-mint sandwich cookies ("faux-reos"). The original ones with vanilla creme filling were great--even twistable like Oreos. But the "new, improved recipe" is a disaster: the mint creme is tasteless; and though the cookie part is more deeply chocolate, it turns to gross dark brown sludge that sticks to my gums & teeth--took two full 2-minute cycles of my electric toothbrush to get it off of my molars so my rinsing would run clear (instead of nearly-black) into the sink. Blecch. Back to either cheese, real dark chocolate or berries for dessert.
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Dinner Friday night was the traditional St. Patrick's day meal aboard a dinner cruise boat. We cruised around Lake Pleasant with another couple.
Saturday we had dinner at the same couple's house along with a third couple and their 96 year old dad/father-in-law.
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Hodge podge o stuff tonight. Whole chicken didn't thaw in time. Eggs, slaw and tortilla chips.
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I had an early evening meeting - so I had a hodge podge like Wally. Two baby bell cheese, a handful of black olives. two pieces of sourdough bread and a banana. Desert was a bag of mini pretzels that I picked up at the police meeting.
Eric - your dinner cruise sounds fun. I'll going to look up Lake Pleasant.
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We had our St. Patrick's Day dinner on Monday night. I could go back and check as to whether I am repeating myself but I won't! I used the crockpot and the corned beef brisket was perfect. The cabbage and carrots were overcooked but edible. Yes, I do remember typing "edible." Apologies.
Last night was leftover brown rice and pork piccata warmed up in a skillet. Delicious. Side was a chopped romaine salad with the usual additions and dressed with a sprinkle of vinegar and mayo. Much enjoyed, too.
It seems that dh is making travel plans for us to go to Scotland and Ireland with another couple in September. I am not enthusiastic about another plane flight over an ocean and leaving the US but hate to keep him from experiencing this bucket list entry. I'm fairly sure he wouldn't agree to going without me and taking lots of pictures!
So I'll just proceed with deciding on a menu for tonight.
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My St. P's dinner was yesterday with neighbors/friends, just the 3 of us. Did the corned beef in my Ninja Foodie, pressure cooked it, hour and a half. It was fall apart yummy! Red potatoes, fresh green beans, carrots and of course cabbage. Dinner and watched a movie. Just enough brisket for me to have another plateful.
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My crockpots are going this morning. I made a bed of sliced cabbage, diced carrots and onions to nestle my whole chicken in one crockpot. Another has a pot of beans (cannellini).
DH has his onco appointment this afternoon and the last time we will see my beloved onco before she officially retires. Had some possible good news that the Ligand therapy treatment (Pluvicto) may be available for DH in May (!!). We were told no new patients as they had no supply...nothing definite, but a semi-plan since his PSA is going up again, even with antihormonals. Stressful times here.
Carole, I hope the trip (if it happens) will be great. I tell DH that I am glad I traveled a lot before I met him; that we traveled enough places together and I am happy to be a homebody now.
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DH made beans, so last night was bean and cheese burritos. Tonight he’s making burgers, I made fresh salad and ranch to go with it. Got a new hungryroot box, so are coming up soon.
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wallycat, thinking of you and your DH.
Dinner was panko breaded tilapia, green beans, and something new from TJs: riced hearts of palm. I love hearts of palm but had never had I them “riced”. They were a little bland, but I jazzed them up with some onions, garlic, and red pepper with some lemon zest and sumac
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Dinner was fried catfish and boiled small golden potatoes. I had made a big broccoli salad but I had a yen for potatoes with butter and sour cream. The meal was so-so for me. Some nights I enjoy my food more than other nights. Is anyone else like that?
I made a loaf of whole grain bread with the ancient grain flour yesterday so I'll have a slice for my breakfast. Yum.
We're meeting friends at Triple Nickle restaurant for dinner tonight so no need to puzzle over What's for Dinner? Yay. I will probably order a hamburger again.
Other kitchen news. DH cooked his breakfast as usual yesterday and went off to play golf. When I went into the kitchen some time later I saw that he had left the burner on under his empty skillet. Fortunately the skillet is an Oxo oven proof and wasn't damaged but the mishap was scary. Thank goodness I was home. I will be vigilant and I know he will be more mindful.
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Yesterday was one of those "no dinner" days. We had a late lunch while I worked on (not in...on) the garage and then we went into town to do a workout at the gym.
My workout got abbreviated. I have my bank send me a text for *every* transaction and I got a text for a $700 transaction for airline tickets that were charged to my credit card. I turned off my credit card and called the bank. After 20 minutes, they cancelled my card, are issuing me a new one and are starting an investigation. I also had to file a police report.
I was actually pleased with how it went with the sheriff's department...ten minutes from start to finish.
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Carole, glad you caught that. I did that with eggs boiling on the stove when a frantic friend called saying her car was stolen. I drove off to get her and help her...when I got there, she realized she forgot where she parked
so we stopped for coffee. I got home to a very unpleasant smell. Thankful it was a le creuset and the eggs, I tossed. And that was when my brain was in its 40s. I weep for my brain these days, LOL. Too much stress and sleepless nights.And yes, I've had meals where it was just *meh* and I wondered why I bothered. Last night, it was nice to come home to a nice smelling house and a warm meal, but it was just ok. I'm going to heat up some BBQ sauce to flavor up the leftover chicken.
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Eric, good thing you had alerts from your bank. Our credit card company does that too and it’s saved me some trouble a few times.
Tonight was slow cooker pork ribs with corn and a loaded baked potato.
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Eric, so glad it was caught early. I continue to rant...people who have the skill set to do this garbage...can't you use it for good, not evil??!!
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