So...whats for dinner?
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Minus - pot pie?
Tonight was homemade pizza with colored peppers, roasted tomatoes, Italian sausage and fresh basil. Dh pronounced it delicious, but then he thinks all pizza is delicious.
I'm sitting here listening to the sleet hit the window. Could get some ice accumulation. Ugh.
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Food market I went to today had green, red, yellow & orange bell peppers - 3 for $1.00. I'm not a bell pepper fan but they were beautiful.
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minus - you could absolutely sub cooked turkey in the dish - it is very forgiving. I just cook the vegetables in some olive oil, remove them before they are completely done and put them in a bowl. I add the sausage - which is fully cooked also - to the pan and heat it through, then add the pineapple and veggies back into the pan. I mix the sauce ingredients together and pour over. I bring it to a boil to let the cornstarch thicken the sauce - cook for about 5 mins or so, then serve over rice. The nice thing is that it is really a technique, with a sauce, so you can use whatever you have on hand. Let me know if you would like the sauce ingredient measurements.
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Sharon has Shingles.
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Had my beef fix last night with a delicious filet. The sides were a potato dish and sautéed kale. The potato concoction was good but the kale was bitter and I didn't eat it. My friend Linda had a grouper special with lemon sauce. She mixed some of the sauce with her kale and made it edible. I had two glasses of a really nice cabernet. Indulgence is good occasionally!
Now I'm deciding whether to go to the gym or the farmer's market. DH is off to an all-day seminar for wood turners. The weather outside is gloomy and gray.
Dinner might be the rest of the red lentil soup and a salad.
SK, I know you are enjoying having DD in the house.
Happy Saturday to all.
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Roof folks are here... but they can't get their truck into the drive! So everyone is out shoveling the snowbanks to widen the entry.
What a mess! And thank goodness our opening is for a double drive with the neighbor.
*susan*
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Susan -- what a trial this winter has been. I know you will be ready for spring. So will I.
Eric - shingles - oh no! And I keep forgetting to get that vaccine. This is a painful (for Sharon anyway) reminder.
Minestrone and garlic knots for dinner. More snow last night so it's a good soup day. Thankfully, some nice neighbor plowed our street this morning. Our snowpiles are mere molehills compared to Susan's, Lacey's and Bedo's. Just looked out the window and a different neighbor is plowing our driveway again this time with a tractor and blade. Good neighbors indeed!
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Ice dam(n)s are not totally gone, but the ones they couldn't get to properly now have channels so that the water has somewhere to go. Such a relief! They even shoveled all the snow and ice that had come off the roof. We were given the "previous customer" price. Three men, almost 3 hrs, total bill? $400! No one else in the neighborhood has gotten away for less than $1000. We grabbed a handful of $20's to tip the guys. Foreman, who is on salary, simply passed it onto the two per diem workers.
Doing a family dinner tonight. Have broken down a chicken, and it is dry-brining and will turn into fried chicken. I will make a ton of green beans and some buttermilk biscuits. Only wish there could be some sliced tomatoes on the plate. I did withhold one chicken breast which I will roast for chicken sandwiches.
Shingles? Poor Sharon. What a nasty disease, and can be so very painful. I bet she isn't old enough to get the vaccine.
No help with the peppers. I don't care for bell peppers. I am making myself eat some red ones and trying to learn to tolerate the flavor since Spanish food is always loaded with them. My mother used to stuff them, and everyone seemed to love that. I believe she did a meat, onion, and rice concoction.
Bedo, try subbing some maple syrup for that vanilla!
Carole, well cooked beef is such a treat!
Nancy, I hope you keep your power... well and that you don't get too much ice.
*susan*
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So while trying to decide what to make for dinner tonight, hubby piped up with "how about Lasgna. You haven't made that in a while." So it was a quick run to the store to pick up the few things I needed for it. Its all prepped and ready to pop in the oven! Along with it I had planned a salad and Italian bread! Probably will get one to two more nights out of this dinner!
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Susan, that sounds like a great price for the roof work. Your dinner sounds wonderful, fried chicken and home-made biscuits. Southern heaven!
I have a 4 1/4 lb. chicken sitting in my refrigerator, purchased at the farmers' mkt, which won out over the gym this morning. My mother would faint if I told her I paid $3.50 a lb for a chicken! I also bought a bag of very pretty young Swiss chard, a mixture of types, for $6. The young man assured me the greens had been triple washed and were ready to cook. I also bought oyster mushrooms, turnips, and tiny beets. A loaf of bread made with stone ground wheat flour. And a lovely rosemary plant. This one is the upright rosemary whereas the one on the patio that is ailing after years of production is the trailing variety. The vendor with the herbs had a fabulous assortment. Next time I'll buy a tarragon plant.
I could have saved a lot of $$ by going to the gym but I do like buying from local folks. I tasted some kimchi a woman was selling along with some interesting crackers she'd made but I didn't buy anything from her. About half the vendors are selling baked goods and food products they make, like dips and salsas. I had to walk fast by a vendor with Italian fig cookies.
So I guess I'll roast the free range chicken tonight and sauté the swiss chard and oyster mushrooms. Does that sound like a good idea? The latter I have not cooked before. It's not actually good oven weather since the temp. is in the low 70's and the muggies are creeping back.
Eric, I'm so sorry Sharon has the shingles. I have been told how painful it can be.
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Those mushrooms are amazing!!!!! I am so jealous. I think they might deserve something a little more special than roasted with chard. Two classics would be softly scrambled eggs with mushrooms and thyme [an acquired taste, maybe] or a mushroom risotto. Or sautéed with a bit of butter and served as its own side dish. Can't wait to hear about the flavor.
*susan*
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Carole, wow beautiful mushrooms! Oh to be able to go to a farmer's market in February. I world not have been able to walk past the fig cookie man. Sigh . . . I vote for the risotto and then I'm coming to your house for dinner. I won't be bringing dh because a mushroom is just a fungus to him. Btw, love your new avatar!
Susan, I agree with Carole, sounds like an amazing price for the roof work. Especially since they could probably get by with charging whatever they want right now.
Eric, I hope poor Sharon's shingles heal quickly. My mom had them multiple times. So much pain.
I decided to make some hot cross buns for the neighbor who plowed our driveway. The house smells wonderful. In a typical Missouri pattern, the temp rose to 38 degrees today so whatever ice and snow we got overnight has melted along with some of the giant icicles that have been forming all week. I keep hearing these giant crashes coming off the roof. Of course it's going to be below zero again tomorrow night so we'll start again with the icicles.
Hope Lacey is coping and her dh is making progress.
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Special - yes please on the recipe if it's not too much trouble.
Eric - so sorry about the shingles. I need to have the test to see if I'm immune. Spent a week at 11 or 12 taking care of my baby brother when he had chickenpox but never broke out in any spots.
Carole - oh your farmer's market adventure sounds perfect. I think I'd like the mushrooms featured by themselves. Hard decision.
Susan - the snow pictures were amazing and the price so reasonable. I know you're glad that's done.
Nance - my Mother used to make hot cross buns. Thanks for the memory.
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eric - so sorry about Sharon's shingles - I hope she is not miserable.
carole - love having DD here, and those mushrooms are amazing! I vote for risotto too.
susan - yay for the snow clearing deal! And I want to come over for fried chicken and biscuits too!
lacey - hot cross buns are a memory for me too - we had them every Easter!
minus - here is the Sweet & Sour Sauce recipe - you can add stuff or substitute stuff - reserved juice from pineapple (either canned or fresh), 1/4 c. brown sugar, 2T cornstarch, 1 T. salt, 1/4 c. vinegar, 1/2 t. Worchestershire, 2T chili sauce, 1/3 c. ketchup. Mix the sauce ingredients together until smooth, add to cooked meat and vegs and bring to a boil, then simmer until thickened.
Note: I usually add some water to stretch this sauce, and add a bit more ketchup. Use any kind of vinegar you have on hand - I have used cider or white wine vinegar, I have skipped the chili sauce and added more ketchup if I didn't have the chili sauce on hand. You can add hot sauce or chili flakes if you like it spicier, or sriracha. You could also use white sugar instead of brown sugar.
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Eric so sorry about the shingles
Carol our Spring Meeting for the community garden will feature a mycologist so I am looking forward to recipes from all of you
Susan Yahhhh! on the roof.
Today I made the World's Worst Soup, and I was thinking the whole time." Susan would be proud of me" I made Vietnamese hot and sour soup from the Moosewood Cookbook and even made the broth from scratch which took all day, but apparently didn't pay attention and added 9 instead of 7 cups of broth. I bought lemon grass and star anise and fish sauce and everything.
I'll eat it. I was taught to not waste food.
I am addicted to my fleece PJs as is my daughter. Won't tell you the brand. We both have 2 pair She wore hers for three days straight. I told her "that is disgusting" I wore my top to the store today- so comfy- I hope that no one knows they were PJs when the line was so long and hot that I took my coat off.
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Susan, that is good news about the ice dam and snow removal. It sounds like it was money well spent. .
I feel for both Lacey and her DH. I remember when I was unable to walk due to a badly broken leg. I was OK as long as felt bad. When I felt better, I probably got cranky.. I don't think it was due to "I'm supposed to do it myself"...instead it was, "I'm bored out of my mind".
Those mushrooms are amazing...my vote would be sauteed and served as their own dish.
Bedo, your book choices remind me of the airline pilot reading Airframe in the gate area of the airport.. :-) It's a Michael Crichton novel about an airliner crash....
Special, enjoy DD being home and I guess your DH's and my definition of cold is very similar! Below 70F degrees and I'm looking for a light sweater.
Last night, when the doctor diagnosed shingles and said she was going to include "high powered pain pills" with the anti-virals. Sharon tried to talk the doctor out the "pain pills" and is now glad the doctor insisted. I just got asked for another one....
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eric - yup on DH and cold, lol! Great minds, right?
auntie - OMG those are BEAUTIFUL!!!
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I grew up eating Hot Cross Buns at Easter every year. My father would buy them at a bakery in Grand Central Station on his way home from work. Oh my. So very good, delicious. I loved Easter. The fancy new dress, patten leather shoes, fancy hat and a new winter dress coat. We all had little purses with stuffed chickens inside that we were only allowed to use once a year. When Easter was late, the dogwood tree in the backyard would be blooming.
My husband had never even heard of Hot Cross buns. What is with Southern Presbyterians? They don't eat Hot Cross Buns! But he doesn't really like them. And I haven't found a bakery that makes them well in Boston. I have made them, but I can't eat so many myself and I am not good about doing things just for me. Maybe I should start candying some fruit to make some for myself. The recipe that I used had almost 100% whole wheat in the English tradition.
Nancy, are you willing to post your recipe? Maybe I can talk someone in the house into eating this delicious treat.
*susan*
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This is the one I use quite often:
http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/easy-hot-cr...
I did use kaf's European style flour because I had it. I don't usually.
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OMG, Nancy!! Those are amazing and remind me of one of my favorite childhood treats. I'll clear your driveway anytime! Have gotten really good at it.
Susan, you got a bargain!
Eric, hoping Sharon's shingles case is mild. So sorry she has to cope with such a painful condition. Glad she is having some relief with the pain meds.
Busy with DH's care all day. I have such an expanded appreciation of the role of single mothers with no family support. Constant meals, clean up, laundry, leak management, more meals, clean up....and round and round it goes. Fielding well wishing calls but no time to talk. DH's shower event took two hours....mine, no time at all!
so I decided that we will be on an alternating day shower schedule so I can get one too. Tomorrow is my turn. Still better than cleaning up after home health aide....and nice to see DH be so thrilled once in his shower. But yes, Eric, I think his gradual physical improvement will bring on some definite frustration that things are not hastening to his regular active format. Made my way to food store by late this afternoon (who on this thread is surprised that I would choose filling the fridge over taking my shower) and while driving home in the snow decided we'd have take out pizza tonight, since I was just not going to cook after hauling in and putting away groceries. Roads really slippery, so we ordered from a place that is less than a mile from our house....survival for us, and the intrepid driver enjoyed making a generous tip. I had some red wine with our pizza and Greek salad.
Enjoyed your expanded post, Mommy!
Oh Carole, those mushrooms are works of art! Lucky you!
Really tired, but might be defeating the sore throat and headache...yay! Nite all.....
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Dinner last night was great! I still have enough for two more nights!
Those are so good to eat in the morning with a cup of coffee!!!
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Joyce, did I read on one of your posts that you need to return to NH for a bit? I do hope that you find things as you left them.
I need to muster up some energy to get out and clear the snow ice crust that now coats our property from last night's installment. Oy!
A bigger worry is that I just saw a news repirt of a house in our town being destroyed overnight. Apparently fighting it was made difficult due to a frozen hydrant. We have (had) a hydrant between our hoyse and our next door neighbor.....but a couple of weeks ago some public works employees knocked it over, and we now have a "cone" there. Let's hope our block doesn't need it!
Oh dear...DH trying to be more independent just broke a glass in the kitchen....off to get the vacuum
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DD has been busy in the kitchen....She cooked up some brown rice, added black beans, garlic, onion and some of last night's left over chicken. She got out the guacamole and salsa and it's good to go.
I had a *HUGE* (at least a couple of pounds) ham hock and I noticed a 4 pound bag of dried pinto beans in the pantry. That all is simmering in a stock pot and in a couple of hours I'll add some onion, garlic, salt and a couple of serrano peppers...and if I think it needs it, some brown sugar. I've never been able to figure out why it sometimes needs brown sugar and sometimes not..
Since I spent more than a few summers in southeastern Kentucky, I've got some ground corn--in between meal and flour--that will make cornbread. It'll be the real cornbread, not the over sugared stuff I call corn cake. :-)
Nancy, those buns look good!
Sharon is still not feeling well, The hydrocodone is helping. She is still thinking of going to work tomorrow, but I'm not sure if that's a great idea.
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Funny day. Lots done, but none of it was billable. We have bread. There is a lot of chicken stock. Lunch was our standard breakfast mix. He gets French toast, and I sous-vide some eggs to soft boiled. Dinner was a smoked salmon and some Lentils du Pay a la Anne Burrell which are tangy and delicious. I am building maps of all of our destinations, researching restaurants so I will have them all on a Google map when we hit the ground. Not a bad way to use a very choppy day. So easy to only eat mediocre food while traveling, and I simply am not interested!
Not sure I have mentioned this part of my mother's DNA. She is pretty ADHD. She plows through life full of energy, and then without any awareness on her part, her blood sugars drop and she HASTOEATNOW! She is 76. You would think she would feel this coming on, but no. It hits her by surprise. She has no patience. SHEHASTOEATNOW. So, I am building maps of every museum and neighborhood I think she might want to visit marked with nearby decent food. She can mange if I can say something like, 2 more blocks and we can have a great lunch. No way, she can follow me as I sniff out what is on the ground, so to speak. So much pressure. :-)
I think Sharon should consider staying home. How many of her students haven't had the Chicken Pox vaccine? What are the chances that one of these anti-vaxxers gave this to her?
Lacey, man do I feel for you. Your husband will owe you one of those lovely L'espalier Wine Monday dinners. And some nice new everyday glassware from the store of your choice.
Joyce, safe travels. Hope that your house is in good shape.
SpecialK. Glad you had a good time with the DD over the past two weeks.
*susan*
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Lacey, as they say, "for better or for worse" I was going to suggest taking the shower day together, but then realized that that wouldn't work. When my ankle broke and I found my foot backwards and had 10pins and a plate in it I found shower chairs to be really useful, as were backpacks, hard to bring even a glass of juice to the next room if you are using both hands on crutches. Best hugs to you and your hubby.
Susan if your Mother HAS TO EAT NOW can you carry juice packs to get her sugar up and then cheese to keep it there? Your trip sounds so fun!.
Did a few bad things today. Continued to wear my pajamas. Snuck my 8 bags of trash which I have been keeping frozen behind the fence into other people's trash buckets after dark. My trash containers are so buried in snow behind the house that it is impossible to bring them out front.
For dinner the world's worst soup and those Quaker pop things.
Practiced for one hour interspersed by Farmville.
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I got the slide projector working and took it back to mom's house, along with a projector screen.
We looked at probably 100 of the easily 3 to 4 THOUSAND slides and all so far have been in perfect condition despite being 40 to 60 years old.
Pictures of me as an infant. Pictures of my brother at 2 and 3 years old. Pictures of dad holding me. Pictures of dad in "mess dress" and mom in a beautiful evening gown. Pictures of her parents. Pictures of my childhood backyard before there was a house there.
Mom smiled a lot and shed a few tears too. It felt strange for me too--I was looking at a Christmas picture of me when I was 6 years old. I was opening a gift and I told mom that I was unwrapping a "King of the Hill" game....and sure enough 3 slides later..I was all smiles and holding up a "King of the Hill" box.
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Having leftovers tonight.
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lacey - I spent 12 weeks in a non-weight bearing cast and on crutches and one of the things that was most handy was an apron from the hardware store - the kind construction workers wear - it ties on around the waist with pockets. I could carry stuff around my house (with two sets of stairs!) and still have my hands free. Like this:
susan - DD is the same as your mom - IHAVETOEATNOW! She carries snacks for this reason. She will actually get dizzy if she doesn't eat even though there is no real blood sugar issue, and often it has not been that long since she last ate. BTW, she is ADD, without the H. We have been in DD's proximity twice in the last two weeks but have not spent quality time, although it is always good as a mom just to lay eyes on your child, right? She worked the boat show and had 10 hour days, came back to the hotel and we all sat around on the beds and chatted for a bit and then went to sleep. This weekend she spent 12 hour days in Sarasota filming a commercial for the boat builder and tackle companies, but did eat dinner with us each night. I am going up to see her and bring her the dog in a week and will have an opportunity to spend a few days and hang out with her more.
joyce - travel carefully and I hope you have no house issues. Congrats on your 47 years of marriage and 5 years being cancer free! Both are so great!
eric - maybe you need sugar depending on the peppers? Just guessing. Yay for your DD's cooking skills! I have all of my parents slides too - I asked for one of those slide converters for Christmas a couple of years ago - the one that converts slides to digital format since I don't have a projector. Have I started that project - no. How great that you were able to look at those slides with your mom and experience those memories together!
bedo - I try to wear pajamas all day if possible. Seriously.
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