So...whats for dinner?
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Carberry - I really wanted that Neulasta to be given at the infusion center because I have met my out of pocket max for medical treatment. But for prescriptions, there is no max, just as there is no limit for doctor co-pays. I don't know what it would have cost me if they had shipped it to me directly, but I doubt the answer is "nothing"!
Michelle
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Well, I have to laugh. The kiddos went to my in laws for their Friday visit while I got some book keeping done and I got a phone call from my oldest begging to have a sleep over. Absolutely! So DH and I have a quiet night in store for us. I called a couple we have been friends with forever (who have no kids) and they are going to come by and enjoy a fire outside with us tonight. Now to figure out food?
But since there are no kids I am going to have a glass of wine and some cheese and crackers while I think!
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Carberry- OMG I think that sake game sounds hilarious and a lot of fun, warm sake get me everytime, i doubt i could do that though! LOL!
Michelle- I did sleep good and ready for another round! Ha!
Kay- Too bad we didnt all live closer that would be awesome, hey maybe we should plan a trip to vegas sometime.
Chabba- Happy Anniversary- Wouldnt it be nice to have small and cozy witha view, but i think the small and cozy sounds romantic, but then again depends on the view! what a decison, no matter what im sure you will have a great time!!
Funny stories about the shampoos and soaps, and clothes, I have to admi though,t I'm a soapaholic, There, i said it!! Im so bad about tha,t i buy a new soap and shampoo everytime we go to the store, my DH always gives me a hard time and i say, just get over it! LOL!
Laurie- Woot-Woot on the alone time tonight, Sounds like you more than deserve a glass of wine or 2 ha! Good tip on the eggplant parm. I find that helps with chx or anything im breading.
I get a lot of raves about my eggplant, its pretty good if i say so myself- I use both eggplant and zucchini bread them both ( peel the eggplant) but not the zuccini, layer them with mozz cheese and parm and a good homemade or store bought marinara and top with thinly sliced onions it is so delicious i might make that this week end! My Dad is coming here on the 11th im going to make those lasagna cupcakes for him, i will let you know how those turned out, has anyone tried them yet?
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Joyce- So you are a golf widow too huh? Enjoy your evening!
Every one have a Nice weekend!
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Well, aren't we a pair of old farts!!! Rick has some swollen glands and is having difficulty moving his neck. I made him go to the doctor and they did labs, sent him for x-rays, then sent him home with a steroid pack. No fever, no other symptoms, except that he didn't sleep at all last night. And I was awake about 4:30 and never went back to sleep. So here we are, both just waking up from naps!
I am feeling pretty good other than being a little tired, but I don't think he's going to want to do our usual Friday night out to dinner.
Laurie - enjoy your lovely evening!
Joyce - time to relax and have a great evening!
Carberry - I've been to a number of Japanese restaurants and never seen the sake game!
Debbie - I knew you'd be ready to go another round!
Oops, well in the time it's taken me to write this, he has fully awakened and wants to go eat prime rib...as long as I drive!!! But I'm not so sure he should go anywhere, not sure if he's contagious!
Like the weather, just wait a minute
Michelle
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LOL Joyce!!! Well, he has gone back to the reclined position and the eyes are closed. In the meantime, we decided to have pizza delivered. He said he's hungry so hopefully he'll wake up enough in the next 30 minutes to eat when the pizza arrives. In the meantime, I turned on the Red Sox/Yankees game.
What a bizarre evening!!!
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Thanks for the tip Laurie! The eggplant came out pretty well. My taste buds are still a little off from the last chemo I had a week and a half ago, so I wasn't really sure. But DH liked it a lot. He said we should have it again. I think I'll try it your way Debbie with the zucchini too. I got the recipe off the internet. It was almost like lasagna using eggplant instead of noodles. I used ricotta cheese mixed with an egg, parmasan cheese and parslay. I layered the sauce, the eggplant, the ricotta mixture, mosarella cheese and some parmasan cheese.
I bought the wonton wrappers, but haven't made the lasagna cupcakes yet. I am looking forward to trying them though.Enjoy your pizza Michelle. And go Red Sox! (when they're playing the Yankees at least)
Enjoy your evening Laurie, and everyone else too. Have a good weekend.
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Anybody else lose their appetite on rads? No dinner for me tonight, just occasional random snacking (fruit, fig newtons). I don't want to cook OR eat a "real" meal.
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Chabba,
I hope you have a wonderful time no matter which restaurant you choose!! 45 years is certainly a huge milestone!!!
I can sympathise a bit with your favorite restaurant no longer being there!! I just found out this week that my favorite Mexican place (one I have been going to since I was just 18 years old) has closed after 33 years! It was really very much a family run restaurant and I am very sad that they have closed! They had the best margaritas so now I will have to find a new place to get my 'fix'.....
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Lena,
Yes.... I did reach a point during rads where I could have cared less if I ate or not... I was sore, itchy, exhausted and bitchy.... When it came down to a choice between eating and sleeping, the sleeping won! Quick, nutrient dense foods are your friend... Rest is too!!
Everyone is different but, I do know that my fatigue lingered a bit even after rads were over but, then got quickly better!
Sending you hugs!!!
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mixing a bit of crushed capers into some yogurt.. makes a great sauce (compliment) to salmon.. as does a piquant cilantro / tomato/ salsa type salsa.
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Joyce - this looks like a good idea for salmon:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Grilled-Salmon-I/detail.aspx
Soy sauce, brown sugar, stuff you are likely to have on hand...
DH doesn't touch salmon, so I don't cook it at home. He will eat swordfish, though. Might be time to pick up a nice piece.
Michelle
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When I do salmon for 1 or 2 people - especially on a hot day if I don't want to grill - I like to microwave it in a little butter, chopped shallot and vermouth.
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excellent idea chabba!
we're having homegrown tomatoes in BLTs (not my home unfortunately, the deer ate the tomato plants stems and all..).. also gazpacho.
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Apple - I love BLT's! And I may have mentioned this before but your local Price Choppers carry Burger Smokehouse bacon. It's from California, MO, and the best bacon I ever had! I actually had 10 pounds of it shipped to us in NH!!!
Chabba - microwaving is a good idea. Maybe even making little waxed paper pouches and topping the salmon with butter, dill, lemon juice, whatever veggies, herbs, etc. and then nuking it for a couple of minutes.
I use waxed paper in my microwave all the time. It's a great way to cook one or two ears of corn. No muss no fuss!
Michelle
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so what is waxed paper made of?
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Thank you for the salmon ideas. I like the microwave idea---sounds good for dinner tonight.
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Apple - it's paper, almost like parchment, with a waxy coating. Been around in some form since medieval times. It's better than plastic wrap for the microwave - it doesn't melt. Not necessarily good for oven-baking, though, as it will smoke.
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MMMM- BLT's and I will need to make gazpacho when the tomatoes come in in my Dads' garden
Last night was so much fun and relaxing. Sleeping in this morning was heaven! Thanks for all the nice words ladies
Tonight is eggplant parm with eggplant from my Dad's garden. It is so muggy here right now but it needs to get eaten so I am cooking indoors.
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Michelle,
Where in the Price Chopper is Smokehouse Bacon... With the rest of the bacon or is it what the sell in the butcher case? A BLT is sounding mighty good!!
Laurie...
Have picked a few cherry tomatoes here but, still waiting on the regular tomatoes to ripen! Have a few eggplants growing but, not big enough yet to pick!! First year I have grown them! Can't wait to pick!
Seems like I am going to have a bumper crop of cukes this year!!! Took a shot at making refrigerator bread and butter pickles this afternoon... Did one jar 'normally' but then the second jar, I put in a dried chile pepper (hoping to produce a sweet/spicy pickle similar to a pickle we had when we lived in MN. They were called Wickles and were delicious)....
We'll see!
My husband is playing in a golf tournament today (even though the weather here has been just miserable with rain today) so dinner is going to be.... leftover chicken made into a sandwich... Not exciting but, good none the less!!
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At my DD's request, we had turkey breast and gravy, baked potatoes, corn on the cob and beets tonight. (The beets were not her request.) It was delish. Tonight was her last night home. She leaves for summer camp in the morning for 3 weeks. I am going to miss her.
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Seaside - I always found the Burger Smokehouse Bacon in the same case with the rest of the bacon. I wonder how far east Price Chopper distributes it, as it's a Missouri product. Here's a link to the website:
At least you can see what you're looking for. We like the pepper bacon.
DH is feeling a little better, so we went out for prime rib. The restaurant was having an off-night. I don't usually order baked potato, but I was craving it tonight. And unfortunately, they brought 3 different ones before there was an edible one. I swear they were leftovers and hard as bricks. I wanted a "fluffy" baked potato and even #3 was more mealy than fluffy. Oh well...you wouldn't think that would be such a tall order!!!
Michelle
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just wondering what the waxy coating is made.. of many companies use petroleum based paraffin which melts a bit on our food.. that is icking me out. I'm thinking I'll be using dampened paper towels.... food grade.
parchment has silicone
and butcher's paper has plastic...
I'm thinking I'll use dampened paper towels or glass bowls and lids.
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and LoveRVing.. i got one package of Burger's smokehouse and two of Farmland..
the Burger's smokehouse was excellent.. omgosh excellent.
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Apple - glad you like the Burger's bacon. It's become legendary in my family. I actually ordered a bunch of it for my SIL's birthday and he was ecstatic!!! The wet paper towel trick will definitely work, too. I suspect the wax coating on the paper is similar to the stuff they wax some fruits and veggies with - like cukes and apples. It's probably paraffin.
Michelle
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Salmon and tomatoes sounds really good right now, My neighbor brought me a bunch of tomatoes yesterday and i made a tomatoe and cucumber sandwich it was pretty tasty!
Seaside- I make pickles sometimes and have never thought about putting a pepper in there what a great idea!! (whipples) LOL! another new word for me!
I use wax paper to in the microwave but usually dont have any on hand and put the corn in the husk straight in the microwave and it cooks just fine that way too for anyone who is worried about the wax paper, never thought of what it might contain, will have to check into that.
Michelle- Glad your DH is feeling better and you got to have a nice dinner out.
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I nuke corn in the husk too. The silk comes off so much easier that way and the corn is great.
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Chabba- And dosnt it come out so sweet that way, some one on here mentioned cooking it that way a couple of months ago and now thats the only way i cook it, its fast and good.
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So cornhusker ladies, how long do you nuke the corn in the husk? And would I be correct to assume that those husks get pretty darn hot? Do you soak it in water or is there enough moisture without it?
I can barely get DH to eat corn if I do all the hard work, not sure he'd touch the stuff if I handed him corn in the husk...lol
Michelle
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So today DH and I went to the grocery store and went to check out, our debit card was declined, he then went to the atm machine, that was declined, so DH went outside to call his bank and they put a stop on everything, due to high amounts of purchases being done in a 2 day period, found out someone had been buying tickets to Air India and spirit airlines for several thousands of dollars and also cell phone purchases, and numerous other things, fortuneatly, we wont be liable for all those charges, but we have to wait a week or more to get a new card. And luckily we had some charge cards to pay for the groceries, but what a bunch of crap. why do people do this kind of stuff? I dont understand it, when DH asks where it originated from and was told they didnt know, be nice to know if places we go to around here did it, so what good will a new card do if they do it again? I would like to find out and hang them by there ding dongs! Ha!
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