So...whats for dinner?
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Special - I got the ingredients for the Lemon Bundt, but now I'll have to print the chocolate cake recipe. Is it dense or light as a feather?
Eric - I like that you still celebrate Mickey, AND that Sharon understands.
Dinner never happened. I ate some leftover potato salad around 2pm, but had a detailed Zoom meeting tonight that took up my afternoon preparing and my evening in the meeting. Then another hour recapping for people who were unable to attend. I'm drinking a bourbon & water & will hit the rack shortly. So I guess I'll have to call that dinner.
BTW - I only follow 2 or 3 threads and I did check in this morning. But when I logged on tonight, there were 38 messages. Eeeks.
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I'm low key about Mickey's remembrance. It's not because she would get upset, but more because I don't want to be comparing to a memory.
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Maggie, I am loving your food experiences abroad.
We had the most mundane of dinners last night. An oven dish with pork chops, cabbage and potato.
DH brought home 5 lbs. of shrimp yesterday he bought from the shrimp sellers near the Madisonville bridge. I headed them fairly quickly since they are good sized. We'll have shrimp for dinner tonight and two portions for the freezer.
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Minus, A liquid dinner is a good way of getting through a long zoom meeting.
Sandy, The Michelin one star restaurant at the end of our street, Zia, made me think of you. There is no outdoor dining or takeout available so I won’t be eating there.
Carole, Good sized shrimp are easier to cook and usually tastier.
Lunch pizza was prosciutto with pecorino. For dinner I cooked chicken cutlets (much thinner than I can get at home) with mushrooms in a white wine and cream sauce. I had planned on an arugula and spinach salad but the spinach was sold only in giant bags which would feed a soccer team. Another woman shopping for spinach suggested substituting valerian leaves. I had only heard of valerian root as a sleep supplement but it takes a complete plant to produce the root. It was different but good and I might sleep more soundly tonight. Of course I left room for gelato.
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minus - the lemon cake seems lite because it isn't traditionally frosted, rather is glazed. The cake itself is somewhere between light and dense, but is very lemony.
Glad so many are looking forward to the One Step Chocolate Cake! Yay! Just remember that the batter is super thick! I have to spoon it into the bundt pan and then smooth it evenly.
Dinners have been chili dogs with seasoned oven fries. A chicken salad made with toasted ramen, almonds, and sesame seeds over sliced napa cabbage and dressed with a sweet dressing. A kale and romaine salad with sliced steak and goat cheese with balsamic dressing. Tonight will be carbonara made with cauliflower linguine. DH is not home yet - he is with DD (her day off) and they went to see newborn baby pigs at the barn where her horses are. Sadly the mama pig is a first-timer and has rejected the three babies. They need to be bottle fed around the clock so I am not sure what will happen. 😔 Hopefully an effort will be made to find a nursing mam pig somewhere else that might accept them, or a sanctuary that can handle the bottle feeding.
illimae - as usual, mouthwatering photo!
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Tonight was a light summer dinner, pan seared chicken breast halves and a handful of whole wheat penne with spinach and squash in a butter parm sauce. Raisins for dessert.
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Well, seeing as how "dinner" Tues. night was a protein bar inside a crummy IN Toll Road service plaza (all concessions closed at 7pm!), and a FairLife Core Protein chocolate shake when we got home, we owed ourselves a good meal tonight. So we went to RPM Steak (Bob had a bunch of Lettuce Entertain You gift cards to redeem). Started by sharing an "ember-roasted seafood tower:" a split lobster tail, lump crabmeat in a scallop shell, Manila clams casino (I scraped the breading off mine), baked oysters, and head-on prawns. Then a kale salad with bacon & mushrooms. Entree was a 10-oz. Creekstone center-cut filet—had we known how insanely tender & flavorful it was we'd have ordered the 12-ounce; sides were hen-of-the-woods mushrooms and steamed spinach topped with a fluffy cloud of grated Parm-Reg. No dessert. I made it through my half of the seafood, about 1/4 of the salad, 2 oz. of the steak (so rich that was plenty for me) and a few spoonfuls of the sides. Haven't hit my protein or calorie minimum yet, so will have a Premier Protein Caffe Latte shake, (The FairLife tasted exactly like the canned "The Chocolate Cow" chocolate drink we used to have as kids back in NYC—Yoo-Hoo couldn't hold a candle to it. The first FairLife shakes I tried a couple of years ago were horrible).
So here are my eclipse pix. First, the original (shot on my phone):
Now, enlarged—you can see some of the diamond ring/Bailey's Beads effect, albeit fuzzy:
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Love taco salads. Yours looked delicious, Ellimae. I often order one when I eat at a Mexican restaurant. If not a taco salad, then I splurge with loaded nachos.
Last night's shrimp scampi with linguine was sooo good. Not much conversation during the meal. No leftovers.
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Illimae, Your chicken dish looks delicious and is something I could make in the rental kitchen. I’ll have to try it.
Carole, Yum on the shrimp scampi.
Special, When we lived in a farm cottage in Scotland I helped the farmer’s wife bottle feed the “pet lambs.” She would take on any neighbors’ lambs whose mothers had died, refused to nurse or were the runt triplet. There were over a hundred of them, a motley crew, who eventually joined the farmer’s 4,000 sheep. Even when they were older they would come running when I passed by hoping for something better than grass to eat.
No pizza for lunch today since I got my fix of fried artichokes. We did buy some pizza dough bread. It tastes good but is not so easy to slice nicely. Dinner tonight was chicken cutlets with onion, garlic and yellow bell pepper in a sauce of chicken stock and apricot juice. It’s too bad I can’t get apricot juice at home but that’s part of the fun of traveling.
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Caprese salad for dinner tonight. Thawing chicken thighs for tomorrow. I'll probably roast them on a bed of sweet potato slices and broccoli. I'll par-cook/nuke the broccoli since last time, it did not cook evenly.
DH just had his doppler/ultrasound scan for his purple fingers…."just" plain Raynaud's; no blockages. YAY for no blockages/atherosclerosis but boo-hiss on raynaud's; no treatment we are aware of. I'll mention to DH the gloves Maggie posted about.
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Tonight is a big delicious salad. The pic doesn’t do it justice, it’s got everything! Iceberg and a few other greens from a neighbors garden, carrots, celery, red onion, radishes and cucumber. It’s topped with buttermilk ranch, cheese, sesame sticks, bacon pieces and a salad topper blend of nuts/seeds/dried cranberries. So much yummy goodness.
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Wally my blood pressure medication is also used as a Raynauds treatment (which I also have). I think it can be tricky though since it is a BP medicine and not everyone needs that. I don't go too low so it works for both for me. Best wishes with dealing with this to your DH.
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Yummy salad indeed, Illimae.
We had a large tossed salad last night that dh put together while i breaded and panfried boneless skinless chicken thighs. A meal much more to my liking that Wednesday night.
It's funny that I read recipes that arrive in my email box and have been reading lots of Indian recipes, have ordered a big variety of spices to cook the Indian recipes but haven't cooked any of them yet.
Today I will look up the Hungry Girl recipe for potato salad substituting cauliflower for the potato. This salad will be my potluck contribution to a cookout tomorrow, held annually by dh's woodworkers guild. It looks like we'll have a lovely day for the cookout. One of the members graciously invites everyone to his camp on a bayou. We bring our folding chairs and enjoy his hospitality. I am more interested in the selection of meat dishes cooked on his huge home-made smoker. He does small chicken halves that are the best grilled chicken I've ever tasted. Also ribs and smoked sausage, including venison sausage.
The Masters golf tournament is in progress. We will be watching most of it.
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I'm baking chicken thighs tonight. Having scallops for lunch (DH is not a fan so he will finish his caprese salad; this oinkie ate all of hers, LOL).
DH was put a 2.5 mg calcium channel blocker to see if it helps. Nope. He has normal/low blood pressure so probably can't go much higher dose. Off to find your previous post, Maggie, on the gloves.
Carole…I'm sad to say, when I hear Bayou (aside from the beauty and environmental wonder), all I can think of is mosquitos.
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Wally, I’m glad the ultrasound showed no blockages. As Reader said calcium channel blockers can help if you also need something for high blood pressure. I ended up on an ACE inhibitor plus diuretic since CCBs didn’t lower my bp enough. I have to wear warming gloves and socks even when it is hot out.
Carole, Those homemade smokers always seem to do a better job than the commercial ones. Enjoy the chicken.
My lunch pizza choice today was sausage and fontina. Dinner was beef meatballs and penne, unusual here since pork is the ground meat of choice. I am working my way through the 10 different types of chocolate gelato to decide which one is the best. There are 72 flavors so there is no way I can try them all :( DH is limited to the 8 milk free varieties. 24 flavors are gluten free since the woman who founded our local gelateria has celiac disease and couldn’t imagine life without gelato.
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Had a "Legendary" brand hi-protein (20gm) low carb fake Pop-Tart for breakfast. Brown sugar/cinnamon was pretty decent. Wish it were toastable for crispness, but directions said to nuke for 10 sec. Will try the choc. one tomorrow when I get back from my bloodwork appt.
Kitties coming Monday!
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Tonight is a cheeseburger with roasted potato wedges, which turned out really well.
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Wally - I associate the word Bayou in Louisiana with overhanging trees and SNAKES. We have bayous in Houston that are more open like what we called creeks in California
Today's meal was egg salad on pumpernickel. A friend brought me a piece of buttermilk pie and it was delicious.
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Last night's main course was a shepherd's pie, actually cottage pie with ground beef. The mashed potatoes were especially good. Leftovers.
I also made the cauliflower "potato" salad except for folding in the sliced boiled eggs.
Wayne's bayou doesn't have mosquitoes or snakes, thank goodness!
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I'm going to use the leftover chicken thigh, shred the meat and make a bbq chicken "pizza" using a socca crust.
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Bob came home too late for dinner last night (covering hospitals for his colleague), so dinner was just nuked Buffalo wings & celery. Had to supplement my protein (and calories) late, so I had a Quest bar. Breakfast today after returning from lab appt. was the chocolate flavor Legendary protein (20 gm) pop-tart. Very good, very gooey, but couldn't escape the nagging feeling that either I was cheating, or it would turn out to be a scam. I remember back in late '60s NYC, the "Skinny Shake" was all the rage: a thick ice cold nonfat sugar-free chocolate milkshake that was like a chocolate malted without the malt. The selling point was that a 20-oz one was 97 calories. It sold like hotcakes…until a lab analysis revealed that hotcakes had fewer calories. Lawsuits followed, mostly by people whose glucose spiked or who gained weight.
Lunch was a "jammy" boiled egg and a low-carb hi-protein tortilla. Dinner will be late (Bob is working late again): will cedar-plank salmon and supplement it with broccolini & leftover spinach and hen-of-the-woods mushrooms. I have to cook that salmon, because I defrosted it Thursday. I don't mind throwing out junk or freezer-burned stuff, but not quality food.
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My lunch pizza was mushroom and prosciutto. We had the leftover meatballs for dinner. Tonight I tried bacio de principe (the prince’s kiss) gelato which is made from chocolate, hazelnut butter, chocolate chunks and hazelnuts. Fortunately the scoops are not too big.
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Tonight DH grilled chicken with some kind of Teriyaki glaze. I made a Mediterranean style pasta salad. I made it to have on hand for guests coming tomorrow and it made a lot. It was yummy and pretty healthy.
That and a banana bread was made today. Tomorrow I'll prep an egg bake DH, and usually guests, are fond of, and that will be the extent of my cooking as our friends want to go out for seafood both nights they are here.
We are excited to have guests coming again. It's been a bit of an adjustment moving so visits from old friends have been great.
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Maggie - ummmm delicious.
Reader - would like the recipe for your mediterranean style pasta salad. And - how may years since I've made banana gread/ My BFF makes with crushed pineapple.
Dinner was 1/2 order of Panera Bread Cobb Salad. Not that great but I had to order something to join a B-day gathering and was trying to avoid bread. Wish I could have Mae's salad instead. Treat tonight was TWO pours of Bailey's Irish Cream. I took BBQ beef brisket and the vinegar based sauce out of the freezer tonight for tomorrow's delights.
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Mid-afternoon, after installing my new I-Pass sticker and driving around till the SiriusXM refresh signal kicked in, I had a Premier Protein Cafe Latte shake out on the deck to take advantage of the sunshine.
Late dinner was pan-seared North Road (Scotland) salmon with assorted nuked leftover veggies. Hit my protein goal for the day, maybe even calories too, so nothing more tonight but water. Tomorrow I devise a way to get those two 20-lb boxes of clumping litter out of the car, into my house, and down to the basement where the litterboxes are. I'm thinking maybe a folding cart from the garage to the side door (the level of the landing between halves of the basement stairs), which I will unlock from the inside and then take each box one at a time down the second half of the stairs. We used to use non-clumping litter in bags, which my HK would simply cover with a trash bag (to catch any spillage should the bag tear) and slide them down to the basement. None of my previous kitties liked clumping or crystal litter, but Roxy & BangBang like clumping litter just fine—it's easier scooping and the boxes need cleaning far less often (will be a neater job of it to boot). Their foster home also has a donated Litter Robot, but the price is steep and it'd have to be delivered and assembled.
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About 15 years ago, my brother got us a robotic litter box for Christmas. Jessiecat liked it. The dogs LOVED it because it consolidated the "tootsie rolls" into one convenient place.
…sigh…..
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Our cats always seemed to have strong litter preferences. At one time we had three cats and three litter boxes: one with crystals litter, another with pine pellets and a third with wood shavings for the former barn cat who was used to horse stalls. I was just happy that they were used.
Dinner tonight was spinach ravioli. We are in Sorento for a few days and have limited cooking facilities but that’s okay.
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For litter, all three of the cats I've had were "don't care".
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Last night was meatloaf, oven roasted potato wedges and a veggie
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Limited cooking facilities would definitely be ok with me in your situation, Maggie. Yum on spinach ravioli.
We had leftover cottage pie and freshly made tossed salad.
Tonight we're going out to dinner with the neighbors, who pick us up. I'm hoping we go to George's Mexican restaurant where I always get George's special nachos. Also a margarita, which is also good.
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