So...whats for dinner?
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Don't even get me started on if DH empties the dishwasher and where stuff ends up!
auntie - I think 11 beans is still pretty ambitious!
During chemo I regularly looked at www.damnyouautocorrect.com for a laugh - inappropriate, but hilarious!
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I have no idea why my usually compulsive DH is unable to remember where anything other than the dinner plates and glasses live in the cabinets.
I have made peace with this by asking him to just leave the confusing items on the counter and I will put them where I know they belong, so I don't have to go on a search later. He is great at clean up, so I can't complain too much. We do have different approaches to DW loading, which is more of an issue now that I am at home more..... It seems that there should be a research brain study done on this (with follow up remedies!), since it is certainly equally as interesting as some of the studies that we hear about in the news!
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lacey - the stuff my DH puts in weird places is not the confusing stuff! It is the everyday stuff - sometimes even if I have two of something he puts one of them someplace weird - I just laugh! Mine is so good at clean up he threw away our taxes before I sent them in! We were living overseas (1984-ish) and you can imagine what I had to go through to get another copy of our W-2s!
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So, who should be "getting" the follow up remedies? :-)
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I am laughing! Eric- great point us crazy people who need everything just so or the crazy people who don't know where anything goes?
Special K- OMG! You must have freaked when you realised your DH did that!!!
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Hee hee hee, Eric and Laurie...I have no doubt who gets to be remedied in this house!
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I am with you Lacey! I will say DH knows where it all goes but still puts tall glasses where the short ones go and vice versa when loading the washer. Kind of like on the very rare occasions when he trys to help with folding laundry. He doesn't read sizes or seems to remember which kid wheres what shirt and he puts "whatever" into "who evers" dresser and I have to go hunt and peck it out or our 5 year old will come down wearing pants that look like carpis
I am going back and forth on what I will make for dinner- I was planning on fried chicken- feeling lazy and considering patty melts... the next hour will determine whether I catch a second wind or not.
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My DH is the compulsive one, no dishwasher it is me, but I have learned to let him finish cleaning teh kitchen as he will rewipe, rearrange everything! Trying a new venison potato dish tonight pretty easy could be made with beef, elk, or other like wild game wil give the recipe later if we like it!!
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Still no appetite here, so we have been shopping the freezer. Lunch was cheese raviolis. He had some of the roasted tomato sauce while I had butter with oregano and hot peppers. Dinner will be a very spicy short rib chili I made in October served over oven polenta. [Don't have to stir!] Green stuff is the trouble right now. I am down to a wilting head of cabbage and one head of broccoli. I haven't been to the market since December 23rd. Husband has made a few forays out of desperation. When we ran out of eggs, he declared a state of emergency.
My 02143 HATES the way I do the dishwasher. So, I don't do dishes as a regular thing. Nor do I empty. He does a great job except for the plastic leftover containers. Of course, he could put those away, but they are left in my workspace so I am the one who does it. Really tedious to sort, etc, so don't blame him at all.
*susan*
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It's Meatloaf Monday at our house. Trying to make it a little healthier with Italian Turkey Sausage (spicey), 90% lean ground beef, and throwing a little 80% to give it some flavor. Making mashed potatoes and roasted asparagus.
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laurie - I was mighty pissed! We had to file an extension (by mail of course, the internet did not exist) and then re-invent the wheel on all the rest of the paperwork, by mail. Now he wonders why he is accused every time something goes missing! His interpretation of clutter is today's mail on the counter!
belinda - we are having meatloaf too but ours will not be healthy! It is a ground beef, pork and veal mixture that has bacon slices over it. It is topped with a mixture of chili sauce, brown sugar and dry mustard in the last 15 minutes of baking. It is my DH's favorite, hands down. I am making it for him and I will be eating something decidedly less caloric! DH is a lean and fit military guy with a very low cholesterol level so it is ok for him. Today is my oldest child's 25th birthday and I need to be here for another 25 years, so no meatloaf for me because I am not lean, not fit, not military and I don't have low cholesterol, lol!
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Special K meatloaf sounds good, make the same topping minus teh bacon but make with lean beef and venison!
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I sometimes put bacon on it too...but I am not tonight....still trying to break my holiday eating habits...LOL.
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Lol at the dishwasher stories I never have to worry because mine downt do dishes hehe
Omg the weather here in waikiki is about as bad as I've seen it a big storm rolled in this morning it is black and looks like dark heavy fog and raining like crazy so much for the beach today or walking anywhere for that matter suppose to get lightning. Too. What to do what to do. I know go to the bar lol.
Susan if you don't mind my asking what is 02143 stand for ?
Nancy hope that cold gets better0 -
I saw that apple posted on this topic so I thought I would let you all know that she passed away on Sat Jan 12. I do not know any details. She had posted on the Brain Mets Sisters back in Dec that she was not doing well.
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I've been gone all day and I'm sure DH has emptied the dishwasher SIGH! Who knows where I'll find the measuring cups, it's kind of like an Easter egg hunt.
Thanks Debbie, it's probably at that stage where it's going to get worse before it gets better.0 -
debbi, Well, that is my zip code. When I arrived here in 2005, I was not planning to hang around for very long. I didn't use ANY of my cuter and more informative screen names. I thought being anonymous wouldn't matter! Everywhere else, violin appears in my screen name. Oh well. Sadly, I will be a member of this site until I can't post anymore, and I am wishing that I had been more creative. :-)
*susan*
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LOL at the dishwasher stories. So I'm not the only one who rearranges. DH's philosophy is that if it fits somewhere in the dishwasher, he has done his part in cleaning the dishes! It may be hereditary because his mother could get more dishes into her dishwasher than seemed possible. When I load the dishwasher, the dishes are clean because I rinse them and brush off sticky food residue.
He does pretty well with unloading the dishwasher. Occasionally when he "misplaces" something, I realize that his placement might be better than mine. Otherwise I just change the placement and don't complain. Unloading the dishwasher is not one of my favorite tasks.
Dinner tonight is a bowl of home-made beef veggie noodle soup that DH cooked today while I was out and about. It's delicious because I had some of it for a late lunch when I got home. I'll make a salad and slice up some home-made artisan wheat bread.
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So. we only run the dishwasher every other or third day, with just the two of us here. I rinse and put the dishes in as we use them and then when its time to run the thing my DH rearranges it first. I have them in there right, but he arranges them by size...all lg plates together, sm plates together etc. If he is so anal about this, why isnt he the same about getting them in there in the first place? Leaves his dishes for me to pick up! It must be "selective OCD"?
Tonight will be salad with the leftover chicken I grilled yesterday.
Welcome Belinda and Carollynn
Linda Thank You, we received the news.
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Carole, that fits my DH's philosophy perfectly. I too asked him to leave out the things if he didn't know where they went but so many things ended up on the counter, I think he felt that he hadn't done much lol. Oh well, I can't really complain, he has a lot of other very fine qualities. For instance, after he put dishes away today, he went to his workshop and made me a pasta drying rack. Gotta love him!
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Nancy, that's great! Neither DH nor I are handy. The light bulb burned out of the light in the foyer. DH, my two DS's and I all tried to get the cover off to replace the bulb, and none of us could figure it out. I bought a lamp to plug in and put in the foyer! It seemed crazy to call a repairman to replace a light bulb. My brother said he'd come over and fix it, but I've been waiting since Christmas Eve.
Carrie, I think I must e distantly related to your DH. I am OCD about the dishwasher, but will leave empty glasses just sitting around. But I am also the one who will pick it up the next morning and put it in the dishwasher. If I go away I can tell when I get home if anyone cooked because I have a system for putting the plates away. We have three sets of everyday dishes because of breaks. They are similar, but not exactly alike. I always put them in the cabinet in a set way. If they used the dishes, the three sets are always mixed together in the column instead of the way I do it. They don't know how I always know what they've done. I guess they think I am psychic. LOL
DH made chicken masala in the crock pot today. We also had naan and basmati rice. I enjoyed it!
Welcome to the newbies! Debbie, it sounds like you are having quite a vacation! I am so glad you're enjoying yourself. Love everyone's dinner choices. Looking forward to trying some new recipes soon.0 -
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Kay- Again I am laughing, as a child or in my 20's I would stop by my parents house and scrounge for food due to lack of income and my own food. I would look around the kitchen before I left and think- its perfect, they will never know I was here. My mom would always call me in the next few days and say- so- you stopped and had a BLT? WTF? How did she know that? I washed and dried my dishes etc. Now as the woman running the household and doing all of the cooking and cleaning I get it. I know how many strips of bacon are left over now too. But I was in awe that she knew I had been there!
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Lol on the Mom super powers!
Although I can relate to having older kids with their late night eating... I usually plan my meals for the week and it's frustrating when I go to get an ingredient out that I need, usually something I've already made that was going to be 'reborn' as something else, and it's gone leaving me to scramble last minute...grrrrrrr....
Tonight was stuffed peppers that I had made and frozen when I had lots of peppers from my garden.... Didn't even thaw them... Just put a little sauce in the casserole dish, plunked them in and topped with a little more sauce.... Super easy! Edited to add: I also covered them with foil and baked them... Lol....0 -
Glad our new gals received the official Deb welcome. Thanks Deb!
I have to admit I probably have the selective OCD dx too since I do not mind clutter since I can generally remember where everything is but can't stand mess, dirt (like the mud the builder guys traipsed all over our floors today...ick!) sticky, etc. And a confession ...I have recently been stacking OUR three sets of dishes in a different order than compulsive DH religiously does...just to mix things up a bit....and because I prefer to use the newer ones on the bottom
Speaking of psychic moms....Some years ago, our younger son had stayed home one weekend when we went to the lake. He was a college student and extremely well connected to the social network in our town. So, we worried about the chance of a party happening at home, even tho he was a really trustworthy guy, still a college student! Being really crafty we called around 9 PM Sat evening and told him we decided we might drive home that night instead of the next day. We didn't, and when we arrived home the next night, as soon as we entered the kitchen, the dog slipped on the waxed floor (hmmmm) no confession,..... then I noticed that some furniture was a bit out of line and by the time, I asked why the hurricane lamp was in a new place, he threw up his hands in frustration and told us about the "gathering" he had that (of course) drew more than invited guests, (fortunately for us not too many more...and one kid who drove here got fall down drunk and they all spent a lot of effort getting him and his car back to another town). He thought he'd carefully blocked off parts of the house using the furniture, and cleaned all the floors and any other "suspect" areas needing cleaning right after everyone left. So was he surprised when his mother noticed scene after scene being different than the way she left it...and the waxed floor really gave it away! We all still laugh over that now. Whew...glad they are all grown!
Since our kitchen was off limits today we went to the Rice Barn for lunch (DH's idea...he loves their "box lunches"...had the Korean one). I had a delightfully light dish of chicken and shrimp with asparagus and snowpeas.
Tonight we had lamb lamejan, baba ganoush, and cuke salad.0 -
Sharon gets frustrated with the "disappearing food items". I just kind of go with the flow and either deal with it by coming up with something else, or going to the store to replace the missing items...we have a store about 1 minute drive from the house.
I guess our different attitudes about this comes from college. Sharon lived in a dorm and ate the dorm food. I had my own place and I followed he "Here's what I have. What can I make with it?" method.
Sometimes I couldn't make anything with what I had in the house....M&Ms, cheese puffs, beer and bacon don't offer many possibilities.....when that happened, Mickey would ride her bike the two blocks to her apartment and call on the phone so we could combine resources. If she was also down to M&Ms, cheese puffs, beer and bacon, then we would *have* to go to the store... Although I do remember that one time, right after we had paid our tuition and bought our books (and budgets were *LEAN*), actaully trying bacon wrapped cheese puffs...it sort of worked! :-)
Eric
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Eric...culinary creativity in the good ol times!
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I had some lean times in college just like so many. My junior year really started bad. Ihad enough money for tuition and books and very little for subsistance. Lived in an apartment with a roommate and figured we could make it by sharing expenses but she got homesick after two weeks and moved home to commute. The increased rent ate my food budget.
I got lucky. Landlord gardened, had way too much produce and a root cellar. Kept me well supplied with onions, potatoes and carrots. After a couple of weeks fried patoes and onions got old. A guy I knew took pity on me when he heard about my predicament and invited me to dinner, I brought him a bag of my produce. He too was a poor student but had a very part time job in the meat Dept of the local store. He kind of adopted me as a little sister and we pooled our resources. I had dinner at his house almost every day for the rest of the school year. But for him I probably would have had to move home that year.
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Bacon wrapped cheese doodles sounds like it would be my DH favorite meal! And how bout those college Ramen noodles? And box mac n cheese at 59 cents a box.
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After my mom got us the paperback Betty Crocker cookbook and we figured stuff out, the Ramen noodles and Mac & Cheese became less of a staple.
Final exam stew was designed to last the whole exam week and was added to as needed. Since we would be gone a couple of weeks for semester breaks, it was a put everything that might spoil while we were gone into a huge pot and let it simmer the whole week. Also added was stuff, that while it might not spoil, was on hand and seemed like it would help the flavor
Apples, hamburger, bacon, eggs, vegetables of all types, all sorts of pasta, beer....... Folks coming over to study knew they could eat too and they would bring stuff to add so we wouldn't run out of food.
The engineering types kept the stove from burning the place down and the biology majors made sure it didn't turn into a bacteria farm and make us sick...0
