So...whats for dinner?
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Yummy Lobsta roll with French fries and coleslaw for lunch! Real lobster made in the restaurant, and my friend, Trish is doing so well with her knee replacement went the "healthy" route with lobster salad on greens with iced tea by the sea.
Best to all.
I love summer.
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Wow, Susan! That is a lumberack's breakfast! I always loved cream of wheat as a kid.....and everything else on that menu, except for maybe the potatoes. And great throwback price!
Glad your friend is doing well, Bedo.
I got involved in some needed projects yesterday, and before I knew it, it was dinner time. I decided to defer making the eggplant in the fridge until today...and once again we ordered food. Please don't run me off the thread!
Balsamic salmon with asparagus and cauliflower mash, and that tasty crunchy salad with chicken, from Not Your Avg Joes. Except for their obscenely good bread and olive oil with parm and red pepper flakes, it was a healthy fairly light dinner. Made about a week's worth of smoothies yesterday (they look pretty in the Talenti gelato containers:), and brought some to a friend who is deciding about a blender purchase that will truly blend kale which her current one does not. My trusty Vitamix does, and I thought she'd want to try that out to be sure before investing (!) in that machine. I was happy that she loved my smoothie, and it passed the liquified kale test.
While I was at her house she showed me these little traps to catch food moths and clothes moths, which we both have seen in our homes. So I am trying one of each type trap. I have not seen these small moths for several years, but they arrived this Spring, and I am afraid that everything I own is going to be sporting holes!
Have a good Monday everyone!
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Sula, thanks for the pictures. Are the recipes on your blog?
All the meals sounds very good. I had two crispy, delicious soft-shelled crabs for dinner last night. Side was a house salad with blue cheese dressing and green beans.
The scales are up this morning telling me I need to go the "healthy" route this week.
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It has been a super quiet weekend - DD is out of town fishing in the Keys. I may have overdone a bit earlier in the week - my friend with sarcoma/mesothelioma had an emergency - we spent the day in the ER/ICU. He has completed initial rads to the lung and three chemos, but has now been diagnosed with brain mets with a bleed - that was the emergency. The plan is now for gamma knife, but I'm not sure what the plan is for chemo going forward. I had stitches removed from some areas on Mon., then the rest on Fri. Things are stable but now we wait to see if the skin stays closed. On Sat DH fended for himself and I curled up in bed with some soup. Last night was some prepared unsauced pulled pork, to which I added my own sauce, brown and wild rice with a little toasted sesame oil, and broccoli salad. Today I really need to grocery shop!
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leftover pork chops and whatever I want to throw together to go with it
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Cream of Wheat was one of the few things I could eat during chemo. My other childhood favorite cooked cereal was Ralston. Anyone else remember that? I haven't seen it anywhere except Vermont Country Store in a long time.
I went to a play yesterday afternoon and then we ate Katzs Deli. My first time there. YUM. Real NY rye & pastrami, and meatloaf & french dip & salmon on rice & rubens & milkshakes, and patty melts w/onions & mushrooms, and pot roast & potato pancakes & cabbage rolls, etc. I'll have to eat there at least 15 times to even try all the things I saw that wanted at first glance. Oh and breakfast 24/7 - bagels & blinzes and oh my... It's an easy stop on my way home from the medical center. Wish I'd known about it during the last 3 years. Jewish delis are a rarity in the South.
Oh Bedo - lobster!!! There's a place here that serves lobster rolls - Mainley Lobster. I was so excited, but sadly there's very little actual lobster on the roll for a ridiculously high price so I didn't make the long drive a 2nd time.
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Confession time:!)Carole, my weight went up 9 lbs in a couple of weeks--I'd like to blame the beans and braised lamb in wine sauce (don't look at the calories on that recipe)., but the 2 chocolate donuts every morning probably added to it too.
2) I have never tried or tasted Cream of wheat or any cooked cereal besides oatmeal.
3. I have never used a pressure cooker.
4) I had food moths once---I had come home from the Caribbean and brought home "spice baskets". Was told by the exterminator that this was the culprit, and also told not to keep tea and grain products very long--to only buy what I need as the"larvae" for the moths are frequently present in these products----UGHHHH
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Redhead - As a transplanted Southerner, I had never heard of bugs in the food. After having to throw out most everything in my cupboard 35 years ago, I keep everything sealed in Tupperware - cereals, flour, crackers, grains, teas, etc.
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I've had very good luck with the Safer sticky traps in the pantry. I haven't had a weevil or moth infestation since I've started using them. Red, it also helps to freeze those things to kill the little buggers before they hatch.
Haha Lacey, maybe I'd like kale smoothies better if they were disguised as gelato! Lacey, we wouldn't think of running you off, then we'd never hear about all of the delicious food you manage to find! As I said before, your carryout is far superior to my fix at home. Besides, the thread is "So . . .what's for dinner?" not "So. .. what are you fixing for dinner?"
Minus - love the deli menu! I'd hate to show you what passes for a bagel around here. I came across a recipe for homemade pastrami that I think I'm going to try. Susan, have you done this? Anybody?
Carole, Crab. Envy.
Sula, all your food looks good. Count me in on the cream of wheat lovers. Wish I had thought about it during chemo. Haven't had it since I was a kid.
I finally got the garden pics uploaded.
Things are growing, albeit slowly. So far, the critters are mostly eating flowers and not vegetable plants, although something did eat the two green tomatoes. Sigh. And Baby Bunny has been coming onto the front porch to eat my DH's "yard" shoes. Since when do rabbits like leather?
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Count me in on the Cream of Wheat peeps during chemo - it was good, bland, low sugar and fiber so not bad for the Big D, and it had protein. I recommend it to the chemo newbies
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Nance - beautiful garden. Funny about the bunny eating leather. Maybe he's licking the salt from the perspiration? I used to make corned beef when I lived in a colder climate but never pastrami.
Special - I also added protein powder that MD Anderson recommends to the Cream of Wheat. That and watermelon are about the only things I ate for 6 months.
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Yes, I have made pastrami. It was delicious, though time-consuming. Somehow I have never done it again. Not sure why though since I do love it. I used the Ruhlman recipe. We used the grill method for smoking.
http://blog.ruhlman.com/2011/09/how-to-make-pastra...
Dinner was the stew with some polenta and lightly steamed spinach. There is enough left for at least 3 more servings, maybe four.
I never even considered Cream of Wheat during chemo! I did have oatmeal as my 2 oz, 8 o'clock morning meal each morning. Not sure I would ever have the energy to manage my food intake like that again.
*susan*
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I think I tasted cream of wheat at some point but didn't like it. No texture and bland taste. Stated by someone who loves grits!
I don't have a pressure cooker, either, but I owned one years ago when dh and I lived on a sailboat. I cooked cheap things like tongue and tough cuts of beef. Since Nance and Susan are both using pressure cookers, it wouldn't surprise me if I bought one!
Nance, your garden is beautiful. You and your dh did a great job creating it.
I am sporting a round Band-Aid on either cheek after a visit to the dermatologist today. Two biopsies.
SpecialK, fingers crossed that healing occurs for you. Very sorry about your friend. I'm sorry but I don't believe everything happens for a good reason. Some crappy things happen to great people.
Minus, I'm so glad you're enjoying food after all those months of nausea and inability to enjoy flavors.
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SpecialK,
you are right! I practically lived on oatmeal during my 12 weeks on taxol. For some reason it hit the spot. My taste buds were kaput and oatmeal was fine by me. I normally love oatmeal, but haven't had any in the 2 months since my final chemo
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Oooo Nance, garden porn. Sorry if I've offended anyone. Love the lavender. Mine is just beginning to be satisfying. Picked some kale today and catnip. The cat gateway drug. I took a video of my kitty acting insane but sorry I can't post it.
Minus. So sorry you don't have affordable lobster. We are buying them ourselves this weekend to make more lobster salad. Some places in Maine you see people selling them on the side of the road like corn and just buy and eat in car.
Cream of wheat. I never understood that. When I lived in Atlanta I thought grits were cream of wheat, but they are not, but maybe those on chemo would like them too?
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Carole - I had to laugh about the grits comment. Some people eat Cream of Wheat w/maple syrup but I like it with butter & salt - and (confession) a touch of heavy cream.
Bedo - we love any comments you make. You perk up this thread. Are you still thinking about a teeny weeny trailer down the line?
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Bedo, offend? In what way? Pshaw!!!! You are you, and this is the perfect place to be just that!
Cream of Wheat is totally different than grits. I can not stand grits. Yet, I love polenta. I love Cream of Wheat and Oatmeal. I love Wheatina which is a hot cereal that seems to be missing these days. Well, I haven't found a box of Wheatina in over 20 years at least. The Neighborhood cooks their Cream of Wheat with some kind of crack. They claim there is no cream or milk, but I am not sure I believe them. I am pretty sure there is sugar and cinnamon. If you could order just a bowl of the Cream of Wheat, I might stop in during my morning walk.
Pressure cookers. For me, this is the best way to prepare beans. I also use it to make Dal Makhani, an Indian black lentil dish which needs a long time to cook. The Indian women at my local market swear that this is the only way to make the dish. I have made it the old fashioned way, but it isn't any better, so pressure cooker it is! I really should try some other items in the beast. Suggestions?
*susan*
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I only like grits with lots of cheese. Same with polenta. What about malt-o-meal, what was that? My southern great grandmother used to make cream of wheat or a soupy sugary rice concoction for me for breakfast when I was a kid. I can still taste them.
Susan, I pretty much use the pressure cooker for meats but I plan to make beans in it the next time I make them. I've been really pleased with the meat dishes.
Bedo, now I have lobster envy! The blue stuff is actually nepeta (catmint). I wish it was lavender. If I cut the nepeta back, it will rebloom which is nice. The bees love it. I used to grow catnip but the neighbor's cat would come over and eat the plants to the ground as soon as it came up!
We saw the doe and her fawn again this evening, we were a little worried because we hadn't seen them for a while. Baby's getting bigger but he's still nursing. Awwww.
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Carole, hope you and Special heal fast and that your biopsies are benign.
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Nance I love the picket fence in your garden plots! So cool! Maybe the bunny is just cutting teeth on your hubby's shoes, is he a little bunny?0 -
Dinner was spaghetti and (jar) meatsauce at a campsite in Bluff, UT. Sharon, DD and I are driving to upstate New York.
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Nance, what a great garden...tho you seem to have a kinder attitude towards your chomping animal neighbors than I would.
We had a ton of work done on our property today, and sadly had a huge, very very old rhody removed, since it was being strangled by several vines. So now there is a really large bare spit to be dealt with...a garden would be nice, but aside from the animals, we will hardly be here in July to care for it, so a fast prep and planting job would be wasted effort...even the animals would probably be disappointed by dried up plantlings.
No moths in my little traps so far...hmmmmm. I think the ones here are clothes moths, which might not be AS gross, but are certainly annoying, and worrisome to find little holes in sweaters.
My DH (a former New Yorker) loves Katz's Deli, and last year ordered salami for holiday gifts for anyone he thought felt the same. I'm not really a big fan of such food.....tho I will be making my sweet and sour red cabbage soup, which I didn't get to last week.. Maybe tomorrow.....I did actually cook for this evening. Bet I can do it again!
Made eggplant parm, spaghetti squash with a nice maranara sauce, and an arugula salad with lots of other stuff in it. After stretching class we were both pretty starved, so it hit the spot.
Special, glad your friend has your support during this time. I also hope you are taking good care of yourself, despite your devoted caring and energy for others.
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Also chiming in for benign biopsy results, Carole.
Eric...cute camping pic....have a great trip! Is that your favorite caste iron dutch oven going to NY with you??
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Eric - I looked up Bluff, UT. You are exactly in the middle of nowhere. I kept having to zoom out to even find another city. When will you turn East? Are you going to visit friends or is this just a road trip? Hope the weather gods are with you.
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Red, yep he's just a baby.
Eric, I love Utah, but gone are the days when I could sleep on an air mattress in a tent.
Lacey, you've never witnessed me shrieking like a mad woman chasing squirrels and groundhogs with my bb gun lol!
Today will not be a fun day. DH's oldest sister is in the cardiac intensive care unit in the city with a failing heart. All of his siblings will be there and I expect it will be quite emotional. DBIL and DSIL are staying with us. Still, there are meals to be made and we're starting with a frittata this morning.
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Nance - my thought will be with you & your family today.
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Nance,
Oh I am so sorry to hear your news. I hope that having the family all together gives all of you the support that you need.
*susan*
p.s. I want a video of the bb gun squirrel confrontations!
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http://www.thecolorsofindiancooking.com/2012/02/dal-makhani-2-dals-8-hours-one-slow.html?m=1
Susan, up above is a link to a Dal Makhani recipe from my blog made in a slow cooker
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Oh Nance, so sorry to hear that sad news. Holding you and DH in my thoughts today. Glad for all in your house that they can start such an emotionally painful day with your culinary nurturance. Hugs......
I'd like to see a video of that confrontation, too!
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Lacey,
It appears that we ordered many of the "right" items, according to Ms. First.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/food-dining/2...
*susan*
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