So...whats for dinner?
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Lago, my FIL said he got some relief from a salve which wasn't available in the USA. He got it from some friends of theirs who lived in Canada. Unfortunately he has moved on to his otherwordly home and I don't know what it was called.
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Michelle, your NH house is wonderful. I would be jealous if I weren't so happy for you.
Dinner tonight was not healthy. I bought a quart of freshly shucked oysters today and we had oyster poboys on French bread. Delicious.
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carolehalston - thank you, I can't wait to move in and get on with this journey! It will be wonderful to have my family within a few minutes rather than 1500 miles away! And as much as I know that the rest of this year will be the most difficult of my life, I am ready to get going with treatment so I can be done with it.
Lago - so sorry you are having such a hard time with shingles. I hope you turn the corner soon.
DH and I went out for lunch because we were running around with doctor visits, getting records, signing releases, and getting my "cranial prosthesis" for the inevitable hair loss. I bought a really good one so I can use it in the ocean, lake or pool. Anyways, I had a fabulous shrimp, crab and avocado salad for lunch. I had a frozen mango margarita with a friend late this afternoon and just ate a little leftover waldorf salad for "supper."
Michelle
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Laurie- Your son is such a character I bet you have some good laughs with him every day!:))
Seaside- I dont know what it is about oysters and mussels maybe the smell? I have tryed them everywhere and even my family who has a fine dinning dinnerhouse serves what people say are the best oysters anywhere i still havnt got used to them, although i tryed them fried and they werent as bad as the raw. But if there was anything i despise is escargo eweeeee! just grosses me out LOL
Michelle=Your lunch sounded really good. My BIL had the craniel prothesis done and his hair looks fabulous!
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Michelle- Im sorry, I think i miss understood about the craniel prosthesis my bil had a restoration hair surgery.
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Michelle,
Your lunch sounds delicious! Good for you for getting fitted for your "temporary hair" now while they can see what your current style and color is! That was a great bit of advice that I got from a friend of mine who did chemo. My situation did not require chemo but, if that should change in the future, it is exactly what I would do!
I pray that your trip this weekend goes through absolutely flawlessly!!! I'm sure it all feels a bit surreal right now but, after you get there and get going (one foot in front of the other) it will all fall into place!
Thinking of you!!!
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Lago,
How are you doing today?? Has there been any improvement?
Thinking of you!!
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Debbie,
Clams, Oysters and Mussels aren't for everyone! In fact, I will eat clams, and recently, mussels, but can't take oysters. AND I do none of it raw (I have done coursework in microbiology for my college degree and have seen a bit too much to be able to do that!)...LOL
BUT yet.... Escargo... I'm Ok with! Go figure! I guess my husband may be right in that, my likes and dislikes follow no rhyme or reason! Guess I will just keep him guessing!
My husband eats the raw oysters but not me!
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Seaside...... I tried Escargo, oh heavens could not do that....my son loves it, and said "try it Mom", we were in a very fancy restaurant..........Oh my heavens , I did not know where to spit it.........I near died trying swallow. Never again.....now my husband was Italian, and they called them Conch.......Escargo was a fancy name for them
I can't do oysters raw, but I love them fried, or my Mother would make Oyster Stew........oh that was the best, and now and again I will make it for myself, and toast the last spoonful to my Mother....
Love my mussels.........I could it a bucket full....Love them red or white sauce. yum
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Debbie - lol!!! Here's a link to my cranial prosthesis...
Now honestly, by the time she trimmed it and fit it for me, it doesn't look anything like this at all. It's much more of a layered, loose curly look. And it's very, very light. I would wear it tomorrow in a heartbeat.
Tonight we had a nice dinner at Ameristar Casino, where I have spent way too much money over the past few years. My slot hostess comp'd the dinner for all of us, so that was nice. She really is a sweetheart. My weekly casino jaunts are over. We'll venture out to Foxwoods or Mohegan Sun on occasion, but it will be two hours away rather than 20 minutes away!
We'll be on the road in less than 36 hours...yikes!
Michelle
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Michelle- Dont know if that is the style you are doing but that is such a cute hair stye i just love it!
Ducky=I have had conch which is a sea snail, different from a escargo snail and i actually liked them better, different looking and tasteing, and on my birthday one year i was drinking and even though i dont remember it, my husband said i loved it, i dispute it of course ,lol but still cant get used to the thought of anything crawling around looking like that lol
Tonight we went out to our favorite restaurant for dinner had a great clam chowder soup and then ordered steamers for dinner it was delicious, after talking about it all week here i couldnt wait to have it, so worth the calories.!!!!
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Steamers, mussels, love them both. I tried escargo several years ago and I liked that too. The butter was super garlicky so that might have been what sold me!
So we've been in DC since Thursday so Thursday we ate at the hotel. I had crab cakes w/ asparagus and mashed potatoes (crab cakes were fine but Lago's recipe is better).
Yesderday we had a late lunch. I had Grown-up grilled cheese (smoked cheddar, fontina and goat cheese with tomato soup for dipping-very yummy). We all weren't hungry for dinner so we had Pinkberry frozen yogurt for dinner. I love Pinkberry and the kids thought they were getting away with something by having dessert for dinner! My DD said "That was the best dinner ever!"0 -
thanks Sherrill. Maybe if I feel a little better later I might just make some for dinner. 0 -
Iago, I just caught up on reading the recent posts...I'm sorry you are feeling so crappy from the shingles. I've always heard they can be very painful
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Not can be… they are! I actually took narcotics for the first time in my life on Thursday. Seriously chemo was easier than this. I am now starting my 3rd week of this shingles crap.
Sorry I get a little bitchy after being in pain for so long.
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Conch is a popular food down in the Florida Keys. I had not eaten mussels before we spent an rv'ing summer in the Canadian maritime provinces. One night on Prince Edward Island, the man in a nearby rv site with his family was cooking mussels. He learned that DH and I and another couple we were travelling with were Americans and had not eaten mussels. He brought us a big bowl of steamed mussels. They were delicious. This same man was a mussel "farmer." Farming mussels is a business in PEI.
I see net bags of mussels in our supermarkets here in south Louisiana but have not bought them because I have no clue as to whether they are fresh. Sometimes it's best to eat the seafood popular in your geographical area. DH and I love oysters. There's a restaurant called Mosca's on the west bank of New Orleans that makes a dish to die for called, not surprisingly, Oysters Mosca. They cook the oysters in a metal pieplate in a hot oven. The ingredients are raw oysters, lots of garlic, olive oil, Italian bread crumbs and Italian cheese. It's served hot from the oven with French bread. I've looked up recipes and tried to duplicate Oysters Mosca but mine wasn't as good as theirs. I may give it another try with the oysters in my refrigerator.
I like raw oysters when they're very fresh and salty but I sprinkle them with LA hot sauce and eat them with saltine crackers. Even people who aren't wild about oysters enjoy the grilled oysters that are placed on a very hot grill in the half shells, splashed with melted butter and garlic and sprinkled with parmesan cheese. The famous restaurant in NO is ??? I just drew a senior blank. This same restaurant offers a delicious oyster and pasta dish as either an appetizer or entree.
I've never had the steamers. When we're in New England we usually get the fried clams.
The restaurant I couldn't remember is Drago's. It's a fun place. Not fancy. Lots of locals. Always crowded when we went there and on the noisy side.
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carolehalston My understanding of good mussles is if they are initially closed/close then they are most likely live and you can cook them. If after you cook them they don't open then don't eat them.0
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,I don't eat meat/ so often have beans (any type will do). I saute about 1/4 onion and a stalk of celery and add that to the cooked beans. Sounds boring, but is really quite tasty. Sometimes I will add a few chunks of veggies to the onion/celery mix.
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Lago- I hope you feel better soon, sorry you are in so much pain!
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I have a big pot of duckyb1's gravy recipe cooking on the stove - my house smells great! I'll let everyone know how it turns out.
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Ok, Ladies...............Mussel Lesson
1. Prince Edward Island are the best mussels you can buy........bar none. they are not easy to get since many supermarkets, and fish places carry the other type.
2. Mussels are attached to each other by what is known as a "beard"...if you buy mussels that are all clumped together, you have one nasty job of cleaning them, and removing the beards.......that is a must, or you will ruin your whole pot, with sand and grit, plus the beard is a hairy thing, you don't want in your mouth.
3. There are also mussels called "cultured".........these are good too, but trust me they are not Prince Edward Island..............
4..Yes mussels should be "closed" when you get them before cooking.........if they are open, tap them on the side of your counter or sink, if it closes, it is good to use, if it remains open and does not close.......disgard, it is probably "dead".......(however sometimes from being kept on ice at the store, they go into a hibernated state, so they can fool you, but this does not happen often, don't take the chance.
5.True.........any mussel that does not open up after they are steamed........do not eat.....it could be bad, a dead one, or full of sand..............just toss it.
6..Make sure you buy your big loaf of Italian bread for dipping.........oh I'm hungry already.
Ok, sounds like a lot of thought and work, but it really isn't.........just wanted you all to know the ins and outs of mussels.................been doing them for years..............
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All this talk about mussels is making me hungry... just may have to make
them soon
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The best mussels I've ever eaten are from Le Bouchon. You end up eating the broth with a spoon it so good.
The ower is French/French trained. He doesn't cook much anymore though. I used to work for him 25 years ago in a restaurant that was located down the street from where I live now. We had a nice chat back in August… the weekend before my Mastectomy. I teased about chasing this one waitress around… He smiled because she's his wife.
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Lago is that the same chef from Bouchon in Napa Valley (Thomas Keller)?
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No. The owner is Jean-Claude Poilevey. When I used to work for him he would cook but he doesn't do that much anymore. Guess at 63 he thinks he's too old or something.
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Just found this thread in active topics this morning. I will have to go back and read the whole thing!
Have any of you ever tasted the little Olympia Oyster? They are the richest, most succulent oyster I have ever tasted. The meat of a large Olympia is about the size of a thumb nail. They have been threatened since the early seventies. At that time growers curtailed sales but they have been coming back and I understand are again available on a limited basis. Well worth trying if you ever have the opportunity.
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Largo......Where is this LeBuchon.........My 2 grandsons live in Chicago, and love mussels........One moved there 2 years ago after graduating from PSU, in State College, Pa., and the other one went there this past summer..........after graduating from Carnagie Mellon University in Pittsburgh....They both work for J.P. Morgan Chase, one in downtown Chicago, and the other in suburban Chicago.............The CMU graduate is the older brother, but worked in Philly for 3 years before going to Chicago.......He had a choice of Arizona, San Diego, or Chicago........he chose Chicago.......His brother was already there, so he decided Chicago was the ;place for him.......They love Chicago......I do miss them, but as long as they are happy...
So my reason for asking about the restaurant is they do like to go to good restaurants.
Actually I will be seeing them next weekend.......they are flying in for their younger sister's graduation, and we will be in D.C. for the weekend........Haven't seen them for months, so it it will be wonderful. My grandaughter is thrilled we are all going to be together. Most of the family is going..........She just finished Nursing school at Catholic University of America, and is coming out with a 4.0GPA......I am so proud of her.......She already has a job at The Children's Hospital of P:hila, in the neo-natal intensive care unit........I am a lucky grandmother.,..Just love these munchkins
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Ducky I can recommend lots of fun restaurants. Not the top chef fancy kind but more ethnic finds. Let me know if you want a list and I'l PM you.
If you click on the name Le Bouchon in my posts it will bring you to the website… address and menu all there. BTW the orange duck for 2 is the best in the city.
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Wow Largo, thanks a lot, I will do that, I will email them the name, and they can look too. My daughter goes to see them, and she loves new, and good restaurants......
My grandsons bought a brand new Condo after sharing a apt. for a short time......it is on a street called Halsted, in Chicago. Huge place from what my daugher tells me, and she says it is beautiful............I have only seen pictures.
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Largo, just checked the menu.................yum.......and I can't believe the prices.........very reasonable.........I will absolutely have to tell them about this place... Thanks much
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