So...whats for dinner?
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Slow cooker chicken tacos tonight with chips and salsa and a homemade prickly pear margarita.
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Just chopped liver, a decaf cappuccino and some nibbles tonight before services (which I livestreamed because I wasn't looking forward to repeating "you should see the other guy" ad infinitum in response to the inevitable queries of "what happened?"). French toast for brunch, though. Still debating about whether to try to attend tomorrow's Yizkor and concluding services if I can at all look presentable but not visibly vain (I put on a ton of corrector & concealer just to go to Costco for gas). Not sure what to do about dinner tomorrow night…less than 4 hrs. into the fast and I don't wanna think about food.
Heidi was lethargic and withdrawn last night but ate well all day today and has been coming to me for cuddles (nuzzling & kneading).
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We're in Overland Park, KS, visiting a life long friend of Sharon.
Their two cats, one supposedly a "fraidy cat", were both in my lap. For me, it was nice, but Sharon's allergies "said" otherwise.
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No posts from anyone Tues. 9/26 on this thread? Was everybody fasting the day before? I attended services all day via livestream online.
I broke my Yom Kippur fast with various protein & carb nibbles but no sweets.
Last night I put together a tapas appetizer platter: the last of the jamon Iberico, chorizo, boquerones (pickled white anchovies), olives, Marcona almonds and Spanish chevre. The rain held off, so I marinated and grilled a "flap" steak with chimichurri, asparagus, corn on the cob (for Bob), & a tomato-basil salad. Dessert was Greek yogurt with "nut-nola" (grain-free).
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I eas worried I ran everyone off. :-)
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I made italian sausage with gigante beans and veggies tossed in (cabbage, green beans, tomatoes, onion).
Some sort of leftovers tonight.
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Today we are staying near Dayton, OH at Sharon's cousin's house. Sourdough bread is in process.
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Lunch was a mini-strawberry cake from my Costco run today. Dinner was 10 cold boiled shrimp - also from Costco. Still to hot to turn on the oven & I'm just not interested in cooking or eating. Had a small bowl of popcorn covered with drizzled butter last night after fresh watermelon. Popcorn is a sure sign winter is coming even though it's still 99 degrees.
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Lunch today (after returning from Prolia shot) was "egg-in-the-hole" (my mom used to call it "egg in a nest") with reheated remains of last night's steak strips.
Early dinner out (Bob has an early day tomorrow—last workday till we get back end of next week). Walked to Regalia (first time back in nearly a month). Snagged the last res available for 7 pm. Always hopping despite "flying below the radar" with local restaurant critics. Bob had planned on only having drinks, as he'd had a huge BBQ lunch at L.Woods while I was napping and then going for Prolia shot. But his appetite perked up when we split the arugula & poached pear salad. He ordered veal scallopine Marsala with garlic mashed potato. I threw carb-caution to the winds (well, flicked it lightly into a gentle breeze) and ordered the special lobster ravioli in vodka cream sauce with shaved asparagus. Had 2 of the 4 pieces and felt stuffed. Will make a nice brunch tomorrow.
Apprehensive abt. Vegas trip. Our timeshare hotel (Elara) is dead-center-Strip—they built the "paddock" for next month's Formula One race in the parking lot right behind the hotel. Bad enough that this is the most disabled I've ever been while traveling (save for the time in 1994 flying home from Disney World in an immobilizer & on crutches after tearing my ACL & meniscus) and I will have to swallow my pride and use a cane (my NP insists I exercise and suggests I use one for balance) and request wheelchairs at the airports; and maybe even rent a scooter from the concession at Planet Hollywood adjacent to the hotel. Reviews mentioned that due to construction, elevators are iffy.
So what does that have to do with eating? Well, our fine-dining plans may well suddenly go "poof:" the culinary workers have voted 95% to authorize a strike—with no definite date set, they could spring it with no notice. All the good restaurants are part of the three groups (MGM, Wynn, Caesar's—which owns Planet Hollywood & its mall) with expired contracts. HGV (the group where we own our timeshare) does have an as-of-yet-unexpired contract…but HGV properties don't have restaurants (no casinos, either, but I don't gamble and I like not being around smoke). We might end up having to Uber it to a grocery and cook everything ourselves except mall fast-food junk. Some "vacation," huh? Oh, and if the Fed. gov't shuts down, TSA will be a nightmare: their agents are deemed "essential" but won't be paid, so they'll be extra-slow and surly. Don't even wanna think how delayed flights will be (air traffic controllers will work unpaid as well). During the last shutdown, TSA & controllers called in sick by the droves.
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Had leftover sausage/gigante last night; tonight, I will use up the last of the beans and make a shakshuka of sorts.
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Just learned that the renowned Chicago restaurant The Signature Room (used to be called "The 95th" atop what used to be named the Hancock Tower but is now just "875 N. Michigan Ave.) is closing for good after tonight. Owners cite inability to bounce back from the pandemic. The food and service have gone downhill since they reopened, and their famed brunch buffet (weekends & major holidays) was never reinstated. Few people now want to spend an arm & a leg and adhere to a dress code just to dine with a view. We now have no lake "view" restaurants left in Chicago—Everest closed in 2021 when takeout couldn't keep the business going; the Willis (f/k/a Sears) Tower and Prudential bldgs. have only private "events" dining—and "Sixteen" is in the (ugh) Trump Tower hotel. The newest "it" factor eatery—Miru in the St. Regis—is only halfway up the building as well, with views of nothing but the river. Cité, atop the Lake Point Tower, closed when it went bankrupt in 2022—its mgr. & exec. chef started Regalia in our neighborhood. (It's at street level).
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Tonight was Thai coconut chicken curry with snow peas over riced cauliflower and a hunk of banana bread for dessert.
not sure about tomorrow, maybe a big salad.
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Caymus wine dinner at McCormick & Schmick's tonight: scallop crudo with black coral (!) tuille; prawn cocktail with domestic sturgeon caviar & horseradish panna cotta; gravlax with vichyssoise foam & crostini; rack of wild boar with raspberry compote, white cheddar grits & jus; short rib with dauphinoise potato & cherry peppercorn jus; dark chocolate truffle. Wines with all exc. dessert (see the drinking thread)—had about 1/3 glass of each. Next check-in here will be after we're settied into our suite tomorrow. Sat. we have a private party at Pampas churascarria inside Miracle Mile mall. No other plans yet.
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We areived at DD's home yesterday. She has a great (modernized) 1940s home in a nice older neighborhood where the neighbors all know each other.
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Last night's dinner was "ball park food" at Comerica Park. Cleveland and Detroit (baseball). 7-4 Cleveland winning. I was "conflicted". DD is in Detroit, but my mom (DD's grandma) was an ardent Cleveland fan for 92 years
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Brunch yesterday at Arami in Midway (our flight was delayed 2 hrs)—which we picked because you could sit—was a grilled salmon fillet atop salad (Bob stood in the line and was able to get them to sub the greens for the standard rice). Ashamed to admit I ate the SW snack mix & brownie chips on the plane…because I could. Dinner at Mon Ami Gabi (bigger but noisier than the original back home) was the special entree of seared sablefish with baby clams, “smashed” fingerling potatoes (I did take a couple and give the rest to Bob in return for some of his green beans from the trout entree), lardons of chorizo and Swiss chard. We shared dark chocolate mousse. Gonna nuke some leftover trout & veg for brunch before heading into the mall & Walgreens to find stuff for my bruises (been over a week since I fell), pain, and allergies (Astepro, saline sprays). Dinner tonight is a private owners-only party at Pampas churrascarria in the adjacent mall. I recall it wasn’t as good as Fogo or Texas do Brazil, but it’s free and it’ll do.
Wanted to see Adele or U2–but they’re only tonight and then the 6th—when I’ll be back home performing in Madison, WI. The NYTimes gave a so-so review to U2, saying the Sphere’s visual effects upstaged them. I’ve seen them twice, so no tragedy—and I’ll see them again next time they come to Chicago. No other shows I want to see—post-pandemic, there are no more (abridged) B’way musicals which used to be a highlight of our LV trips.
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baked beans with hot dogs (oscar meyer, on sale…oh shame on me!) and broccoli.
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Wally - I'll be buying Oscar Meyer hot dogs at my grocery store run tomorrow - because they are on sale ($1.99 here). I buy the bun length & freeze 1/2 the package. I usually buy a package twice a year. Food from my childhood.
Dinner was an interesting sort of fried rice concoction. Sauteed onions, celery, mushrooms - added slivers of leftover pork loin w/a bit of soy (yes - low sodium). Tossed in black rice & finally added green peas. Instead of adding eggs, I scrambled those separately. I have lots of leftovers and it's easier to save or freeze w/o eggs mixed in. Very different with black rice - but good.
Mae - how are you feeling? Are you getting lots of 'beach bar' time?
Eric - hope you have a great visit with DD. Sounds like you had to root for both teams equally. Did you take pets with you?
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Not much beach bar time as I’ve been busy encouraging work on the cabin and with wall panels finally going up in the bedroom, I’m inside helping and acting as a gentle task master.
Dinner was 2 slices of pizza while running evening errands.
DH will be out of town next weekend, so I’m planning a lovely few days of a jigsaw puzzle and a new mystery book on audible, likely with a cocktail or two.
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AARGH—lost my post because I couldn’t copy & paste on an iPad like I do on a computer or phone!
Forgettable dinner at the geographically-misnamed Pampas “Brazilian” steakhouse (the Pampas is in Argentina). Blah buffet, the meats were heavy on chicken, pork and then finally some decent beef & lamb. So-so cheesecake (probably from frozen). Appetite-suppressant soundtrack of a husband-wife keyboard/electronic drums/karaoke machine duo—nice voices, horribly cornball repertoire (especially Lee Greenwood and the obligatory-for-Vegas Elvis). They kept asking for requests…and I was sooooo tempted to ask for “If I Had a Rocket Launcher” (or anything by the Who, Blondie, Clash, Black Pumas or Vampire Weekend).
My reward for sitting through this will be tomorrow night at Emeril’s New Orleans Fish House.
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Only service animals, so no.
Our dog was a bait dog as a puppy (put into a cage and tossed into a pit to get the fighting dogs riled up) and then spent a year in the dog pound while the people's trials were in progress. After the guilty verdict, and appeals ran their course, we adopted him. He is sweet with people, kids and cats, but is fearful when other dogs are around. Yellow lab dogs seem to be a special case as he got along with Gypsy, our yellow lab.
We've had him 11-1/2 years and he's 13 years old.
I just finished a 3 mile walk with him.
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Pets are precious, Eric & Sharon. Enjoy your furbaby!
Lunch, at Alexxa, was a charcuterie plate with salami, copra, roast beef, Manchego, Gouda, Jack, pimentos, olives, pecans, dried cherries and strawberries with sourdough toast on the side.
Dinner at Emeril’s was 1/2 dozen oysters: 2 each Hood Canal & Kushii (West Coast) and 2 Glacier Bay (NB). “Fall River” style (New England on steroids) clam chowder, house salad and a Creole seafood boil (shrimp, mussels, clams, andouille, corn and potatoes—no crawfish because they’re not in season). Too stuffed for dessert. Tomorrow night, Eiffel Tower restaurant. During the day we may try to tour the new Sphere. There are no artists in residence during the week we care to see (not fans of ventriloquists, magicians, tribute shows) and we’ve seen every version of Cirque de Soleil. Didn’t rent a car (gas is well over $5/gal here), so no drive out to Red Rock or Boulder Dam this time (been there, done that).
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Had leftovers last night. Tonight will be shrimp with spinach/udon noodle "bowl" of sorts.
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We keft DD's place in Detroit and stopped to see some of Sharon's friends in Muskegon, MI. We're at a KOA (just got here at 9pm) in Muskeogn, eating hot dogs for dinner.
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Breakfast was leftover charcuterie from Sunday lunch.
Lunch was at Ocean Prime—after a circuitous hourlong walk through crowds & malls trying to find something open before 5pm that wasn’t chain restaurant fast-food dreck. Bob had a crabmeat wedge salad, I had hamachi crudo (like sashimi but sauced & spiced, generous portion). We shared dessert: mango sorbet & salted caramel gelato (plus a flight of vintage ports but that’s another thread).
Dinner was at the Eiffel Tower restaurant at Paris. Even though the tower is only half-scale, this restaurant is at the same absolute elevation as is Jules Verne in the “real thing.” We had a window table—for which there was no upcharge!—with a Strip view, including the Bellagio water shows. Appetizer was a trio of American caviars (1 oz each of hackleback sturgeon, whitefish, & salmon) with blini, toast and all the accompaniments. Bob had Beef Wellington with summer vegetables. I had duck breast with wild rice & butternut squash. Dessert was the little plate of “mignardises” (housemade bonbons). We brought home the leftover ciabatta bread and Bob’s veg. Brunch tomorrow will be substantial—and prepared “en suite.”
BTW, a pleasant surprise is that the chef is none other than Jean Joho: founder and longtime chef-owner of the late great Everest in Chicago. (Explains the Alsatian wines). Everest closed down during the pandemic after New Year’s Eve 2021–the dining room never reopened after lockdown, operating only as takeout. During nice weather, there were tables out on the plaza of the office tower, where you could dine alfresco on your upscale takeout.
Got my 10,000 steps in, so I burned off….maybe a slice of bread.
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I run 3 miles and, according to my exercise watxh, it "burns off" most of a small candy bar. :-(
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Tonight is pork chops and sautéed cabbage (red and green) and onions. Dessert is a glass of Reisling and dark chocolate.
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Shrimp, red rice and broccoli.
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Tonight was National Night Out in Texas. We did pre-set up last night. Then a group come an hour early for set up tonight. I had purchased individually wrapped snacks - Madelaines, nuts, assorted mix of small Frito Lay bags, etc. and iced down small water bottles. And we always provide lots of give-away items for adults and kids. We had a good rain today for the first time in 3 months so at 5:30 we still weren't sure we could hold the event - even though we do have a covered "pavilion". Luckily it stopped 30 minutes before the event - and strangely started again just as we finished cleaning up. We were fortunate that the Chief of Staff for our City Council member was able to attend, as did the two police officers that regularly patrol our area - and almost 40 neighbors. Still lots of leftover eats, which we will donate to the Houston Police Department for their "trunk or treat" event later this month.
So no dinner & too tired to bother eating when I got home.
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Hi all - back from CO, but a bit sidelined with a lower back pain flare. The vacation (a misnomer for me since I cooked every day…) was fun, got a bunch of hiking in and saw our property without snow on it - yay! It was fun to have everyone together, there were 7 of us for much of the time. A scary situation - DD had an in-flight medical emergency on the flight to CO. Started with numbness of one half of her face, then very sharp pain, high BP (likely from the pain and being scared), they discussed diverting but she didn't want to be stuck in someplace unknown and without us (her beau was with her) and we were already in CO. She soldiered on and landed and was met by medical personnel. She refused the ambulance ride, we picked her up and took her to the ER. Their workup was not stellar but they ruled out stroke, heart attack, etc. and advised she could try to go to elevation, but needed to come back down if things got worse. Also, that she see an ENT when she got home. She struggled a bit at elevation, but did not get worse, and had an thankfully uneventful trip home. At one point she and DH went down to Red Rocks to see Tyler Childers and she did feel better, but then they got stuck on the way back to Silverthorne at Loveland Pass in construction traffic and started crying. DD doesn't cry, so I know she was in pain. Ugh. She was seen by her ENT on Monday and has a CT scheduled for this Friday. She had a concussion workup a few years ago after a fall off a horse that cracked her helmet, with imaging, which showed a cyst. The ENT is considering whether this enlarged during flight and caused the pain and pressing on whatever nerve. The saga continues.
We did have some good food - a pork loin with pinto beans in the slow cooker all day, over tortilla chips or in a flour tortilla, with toppings. We also had beefy queso same night. My mom's old recipe for Hunter's Stew - basically beef stew with rotini pasta instead of potatoes. A blueberry and croissant egg cassserole for brunch, another morning a traditional egg, cheese, torn bread breakfast casserole with bacon, a yummy chicken pasta dish with caramelized onions and pesto with cream, we grilled steaks and had baked potatoes and salad. We did bake some cookies (the pre-made dough from the store kind) as an experiment since we were at 10,000 feet - and they turned out just fine other than the salted caramel ones stuck to the pan a bit.
We had a good time, but I am also glad to be home. The cat did not enjoy being alone. For previous trips he was with DD but she came on the trip so our neighbor took care of him. His little meow was hoarse which tells me he was doing a lot of meowing while we were gone…he is following me around the house all day, I have only been out to go with DD to the ENT, and I really need to grocery shop. I need to get my back to cooperate enough that I can go do that today. It is basically timing - warm shower, Advil, and a lidocaine patch - then when all are working optimally - zip out to the store and stock up!
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