So...whats for dinner?
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I've never had knives like this before. I won't have any problem getting used to them. :-)
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A friend brought me one of their first tomatoes - a huge Cherokee Purple. It was my first "real" tomato of the season. Yum. That & a slice of french bread made a wonderful supper. I think popcorn for dessert.
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Minus, was it good? I've planted that variety for the first time this year.
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Nance - it was excellent. Much more 'meaty' then I expected. My friend brought one Cherokee & one "early girl". The later is still maturing on the counter. We have such a short growing season for tomatoes here in Houston. It's just too hot, too soon.
Eric - I'm sure you have the same tomato problem in Phoenix. But oh the citrus. My brother just sent the following email: the citrus are doing great. Will get Bearss (Persian) Limes, Tango
Mandarins, Meyer Lemons, Trovita Oranges, a few Mexican Limes, and one
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Four years ago today I got my diagnosis. How life has changed and how grateful I am for BCO and all my sisters, and Eric, here. Thank you all.
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chabba - yay for four years!
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Chabba - congrats. It's always such a pleasure to see your posts.
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And we are grateful and happy to have you here with all of us, Chabba!
Yesterday we had crazy on and off showers here at the lake all day...including, of course an 8 minute one during our outdoor association meeting!. Afterwards it was fun catching up with everyone after our long cold winter. We had another couple (long time friends here from another Boston suburb...whose sons ours grew up with ours during summers on the lake) come over for dinner and had more apps than dinner....Trader's cheese and crakers, chips and salsa, a Katz's deli salami left over from our holiday party (it may outlive both of us!), then our friends wanted to order pizza. I figured I could just take the cheese off mine. Well, I put the lukewarm pizza in the oven, and as I took it out, my glasses suddenly fogged, and I bumped the platter, and a piece fell onto the oven door upside down! Cheese removal done! I discovered I am not a super fan of cheeseless pizza! However we also had a very interesting spinach salad with an unusual combo of fruit and vegetables in it. It was actually good!
Today it was supposed to rain here, yet it is turning out to be a gorgeous sunny, dry, low mosquito day. Just took a long walk and noticed that soooo many neighbors are at the beach...might have to head down there to kick off summer! Happy for Laurie and her boys that our weather is holding up so nicely. I thought of them while watching our neighbor's six year old son swimming away in our frigid waters.
All the talk about gardening is making me even more frustrated about our woodchuck who has systematically plowed down every last poppy in my perimeter beds! Nary a color will show this year....something I always found such delight in! My neighbor figured that he might be getting high on the plants, (buds) which would make total sense given the way he went after them....or maybe just b/c I had no kale growing to satisfy him. Needless to say, I will be planting nothing until we figure out how to deal with Woody!
Hope everyone is enjoying your weekend!
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Hey chabba! Here's to many more!
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Happy dance Chabba!!!!!!!!!! And as they say for birthdays..."and many more"
Eric
Apparently I was posting when Nancy was posting.
Great minds think alike.
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I could never never never catch up with all your crazy activity.
I wrote a PM to my girl Debbie
then decided to share it. I hope you don't mind Debbie! Left out parts meant for her.
Here's what I'm doing.
I am, as promised, working in the community organic garden and Trying to practice my fiddle. I often hate to practice. Our class
will play at the Summer Solstice Festival June 21. We stink! We will "open" for real musicians much to the amusement or horror of the audience and not be paid! But we get Free Soda and Cheesits in the Green Room! And Get in Free! And so do our friends! Ha Ha we are a bunch of hackers and I think we are there to make everyone else look good.
Here are me and my Grand-Dog at the first Pot Luck at our community organic garden which has 120 gardeners. Middle gardener
I have a job in RI Covering a maternity leave for 3 months, then who knows. I still would like to learn Spanish in Ecuador, but they are not liking us so much these days, so I might have to find another country to learn.
I was given a huge bunch of "onions" today. Really big. Between leeks and green onions. I'm thinking vichyssoise
I have beets, sugar snap peas, one hot pepper, a weird squash that I've never grown before, cukes, zucchini, yellow squash, cat nip, kale, spinach, basil, big boy tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, heirloom purple and yellow lemon tomatoes, hanging strawberries, and now I'm putting in hanging spearmint.
I'm obsessed!
I've gone insane!
I hope that everyone is well and getting out in the warmth and wind.
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Hello everyone!
Congrats Chabba!
The wedding was beautiful. And the weather actually cooperated! Wisconsin Memorial Day without rain!
We had fried chicken, sirloin tips, vinegrette Cole slaw, past salad, mashed potatos ,and corn. The typical food for Wisconsin. The Head table and the two family tables were family style so the kid who wasn't in the wedding sat with us as well as 2 people who weren't family but friends with mobility issues. The rest of the tables were buffet.
I made my DD jewelry (I'll post pics when I get them. Of course I forgot to take them before I gave them to the kids! LOL) and the grooms tie tack. His Mother did the flowers.if you can't see, the Groom and the other men wore Camo vests. The theme was Our Hunt is over. (They both hunt) It was in the Meadow of the Old Wade House. That is a historic site nearby. Just lovely! One or two small glitches but still ok. LOL. I walked a lot (for me) and it was beautiful. But i was in serious pain by the time I got to bed. Thank goodness for pain pills. 
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Hello Ladies and one gent~It is 430 in the morning and I can't sleep, seems to be the norm for me any more, since the lorazapam that is suppose to take the edge off of the steroids, makes me droosy in the day time so I sleep then up all night. Arghh never ending...
Awe, Bedo, loved being called "My Girl" now I have that song in my head, my girl, talking about my girl haha!
I have been reading the last 12 or 13 pages to keep up, sounds like you all have been very busy. And miss so many people that have not checked in, Deb, seaside, Joyce, Tazzy, Susan, last Carrie checked in she was having a terrible storm and her mom was having a colon oscopy so hope she and her family are doing OK> Both Kays are on my FB and Kay from Philadelphia asked how I had been on there and the other kay seems to be having the time of her life (yay) Good to see Laurie and Chabba check in.
Chabba- Congrats on the 4 years!!
Moon- your daughter and her dress are very pretty, what a great job you did on the flowers and everything.
SK- Hope you are doing better and eating like Moon said,
Carole, you mentioned your oysters back a few pages, I use to make that as well and just love it. Might be what I make in the next few days it had my mouth drooling. Also am going to look for the forbidden rice sounds good.
Minus, I think it was you, sorry if I got it wrong, that had the issues with anemia, from what I read, it is very high in iron and a blood toner and one of the highest in antioxidents, might be something to check out. Any news on that yet?
Luvmygoats- Your chicken and dumplings sounds good, It's DH's favorite meal. I make my own noodles basically because they don't have the fresh in the stores here.
Eric, glad your feeling better, you body was probably telling you to slow down!
Lacey, love hearing all about your food adventures, Glad your friend is getting better.
Nance- I had to chuckle although not funny about you having so many problems with your posting her, it unsubscribing you, then post disappearing, and yes, it has been very slow moving I came here about a week ago and couldn't get on, it just kept turning on top but wouldn't down load all the way, then when I did I lost the whole dang post ARghh!
Laurie, you are probably camping this week, but wanted to tell you Happy Birthday today in case you don't check in or I don't before then. Hope you have a fun day. Also last month marked 4 years and almost 5,000 post ye haw!!
I have been on a smoothie kick lately, my favorite is, oatmeal, dates, walnuts and almond milk. One I tired today not sure how I feel about it, but it had water, watermelon, cucumbers, ginger and juice of two lemons, it was refreshing but might put in more watermelon and less cucumber nest time. Also made a dump cake which was good, chocolate cherry yummy~~
Sorry if I missed anyone, getting tired, it is getting light outside guess it is time to go to sleep, starting to feel like a vampire. haha!
Oh one thing I am getting excited about is we have some good friends who own a RV lot and came to visit us for a few days last week, one thing led to another and our Friend Don said he had just taken in an older RV motorhome ( A Seabreeze- 2000 and 30 ft long) said he would sell it to us, no down payment and only 100 dollars a month. He said it runs great and sold it to the guy years ago and he took very good care of it, we haven't even seen it, and we already own it. He sold it to us for 9 grand and said he could get 25, ooo for it. They really want us to get out more and travel, so in the next few months we will go to Georgia to see my daughter (So excited and happy about that) then up to Michigan to see DH brother, then to Texas to see my grand-daughter.. We will got next Wednesday to drive the 5 hours to pick it up. I will probably need tips and pointers from Carole and Laurie on what I will need to put in there.
Have a safe memorial day to everyone.
Love and hugs!
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sorry I forgot one more thing haha! Guess I'm a wired tired!
Did you know that humming birds life span is only 4 years the longest was -12 years and they flutter there wings 55 times a second! Who knew!! Since you all were talking about them in earlier posts thought you might like to know -;))
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Hello all - great pix and beautiful wedding! Doing well, got my stitches out last Thurs. and it will be 90 days before I can have a new expander, but that is ok. Hope everyone is doing well. DH has been out of town a lot so I have not been cooking much, but did make some Andes mint cookies for him to take to my FIL.
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Hello all, hope you are having a great long weekend. I am glad all are feeling better.
Moon congrats on wedding and loved the cat story, beautiful pics.
No cooking for awhile , recouping from DIEP flap. Enjoying left overs and kids creation of meals.
They cook pretty well, but make an awful mess. It'll get cleaned up eventually.
I have enjoyed catching up and reading all of your posts .
I want some M&M's....
Vivian
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Hello all I finally had some time to do some reading.
Chabba Happy Birthday 2 U !
Luv, hope you're having good weather down there
Carol I love oysters. I wish that I could dig them up like clams
SK I think Andes mint cookies sound great. I'm glad you're OK. and are on the 90 countdown
Debbie I want your RV, oh, and I have a humming bird feeder in the garden and giant zinnias, though most things are only 3 inches high now.
Vivian. M&Ms sound good I think I saw some mint ones. Sounds like you have great kids. Heal well
Nance,Fun!
Minus, you are funny and I def did not get the joke until you explained it. Give me a D-. I see you are still perfecting your exquisite cooking skills
Moonflower Gorgeous! I love the stage coach!
Sorry for anyone I missed. It's getting embarrassingly late to have not done anything but drink coffee
Oh, and hello eric and
Carole, gimme that RV!
Laurie Have fun camping!
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Great to hear from Bedo & Debbie!!! Also to know that Special is in the mend & Moon's wedding party was lovely. Looking forward to hearing about Laurie's camping. Happy holiday to everyone else.
Yes, it is me w/anemia - but supposedly not iron deficiency anemia. It's called "Anemia of Chronic Disease". Seems like the chemo or rads or both messed up my system. Don't know if the problem is in the kidney, bone marrow, or elsewhere - but my red blood cells are not standard or up to par. I refused the Aransep injections since they cause tumors in cancer patients (WTH) and serious problems w/heart attacks & strokes (more WTH). 3 weeks ago my hemoglobin went down to 8.3 (they do transfusions below 8). Last week it was up to 9.0. So I'm putting up w/feeling tired & playing a waiting game. And even tho the problem isn't iron, I'm eating steak 2 or 3 times a week. I've had more beef in the last 30 days than I've had in the last 10 years. If things continue to be sub-standard, I'll go to a hematologist but MO said not necessary yet. If anyone else is familiar w/this, please PM me.
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Hi Vivian.
DD here cooks sometimes. She will be heading to college in a few years and I'm hoping she will have more cooking skills than I had when I started college. Shee does leave the kitchen kind of a mess, but even Sharon says I'm a bit picky about keeping the kitchen clean.
Back when Costco was called Price Club, they would carry 25 pound containers of M&Ms. I'm kind of glad they don't do that anymore! 😀
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Eric I would be in deep you know what with 25# of M&M's. I keep my chocolate in the refrig. Makes it just one more step to get to it and sometimes that is just enough to break the "I gotta have it now" urge. My DD does not cook at all unless some pasta with sauce counts. Not that she couldn't but just won't. She has a nice slow cooker. Guess I need to get her a good slow cooker book. I picked up "Fix It and Forget It" at HP Books the other day. My kinda recipes for sure. I was an OK cook when we married. I'm still a casserole kinda gal - what we were all taught to make in home ec and what my mom/GM collected in recipes.
Bedo - so nice that you stepped back in. Sounds like a bounteous garden. 3 months in Rhode Island should take you back to Alaska time. Is that on your possible itinerary?
Yay, we've had rain though DFW airport had a "frog strangler" yesterday that we did not get. 1.76". Most daily rain since January 8, 2013. We should be in line for more and we need all we can get.
The chicken and dumplings turned out stupendous. The Annie's dumplings are frozen in sheets perforated into 1/3s. I tore them in 1/2 again. Used 2 c boiled chicken breast and 2 c leftover turkey, about 1 c leftover froz. turkey drippings, 1 container Swanson's chicken stock, some sweated green onion, carrot and celery. DH thought it was good and it was even better 2 days later. I froze 2 small servings and just finished that last bit today for lunch. I will def. make this again. I have several pkgs. Tyson breasts/thighs in freezer. Planning on making a casserole tonight that should be sausage but will be instead ground pork dressed up with seasonings. DH is working so no cookout stuff for us.
Moon - beautiful wedding pics and lovely day for it. Love the camo vest idea. Cute.
Lacey - sorry about your pesky groundhog. Does anyone ever attempt to trap/relocate them?
Vivian - good that your kids are picking up while you're recovering. Hope all is fine from your bilat. DIEPs.
Special - good that your recovery is going well too. Nine weeks will fly by.
Chabba - yay for the 4 year anniversary.
Debbie - sounds like some mighty traveling in your future.
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Moon, so glad mother nature cooperated for your DD's lovely wedding. May and June are always a risk for new brides in our area. Thanks for sharing the beautiful pix!
Still in NH, where yesterday afternoon we did spend time at the beach since it was nice and warm. Dealt with one 20 minute wind driven, hearty shower, then stayed long enough to let the returning sun dry us out! Crazy weather here all weekend!
Today we walked a few miles up the road to a local farm stand, which was accepting sign ups for a CSA. Unfortunately deliveries will be on Wednesdays when we're often not here, so I opted out.
On our walk we saw a sign for a new "vineyard" up the road (not yet taken;), so we checked it out after getting our car. We learned that there are actually grapevines that can survive winter up here....from Minnesota, not surprisingly. So it really is a vineyard as well as winery. Too bad I hardly drink anymore.
Last night we had dinner at the local pizza and seafood place. I had "cod stuffed with shrimp/scallop stuffing". I asked the waitress about butter or milk products in ingredients and she came back to say that there was a little bit of butter in the stuffing, and if that was okay. I said fine. Well, lol, the whole plate was swimming in butter and the stuffing was just buttery crumbs with nary a shrimp or scallop. That said, the cod was very good as was the side of crisp broccoli and garden salad. The very good news is that for all the butter, I had absolutely no reaction....so clearly milk is not my enemy.:)
On our local travels today we picked up some fresh eggs...many different sizes and colors....and I plan to make veggie omelets for dinner with spinach salad....when I get up off the couch!
Have a good evening all!
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luv - I wish it was going to be nine weeks, but it will be more like 16 - I could do it a bit sooner but I have to fly out of town on a trip at the 13 week point and with my track record I can't risk having surgery and then having complications that make me miss that trip, so I will have to wait until late Sept. or early Oct. We had frog strangler rain here too yesterday - even had hail!!
bedo - I have two recipes for the Andes cookies - the convoluted one from scratch, and the one from a cake mix - I opted for the cake mix version!
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Sorry Special that's what I get for not reading closely. Remembered the "9" part only. Good idea to be safe with the new expander. Still I think with summer the time will go by fast.
Ooo - tell me about the Andes cookies. I have a pkg of the peppermint crunch leftover from Christmas. Have to make VBS teachers' lounge snacks in a couple of weeks. Sounds like a good plan. What flavor of cake mix?
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luv - here is the recipe:
1 box Devil's Food Cake Mix
1 egg
1/3 c. vegetable oil
12 Andes Mints, cut in halfMix cake mix, egg and oil together. This makes a very stiff dough - I usually have to add a tablespoon of water, sometimes a bit more. You want it to just hold together. Line the cookie sheets with a silpat or parchment paper. Pre-heat oven to 350 F. I use a small-ish ice cream scoop so that I get evenly sized cookies but you don't have to. Roll them in a ball, about 1 1/2 inch in diameter, bake for 8-9 minutes and be careful not to overbake. Remove the cookie sheet from the oven and place half an Andes mint on each cookie and press down slightly. After about a minute swirl the melted candy over the top of the cookie. Remove from the cookie sheet and let cool completely - the chocolate will set. This recipe makes about 24 cookies. You could definitely vary the topping on the cookie - using regular chocolate chips, or butterscotch or peanut butter flavored chips, or a mixture. You could use chocolate chips, swirl them, then sprinkle something else on top. This is a good cookie to have kids help with because they can roll the balls of dough.
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Some things I meant to comment on in my last post, when I should have been putting together dinner.....
Smart move, Special, to wait until you are back from your trip to head back to the OR. Hope it is a fun trip you have planned.
Meanwhile, ladies, what is "frog strangler" weather....just heavy rain? New expression to me...;)
Deb, that is so exciting to venture out in your new RV! Great way to visit your family members. I can just feel your excitement about heading to Georgia! What a kind and generous friend you have to make that offer. Could you let him know Bedo wants one too...maybe he has a surplus.
Minus, I am so sorry to learn that you have that chronic anemic condition. I hope they can work it out soon. I guess in the meantime, you can just keep enjoying steak...and I suspect you get great ones in TX! Or, would it make sense to have a consult with a hemo sooner rather than wait, feeling tired.
Vivian, hope your recuperation is a speedy one. How nice that your kids cook! Both DH and I are clean kitchen people, and my kids are too (what a surprise!) now that they live in their own homes.
I agree with Eric that cooking is an important skill to have when one ventures beyond the homestead! I am still chuckling at the idea of a 25 lb container if M+M's. That could start a serious health hazard in my house...if I could even carry it in!
We still have half a bag of those addictive new giant ones at home...have been trying to stay away from the famous snack drawer. Eager to hear how Laurie's weekend trip went.
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From the Urban Dictionary - Frog Strangler
noun, an exceedingly large rain storm, a torrential downpour, greater
than simply "raining cats and dogs," a rain event marked by even adept
amphibians drowningAlso know as turtle floater which I'd never heard and think is hilarious.
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luv - turtle floater made me laugh!
lacey - the trip to California is for my 40th high school reunion. I have not really kept in touch with anyone from high school between reunions but have attended them all, and always had fun - I went from kindergarten to graduation with many of my classmates. This will be the first reunion since the last of my immediate family has passed away - so this time I will not be going to my parent's home to visit, and since my brother is gone as well, it will be weird to be back where I grew up, and not be visiting. So, a fun trip that has a bittersweet side too.
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HI Bedo.. I'll add my "good to hear from you" to the chorus. Glad you back, if just for a little while.
Moon. :-) Nice pictures. And it certainly looks like the weather was perfect. The hunt is over... I
like that. DD is beautiful (hopefully that doesn't make me sound like a
dirty old man).SK, I'm keeping you in my thoughts for an uneventful recovery.
Debbie, the RV sounds like a lot of fun. I've never "RVed". One of these days.
Just like last year, I made aebleskivver for breakfast.
I'm
sitting here finishing off a cool (but not cold) ale. Dinner tonight
was chicken kabob, a fruit salad, a "regular" salad and corn on the
cob. In the oven (I leave the light on to keep it "warm"), a sourdough sponge is "working". As soon as I post
this, I'll add the extra 4 cups of flour and knead the bread. I
probably won't get to bake it tonight, so it'll go into the refrigerator
until tomorrow evening.Earlier today, I took mom to the veterans' cemetery to visit dad.
On the way home, the road topped a hill when it was almost sunset. I stopped in a parking area and we watched the sunset. I didn't tear up at the cemetery, but I did a bit as the sun set. Like for Susan, May 26 won't ever be a "normal" day.
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That certainly will be a bittersweet experience, Special. I'm impressed that you have gone to your HS reunions. I have gone to my college ones, (South Bend, IN) but never to my HS ones, and now since I no longer have any familial connections to that area (South Jersey, outside Philly), I doubt I will ever go to one. You have a much better track record to keep up.
Enjoy your reunion!Luv, both of those rain expressions are hysterical!
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Eric, thanks for sharing that wonderful pic of your hearty mom. A poignant day for sure....
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