So...whats for dinner?
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My next door neighbors, when I was going to college, gave me some of their starter from St. Louis. When I got married and moved, I used chlorinated tap water by mistake and killed it.
I managed to get another one going....put flour & water in a bowl, cover it with cheese cloth, put it outside and hope....It took something like 8 tries to get something going, The starter is 24 years old.
A sourdough group had a posting about using grapes to make a starter and as luck would have it, I have a grape vine shading the back porch. I pulled some grapes off, smashed them, added a tiny bit of water, a pinch of sugar and covered it up to sit in a warm place. It's starting to get a bit of froth (wine?), so tonight I'm going to strain out the solid stuff, add a bit of flour & water to the liquid and watch what happens.
Between mom, my brother & sister-in-law (they're living in China for the moment, but are here for a couple of days), Sharon and DD, both loaves were eaten up....and the dogs were very disappointed...
I believe that starter can be dried, shipped and "re-sprouted". If anyone would like to try this, PM me with your address. The next time I feed the starter, instead of discarding the excess, I'll dry some and mail it out. I can't guarantee it will work, but...I'm willing to give it a try.
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Cooked all weekend. I decided that I wanted to make some Indian food for Sunday dinner, so started on Saturday by marinating a deboned leg of lamb in yogurt, onion, garlic, serrano chile, coriander, cumin, cardamom and salt. When baking on Sunday I added cinnamon stick, peppercorns and cloves. Very delicious. I also made palaak paneer and coconut rice. In addition I made enough vegetables (green beens, peppers, broccolette, asparagus and onions) to last a week of healthy eating!
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Such a busy weekend with people coming and going from the house. Also we got a round of mini golf in as well, it was so HOT! DS 1 got a hole in 1! We had left overs last night- everyone had something different. I had the left over raviolis with salad.
Today we had friends over for pool time and spent most of the day outside in the intense heat. We came in and enjoyed the a/c for a few hours after they left and headed back out for the afternoon. A big storm just came through so we are back inside. Dinner tonight is pork chops and apple sauce, corn and egg noodles. A childs delight!
Bobo hope you are feeling better.
Lacey- See you on facebook while we watch the game tonight!
Carrie- Love the image of lassooing the moon.
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Laurie, we're on the same wave length. Tonight is pork chops on the grill, applesauce, pasta salad and sauteed spinach with garlic and cream.
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Sauted spinach with garlic and cream--yum!
We're back on the road after spending Thurs. thru Sun. at the home of SIL and BIL in Decatur, IL. Had a great hamburger for lunch at a little family restaurant along Hwy 39 North. Tonight's simple home-cooked meal will be pasta with tomato sauce and Italian sausage and a tossed salad with some crumbled blue cheese and vinaigrette. A few slices of Eric's home-made bread would be nice!
It's nice to be back in our little rv home after days of socializing.
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ERIC, that bread sounds so good.
All the grilling sounds so good. I don't fire up the grill just for me, though. Next time my husband is home. I'll have him put on steaks and brats and hamburger so I can freeze them , well, not the steaks. We'll eat those right off the grill. Of course, if he goes on lake Michigan and gets a fresh salmon, we will grill that too.
Today I had salmon, rice and sugar snap peas. Yum. Of course I didn't make it. Went to Highland House. They have amazing food.0 -
Off subject, we went to bed before the hockey game was over but learned this morning that Chicago won. All the IL relatives were ecstatic. They stayed up until the game was over. From the periods we watched, dh and I agreed that Boston looked like the better team, controlling the play, but apparently they didn't score.
Being from the deep south, I've never been an ice hockey fan and find the action too fast to follow on tv. It's probably easier at the rink.
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Many thanks everyone for your good wishes. Biopsy negative -- no endometrial c. Great news! Still recovering from biopsy itself. Laurie, percocet sounds like a good idea for next time. I am going to have to do one of these every time I have spotting. Since I am 43, I suspect I will have some spotting.
It's been great to follow what you guys are up to -- especially traveling RV people. DLLP does NOT want to get an RV. I have always wanted to build my own container house! I believe she is nixing that idea as well. But... she is suggestible, so I have hope.
You guys, I am a little shattered by that test last week. Obviously great results. But I can't think straight, still. Liquid diet. Laurie, not sure if you have ever had this feeling with your two -- doing a great job mothering, my best job, reading books, making great dinners for them, and then hiding in bathroom when DLLP comes home. Not crying, really. Just hiding.
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Bobogirl I am SO sorry you have been through this. Yay for the results though but geez.
You are strong to put on a brave face for the kids. We all break down sometimes, especially after playing the "nothing wrong here" game all day, You deserve your alone time to reboot.
Since we often talk about using our cancer card on the retail therapy thread, can you use yours to talk your partner into the Rv or container house??? No time like the present.....I also dream about little houses in the back yard. I hear 'ya.
Hang in there and I hope you are back to yummy dinners soon. I had a green smoothie for dinner if it makes you feel any better. Healthy, but lassagna would have been better.
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Bobo I am so traumatized that you were so traumatized...I agree with what Eric said...maybe a formal complaint so that this does not happen to anyone else. For whatever reason, me getting the tatoos for my radiation traumatized me and I cried all day over it. They were just very insensitive...6 people staring at me naked...talking like I wasnt there...stabbing me with a needle without a pre-warning...manipulating my body in ways it didnt want to go...on and on. Cried all the way home.
Did a crockpot meal of sausage and peppers and onions in marinara sauce. Hubby ate it on roll, me just plain with pasta salad.
in spite of the heat, everyone sounds like they are cooking up a storm! Meals sound great....wish I wa a more adventurous cook.
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Bobo my girl, you deserve a break today. Take it where you can find it. And kiss that doc goodbye.
DH has requested spaghetti and meatballs tonight. Fortunately I have sauce frozen so that's half the work done. I worked in the flower bed this morning and got overheated (high humidity mostly) so now I'm feeling kind of wiped out. A gallon of ice water and a cool shower will revive me hopefully. I had intended to wash the car but I think that's off of today's agenda now.0 -
Carberry, I totally 'feel' your story about the tattoo! All of it. Funny how those things can affect you. And then if results are okay people expect you to just immediately get past whatever happened. In fact, some people expect that even when results are not okay..
Difficult to lodge complaint without looking like hysterical c patient (or drug seeker). In fact, the V I took that morning -- .5 -- was my first V ever!
Scienceg, good thought about the card. I want a container house badly! Green smoothie for me as well. For someone who can't swallow, I'm doing pretty well: coffee, smoothies, watermelon, berries, etc. XXX
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Nancy -- drive through car wash!
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Laurie, for your amusement...
Here is a picture of the hulk baby this year at Halloween. She is my darling.
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Bobo- I hide too! Don't feel bad about needing a minute to yourself. I hide when DH first gets home- I just go to my room and lay in my bed and shut the door for about 10 minutes. Then I do it again after dinner is done and cleaned up and the kids have been bathed. While DH watches the last cartoon with them I play candy crush saga in my room. Then I do books , teeth, rub backs etc. I get sick of hearing the word mommy all day. Not to mention mine fight a lot. They play well a lot too- but I can't stand the fighting! The other day DS1 asked me why it takes so long for me to go to the bathroom, lol!!!! CAUSE I NEED A BREAK FOR A MINUTE!!!!! Also, on camping. I did not want a camper. DH convinced me 3 years ago to get a cheap one (with a bathroom) and try it. I loved it and we upgraded this year. I never would have thought I would like it. But if you do it right you have all the comforts of home. It is cozy and the kids have a blast and go to bed exxhausted! Don't give up on trying to get one!
My tummy has been off all day. Tonight's dinner I think will be turkey burgers.
Hockey- I was very disappointed that the Bruins lost. But there is always next year. I think everyone was stunned at the results of the game last night. Carol- It is easier to watch hockey in person. I grew up playing hockey and watching my brother play so I get pretty into it. It was fun this year that DS1 got really into it too.
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Tell the doctor, "quit yelling or I'll leave" is not a suitable response to, "THAT HURTS REALLY BAD!", that you expected better and ask "Why did you do that?"
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Bobo, I asked my DDIL (a gyn surgeon who we were visiting this weekend)about ways one can experience that procedure in a more "humane" way. She said that while many women have it in the office with tolerable pain, some need to have anesthesia and she performs those procedures in the OR. You might want to push for that next time.
Tonight we (actually, DH ;)grilled rosemary-balsamic marinated lamb kebabs with red and yellow peppers and onion...along with "go to" cuke salad with scallions and oregano. Boy was that lamb delish! Totally satisfying no carb meal.....we had way too many carbs while visiting in NJ....and very little exercise! Need to get back on track!
Yes, sad for the Bruins, but Chicago clearly had the strongest show this season. I am new to following hockey, thanks to the Celtics bagging out of the playoffs so early...I needed another fast spectator sport before succumbing to the slow pace of baseball.....and hockey is so unbelievably fast! Wow! You don't even have time to sneeze! I did get used to it, but not sure I could follow the puck in the Garden. I marvel at the strength of the players. DS2 warned me that I am better off watching from home, anyway, given some of the over exuberant fans at the Bruins' games (like my father used to be....which turned me off to hockey for all these years!). So I will happily watch at home next season, too.
Mothering ladies, it has been many years since I felt the need to hide, but re-experienced that this past weekend at DS1's home...with the babies' constant needs and adults' (the live-in grandparents) constant chatter....guess I am getting really old and oriented to a quiet home life! I think it would have been a bit easier with just us and the babies, but who knows.....I think the operative word is the "constancy" of it all. Everyone needs a bit of quiet, private space for their sensory systems to "re-boot". Bathrooms can provide a lovely multi- purpose spot.
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Lacey- Love that you are a night owl too. Just checked in and saw your post
Your dinner sounds wonderful and I agree on consistency. I am a routine kind of girl. When we are off a routine or schedule I am actually uncomfortable. In a few weeks after a busy three weekends Dh's family is having a family reunion- I am skipping it and staying home alone for two nights. I feel bad for not going but not bad enough to go. The thought of the silence I will experience is amazing......0 -
Laurie, that amazing silence you describe is what I enjoyed after arriving home last evening!
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Lacey, thanks so much for that info! It makes me feel less crazy. PCP and GYN both maintain that it is an uncomfortable and nearly pain-free procedure.
Laurie, I am the same as you regarding routine. Kudos to you for staying home during reunion! That seems like a nightmare to get through.. would never want to do one of those. I wonder what you will do during your silent retreat? Order in? Movie? Or sit on porch? It seems like the sky is the limit!
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Eric, those are all really great questions. Will do!
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Bobo, good to hear about goods results. It was many years ago. But when i had four kids at home, I used to sit in the car after shopping for at least a half hour! Just Me and the bags. It took everyone that long to find my quiet spot! LOL even in the bathroom, they find you......
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My quiet time is driving to and from work (41 miles each way) during rush hour.....
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Today my in laws took my oldest for a "special day" just him. So I had a "special day" with my youngest. It was really nice. We did what ever he wanted to do. This is what my three year old wanted to do today. Go grocery shopping, get a cookie, get a toy boat at the store (1.50). Make chocolate covered pretzels. Have a frozen pizza for lunch- take a nap. Have a fudgsicle, take a bubble bath with his new boat and now Ninja Turtles on tv. Pretty easy to please huh? Next week my in laws will take him for a day and I will give my oldest a special day, he has much grander expectations, lol!
So part of his special day is he got to pick dinner. Home made chicken tenderes and french fries.
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Sounds like a lovely day, Laurie! I will be interested to see next weeks' comparison/contrast!
My busy long weekend trip down the coast and farewell activities yesterday at my old school have finally taken their toll. I have been wiped out all day...and need to plan a luncheon for some colleagues on Friday, here. Thought I'd just make that white gazpacho soup and some salads....chicken, egg, pasta, and maybe a green salad....then cut up fruit and biscotti for dessert.
Then getting ready to finally head to the lake on Saturday. Think we'll be counting raindrops there. Hopefully the forecast will change.0 -
Laurie, I'm with Lacey, I want to know what the.older chooses too. I used to.do something similar, it helps, and when they get older. It makes connecting with them easier.
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We arrived at Detroit Lakes, MN, today and are settled for 5 days in a very nice rv park. Tomorrow we have a tee time to play golf, and dh got the bikes down from the rack. It's time for some much-needed activity.
Dinner tonight was red beans cooked with ham (out of the freezer) and brown rice and a good tossed salad.
We have the A/C on but sitting outside this afternoon was very comfortable with a breeze blowing.
Kudos to all you moms and Eric.
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10 pm and I just had leftover tuna noodle casserole. Added some packaged sun dried tomatoes that gave it a sweet taste.
Put in another 12 hr day at this stupid new job. Boss says to me "make sure you dont go over 40 hrs a week" Duh...I didnt sign myself up for all these extra training sessions on top of my regular work schedule.
I would hide on my night to get groceries...hubby watched the kids in the evening and I would go to the store and buy myself a magazine and sit in my car for an hour.
I want a pork chop.
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Carrie- You make me smile
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Michelle- Thinking of you and hoping you are having a wonderful trip.
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