So...whats for dinner?
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Michelle,
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Bobo, now she's chewing up my reflex hammer and an empty tootsie roll wrapper. Likes it better than the $36 worth of toys and food that dd forgot to leave when she went on a camping trip with BF till Thursday.
Dodo, you know is a professional violinist. And *Susan* here is too. I played viola and only started again 4 years ago. I switched to violin so that I could play with groups. Hard to play a tune with a bunch of viola players. No more classical I was never professional, but now I play for free tickets and comps for friends plus all the cheeto and sprite I want in the green room for free at local festivals with a group before the real fiddlers.. it took me about 4 years to get back to where I was. Where do you play?
I'll show you the mason jar salads I make, I've shown them to others before. These, a boiled egg maybe a cheese sandwhich and seltzer water and I'm good for breakfast and lunch these are from the web and last all week without meat, I don't know about with meat. Can also make cool pinapple or berry and yogurt or cottage cheese layered things. When time to eat dump on plate, dressing is on bottom so ends up on top and doesn't wilt the greens
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Bedo, I cannot believe all triplets play the violin. That is too much.
I am out of practice, seriously. I put myself through college playing, though. And then I played table-to-table at restaurants, for tips. Soon I'm going to teach violin at my daughter's school. Better practice up! It's always been my dream to play in a string quartet. So glad you switched from viola. That clef is wack.
Your mason jar salads are genius! Wow. They're fancier than I thought they'd be. I wish your puppy was here right now!
Dinner: vegan cream of mushroom soup. Grilled vegan cheese sandwich made by DLLP. I made vegetarian chicken and dumplings for the kids. DLLP made pork chops for DS as well. My daughter thinks pork is disgusting. I don't know where she got that idea.
Laurie, how are the boys?
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*Susan* sorry about your dad. You might try recording memories of your dad. Yours, your husbands, kids. Spend one night just taping them. It might he the memorial you need. You can always take it with you to the summer memorial. Also, maybe making a disc of his favorite music to be played when you are missing him? we did something similar for my DMIL when she passed last Dec. For some reason, we don't know why, she would start singing Springtime in the Rockies at random times. No one knows why. But we played that and other of her favorite songs too at the funeral home.
Bedo and bobo, for some reason my spell check likes to spell your name as bono for both of you, I thought I fixed it. Oh well. Laurie hope your son is better. Michelle, A bunch of talented DGC you have.
I went to my sisters church spaghetti supper today. It was pretty good, but the noodles were over done, surprise! LOL
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Susan- I'm so very sorry to hear about your dad. I was trying to catch up when I got to yours and my heart just ached for you and made me cry. Sending you love and prayers for you and your family. My deepest sympathy!!
Michelle- I saw you had a blood tranfusion and sorry you had to go through that but glad it made you feel much better.
This thread looks wierd. Everything is all on different sides. Hmmm
Anyway~ Nothing good to report so didn't want to post until I saw Susan and Michelles Post. My dad is not going to be able to do the chemo now because of too much spread we are driving to see my dad this Thursday not sure about anything at this point. Chuck is getting worse and almost stumbling his balance is way off. As for me, I'm still grieving everyday and struggling. My friend told me that I have to relax and just get on with it. It was a good thing it was on the phone I might of slapped her. She thinks she the grief police now. (slight smile) But, I did want to say that I have had so many signs from my sister I wasn't planning on posting that here tonight but since I'm here I might as well. They have comforted me.
Ok, this one is wierd so not sure about a sign but will tell it anyway- After my sis passed we were getting ready to drive to my dads and Chuck and I heard this loud crash inside the house we both said what the heck was that and went through the whole house and did not see anything but we thought how freaky that was. We got to my dad's and later that night we all were sitting in the living room and we heard that same loud crash my dad's wife Roberta yelled what was that and she went through the house and did not see anything broken or anything. Chuck and I looked at each other and said Hmm that was weird same thing happened at home. Still wasn't sure... Then I had a picture of my sisters from her service and had d/l into my pictures. I was sitting on my bed (crying) was not on my computer and my cell phone buzzed saying I had an E-mail so I opened it, it was the picture of my sister and it was from me to me. Im like huh? I did not just send myself a message it was sent from me to me. So I knew it was Cindy saying hey sis I'm here. So the next day I was laying in bed and yes. crying and told my sis Cin if that was you and Im not sure if it was or just a coincidence give me a sign that i will know it was really you, right at that moment my music box started playing all by it self, only for about 5-7 seconds but I knew it was her for sure. It made me feel so comforted at the time. This was the second time the music box happened. My mom bought me the music box when I was 16 and when I first found out about my dad's cancer I was in the bedroom crying and it started playing for a few seconds I knew at the time it was my mom trying to comfort me, so this was the second time in all the years I have had it that it started playing. I hope this helps anyone else who believes in this kind of things and helps to let them know that they hear us and are OK!
Sorry for the long post wasn't planning on writing that much when I first got here tonight. Hi to everyone and hope you all are doing good. Laure Hope your DS is doing better. sorry I can't reply to everyone but I think about you all everyday.
Love and hugs!
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(((Debbie))) - so glad you posted - we don't care how long it is so long as it makes you feel a little better! You pour out your heart any time and we'll be here to listen and hold your hand. So sorry that your dad can't get some kind of treatment. I hope the doctors can keep him comfortable and pain-free. And what is the treatment plan for Chuck? I hope there is something positive for him very soon.
Yesterday was a better day for me. My daughter came over in the afternoon and we ended up going to a Japanese steakhouse for dinner. I actually enjoyed the food, ate about half and took the rest home for lunch today. There was a 20 month old little boy at the table with his parents and he was so darn cute - he was enjoying the show and the look of delight was just precious!
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Debbie So glad you posted, it is so good to hear from you. I totally beleive in "that stuff" I know that your family is looking out for you and sending you messages that they are ok. Prayers for your Dad and Chuck. Did Chuck schedule to have the surgery done? Cant remember where you guys were on that issue.
Just to let everyone know..the Easter Bunny is alive and well and living under my front shrubs. He took off running when I was doing a walk around the gardens to see what damage winter had done. I hope the little bugger doesnt eat the tops off my spring plants that are starting to pop up.
Last night was homemade pizza Not sure about tonight. Gonna hit 60 deg today before going back to the 30's.
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(((Debbie))), I'm so happy you're finding some comfort in the midst of your loss. I'm sorry about your dad. I hope he can be made comfortable as well. Really wish you didn't have all this on your plate. Please post again when you can. We miss you.
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Well, the Amish roast was good, if lacking in seasoning. The review called for a round or sirloin roast (I used top round) rubbed with a paste of marjoram, Dijon mustard and allspice. It gave an interesting flavor but didn't seem to penetrate the meat. I think next time, I'll add garlic and salt and let it marinate for a little bit. The roast was then braised in a Dutch oven on a bed of veggies in a slow oven for 5 hours. The meat was very moist and tender and the vegetables very flavorful, but it was basically pot roast.
Today is pasta day. I'm making braised chicken legs with lemon pappardelle and a salad. I expect to be covered in flour before all is said and done. Some day I'll learn to make pasta without all the mess. I never see Mario Batali covered in flour./p>0 -
Nancy: Mario Batali IS covered flour -- he wears a white jacket
And why don't you leave the Easter bunny a nice plate of lettuces and other vegetables? Maybe he will leave your plants alone? I love that Easter bunny!{{{{{DEBBIE}}}}} I believe in that stuff too. You are so sweet. Sending you a kiss.
Carberry, glad you had a good supper.
Tonight: leftovers, thank the goddess.
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There was a time when I took a perverse pleasure in serving braised rabbit for Easter dinner (not wild hare, although you couldn't really call ours wild. They were fearless.) Now my enemy is squirrel.
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Good lord! Don't eat that bunny! I want to kiss him. The fact that he is naughty is even better!
My mother is also at war with squirrels. It is a long war.
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Debbie- (((((hugs))))) is Chucks surgery soon? I hope he gets relief very soon, it must be so scary for both of you. Love the stories of your sister showing she was still with you. I had several moments similar after my mother passed. Some would call them eerie- I loved them. I still like to believe when I am struggling and a perfect old song comes on the radio she is trying to make me feel better. I hope things get better.
Laughing at the bunny talk! I had a cat who was my love, slept on my chest every night and was the dearest thing. (he died last summer) One night, in a snow storm he came to the door with a dead bunny in his mouth and dropped it all proud of himself. I was so disgusted I honestly did not sleep with him for a week. Funny, a mouse or chipmunk and I praise him- a bunny and he got tears. Poor cat.
I am starting to feel like crap but taking airborne and c &d and having faith I will win. Boys are being extra naughty today and are both currently in time outs in their rooms. I decided to be healthy and instead of having traditional fried eggplant parm was roasting my eggplant to make a kind of layering dish with it. I don't think it is going to work
Eggplant looks pretty sad and soggy after roasting. Kinda bummed.0 -
Laurie: Fry, baby, fry! Fry that eggplant, you need the extra calories if you are sick.
Love that story about not sleeping with your kitty love! I have to side with the poor kitty. He was bringing you all of those animals as his way of providing for the household! Love how you drew the line at a bunny.
And... love that the boys are both in time out right now! My daughter will be soon to join them, I'm sure. I gave her an ice cream sandwich on the way home from school. Once the sugar hits her system she's going to be extremely bossy.
Dinner tonight for us: creamy puttanesca (creamy with cashew cream), rice pasta, salad with almond dressing. Coconut ice cream: 'naked almond fudge.' Plus the finale of the Bachelor!
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One whole page of posts was so weird! The pictures on the side didn't match the people. Carrie's picture was on Michelle's post. Michelle's picture was on Debbie's post.
DH's father had some eerie happenings after my MIL passed away. He was sitting in the living room and heard a noise in the tiny foyer. A book had fallen out of the book case in the foyer. It was one of my MIL's favorite books.
I would love to have some communication from my dad. I do think of him often.
Debbie, I'm sorry about your dad and do hope he won't suffer.
Warmed-up leftovers tonight. I'll be glad when the birthday cake is gone. I ate some for breakfast and ate some more at lunch. It is sinfully delicious. I felt so guilty at my WW meeting this morning!
Nancy, I would love to visit you on your pasta days and watch you get covered with flour! Then I'd stick around and eat the pasta.
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We had a cat that trapped a rabbit on a fence and was having her way with it. I was so mad at that cat and there was nothing I could do.
DH is cooking string beans with bacon and a little sauteed shallot - he's getting more adventurous every day. He picked up a roasted chicken and we're having "crispy crowns" (like tater tots only better) at my request.
I agree with Bobo - fry that eggplant!!! And extra naughty boys - LOL!
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Debbie, so good to hear from you and learn of the ways your family members let you know they are okay, to comfort you. It reminds me of an experience my sister told shortly after my mother left this earth (exactly four years ago today). They were extremely close, and had lived together for many of my mother's last years, so her loss was so painfully felt by my sister. DS called me one day to say that she went out of way to a nursery to find a special plant to grow in her memory, and as she went to get a carriage there was a clean white handkerchief in the carriage that had embroidered on it, "Miss you". Meant the world to her.
I also hope that Chuck is able to benefit from some safe interventions soon.
Tonight for dinner we finished up the Snow Day Soup I posted last Friday along with chicken salad sandwiches....mainly for refrigerator food management. I often think it would be great to have another fridge, but honestly, I'd probably just cook more and have the same problem of too much food waiting to be eaten! Part of my problem is housing all the bulky greens that I use to make my morning smoothies. Tonighht I have some really black bananas to turn into tasty bread. On The Chew today they were talking briefly about using parsnips in desserts....and I bought some to try making a cake that is similar to carrot cake....might be interesting.
Hey Laurie, glad the boys are feeling well enough to earn some time outs!
Did you turn your mushy eggplant into baba ganoush (sp?) So delish!
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Carole, I'm curious about what kind of BD cake you had....and admire that you even went to the WW meeting! I'd probably stay home with my cake! You are very disciplined....no surprise that you got books written and published!!
By the way Michelle, did you see the bacon feature with Michael Symon today? Thought of you.....glad you are getting your bacon fix tonight! Rick is amazing in my book!0 -
Dinner actually turned out good. I layered the roasted eggplant with low fat ricotta and mozzarella cheese and topped it with fresh mozzarella. It wasn't too mushy like I thought it would be.
Ok here is my weird story...I actually have 2. My mother always did my taxes, she got a kick out of getting me the biggest refund she could. She passed at the end of January and at the end of February I had bought turbo tax and ws trying to do my own taxes. Almost half way through I was frustrated and thought, I should go check my dads mail, if it piles up and the post office collects I am dead. (he had gone to SC and he is not a patient man- If I had screwed up his mail he would have been more than pissed.) I knew I had left his mail box key in my favorite jeans pocket from the week before. So I went to get it and it wasn't there. On the top shelf of my closet I had two stacks of jeans and sweaters. I took them all down shook them out and got a chair to look on the shelf. Nothing. Shit. So I fold it all and put everything back nice and go back to my taxes. After a little while I am so stressed about the key I can't think straight. SO I decide I should go for a walk and I go to get a sweater. I had kept my mothers favorite sweater and it was folded on top of the pile after I had gone through everything. I grabbed the sweater and pulled it down and the key literally hit in me in the face. It made me smile- she was covering my ass. There is no way I folded everything and had the key perfectly placed on top of it.
The other one is hard for you to see if you did not know her. The day my mom died there was a huge snow storm and my brother went out early in the am (she passed around 2 am he went out around 8) and took a bunch of pictures of the snow. He sent them to me and titled one "Still Here". In the photo of a stream you can see her face. I asked him why he did it, he had no idea what I was talking about. After a lot of explaining he saw it and said huh....I wondered why it was the only one I named, Here is the pic-
between the two rocks toward the bottom....
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Ha! Love it Deb!
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Laurie - It took me a minute but I do see the face in the water. Hope the boys are out of time out and I'm sure long in bed since I started this a couple of hours ago. Hope DS is feeling better and you, too.
Michelle - Your DH sounds like a treasure.
Susan - I'm so sorry to hear about your father.
Lacey - You can make a parsnip cake. It is googleable (if that is a word).
Debbie - ((((HUGS)))) Thanks for letting us know how you are. Prayers that your DH can have some treatment soon. Prayers for a your dad; hope is peaceful and pain free. You certainly are handling a tremendous load. Please take care of yourself.
Nancy - How did the pasta turn out? Is your kitchen white now?
Bedo - You are so funny, you and your dog stories.
Bought some frozen chopped kale ay my local grocery. Any suggestions?
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Happy belated birthday Carole!
Susan - so sorry about your dad - lost mine 12 years ago last week - I am glad his passing was peaceful - that is a blessing.
Laurie - sorry you have sick ones - just took DD to the urgent care yesterday - acute bronchitis - she is miserable - fever of 103 last night and is having trouble catching her breath after coughing - scary!
Michelle - glad the transfusion has you feeling better and with an appetite!
All - I have been MIA - not really by choice - helping with a condo renovation over at the beach for some friends, and then hosted a lunch for our local BCO ladies at my house this weekend - I am busier than usual and have not been posting much!
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Thank-you evey body I miss talking to you all!
I loved the story's Lacey, carole and Laurie told. Laurie- OMG I got chills when I saw the picture!
Chuck will have his surgery on April the 15th makes me nervous it is also my brothers birthday and my sis Cindy passed on our anniversary. (Janurary 29th) But I have to believe eveything will be OK with his surgery. I wish it could be sooner but that is as soon as they could get him in.
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debbie6122 - you and your family are in my thoughts and prayers.
I had a few signs from my dad as well. I will never forget them.
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susan, condolences to you and your family during this difficult time.
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michelle, so happy to hear that the transfusion has given you some additional energy. I was just looking at your Kauai photos again the other day.
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laurie, the stream photo is beautiful and the face is so easy to identify.
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Best wishes to all!
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Last night was sauteed zucchini, onion, garlic,tomato, shrimp and linquini in a butter wine sauce. Simple and good. My DH and I grabbed our bowls and settled in for a night of the bachelor.
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Debbie, best of luck to you and Chuck with his surgery. Sending lots of positive thoughts your way.
The pappardelle was excellent, although the dish itself wasn't lemony enough I think. I only had Meyer lemons so the taste wasn't quite zippy enough. The chicken braise was wonderful though.
Yes, I was covered in flour but the kitchen itself was not. I wisely purchased an out of season plastic tablecloth at Walmart on clearance and covered my entire work surface. Afterwards, I just shook it out and sponged it off. Now I need to get one for the floor. Getting all the flour off myself was a little more time consuming.
Tonights dinner is red beans and rice with a salad. I know I'm a day late on that one, right Carole? ;-)0 -
We've been eating take-out and other restaurant food for the past week while moving. Last night was the first dinner I've actually cooked in awhile, and it was simple, as I'm utterly exhausted and still not unpacked. Anyway, had grass-fed rib eye steak, green peas and a slice of brown rice bread (toasted). It was simple and tasty and the first food I've had in too long that was just simple and nourishing and not over-salted. That's what always strikes me the most about restaurant food. They use SO much salt.
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Special K - Good luck with the condo renovation!
Nancy- Laughing at the flour everywhere, sounds like my house!
I forgot to say that Sunday we had cheeseburgers on the grill and macaroni salad inspired by Carrie's post. The whole family went grocery shopping together on Sunday. Remind me to not do that again! Spent way too much money. But I wasn't able to go last week when DS was sick and we all ended up there. Everyone picked different ideas for dinner. Tonight is DS2's choice. We are having shake and bake pork chops with baked baby red potatoes and steamed zucchini. He picked the pork chops I picked the rest
A very dreary day weather wise here with warmer temps and rain. The snow is melting fast which is great. I am ready for srping and all it has to offer!
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