So...whats for dinner?
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Tonight is seared chicken, sautéed squash and zucchini with Knorr creamy garlic shells. Afterwards, I’ll have chilled Reisling on the deck where the breeze will be welcome on such a hot day.
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We had two much beef from our burgers the other night (from a local farm) so I turned the rest into low sodium taco meat. So cat-daddy got tacos for his Father's day meal. No complaints.
Dinner looks good illiemae.
Sandy glad you are on the mend. Good to forget the diet for the moment.
Carole how wonderful about the bowls. Gratifying for all the work DH puts unto it.
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Carole - I'd still love to see a picture of a bowl or two if you're willing to post. I have several Koa wood bowls from Hawaii that I dearly love. My son just ordered a custom mantel of Parota wood grown in Costa Rica. It's from the same family as Koa but apparently faster growing & lighter weight. Still a hardwood, but more sustainable.
Mae - as always…your meal looks delicious. There's a new sushi/hibachi restaurant I'm hoping to try soon. It's on Ella and 34th, so not that far from Hueys. And another Japanese grill I want to try on Shepherd just before Westheimer the next time I have to go to the medical center. I found this second place because I was trying to find pumpernickel bagels in Houston, and there is a shop in the same strip center that supposedly has them every day.
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Went to Fogo de Chao for Father's Day dinner. Had various meats (picanha beef, ribeye, lamb and spareribs), with assorted veggies from the salad bar. I did have a couple of the tiny little popovers, polenta sticks and half a broiled banana.
Went to the farmer's market today: beefsteak tomatoes, bulb onions, local (MI) berries (strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries), shiitakes and morels. Got a tamale & empanadas for Bob to take to work tomorrow, and dark roast coffee beans from the Guatemalan guys who roast weekly. Chocolate guys skipped the market today (they're quite pricy and hot weather is a problem). Dinner tonight was fish from the freezer—3 oz. ea. Atlantic salmon & walleye—a bulb onion and sliced zucchini, all grilled. Tomorrow will be seared cod and sauteed morels, plus a Caprese.
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My plan was to make fried rice last night with leftover brown rice and leftover pork or chicken, but I took the lazy route and we had frozen pizza baked on the outdoor grill.
I'll put the fried rice on the menu for tonight.
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I will use up the leftover sausage I have from the 'za to make an "unstuffed cabbage roll" using a bag o slaw; I'll either make rice or a sweet potato to accompany it.
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I'm hungry for 3 bean salad - but I need to hit the store for an onion & a green pepper. 7pm meetings last night & tonight played havoc with diner ideas. I'll get back to it tomorrow.
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Had a friend over tonight who brought her sweet 2 yr old granddaughter. We had eggplant boats (filled with brown rice, mushrooms, onion, jarlsberg and yellow pepper) topped with chopped walnuts. With so many veggies the side was drop biscuits. I had wanted to make them after seeing the recipe in the WSJ Saturday edition. I tried them using Einhorn flour remembering this group liked using it. Taste was wonderful; they were kind of flat in shape so I wondered if not using regular flour might have contributed? I used new baking powder. Nonetheless everyone enjoyed dinner and my hub even whipped up some cream to go with the strawberries and freezer pound cake.
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We spent nearly a week, with some friends, in Durango, CO. Dinners were prepared in the camper (and their 19 foot trailer) and were quite good.
I did make a couple of loaves of sourdough bread. Bread baked in the small gas oven doesn't "brown" the top crust, so while the bread is properly baked, it doesn't look it.
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Hi all
Sandy sorry to hear about your fall and hope that your healing.
I've been sick again and spent last week in hospital. I had severe pain again with the kidney stent but ended up having a bowel obstruction as well. Luckily didn't need surgery but had that horrible gastric tube which helped unblocked it. I haven't been well still and am having surgery this Saturday to replace the kidney stent.
Hopefully I should feel better as the stent has been causing problems for a while.
So I haven't been eating much. My best meal was last Friday when they cancelled my surgery at the last minute and I had yummy salmon and vegies. Not bad for a hospital meal.
I'm on a low fibre diet now which is ok because most food I eat anyway.
Aussie12
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Aussie, I hope the stent replacement stops the pain and makes you feel better. Sorry about the blockage. At least you were able to enjoy one meal.
Dinner last night was a fish fry for fish tacos over on Mary's deck. She provided most of the fish which she and Lyman, her dh, caught. I made a coleslaw with purple and green cabbage.
Tonight will be leftover slow cooker chicken.
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Aussie, ouch! Bob had an obstruction once, and that nasogastric suction tube was indeed torture. Hope you recover soon.
Went to the Barn steakhouse Tues. night and sat outdoors—split a tomahawk ribeye, Little Gem salad (with boquerone anchovies), creamed Swiss chard and pan-seared Brussels sprouts. The steak came with smashed potatoes. I started with Parmesan-crusted oysters (kind of like "casino" style w/o breadcrumbs), Bob had French onion soup. Too full for even a cheese plate dessert.
Last night was Wed.'s leftovers, plus a tomato-basil salad and morels (from the farmer's mkt.) sauteed in walnut oil, shallots, Madeira, finished with butter & parsley. Tonight I will attempt blackened redfish out on the grill in a cast iron pan. Wish me luck.
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Warming up here…hit 70 and today 66 so far. Had the last of the cabbage/sausage leftovers last night.
Tonight will be tuna melts. DH wanted some plain old white bread (OY on the prices!) so that will be that.0 -
Thinking of you Aussie. I hope the stent replacement improves things.
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I have never had a tuna melt. Is it tuna salad on bread with melted cheese?
We are supposed to have baby back ribs finished on the grill tonight but right now it's raining. The ribs are being tenderized in the slow cooker.
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I made Lacey's COD dish. Sauteed with lots of veggies and finished by slowly simmering in Rao's Marinara until the fish was done. I served over fettuccine since that's the pasta that came to hand. Delicious as always. And makes me remember how much I miss Lacey. And by extension - Nance & Special K.
Tomorrow is water aerobics after my 2 hour walk. Dinner will be an omelette with the rest of the asparagus I sauteed with garlic earlier this week. Hmmm - Havarti? Muenster? The cheese will be a surprise.
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The tuna melts I've had were tuna salad on rye toast, with cheddar (or American cheese) melted on top. Meh.
The redfish turned out very well. Got the cast-iron pan screaming-hot on the grill. Meanwhile, I melted butter, dipped the fish in it on both sides, and then liberally dusted (doused) it with "Joe's Stuff" from the New Orleans School of Cooking, pressing it in good & thick. (You don't wanna know how old the bottles of Paul Prudhomme's Blackened Redfish Magic & Seafood Magic were when I tossed them). I then put a little (2T) grapeseed oil (high smoke point) in the pan and immediately put in the fish skin side down. Gave it about a minute and gently lifted the edges to check that it didn't stick. Took two spatulas, but was able to flip it. Most recipes called for olive oil, which you really shouldn't normally use on high heat because of the low smoke point—which in this case aids in the charring. But I like to taste the spices, not the carbon. Served along with a Caprese and some grilled veggies from WF's salad bar.
This morning I scrambled a couple of pasture-raised eggs in butter, with chives from my garden, a few grinds of pink peppercorn (an idea I first tasted at hotel breakfast in Ireland), and some freshly grated black Aussie "winter" truffle I just bought for half price.
Tonight we went to Eataly's "Summer Kick-Off Party." I had expected a repeat of the orderly wine, cheese & antipasto tasting around the second floor perimeter we'd gone to about 8 yrs. ago, but this was insane. DJ downstairs, loud cover band upstairs, huge crowd of mostly millennials & Gen Z-ers partying their butts off. Lots of mini cocktails (variations on spritzers leaded & unleaded) and mediocre wines. Unlike that first tasting, none of the good stuff like Barolos or good sparklers—just the cheaper reds, whites, roses and prosecco. There were a lot of good bites but they were hard to find because the stations weren't the same as the store's overhead signage. Very little variety in cheeses and the less expensive salumi (no prosciutto DOP). But we had good Neapolitan & Roman pizzas (Margherita, funghi, pesto, arrabiatta/burrata). Interesting small pastas, the ubiquitous boiled shrimp (yawn), calamari-octopus salad, black truffle risotto, some agnolotti, ravioli and various tubular pastas (yawn again). Bruschetta and suppli (Roman rice/marinara fritters) were tricky to find. Overabundance of desserts—an olive oil/mascarpone gelato, fruit sorbets, tiramisu, cake bites, and fill-them-yourself mini cannolli were the standouts. Most of the coffee shots were iced, sweetened, creamy or all three—but the barista did pull us a couple of normal hot shots to end the evening before we finally left and were able to hear ourselves converse again. (When I noticed Bob nursing his glass of red wine and looking to score some rare seating, I knew that we needed to wind things down). Was nice cabbing it there & back—not having to deal with traffic, and the cab fares & tips were about the same price as the nearest garage. (Not going to take the train on a weekend summer night—some nasty stuff had gone down in that CTA station of late).
One good thing—I have NO desire, four hours later, to carb-binge (or have anything other than ice water).
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Hi all
I'm home from my kidney stent surgery and all went well. For once I wasn't sick and recovered quick and had a cheese sandwich after and enjoyed it. I also had soup and wedges and don't feel sick. Hopefully will start eating normally again and start putting on some weight that I have lost the last 6 months.
Aussie12
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Carole, yes, tuna salad (however you make yours; I sometimes add capers, which is not traditional), on bread and melt cheese of your choice. I used sharp cheddar yesterday but I've used Monterrey Jack and Colby as well.
Our high should be 61 (hope they are right) so I won't mind turning on the oven. It will be chicken and rice with maitake mushrooms in the oven and I'll steam a green veg for a side.
Tomorrow will be gifted Dungeness crab from our neighbor.
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Aussie, so glad you are home and doing well!!
Sandy, tuna melts aren't exciting but they are comfort food!
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Aussie, great news that the procedure went well. Now for getting back to eating and gaining some lost weight.
Wally, you're inflicting more crab envy!
We had baby back ribs finished on the grill last night. They were about perfect. The side was an excuse for a side, warmed up Bush beans in a can.
I bought more golden beets at the Farmers Market today. Also large red radishes and white salad turnips, both of which dh likes for snacking. Also a head of lettuce. Long cucumbers and yard eggs.
Tonight I'm not in the mood for cooking. I may get a bag of cooked chicken strips out of the freezer and use them to top a large dinner-sized salad.
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Tuna melts are a big favorite of mine. Sadly, fewer and fewer restaurants serve them. I remember reading that tuna sales have gone down since the millenial generation doesn’t seem to care for it as much as maybe older generations. I can remember the best tuna melt I ever had, served on crunchy thick bread with a side of tomato soup! Yum! For me, it was exciting, lol!
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Oh Devine - yes tomato soup. We had an occasional baby sitter when I was young who served tomato soup with a plate of wheat chex - two put together with peanut butter. Lots of work but still good & fun for kids.
Wally - I agree with Carole. The crab envy is SERIOUS.
Aussie - glad your surgery is over and went well.
I never got to the omelette. For some reason I woke up at 4am and couldn't back to sleep until 7 - when the phone rang with an urban forester asking about a dead tree that I'd reported in our park. Geez - 7am on a Saturday??? By the time I walked my two hours & then did an hour of water aerobics & then worked in the yard for another hour…. I struggled to stay awake so I could sleep tonight. So today's meal was cheerios with a sliced banana and tonight's snack was salmon spread on Rosemary crackers.
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The salad didn't happen last night. Instead we had hot dogs with toasted bread subbing for buns. I also heated up the helping of leftover Bush's beans for dh. We both like hot dogs and the last-minute menu suited us both. Later we had double fudge moose tracks ice cream for dessert.
No menu yet for tonight.
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I was never crazy about tomato soup—maybe because it brought back olfactory memories of the food (including PB&Js on cheap whole wheat, boiled cut-up kosher hot dogs in Heinz Vegetarian beans) served in my grade school cafeteria, where we non-free-lunch kids had to eat our bag lunches on days when it was too inclement out to walk home or to the luncheonette. It evokes memories of "poverty food," along with the tepid milk and neon-pink-iced cookies foisted on us daily. Lately, though, I've developed a taste for tomato-basil bisque. And I would—if I didn't have to be carb-aware—gladly revisit the chunky PB, alfalfa-sprout, Walla Walla onion and honey sandwich on housemade multigrain bread I enjoyed at a hippie café near Green Lake in Seattle back in the day.
My tunafish "comfort" sandwich was (and remains) NYC-luncheonette-style tuna salad on rye bread (not toast) or a Kaiser roll with lettuce, tomato & onion. I am insanely picky about tuna salad: if it's the least bit sweet (especially Miracle Whip or pickle relish), I'm not eating it. One of the only downsides to my 7 years in Seattle (besides prices being "slightly higher west of the Rockies" and inability to find anything remotely resembling a chocolate egg cream) was the terrible tuna salads—guess it was a geographic "thing." The only tuna salad sandwich I enjoyed in Seattle was called the "Charlie Tuna," at the Rian's Sandwich Express concession inside the Southcenter or downtown Nordstrom's: water chestnuts & a little chopped onion instead of celery, parsley, and real mayo nestled atop shredded lettuce in a sesame-seed pita pocket. One of my first sandwiches upon moving to Chicago was tuna-on-rye: one bite and I thought "I'm home!"
Last night we walked to Regalia, where I vowed to eat what I craved and not deprive myself. I had a piece of the foccaccia, dipped in a puddle poured from the bottle of truffle oil the owner put on our table. Bob & I shared a salad and an ahi-tuna carpaccio. (I think my taste buds are blunting with age, because I actually enjoyed the serrano pepper slices atop it). But after watching "Lidia's Kitchen" on PBS, I had a powerful hankering for their cacio e pepe spaghetti (still the best I've had outside Rome). Ashamed to admit I ate the entire portion, which was my entree. (Bob had the seafood fettucine marinara, his fave). At home, dessert was a glazed Krispy Kreme (disappointing, cross that one off my crave-list), a fig, a Medjool date, and a dark-chocolate-coated Polish prune (much yummier than it sounds).
Brunch today was a Benedict on a CarbSmart English muffin: poached eggs atop coppa ham and napped with Melissa's hollandaise sauce. Tonight will be the two unlabeled white mystery-fish fillets pulled from the freezer, nuked in parchment with herbs & veg, a Caprese atop Little Gem leaves, leftover grilled veg. from Whole Foods, steamed asparagus, and maybe sauteed shiitakes & oyster mushrooms. (I'd pan-sear the fish, but don't want my HK to be greeted by the aroma tomorrow). Might save the 'shrooms for tomorrow if I defrost and grill a bison ribeye.
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Aussie…good news about the surgery…..
I like some tomato soups, especially with fresh basil in it.
The school lunch "thing" I learned to dislike was the spinach. It was cooked in a central kitchen, brought to the school, warmed and served. What didn't get served on the first pass was taken back to the central kitchen, reheated and served again. By then it was more like algae.
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Aussie, glad you're on the mend. Now treat yourself—no, not medically "treat" but instead give yourself a treat!
The "mystery fish," once defrosted, turned out to be sable. Pan-seared it. Yum!
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I had very good cafeteria food in grades 1 - 9 at a country school. The cooks were all local women. When I graduated from that school and attended a town high school, the food wasn't as good except for the spaghetti and meat sauce. I remember liking it.
Last night's dinner was a one-pot ground beef stroganoff from ATK. It was pretty good. I should have made a side salad but didn't.
Today I will cook the golden beets I bought on Saturday. Also the healthy green tops. I haven't decided on a protein.
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Tonight was a mish-mash of leftovers. Part of a sirloin quesadilla, potato salad, cold broccoli salad and a smidgen of caeser salad. A salad sampler.
Tomorrow we have appointments and an evening meeting so I suspect we will eat our large meal put somewhere
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