So...whats for dinner?
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frozen pizza
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Leftovers
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Same here Eric. I consider leftovers truly magic. Leftover chicken alfredo with side salad. Still have another jar of alfredo sauce to use up after that. Found some interesting recipes for it. Spent some time cleaning out roll out shelf. Not thoroughly or finished but felt good to accomplish something.
Mommyof2 - I use those pre-pack pizza crusts thin crust, "Pizza Squeeze" from Contadina, little basil pesto from them, pepperoni and moz. cheese. Maybe some green onions or ripe olives. One of the few things DH "cooks". But when freezer is empty enough I do love Red Baron frozen pizzas.
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Redheaded and Nance, I am SO jealous that you go to the Hill and eat at restaurants and shop at Italian markets.
Nance, dh still does not know the results of his liver biopsy.
Dinner tonight is grilled lamb chops, baked sweet potatoes and cole slaw.
I was the winner in match play on day one of the golf tournament. Tomorrow I get to play one of the other winners. My opponent had to give me 8 strokes and she also didn't play well. She's a very good friend, and I felt bad because she played so poorly.
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congratulations Carole!
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Congratulations Carole! And good luck tomorrow!
Leftover brussells sprouts soup tonight with breadsticks and red pepper hummus. I have the easiest meals when DH has meetings.
Am busy filling up bags for the Vietnam Vets charity that picks up donations from your porch. This is just one way I am clearing out closets.....what a slow process!
Also trying to organize my kindergarten social skills materials since I will be working (as volunteer one day a week) with a K teacher in two class sessions. She sounds very excited to have me come in to work with her and the kids....and I have a feeling will want me to help her with some of the more challenging students. I am so excited to start feeling useful again and to enjoy the energy of the little kids. Kindergarteners are so wonderful in their authenticity.
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Wonderful food descriptions everyone. Carole, we're still sending hugs & prayers for your DH. Let us know when you hear.
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We usually get a Freshcetta(sp?) or a store brand but where we were Red Baron's were on sale so we got one. Good pizza, just used to a thicker crust.
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lacey - I love that - kindergarteners are wonderful in their authenticity - is this another way of saying they have no filter?
carole - good luck with the golf - you are sweet to feel bad for the friend you bested. And best to your DH.
I am now hungry for Italian food - dang it!!!
DH had leftover pizza, I made a cannellini bean salad with artichoke hearts, kalamata olives and a tiny smattering of herbed goat cheese with olive oil and vinegar, and lots of S&P. DD and I then painted furniture for her new place. The big move is Saturday so today I am starting a slipcover for her fave chair from her godfather's condo that we cleaned out over the summer after he passed. I love that some of his old furniture is going with her to her first home. I would like to think he is smiling about that - he had pictures of her in every room of his place, loved being her godfather.
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Has anyone ever made Madeleine cookies? I was at a flea market and found the pan for them for 3.00 and so I purchased it. I think they are a cake like cookie from France. I've found a recipe but it reads like you need more than one pan, and I am wondering if something would happen to the batter if I have to cool d own the pan from the first batch before I pour the second? Now that it is getting colder, I might be in the kitchen a bit more than I am during the spring/summer/fall. I think I am the queen of purchasing baking items that you will never use. I think I have slowly acquired every Nordic ware Bundt pan made by never missing a church rummage sale. After buying my first couple of them new, and knowing how much they sell for, I can't pass by one that is under $5.00 . And I don't really bake a lot of Bundt cakes.... I also need to take a picture of the strange looking "Angel Food" pan I bought that is 7 inches tall and 6 1/2 inches wide at the bottom. --says "made in Italy" Williams Sonoma, San Franscisco CA, but I can't find it on Williams-Sonoma website.
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Special K--that is so cool about your daughter taking some of his furniture. It will come to mean something to her (if it doesn't already) that it was his. I have some things from my great grandmother and my great aunts and just knowing the history makes it so important and valued.
I too miss the daily roo--but I wouldn't mind seeing the daily dog pic you suggested. I love critters of any kind.
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Miss the roo but any critter will do!
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ok. You asked for it here's one of my cats. LOL Sir Spotsalot, a rescue Bengal.
I think if I remember right Madeline batter is kinda like a cross between a sponge cake and an angel cake. Perhaps it would work in mini muffin tins?
Much love
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Redheaded1 - I've never made any but a quick google said they could possibly be made in mini muffin tins. You may have inspired me. Somewhere (oh where oh where) buried in my storage closet are 2 pans still in the original plastic wrap from has to be at least 20 years ago, probably more. They might be fun to make/take to Bible Study or Prayer Meeting. I saw recipe for Earl Grey flavored ones. I think I still have some double bergamot Earl Grey (teabags). But like you I would prob. make a few in mini muffin tins too.
I bought some fab Harney & Sons chocolate/mint tea at Target. Had seen it on Amazon.
Tonight is pork cutlets/gravy/mashed potatoes. I bought 5# of potatoes that are quickly turning green/soft. Can you freeze already made mashed potatoes? I think what is left is more than DH and I can eat tonight/tomorrow night.
Mommyof2 - I've been buying a crust called MamaMary's. I don't much like the Boboli for some reason and that's all my local grocery has. This time I bought house brand Albertsons fire roasted while I was there. They had a much better selection.
Ft. Worth actually has a Williams Sonoma but no Crate & Barrel. I forget about it being there. But it is across from where the new Fresh Market is very slowly going in. I need to go the the kitchen supply store but will have to hold securely onto my pocketbook.
Monica - I love Sir Spotsalot. Beautiful.
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Luv I've frozen mashed potatoes before. Sometimes they are ok. other times not so much. But you don't have anything to lose. Try it. If they get to mushy add them to a soup that needs to be thickened.
I think tonight will be a pork based soup. I have potatoes, carrots, kielbasa and cabbage. Should wirk. Just not sure if I'll add tomatoes.
Much love
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Moon, I love the spots on your cat! I've never seen one of those cats. I would put the tomatoes in the soup. I think...
Luv, my efforts at freezing potatoes were not successful. The potatoes develop a cotton-like quality.
Hope Susan is eating delicious food in Portland.
Dinner tonight will be chicken cutlets breaded with panko and browned in olive oil and butter. Leftover sweet potatoes and either a tossed salad or coleslaw. The latter is easier.
I always make my pizza crust because it's so easy, using a recipe from Mary Ann Esposito. Pizza sounds good. Maybe tomorrow night's dinner!
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Monica, he's a handsome devil!
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Fettuccini Alfredo with some leftover asparagus thrown in for contrast. Also some cheese garlic bread.
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Wow, Monica, what a strikingly handsome cat! Not into cats at all, (allergy doesn't help)but can appreciate their beauty. We seem to have a ton of neighborhood cats who frequent our yard since we have a lot of birdbaths, thus birds.
Yes, Special, the kindergarteners' lack of filter (I decided not to use that term...tho it is exactly what I meant;) just makes them so very interesting, genuine, and amusing!
Tonight I made a chicken vegetable ragu of sorts and had it over microwaved spaghetti squash...along with a persian cuke salad. It was yummy and I think, low calorie. I defeated any virtue that I was feeling, however, when I downed a big bar of chocolate afterwards.
Oh well!Special, I love that your DD is restoring/reusing some of her DGF's furniture. I still have some pieces with special meaning from my family and extended family homes....nothing of great value other than sentiment and function. My sons have not taken a thing given their penchants for "modern". Goodwill will be a very full store when we depart!
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I'm not sure what will happen with all the stuff at my mom's house. Everything, and I mean everything, in the house is a several generations old family heirloom. Being that mom is 96, several generations goes back to older than the US Civil War. I would love to save everything, but neither my brother nor I have room for an entire house full of stuff and there really aren't any relatives to "help out".
What I would like to have would be the "shadow box" of my dad's military decorations, insignia and the folded flag that covered his coffin...and a ship's bell that my mom got from somewhere.
That bell, when struck "with feeling", could be heard for over a mile in the quiet countryside where I grew up and was used to call my brother and I home for dinner.
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Sweet family memory, Eric. Loved those free play times as children, being rounded up for dinner.
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no more leftovers in the fridge, so its time to dive in the freezer to see what i'm in the mood for
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Eric, if you have paper memorabilia (letters, diaries, etc) or other Civil war era and earlier, please please contact your State Archives before disposing of it. I am a genealogist and anything like that where family doesn't want it should be preserved. Also old bibles where dates are recorded, etc.
Gals, the only mashed potatoes I have frozen are Bob Evans ones from the refrigerator case. They do pretty good if you use them within a month or two.
What a beautiful kitty and how lucky you found each other. I'd love for my next cat to be a great big tomcat. We have a feral black one in the neighborhood hat lets me sometimes rub his tummy, but rarely. He surfaces on occasion and isn't neutered, which is something I"d like to be able to correct. If he'd come in, I'd certainly let him and we could take it from there. Last winter, the neighbor and I made "cat houses" (no pun intended,) hoping he would find shelter. Somehow he survived the winter, but we don't really think he ever went in either one of them.
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Luvmygoats--- I forgot. I have made twice baked potatoes and frozen them successfully.
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Decided to make meatloaf for tonight.
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My mom had a clandistine diary from a POW (relative) at Andersonville (Civil War). We stopped there and mom gave it to one of the park service folks and told them it was there's if they wanted it. The lady's hands started shaking as she read it.
They wrote to mom and said that the information contained in the diary agreed with their records and that there was no doubt that it was "the real thing".
So yes, that kind of stuff will be preserved...
I've always said that when someone really old dies...that it's like a library burning down.
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I recently saw something on a food segment where Martha Stewart was making creamy mashed potatoes that could be saved....but not remembering if it was just in the fridge or also in the freezer. Anyway, the basic thing she emphasized was to make them creamy with heavy cream or sour cream to maintain the texture. I wonder if that would also help them hold up in the freezer?
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Well Crap. I'm sitting here at the x Ray department waiting to pick up the films of my little toe that I apparently fractured a couple of days ago. Then it's off to the ortho doc to get fitted with a boot. Not the way I had planned to spend my day.
I had planned to make lamb shanks with white beans today, but instead, I'm sitting here waiting. Crap.
For what it's worth, I've had better luck freezing mashed potato if they were made with baked potatoes (less moisture I suppose) and lots of cream and butter.
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With DD around, I've never had any need to freeze mashed potatoes. :-)
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eric - OMG - my DH just brought the dinner bell back from his parents - it was mounted outside the back door at the house they grew up in - DD was planning to ask if she could take it!!! What a prophetic post! We had a hand bell (I have it now) that my mom used to ring to call us to dinner, she also would put it by our beds when we were sick and we could ring it to summon her. Does your DD have any sentimental attachment for her grand's things? Might be worth storing some of them. I now wish I had kept more of my folk's things - but they were in California and I was in Virginia, so it was problematic - I did crate the desk and dining set and bring them east, and the usual suspects - china, crystal, etc.
moon - love the gorgeous cat! Thanks for stepping in for the daily critter!
lacey - my kids still have no filter, lol!
auntie - oh no! I broke my toe within an hour of arriving in Italy in '09, broke another right after chemo when I dropped a wrought iron plant stand on them, I feel for you!
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