So...whats for dinner?
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Aha! I see you ate at the Kilauea Fish Market - and it looks like you ordered the same dinner I always get. Grilled Ono?
Great photos!
You look great, Bali Hai looks great, light house looks great - thanks for sharing!
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Bobogirl what is a human circus? I love the Moosewood cookbooks and went to Cornell for a bit. ( I loved college hopping) I hope that your dessert turns out well. I think that if it is sweet the kids will love it! I also am sending calming thoughts to you about your work up. I hope it all turns out to be a "well that was really stressful for no reason thing"
I am researching Ecuador. I am hoping and saving to go there and spend maybe 6-12 months there in a year or so (I hope my job takes me back, hehe)
And I hope that they are not reading this.
If you are, I am kidding really, guys, I would never really do this.
My goal: I want to find a really good blueberry pancake recipe that is not too hard, as it seems the season to do this.
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So far the Texas gulf coast meals have included Baja fish tacos, grouper, spicy jumbo shrimp on the grill and tomorrow, golden tile. We also threw a pizza in there for good measure.
The weather has been coolish (60's) and mostly cloudy, but we're due for a few warmer and sunnier days. We've already missed
one snow storm at home and another one that seems headed our way, so I'm happy to be here. Hopefully we'll get some bicycling and birding in these next few days.
Great pictures Michelle. Carole, your lamb chops sounded wonderful. Susan, I can't wait to hear what the wedding menu is going to be.
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Nancy, what is golden tile?
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Memo to Bedo's work:
Bedo is going to work there forever. She is not going to Ecuador, she was just teasing. It's 'work Ecuador into a sentence' day.
I guess a 'human circus' is without elephants! The whole circus was just the children. It was pretty great -- better than I expected. It's such a little tiny school. All wore homemade clown pants. And they'd painted flats and they performed in front of them. It was outside. The flats had giant polka dots on them. And there were homemade flags made of cloth, and it was windy, and the flags... well... flew. I've never eaten at the real Moosewood!
Important update: both of my desserts sold out! I was sweating bullets at the dessert table. Silly, right? I put a lot of stock into doing the silliest things well these days. It seems so important to make her really happy. I want to give it everything I've got.
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For dinner I had steamed broccoli and a sliced avocado, absolutely plain, and then a tempeh reuben with handmade sauerkraut and russian dressing on Ezekiel bread.
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For dinner I had steamed broccoli and a sliced avocado, absolutely plain, and then a tempeh reuben with handmade sauerkraut and russian dressing on Ezekiel bread.
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Chabba, golden tilefish is a mild fish with a buttery flavor that reminds me of lobster. Although it's abundant in the gulf, it's difficult to find in fish markets except here. A fish monger in gulf shores Alabama told me that although it was his personal favorite, they don't sell it because there is no demand for it. The good thing about that is that it keeps the price reasonable when you can find it.
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Thanks for the answer Nancy.
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Nancy, where I live we are having 2 Eating with the Ecosystem days at local restaurants. They will be serving and teaching about those fish that are not popular and are thrown back such as sea robins, dogfish, skate, periwinkles and mackerel. One will focus on the Gulf of Maine, Georges Bank the other the southern New England coastal region.
It's an idea to rebalance the ecosystem
I hope to pick up some new ideas
Congratulations on your success, bobogirl
Michelle I will have to check out your pictures.
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Bedo, that sounds like a great idea....and some adventurous eating!
Michelle, loved your photos....especially as I look out at the suddenly heavy snow squalls!
Bobo, glad your desserts were a hit.
Need to brave the snowstorm to get to the food store... which I have avoided all week. Last evening after the movie (saw Zero Dark Thirty) came home and DH had a Trader's soup, while I microwave heated up a mini casserole of what I thought was roasted butternut squash.....by the time I was finished, it seemed like I had just eaten roasted sweet potatoes. I might want to be better at labeling! It was orange and roasted.
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Lacey, I love roasted orange things! Jealous that you got to go to the movies. I have no babysitter here yet.
I just made vegetarian chicken and dumplings: they are the baby's favorite! I can't stand the sight of them, myself. Sometimes, as I'm ladling them out, I get a little sauce on my thumb and I can't even stand to lick it off!
I feel like I've taken a bath in vegetarian chicken and dumplings.I realize I just made this post extra-inviting! I think I'm going to have sauteed organic collards, sliced very thin, japanese-style, with fresh rice noodles thrown in at last minute. A sweet brown sauce. More greens than noodles. I will have it while watching the Oscars, if I can stay up. I was up at 2 a.m., worried. I'm in the thick of it.
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I'm still cleaning the rusted cast iron skillet. The lye cleaned off most of the crud. The derusting solution (washings soda in water, a piece of scrap iron and a car battery charger) is a perfect diet aid. Even the guy who pumps out septic tanks would say it's ***NASTY*** looking . :-) But it is getting the cast iron back to bare metal.
Meanwhile, some chicken is cooking in the dutch oven.
Eric
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Eric: Will you please do my pans after yours? Mine are not really rusty, but they could really use a going-over.
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Bobo- Welcome!!
Michelle- Love the pics. I hope I get to go there someday.
Eric- Talk about a labor of love. Great job with the pans.
Bedo- The ecosystem thing sounds interesting. Glad all is well.
Lacey- Hope you made it to the store safely. It was pretty nasty here earlier.
So we were snowed in all day. Went to a neighbors birthday party for turning 5. DH took the boys for a long snowmobile ride while I enjoyed the fire and a few quiet moments. This week coming up is school vacation week- no idea what we will do to pass the time.
Dinner tonight is stuffed shells- I am STARVING.
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Bedo, I would be very interested in hearing how the eco dinners turn out. Sounds really interesting.
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last night was dinner at friends, kinda, just nibbled on apps she put out then we hit the town for a fundraiser at a local winery for Habitat for humanity. Fun night lots of dancing. Daughter seems to think we are a lot more fun than her friends that went to bed at 10pm. Guys everywhere always hitting on her!! But she had a blast dancing with everyone.
Interesting about the golden tile fish...never heard of it. They say monk fish is cheap and taste like lobster also, but my grocery store fish guy says its seasonal and he didnt know what the season for it is. Told me to keep checking back. Ha Ha
Bobogirl when you say "babies" how old is that? Funny getting bedo off the hook with her job.
Eric WOW you are going to have some brand new pans! And probably very well worth the effort
Auntinance Sounds like you having a great time. Any weather is better than what we are having here, although we do not have any snow here in NY at the present time.
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Nancy, I'm glad you're enjoying your time in TX. Your meals sound great. We had a beautiful day here in south LA today, sunny and warm, low 70's. I'm on the lookout for a local restaurant where I can have Pho, which seems to be very popular. I've had it once, home-made by a cousin's son, and it was delicious.
The weather forecast is on the tv and there's the possibility of thunderstorms tonight and tomorrow with large hail, damaging winds, and isolated tornadoes. A lot to look forward to.
Bobo, how can chicken and dumplings be vegetarian? Glad your desserts were a big hit.
Michelle, I also enjoyed the pictures of Hawaii and noticed how pretty you looked in one photo.
Laurie, the stuffed shells sound good. What's the stuffing? Do you put red sauce over them? Your kids are lucky to grow up in a home with a mom who's a good cook and prepares a wide variety of foods.
Eric, thanks to you, my iron skillet has been put to use again. For years it was relegated to cornbread cooker about 4 times a year! I have an iron Dutch oven but it's covered by ceramic. We use it a lot for soups and stews.
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Last night I warmed up the leftover chicken-lemon-mushroom and made some pasta. I am using 00 flour these days for my pasta, and the spring in the dough is perfect. I also trimmed the long pasta before cutting so I could cut thick linguines for dinners and skinny little things with the end pieces.
We went to Jordon Hall today for a piano trio concert not knowing if our friends on the stage would want to hang over dinner. They didn't, so I threw together a pasta e fagioli soup for dinner. Tomorrow night I will have to make that pork tenderloin that Mr. 02143 bought the other day. I will brine it in the Ad Hoc brine for 4 hours, then sear and oven cook til done. I will serve with a mustard sauce just cause I love mustard. If I feel up to it, I might make some spaetzle, but I bet I only manage a roasted potato.
*susan*
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Susan, your "only manage" is most folks' delight! You amaze me with every post!
So Carrie, would your DD ever succumb to a local guy who's a good dancer, or has she been bitten by the big apple bug? Sounds like you both had a great time....nice!
Those with weak stomachs please skip this paragraph...not about dinner!
Dealt with mundane plumbing issues here today while it rained, then snowed like crazy (but the water on the roads kept the snow from piling very high, so we eventually got to the store fine).
I had been concerned that using aquaphor during radiation (a lot of it!) might affect my shower drain. Well, it seemed fine for several months, but now that my hair is thinning pretty regularly, the combo of the aquaphor and hair has clogged my shower drain....first time ever, and we've lived here over thirty years.
We tried to clear it a few months ago with a bit of success, but not really too lasting. I have to admit, I am OCD enuf that I hate plumbers coming into my bathroom (thru our bedroom!) with their very used equipment to clear the drain ( to say nothing of the cost!) I also do not want to use that poison stuff. So a friend mentioned that her husband clears theirs with their wet/dry vac. That was an effort. Our wet/dry vac was in the garage and pretty yucky...so first I cleaned that....then DH bought it a new filter. I thought we were good to go. It seemed to suck up whatever a bit....but then it only got so far, and I noticed the water going down even slower. Oh dear....we'd made a worse mess with the clog more tight and water now draining at a snails pace. We then tried the snake we bought a few months ago for this problem and got no where. Finally, I agreed to use a plunger.....(used....that was hard for me!)But DH plunged away, and low and behold, my drain declogged!! Victory! It was so great to take a shower without water creeping up my legs! Yay! DH is now my plumbing hero! And now I know what to do if this ever happens again. A bit gross to share, but I was just SOOO happy about this!
So we went to the food store after all of this excitement, and I thought that we should get something special for our Oscars' Dinner (LOL). So we bought two pieces of tenderloin which were amazing! I seared them (Eric:) in a caste iron skillet, then roasted them for 12 minutes in a 400 degree oven. WOW! Were they good! We had carrots tarragon; brussels sprouts; and cucumber, red pepper, onion salad, along with some bought french bread. I have never cooked meat like that before, and will now be doing it more often.
Clearly all of your hard work on that caste iron, Eric, will be worth it !
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Look who is talking Lacey... that sounds like a wonderful dinner indeed. The perfect celebration for your drain cleaning prowess.
*susan*
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Hello everyone! It has taken me a bit to catch up. Was hoping to hear from Debbie, thinking of you. Welcome to the new people. Welcome home Michelle. I hope gemzar does the trick for you. Glad you enjoyed the trip! Your pictures are great. I think they are probably as close as I will ever get to Hawaii.
News for me, last night at ten, I became a great aunt! Welcome auto the world Keira Elizabeth. She is the first baby in our family since my DD who is 15. Can't wait to see her.
The meals sound great. I need to try the searing and baking as well. My mouth is watering. We had chicken fajitas tonight. They were quick and pretty tasty. DH picked up some Ben and Jerry's cinnamon something or other ice cream for dessert. OMG, it was so good. It's a good thing the box is fairly small.
Sorry there was no Downton Abbey talk. I am so hooked now. Finished season two and the first two episodes of season 3. Poor Edith, jilted at the alter:(. I just love all these characters. I am sure by next Sunday, I will be through season 3, not sure hat I will do then. I do not want this to end. Loved Shirley MacClaine as the American grandmother. And I guess it's the Irish in me, but I am partial to Branson too, but really love them all.
Laurie, I can understand your concern about your dad. It sounds a little off. I hope things will work out for the best.0 -
Sounds good everyone. Did you know, you absorb more iron from foods cooked in cast iron than taking a pill? Your body likes it better. Just FYI! Much love to all.
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Laurie, I love that you were starving!!
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Excellent work Laurie, plumbing and dinner! I'm afraid we are on a first name basis with our plumber. Whoever put the plumbing in our house did a crappy job (pardon the pun).
Not sure what's on the menu today, maybe one of my favorite seafood restaurants here. They make some fried onion strings with thinly sliced jalapenos in them that I make myself sick eating, they're so good.
I cannot master the sear bake method for steaks. I can never figure out how long to leave them in the oven and at what temp. Always overcook them.0 -
Got my hunk of steak, finally, last night. Sirloins on the grill baked potatoand glazed carrots.
Lacey, It would be easier if she could find a guy in NYC, but she is finding it impossible. She dated a guy for 8 years and it finally fell apart (thank goodness, since we have fought this relationship from the get go) She is very career oriented and works hard, and cant seem to find someone with the same goals.
I would say "HI Kay" but she wont read this till next Sunday...haha
Tonight will be just baked chicken and probably some rice...or something.
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Thanks, Moon, for the reminder about the iron absorbing fact. I bought the caste iron skillet for DH to cook his eggs in since he loves to make it extremely hot before putting anything in it, and I thought a caste iron pan handles such treatment best.
Nance, I was surprised at how perfectly the tenderloin came out. I just followed a recipe I found online, and reduced the 400 degree oven time by 3 minutes....good choice since we don't like well done. I used my new instant thermometer and took the meat out at 145 degrees, which happened faster than the recipe suggested. Easy to see how they could get overcooked. Those onion strings sound yummy!
Today Seamus the painter is coming to prep the new bay window....I suspect we'll be full of silty dust from the sanding, so will stay out of the food prep business during this stage.0 -
Well, Seamus was here briefly to do the spackling and will return tomorrow AM for the sanding and caulking.....then the next day, the painting. Am really glad he is doing this rather than us...even tho I'm never thrilled to have three days in a row of workboots dragging snow and slop into the house. Oh well. Have taken to throwing beach towels on the floors. Since no covering is on the window now, I can watch the little boys next door making a snowman....our heavy wet snow is perfect for this today.
Nance, here is the info I used for making those tenderloins last evening.
http://www.101cookingfortwo.com/2012/03/pan-seared-oven-roasted-filet-mignon.html#.USuTSxG9KSN
As I mentioned, I did roast them for less time in the oven, and used my meat
thermometer to be sure the inside of the meat was only 145 degrees before taking them out.
This weekend I came across some tasty looking recipes for lamb shanks, so picked up two while at the store yesterday. Now that Seamus is gone, I'll get back into the kitchen and make one of those recipes. The Italian restaurant up the street, Sweet Basil (not to be confused with the Thai restaurants of the same name) makes the best lamb shank with vegetables and polenta, which motovates me to try one of the new recipes I saw online. Can do it in the crockpot, too! Will report later....0 -
Carol- Thanks for saying my kids are lucky. I don't know if they appreciate my dinners all of the time- but hopefully they will some day. My mother was a great cook and growing up I ate what ever she put in front of me and loved almost all of it. For my stuffed shells I go very simple because of the boys. I just stuff them with ricotta, Parmesan and mozzarella cheeses. Mostly ricotta, about a heavy handful of mozzarella and maybe a 1/2 cup or so of parm? I put dried basil, oregano, parsley, garlic powder salt and pepper in and use a gallon zip lock like a pastry bag to fill the shells.
You guys are making me wish I like lamb! I like ground lamb but have not cared for leg of lamb when DH has made it at Easter. It tasted very strong to me?
Lacey good luck with the rest of your project and I hope your dinner turns out great!
Carrie- Glad you got your hunk of steak! I also have a friend who lives in NYC- she says it is impossible to find a good man there. You would think with so many people it would be easy! Good luck to your DD!
About to head outside with the boys and burn some of their energy off so I have a shot at bed time tonight. Sledding should help! I have a chicken roasting in the oven that I will serve with green beans, mashed potatoes and gravy. My goal for the up coming weeks is to start to grill more and cut back on these heavy winter dinners. Of course the weather has it's own ideas, there is supposed to be more snow on Wednesday.
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Thanks for the link Lacey, I'm certainly willing to try again.
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