So...whats for dinner?
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Next page to get caught up,
Lacey glad your BD celebrations went well even if you weren't feeling your best.
Carol, I hope the lesion will be removed easily with a minimum of discomfort.
Bedo I'm glad your Dad could go with you. 86 years is a long time on earth. Glad he's well enough to be with family.
Bedo, not fun to step in poo, no matter whos! LOL .
LMG, I hope the bad storms missed your area and all you got was a gentle soaking rain!
Special, I know you are worried about your DD and the boat. My DH would go out alone and I would always worry. With a boat not working properly it is even worse. Hope it gets fixed fast.
Garden, I love salmon chowder. I always use the leftovers from our grilled or smoked salmon salmon in a chowder. Yum.
Hi Seasude. Good to hear from you again.
Eric, if the house is meant to be you'll get it. I'll keep my fingers crossed!
We had our kids come on Saturday for Father's Day picnic. Dang it was cold. Temp barely made it to 70 but the wind was chilly! Hats and coats were the clothes we needed at the lakefront park. But if course we needed the sunglasses too. So it went well. Staple Brats and Burgers. Salad, fruit, hummus, chips. I brought dessert. Watermelon. AND, of course, a totally absolutely, no redeeming qualities at all, dessert. Rice crispie bars. LOL Yum! LOL
Think I'm caught up, if I missed anybody it was intentional!!!! NOT!!!!! LOL
MUCH LOVE TO ALL.
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Bet that colored Swiss chard is loaded with special nutrients those phyto somethings. I always pick the deepest red and orange bell peppers.
Ate too much at Sunday School party last night. They had BBQ brisket, burgers, brats, hotdogs and chicken. The guy doing the BBQ has done prof. competition. Huge smoker. I stayed in the cool house but know there was horseshoes, some shooting at cans, roping a "steer head". They live way out and have lots of acreage so no danger from the can shooting. Husb. took pistol down to close their gate, has encountered a feral hog down there b4 (1/4 mile walk).
Cute Nancy about the fawn. Goats do very similar and I can still get some of them to do it but it requires running uphill on my part. Love your planter boxes.
Gosh Lacey what a food fest. I expected to food at the "family" restaurant to be burgers/fries not such a cosmopolitan offering.
We had baby dedication at church today, always do it on Fathers' Day. 17 babies though to be honest 4 were from the family of new younger adult minister. But one was 11 days old and newly adopted. What a special day.
DD did call last night at 10:30 to wish her dad happy father's day. Coming out next weekend. Going into town to friends' pool party and guess she wants to go.
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Nance, that window box is stunningly delicate in its beauty...could look at it all day.....the tree pic, not so much!
. Loved the fawn-in-training story. Have been looking for the deer we usually see outside DS1's property fence, but clearly they have moved on to their summer food source!Everyone here is ready to crash.....
I may even retire early tonight!
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Thanks.....
Spending the evening doing college algebra stuff after an aftetnoon doing yard work at my mom's house and a morning doing house cleaning here.
Sigh
Eric
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Just caught up on posts missed the last couple of days. Nance, recounted your tree saga to dh who could identify with your dh watching the debacle. Lacey, smiled at your description of the scene at your son's house and your activities with the grands.
The car gremlin is back. Two years ago when dh and I were ready to leave for the summer, I parked my car under an old shed at my mother's house to make it available for transporting her. A tree fell on the shed in dead calm weather so the car spent time at a body shop in our absence. Sat. night dh and I got into the car to drive a short distance to neighbor's house. He had a lapse (no alcohol involved!) and backed out, forgetting the camper was parked on the far side of the pavement beside the house. One crunch later, we jumped out to see the damage to the car trunk from backing into a corner of the camper. Fortunately, little damage to the camper but the car has to go off to the same body shop again! The neighbors, who were highly amused at the incident, offered to pick up the car from the body shop when it's ready and park it under our car port.
THEN yesterday when my mother and I came out of a restaurant after having lunch, the car remote wouldn't unlock the car! For some weird reason I don't understand, the key doesn't unlock the doors of the car. You have to use the remote thingy. My cell phone was locked in the car! No problem. I borrowed a cell phone from a young man and called home. DH didn't answer. A helpful man took the remote and figured out the lock key was stuck. So my mother and I got into the car and I stored her wheelchair in the damaged trunk, which fortunately still opens and closes.
Since the sun was shining when we left her house, we'd left her electric wheelchair parked outside her house so it would be handy on our return. It started to rain. I said "this is a pop-up shower. it may not be raining at your house." Which is about 7 miles from the restaurant. No such luck. Her wheel chair was sitting in the rain when we drove up. But all is well. It still worked.
This morning dh has to call the insurance company, call the body shop and arrange for the car's repair. We're leaving Wed. so we'll the car will have to be repaired in our absence.
Meatloaf and boiled small white potatoes for dinner last night. Picked up the ground meat at a small neighborhood grocery on the way home. $4.99 a lb! Ground meat is no longer cheap. Salad last night was cucumber and tomato.
Lots to do today and then apptment at the skin dr. tomorrow morning at 8 am. It will feel good to climb up into the passenger seat of the big pickup on Wed. morning and head out, knowing that anything forgotten is just forgotten!
Belated happy father's day, Eric.
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Carole, your poor car! And I thought we were having a major attack of the gremlins!
Hope your trip north is wonderful.
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Carole, hoping all the gremlins stay in LA but mostly hoping they're done with their damage. Can identify with the memory lapse. I get the main driveway parking just outside door. But have backed out in a hurry and thought oh dear how close am I to DH's pickup? Even worse is when DD comes and parks out even further. My GM backed into the hydrant way, way off her driveway several times; we know she just paid for it and told neither of her DD's. Glad camper survived the mishap.
OK - no more gremlins for this group for a while.
I think today is a Zatarains mix with some frozen chicken. I'll add a little extra rice and some celery to counteract the spicy some. Carole I agree ground beef is no longer a cheap dinner. I buy the pkgs on clearance and divide/freeze when I get home. Chicken is cheaper than beef now. For the moment we seem to have had enough rain to get a 1st hay crop but I believe herd size is still very low. Wish we could get a nice tropical storm to come up thru west Texas. I can't remember the last time we had several days of rain enough to say STOP. Now I just say bring it on.
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Whoee- hot and humid in Central IL today. Did my two miles at the lake, but not a whole lot of things happening there either. Did see a couple of runners and 2 dog walkers. The baby geese are now fledgling adolescents. Doesn't take long for them to grow! Carp still spawning on the south side of lake, making lots of noise n the shallows.
Dinner tonight will be pork tenderloin with carrots, potatoes and turnips. Too hot to truly heat up the kitchen, so it is in the crockpot with some white wine, garlic, lemon. Cooking tonight for fathers day, as I went to our "Third Sunday Market" antique flea market and was too tired from walking all over for 3 hours to mess with dinner. picked up a cool old egg beater that you had to squeeze to make work (not rotary dialer) and a ceramic garlic keeper that looks like a onion/garlic clove with eyes--face- probably from the 50's or 60's. Won't mention the slab of maple fudge I bought....ha.
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Wow - it has been gremlinpalooza! Not good!
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Nance, your window box is so beautiful, but the tree... Don't look at the tree!!! Focus on the Window Box, deep breath, Window Box...
Goats how did I forget about Zatarain's ?
Moon, So happy about your Father's Day. I think you meant Red though, as my Dad died when I was 5, thank you for making me think about him.
xoCarol, I had a car like that. I've always named my cars, but refused to give that one a name. I hope your Car Karma gets better.
Viv, hope Iggy is well and hello to all the rest.
I have a favor.
I picked 4 Huge purple cabbage leaves in the garden, maybe 12x8 inches and I have brown rice and black beans defrosting in the kitchen,
What to do with them? I'm thinking cheese always makes anything better, maybe corn a crockpot (or not) have some salsa..
Does anyone have specific ideas or remember the name of that website where you could type in your ingredients and they would tell you what to do?
need help. lots
thanks.
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I would think you could make a stuffed cabbage easily with those even though I've never done it. Sounds pretty much like the main ingredients for it. I think you lightly wilt the cabbage in boiling water just a minute. Make a nice stuffing consistency with the beans, rice, salsa, yes corn if you have it, cheese, maybe bit of onion, garlic (even powdered of those). Roll it up maybe secure with toothpicks, put in small glass dish and bake. Now temp I don't know. Better low/slow (275-300) than overbake hot dry. Maybe bit of water in the bottom so it doesn't dry out. ?Cover with foil while baking. Maybe not even roll up, more like layer it loosely. I would think a cabbage roll recipe would do just fine.
I've never had much luck with those ingredient recipe sites. I never can get the hang of what they want me to do.
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Don't go bug eyed at the recipe. I think you can subtract at will. Just a basic vegetarian cabbage roll. I happened to be be on the AllRecipes site for ingredients and finally got it give me some recipes with just the cabbage/rice. Salsa to me is tomato product. Some are a little more watery than others. Course if by chance you have a can of tomato sauce or paste or ketchup it will work too. Just think you are on an adventure trail and go to it.
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Bug eyed? Like this?
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Goats
I copied it and made it a favorite.
Thanks!
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Ha! I tried to find a video of a goat bothered by a fly that I saw recently, but couldn't
(But I did find out that being bug eyed is a serious problem in goats)
Thanks for the recipe.
It's a go
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You won't believe the repair price on the 2003 Toyota Camry. $2100!!!! The good news is our deductible is zero. Because of our good driving record! Guess dh took care of that. Tomorrow we'll take the car to the body shop and leave instructions for them to call our neighbors when it's finished.
Tonight's dinner is a beef eye of round roast cooked the way Laurie cooks hers. And the way Michelle cooked hers. Side will be sweet potato fries. And a salad of cucumbers and tomato. Just like last night! It's either cook the fries or throw them away. I'll cook part of them. The camper freezer is so full I can barely pull the big drawer open.
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After 400 days on the market, supposedly the house has another cash offer and the bank/ owner was wanting a bidding war.
"Let the other party have it" was my response. I guess I shocked the listing agent.
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Tonight was baked veal and spinach canneloni and salad.
The honey oat bread is terrific. Will be very good for sandwiches.
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Sorry about the house Eric, hope another one comes your way.
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eric. It must not have been for you. One will be. Unless it was a truck. Once we were looking for a house and the broker took us to see a house out of our range. We asked him why he said we should just look. The next day one of DH friends came in to work and said he thought they should make an offer on the house they had been thinking about because someone had seen it and were very interested. . Yep. You guessed it. It was the house we looked at! We changed agents.... LOL
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Moon...Hahaha....moral of that story, always beware of real estate "trucks"! I'm particularly amused since my ipad requires me to triple check my entries to avoid the nasty little self-correcting word gremlins!
Need to start packing and head back up the highway. Sadly, my URI will preclude us from stopping to visit my elderly stepmom, especially since DH has contracted it now. Nothing like spreading my germs up and down the coast!
Nonetheless a fun and lively time here with the grandkids! Tho I'm ready for some rest!Have a good day all....
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lacey, trucks indeed! LOL most times I go back and correct it but guess I missed that one. LOL. Hope you feel better. Laughing is a good way to cough and coughing helps the URI so I am healing you. LOL
I'll be reading posts but probably not responding as I have my TKR tomorrow.
Much love to all. Eat well!
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bedo - I love to sauté carrot, onion and cabbage, add whatever cooked protein you might have (usually chicken or shrimp) add some hot sauce, or sweet and sour, and serve it over rice or ramen. Here is a website for the ingredients you have on hand.
Moon - I posted to you on triple pos but please know I am hoping for a perfect surgery for you and sending you love and good wishes!
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Moon - good luck with your surgery.
SpecialK - thanks for the website - I'm going to investigate it. Usually I just make up my own stuff, but it's nice to have outside ideas so I don't get so stuck in a rut.
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Monica, wishing you an easy surgery, a speedy recovery and some much deserved pain relief. (((Hugs)))
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Moon, best of luck to you!! Sending very positive energy your way.....:)
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Mint chocolate chip ice cream
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Hugs Moon.
Eric
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Moon - thinking of you.
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Monica - bet you're already at the hospital. Wishing you speeding recovery and minimal pain from your knee replacement.
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Hope all is going well for Moon....such endurance she has shown!
We got home from NJ early last evening and I could barely stand up...."napped" for three hours! No dinner except for some walnuts, grapes and tea (I obviously need to get to the store!). Today the annoying virus is getting better (I think, sadly, I passed it on to my little DDG, tho her mom had been carrying one too), but I am still really wiped out. Just sent DH to gym to take my place with the trainer session. The good news tho is that my weight is down three lbs...a new low. Yay! Guess chasing grandkids will do that for you. Better see them more often! They are both a riot, but especially the DGD (22 months) girl, I think because her language is so well developed, and a laugh a minute! We have plans for them to come to the lake in late July. They are both such risk takers that I know they will don their little swim vests and jump into the middle of Newfound with me. Can't wait!
Carole, hope you have a great start to your summer journey!
It is hot as ever here. I'm off to wipe down some fans...no central air here....so hardy....NOT!!
Better get back into some routine.....
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