So...whats for dinner?
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Oh I forgot a funny story...yesterday my daughter and family came for dinner and she brought soup. After dinner, she took down some storage containers including a small Corningware dish with a plastic cover to hold some of the soup. Just one little problem...it wasn't empty! Apparently when we came home from THANKSGIVING dinner, my son put away the leftovers brought home for him and he accidentally put the bowl with the cranberry sauce up in one of the cabinets. I thought it odd, when I got home from Vegas, that the cranberry sauce wasn't in the fridge. I didn't think he liked it, but then maybe he had changed his mind. So that little dish had cranberry sauce in it for almost two months...LOL! Good thing I wasn't the one who found it!!! How on earth did it not reek???
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Yes, the medium container of ricotta is the 15 oz. one!
Michelle - your story about the cranberry sauce is similar to something I did last week. I bought 4 large skin on, bone in split chicken breasts and I planned to cook them to have chicken available for lunches. Rubbed them with olive oil, sprinlked on S&P and put them in the oven, with the timer set. Timer goes off and I decide that they need 10 more minutes but with the oven turned off, but I forget to set the timer. I wander off, get involved in something and then GO TO BED! I realized the chicken was still in the oven the next morning while on a walk with DH. I was so sad... and I felt like an idiot!
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Oh, Special, and Michelle those are both funny stories! I bet Laurie would really not like THOSE leftovers! I also left something in the oven some years ago...and because of that I now always re-set the timer so I won't do it again....because there is a really good chance of a repeat performance!
Michelle, I can just feel your sense of relief with today's good news. It lit up our thread with such great energy! Neat! Enjoy that chocolate ice cream!
LeeA, I have never noticed those frozen spices at Traders but need to go this week since today there was not a spot to be had in their parking lot, so I passed. Now I have a good reason to return!
I'll be interested to see if those products made it to the East Coast stores. Thanks for the pic!0 -
You all make me laugh. I just popped in before bed and got to read Special K and Michelle's stories of rotten left overs and enjoy Lacey's joke that made me laugh out loud! Michelle- I can't believe your son put it IN the cabinet!!!
Good night everyone and sweet dreams....also as my 3 year old would say....Happy Halloween. (I don't know why he says that?)
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LOL. So funny on the food mishaps. You can add me. I left the stove.on for a couple.of hours on the itty bitty simmer burner. My DH came home after three hours, I told him the stuff was in the fridge. He took out the container put it on a burner and it started to melt. That's when he noticed the burner was on. Geeze I could have burned the house down. But the worst part. It was my new tupperware container I hadn't even had for a week that hot melted.....
Michelle, I am so happy for you! Great news. Much love.0 -
Lacey, we have similar parking problems at most of our Trader Joe's out here. When I first moved here my husband would say "oh, we don't want to go there - it's too hard to park!"
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Michelle: Wonderful, stunning news. Minus
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Michelle- sitting in hotel watching tv and was catching up on post when I saw your news. I'm just so happy to hear those mets are shrinking couldn't of hoped for better news. Have a big, big bowl of ice cream !!
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Deb- your soup is on page 421 I thought for a minute it disappeared when I copy and pasted it lol
Will post more when I get back, can't keep up either :-)))"0 -
OK - so how do you get to the pages mentioned? 421 is easy because it's close, but I sure don't want to page back to 351 one by one to get Michelle's pasta sauce. As you can see, computers are not my area of expertise. Thanks
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We have parking problems in Trader Joes here too. We live in the county seat, and it has a little downtown section with restaurants and shops, and Trader Joe's is right in the middle of it. Luckily it's only less than a mile from my house, so I usually take a walk unless I'll be getting too much stuff. The parking is such a problem that one of Trader Joe's employees actually stands guard at the parking lot and asks you if you're going shopping at Trader Joe's before letting you in the parking lot on the weekends. Crazy.
I will have to look for those frozen spices too. I never noticed them before, but then again I wasn't looking for them.
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My sister in law found a raw chicken leg in her flour container. We're still not sure how she did that.
I burned the whole front of a microwave off. I was cooking a pot of hummingbird solution and thought I had turned the burner off. Turns out I had just turned it to simmer and went outside to putter around in the garden. When I returned, the pot was black and the front of the microwave dripped down onto the stove. Good thing my husband who was in the basement smelled something burning. I salvaged the pot but not the microwave.0 -
MinusTwo,
You can get to the sauce recipe by doing a Search using Michelles Sauce as the Keyword and Laurie08 as the member name. You will get quite a few matches but the recipe is given in one of the two entries with the date Oct 18.
Hope this helps! If not I or someone can copy it and repost it!0 -
Kay....
Look at the URL of this page... it should be something like this: http://community.breastcancer.org/forum/7/topic/764271?page=423#idx_12677
#idx is the post id, but see the page number????? So, no reason to "scroll." Just put in: http://community.breastcancer.org/forum/7/topic/764271?page=351.
Fun with browsers!
*susan*
the site is being stupid. topic/764271?page=351. Just replace the page number in the URL and get rid of the post_id.
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Lol, Nancy on the chicken leg in the flour!!
I know I've 'lost' many a measuring cup or spoon only to find it the next time I use the flour/sugar but never a chicken leg! That must have a real surprise when she found it...lol!
Holy cow on the microwave! That must have been such a mess!0 -
Thanks for the tip Susan!! I didn't know you could that! Sure makes getting back to a page a heck of a lot easier! Guess I've learned my new thing for today....
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Michelle,
So thankful to see your good news!! Keep it up!! Shrinkage is GOOD!
I have purchased premade crepes at Costco. They aren't as delicate as a homemade crepe, but good. I usually prepare them with some nutella, sliced strawberries, and sliced bananas inside. A little flourish with some sqeezed chocolate sauce and it looks like I worked pretty hard
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Susan, thanks so much for that page procuring tip! I am not at all computer savvy, so this was so helpful.
Special dinner plans tonight....LaMorra restaurant is holding their "Big Night". We went to their first one a couple years ago and it was amazing. They show the movie and serve the food and wine that is featured in it, feels just like you are at the restaurant in the movie. Can't wait!
I found a good purpose for my frozen roasted veggies. Will be making a roasted vegetable lasagna for a mid-winter gathering this weekend. I think I might as well make my own ricotta and sauce for it.....but no pasta making happens in my kitchen, so Barilla no cook sheets will be my pasta choice.
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I just have a minute but I did the search and had time to do a quick copy and paste
Michelle's Sauce
Heat 1 tbsp oil and saute 1 lb ground beef, 1 cup chopped onion, 3 cloves garlic, 1/2 cup chopped parsley. Add 2 cans (28oz) crushed tomatoes, 1 6oz can tomato paste, 2tsp sugar, 2 tsp basil, 1 1/2 tsp salt, 1 tsp, dried oregano, 1/4 tsp pepper and simmer a good half hour.
I also add fresh basil to this and sometimes I use shallots instead of onion. It is super easy and really good. Thanks again for sharing Michelle!
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Oddly enough, the chicken leg didn't really smell. I don't know if being buried in an air tight container made a difference or what. It had been in there at least a week (last time she used the flour). What we can't figure out is how it got in there since she doesn't dip the chicken in the flour container not does she pour the unused chicken flour back into the container. Still a mystery.
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I am laughing at the kitchen mishaps! Sometimes I think we do too many things at once- our brains can't handle it.
DS 1 requested pork chops and gravy again since his belly is all better. I feel like I make the same stuff all the time!! But if they eat happily it makes me happy, so pork chops it is.
I was so annoyed today. A stupid thing really. I wear jeans all the time and my favorite ones come from American Eagle, a kind of young persons store but I like their basic boot cut jeans. So my good pair just about has a whole through the knee and I FINALLY went to buy a new pair today. The biggest size they had was a 6. A 6?? Unless I wanted "skinny" jeans which no one looks skinny in unless you weigh under 100 pounds. I was so irritated because to get to a mall and go there was a PITA which is why I have put it off. I was mad thinking do they think everyone is a size 2- have you looked at the youth of today? They are not very skinny....then I realized. That's why they didn't have any 10's left....and I kind of became ok with it. LOL!!
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Oh I wish I had a decent appetite...I'd love to have that La Morra experience. Maybe next year...
In the meantime, we've had a significant change of plans...no Hilton Head - not warm enough and it's going to rain. So...we just booked two tickets to Kauai...on my mother...lol. Our October trip was cut short so we are going for 11 days, leaving on 2/7. We will rent a small studio cottage overlooking Nawiliwili Bay - the Marriott's resort is located there and we will be able to use the resort facilities plus enjoy the bay. And Rick will enjoy highly discounted golf...he needs a break and this will be just the thing to refresh him. This is our 3rd time to this island - I guess we really like it!
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Michelle Congrats on the good news!! and yay on the Hawaii trip...lots of sunshine is just what the doctor ordered!
Laurie American Eagle has a website. My son loves this store, but I can never find his size either, really needs talls, he 6' 5" Didnt even know American Eagle carried talls, but found them on their site and ordered all kinds of button down work shirts for him for Christmas. Nice to have things come right to my door.... the nearest mall for me is an hour away.
Pot roast last night, and turned the leftovers into soup, but think I am gonna do a salad for dinner. Feeling like a good tangy vinegar dressing.
My poor doggie ( a lab) had to have two warts on the top of her head removed today. She has to wear the funny cone for a week...she is so sad, keeps bumping into everything and just cant navigate through the doorways. I have my work cut out for me taking care of her till the sutures come out.
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Carrie,
Those E-collars can be a real pain in the butt. When our dog (who has since passed away) had knee surgery we found something similar to this http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=15678&cmpid=01csegpl&ref=6111&subref=AA&CAWELAID=525365488&catargetid=1570179856&cagpspn=pla .
I can't post pics from my Ipad so hopefully the link works. They may even carry them at a pet store if you have one nearby! It accomplished the same thing as the E-collar but was so much less stressful all around!0 -
I wish I could afford to go places like that. Going to England for DD wedding did me in for a while, plus we just passed papers on the house on Monday.
Hugs Everyone.
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No way can I catch up with you all so big honking hugs to all.
Michelle: you so deserve that holiday - enjoy.
Have had a chuckle at kitchen mishaps
Fish tacos for dinner tonight.
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Just returned from La Morra where the meal was lovely, but it was more crowded than last time, and the elderly man next to me asked if my friend and I would stop talking (quietly, mind you!) so that he could hear the dialogue, better. I would like to have asked him if his wife could cut off her head so that we could SEE the movie! But being girls raised in Catholic schools, we purely complied with his request.
I am getting the urge to do our own Big Night, and the thing I have to master is Timpani.
Never made one. Theirs was splendid!
Nance, I was also wondering how your sister's nose never led her to that errant chicken leg.
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Seaside & Susan: Thanks for the computer tips.
I was going to ask where to search, but DUH - it's on the quick picks on the left. Maybe some day I'll be fully licensed (not)
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Michelle: Hawaii is a good decision & Kauai is my favorite island. That Marriot is lovely. You deserve to have a ball & to make up for October rush home. I went to a fabulous restaurant my last trip but it was up North by Princeville, and why would you drive!!!
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One more kitchen mishap story - I was reminded of this by the melting microwave story. When my now 25 year-old son was a newborn he nursed every 1 1/2 hours around the clock - gained a pound by the 2 week well-baby appointment. He is now 6'4" and 200 lbs. Anyway, there fairly early in the game breast milk was not enough, so sleep deprived me is sterilizing playtex nurser nipples in water in a pot on the stove. I got distracted and all the water boiled off and the nipples all melted in the pan. Pan was ruined and all my nipples were toast. Smelled like burning hair - not good! We lived in upstate New York and this was probably in February. It is freakin' cold and I couldn't really open all the windows with a newborn in the house! I opened the kitchen door to the garage and brought in one of those big box fans and ran it all day - again, felt like an idiot!
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