So...whats for dinner?
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Debbie - thank you, I guess I look pretty good for a 61 year old grandma! The dress was hanging on me...I put on a padded bra and hoped no one pressed against me...lol!!! It's going to be the family summer "compound" I'm sure!!!
The furniture doesn't come with the place, unfortunately. But that's OK, I've accumulated quite a bit of Lloyd Flanders indoor/outdoor wicker furniture that will go beautifully on that decking.
We are giving away/selling old furniture that we don't like. My DH hates our bedroom dressers so they have found a new home just before he leaves. And our sofa is 10 years old and huge, so it's going to one of our neighbors. We also gave them a futon yesterday along with a whole bunch of games. They've got 3 older kids who are just thrilled with this stuff. We won't have to move it and they can really use it. Perfect solution!!!
This week we have to start eating what's in the freezer. I'll be out of here this weekend, hard to believe. DH is coming back, but I can't count on him to eat stuff from the freezer. He'll probably eat out more than in.
Michelle
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Tonight I'm making grilled tilapia with Mango salsa. For the fish, just rub with olive oil and season with dried basil, garlic powder salt and pepper. grill until done and squeeze some lemon or lime juice on it. The mango salsa is just diced mango, grape tomatoes, red bell pepper, scallions, cilantro, lime juice, olive oil, and salt & pepper. (Now that I'm typing this out, I recall mango salsa already being discussed on here!)
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Sherrill- I will have to try that mango salsa for fish, does it have to be tilapia or would a cod or haddock work?
Tonight is a repeat performance, but I love it and am craving it. Chicken madeira with portabellos, scallions, button mushrooms and onion, a little whole wheat pasta on the side and a salad. I had a light lunch and I'm starving!!
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Ladies, I am so sorry to have been gone for awhile but, things are just a little crazy here!! Nothing bad just ultra busy!!!
Michelle,
Your new home looks wonderful!!! What a beautiful and comforting place to heal!!! The whole house looks so lovely BUT that DECK!! Oh WOW!!! I see lots of really great family get-togethers there!! So hard to believe that you will be moving this weekend! May your transition be an easy one!!!
As for your dinner party and looking good at 61.... To quote Steven Tyler on American Idol... "You don't look a day over fabulous"!!!!!! You rocked it GIRL!!
I am joining you this week in the "Empty the Freezer Chopped Challenge" in that I have to use up some stuff in there as well!
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treesprite,
I'm thinking your post where you said ....
" A nutritionist that came to my exercise & thrive (post cancer support group at Y) said if you are actually hungry, you'll want 'real food', if it is emotional/habit eating, then you'll crave carbs/sweets."
is spot on!!
I have found that there are times when I crave vegetables and salads and "real food" and then other times when it's just junk! I will have to take note as to whether or not I am really hungry or if it is something else that I'm feeling!
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Debbie,
Were the pork chops that you made boneless loin or bone-in? I have never been able to get pork chops to come out right. I think because I sometimes follow in my Mom's footsteps where I cook it to death!. Would love to get it right!
S'mores.... What can you say other than YYYYUUUUUUMMMMMM!!!!
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Seaside - thank you!!! I can't wait to hang out on that deck, it's going to be so relaxing! And thanks for the Steven Tyler line {{blushing}}
Tonight we had freezer leftovers - chicken parm that I had made right befure surgery and a chicken pasta dish that my next door neighbor had made for us during that week. So it went together really well and that's two big containers out of there!
After Glee is over (in a few minutes) I am going to go upstairs and spend an hour weeding out clothes I don't or will never need. We had the Allied moving folks in today and they estimated 250 boxes. Need to cut it down at least 20% at least. I think we'll end up doing a uHaul move, but if we can shed a bunch more stuff, the price for a moving company becomes more manageable. And it would be much easier on DH. So, the challenge is on.
Michelle
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Laurie you could do the mango salsa over any fish really. Whatever fish you prefer would be good!
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Quinoa salad for dinner - just me home tonight! cooked red quinoa with dried cranberries, diced celery, chopped green apple, and thinly sliced green onions. Citrus vinaigrette made with orange juice, rice vinegar, oil, salt & pepper and a little curry powder added after the dressing is stirred in.
The mango salsa sounds so good; I love mango!
I on a mission to sleep better and one of my rules is no food after 7 pm - don't know how long I can possibly keep that up! I do eat more when I'm tired.
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Seaside- The last time I made them they where bone-in because they were on sale- I usually do them bonesless though, if they are boneless and thinner i cook them for about 20 minutes in the oven rather than 30 minutes-
Michelle- I love glee!! Favorite show on tv right now! Good luck with your moving!
Treesprite- Your quinoa salad sounds good!
Since I started eating a little more healthy these last couple of days i have already lost 4 pounds, I had 2 hard boiled eggs for breakfast, midsnack i had 1/4 cup of lowfat cottage cheese for lunch I had tuna with mustard only and for dinner i had boneless,skinless chicken (5oz per serving) baked in a 350 oven with white wine, chx stock and a little soy sauce, seasonings covered and baked for 30 minutes it was pretty tasty- Have to drink lots of water through out the day- Not the exciting food i have been eating lately but i actually have more energy.
Edited to add: Also had 1/2 cup of green beans with dinner and a sugar free jello cup as a later snack
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Michelle- Good luck with your packing and moving!
Debbie- Good for you with eating well and losing the 4 pounds! It isn't always easy to eat the way we should, or need to. I am proof of that!
Sherrill- I totally choked when I went to the store today, I had written down the ingredients for you mango salsa for the fish- and forgot it.
So tonight will be baked stuffed haddock with steamers, a little au grautin potatoes and some steamed asparagus. My three year old LOVES steamers and is super excited for dinner, which just cracks me up.
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picture of my oldest last summer eating steamers-
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Laurie, I do that all the time! I'm going to the store for something specific and I get distracted and forget the thing I went for in the first place! So annoying! PS: your little steamer eater is a cutie!
Tonight I'm making eggs, because I have to use them up. I'll scramble them and add onions, red pepper, deli ham and cheddar cheese.
Tomorrow I will be picking the kids up a little early from school and drive down to DC to meet my husband-he's at a conference-and we'll stay the weekend. I haven't been there in a while and I'm looking forward to it!
Debbie-Whoo hoo on the 4 pound! That's great!
Sherrill
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Laurie Great Picture!!! He is such a cutie. I wish I had taught my kids to eat well when they were young. They do better now but it is still an adjustment.
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o2b- All you can do with kids is try. We ask my son to try everything and if he doesn't likeit he doesn't have to eat it. With steamers we told him he didn't have to eat them, because he wouldn't like them. So, being a child he had to proove us wrong, ate them and loved them.
Ok- I need to VENT! This afternoon I made 3 loaves of banana bread, one in my regular pan and two in the foil store pans. I wanted to give one to my dad and one to a nieghbor and had plantly of bananas. THIS is why I hate to bake!!! The two store bought ones collapsed and look like crap and are not cooked all the way through. Yet when I did the toothpick test it came out clean as if it was done. So in the dump they will go.I hate to bake, cooking is so much easier!0 -
Oh Laurie,
I can't count the times I have driven all the way to the store and discovered I left my list sitting on the counter.... You kind of play that game where, for a moment, you try to talk yourself into that you don't have to drive all the way home you can remember what's on the list... Then you eventually come to the realization of, who the heck am I kidding, I'm lucky I can remember why I'm at the store! LOL
My kids both love clams!!! That picture is soooo cute! I have a really good recipe for NE Clam Chowder that we have for Christmas Eve if anyone's interested!
Yuck about the banana bread mis-hap! I hate when you do everything right and, through no fault of your own, it all goes terribly wrong!!!
tougherthanithought,
We love eggs for dinner here! It's our go to if we have nothing planned! In fact my teen-age son makes a great omelet! So that's a plus!! Enjoy DC!!!
Debbie,
YAY on 4 pounds lost!!!! I seem to keep losing and gaining the same 2 pounds.. I think I see where my problem with pork chops is! I am cooking them waaaaaay to long!
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Laurie - what a hoot! Your little one enjoying steamers! I have 4 adult kids and just one will eat them. I am sooo looking forward to having a nice pot of clams!
And what is the trick to posting a picture? I tried the little insert/edit image and that didn't work. Then I tried a simple copy and paste, and that didn't work. I'm usually pretty techy but for some reason I can't figure this one out.
Seaside - mmmm....clam chowdah! No one makes a good one out here in KC. They make it so thick you can stand your spoon up. I prefer a "milkier/creamier" consistency.
Tonight we are having KC BBQ from a local restaurant. We are leaving here on Sunday so this is the last time, except for the leftovers that will result from this meal!
Michelle
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Michelle I haven't figured out the picture thing either. I'm not very techie but someone on another thread a while back posted instructions on how to do it, but it didn't work for me. I wish you could post pics directly from the iPhone like you can with Facebook. That would be really easy!
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I am ready to give up on baking -- I used to be able to bake but for some reason I haven't had any luck the past couple of years! It is so frustrating - you put all that time and money into something and it doesn't turn out. The worst is when I try to bake for company -- you don't find out until it is too late! I've tried checking my oven temperature or maybe the door seal is bad. I'm lucky, my boys don't like cake; I make ice cream cakes -- different flavors of ice cream layered with crushed cookie crumbs and caramel & fudge for frosting. No way to underbake those!
Funny - we had clam chowder for dinner tonight - not bad for out of a can, New England style, with french fries. Salad for me - I'm in a real cooking funk - no interest or energy in cooking at ALL! Luckily I still have food in the fridge, freezer, & pantry stocked up for my recon. surgery and I can eat salad every day, although I probably don't save calories because I like my salad with nuts, craisins, feta or blue cheese crumbles, & I don't skimp on the vinaigrette.
Laurie:That picture is adorable - you just never know with kids! I ate everything when I was a kid; my sister once charged the neighborhood kids 5 cents each admission to watch me eat all kinds of leaves & berries from the woods behind our house & my Dad used to have me eat raw oysters and drink clam nectar to show off for his friends.
Michelle: I'm so excited for you and I hope the move goes smoothly. I am so ready to move but we have one more year until my youngest is out of high school. I hear KC bbq is yummy!
Kathy
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Wow, the seafood, makes me hungry..................Have any of you ever tried mussels...........I love the things, and could eat a bucket full..............I make my own with Garlic, butter, olive oil, salt, pepper, and hot perpper flakes................you dump those puppies in a bowl, scoop the muscle out of the shell, and then scoop the juice onto the shell holding your mussel, and swallow away, and when your done, you dip some good italian bread in your broth...........oh man I could go for some now..
Next comes the blue claw crabs..............yummy, yummy, I need to get to my shore house and enjoy all the good things from the sea..................I'll dream about those bad boys tonight.............hugs ladies.
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Laurie- What a cutie patutie!!! Your son looks like he really is enjoying those, I love steamers in fact i told my husband yesterday that when we go out friday night (our cheat night) Im having the sea hags steamers the broth is so good to just the thing to dip the crusty bread in yummmm!
Michelle- I did the same thing with pork chops too they were always tough but this is kind of a fool proof way to cook them.
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Ducky- I never have been a fan of mussels or oysters the mussels have kind of a earthy taste i cant get used to but i love the broth and blue crabs!
I have tryed to download pictures of food here and only one time i was able to do it cant remember what i did but it dosnt work anymore i can't get the links to work either so i have to copy and paste.
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Laurie08 I know officailly hate you.
How dare you post a picture of steamers. I can't get those here in Chicago. Last time I had them was at the end of August just before my BMX when I visted my parents down the cape. I know most people want lobster when the go east but for me its all about the steamed and fried clams!I really hope I can make it out there this summer.
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Sorry about that Lago!
I am not a well travelled person, so it amazes me that you can't get them in a big city like Chicago! I always think big cities have everything, I am just a country bumpkin. I don't like lobster either. Too rich for me. I hope you make it out to the Cape this summer too. I know there are places in Maine that ship lobsters live, I wonder if they can do it for steamers?
Ducky I do like mussels as well, they are all yummy to me!The only way I know how to post pictures is off of Facebook, which is just copy and paste. LAgo seems to be our techy person here- maybe she can give us some guidance?
Thanks everyone for your sweet words about my son! Last summer he would put 4-5 steamers in his mouth and chew it like gum, it actually grossed me out. A 1/2 hour after dinner he was still chewing and I asked him what was in his mouth. He shoved the wad into his cheek and said steamers
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Great and now you are talking about mussles… granted you can get those out here.
To post images they do need to be hosted somewhere on a server that can be accessed. Even if you have them of facebook it may not work. You have to allow everyone to be able to see them not just your friends.
if you see an image online just right click on it and choose view image. Then copy the web address of that image. Click on the little tree icon in the message menu and paste the web address there. You can also adjust the size but do it proportionally.
BTW my surgery was postponed from May 27th to June 24th because of my shingles. I'm not happy.
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Debbie,
While I love steamers, I always thought I did not like oysters and mussels! Turns out what I didn't like was the mussels I had tried on buffets... Horrible over-cooked disasters!
Mussels were the special appetizer at a restaurant that we went to recently and they were served in a slightly spicey broth like Ducky described (just right for soaking up with some bread) and.... it was like the Angels sang.... SO SO good!!!!
Laurie,
Too funny with your son still chewing so long... I think I would have had the same reaction!
Lago,
Sorry to hear about you having shingles and the delay in your sugery... I have heard that can be quite painful!!
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SeasideMemories they &$#%* kill! Seriously never took any pain meds after BMX. Took some Aleve for the nuelasta pain for 1.5 days each round. I am now doing narcotics and still hurt! This shingles stuff is nasty!0
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Lago,
My Dad had shingles 4 years ago and I will say, it was the first time I ever saw him cry in my whole life!! He was in such pain! It did seem like he hit a point where the pain was just excruciating and then it got rapidly better after that!!! Hope you're rounding that bend! Know my thoughts are with you!
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I've been away from this thread and see much has transpired since I got caught up in my off-line life.
Sorry to hear about the shingles, Lago. I remember my mom and my FIL having them and it was downright painful to watch. I'm hoping that new methods of dealing with them have been discovered since then and that you can find some relief.
I dropped in to post that last winter I had a crystalized ginger/lemon scone in a locally-owned coffeeshop that was to die for and it's been on my to-do list to try to duplicate it. Last weekend I crystalized my own ginger and I got the lemons from the store today. So finally I'm going to try my hand. Will let you know if the recipe is worth saving.
Sprinkling magic soothing dust in Lago's direction.
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SeasideMemories that is the most positive thing I've heard today.
If today wasn't my high point n hell I have a feeling I'm almost there. So it sounds like I might be able to come down from the cliff soon. Something to look forward too!Anjanita, hate to tell you this but no new way of dealing with it if the antivirals don't work fast as they did not for me. I didn't feel too bad at all when I saw my GP last Monday. I should have know this was going to be tough when he asked "do you have any narcotics at home." I was like hell I did a BMX/14 nodes with no tylenol. How bad could this be. Finally something got me down. But…
Husband is coming home with Thai food tonight. I ordered light for me Yum Pla Muk (squid salad) since I'm still a little off from the narcotics.
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