So...whats for dinner?
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Minus,
Hope your PET goes smoothly. Of all the scans, this one is the easiest for me. I generally fall asleep in the tube! Andrew, my technician, is fabulous. So calm and he knows to be quiet while I am napping. Hope yours is easy for you!
*susan*
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Minus, wishing you an uneventful scan and positive result.
Ok guys, I can see I'm going to have to go out and buy a time magazine!
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Thanks everyone. And Susan - I agree. This test is a piece of cake. Not to mention that I can never lie still w/o moving for the required 30 minutes after they inject the "nuclear juice", so I take a Xanax.
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It has rained and drizzled here for 6 days straight and today is supposed to be the same. No sun whatsoever. I am becoming a mushroom.
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Well, fortunately, Nancy you can probably figure out something interesting to do with yourself as a mushroom! Seriously, I wasn't aware that the rainy weather was lingering in the midwest. We have had beautiful balmy days here this week We are getting the rain tomorrow....hope it decides to move along after a day's soaking.
After the gym today I went food shopping and noticed one of the grocery guys was stocking some interesting flavored raviolis. I initially selected the portabello, was contemplating squash, and the guy excitedly told me that he just got some pumpkin ones, which he recommended. Not sure how different they would be from squash, but went for it....seasonal afterall! So I made a weird dinner with them....and it was great (or at least we both thought so!). Since I bought a big bunch of kale, too, I made a bed of sauteed kale, onion, garlic and mushroom (sound familiar? I seem to be putting everything on kale beds!) and a few raisins.
Boiled up the pumpkin ravs and put them over the sauteed mix in the cast iron pan, then broil-melted some mozzarella and parm over the top.....sweet and savory! Had ratatouille (why do I make so much....guess we like it.;) and cucumber salad to round things out. Hmmmm, wonder what I can put on a kale bed tomorrow night. DH is so tolerant!
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Another gorgeous day here today, very comfortable temperatures and low humidity. Windows and doors open.
Easy delicious meal tonight. Wheat linguini and tomato sauce with Italian sausage. Grated parm reg. Tossed salad.
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The sun finally came out late this afternoon. Hooray! Now we're due for a few sunny days in a row. Double hooray!!
I was so excited I went out and planted my boxes with flowering kale and mums.
Tonight was pan fried pork chops, buttered pappardelle and sauteed peppers, onions, squash and tomatoes.
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Tonight I offered to make family dinner. I had pulled a ham roast from the freezer two days ago. This roast was a combination of eye and bottom roast from last year's pig. It is time to finish up last year's animals to make room for the two lambs I am expecting this month. So, once this roast was thawed, I made 8 cutlets and then pounded them thin. A full three-breading station... flour, egg/milk, breadcrumbs and then into the pan with lemon infused oil. When each batch was done, they went into the oven while I made a ridiculously delicious sauce with butter, lemon juice and chicken stock. Served with a cavatelli [the wrong pasta for sure], and some steamed broccoli. I had actually picked up some dessert at the Tatte Bakery, which has a location next to today's client. I bought two peach rustic tarts. Of course, they are supposed to be individual sized, but at $5 a piece, we each shared. I just had 1/4 of one, leaving my husband to indulge in 3/4. The kids split one fifty fifty.
There is enough pork left [6 oz] to make a really nice stir-fry tomorrow night.
Tomorrow.... I get to work from my own office. I am spending so much time in meetings, I don't have time to code! I negotiated to move tomorrow's meeting to Tuesday. YEA!!!!!
Rain is a coming. I know Lacey says that our weather has been nice, but I have found it way too humid and a bit too warm for this time of year. Wearing Fall clothes to offices, and I am too hot most of the time. But, I must say, I am not ready for the really cold stuff yet, so maybe this is a good compromise.
*susan*
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Thinking cube steaks, roasted potatoes and a veg
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Not a clue what we are having. Made a pork loin in the crockpot on Monday and one tiny bit left. I need to do something with the sauce. You know I'm a packaged kinda girl. Used one of Campbells crockpot sauces. Pretty good - Tavern Pot Roast, never mind it was pork loin. Intended to put onions in it after it had cooked for a while but forgot.
Susan - I've been remiss in wishing you a happy birthday. I loved and appreciated your life reminisce. Your daughter looks sooo happy in those pictures. Did they get to honeymoon somewhere?
Mommyof2 - dinner sounds yummers. Our kind of meal.
Dinner decided with DH's input. He says freezer is full of chicken so chicken it is again. Have put 5# of chicken thighs out to thaw. Will bake them in leftover sauce dressed up with some of that spicy Pace and prob. some jarred sofrito. He wants rice but I would really, really like mashed potatoes. May make both. I see leftovers tomorrow.
Anyone feel free to send any and all rain to TX. After our showers/storms Fri and Sunday looks like the remainder of Oct. may be dry per Accuweather. Hoping they're not very accurate. Think we have or just had an emergency county burn ban. Supposed to be 91 today though I will admit AC finally kicked back in yesterday after many days off.
I'm thinking tomorrow may be a bag it day for the chest freezer. Find those shopping bags I bought during the winter and see if I can make some organization.
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Minus, hope your scan went well and easily yesterday.....
And luv, hope the accuweather is accuwrong about such sustained dry weather for your area.
Susan, I totally "get" that you might not appreciate the "balmy" weather in your professional duds! All I have to do to accommodate it is change to a short sleeve tee shirt and shorter length sweats! I would be feeling differently if I were (was?) still sweating it out in my unairconditioned school!
Am supposed to be meeting with some staff at a school in town this afternoon and just learned it may be cancelled. The process of setting up this meeting has been fraught with miscommunications and I am thinking I might bag the whole idea. The administrators were eager about my volunteer offer to provide group support to kids who might "fall thru the cracks" but I think the two counselors are thinking it might not be such a good idea. I "get" the politics of that. And thank you Mercury retrograde!
Just as my fears about the AI side effects were starting to calm down, I noticed a thread (not new, but I apparently had it on my favorites from last year) about deQuervain syndrome which some sisters on Arimidex are experiencing. It was like a shot between my eyes.....I had a terrible case of that right after I gave birth to my first son, (37 years ago) and it was so debilitating I needed surgery so I could just get through the days' tasks. Scary to think that my hand problems could elevate to more of that requiring more surgery. Maybe no Arimidex? Sorry to be so obsessive about this....
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Lacey: I had to look up deQuervain. I don't think you're obsessive at all. Sounds like a major proven disability for you. Hope your doc takes you seriously. And sorry about the politics at the school. I get it too, but it's a shame that helping the kids can't pull everyone together.
Tests are done but won't know anything about Echo or PET/CT until I see the MO next week. Only result so far is the Dexa. Unfortunately the hip bone has gone to hell in a handbasket - a really drastic change Gyn wants me to consult w/MO about Actonel. Sigh. I so don't want to take more drugs but one of my nightmares is being shelved in a nursing home w/a broken hip when I become a little old lady.
Went to Costco today so I have numerous choices for dinner - shrimp, clam chowder, fancy spinach salad, etc. Best is the dessert - Meyer Lemon Mini Tarts made by Hail Merry. Organic ingredients and only 100 cal each. Of course I'll ruin those stats by adding whipped cream.
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Our Costco chicken, bought Sunday is laughing at me. I hear it all the way on the second floor. Tonight, I will teach it who is boss... chicken enchiladas with tomatillo sauce, avocado, cabbage salad and of course, black beans. Any remaining chicken will be turned into a chicken stew, a dish I have recently discovered. Mr. 02143 went to the tortilla store so they are very fresh. Delicious.
Loved my day of coding at home. I got so much done today!
But, if we are actually going to eat beans at dinner, I need to get out the pressure cooker and get to work. Beans don't cook themselves!
*susan*
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Hold the phone.... lemon tarts at Costco? Where do you see these treasures? What department? I do have a smaller store, but I want lemon tarts!
*susan*
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MinusTwo - I reluctantly started on Fosamax last week. Only osteopenic so far but I'm not the most active person on here (hmmm Lacey). My dentist was good with it. He's got to be near 50 and has only seen one bad case of jaw disease (didn't call it ONJ) but was in a gentleman taking large doses of a bisphosphonate for metastatic prostate CA. I'm not good at waiting for my morning coffee; instructions say 30 min. but insert says 45 min-1 hour. MO thought I would not do well because of GERD and he was so ready to get onto Prolia. My ins. would insist I try it at least I think. $4.95 for a mo supply. Gosh knows what Prolia would cost me copay. Will certainly give it a good try.
Susan - you have a tortilla store? I bought some that supposedly are the kind the Dallas Cowboys have in their stands and they were mediocre at best. Nothing compares to good restaurant tortillas. Corn or flour? Not even the big Mexican market has anything better. Actually WalMart has some back with the Mex. cheese that are cook in a skillet kind. Pretty decent but more for table eating than casserole making. Makin' me hungry.
I may have to make cookies for DH. He resorted last night to eating my graham crackers.
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Susan - The Meyer lemon mini tarts are called Miracle Tart and are refrigerated. In my Costco they are in the coolers by the cheese. Hope you can find then. They are really delicious. Listen to this from the package:
"These amazing tasting mini tarts are filled w/a heavenly ganache made with coconut oil (instead of heavy cream) and fresh squeezed Meyer lemon juice... The crust is made with natural raw almond flour, lemon zest and a hint of sea salt." Also contains organic raw blue agave, raw cashews, organic shredded coconut, YUM. Certified GlutenFree. Certified Vegan. Certified non-GMO. See how healthy? I better eat two.
Company link is www.hailmerry.com
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It just so happens I'm headed to Costco tomorrow morning. Those lemon tarts will be in my basket! They will keep me from making more bear claws (as long as they last anyway.)
Tonight is the bratwurst dish with mustardy potatoes and red cabbage. Definitely a fall dish.
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Tonight is ramen noodles with chicken, napa cabbage, carrots, onions, toasted sesame oil, scallions. DH is at the gym so needed something quick.
Here is the Daily Roo in the form of a wallaby footprint - isn't it cute? DD brought it home today!
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cute footprint of the wallaby!
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Special, that is so cute...reminiscent of the hand prints the kids made at school!
Minus, those lemon tarts prompted me to remember I need to renew a Costco membership which I have let lapse for a few years....but sadly, then seeing the cashew ingredient makes me an outlier....it's one of my big allergies which would land me in the ER.
I have never been to a Vegan restaurant since so many of the food items have cashews in various forms, a vegan staple I guess. But boy do those sound good!! I think you or someone else may have mentioned these before. Glad you mentioned the ingreds now, so I can take my time with that Costco renewal. So I have delivered myself from the funk of earlier today.....called the ins co to see how much I would have to co-pay for the AIs which I am now sure will wreck my current life quality. So, GOOD NEWS! As with Tamoxifen, recently in my state, legislation was passed that AIs are considered a form of chemotherapy, and as such, the patients taking them cannot be charged a co-pay. So that's one good thing.
Then as it turned out with the local school, the woman who could not make the meeting today, emailed later that she could make it afterall. So I met with both of the school clinicians and we made a plan for me to start working with lunch groups and teaching social/emotional skills in the kindergarten classrooms in two weeks. I'll do that one full day a week as a volunteer. It's interesting to see how colleagues set up their programs. I think I will be working on my flexibility as I move into this since I had a pretty tight program I ran in my former school, with my own office space, a stable (if way too large) caseload, and things are clearly more fluid in this setting. I am happy to see that the clinician I had yet to meet seems very nice and should be a pleasure to work with. Hoping it works out well....
Tonight's dinner.....Before and after that meeting, I made a big pot of (you guessed it!) kale/veggie/bean soup. It's that time of year! When I tasted it in the early afternoon, something was missing, but I wasn't sure what....then I realized....the parmesan rind!! What a difference that makes in the final product. Love this soup! We had it with more leftover ratatouille (one more night of that left!), and some roasted tomato/mozzarella crusty bread. Not bad for using up things in the fridge....
We'll be enjoying kale soup over the next week....maybe I'll just post DITTO for a few days.
Tomorrow night we are heading out to dinner with DS2 (solo) to a restaurant he just signed on to an office park his company is developing in a Boston suburb. I hope we get to hear more about this relationship with Chicago girl. Boys can be so darn tight lipped! He and GF went to yet another wedding last weekend in OK, and head to Puerto Rico for another one next weekend. One might think that the topic of their future could be up front with them given all the wedding hopping they have done over the past year!
Anyway, the restaurant is supposed to be an authentic Italian family run place with an Italian market attached, and after some of the disappointing meals we had in Italy, I hope it is better! Oh, I must get back to that travel report. Apologies...I have been very distracted.
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Thanks all for the welcome and the words of wisdom. Takeout tonight. Yummy chino latino stewed beef over yellow rice and black beans. An old favorite that I will be kicking to the curb soon in the name of trying to eat healthier. But yum for now.
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Leftover red beans and brown rice with a delicious tossed salad that included avocado and feta cheese. Also some slices of multigrain bread with butter.
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Lacey - my only argument w/Costco is their book section. At least at my store, it sucks. I really don't want to switch to Sam's, but they have a much better book selection.
You're right - guys don't talk much. My son has been w/the same girl for 13 years now. It dawned on me they have no intention of getting married when they bought a house together. Duh!! No grands for me, sigh.
Special - looks like the Roos had a kindergarten fingerpainting day. Fun.
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minus & lacey - roos fingerpainting and handprinting - that is it exactly! We also have sea lion and dolphin paintings! They are hilarious - DD had them made for Mother's and Father's Day gifts - I got the sea lion one and DH got the dolphin one.
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The roo print reminds me of the fish painting we did on Tshirt for FISH Day! Girl Scouts. Fish Day is a city celebration here in Port. You just dip the side of the fish in paint and roll it on the shirt. Weird but cute and TOTALLY messy. LOL
Susan that soup sounds so good parm rind or not.
Lacey sorry about the cashew thing. They're one of my faves. Can you eat other nuts?
I have to go shopping. I wanted to make soup and didn't even have a can of tomatoes.
Also, welcome Veruka
Much love to all.
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Shout out to BEDO - how are you doing?
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The chicken carcass, along with the last grilled chicken carcass, are now in the oven. The house smells like chicken. I expect that I will enjoy some soup for lunch tomorrow. We are headed to soup season. I don't actually love the cold winter, but I love love love soup. And winter makes soup seem logical. And Lacey, parmesan rinds are a gift to soup, aren't they?
I also have chicken parts in the fridge, so I will be making more stock this weekend. This domestic-goddess stuff takes attention to detail!
*susan*
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Around here, a chicken or turkey carcass always goes into the stockpot. Stock is amazing stuff! :-)
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No clue as to what I'm making.
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i would not have known about the wonderful addition of parmesan rinds to soup were it not for this thread. Thank you Nancy!!
Happy to not be making dinner tonight....tho I do need to figure out soon what to do with two eggplants in the vegetable bin in the fridge....if they are even holding up. No more ratatouille for now......
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