So...whats for dinner?
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Carole,
I saw on the news that there is a pretty wicked stomach thing going around this year courtesy of the Norovirus... It's the virus responsible for those cruise ship outbreaks and can be pretty rough... Hope your stomach settles and you feel better soon!
Nancy,
I know next to nothing about bread making and thought you might be kidding but I googled it and you CAN buy a starter for sourdough through King Arthur Flour! Who knew?! I think I may throw caution to the wind and order it....
Lacey,
Interesting how what is known as the 'Boston Accent' depends on where you are from within the same city... With all the dropped R's it's no wonder they find their way into words that don't normally require one... They just want to be needed...lol!
Bedo,
Wow! A year in jail! Your state is serious about this storm..... Glad you have you salmon done and you and your kitties are safe and warm!
Eric,
I hope you get home safe and sound! I think sometimes when we are in the thick of the bad weather we forget how what's happening in one place affects people in other areas of the country!0 -
Hi everyone! Woke up in paradise at...3:15 a.m. We did go to bed at 8:15 because we were just exhausted. No food in the cottage so we hit McDonald's for coffee, breakfast and chatting with some locals. Then we were off for groceries and alcohol! I think we'll try to stay awake a little later tonight. Even the roosters were still asleep.
OK, I am leaving the area with internet service so I'll check in on you all tomorrow. Everyone stay safe and warm!
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Michelle,
Yay on waking up in paradise but a big boooo on the hour! I'm sure you and Rick will adjust quickly and settle in to island time! Enjoy yourselves!0 -
Have a wonderful time in paradise, Michelle! Looking forward to photos!
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Chabba,
Not sure how but I missed your post... I think I would have been heartbroken if someone threw out something I had nurtured for 20 years... The starter recipe sounds easy enough that I may give it a whirl...
One question for all the bread bakers... What is the difference with all the different yeasts... There is instant yeast, active dry yeast, bread machine yeast and rapid-rise yeast... which do you use for what?0 -
laurie - yay on the camper!
michelle - yay on your trip - have a blast!
carole - hope you feel better soon!
eric - condolences to your family, so sorry for your loss.
to everyone - hi!!!
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Seaside, I was wrong about my starters mother, it's 300 years old!
I can't really tell you about the difference in performance in the yeasts. I use instant for everything.0 -
Michelle, have a wonderful time. You sure picked a great time to be there!! :-)
I use active dry yeast. I don't use a bread machine, so I don't need the bread machine/rapid rise stuff.
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Ok you northeasterners, if you have power, check in today!
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Not to be offensive, but the snow pictures in the NE are beautiful. Hope everyone is staying warm.
I use the dry rapid rise yeast in the packets for my oven-baked bread. Breadmakers require the special yeast that comes in a jar. Now there's a special pizza yeast that works great. I use it for pizza dough.
I'm doing a reduced-calorie cheese cake experiment today. I'm not using a spring pan since I don't want a tall New York style cheese cake. Not to mention I don't own a spring pan! I'm not much of a dessert maker. I'll use a pretty stoneware pie plate. I printed out the recipe for graham cracker crust from the Honeymaid site. So simple I see no reason for buying a graham cracker crust. I'm using 8 oz. of fat free cream cheese and 8 oz of reduced fat, 3/4 cup of sugar, 3 eggs and 1 T vanilla. I plan to make a cooked strawberry topping with splenda. Strawberries are already in season here. I will have the strawberries on the side. A serving of 1/8 of the pie is only 8 pts.
I'm not a big cheese cake fan but I had home-made cheese cake recently that was so light and delicious and my recipe is basically the same except I'm not using the regular cream cheese. Fat-free cream cheese is the ONLY fat free product that I find edible.
This afternoon we'll be going to New Orleans with our neighbors to see the Mardi Gras parade, Endymion. It's one of the big parades with beautiful costumes and floats. Our neighbor Brian works for an insurance company that has a condo on the parade route, so there will be food, drinks, and, most important, a bathroom! We're riding with them so we're just along for the ride. The parade is a night parade but we have to get to our viewing destination before the streets are closed off on the parade route. Needless to say, it will probably be a late night (later than our usual!) because we won't be able to leave until the parade has passed and an exit route is open.
Hope you are having a relaxed vacation, Michelle.
Will be glad to hear from our NE friends. I'll bet Laurie and family are having fun in the snow.
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Woke to about 35 inches of snow and complete calm. But now, it is snowing hard once again. Bean and ham hock soup is ready for lunch, and then dinner will be braised lamb shanks. Not sure if we will have mashed potatoes or polenta. We never lost our power, but lots of other people did.
Looking out the front door. See the huge drifts at the top of the stairs? Clearly no mail delivery today!
Out the back door. The snow on the railing is a fairly good indicator of the amount of snow, though it does get blown off and probably did.
*susan*
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Hi everyone! We have been lucky and never lost power either. Yay! The boys actually slept in a little today and then we had a huge breakfast around 9. I am still stuffed. Eggs, bacon, pancakes, gorton with english muffins and banana bread. DH is out there now cleaning the driveway. Once he has the work part of it done we will all head outside. Our neighbor stopped by last night on his way home from work and we are going to all get together this afternoon. We are going to attempt a bonfire and have a sledding party for the kids. I am sure it will roll into the dinner hour and we will get creative putting dinner together for all of us.
I will pop in again later.
Carol have fun at the parade! Sounds like fun!!
Susan- your neighborhood is beautiful!
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Never lost power, but had some flickering. Those down in South County around Newport have lots of outages and friend's Mom's phone is out. Still no driving and the snow is up to the car windows so I can't get to them. Kitty leapt over the snow drifted 1/3 way up the door when I opened it (it opens in) then jumped back in.
I ate half the fridge. Dinner was Sushi rolls, string beans, salmon, rice cakes, ginger ale, bananas and clementines.
I hope everyone else is safe. Don't have a camera or the thing to get photo of the phone.
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Wow. The only time I see snow in person like that is when I go into the mountains.
Breakfast this morning was the baked apple pancake that was posted here awhile back.
I spent Wednesday through Friday working in Las Vegas. I need to go back on Monday and will come home on Tuesday.......sigh....0 -
Susan, gorgeous pictures and good food in your house!
Laurie, your afternoon sounds like fun.
Bedo, hope you have enough food left!
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Carole, never offense taken at such a complimentary comment.
I have a love hate affair with our winters....actually love snow...just annoying when there is a lot to push around...and not very pretty if it doesn't melt in a timely way. Not sure what is going to happen with the forecast of rain on Monday. Roofs will be very soggy!!
Did a bit of front porch shoveling while DH is breaking his back trying to get the cars out.
I'm sure I'll be hearing about the merits of condo living later today.....a conversation I try to avoid....but then I'm not out in the driveway.....maybe I'd better suit up and get out there with a hot toddy (or two) in my hands.
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Nothing offensive about thinking it is beautiful. Snow is very beautiful. It can make really ugly places seem to be lovely. The issue is living with all that snow on the ground. The huge snow banks make it impossible to get out of your car if you find a parking space. Our roads are barely big enough for two-traffic when it is clear, but delete 3 feet from either side, and they become one way effectively. Totally a mess.
Lamb is in the oven. Now I need to figure out a vegetable; thinking a salad to start.
*susan*
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We are OK here, too.... DH got stuck at the bottom of our hill and wound up parking in a school parking lot and walking up the hill (i offered to try to come down to get him in our 'better in the snow' car but he was worried we might not make it back up).... We were up bright and early to go get his car this am!
Only had 10 inches or so here so we got off easy!
I'm not a big fan of winter but, if I don't have to drive in it, it is beautiful and very peaceful... The world kind of slows down for awhile! When our dog was still alive I used to love to walk her during a snow storm... Almost no cars and the snow has a muffling effect so it was so peaceful and quiet... I miss those times!
Italian Greens and Beans tonight for dinner....
Glad to hear that you all made it through relatively unscathed! Careful digging out!0 -
I did go out and do some ancillary shoveling on this corner property. DH had much of it done with the snow blower, so I do a lot of fine tuning. We have a little more than two feet of the white stuff on our property. Seaside,I know exactly what you mean about the peaceful walks in the snow. And here the gov banned unessential cars, so it was delightfully quiet!
Before I suited up for the shoveling,I started some pizza dough.That's what we had tonight. It was good. If I ever get to my computer I'll try to post a pic. But
I really want my pizzer to taste like serious NYC or Philly pizza, and this was more like the local Greek pizzer we have here (less oil, tho). We had no trouble polishing a lot of it off, however!0 -
I've been feeling a little punk the past couple of days (Carole I caught your "queasies") and haven't had much of an appetite so tonight DH and I just split a ribeye steak, with a baked potato and small salad. Meat doesn't hold much appeal right now so I mostly ate the potato.
Glad everybody's doing ok and managing to dig out. The pictures have been amazing!0 -
Nancy- Hope your belly feels better by morning.
Lacey- I don't participate in snow clean up, I do everything else and my peck muscles can't handle it since the BMX. I picked up a shovel for about a second today and DH asked me if I was nuts- "put it down". Ok, no problem
I let DH head to the neighbors this afternoon and I stayed home for a bit to enjoy the quiet. Planned some camping trips and thought about summer to come. After awhile I headed up and the wind had been too much for the kiddos, they were all inside playing. The dads were still by the bon fire. By the time we go the boys to bed is was almost 9, way past thier bed time and they fell asleep in under a minute. Pretty sure DH is asleep too as I type this.
Dinner was frozen pizzas at the neighbors. She had gotten a great coupon deal and had about 30 Dejourno pizzas? There was a bunch of us there and we ate about 7. Silly.
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Since I posted a picture of dinner for my cookbook group, thought I would share it here as well.
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Nancy,
Hope your stomach yuckiness is short-lived and not that nasty Norovirus that's ben making the rounds... Rest and lots of fluids!
Susan,
Mmmmmmm on the lamb shanks... Love lamb but have never done a shank before. Not even sure I've seen one in the store here but, we had it for dinner on our cruise served with Israeli Coucous and it just melted in your mouth! Soo sooo good!0 -
Beautiful Susan!
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Auntie, I hope your queasies don't last. I'm back to a normal diet but I still take a slug of Pepto now and then.
The mardi gras parade was lots of fun. We had a great place on Canal Street, right in front of the insurance office building. Voodoo Barbecue provided the food and it was very good. Beef brisket, pulled pork, oversized hot dogs, hamburgers and the usual sides, baked beans, corn pudding casserole, coleslaw. Draft beer, soda, bottled water. King cake and bread pudding for dessert.
My neighbor Arleen, dh and I got into the spirit of things, waving our arms and catching beads and other "throws." Lighted necklaces and bracelets and toys are very big and the children make out like bandits. We caught and picked up a huge bag of beads and so did Arleen. There was quite a large crowd in our area but it was a nice crowd. DH was the designated driver on the way home. He and I aren't big beer drinkers so that left our neighbors free to imbibe.
Tomorrow I'm cooking southern chicken and dumplings for a noon meal at my mother's house. Southern dumplings are not dropped off a spoon but are made of dough rolled out thin, cut into pieces and dropped into the bubbling broth. The dumplings are similar to a home-made noodle. Chicken and dumplings was one of my favorite dishes that my mother cooked when I was growing up. I don't have her recipe because she never used a recipe, just threw ingredients together. She didn't even own a rolling pin, but used a tall drinking glass dusted with flour.
Take care, everyone.
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The norovirus looked like 24-36 hours of hell. It was very active where I was at in Long Island.
Nancy, I too am adding to the "hope it's not norovirus" chorus.
Dinner, by special request, was the onion, jasmine rice, shredded chicken, rice vinegar, olive oil dish that I have described before. Sharon and DD just love the stuff.
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I don't think it's noro, from what I've read, it comes on pretty quickly and intensely. I really just feel kind of "off" with little appetite. I'm better today than yesterday, so I'm hoping tomorrow is better yet. Thank you all for the well wishes.
Carole, your Mardi gras celebration sounds like great fun. I would love to see one of the big parades in NOLA but the big crowds kind of intimidate me. We usually make Mardi gras in Galveston but we're going later this year so we'll miss it. Sadly, no king cake or beads for me this year :-(
Your post reminds me of my great grandmother. She never wrote anything down either and made the most fantastic dumplings of the type you describe. I wish I could recreate them. Her rolling pin was an old brown whiskey bottle that she had used for years. Sort of ironic since she was a staunch southern baptist who never touched a drop of whiskey in her life./p>0 -
Carol- sounds like so much fun! Your dumplings sound like the french version my Memere made called glampe's!
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Hope everyone got shoveled out and is managing to stay warm! We only got about 6-8 inches around here so.nothing big. Had to laugh at the weather people though, I mean, come on! It's February in WISCONSIN. Snow happens. My favorite quote of the storm "Everything looks white" . LOL
For dinner, I had to cook a pork tenderloin. I bought for a special dinner for my DH and I this weekend. Then, he had to go to his dads, who is not doing well. so I ended up steaming some potatos, cutting the loin in medallions, with mango chutney and wine sauce. Yum. He missed a good dinner. I probably would have just roasted it with a brown pan sauce and mashed, if he had been home. Trying to cook more now that I am actually feeling a bit better. But when I cook a meal,.that's about all I can do. Still have to sit in between trips to the stove, but I can clear and load the dishwasher before I have to sit down for the night. So actually improving. Slowly.... LOL much love to all.0 -
I hope you continue to feel better Moonflower
Nancy I'm glad you're better
Carol I am so jealous! I want to come next year.
I haven't left the cabin since Fri, just peeked out and car in still packed in like a tonka truck in styrofoam
I think for dinner, Spagetti! Clemenitines! Strinbeans! Sorry, no recipes. Just boil and open jar. But I have a cookbook and will share.
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