So...whats for dinner?
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Red, by all means, grill the kabobs. They are delicious, just don't overcook them. Rare to med rare is best. Moroccan seasoning is most often ras el hanout, a blend of spices that includes cardamom, cumin, nutmeg, cloves, and lots of others. It is delicious and I love it with lamb. Za'atar is another that is sumac based.
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Red, check out this ras el hanout description with wonderful pix:
http://www.food.com/recipe/ras-el-hanout-moroccan-...
Nance, do you use this spice with your tagine meals
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I do, among other things. Great on roast chicken with lemon.
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Yes, that sounds great, Nance! Always looking for waysto liven up chicken!
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Red, you've received some good answers from Nance and Lacey. I have a cast iron grill pan to use on top of the stove, plus another grill pan that covers two burners. I think I've used the big one once or twice. I didn't like cleaning it, plus I don't like to create a lot of grill smoke in my kitchen even though I have a good exhaust hood. You could probably cook the kabobs under the broiler, too. I'm gearing up to cook a lamb dish with dried apricots or dates.
Moroccan and middle-eastern cooking have definitely gone mainstream. Rachel Ray was cooking a lamb tagine-style dish on her food network show today.
We're having red snapper out of the freezer (recently bought 2 filets and cooked one) and cauliflower. Will look up recipes for the cauliflower. Also a tossed salad.
Our rain gauge is showing almost 5 inches of rain for this week so far and it's supposed to rain through Sat. Looks like a rain forest outside with all the greenery visibly growing.
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inside the pyramid of the Louvre.
Notre Dame from an angle
a boat.
Really takes forever to upload photos on this wifi and this website... might not get as many up as I had hoped. Enjoy!
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Thanks Susan, love them!0
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Susan - even one photo every couple of days would be a treat. It looks like such fun. Thanks for thinking of us.
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susan - how is the weather? People looked not too bundled up, but still wearing light jackets. Great pics, hope you are having fun!
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Susan what fun pics!
Red, i put kabobs in my for men grill. Might work for the lamb
Much love to all.
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Boy, those pix bring me right back to our visit a few years ago. So wonderful! Thanks Susan! But please don't make it end up being work for you. As Minus said, we'd appreciate you thinking of us once every few days.
This afternoon we drove out to a mall to get DH some shoes and found some other great clothing buys for him. So satisfying to have a successful shopping trip for him! We're not really frequent mall shoppers. We decided to eat out since we were near a very good Greek restaurant we've enjoyed before. I had a broiled fish sampler with broccoli and greek salad. DH ordered rack of lamb, and we shared, so we essentially had surf and turf. The lamb was plentiful, tender, and perfectly cooked.....great meal! We had Malbec wine...and ordered a dessert combo to take home that included baklava, that custard and phyllo pastry, and some little fried dough things that are covered in honey, cinnamon and walnuts. Well, as we watched the Celts and Red Sox we managed to polish off all of them! Gym in the AM for sure!
So two nights of no cooking for me, then tomorrow DH is not home for dinner, and Thursday we go to the "Big Night" dinner event at LaMorra. Never got to the food store today...so tomorrow AM our coffee will be laced with shelf stable almond milk.
I'm on kind of a food prep vacay, I guess. 0 -
Food prep vacay sounds good to me, Lacey.
Thanks, Susan, for sharing Paris with us! But don't use up a lot of precious time doing it.
Moon, I had one of those Foreman grills and gave it away. It worked fine but took up room and I didn't use it much.
Houseguests arrive tomorrow afternoon. DH's sister and her dh who are on their way home to IL after spending the winter at their FL condo near Marco Island. They're detouring to visit us a few days.
Joyce, I was wondering if this rain pattern was making it to the FL peninsula. I guess not.
It's not raining yet this morning but the likelihood is 70 per cent today and tomorrow and 80 per cent Friday. Clearing is promised on Sunday. I'm planning a Walmart trip this morning with a list in hand. Some diet considerations for SIL and BIL. She is low salt or no salt and he is diabetic.
It's probably the weather contributing to my "blah" mood. No menu coming to mind for dinner. Rotisserie chicken sounds like a possibility.
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Carole...willing some sunshine your way! Given your enjoyment of the links, I can see how a whole week of rain would leave you feeling "blah". Try a food prep vacay today before your company arrives....maybe "boat over" to a local restaurant for a poboy (sp?). Our recent spontaneous dinners out definitely felt like a good break. Our weather has suddenly improved....to the point that I can finally say....
GOODBYE WINTER OF 2015!!!!! Tho there are still snowpiles under our hemlocks in the front yard. Hope you don't have to see any when you return North, Joyce.
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Spring! A park near Musée Picasso, which we both enjoyed tremendously. *susan*
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Lacey, thank you for the sunshine! We got a break from the rain today and did have intermittent sunshine. It has just started to rumble and rain lightly. A New Orleans weatherman on the tv screen is warning commuters about golf-ball size hail on the south shore, the New Orleans side of Lake Pontchartrain.
I can imagine that it's good not to have everything covered with snow.
We won't be going out for dinner but I am making it easy on myself. I bought a rotisserie chicken at Sam's Club and found uncooked corn tortillas at Walmart. Leftover red beans will be converted to refried beans. I'll make some quacamole, cut up some chicken, heat the tortillas on a cast iron griddle, open up a jar of red salsa and the jar of Frontera green salsa, get out the carton of sour cream and we'll build our own soft tacos. I also bought some Mexican cheese today.
V-8 has a Healthy Greens bottled juice on the shelves. It's an unappetizing green color. I bought a bottle just for the heck of it.
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Carole: Looking forward to a report on the Healthy Greens juice. If it tastes OK and the sodium isn't too high, I guess I could close my eyes while I'm drinking it. Or mix with standard V-8, which I do love.
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Sounds like a great meal Carole. I love having a rotisserie chicken -- so much you can do with it. Your Greek meal sounded wonderful too Lacey. The only Greek available around here is if I make it. I don't even think St. Louis has more than a couple (restaurants, not Greeks.) When I was a kid, my parents had some friends -- the guy was Greek and his wife was Italian. Oh the meals we had at their house! And the baklava!
Speaking of hail, we had marble to golf ball size last week. We just discovered that because of it, every upstairs screen has holes in it. Ten screens in all. Another spring project, sigh . . .
I'm grilling a giant Costco pork steak. We'll have it with some more corn on the cob and grilled asparagus.
Susan, beautiful picture! Are the blue flowers nepeta (catmint)?
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Dinner tonight was from a local campus institution "Avanti's" Pizza burger with a small side salad to go.....Basically a meatball sub with melted mozzarella and red sauce...
Went to Women's health night last night--Illinois Heart and Lung puts this event on every year in our community. Kind of like a Women's expo with lots of venders offering give aways and info and a key note speaker, etc. So both hospitals were there doing heel tests for bone desnisty. Went to one booth and they said either heel will work. So I did my right heel. was still osteopenic at -1.7 Then on theo pposite side of the room was the other hospital doing same thing, so I said to my buddy--should I see ifthey match and she said sure. So I went in their booth and was asked-which is your dominant hand. My right. Then give us your left heel, as we bear slightly more weight on the dominant side, so we always measure the weaker side Got a -1.9 on the left heel..... at least it was still in the middle of osteopenic.
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Yes, susan, beautiful pic! Brightens my mood just looking at it...and remembering my trip to that museum. But we were there in February...no gorgeous flowers then! This looks like a perfect time to enjoy Paris!
I just took a long fast walk listening to the Black Eyed Peas for cadence! Stopped at the store for some kale and mushrooms, and will make my favorite healthy sort of dinner, kale, onion, mushrooms, red peppers with poached or sunny side egg on top. Certainly have to say that your dinners, Carole and Nance, sound so much better...but I do love this weird little combo.
Just had a call from my SIL. She and Db are returning from his EMG, and learned that he does NoT have ALS, which I did not even know was a possibility. Glad I did not know! Another layer of needless worry. But they think he does have the long term effects from agent orange...all that time in the jungle in VietNam, which I always wondered about. He's such a stoic he would never have attributed any symptoms of anything to his war experience. I expect that many war vets are like that.
Well, it is getting later and later, and I need to get to my kale concoction...for some reason I am not the least bit hungry...but could use the vitamins.
Oh, Carole, wonder if you might be able to turn the V-8 drink red if you added half a beet to it, or raspberries and strawberries?
Tomorrow....BIg Night!
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Lacey, I think your "concoction" sounds delightful.
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I had missed Susan's picture since we were posting at the same time. Glad it was mentioned. I went back and found it.
The corn tortillas were quite good. I still like my home-made ones better, but it was easy just taking them out of the package.
Nancy, our BIL who will be arriving tomorrow is from St. Louis, where the pork steaks are very popular. He cooked some on the grill the last time we visited them in IL and the steaks were really good. He cooks them slowly and they get very tender and are juicy. I see them occasionally here.
I will probably do a shrimp scampi dish for dinner tomorrow night. It goes together easily when the ingredients are all prepped in advance. I'll toss the shrimp and butter garlic lemon sauce with linguini and have grated Pecorino Romano for lavish sprinkling. It has become my favorite Italian cheese, edging out Asiago.
Minus, I'll let you know how the green V-8 tastes.
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All the dinners sound yummy. Today was just soup and grilled cheese. My soup was V8 juice heated up. I used to drink it all the time like that at work fir lunch. Add a bit of hot sauce too. I don't know why I love it but I do. My eye is doing great and I'm able to drive again.
Much love to all.
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Moon - I like warmed V-8 too. How's your eye doing?
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Moon, great that you are back on wheels with benefit of two eyes!
Never even saw a pirk ateak....sounds tasty the way you descrobed it, Carole
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Oh wow! This looks right up your alley, Nance:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/15/cruffin-r...
Just saw it on Facebook, and can picture you making these at your pastry station!
This morning as I was heading to my Kindergarten class, I ran into a young mother I know. She commented on how we must have had our property clean up done already since our corner looks so good....NOT! But it is amazing how much better everyone's lawn and bushes look without ten foot (gray) snow mounds covering them. It's all perspective and relativity I suppose. Meanwhile, it's a bit overwhelming to think of all the work that awaits us to actually clean up this corner and be ready for summer. Maybe the condo discussion really has to happen.....
Off to do my next class...then to get ready for the Big Night dinner. If I remember and it isn't to offensive to others, I'll try to sneak a few pix in. The risotto they make has a beautiful presentation
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Wow Lacey, these look very doable. Can't wait to try them. I'll keep you posted. Thanks!
Tonight is baked sausage ravioli and a salad for dh, a sauteed artichoke for me.
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Lunch at Guy Savoy was everything you could ever hope for. I didn't take pictures.... but life has looked better ever since I have eaten his artichoke, mushroom, with black truffle soup.
*susan*
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susan - yay! Glad it was what you hoped for!
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All hail Guy Savoy!
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Moon - I can't believe I asked you how your eye was doing right after the post when you reported progress. Oh well, some days I'm smarter than others. Glad you're healing well.
I defrosted my small upright freezer in the garage this afternoon I used to do this every year but it had not been done since BC diagnosis. (hmmm, 4 years). I've spent the last several weeks tossing things that were way too old & eating what I could so there wasn't too much to pack in coolers. But ice on the top was at least 3" thick. Even w/a hairdryer in addition to my pans of boiling water, it took over 2 hours. Never again!!
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