So...whats for dinner?
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Debbie! So glad to hear from you and welcome back! I'm so sorry about your dad, but glad that Chuck is seeing some progress.
Laurie, a food mill is a giant sieve with a handle and blade that turns and mashes out all the pulp but leaves the skin. I don't use one because the motion hurts my arthritic hand. I use a food processor, a blender probably would work too. A stick blender would work as well I imagine. In fact since I got a new one for Christmas, that's probably what I will use.0 -
Debbie, so good to hear from you. You and Chuck have been in my thoughts and prayers continually and will continue so. I look forward to hearing from you.
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Debbie- Thanks so much for checking in- we miss you. Hugs to you, you are going through so much. Be gentle to yourself as you care for everyone else.
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Rebekah and I went to my nephews graduation, had a nice time and we are proud of him. Still thinking of DH but I have to go on, back to work Monday.
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Deb, great pic! Thanks for posting! Glad you went to his graduation.
And Debbie, welcome back .......for as often as you feel up to it. Your strength shines through your post, as you face so much. And yes, we might do food on this thread, but please remember it is a place for the good and the bad as well as the tasty.
Yes Gemini Girls unite! Next Wednesday I'll be at dinner with DH and local DS2 and will raise a glass to my bco "twins". Who else are the June sisters? I'm impressed that you remembered, Debbie. My Tamox brain was not as sharp!
Actually had take-out mushroom and onion pizza with Greek salad for dinner tonight before heading to a congressional candidate's appearance at a neighbor's home. OMG, it was raining cats and dogs and three hundred people crammed into this couple's house in all of their drenchedness. Now those are devoted constituents!
Came home, dried off and watched the Bruins close out their Eastern Conference series. I still can't believe I am getting into hockey! Resisted watching it my whole adult life. For this series I made a wager with a college friend in Pgh. So we won a dinner.....and will have to drive to Pgh this Fall to collect.
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Deb- That is a fantastic picture!
Lacey- I wish I was with you eating that pizza and salad! I would have ordered the same thing- maybe throw on some fresh tomato? You are a late owl like me- I watched the game and am still trying to unwind- ready for bed soon. You said it well, we do the good bad and the tasty on this thread.
Maybe my weird stretch massage worked, I am kind of pain free...of course it could be the wine
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Lacey, "a place for the good and the bad as well as the tasty", I love this! Well said!
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OMG Debbie it is sooo good to hear from you. So sorry you are going through this with your Dad...it is so nice that you are available to be with him. So glad that your DH is on the mend. In having a conversation with friends, we decided that this getting old sh*t was for the birds....and way too time consuming. Remember to take care of yourself. We miss you here.
Stayed home last night, and I was on the couch by 7...sooo tired, I think its this dreary, rainy weather. Had some leftover grilled chicken, so made sandwhiches and that was it. DH made comment that it would have been so much better with soup...but of course I didnt see him jumping up to assist in the making of such soup.
Tonight I will make him take me out to dinner and maybe he will think twice about complaining about his dinner...ha ha doubt it!
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Carrie, I like your DH management strategy. Enjoy your dinner out!
I'm making stuffed mushrooms with spinach and feta to bring to a friend's tonight where we are having dinner. I hope they don't mind my big red swollen flaky allergy eyes....and I hope this is not a permanent state! Looks like I gave been on a massive crying jag. Not sure if I need to get relief from the eye doc or skin doc!?
Laurie, I saw your post right before I fell asleep last night (and shortly after I was reviewing pizza crust recipes). I ended up dreaming that you and I were busy making pizza crust in your kitchen! LOL Lord knows what the boys were up to!
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Carberry, next time tell DH that there is 'jump-up' soup for dinner!
Hey Lacey! I am a Gemini girl too! My birthday is tomorrow, in fact. Where should we meet for our lunch? Our metaphorical lunch? I wish we could have Japanese.
Debbie, so glad to hear from you! So sorry about your troubles. Thinking of you.
Laurie... would say so happy your back is better, but... is it better? At least you can watch your beloved... hockey? I know Bruins, but I don't know what that is (lol). Good job getting a therapeutic massage. It is terrible to hurt that way.
2nd, I agree with Nancy. You can't go wrong with Barefoot Contessa. But then I saw everyone not in the mood during summer, and I thought... gazpacho? M Batali has one I want to try with the Vitamix.
Big hugs to everybody! XXXX
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Tonight is toasted ravioli, although not nearly as many as I want :-( and a large chopped Italian salad. Perhaps some sauteed zucchini and peppers too. Parmesan all around!
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2nd, was the tomato soup recipe you tried the Nordstrom recipe? If so, I'm going to unpin it.
I'm so happy. I dug the first of the new potatoes this afternoon. I love the garden.0 -
Debbie, I know what it's like to have a dad under hospice care.
Yum on the toasted ravioli. And the mushrooms stuffed with spinach and feta.
I had a lot of food-related activity today. Bought andouille sausage at Sam's and store-made Italian sausage at a local supermarket and divided both kinds of sausage into portions for the rv freezer. Yesterday I bought fresh shrimp from the local shrimp man and bagged it up, also for the rv freezer. We have a house-sized refrigerator/freezor in the rv and try to fill it with foods we won't be able to buy in the MN supermarkets.
Picked up dh's carrot cake birthday cake from the baker. Bought Hebrew National hotdogs, ground beef, buns, chips, etc, etc. for the noon meal tomorrow at my mother's house. Dessert will be dh's birthday cake and ice cream. Tomorrow morning I'll make potato salad. We don't like our potato salad chilled.
Tonight's dinner will be Smithfield's linguine with our favorite jarred red sauce and Italian sausage. Also a salad. I'm too tired to labor in the kitchen.
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Carole,
Smart move on stocking up on the regional ingredients! MN has lots of it's own foods but I found many of the foods I was used to having in the NE were simply not available there!
Deb,
Nice pic of you and your nephew! One day at a time is right! And gardening has helped me through more than one rough patch... Something about it just takes me 'away' and allows me a brief respite from whatever is troubling me. You are in my prayers!
Debbie!!!
So happy to see a post from you!! We have missed you here! Laurie has helped to keep us non-Facebooker's informed of what's been going on with you but, it just isn't the same as hearing from you!
Glad to hear that Chuck came through surgery well and is showing improvement! May that continue!! I wish the news on your Dad was better... Sending prayers for comfort for him and strength for you. I agree with all who have posted... Do not be afraid of posting bad news or venting here... True friends are there to celebrate the good times AND help you through the bad times!
Soooo June 12th!!! I knew you and I shared that date, which is so cool! Did not know that Lacey does as well! What the heck are the odds of that?!? Wish we could all get together for real to celebrate! Does this make us triplets?
Kaara and Bobo are our other June birthdays! Happy Birthday, tomorrow, Bobo!
Michelle,
Was so happy to see that your TM's continue to decrease! Hoping that the 'good food' days continue!!0 -
Nancy, it wasn't the Nordie's recipe (that used canned tomatoes, I had fresh tomatoes to use). It was the creamy fresh tomato soup recipe I got from Pinterest. If you make the Nordies one, please let me know how it turns out. How did you know I've been craving toasted ravioli? Have some spaghetti sauce leftover, also thinking baked fried cheese sounds great, I could make a meal from them, add the baked parm zucchini....hmmm, it must be the cheese.
Deb, you and your nephew together - great photo! So glad you're getting out with family, so important right now.
Yesterday, made a sandwich I don't have often: cucumber slices, alfalfa sprouts and sliced Swiss on a ciabatta roll with a touch of mayo. Had some leftover rice last night so turned that into fried rice with lots of carrots, corn, peas, and green onions; served with a chicken teriyaki kabob I picked up at the store.
Today, went with some friends to a yoga class for charity event. After, a couple of us went to Panera, got my yummy tomato soup (maybe there's a copy cat recipe on Pinterest?) with half a BBQ chicken salad. Yum! Should have only eaten half but didn't. Feel stuffed! No dinner for me! If DH wants dinner there's jump-ups (love that term!), I was planning on breaded, pan-fried cube steak sandwiches, he can make them if he wants.0 -
Too hard to edit post on this iPad: shows too much coding for me.
Nancy, checked Pinterest and found a couple copy cat recipes for Panera soup as well as cinnamon chip scones. Also found Ina Garten's fesh tomato soup recipes. Thanks everyone for the idea!0 -
2nd,
I hear you on trying to edit a post on the Ipad! I just don't even try and post a new post if I need to instead!0 -
Hi Debbie. Glad to "hear" from you again. Don't worry about hi-jacking the thread. Like has been said before, this thread is like a busy kitchen where food is only some of the things talked about.
Laurie, I hope your back gets better...fast... And, if you haven't checked on food mills already.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_millToday, Sharon and I were in "school bus driver school" for in-service training. Sharon and DD went to a baseball game tonight...girl's night out. So, I've been putting favorite recipes into a notebook tonight.
I wasn't hungry, so no dinner for me....
My mom's air conditioner should be installed Tuesday. She wanted very much to be back in her house, so I installed a room air conditioner in her bedroom. That room is cold. The house was the first model home and the garage was the sales office. This means the garage is well insulated and has a separate garage area air conditioner. I've got that one running and a floor fan blowing air from the garage to the family room. This is keeping the family room at the her normal room temperature. So, she's Ok until it gets fixed right.
I'm still amazed. As soon as I could, I called 7 air conditioning companies to check on getting a new air conditioner installed. Three were honest and said they wouldn't be able to do an estimage on a new unit until this coming Monday. Four didn't call back at all. I guess they are busy. So my friend's 85 year old neighbor, a retired A/C man who does this for extra money, has ordered a new unit and is going to do the install work. He's just like my dad at that age...do whatever, whenever and however he feels like it...just like a 20 year old... :-) I hope I'm that capable at that age.
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Thanks for the welcome back and hugs everyone.
Lacey- How could I not remember us triple Birthday girls!! Hehe! I was thinking there was some one else that was close to ours not sure.
Carrie- I agree on the getting older part, I am going to do my hair tomorrow to cover up those grey hairs that snuck up on me. ha
Seaside- Of course we are triplets ha! Funny how I remember some stuff so well and other things I totally forget but not OUR BD's now way, no how! Ha!
Carole- Im so sorry and I do remember you talking about that before. Happy Birthday to your DH!
Bobo- Read some more pages I had missed, you are so funny!
Eric-Thanks!! Good to be back and check in. Glad you are back home and safe from all your hard travels with all these terrible disasters going on in our world. You are one special guy!
Goodnite! xoxo
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Yes, Debbie and Seaside, we will be the Gemini tripets! When I was a late teen I became good friends with a summer co-worker, who was also a June 12th gal. Even tho we were two years apart in age, we always referred to ourselves as the "Gemini twins". So I think we can expand that in our case with all due respect to the horoscope twin image.
Last evening some friends had us for dinner to celebrate my BD. She made an Ina Garten chicken dish, which she was excited about since she is not a frequent cook. As we discussed her recipe choice, I mentioned how I have, of late, been using my Ipad exclusively to look up recipes, abandoning my zillion cookbooks. Oh dear......when I opened my burthday gift, it was an Ina Garten cookbook! I had to assure them that despite my recent habit, I will love it and put down the Ipad to resume looking at the cookbook for her recipes. I assured our friends I have yet to discard a single cookbook, so I will happily add Ina to my collection. Awkward moments.......but a lovely birthday dinner to start the week!
Happy BD Bobo!
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Happy Birthday to all you June babies!! Celebrate in style.
Today I will go to a fundraiser for a stage 4 cancer "victim" She is a co worker from a few years back and was diagnosed before me. She is now in hospice and they are raising money for her small children (4 of them). She is only in her late 30's and also lost her mom to bc 2 years ago. Sad day
Love everyones dinners...mine are not so glamorous.
Lacey sounds like something I would do...always sticking my foot in my mouth.
We have had two beautiful deer in our yard lately, and although I love to watch them...I know they are here for my garden!
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Carrie, those stories about young women just break my heart. It's bad enough for older women like me to go through bc, but not fair, not fair, not fair for young women, especially moms of young children.
LOL, Lacey on your foot in mouth story! I look up recipes, too, but still buy and read cookbooks. I just read Rocco Dispirito's NOW EAT THIS! ITALIAN. It's wonderful because it has pictures of Italian "mammas" he visited in Italy. He sampled their traditional recipes and created more healthy versions. I'm sure theirs were better! But his are probably good, too. He uses some ingredients like root arrow and egg white powder that I've never used. I'm making up a list to order off the internet when I get back home in Oct. My rv kitchen is small and my cooking pretty rudimentary during the summer.
I used a bookstore gift card a few months ago to buy Mark Bittman's HOW TO COOK EVERYTHING--THE BASICS. I have it beside by chair in the living room and have been reading it. It has great illustrations. I would definitely recommend it as a gift for someone just venturing into cooking.
This morning I was up at 7:30 and started peeling potatoes for potato salad. Also formed the hamburger patties. There won't be a crowd at my mother's. Family members are busy doing this or that, but dh and my mother will have a nice afternoon with whoever turns up. DH looks forward to his carrot cake all year and he and I both like hot dogs and hamburgers, both of which are a treat because we don't eat them often.
Laurie, hope you're pain free today and hope everyone has a good Sunday.
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Edited to read dh and my mother and I will have a good afternoon!
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LOL, Carole, I was assuming you were at DH's celebration even w/o the edit!
I have that Bittman cookbook which I love to read...and gave that Dispirito's one to my DIL last Christmas.......I must remember to enjoy it in a couple of weeks when we are back there. Hope your DH has a lovely BD celebration.....carrot cake, YUM!!
It is a beautiful day here, and I have decided to abandon the pollen safe house with a facemask to do some yard work. DH headed out earlier and returned with a gash on his scalp from coming up too high when under our new kitchen bay window pulling up some weeds. We got the bleeding to stop ( he refused to go sit in the ER to see if he needed a stitch). And now I hear the hedge trimmer running so better get out there to see the next incident! Forgot how much blood gushes from head cuts!0 -
Lacey- I hope your DH is ok! We made my grandfather start wearing a hat when he did yard work because he seemed to split his head open all the time! Your stuffed mushrooms sounded heavenly! I LOVE stuffed mushrooms.
2nd time- Your sandwich sounded wonderful.
Eric- I hope things work out with your moms a/c.
Carol- When do you leave again for your camping extravaganza? Love how you are stocking up! You have a full sized fridge? WOW! Ours is twice the size as our old one and I am in heaven. But we only go 4-5 days at the most. I hope when DH retires and the kids are grown I can do the same thing.
I read all the posts a few hours ago and now can't remember what I wanted to say?
Our good friends birthday was yesterday so we headed lake side and spent the night with them. We all had a great time and the kids played hard. We all just woke up from a 2 hour nap. My back/shoulder is doing better as long as I don't do anything. We got home this morning and I started picking up and cleaning getting laundry going and with in 1 hour was in a ton of pain and couldn't do anything but head to bed. So now I have learned my lesson. 15 minutes at a time. This is just silly how long it has gone on for, I don't know what else to do try to fix it? The pain has now moved from the right to the left side since the massage- go figure.
Now that we are all refreshed from our nap we will go for a swim and relax outside for a bit. No idea what is for dinner. I have some chicken....not sure how I will do it.
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Lacey, my dh comes in from mowing with gashes in his forehead from cutting under the many trees in our yard. One day he came in with blood running down his arm carrying a medium sized black snake. He was trying to untangle the snake from some netting we had stored in our shed and had to remove one of his work gloves to do it, when the ungrateful thing bit him on the thumb. Non poisonous thankfully, but he had to get a tetanus shot and some antibiotics. It took both of us to extricate the snake from the netting while trying to stop his bleeding thumb. It was a bit of a mess.
Tonight's dinner will be grilled bratwurst, a wedge salad and a new potato salad with champagne vinaigrette. DH and I made an agreement that if we exercised self control during the week (no seconds and no desserts!) we would have a treat on Sundays. I made two coconut cream meringue mini pies for us tonight. They are so cute! Perfect little miniatures. One crust made 4 mini pie crusts so I have two more in the freezer for future use.
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Nancy- Love the pact you made with your DH about self control and treats! and yuck to snakes!
So I cut some chicken into bite size pieces, sauteed with garlic salt pepper and some fresh basil, added a couple of shallots and some mushrooms and am now simmering in a jar of my dads canned tomatoes. Will serve it on some pasta with salad. Never made it before- it just sounded good we will see how it turns out.
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My phone was broken so I havnt been here too much lately. Love all of you. If any of you will be in Wisconsin the second weekend of August, feel free to spend some time with our WI ladies. Pm me if you want details, basically planning a camp out at the folks farm. Low key, low cost, low stress. Hoping for big fun!
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Nancy, what a snake story! You haven't seen bleeding like my dh bleeds with every little cut and knick. He takes Plavix, a blood thinner and comes into the house with blood streaming down his arm or leg or face. It's really scary. And he has a wood-working shop full of tools that could make serious cuts. Our physician BIL told him bluntly that if he's ever in a serious accident he will likely bleed to death. Cheery thought.
We have three quarters of the carrot cake left and it is SO rich. I could have done with more cake and less icing. Guess I will put some of it in the freezer and take it up to IL next week. DH's sister likes her desserts too.
Lacey, have you ever tried Bittman's version of mac and cheese? I just read it this afternoon and it's a completely different approach.
Laurie, we depart next Tues, June 18, a week earlier than I had planned. DH is planning in a golf tournament with BIL in Decatur, IL. How do you like camping in the new camper?
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DH is "playing" not "planning"!
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