So...whats for dinner?
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Thanks, all, for the empathy.
Yeah, the insurance battle is still on going. OY! I may just stop the drug. Not worth the aggravation.
Illimae, good to see your post and hope you had a good holiday…and everyone, a hopeful 2025.
I'm making spinach mac and cheese with diced ham. I'm trying havarti cheese as I ran out of cheddar (oh the horror from a Wisconsin gal!!).
Hope all in the path of the storm stay safe. I do not like black ice but I so miss the cold and snow.
Tuesday, Seattle…🤮
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Carole, The general store is in Putney on the other side of the state. You must have been close to Burlington, one of my favorite “cities.”
Illimae, Maybe eating foods a twelve year old would like is the secret to staying young, lol.
Nance, Potato leek soup is so good. The rosemary olive bread makes it even better.
Wally, When I lived in Scotland the only cheese on display was cheddar. It was considered traitorous to buy English cheeses like Stilton or Cheshire.
Dinner tonight was steak, caramelized onions and sweet potatoes.
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Maggie, the only thing I worried about when I spent a week in England, was the mad-cow fiasco. Didn't realize what a big deal it was till they refused any blood donations because I lived in Paris (work) for 6 months and spent more than week in England. Can't believe I didn't think about the cheese!!!
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I bought leeks a couple of days ago for potato leek soup. Still to be made.
We had boneless chicken thighs last night in a lemony sauce. Side was cauliflower mash.
Lunch at Olive Garden today, the choice of a great niece. Her mother, my niece, and her other daughter with a 3 month old baby girl are included. It will be good to visit with them. Olive Garden wouldn't have been my choice.
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The lunch at Olive Garden was fun. Three-month-old Adelyn was a little doll as long as someone held her. The others ordered dinner meals so they would have leftovers to take home. I had a bowl of soup which was good and a helping from the salad bowl. Afterwards I went to my niece's place which is a nice house trailer and gave her and my great niece a crochet lesson. They struggled.
Dinner tonight will be leftover beef stew and possibly a salad with avocado.
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Carole - I hope you enjoy Angelica Kitchen. It was a revolutionary restaurant in its day. I lived across the street from it, 35 years ago lol.. when I was pregnant, and lived on their tofu lasagna and corn bread. Oh my gosh where have the years gone Lol… if it comes onto kindle the Flexitarian Table is a lovely book as it offers both vegetarian and meat based dishes. Olive Garden sounded fun , and crochet. One of my favorite pastimes. We might need a new thread ……
illimae - I love the idea of eating like a 12 year old. For me it would be bacon cheeseburgers, if I only ate meat..Maybe I could simulate it with portobello mushrooms and tempeh bacon… Oohh I feel an experiment impulse coming on.
Tonight it’s leftovers, I made a mushroom and onion tofu quiche, roasted Brussels sprouts on Sunday and black beans with garlic and carrots tonight . Funny combo, but it worked.
Anyone have a vegan cheese they like ? I haven’t found any yet worth eating.
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Carole, I can knit but am not very good at crocheting. My sister crocheted and completed hats and other items much more quickly than I could. I’m glad you found something to eat at Olive Garden.
Rhonda, I was always looking for good vegan cheese since my son is allergic to casein and DH is lactose intolerant. The best I found was at a farmer’s market in Ludlow Vt near Okemo ski resort. The producer was called something like Mansion Pantry; they used nuts as their “milk” base. I have yet to find any decent vegan cheese in the grocery store. Your portobello burger idea sounds promising.
Dinner tonight was shepherd’s pie. I put leeks in it so DH claims it must be Welsh shepherd’s pie.
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Rhonda, what an interesting personal history to have lived across the street from Angelica's restaurant.
My laptop tells me we're having Cold Weather. It's currently 32 degrees. I ran a dribble of water in the sink last night but have turned it off. Low 20's and teens are the danger zone for frozen pipes for us. If I were building a house, I would make it freeze proof.
I love cheese but it does not play a big role in the WW eating plan. I fantasize about a diet that emphasizes bread and cheese.
My menu plan for tonight is nonexistent at the moment.
Minus, I hope you are staying warm and cozy.
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Heavy fog here this morning so I hope the bridge and the ferries will cooperate for our trek to Seattle.
Still battling insurance. I think my doctor's office thinks I am officially neurotic…how can a pharmacy be so incompetent is beyond me.
I taught myself to knit and crochet when I was 7 or 8 years old. My mom knew nothing and I wanted to do it. I also taught myself to type (old remington my father bought at a yard sale) in 6th grade. Didn't want to waste a class in Jr. high or high school to learn it. Can we tell I'm a type A?
No idea what dinner will be or when it will be…maybe the last of the mac/cheese/ham or a can of soup.
Except for being non-vegan, cheese has very little, if any lactose…for those who care :-)
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Hope your trek to Seattle is safe and stress free, Wally.
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Most cheeses have low amounts of lactose but beware of fresh mozzarella, burrata, ricotta, feta and mascarpone. It was a great day when lactaid pills were invented. Casein, milk protein, shows up in the strangest places as calcium caseinate so I got very good at reading fine print on labels. With DS grown and gone I'm glad to be done with that.
Wally, Hopefully you'll have a good trip to Seattle regarding both weather and results. I'm sorry about the continuing insurance problems. I've always prevailed in the end even though it has taken time.
Dinner tonight was leftover shepherd’s pie.
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Wally - hoping you were able to make the trek. Carole - trying to stay warm. 30 degrees the last two nights. Supposed to be worse by the weekend.
I took my car in Monday to have struts & springs replaced & an alignment. The car is a 2003, but it's in great shape with only 125K miles. Since I don't want to learn all the new technology I decided some years ago to keep this one up. I love my CD player and the fact that I still have a REAL key.
Dinner last night was a hamburger steak with fresh mushrooms, Simply Organic mushroom gravy and boiled new potatoes accompanied by 2 glasses of red Tempranillo wine. Tonight I had 1/2 a deli meat turkey sandwich and the leftover boiled potatoes. Desert was some more of my See's Victoria Toffee. This one pound box will never last even until February.
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