So...whats for dinner?
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Doing the Irish HAPPY DANCE for you Michelle.
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Totally cool, Michelle! I am grinning from ear to ear for you! And so excited for you to soon be enjoying the AZ sunny warmth!
Susan, best of luck to you with the thyroid surgery. (((((hugs)))))
Last night I met a former colleague at a local restaurant to celebrate her recent academic accomplishment. It was a lovely evening, atmosphere-wise, and the food was fine. I had duck breast and portobello mushrooms over farro, along with a caesar salad.
Carrie, I think your evening sounds like a lot of fun! I took DH to South Station this afternoon to catch a bus to NYC to meet up with our sons in Brooklyn for the UMASS Temple game. They will both stay with DS1 in NJ...guys night out....and I will enjoy watching it on TV in the quiet of our family room.
Condolences, Nance.
I was just discussing "special pot love" with my hairdresser today since she also has some serious favorites, and wants to take me to a restaurant supply store to get yet another special one. I'm game..... Do we have special brain wiring to cherish pots?? 
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Susan - sending my best to you for a successful surgery and speedy recovery!
Carole - your birthday week continues! Hope your dinner is fabulous!
We went to Smoky Bones tonight. The ribs were OK but I enjoyed the bbq beans much more. And I had a margarita - it tasted good, hope I don't regret it later. The acid can get to me sometimes.
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Michelle Margariataville! To bad I can't handle hard liquor
Susan, good luck with your surgery. Pick up a lot of books, call a maid service and make frozen dinners and enjoy your Springer. Heh, heh, you don't seem the type for daytime TV
My Kid picked up dunkin donuts and coffee for dinner and brought it to me!?! OK, I ate three.
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Yaaaaaaaahoooooooo Michelle! Beyond happy that gemzar is kicking some serious cancer butt!! Here's hoping that this is the silver bullet and that once they figure out how to manage the side effects it becomes a little bit easier on you....
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Michelle - Doing the cheer for Gemzar. Arizona's going to look so good. Happy for you.
Susan - Best wishes for your surgery. Bet you actually feel better esp. if you're having hyperthyroid sx. even though nobody wants more surgery.
Nancy - Condolences on the loss of your cooking pot. Restaurant supply sounds like a good idea for a road trip but don't know if they use those kind.
Bedo - love naughty dog Avatar (I assume that's him).
Carole - Enjoy your continuing BD celebration.
Having a big salad. My car decided to act up and power steering wouldn't work pulling out from parking space. DH left work to rescue me but after it sat for a few min. worked again, but he came home anyway. Going to dealership in am. It was just paid off in Dec. but it has 113,000 miles on it. Thank goodness we still have old hunk-o-junk truck DH can drive to work while I take his newer one.
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Michelle: Hooray for the positive stats. Hope you can enjoy your trip.
Susan: We'll be in your pocket Wednesday.
Carole: I just looked at the weather and we have 80+ this coming week. And still no winter rains. How about you?
I'd like the recipes for Bedo's noodle bowl & Eric's rice bowl if you can share.
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Tonite was church fish fry. Always good. There are so many go choose from you have to make a choice on Fridays. The two Catholic churches in Port take turns, then there are the churches in nearby towns, so six within 4 or 5 miles. All a bit different. One has a salad bar, one has oil and vinegar Coleslaw instead of MAYO type, one is all you can eat, one has baked fish, one has a desert bar, one had a choice of fish or shrimp. Choices, choices. Then, you can always go to a restaurant if you wish. lots of fish fries. That's Wisconsin.
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Moon - Sign me up. We have Wed. night church supper but no fish fries. Yum.
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Restaurants have fish fries year round here, unless they offer fish boils. Give me a good fry any time. Our churches have them during lent, so prime time now! Yum.
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I've set up a bit of an assembly line to clean and reseason all of the cast iron cookware that my mom gave me. I'm about 1/2 done. It's working perfectly even though the dogs feel left out...I don't want them near the *VERY STRONG* lye solution.
I test the stuff by cooking an egg on a "dry" skillet...So far, every skillet has been slick enough that the egg slides out of the skillet.
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Susan, my mom, about 30 years ago, had her thyroid(s) removed. She will be 95 in a few weeks and still lives at home.... She said she felt much better after the surgery.
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The Rice bowl recipe...
1/2 cup olive oil
2 finely chopped onions
2 cups jasmine rice
1-1/2 cups chicken broth
1 tsp salt
1/2 cup rice vinegar
4 cups poached chicken--shredded after it's cooked.
2 cups seedless grapes
4 tbsp finely chopped fresh cilantro
1/2 cup toasted pine nuts
1 tsp sugar
Heat two tablespoons oilve oil over medium heat, add finely chopped onions and sugar. Cook until the onions are soft. Stir the onions around to keep them from burning.
Add rice, 1-1/2 cups water and 1-1/2 cups chicken broth to the onions. Bring to a boil, reduce to simmer, cover and cook until the rice is tender (usually about 20 minutes).
Add rice vinegar, the remaining olive oil and 1tsp of salt to a *LARGE* bowl and stir to disolve the salt. Then add rice, chicken, grapes, cilantro and toasted pine nuts to the bowl and stir to mix it all together.
Toasting pine nuts... heat a small amount of olive oil in a small skillet over medium heat. Add the nuts and stir CONTINUOUSLY until most of the nuts are medium brown. It doesn't take long to do this and I managed to burn a lot of expensive pine nuts before I figured out to do the pine nuts before doing anything else.
The chicken...after I cook it in almost boiling water, I let it cool until I can handle it and then I just rip it apart with my fingers....I do wash my hands first! :-)
I tried it with "regular rice" and it didn't taste the same.
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I seem to be the ONLY person with Graves that feels fine. I am totally asymptomatic, except for the eye disease. Right now, I am probably hypo though. I swing back and forth. People are negotiating who gets to visit when. No one has ever fought over spending time with me before!
Husband wanted me to teach him how to make the poached chicken and stock yesterday, so you all know what he wanted for dinner. Enchilladas! with salsa verde. Really delicious. Today we will have some chicken salad with the mayo I made the other day. I need some other ideas for how to consume poached chicken. It is the stock that makes me happy; not all that meat!
*susan*
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Eric, your rice bowl recipe sounds delish! Gives me another good option for using chicken which I always seem to be poaching.Thanks for it and good luck with your pan project.
Moon, I would be in heaven at those varied fish fries. What a nice town tradition!
Just did Facetime with DH and the whole crew at DS1's house...where seven month old DGD was busy competing with two year old DGS to play with his new kitchen center. She is a force to be reckoned with! Ahhhhh, back to my quiet house....think I'll go exercise. Had lunch out yesterday, and meeting a friend for lunch today, so I'd better work some of those meals off! Dinner last night ( here on my own watching basketball)
was a shameful array of junk food, with a little bit of chicken salad thrown in for protein.0 -
Lacey Now that is what is called a "balanced" meal....always balance your junk food with some protein. Works for me!
Last night I balanced my beer with some boneless chicken wings. Both basketball teams won, so its back to the bar tonight for some more fun. Syracuse is huge here and the bar was nuts as they went into overtime...lots of testosterone!!
Headed to the amish store for some bacon and cheese. Best Amish made cheese ever! Probably some spices too, as they sell them in bulk and I can refill my little canisters.
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Susan, enjoy all the unexpected attention. For sure you could benefit from a little nurturance given all you have had on your plate in these recent months. Sending positive healing energy your way as you face your surgery. Not sure if you believe in this, but I was given info before my last surgeries that included positive healing statements to be read to me as I was coming out of anesthesia. Some hospital staff were happy to do this...some (old timer anesthesiologist)less so, but he at least gave my printed paper to someone else to read. Have no idea if that helped me in my super speedy recoveries, but it certainly didn't hurt! Maybe I can read them to you long distance.
I know what you mean about the glut of poached chicken....I am tired of just using it for the chicken pastina soup, chicken chili, and chicken salad, so was happy to see Eric's rice bowl recipe! Love how your DH asks to be taught how to make his favorite foods.0 -
Carrie, love your plans for today.....bacon, cheese, spice and basketball! I saw the end of that game.....can just imagine how wild the bar crowd must have been. UMASS also won their game, so DH and DS2 bought some tickets from a sad, departing (formerly hopeful) Temple fan for today's game. Am sure DS2 is delerious....he is such a UMASS loyalist and crazed basketball fan. Then he gets to return to Southie in time for tomorrow's parade. Oh to be young again!
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Bacon, asparagus and onion quiche tonight and more salad. Went out for breakfast buffet at a local restaurant today - carb overload! Lunch was just half a cheese sandwich with celery sticks.
As a snack this afternoon, I had a container of Greek yogurt. This is the first time I've tried it and wow, I'm sold! I usually make my own yogurt and have never tried it with Greek starter. Does it come out as creamy? I didn't realize it had twice as much protein as regular yogurt. How did I miss all this?
I cooked the corned beef today and will finish the vegetables in the cooking stock tomorrow. I'm also making dark chocolate Irish whiskey tarts for dessert, some Irish soda bread and a cottage pie for DH, who cannot stand corned beef. Fortunately we have friends who come and enjoy the boiled dinner with me every year.0 -
I have practically lived on Fage Greek yogurt - 0% fat - since starting on chemo. 23 grams of protein per cup. The large container is about 96 grams of protein. I mix it with about 2 or 3 ounces of Trader Joe's fresh-squeezed orange juice. I hope I haven't killed it for post-chemo enjoyment (I started eating it when we did the 17 Day Diet a couple of years ago).
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Michelle, so, so happy to hear the news regarding your counts!!
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susan, wishing you well as you deal with Graves disease.
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moonflwr, I grew up in a suburb of Chicago and every single summer we went to Wisconsin on vacation as soon as school got out (my dad was a high school teacher/coach). I sure do miss all those fish fry dinners up there! There used to be Friday night fish frys in the suburbs as well way back then. Not sure if that's still the case but have never seen one out here. Our destination back then was Birchwood - not far from Rice Lake. Seems like such a long time ago and it was! There was a little restaurant in Birchwood that had the best American fried breakfast potatoes. My mouth waters just thinking about them!
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Rebekah & Nick skiing in Canada, Revelstoke.
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Nance, you are one busy cooking bee! What is cottage pie? Sounds like you have a wonderful St. Paddy's Day dinner prepared. I think that soon we will no longer see regular yogurt since the Greek style seems to have taken off in the past year or so...and taken over the store shelves. It is quite good, and I love getting the extra protein when I eat it...tho that is more rare since my smoothie regimen.
I went to Panera to meet a work friend for lunch (where we spent three and a half hours catching up....thank you Panera!), and had their special spinach salad. It was tasty, but they do manage to make it calorieful with not only bacon and hard boiled eggs, but a sweet dressing and some crunchy fried things that I just knew were not good for me.....oh well! I did excercise before I went there after having my junk fest last night.
So DH just called to let me know that he and DS2 are well on their way home from NY, replete with a pizza from Brooklyn to share with me. Very exciting! Tho by the time they get home, we may need to eat it for breakfast. DH also had to have the guy throw in a few potato knishes (why they were being sold at the pizza joint I don't know for good measure. He is such a New Yorker at heart!
So I can hardly wait to have some authentic Brooklyn pizza....even if it is in the AM!
Believe it or not, that has been on my bucket list, which I suppose counts if I eat it in MA.
Meanwhile, I brought my sewing machine down to the dining room where I have all my sewing projects stacked up, and have been chipping away at the taggies I promised people....lots of local sports team themes. Hope to have the Red Sox ones done and delivered by opening day! I have been so unproductive this year.....
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Sharon doesn't like the corned beef, so I'm going to try a coddle from....I'm not sure where..... I don't recognize the hand writing....
It looks like a perfect job for the dutch oven or deep skillet with a well fitted lid. :-)
1/2 stick butter
2 sliced onions
4 thick pieces bacon or a slice of ham cut into squares
1 pound sausage, sliced.
4 very large potatoes sliced--leave skins on.
Salt
Pepper
2 cups meat stock and then "vegetable, beef, pork or chicken" in yet another handwriting. so I guess it may not matter...
Heat butter in large pan. Add onions and cook about 5 minutes. Add bacon (or ham) and sausage and stir.
In a pot, layer meat-onion mixture, then potatoes, salt and pepper and repeat until all used up. The top layer should be potatoes.
Add almost all of the 2 cups of stock, cover and bake at medium (note says 350) for 1-1/2 hours. Check at 1/2 way time--if looks dry, add more stock.
Edited to add.....serve with a good stout... :-)
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Lacey, cottage pie is shepherd's pie made with beef instead of lamb, although I think the name shepherds pie is used often for one made with any kind of meat.
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Sitting here sated after the Brooklyn pizza. Begs the question, why can we not experience this in Boston??!! It was just so perfect. Fortunately DS2 stayed to enjoy it with us so DH and I ate less than we might have otherwise.
DH did put his knishes in the fridge for tomorrow....will enjoy his Jewish roots on St. Paddy's Day!
DS2 left for home knowing he'd never find a parking spot close to his Southie condo tonight, (his neighborhood is flooded with outsiders in for the parade tomorrow) and getting ready to run in a race tomorrow.
I'm sorry that UMASS lost today, but so pleased that we got to enjoy Brooklyn pizza. Yummmmmm!
While waiting for them/it, I finished two taggies. Yay!0 -
I was wondering what they called shepards pie with beef, thanks Auntienance! Nice to know. Lacey, Panera has good soups too. They manage to add enough sodium though! Eric, that coddle sounds great. And I hope all your cast iron stays seasoned well. I was going to buy a dutch oven enamel over cast iron, but I think I would have a very hard time lifting it when its full. I may end up investing in a grill griddle combo, I wouldn't have to move it, just flip it. Might work for me. LeeA, I AM in the burbs! LOL there are always fish fries all year round. Just during lent, all the churches offer them too. So you can enjoy them and feel good about where the money goes. I just can't have them every week or I'd just blow up. So good.
Tonite I had another freezer meal, Italian marinated flank steak. It was one I didn't split, so we had leftovers even with my husband home. I fried up some potato with onion for a side. Added cabbage to the peppers and onion, for another side. It was very good. I am liking this! Still have 5 more meals to try. Plus the other half of the ones I tried already, except for the flank steak, LOL. Much love to all.0 -
A bunch of posts happened while I was posting.....
Deb, it looks cold where they're at....
Michelle, it was 89F degrees when I looked at the thermometer today. It was absolutely wonderful outside. It will still be worth bringing a light sweat shirt/sweater as it is cool at night and most places really like to show off their air conditioning...
Nance...that's a good idea...soda bread. I'll have to look into that. I've got a bunch of bread baking books...I'm sure I can find something...
Lacey...I didn't get Brooklyn pizza when I was back there "for" Sandy. I had Manahttan and Long Island Pizza, but we didn't get into Brooklyn. Sharon went to college in the Bronx, so she might have "strayed" over there to get it... I'll have to ask...
Susan...enjoy being the object of a "fight" over who gets to show up when.. :-) and enjoy the rice bowl....DD would eat that most nights if I would cook it.
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Thanks, Eric. I've learned my lesson about packing sweaters and long pants to wear in the evening and in restaurants, even around here. 89 sounds fabulous!!!
I'm going to have to find a place for corned beef and cabbage. DH doesn't like cooked cabbage but I'm sure there's an Irish pub around somewhere.
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It has been a while, hello everyone! I am not sure how much I missed, but am did skim through to attempt to catch up.
Michelle, hooray for gemzar! Hope you're enjoying your trip.
Susan, I am sorry about the Graves' disease. I have not heard of it before. Hoping the surgery goes perfectly and you are feeling better after it.
Lacey, I am craving Brooklyn pizza. Don't think I've ever experienced it. We don't have great pizza around here. The pizza down the shore, just 70 miles away is so much better. Some people tell me it's because the water is harder and that makes the crust bette. Bagels are good here, but some New Yorkers say they're better there.
Making London broil today, garlic mashed potatoes, Brussel sprouts and a beet salad. Using the beef from my boss's neighbor. Has been marinating in emeril's recipe since last night. My in laws are coming, so it better be good. Will check in after. Take care everyone.0 -
Eric, there's not much to Irish soda bread, it's rather like a big biscuit.
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