So...whats for dinner?
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All 19 of the Granite Mtn. Hotshots, part of the Prescott, AZ fire department, died today fighting a wildland fire. I've worked with them, so they're not just "some names".
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I havn't had time to read everyone's post, mainly came here to make sure Eric was OK! I was worried you were there during the terrible loss of the fire fighters. I am so glad you are safe, but very sorry for there loss and for yours. You and there family's are in my prayers. (((((hugs))))
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Eric, condolances and prayers for you and all who loved them.
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Eric, so sorry for the loss of your friends! Thought of you when I read this in the paper today -- page one, above the fold, even though we are in FL.
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Eric - I saw that on the Yahoo headlines when I just signed on. My heart goes out to you and to the citizens of Arizona. May God hold those firefighters and their families close and give them comfort. I can't imagine their loss and what it means to you Eric.
Praying that the west will get a break soon. Where's the monsoon season?
Have 2 sets of friends going to outside of Black Hawk CO today. Praying fires are no where near there. On set goes to same place every year so assume they have been in touch with condos.
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Oh Eric, I'm so sorry for your loss......((((((HUGS)))))). Such a terrible tragedy for so many families.
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Such a horrible tragedy. I'm so sorry Eric.
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Lacey, I sent you a pm.
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Eric- So sorry for your loss. How horribly sad.
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Chana, thanks so much! I'm really looking forward to doing this!
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Today was DS1's special day alone with me. He had some grand ideas I hade to tame. Toy store, lunch at a restaurant, ice cream etc etc. So we agreed to the toy store and a 15 dollar limit, eat lunch at home and I bought him an ice cream treat at the store. We spent the day playing with his new monster truck toy, playing video games together. I also taught him how to play go fish and War. It was really a nice day and I enjoyed just hanging out with him and giving him all of my attention.
Dinner tonight was his choice, home made spaghetti sauce with ziti pasta and garlic bread. It came out great and everyone ate. Very simple at the end to a great day.
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Laurie, sounds like a "money in the 'relational' bank" kind of day.. So happy for you that it went so well. It's great that you have nice in-laws to support such lovely exeriences.
I think we will have more rain here tomorrow.....nothing like the wild weather that passed thru MA this afternoon. We seem to be a country in weather crisis.0 -
Eric, I thought of you immediately as the news of the hotshot deaths was announced. How hard this must be for the families and friends of these 19 people. Though I am glad that being a hotshot isn't one of your specialties, that doesn't change how tragic this all seems.
Around here, food has happened. Day in. Day out. Much of it has been good. Just haven't been able to rebound mentally from the sadness of cleaning out my MIL's house. I suspect that the lack of thyroid is playing into this flatness, but the doctors don't really listen much. Who knows? Sorry not to have felt up to posting. You have all been such a great support group it isn't fair for me to simply disappear like that.
I am off to Wilson Farms here in a bit. We need more local vegetables. We missed the horrid storms yesterday. They were just that much West of us.
*susan*
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What a terrible event on the loss of all those firemen. So sorry that you have to go through this Eric. Our "true" heroes.
If we get any more rain we will be able to drive the boat right up to our front door! Lots of flooding here in NY, people being evacuated from their homes. I have have to let water out of the pool to keep it from overflowing.
No grand meals here, got home at 10pm last night and had a chicken sandwich. praying for good weather for the weekend so we can do some good bbqing.
Susan Sorry you are feeling so "blue" The doctor gave me a low dose of effexor to help with my hotflashes and the bonus is, it gives me a more stable mood. Sometimes life events just set me off into a downward spiral, that never happened pre ca.
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Yesterday I made onion rolls to be used as buns for some pulled pork on the 4th. I had to start early because we're going to the thoroughbred races today with friends then spending the night at a local casino. Tomorrow is a visit to The Butterfly House. Since we're having friends over for the 4th, I had to get a jump on things. The rest of the menu will be new potato and green bean salad (from the garden, yay!), fruit salad, roasted corn on the cob and blackberry pie with vanilla bean ice cream. Sounds pretty all American, doesn't it?
The next few meals will be out. Tonight will probably be one of my favorite Italian places, Charlie Gitto's. Beyond that, who knows? I'm off to the races!0 -
Susan! I missed your post. It's good to hear from you. I'm sorry you're so blue. I found it oddly comforting to go through my moms things. She was a pack rat and it made me laugh more than a few times at some of the stuff she kept, such as numerous odd earrings without mates and silly Christmas decorations. It definitely made me miss her though. I hope you feel better soon and I'm glad you checked in. Make those docs listen to you!
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It is good to hear from you, Susan, but sorry about it taking longer than you'd hope to rebound. You did have several consecutive events and significant losses without a break, so that and the thyroid related "flatness" you mention, may require it taking some time to rebound from. (pardon the crappy construction there!) I hope you are able to do some good things for yourself to help the process along....
I'm relieved to hear that the wildest of storms missed you.
No need to post food updates here....just good to hear from you!0 -
The good, the bad and the ugly
I am so sorry that so many of you are having hard times. Deb and Debbie, I feel for you and am thinking of you.a lot. Susan, I'm sorry things haven't evened out yet, they will. maybe summer is not helping with the heat. Eric, that is so sad, I am so sorry for your losses, I can't even begin to imagine. Michelle, you are A- Maayyyyy-zing! (Must be said like Oprah) I haven't kept up because I sleep alot but only 16 more weeks. Now; It's working and in 16 weeks I will be free and superwoman!!! Still don't want to talk about it. On the BC front, things are stable. Mammo in Aug
The GOOD!! DD came over and said "What is going on around here???" and bought me 4 kids meals, the kind you put in their lunch, promised to come back with BF and shampoo the rug. Then she stated, and then we're getting a maid for the kitchen and the bathroom. Boy that was a shocker! I hope the meals don't speak to my cooking skills when she was little. Actually they do, as I was vegetarian and she wasn't. But the kids meals were cute and she bought the ones without meat.
The BAD DC#1 (Darling Cat #1) Is doing what he did when I was diagnosed with BC. Peeing on the rug a few times. Thank you very much. That fixes everything. Hence the rug shampooing
THE UGLY I alternate between an 11 year old Tom Petty Teeshirt and a grey one. I am growing my hair long.
There is an amazing amount of organizing to do. It's shocking that anyone gets anything done when they're working.
For dinner I had THE most delicious cantalope ever, all cut up with a nectarine. It was Heaven. The garden is coming in. With all the rain, I rarely need to water it.
Bobo, I'll critical theory you, you.... Marxist.... (or not) You and my bff the chair of the math dept can run circles around me mentally. When I finish all this cleaning and organizing I'm going to work on my vibrato. never really perfected finger/wrist vibrato, just arm, which stinks.
Goats. I still want goats. I picture them in my dreams. I want screaming goats, fainting goats, pregnant goats, goat milk, goat cheese, goat soap. I want to look at thier crazy pupils
Sorry for everyone I didn't mention, I still think of you.
Love to all
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Nancy, your 4th dinner sounds so good! You know how I feel about onion rolls. Susan, so sorry you are having a hard time. Certainly I know how you feel, I think. Lacey is so sweet to have put it the way she did.
Bedo: excellent update! Can't wait to hear the long hair report. I think you will have to take up the rug for good. Your DC is worried about you!
I want goats as well. I was telling Luvmygoats about it. Goats really cheer me up.
I am obsessed with watermelon. It is really all I want to eat right now.
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Bobo, I could eat watermelon exclusively, too....especially really sweet ones. Well, maybe I'd alternate with some fresh cherries for variety.
Spent a rainy nothing day here at the lake. So for excitement we are heading out to a local restaurant to have their lobster special. DH decided that we look like a "lobster eating team" since we are both in black shirts and jeans. Wish I had another top to wear!
Last night we planned to have grilled lamb burgers...got real excited about the lamb patties mixed with rosemary powder and garlic, topped with red onion, lettuce, tomato and feta.....then headed to the store only to find out they had no ground lamb!!! So we switched gears and subbed with grass fed Australian grnd beef and treated that the same as we would have the lamb, except for omitting the rosemary powder. They were really good! We usually never have beef burgers....maybe this grass fed option might be a menu addition when we can't get the lamb. Baaaaaa.....0 -
Tonight was Chicken Forestiere served with local broccoli and pasta. I tried a new procedure and this may have been the best version yet! My husband, dishwasher extraordinaire, agrees that one more pan is worth the results.
Going through my MIL's things didn't make us sad. More like overwhelmed. What was sad was saying goodbye to my husband's childhood home. It was the end of something since we just won't be going back. I actually find having a few of her items in our house to be lovely. She never passed things along, so this is the first time we have had any of her items in our space.
Lacey, thank you for that lovely post. Helps alot.
*susan*
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Goat soap? Really?
I was really stupid and fell down the steps on our boat...the ones to the upper deck area. I was swabbing the deck and had wet and soapy bare feet. My legs have some pretty bad bruising in various random places. Left leg is purple from knee to ankle. i should really know better, but i am always in such a hurry. But it is all good and no broken bones, which is a miracle since I figure my bones are lacking calcium, with this menopause thingy.
What is chicken forestiere? want the details...I will use as many dishes as necessary.
Lacey Never had a lamb burger. what is the texture like?
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Ouch, Carrie. I'm glad & releived that you are OK.
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Eric, that is so sad, I'm so sorry.
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Yikes, Carrie, got chills just hearing about your fall. Glad you are okay after such a "trip"!
Lamburgers taste a lot like hamburgers (texturally the same)except that I mix minced garlic and rosemary powder into the ground meat before grilling. Only people I know who are not cazy about them are those who really do not prefer that "lamb taste". They could then enjoy the Australian grass fed beef burgers!
Susan, we have DH dishwasher extraordinaires in common! But getting close to the stove is a rare event for mine.....0 -
I'm interested in the Chicken Forestiere as well.
Camping this weekend was interesting in the cooking department. Tableware, plates, bowls, cups, a paring knife, a round griddle, an 8 inch skillet, a small propane stove and a very limited pantry. It sort of reminded me of when I started cooking.
We made some decent food...much of it was "use that much because that's all there is" measurements.
The outpouring of support for the families of the firefighters is amazing. Prescott, where the Granite Mtn Hotshots were from, is about 90 minutes drive from where I live. It is a smallish town that had less than 100 firefighters.
Nationwide, the emergency response community has quite a feeling of "connectedness"...and losing that many all at once is like a Star Wars type "disturbance in the force".
For those of us in Arizona, it is even more of a "disturbance in the force".
Even though the response stuff is different at the front lines, the organizational stuff behind the front lines is, by design, as identical as possible. So when an exercise, class or seminar is offered anywhere in the state, it often involves the behind the lines stuff and that's where we all end up seeing and working with each other...and as you work together, you get to know each other.
I knew a couple of the guys well enough that I could call their homes without having to look up phone numbers....I'm sad, but I know they were doing (up until the very last moment) EXACTLY what they loved and were trying to make a difference, which is an amazing feeling.
What I don't even want to think about is what the Prescott Fire Chief is going through. He is an older man with fewer than 100 fire fighters and I'm sure they were "his kids".
There is a little known organization called the "100 Club". Unfortunately they are very busy at the moment. I hope they never show up at my front door.
Eric
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Oh Eric, I hope not either. (((hugs)))
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Susan, if they convince you on the chicken, will you consider the tartar sauce recipe? Pretty please?
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Lacey - what else do you put the powdered rosemary in? I bought it a while back and have never used it. I do have a rosemary bush and will cut off of it but I remember you said you didn't like (I think I remember right) the hunky rosemary touch to food. I like rosemary and grind it freq. in my disposal. The bush has plenty to give.
The bean flatbreads were OK and they did use rosemary but not something I would repeat. Had T bones last night for our July 4th with roasted corn. DH has to work tomorrow. Making chicken salad so he can have a quick dinner tonight with early work time tomorrow (but earlier home too).
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Eric, could you do something about the weak Verizon signal in Pine Hollow Resort, Park Rapids, MN? Please... Dh spent a couple of hundred dollars on a booster but it doesn't seem to be doing much. I may be writing this for naught.
Carrie, be careful washing the boat! Hope your bruises heal faster than mine.
Tonight is our campground cookout for July 4th. I'm cooking jambalaya with brown rice, andouille sausage, chicken, and shrimp. Also diced celery, bell pepper, green onions and seasonings. I'll make the dish a little spicy with some cayenne and cumin but not burn-your-mouth hot like Eric would like!
The best fisherman here at Pine Hollow is taking us fishing tonight after the pot luck. He helped dh pick out the fishing rods and we bought our fishing licenses. I can't imagine that I will catch a fish but a night boat ride will be nice. The preferred fish to catch is walleye. I'm so hoping we will have some fried walleye tonight at the cookout.
Here goes trying to post this.
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