So...whats for dinner?
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Apple a very sad story, I am also sure he is looking down on you....you were probably his one true friend that could understand who he was.
Welcome specialk and Tazzy thanks for posting your meals Yum for the ice cream. I am not a desert maker so my DH settles for a bowl of ice cream for his desert. (almost every night LOL)
I got a call from PS yesterday that they had a cancellation, so I went in today and got my tattoo!! YAY! NOW I am officially done. Oh my goodness its been a long road.
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Apple: That's a sad story about your brother..that is a terrible disease.
carberry: Congrats on finishing all of your PS and getting your tattoo!
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Asking for a little prayer for my FSIL, he is having his gallbladder out Thursday. He has not been able to keep anything down and he is jaundice. Stones must be blocking a duct.
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deb: Sending prayers your way...and how are you feeling...better I hope?
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deb - thanks for the welcome - sending good wishes for your FSIL - if they are doing it by laproscope it is a pretty easy surgery - hope he does well.
carberry - congrats on the tats!
apple - your brother must have been a gentle soul at heart to want to be Jesus - I am sorry you lost him sooner than you should have.
debbie - the dinner smelled yummy to me, DH and DD loved it - I am trying to behave so having salad with vinaigrette and some chicken. Thanks for the welcome!
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I'm still on antibiotics, they make me nauseous, about a half an hour after I take it on an empty stomach, I have all I can to keep the pill down. I can take it with milk or food but it says it decreases the strength. Tata is a lot better but still has some tenderness, swollen slightly and a very light pinkish purple color, mostly on the underside. I have a mammo the 21st of June along with a follow up then I see my onc.
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Thanks for the welcome ladies.
SpecialK I am impressed with your willpower for dinner. The first week after chemo I always crave 'comfort' foods, chick pot pie I consider one.
Apple - thank you for sharing your story of your brother. Very special and humbling.
Off to put the chicken pie in the oven - have a lovely evening ladies and chat tomorrow.
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Lacey, I found several recipes for carrot cake. I think I'll try the one in the revised Joy of Cooking.
Welcome to Tazzy and Special K. Glad you chimed in.
Dinner tonight was seared catfish fillets, coleslaw, and fresh green beans. I steamed the beans and then sauteed them in butter and garlic and sprinkled Asiago cheese. Everything tasted good.
This is a great time of the year for berries and fruit. Today I bought blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, mangos, peaches, bananas, limes and watermelon. Tomorrow is the pickup for CSA veggies.
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Yes, they are doing it by laparoscopic. I'm praying there are no complications, hospitals in Bermuda are not like here.
It's called laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
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yeah.. i loved my brother big time. The brother between us was brain damaged and altho he is my 'favorite' brother, Peter and I were very close because he was a normal child and very shy. I had two jobs during his hospitilazation time.. He'd be in and out all the time. He'd call me up and say 'Mary dear' - can i borrow 20 bucks.. every week. He'd give all his money to the homeless guys downtown. he was special.. and so beautiful.. I'll find a photo. When he died it about killed me.. i became an instant alchoholic.. only lasted a couple months tho.
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deb - will send positive thoughts for the surgery!
tazzy - I have willpower because I finished chemo a year ago and I have been standing in my closet looking at all the clothes I don't fit into!apple - I lost my brother, my only sibling, in '08 to stage IV bile duct CA - I miss him and understand how sad it is.
carole - thanks! Are you still looking for a carrot cake recipe - that was you a couple of pages ago, right? I have a good one that has crushed pineapple in it - keeps the cake moist. Let me know.
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so Peter, is in the middle of the couch between two girls. John, is on the far left. we all were a hotbox team. It looks like all the kiddies were born by then.. I am holding the youngest, Emily on the right. funny how we are all pretending to read.
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so I think I will cook something good tomorrow.. any ideas?
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Apple. Thank you for sharing.
I could tell when Chrissy was beginning to read and it happened at a bakery in front of a carrot cake. She was four and I was getting a cake for my dad's 89th birthday She was looking longingly at each of the cakes and pointing at the little signs with the cake type and price. When she got to the carrot cake, I heard...."EEEUUUU....WHY!?!???" She then moved on and went back to drooling at the other cakes.....
Sharon was still buzzing from the steroids and she cooked tonight. It was kind of a Thai meets Mexican food...I didn't see the recipe, but it was a peanut sauce (probably peanut butter thinned out in a tiny bit of oil) mixed in with shredded chicken; an onion, corn and mint "salsa"; chopped cabbage..all put on hot corn tortillas.
Eric
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Apple- What a beautiful and large family of siblings you have. Everyone looks so happy and how funny on the books! LOL! I get out my pictures of my sister Mindy that passed almost everyday. Thanks for sharing that part of your life. (((hugs)))
Carrie- Yay! on the tats!
Carol- Sounds like good ole down home la food too me.
Deb- Saw this on your facebook earlier and said some prayers for him.
Specialk- I would love for you to share your recipe. sounds good.
Oh and Apple, how bout some easy sloppy joes for dinner? With baked ff. Hmm might make that myself tomorow.
I had pork chops with homemade applesauce and green salad with a wishbone coleslaw dressing on it. so yummy. And of course cant forget my popcorn for dessert.
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Apple, I am so sorry. My brother (one of them) is also about 3 years younger and he has severe schizophrenia that developed when he was in his teens. He is still alive, but there have been many close calls over the years. It is a complete bastard of a disease, and living with that and deciding to keep going in spite of it is the real battle in my opinion.
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Tazzy, welcome to the supper club
Yesterday I made quiche with a rye and olive oil crust, filled with leeks and feta. I also baked eggplant, Greek-style, topped with onion, garlic and tomato and baked for a long time with lots of olive oil.
A nice guy from Crete, one of the cabbies we use regularly, just gave us a huge tin of olive oil from his family's land in Crete. Greeks are convinced that olive oil cures all ills, so he brought when he found out about the stupid cancer. It is great oil, so I am very happy.
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apple: Nice family photo! How much fun to grow up in a large family. I was an only child until I was twelve, then my little sister came along and I enjoyed her for a few years before I became a selfish teenager and she became an annoyance to me. Sadly, we were never very close because I married and moved away from home when she was only six. We had little or no contact with each other. She was the wild child of the family, and when our DM passed, I tried to get her to come live with us in Florida, but she didn't want to give up her drug habit to do so. I lost touch with her for many years after that until she contacted me out of the blue one day to tell me she was dying from hepatitis C. I flew to Houston immediately and we reconnected. I thought she was going to have a little more time, I was planning to return right after the holidays, but she died of an overdose shortly after I left. She did tell me that she had made a terrible mistake by not coming to live with us in Florida, and how she had wasted her life away. So sad...I always wonder if there wasn't something more I could have done to save her.
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Morning everyone. Just found out son and girlfriend are coming for the weekend, guess I need to stock up on the groceries. I know he will want chicken wings on the grill.....we can go to the fanciest restaraunt in town and he will look for chicken wings on the menu....cant get enough.
Momine that is the best gift ever! Good olive oil is so pricey.
Kaara You cant feel guilty..you tried... and theres no saying that she wouldnt have gone down the same path in Florida. We do the best we can in the moment. Addiction and mental illnes are both very tough to manage.
Apple Eggplant parm comes to mind...mmmm my favorite
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SpecialK .... That would be motivation for sure. I am still on chemo and my taste buds now love sweet things, whereas before I was definitely a savoury/salty type.
Apple - I feel very privileged that you could share your story with us... thank you.
And Kaara... thanks for sharing your story also. So sad, sorry for your loss.
Deborye... good luck with the surgery.
Carole... your dinner ? what can I say. Louisiana food... yum, yum ! OMG... almost gets me drooling
Momine the quiche sounds delish - and how kind of the Greek cabbie to give you olive oil.
Apple/Kaara - your family stories have made me realise how so very lucky I am to be so close to my only Sister - there is a 6 year gap between us and yes we had that awkward annoying each other stage when I was a teenager (I am the oldest), but now - even though I am in Canada and she is in the UK - we are so very very close. Apart from my husband, my sister Jo was the first person I told about my DX with BC - I cherish her.
Well...back to food.... It is still only 8.45am here so I have a long time to think of dinner.
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I just re-read my last post and felt like it came off odd.
Apple, I do mean thank you for sharing. I have a hard time saying much about my experiences along those lines so when someone else shares like that, I really do appreciate it. It's one more "I'm not as alone as I thought".
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Wow, this thread is moving at lightning speed! Welcome SpecialK and Tazzy - so nice of you to join us!
Apple - that is a bittersweet story about your brother. It seems yours was a very close-knit family.
For my blogger fans, I managed to finish writing about our day in London and there are some pretty good pictures, if I do say so myself...lol.
DH cooked burgers and corn on the cob for dinner last night. I'm going for my biopsy this afternoon and they may drain a seroma that seems to be about where my TE was removed. I'd love for that pressure to be relieved, it feels so weird.
We are having pasta with spicy sausage and caesar salad for dinner. It's something DH can whip up if I end up feeling bad after being used as a pin cushion...again.
I'm missing French bread - that fresh baguette that DH picked up every single morning and brought back to the apartment for breakfast. Why can't we get those here?
Speaking of food, neither my stomach nor my body seems to have adjusted to the home time zone just yet. It's 11 a.m. and my tummy is telling me I missed lunch already!
And I brought back a tube of French mustard with three kinds of pepper - an impulse purchase in Le Grande Epiciere. Now I need to come up with a good recipe to use it. Any suggestions from our European friends? I was thinking of making a little dipping sauce for some beef.
Deb - hope your FSIL is OK. My daughter had her gall bladder removed a few years ago and she was fine the next day.
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Just finished reading your blog Luv...and yes, you have taken some really great pics. So glad you had a great time. London is truly a magical place - the history of it alone! I was born and bred in London until I emigated to Canada in 2000.
Hoping the biopsy goes well for you.
Gonna try and think up some good recipes to share for dips... not sure if I will have any success - blame it on the chemo !
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Wow-how am I going to catch up?
Tazzy and Special K WELCOME!!! SO glad you ladies have joined us!
Deb- Good luck to your FSIL on his surgery. I hope he feels better quickly and everything goes smoothly. I am glad your infection is clearing and you are feeling better.
Michelle- Good luck with your biopsy. I hope you get some relief from the pressure/odd feeling you are having. I agree with everyone here, you have a knack for writing and I enjoy reading your blogs. You are also great with a camera!
Apple- I am so sorry about your brother. I too loved the picture of all of you piled on the couch. What was with the books anyway? As for a dinner suggestion I recommend trying Debbies Blegian chicken. I love it.
Carrie- Yay that your DS and girlfriend and his girlfriend are coming for the weekend!
Kaara- I am so sorry about your sister. You did all you could. Sometimes there is nothing we can do to help someone we love, no matter how hard we try.
Momine- your quiche sounds delish!!
I know I am missing some of you and I am sorry!!
So, who has two thumbs and a new oven in her kitchen? This girl right here! YAY! Yesterday we finally got the call that it was in and DH and by brother went and got it and put it in last night. By the time we got it in the house I had already fed the kids and we had to move on with the night time routine. DH and I had BLT's around 9:30 last night. They were good and simple which was what we needed by that time.
Tonight DH has to work late so the boys and I are on our own. Where DS #1 can't eat much I have no idea what to make. I suggested to him that we make one of his favorites, spaghetti and meatballs and he informed me that "is too spicy for his throat." So I will have to think of something else. He is on day 6 today post op which is when they say it gets the worst days 5-8. He is doing ok though...not as good as yesterday but still being a trooper.
Any ideas of what would be soft to eat that a 4 year old would like that isn't mac n cheese, pancakes or spaghetti o's? Both biys just got their first taste of spaghetti o's this week and they think it is amazing....I am not a fan of feeding them from a can too much....
Debbie- Thank you again for the Belgian chicken recipe, we just about licked our plates clean two nights ago. Also, thanks for thinking of me and the loss of my friend. It is very sad.
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Laurie - would your son eat spaghetti with cheese and olive oil? It's a little better than stuff out of a can. Or maybe an alfredo sauce that you could add some peas or other soft veggies?
When I was a kid, I always liked chicken with gravy over mashed potatoes. Even if you bought a pre-roasted chicken, you could use a chicken gravy mix. Your boys are not as fussy as my grandkids - they think they don't like mashed potatoes...craziness!
I'm back from my biopsy and fluid draining. Three biopsy samples (a little ouchy) and 38 cc's (maybe - not sure what the measuring unit was, just that it was a 20 and an 18 - two tubes) of gunky seroma fluid. Sorry, TMI...LOL! Definitely feels better now.
I'm glad you all are enjoying my travelogue ramblings. I have to stick with it and get it all out there before I forget what we did!
DH is having a tough day - his company laid off 100 people and he knows most of them, he's been with the company for 33 years. The good news is that he's invited to a conference call at 4:30 to discuss the after-effects. So we think that means he's safe for this go-round. He doesn't need this stress on top of everything else...poor thing.
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Michelle that was a good suggestion on the spghetti with no sauce, My daughter went through a "white" phase and would only eat white foods so that was a go to for her only with butter and parm cheese. for your question about the mustard, I always think bratwurst with saurkraut with a good spicey mustard. Your a trooper getting through those biopsies....that was the only time I cried during all of this...the Dr. really hurt me!
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The CSA veggie pickup today loaded down the bag. I wish I could share the eggplants. Three kinds. One large purple variety, 2 lavender (longish and smaller), and one large white eggplant. 6 large red potatoes. 3 green bell peppers and 2 small purple ones. Cherry tomatoes that aren't round but long ovals. Cucumbers. Lettuce. A bag of assorted hot peppers. Four large green tomatoes. Basil and tarragon.
I love the unhealthy southern method of cooking eggplant, which is to peel and slice them, dunk the slices in egg/milk mixture, then in seasoned breadcrumbs and fry in hot oil. Delicious but so high calorie. The green tomatoes are good cooked the same way.
Apple, that's a cute family picture.
Kaara, sad story about your sister.
Please do share the carrot cake recipe, Tazzy. DH and I travelled through part of BC last summer returning from Alaska to the lower 48. Beautiful province.
Dinner tonight will be one chicken breast and two boneless thighs, probably chicken parmesan. One side and a salad as yet undecided! There will definitely be a before-dinner martini full of olives, vodka for me, gin for dh.
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Michelle- Loved all the pictures you shared so glad you had a great time.Sorry about the ouchy biopsy hope that clears up the seroma. Good to hear your DH is ok with his job i know how that is, not to long ago Chuck was going through the same thing, now we are hearing the new GM is being let go. Its scarey i know!
Laurie- Yay on the new stove so happy for you! they sure took there time didn't they. Michelle had some good ideas for your DS i was also thinking about some scrambled eggs and applesauce not necessarily together. also some puddings. Thats a hard when when your trying to help them eat healthy but limited after surgery.
Kaara- Sorry about your DS too, i know we all talked about our losses not to long ago and i told you about my sis and how she passed too, there is always so much guilt there but now i know there ws nothing i could of done. Im just blessed i had her in my life for as long as i did,
Carrie- Enjoy your family this weekend.
Momine- Oh what a great gift, my DH brings evoo home for me from some of his vendors one little bottle that would normally cost around $30.00 i save it for special occassions.
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