So...whats for dinner?

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  • Laurie08
    Laurie08 Member Posts: 2,047

    Eric- I am so sorry for your families loss.

    Carol- My quiche is super easy too.  4 eggs, 1 cup of milk, whisk together add what you want for cheese. veggies, meats etc.  Pour into a Pillsbury crust and bake at 425 for 25 minutes and lower oven temp to 325 bake for another 30 minutes.  ( often I forget it at at 425 for too long- no big deal:)  Often I just do ham and cheddar cheese. 

  • auntienance
    auntienance Member Posts: 3,904

    Eric, my condolences to you and Sharon.



    Carole, the custard for quiche is usually 3 or 4 large eggs to 1 cup milk. The most wonderful custard is made with cream or half and half but I've certainly used skim milk. But usually some combination. If you use store bought crust, try to find Marie Callender's, they're the best, at least around here. Kroger usually carries them. I've never used egg beaters so I'm not sure how they would work with milk. My quiche is usually simple, cheese, broccoli or spinach and a bit of ham or bacon. All your food groups (except chocolate) in one pan lol!

  • carberry
    carberry Member Posts: 997

    Eric and Sharon  So sorry for your loss. Saying prayers for your family.

    Last night we did a salad for dinner...our pentance for super bowl food on Sunday. Tonight I am making a chicken pot pie.

    One of our friends had brought a desert type dip for the superbowl party, and she was one of the first to show up so we all dug in to her dip and had desert first!  It was cream cheese on the bottom of a pie dish, covered with caramel sauce and crushed heath bars...slice apples and dip  OHHHH yum! Then there were all of the chicken wings, chicken wing nachos, chicken wing dip, chicken wing pizza and so on....

  • carolehalston
    carolehalston Member Posts: 8,196

    Thanks, Minus, Auntie, and Laurie, for the quiche recipes.  Seems easy enough and versatile.  I'll copy and paste all three recipes in a Word document.  And Michelle's "easy-peasy" quiche, too!

    Minus, I think I have an Osterizer!  It belonged to my MIL.  One of these days I will buy one of those super-duper blenders.

    My fish tacos last night were very good and it was an easy meal.  DH seemed to enjoy it, too.  He's not as big a fish fan as I am.  He made the sauce.  If I lived in CA, my fast food restaurant of choice would be the fish taco places.

    Tonight's dinner will be stuffed bell peppers.  The peppers (green) are huge so a portion will probably be half of a pepper.  Deciding whether to use quinoa or brown rice as part of the filling.  Leaning toward brown rice.  The meat will be ground turkey out of the freezer. 

    Yesterday I made a starter (biga) for Tuscan bread, which is almost all whole wheat flour.  I plan to make the bread this afternoon.

    Eric, sending comforting vibes to you and Sharon and to Debbie. 

  • Lacey12
    Lacey12 Member Posts: 2,895

    Minus, the large can is 28 oz.

    I ended up using that recipe for the sauce I included in my three lasagnas, and since I have been using the Barilla non-cook lasagna noodles, I found the sauce to be a bit thick...not so with spaghetti and meatballs, sausage, etc.I should have watered it down so that the lasagna would be less dry...the flavor was fine, tho.



    Laurie, I have always put cream in as part of my milk components for quiche, but I must try it your way....cuts down on trips to the store as well as calories....sort of! Thanks!



    I am celebrating shedding another doc. Two weeks ago, I got to say good-bye to my RO (hopefully for good). Today I just had to talk to the rheumatologist I see a few times a year for my OA about the frustrating fact that I suddenly see way to many docs. He nicely complied with my "reduce the docs" diet and offered to become a very low key person in my life....don't have another appt. until next year. Yay! He prescribes my Celebrex, so I don't want to drop him totally, but there is little he can do about my new sharp knuckle pains (I do not want cortisone shot into them), so a year from now to check in is fine.



    Hope you are managing okay, Debbie. Enjoyed your recent Facebook sisters pix.

    Caring thoughts to you and your family, Eric.

  • Lacey12
    Lacey12 Member Posts: 2,895

    Carole, would love to have your starter recipe....

  • Laurie08
    Laurie08 Member Posts: 2,047

    Carrie- Your super bowl sounds great!  I have a friend who makes the same desert and it is very good!  Glad you had fun!

    Carol- I need to try to do fish tacos.DH loves them.

    Lacey- Congrats on one less Dr!  It's the little things sometimes that make all the difference.

    I almost hate to jinx myself but I am on day 5 of not having vertigo because of my ears.  I attribute it to switching to a different allergy med.  I go to the ENT on the 11th.  But, because I don't feel like utter crap I have had so much more motivation!  Today I cleaned and rearranged the furniture in both boys rooms and I worked and ran errands.  I feel like a different person. 

    Tonight I am making stuffed shells and the boys are very happy about it.  DH called this morning to check in from his "business trip"- he had just gotten out of the pool.  I asked him if he was nuts, why would he tell me that?  Lol!

  • auntienance
    auntienance Member Posts: 3,904

    Today was my 18 month mammogram. Word from the radiologist was "everything looks great". Whew! Breathe for another year Nancy . . . (It was a diagnostic due to a very stubborn seroma that I've had since radiation.)



    Tonight is chili that I've made in the crockpot, which I've never done before. We'll see. In celebration I'm treating myself to a very large chocolate cupcake!

  • LuvRVing
    LuvRVing Member Posts: 2,409

    Congrats, Nancy!  That chocolate cupcake sounds like a proper celebratory food!

  • SeasideMemories
    SeasideMemories Member Posts: 2,462

    Yaaaayyyy on the good mammo results Nancy! And, yes, take some really deep breaths and then... enjoy that cupcake (or two.. or three...lol)



    Eric,



    Very sorry to hear about Sharon's uncle. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family!



    Lacey,



    Yay for you for dropping yet one more doctor's appointment from your calendar! I used to complain about all the routine doctor's appointments pre-BC. Never did I imagine how many hours I would spend testing, waiting, meeting, treating and endlessly following-up with my Merry Band Of Doctor's but here I am... I 'graduated' from my RO last year and my BS dropped my yearly MRI since I had 3 clean ones... Not sure yet how I feel about that.. ILC is just so sneaky...



    Laurie,



    Glad you're starting to feel better. Congrats on the new camper! Is it an RV or a tow-behind? I'm not a camper, can you tell?! lol....



    Debbie,



    You are in my thoughts and prayers every day. We miss you here and hope, when you are able, that you will be back. Love and Hugs coming your way....

  • Lacey12
    Lacey12 Member Posts: 2,895

    Yay Nance! Enjoy the relief!

    And yay Laurie for being full of energy and able to stand up straight! Sounds like you got so much done today. Must have felt great!

  • LeeA
    LeeA Member Posts: 1,092

    Congratulations, Nancy!  

  • Lacey12
    Lacey12 Member Posts: 2,895

    So while I'm listening to The Chew as I work in the kitchen, I hear Michael Symon talking about making his fried chicken WITH BACON! It looked scrumptious, and I'm not even a fried chicken person! Immediately thought of you, Michelle. Check it out if you didn't see it, and I hope you can enjoy some of that soon!



    Not sure if I mentioned that I have recently recruited the woman I met and spent most of that Western MAss weekend with, to do chef detail with me for the dinner I will make (hopefully in Sept), since she also likes to cook. So we should have some fun with planning and executing this. We were simultaneously already coming up with ideas for an interesting amuse bouche. I had to laugh at how our minds run together. Of course if we are already talking amuse bouche, I suspect that we won't be going the spaghetti and meatballs route, which I thought could be an option. Oh well....it will be an adventure...and is far off! ;)



    Two days before we get socked with snow here.....

    Hope everyone is feeling well.

  • LuvRVing
    LuvRVing Member Posts: 2,409

    Oh I am so excited that we are leaving early tomorrow morning and will miss this snowstorm.  If we are lucky most of it will melt away before we get home. 

    I had my last carboplatin treatment...it isn't working at all.  Tumor markers have risen above 1000 so we are discussing Gemzar and Abraxane as the next protocol.  Ugh, it would be nice if one of these showed some promise.  Dr. Walsh will discuss our idea with Dr. Chen (at Dana Farber) and then we'll go forward on 2/20.  I'll have a CAT scan on 2/21 or 2/22 - setting another baseline. 

    I'm looking forward to lots of fresh fish, fruits and veggies...and a few umbrella drinks mixed in for good measure.  We are declaring a "no cancer" zone for the trip - we need a good break.

    Lacey - we got home a little bit ago and I now have The Chew on.  Fried chicken with bacon??? Fascinating!

  • luvmygoats
    luvmygoats Member Posts: 2,484

    Michelle - I have Fox News on and weather is on. 2 feet of snow in Boston on Friday???  So glad you're getting away b4 it hits.  Shepard Smith says he wants to go upstate Friday night and weatherlady Janice Dean says no way is he gonna get to go.  Have some good food and umbrella drinks.  We splurged with key lime pie martinis for the Super Bowl. Hope your docs have a new plan all ready for you to go get those buggers when you get back.  Do you watch the bacon cooking shows?  I don't but know they're on.

  • Laurie08
    Laurie08 Member Posts: 2,047

    Michelle- Have a wonderful trip!  Post pics and keep us posted if you can, I will live vicariously through you!!  I like your idea in your blog about trying certain chemos on the cancer cells to see what pisses them off the most.  The rest and sunshine will be great for you.  I hope you come back feeling great and energized to fight those buggers.

    Debbie- Still thinking of you.

    Lacey- Yay for having a partner in crime for your dinner in September!  Did they fry the chicken in bacon grease or fry it with bacon?  Sounds evil and good!

    Nancy- Yay on the good mammo results!  I can almost feel your big exhale from here :)

    I am on the tail end of DH being gone.  Tonight is the last night.  With the snow coming in on Friday I am guessing I will be snowed in with the boys.  SO I decided to beg for a break;)  Boys will go visit with my in laws for the morning tomorrow.  I can hit the grocery store and get a few things done on my own.  Like buy new sunglasses as DS2 snapped mine in half about an hour ago :/  Also want to hit J C Penny as I have a ten dollar coupon and their down light weight comforters are on clearance.  Which means I can get a new comforter for our bed in the camper for about 25 dollars!

    I am going a little stir crazy- dinner is going to be what ever we fell like eating.  I will probaby have left over shells.  I need to go on a diet....

  • carberry
    carberry Member Posts: 997

    Michelle  have a great trip, will be thinking of you basking in the sun and drinking those pretty little drinks. Like Laurie said, rest up so you can fight those damn cancer cells and show them who is boss!

    Key lime pie martinis? got the mix details?

    Tonight is "hump" night or better known as wine Wednesday. I know my DH doesnt want to go out, overwhelmed at work since his brother (partner) is on vacation for a week, but we will probably be snowed in for the weekend so I would really like to get out and see friends....like you Laurie, I need to get ready for the cabin fever.

  • LuvRVing
    LuvRVing Member Posts: 2,409

    Luv - I've seen a couple of the bacon shows, fascinating.  Today on the chew I saw part of the show - it looked like Michael Symon was rendering bacon in the oil that he was using to fry the chicken.  I'll have to go back and look at it. 

  • Lacey12
    Lacey12 Member Posts: 2,895

    Michelle, yay for your timing on gettin' out a here! And enjoy your cancer free Hawaiian zone....let the DF folk work on your plan while you relax, and do all those neat things you mentioned. Happy trip to you both!



    Laurie, I was only half listening to the chicken bacon effort, but heard something about using lard to fry it (really?!), and at the end when they ate it, you could hear a distinct crunch, and bacon was sprinkled over it, making it even more crunchy! I bet you can bet it online.

    I do hope that your DH gets home before the storm, so you aren't snowed in solo.....not something you need at the end of a solo week! I'm happy for you that you have grandparents around for a bit of relief tomorrow. Happy Shopping! Love that you are already outfitting the camper. :) By the way, what is a slider (if that's even the correct word)?

  • luvmygoats
    luvmygoats Member Posts: 2,484

    Carrie - I winged it and put several recipes together.  I rimmed glasses with honey then dipped in graham cracker crumbs.  Read not to skip the crumbs and glad I didn't. Mixed birthday cake vodka (chilled), Rose's lime juice, pineapple juice and a splash of heavy cream.  Tasted and added/adjusted as I went along.  Found several recipes calling for KeKe Beach Key Lime Liqueur, Licor 43 (vanilla liqueur) neither of which I could find in the one liquor store I went to. Lucky they had the birthday cake vodka.  I have since read its even better with Whipped Vodka (ala whipped cream).  Can also use vanilla vodka in a pinch. Pinnacle makes oodles of different flavors even I think a key lime.  They were yummy for a treat.  Food Network has a recipe that I kinda followed but I think I used a bit more than the 6 TBS of vodka they called for.

    Laurie - hope your DH makes it in b4 the storm.  I know you heat with wood, yes. That's the one thing I worry about getting snowed/iced in is power. My DH works 45 minutes from us so I am the weather worrier as I don't want to be here alone.  He has hotels close by at least to take shelter.  Congrats on the new camper.  We tent camped when I was a child and loved it even though I don't know how my parents' backs survived sleeping bags.

    Nancy - Congrats on the negative mammo results.

    Carole - I would love to have your bread starter recipe, too.

    Weather Channel has named the winter storm Nemo.

  • auntienance
    auntienance Member Posts: 3,904

    Have a wonderful trip Michelle, you definitely deserve a break.



    Everyone about to get snowed in, stay warm!

  • Tazzy
    Tazzy Member Posts: 1,442

    Have a wonderful well deserved trip Michelle - good idea about a cancer free trip too.  You deserve that break.

    Hugs to all xx

  • SeasideMemories
    SeasideMemories Member Posts: 2,462

    Michelle,



    I don't think you could have timed your departure any better if you had planned to avoid the storm!! Enjoy your trip and let those Docs spend your time away figuring out the next plan of attack and you focus on just having a nice relaxing time away with Rick! Safe travels and be sure to soak up enough to bring back for all of us here in The Great White North! Looks like we're going to get pounded!



    Luvmygoats,



    Thanks for the martini recipe! It sounds good. I don't think I've ever had a martini of any kind but all the new flavored ones may make me try one! In fact, if we're going to be snowed in, a martini or two may not be a bad idea...lol!



    I saw that they have started naming Winter Storms. I wonder when that started?!



    To all in the path of this winter storm, stay safe!!!

  • susan_02143
    susan_02143 Member Posts: 2,394

    Michelle,

    I hope that your trip is a total blast! I don't know how you managed to plan it so very perfectly. The snows are coming and you will be long gone. I will have to contact my Friday client and hope hope hope that they don't want me onsite that day. Surely whatever it is can wait for Monday.

    *susan*

  • luvmygoats
    luvmygoats Member Posts: 2,484

    Seaside - I think the naming of winter storms just started this year. I think it is a marketing strategy by the Weather Channel.

  • susan_02143
    susan_02143 Member Posts: 2,394

    I think it is stupid.  Storms don't need names. *susan*

  • bedo
    bedo Member Posts: 1,429

    Luvmygoats

    Ha ha! Very scary!!!  Do they really sound like that when they are demanding???

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d8ZDSyFS2g

    Does anyone have any ideas for stocking up for the "blizzard of 78"  that is supposedly coming?

    I'm making soup and have cheese and fruit and milk, but cannot think of anything that would be good if the electricity goes out

    I hope the name of the storm is not Susan

    I may get some pineapple, peppers, onions and things to make in the fireplace if that happens.  Then there's always the "Hobo meal" we made in girlscouts all wrapped up in aluminum foil. !

    Hope everyone stays safe.

    Michelle have fun on your trip!

    Nancy Yippee on your mammo results.

    Debbie I am still thinking of you

    For dinner tonight, Cheese frajitas, very easy, saute onions and peppers in a pan, then  put in frajitas wraps, add cheese before closing and put back in pan  until it melts and then add sour cream or salsa on top.

  • Kay_G
    Kay_G Member Posts: 1,914

    Oh just checked the weather forecast for Philly and it looks like it will be 40 here on Friday and we will just get rain. Hope that's correct!



    Michelle, have a wonderful time on your trip! I am sorry the carboplatin didn't work. I hope the gemzar and abraxane do the trick! #%}#%}# cancer!



    Had a salad and veggies for dinner tonight. Think I'll have a bowl of cereal later. DD had chicken soup. Yesterday had spaghetti and meatballs. Lacey, you are out of my league! I have no idea what an amuse bouche is. I would like to try it though!

  • SeasideMemories
    SeasideMemories Member Posts: 2,462

    Luvmygoats,



    Lol, you're probably right on the weather channel hype! Storms like this one are what they live for! Here's hoping none of us wind up with Jim Cantore in our town! That would be when you know you are REALLY in for it!

  • Laurie08
    Laurie08 Member Posts: 2,047

    Thats funny, I wondered what was up with naming the storm?

    Bedo- Tough call on stocking up.  We have the wood stove and have always been able to cook on top of it if need be, soup grilled cheese etc.  I am going to try to think of some ideas for you.

    Lacey- The super slide is a 12 foot portion of the camper that slides out 3 1/2 feet to increase the living space with in the camper.  So instead of a narrow path you have a good spcae to walk around in.  I still can't believe we did it!

    Had the left over shells for dinner.  Boys were asleep early because I had them skip nap to give me a long day- but an early bed time.  Enjoying the quiet.