So...whats for dinner?
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Had the nurse take out the IV, I couldn't stand it any longer very painful, in my hand near the wrist bone. My next tx is not until 2 tomorrow afternoon. I don't mind being poked, I couldn't even wipe myself LOL
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Deb, Sending healing thoughts your way....
Debbie, what an interesting soup! And your weekend sounds fabulous! Enjoy!
When I got home tonight, DH mentioned that he heard on the news thatCeltic/Sixers tickets were abundant......hmmmmm, I thought, instead of driving to NH late tonight after making/having dinner, maybe we should just relax and stay home this weekend and cheer on the hometown boys....afterall it may be the last time we see some of them. It didn't take much convincing....soon we had our tickets and I was happily making pasta and broccoli rabe with mushrooms, walnuts, raisins, and asiago cheese. We also added some balsamic vinegar at the end of cooking. Very tasty! Of course what would pasta be without a side of kale salad
and a nice glass or two of pinot grigio!
I am heading out to South Bend for a college reunion on Thursday, so I'm glad to have the time to get prepared instead of travelling.
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Deb,
Can they maybe insert the IV into the vein in the bend of your elbow like where they draw blood typically? I have had them done in my hand and far prefer the one in thr bend of the elbow... They do them that way for my MRI to inject the contrast dye..... Hope your treatmnt tomorrow goes well and you are out of that hospital fast!!!0 -
I getting Vancomycin, it is very strong and kills anytype of bacteria. Right now they are saying is is Celulitis, I want an xray because I am feeling something inside, fluid, abcess or something else. My BS is on duty this weekend so I will talk to her. I trust her opinion. My temp is normal and other vitals are normal. Right now I am waiting for my coffee, scrambled eggs w toast and other stuff.
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Deb, I hope your BS can she some light on what is going on, and help you resolve this fast!
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Deb: Those IV's in the hand can hurt! I was taking weekly IV's (Meyer's cocktail) and when the vein in my arm went bad, they began using my hand. To avoid the pain, they need to slow down the drip...it takes longer but is more comfortable.
Praying this treatment works for you quickly! I would definitely ask the BS to perform the biopsy to make certain of the dx.
Off to grad parties today. Last night was a fun evening...dinner with a girlfriend that I don't see that often. Had a glass of wine that I don't normally have, then was nervous driving home because I heard they were putting up check points to catch drivers who drink and drive:( I was fine, but because I'm so small, I don't metabolize the alcohol as well as others, so it would show up as a larger amount in my system. In hindsight it wasn't worth the risk!
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i dreamed about turkey last nite. I remember the mountain of glistening flesh before me... I remember Blondie our dog stealing a whole small turkey off of the table where it was resting and secretly cheering inside.
Actually.. Thanksgiving dinner is so good with all the sides and such.. Turkey nestled in beside the mashed potatoes, gravy, dressing and veggie dishes is perfect,
and I think to myself.. what a wonderful world. My brain is an ipod this morning.
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I've been getting a kick out of the turkey posts.....especially Blondie's feat. It reminds me of an evening so many years ago when I had just put dinner on the table in the kitchen, the doorbell rang and it was an insurance guy who needed us to go over some papers.
When we returned to the kitchen we found an empty platter where the roasted chicken had been. Pfeffernuesse, our first miniature schnauzer, looked very sated when we found her....and it had to have been a challenge for her to climb the chairs and table....she was petite. Where there's a will......:)0 -
Deborye, healing thoughts sent your way.
My family has never liked turkey. We started buying it at Thanksgiving because it became so cheap and there was so much media pressure and cultural pressure to have turkey at Thanksgiving. We prefer other large meats especially pork roast which we stuff with a mixture of green onions, garlic and cayenne pepper. When we have turkey, the dark meat goes first and the breast sits there until all the dark meat is gone.
Turkey is actually a difficult large meat to cook because it's almost impossible to cook the dark meat and not dry out the breast. I have a small turkey in the freezer that I need to cook before we begin our summer rv travels. I plan to thaw it and cut off the legs. Cook them (braise) using a recipe with apples. Then I'll cook the breast and use it to make turkey salad for sandwiches or whatever. I fall into the buy-the-turkeys-on-sale-at-Thanksgiving trap!
For me the only time roasted turkey is good is the first meal. The leftover meat has so little taste, but I'm from Cajun country and we like spice and flavor.
Speaking of which, we had baked Italian oysters for dinner last night (Oysters Mosca), steamed and buttered small fresh green beans, and slices of home-made bread. Yum, Yum. Not good for the weight loss diet.
That flower festival sounds so beautiful! But I don't like the thought of all those thousands of people. We avoid big crowds. Several summers ago we spent a month wandering down the Oregon coast and loved the little towns and the wonderful state park campgrounds, which were so popular we couldn't get into some of them.
Happy Saturday to all!
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Deb. Praying for you.
And I too have been chuckling over the dog & turkey posts.
Sharon will sometimes get the steroid munchies and when I'm not around will get something to eat and leave the fixings on the counter to put away later.
Our dog has been ever so helpful to Sharon. *&^%& dog! :-)0 -
Deb- Hope you have seen your bs by now and she has some answers for you. I agree too that you should have a biopsy done just to be sure. When will you be released?
Apple- You crack me up with the turkey stories! I need to go buy some pepper turkey again so i can have my sandwich with avacados and pepper jack cheese on wheat berry bread. So good.
Im on my cell right now, taking a break from the culinary cook off while friend is over having a smoke. The food is fabulous. cost was $50 but you get to taste a lot of good foods. Crab cakes, lobster thermador. shrimp. salmon, oyster. clam chowder, uggh my tummy hurts and we are not even done, they are doing fabulous desserts in a bit. Even have a pizza station but will wait til my stomach ache goes away lol! They are serving wine but decided not to have any today.
Everyone sounds like they are having a great time!
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My bs is on duty this weekend at the hospital so she comes in aroun 10:30. tata seems to be getting better, temp, bp and oxygen is normal. I am NOT going to ask for percocet for any type of pain, made me so sick!!! Did not eat lunch and just picked at my supper.
I ordered carrot cake and only could take a few bites out of it, ate the celery and carrot sticks small amount of the grilled chicken DH drank the ginerale cuz I already had some for my upset stomach.
Lunch was a Turkey Dinner, but had to send it back.
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Deb, glad tata is getting better
Apple you crack me up. I used to have The World's Worst Dog, 80 pounds and 1/2 great dane 1/2 "hound". I would see him resting his elbows on the counter top after I left for work, checking out the sink drainer for food. He used to "paw" the refrigerator and howl to look inside the Big White Box. Constantly stole food. I was a bad dog trainer.
Sorry, can't post Bad Dog stealing food or get rid of the 'x' picture,
2 funny things off topic, one about dogs. I was in the parking lot yesterday and not in a good mood. A bulldog started barking at me from inside his car. I was annoyed I said, "Sit Down!!" and pointed to his butt. He did and looked meek. I added , "And knock it off!" After coming out of the Drug store he started again until he recognized me and I pointed to his butt so he sat down and was quiet. I wish that my Bad Dog would have done that.
I just put a window air conditioner outside that was too big from my last place. This cabin has 17" wide windows. Labeled "works, doesn't fit, free" Was gone in 3 minutes! I was shocked. It's 88 here in RI and muggy.
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Bedo, love the bulldog story! So funny. He's probably a very well-behaved dog.
Deborye, sorry your meals were so unappetizing. I had an unappetizing lunch. I took a block of WW cream cheese and mixed it with a can of chicken. Added some capers for flavor. Spread the mixture on a couple of slices of homemade artisan bread. Very bland. That canned chicken has no taste. I have another can which I'll donate to the food bank along with a bunch of cans of salmon we bought in Alaska.
We're having oysters again tonight, lightly breaded and fried. I had planned to cook the rest of the oysters tomorrow at my mother's house for our lunch (hers and mine) after church, but my oldest brother and his wife are bringing lunch. It will be some kind of takeout they buy along the way.
A side dish for the oysters will be a slaw made from the green cabbage in my refrigerator.
Hope Laurie and her family are having a great time camping. Hope Michelle is enjoying her European getaway. Hope everybody else is enjoying whatever they're doing this weekend.
Off subject--I put our air card through a wash today--DH had left it in a pocket of his shorts and I don't check pockets. That has been the rule from day one of our marriage. THE AIR CARD WORKS!!!! Can you believe it?
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Bedo- Your dog story cracked me up too funny! Anytime i see a dog in a car i wont park next to it, scares the crap outta me when it barks when i walk by, need you as my savior haha!
Finally back home had a fun time there watching all these experts make great food. Makes me want to go to culinary school. I dont think i can eat for a week!
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Roasting salmon... a little olive oil, salt and pepper on the salmon.
Brown rice and asparagus (however it might be spelled)
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Carole: That is one of my pet peeves as well...my BF does not take stuff out of his pockets and all kinds of things go through the wash...score cards, money, but the worst is kleenex when it gets all over the rest of the clothes. I'm of the same mind as you...I don't check pockets!
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Yumm Eric, that sounds great!
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Aircard? As in cellular data aircard? I'm an engineer for Verizon Wireless.
Kleenix is nearly the worst in a pocket. Our daughter had a candle in one of her pockets. After going throught the dryer...that might be worse than. Kleenix....
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As a reformed non-pocket checker, I agree with the forgotten tissues being just a huge pain! I once washed and dried my DH's Ipod Shuffle and, while I am sure it shortened it's life, it still worked afterward.... Couldn't believe it!!
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I haven't been eating very well for the past week. (My salad dinners I've been posting in here made up the bulk of my daily food....) I still wasn't super hungry for dinner tonight, despite not having lunch today.
My husband took me out for a little dinner date. We went to the sushi place we had our first date, and I ate more there than I've eaten any day this week- I had a bowl of miso soup, we split an order of veggie tempura, and I ate an avocado roll and a cucumber roll, plus a bit of seaweed salad. Then, on our way home we stopped at a frozen yogurt place and we had some froyo.
Afterwards, we went home and took a nap together on the sofa. A very nice evening, and I feel so much better after I ate a whole meal's worth of food.
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Eric, great meal!
We stopped at West End Johnnies on the way to the Boston Garden (Celtic's home), and I had a very tasty lobster/sweet potato chowder, and a not so great spinach salad. I am a major salad maker at home and should stay away from them at less than four star restaurants.
Cottontail, I'm really happy that you were able to get some good food into you...and it sounded like a sweet date!
Our night at the game was high spirited....game seven after all...seemed like every crazed sports fan in Boston was there except for our DS2 who had to attend the BD party of a good friend. The hyperactive (probably drunk) twentysomething in front of me made it hard to see anything on the court, so I was glad when he apparently got lost at half-time.
The Sixers fought sooo hard. But the Celts pulled it off, and now they have to face Miami. I can just imagine how many hours of PT and massage, etc. these guys will be having before the next game.
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Since I have been off on disability, I have actually had time to make things. Before it would be quick spaghetti with sauce out of the can, or hamburgers, anything that didn't have many steps to it.
Today, for the first time ever (I am 43) I made meatballs. I bought a membership to Allrecipes.com. I have made my own alfredo sauce, which was much less complicated than i thought.
I still use spaghetti sauce out of a can, but I add to it - onions, garlic, Italian seasoning and let it simmer for a while. We also had bread and salad (yeah, it was out of a bag, but baby steps!)
I am looking forward to cooking more.
If you haven't tried it, making the Stroganoff off of the back of a campbell's soup can is a good meal!
Amy
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Amy, hi and welcome! I love the allrecipes.com one of my favorite sites, but have never bought a membership there, I thought they were free? I do my spaghetti the same way, use the jar stuff and add to it. You'll get lots of good recipes here from some pretty fabulous women and men too.
Carol- What an air card?
Just watched " A little bit of heaven" on payper view, it was a tear jerker. Kate hudson plays a colon cancer patient. It was cute though.
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Deb, my real weight loss started with the 5 days I was in the hospital after my BMX. I could not eat the food. I had brought my own muesli, so I ate that for breakfast, but otherwise I did not eat much.
Eric, that sounds like a good meal.
Amy, so glad you are getting into cooking. It really doesn't have to be super difficult or even time-consuming and it is both healthier and cheaper to cook proper food.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Laurie- hope you are have a fun day and are celebrating! Love and hugs!!
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Preamble:
we live on what was an old farm and the property is covered with gorgeous weeds. I like to see how they bloom. I have a friend who is going to come over and show me what is edible. I have quite a few unusual things growing in my garden including kale and swiss chard.. which are not so unusual.. i wish they would grow. my herbs are doing wonderfully including sorrel which is a sour leaf used for soup, healing and in salads in the middle Europe. If you find sorrell snap it up.. it's really good.
I have put young dandelion shoots in my early salads.. they taste like dandylions. I put some of these weeds in the oriental dishes i try. What is really interesting to me, is to visit my Korean friends' store. They have all sorts of dried veggies (dried sweet potatoe stems. dried snake eye grass (i kid you not, dried fish skin, dried). They know i have cancer and the grandmother always encourages me to try these foods. dried seaweed shreds, dried oak leaves... I am still alive. They don't want me to pay for them either... they ordered them for me they said and other people will provide the profit so i have to like to gracefully accept them which i am happy to do.. i take them home and try them.
I do buy plenty of produce there.. every sort of mushroom (except morels) that one could want, as well as sauces, teas and this wonderful food which is a tube of rice product...
they cook the rice, mash it, let it dry and then extrude it thru a machine in hose like shapes. you slice the tubes very thin and stir fry with veggies. They absorb all the burntish crisp sauce and make ABSOLUTELY the most delicious dishes. They gave me a sample and it took me a little experimentation. - a great way to go gluten free. they are seriously chewy and very unusual i would think to the western palate. They are almost indescribably good.. super chewy.. is an unusual way and flavors change as they are absorbed. Seriously good with snow peas.
here is a nice picture of them...http://www.seriouseats.com/2010/11/seriously-asian-korean-rice-cakes.html
After trying many recipes, i simply like to slice them on the diagonal thinly and start wokking with garlic, olive oil, sesame oil and throw these in. they readily absorb flavor.. i add a bit of hoisin sauce or anything like that.. maybe anchovy paste, bean paste, and soy sauce.
i let them get kind of burnt around the edges.. and then sautee some oriental veggies in the same pan... peas, beans, broccoli, mushrooms, green onions.. whatever.
I also made coconut pudding last nite, out of outofdate coconut, milk and some pretty lame tapioca pudding that I bought.. omgosh it was delicious. Thank goodness this little family came over just in time to help me eat it. I would have eaten the whole pot.
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Eric, your salmon meal sounds very healthy. I would like it but DH would be going out for a hamburger or Subway sandwich. He refuses to like salmon!
We're longtime Verizon customers and the air card is for internet connection. DH has it plugged in and is connected to it right now on his laptop. Isn't it amazing that it went through the wash and works? It was pretty expensive, as I recall so I really hated killing it when I thought it was dead! We use the air card during the summer when we're rv travelling.
Amy, welcome. Cooking is risky, I must warn you. When you start preparing tasty meals for yourself, you're no longer satisfied with mediocre out of the box, out of the can, and take-out. All of the above are very high in sodium and mystery ingredients.
I'm the guilty party with kleenex in the pocket. I've found that the dryer does a good job of separating tissue from clothes!
I seldom fry anything at home and I'm not good at frying. Last night's breaded and fried oysters were not as good as those served on poboys at our favorite hole in the wall poboy restaurant, Pontchartrain Poboys. At noon the line sometimes is out of the door. What you want is a crispy exterior on the oysters and a tender interior. I give myself a C minus.
Apple, loved reading your post. Your Korean friends sound so kind. I would really like to go with you to their store. We have a friend over on the MS coast whose yard is probably a lot like yours. She prizes her blooming weeds. I'm sure her neighbors aren't impressed with her grown-up yard but she's a strong-minded woman and they probably don't dare say anything to her! She's also a dog person and cooks brown rice and veggies for her dogs. She claims they don't like white rice!
Happy Sunday to all.
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Waiting for my doctor to come in then my last tx of antibiotics then checking out. Probably about 4 this afternoon.
I had a delishish oatmeal pancake breakfast ate it all. All day yesterday i just nibbled cux the percocet made me so sick.
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Sorry, can't post Bad Dog stealing food or get rid of the 'x' picture,