So...whats for dinner?
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Tonight I think I will pan fry the last of the potato leftovers and add onion and scrambled eggs. Enough broccoli to serve with. I'm thawing a penne/sausage dish I made several weeks ago for tomorrow.
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Reader - add my outrage at your treatment. Good for you for giving her the boot.
Last night was an experimental dish gleaned from a Facebook video. It simply involved boneless pork chops smeared with French onion dip and sprinkled with French fried onions then baked for 20 minutes or so. They were surprisingly juicy and delicious and didn’t require the oven to be on too long. I’ll definitely make them again.
Tonight is carry out pizza from a new joint - sausage and mushroom for me, ham and green pepper for DH.
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Rib roast and a little tater on the deck. Hopefully, I finish before the storm hits.
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Yum, Illimae! Nice view, too.
Thursday we walked over to Regalia to celebrate my not having ONJ. We shared everything: a calamari appetizer (fritto misto), Mediterranean salad, spaghetti cacio e pepe, and veal marsala with mushrooms, garlic mashed spuds (I didn't touch those—not "cheat-worthy") and sauteed spinach. Friday for brunch I'd planned to make a "Carb-Wise" English muffin pizza, but Thurs. night Seth Meyers' guest was a chef who tried to teach him to make a classic French omelette—so that's what I made instead (no filling), with the heel of a tomato I broiled with herbes de Provence and grated Parm-Reg. Last night we simply shared the leftovers (I let Bob have all the veal & spuds, and I nuked some haricots verts to supplement the greenery.
Today is our block party, so for the brunch I'm bringing my usual Caprese, with a few changes—the "buf" brand mozzarella has crossed the ten-buck barrier, so nope. WF's own "medallions" will have to do. My HK brought over a bumper crop of tomatoes (apologizing that her heirlooms are still too small & green to harvest). Good thing, as half of the few on my sill aren't ripe yet—and despite the cayenne & coffee grounds, one of the herd of squirrels we seem to be raising bit through one on the vine anyway. (As an urban squirrel rancher, too bad I don't like traditional Brunswick stew—we don't know where those critters have been, and I don't know anyone capable of skinning & butchering them, except perhaps my BIL in VA who is an avid hunter). Have plenty of basil in the pots on the deck. So the cheese is the only store-bought part of this year's Caprese.
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Tonight’s seafood Saturday is Blacked gulf snapper again with risotto (packed, Alessi) and broccoli/cauliflower.
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BLTs for dinner last night. Delicious.
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Fried crappie fillets for dinner last night. I breaded them with Louisiana fish fry and used the electric skillet out on the deck. It's perfect for the job since it can be set at a temperature. Side was corn cut off the cob.
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Last night was a hamburger, "baked" potato and corn on the cob, all cooked in the in-room microwave oven.
Saturday was dinner at a Peruvian restaurant with one of my "test daughters" (one lives nearby). It was pretty good….grilled chicken, fried corn and baked plantains….
It was good catching up with all that's been happening in her life since I last saw her.
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Tonight, Caprese salad.
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Tonight's dinner will be a beef roast cooked in the slow cooker. It was frozen when I got it started this morning. At some point I'll add potatoes and carrots and a couple of onions. Will probably have some sliced cucumber and tomato and avocado as a salad.
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Leftover beans and cornbread from last night.
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Well, it rained on the block party, but essentially just a drizzle. So everyone was diligent about keeping the platters covered, lifting the foil only to take a portion. I made the Caprese and put it on an oval paper (bagasse) platter—smaller than the tray I used to use but couldn't locate this time. Smallest crowd we've had in years (but the little kids had a blast using the waterslide & splash pool in the rain—it's all water anyway). Brought home 1/3 of it, unlike in years past when I was lucky to get maybe 1 or 2 tomato slices. Ate carby stuff I shouldn't have: a piece of spanakopita, pecan pie and a spritz cookie.
After "Tommy" (which was amazing, and should probably make it to B'way without a single change), we went to The Dearborn across the street. I had the bone-marrow appetizer (twice the size of the portion Regalia serves when they can get it, and $5 cheaper at that). My entree was (mea culpa) fish & chips—hadn't had it since Cellars closed in Sept. 2021; and when I read on the menu that it was cod and had "beat Bobby Flay" I had to try it. One piece, but large enough to choke a horse, and the fries were perfectly crispy. The only part of it I finished was the slaw. I took home half the fish & chips & one marrow bone (and its crostini). Pouring when we finished—but we were still able to get a cab for half the price of the Uber Gordy had tried to call (Lollapalooza/Venetian night surge pricing).
Yesterday Bob donated blood and was craving red meat, so after his haircut down in Streeterville we walked to Gibson's/Hugo's Frog Bar on the edge of the "Viagra Triangle." I had Boookbinder's soup (a sort of fish chowder with no thickeners or potatoes) and the Sunday special bouillabaisse—took home half of that too (plus 2/3 of Bob's lobster Cobb and porterhouse).
One green tomato on the vine (next to the one the squirrel most recently stole) was starting to "blush," so I had to pick it to ripen on the sill. Still had a little cayenne on the stem end. I have about three or four tiny ones starting, so I cayenned them too. Gonna grind up some more stale decaf beans and put the grounds on the soil.
Dinner tonight? Leftovers, of course, including the Caprese, on fresher arugula. (Still some steak left over from the leftovers—and we didn't even touch the fish & chips).
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We had Nathan's wieners last night. Bun substitute was our favorite loaf bread here in MN, Dakota style 12 grain, toasted. Salad was tomato, cucumber, avocado, blue cheese and sweet onion for dh. I totally enjoyed the easy meal.
Tonight we have a reservation at La Pasta in the little town of Dorset, about a 20 minute drive.
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Dinner was so-so store bought fried chicken. I made mashed potatoes and corn in the cob to go with it.
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canned clam chowder with some frozen spinach thrown in for nutrition. Tasted great. Went fishing and Dh and I each caught a pink salmon!
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Congrats on catching a salmon, Wally!
I enjoyed our dinner at La Pasta restaurant last night. DH often orders linguine with Italian sausage and sauteed onions and green pepper. The Italian sausage is wonderful. It is a firm sausage in casing similar to our smoked sausage but with the Italian sausage seasoning. The dish comes with a choice of sauces, tomato, alfredo or butter and olive oil. Dh had the alfredo and I had the butter and oil and asked to omit the onions and green peppers. I sprinkled some grated cheese and savored every bite.
We both brought home leftovers which will be dh's main dish tonight. I will have leftover roast beef for my main.
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I forgot to mention reading about Campbell's buying Rao's.
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Carole, I read that too and thought of this thread!
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I have a planned trip to Costco tomorrow where I now intend to stock up on Raos before Campbell ruins it.
I had my injection today which hurt like a m@)$?+#%! I won’t know for a few days if it works. If it doesn’t I doubt that I’ll do that again. We’ll see.
After the doc we went out for breakfast so no lunch except a piece of baby Swiss and a couple of crackers. No idea about dinner. DH mentioned toasted ravioli which I’ll make for him. I’ll make something different for myself. Possibly some shrimp gyoza from Trader Joe’s and a little frozen TJs fried rice with added seasoning and veggies. Or better yet, scallion pancakes.
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Speaking of injections, I'm getting my RSV shot tomorrow. And Bob had been contemplating getting cortisone/Synvisc shots in his knees—but the new orthotics I bought him aligned his ankles to the point where his knees don't hurt.
Tues. night I made a Margherita pizza on a frozen cauliflower crust. I used a couple of the tomatoes I got from my HK, but they were partly unripe—had to cut out the yellow inside parts, but I ended up eating the tops anyway. Wed. I had just an olive-oil-fried egg and a small "heel" of buttered wholegrain sourdough toast. About an hour later, I got the runs. Uh-oh. So I popped a couple of Imodium and a Gas-X (I was a bit gassy too) and hoped for the best.
We met the kids at their place, parked right in front using their permit (they use their garage) and walked to Port & Park, a restaurant/tavern 1/4 mi. south on Irving Park Rd. (and 2 long blocks from Clark St., where we'd catch the bus for the 3/4 mile ride to Wrigley Field for the Springsteen concert). The place was jammed, but they were staffed for only a normal weeknight. I scanned the menu looking for as close to a "BRAT" meal as I could find, but settled for iced tea and a plain quesadilla. (At least I got the "T" component). The low-carber in me wanted a salad but I knew my innards weren't ready for it. I figured plain flour tortilla would be a good stand-in for white toast, and the cheese would do what cheese normally does under that circumstance. The tea arrived fairly quickly, but we didn't get our food until 3/4 hr. later. The cheese turned out to be pepper-jack. I got nearly through 1/4 of it when I spied a hair on the plate—and it didn't look like mine. When I tried to pick it up, the remainder of that slice of quesadilla came with it—it was embedded in the cheese. Instant appetite suppressant. Took another 20 min. to get the check. Barely made it to the bus—if we hadn't, it'd have been $50 for a pedicab (of which there were many). Show was great, though (3 hrs., no intermission). Unfortunately, once we got through the mob heading out, we found that Clark St. was closed to traffic (as it is on event nights) and the re-routed bus stop was another 1/4 mi. away. But we did get seats when it arrived and it was a fairly short ride back to w/in 1/2 bl. of the kids' house. And I got 7000 steps (finally)!
When I got home I realized I really needed to eat (despite it being after midnight), so I had a little jamon Iberico, a piece of string cheese and a piece of olive/rosemary sourdough toast. Yesterday I had to get out early for my facial, so I didn't eat anything, just had coffee. My facialist gave me a piece of 90% cacao Italian chocolate, so that was all I had till a handful of nuts at 5pm. Bob made himself a turkey sandwich, so I heated up a little sauerkraut and steamed a grass-fed hot dog and a smoked Polish sausage atop it, along with a piece of low-carb whole wheat bread. (The "normal" bread is now Bob's—it's too addictive for me). Dessert was another piece of dark chocolate: "Naked Truffle" 85% cacao Colombian Santander with sea salt. I've managed not to eat after that.
Tonight, between the storms, we'll probably walk either to Regalia or to Mas Alla del Sol for Mexican food (I usually order seviche, nopales salad, and grilled shrimp). Said storms will be sort of wimpy in the morning, but scary-severe overnight Fri. into Sat. (with the very real possibility of rain-wrapped tornadoes). At least I won't have to water the tomatoes or the lawn for awhile.
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My kitchen helper, the slow cooker, is on the job cooking a lb. of navy beans with two smoked ham hocks. The beans are tender so I added seasoning, s & p and garlic and onion powder. I diced up the ham hock meat and skin and added it and the bones back to the pot. I'll cook brown rice closer to dinner time and make a salad.
I found lovely eggplants today at Walmart's so tomorrow I'll make eggplant lasagna. Always a treat.
Lunch was another delicious sandwich with 12 grain bread slathered with Hellman's Light, ham off the bone and thick sliced tomatoes from Mary's garden.
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I'm heading home tomorrow. We (a team of people) did equipment checks in a large warehouse for the past two week (10 hour days). Next week, another team will arrive to continue the work. This goes on almost continuously throughout the year…pharmacists check the meds, medical providers check the medical equipment and the logistics folks check the rest of the stuff.
It is busy. For the past two work weeks, I averaged 15,326 steps per day.
For what it looks like when we are in the field, see https://flickr.com/photos/asprgov/albums/72177720302495502
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Yesterday (and today, leftovers) pink salmon, broccoli and sweet potato.
DH and I each caught another fish 2 nights ago.
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Yesterday Bob brought home a couple of big squid salads from Pompeii. He finished his, I had half of mine. This aft. I made a Western omelette. Tonight we have reservations at L.Woods—it's prime rib night.
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My son flew in for a two day visit a week ago Friday - but even before we left the airport his Dad called and was waiting for an ambulance to transport him from Urgent Care to the hospital. Pneumonia, an additional lung infection, 103 fever and O2 down to 80. Eventually diagnosed as Covid that he'd already had for 10 days. So instead, my son postponed his return several times and spent 6 days w/his Dad at the hospital in the isolation unit. Luckily I got to see him at dinner every night, cooking things like Korean Beef, Pork in Brandy Cream Sauce, Chicken, etc. We did go out for Tex Mex twice. Since that's what he grew up with, he misses it. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area so was horrified with our continuing temperatures of 103-105. Today was 106!!! and no relief or rain in sight.
Eric - thanks for the link. Interesting to see all the action. Can you tell us where you were this time or is it confidential?
Wally - so jealous of your salmon. I finally got to Costco yesterday so replenished my stock of frozen cryopack wild salmon. Not at all the same. That's like saying Gulf Blue Crabs are the same as Dungeness. I actually made salmon spread tonight with cream cheese & canned salmon & lots of dill to eat with the 4 pumpernickel bagels I found. Ridiculous trying to buy those here. One bagel place make them only on weekends, one makes only 4 or 5 a day, one make them only once a month, and all involve a lengthy drive.
Carole & Nance - the president of Campbell's swears that they will not change or adulterate the Rao's sauces. We'll see. And Nance - please let us know if the injection gives you some relief by next week.
I gave away my big crock pot several years ago, but I still have a 2 cup model. That is certainly big enough to make ham hock & beans for one. Now to find ham hock. Last time I tried to find it, I gave up and just used ham slices. Not the same flavor at all.
Dinner was celery w/pimento cheese, a hatch chili scone and some grapefruit. I found a deal on raspberries so I'll be eating those every day for awhile. I bought the fruit to make my salad with sour cream & coconut & baby marshmallows this week.
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Costco's frozen salmon is "Keta," which used to be called "chum" salmon because it was used as bait. But it has the same nutritive value as other wild salmon, even though it's leaner and less flavorful. But if you miso-or-teriyaki-marinate, cedar-plank, or serve it with aioli or tartar sauce, it tastes fine, as long as you don't overcook it.
Speaking of salmon, Hooked on Fish this week is featuring Coho salmon—one step up from Keta. In fact, it used to be found in the northern reaches of Lake Michigan, but walleye, whitefish and now Asian carp have outcompeted it. There's no aquaculture out here, except that done by state park agencies for trout to stock the rivers and fishing ponds for sport fishing. I'm torn—still have 1/2 lb. Copper River in the freezer, as well as Butcher Box frozen cryovac Bristol Bay (AK) fillets.
As to bagels, at least they know how to make them in the Chicago area. (Not counting Einstein's, whose bagels are gigantic and inauthentic). Whole Foods & now Dunkin' bake decent ones, if still a bit oversized. And in Lincolnwood, there's "New York Bagel & Bialy" and Kaufman's Bakery in Skokie, which are as close to a NYC bagel as it gets. Together, they supply the few remaining kosher-style delis & diners in the area. I'd never seen a bialy outside NYC or SE FL until I moved here. NY Bagel & Bialy also has plain "mini bagels," which are bigger than the bagged Thomas' ones on grocery shelves—in fact, they are about the same size that authentic bagels used to be, which Weight Watchers counted as 2 bread exchanges. Einstein's and Au Bon Pain's sesame bagels weigh in at 700-750 calories each…as much as 2 Krispy Kreme donuts. When I lived in Seattle in the '70s, bagels were basically rolls-with-holes (eventually there was a deli on Mercer Island that almost got it right). My fellow law school alums from NY & NJ used to put in orders for bagels at Rose's Deli in Portland, a 3-hr drive away (we'd make the pilgrimage about twice a year, or hit it on the way back from vacations in the Bay Area). Rose's did it right!
Speaking of Lincolnwood—as we were headed out the door to L. Woods Bob got a "STAT" page (he's always on call unless we're out of town) to read an emergency EKG and echocardiogram. (Blowing it off can lead to a malpractice suit). I was still jonesing for prime rib, so I called L.Woods and ordered 2 dinners to pick up (about a 20-min. drive). Bob had the "king cut" and a baked potato, and I had the "queen cut" and a sweet potato. For greenery, I nuke-blanched and then sauteed asparagus in EVOO and supermarket balsamic. We each had half our dinners, so tomorrow night will be a rerun. I am ashamed to admit, though, that at Mariano's grocery today I discovered a small branch of Stan's Donuts with their specialty donuts (as opposed to the prepackaged boring cake-style ones the supermarkets carry). So I bought a chocolate-covered Nutella-filled yeast-raised one, and a cinnamon-sugar "cronut." Think I'll have half of the former as dessert tonight and slip the cronut into Bob's lunchbag for his hospital shift tomorrow.
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No dinner last night. DH competed in a corn hole tournament organized by some of the resort folks. He and his partner, Dana, won the tournament. It started at 6:30 pm and lasted until almost 9. I was scheduled to play but found a sub. It's not a game that I even knew about until we came to MN but I think it has spread south.
Tonight's meal is to be decided. It may be frozen pizza.
I hope your ex is ok, Minus. It sounds like he was seriously ill. I guess it worked out well that your son just happened to be visiting and could spend time with his dad even though you would have liked more of your son's company.
DH is not a fan of salmon but I buy and cook the Atlantic salmon (sold at Winn Dixie at home) occasionally. When we visited Seattle years ago, I would order salmon and he would order cod, if it was available. At that time the fish used for fish and chips was cod, much to his liking.
Sandy, as I mentioned on another thread, you have aroused prime rib envy. Prime rib is my favorite beef meal and it isn't readily available up here in MN or at home in Louisiana. Ribeye steak is easier to come by.
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Minus, sending good thoughts for your ex. Agree, it worked out well that his son was in town.
Our costco sells sockeye in the vac paks. Copper river is my favorite, but it is a seasonal availability, sadly. If I buy lox, I get the farmed because they are more unctuous and fatty. We caught 2 more Pink and I already did the filet and freeze.
We expect 3 days of ugly summer temps here so no doubt inside time for me, which means no fishing.Last night I made Bon Appetit's recipe on a riff of Saag "paneer"….I used 1/2 of our turnip greens (these are the Japanese turnips that are sweet and can even be eaten raw) and 1/2 frozen bag of spinach. The paneer was feta cheese. Their recipe was mild on the Indian spices. It almost reminded me of Spanikopita without phyllo and not heavy-handed on Med. spices. Leftovers tonight.
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I just made a huge bowl of pasta salad with elbow macaroni, chopped cucumber and quartered small tomatoes I bought at the farmers market, a mixture of red and other colors. Also pepperoni. The dressing was ranch dip made with a carton of sour cream and a packet of the dip mix. The salad is yummy. DH can add some sweet onion if he chooses. We bought onions from two different vendors.
If it isn't raining I may still cook a pizza out on the gas grill.
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I guess Costco - like everyone else - has different products depending on where you live. I had a choice of two different frozen salmon products. And Wally's right, it also depends on the season. Love the sound of the "pinks".
Carole - I've finally found a really good prime rib place in Houston. Unfortunately I don't go often since the prices are way over my budget. Love the sound of your pasta salad. I may try that.I think my ex-DH is on the mend. Thanks for your thoughts. He's still one of my best friends even though we've been divorced for 30 years.
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