So...whats for dinner?
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You go Bedo! Keep right on acting "ugly"! It's not as if we don't do enough self blaming when we're first diagnosed. You know, "if only I hadn't done this", "if only I had done that". I'm sure it goes through all of our minds at first. Carole is right, people are desperate to believe that it can't happen to them.
I was given some blue cheese from Wisconsin, so I'm making the blue cheese dressing that Carole posted. We'll have it tomorrow night on a dinner steak salad. Today, I'm making navy beans in the pressure cooker. Very anxious to see how that turns out. In addition, I've made the base for some cherry ice cream that I'll make a little later.
Your celebratory dinner sounds like a success in spite of the fails Susan, I'm sure the boy appreciated it.
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susan - I love the roasted lemony Greek potatoes - like these, with lamb - or pretty much anything. I think cole slaw would still work or you could maybe sauté the cabbage with the same spices as your lamb, or something complementary?
http://www.food.com/recipe/greek-potatoes-oven-roasted-and-delicious-87782
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Susan and Carole,
I'm with you. A friend of mine who was diagnosed last year was at a dinner party, and someone mentioned that she had had breast cancer and one woman muttered, "I'm glad I don't sit on my anger" let me tell you she would have had a hard time sitting on anything if she'd said that to me.
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I'm sipping dinner, a delicious decaf cappuccino. I made one for each of us and dh had a slice of carrot cake with his. It's a bought carrot cake, a late birthday cake for him. I had a slice (or two or more?) for dessert after noon dinner at my mother's house.
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Sula, I am not particularly violent, and I might have to slap that woman upside the head, as my father in law used to say.
Dinner was great! I made the lamb burgers with lots of herbs from the garden with a bit of feta cheese in the middle. I then made a tomato-onion-feta salad with a gentle Greek vinegar and a yogurt-garlic raita type thing with lemon juice and tons of dill from the garden. The yogurt mixture was eaten with the burger, and I also put out a ton of cucumber and breakfast radish slices for dipping. I pulled a Lebanese flatbread out of the freezer to complete the meal. Love all the fresh options of late Spring.
*susan*
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AMEN
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Carole, we too just finished some carrot cake. Glad it was a very small cake since it is waaaay to tempting!
We ate dinner at a restaurant near Fenway after the game. DH had some muscles cooked in a beer broth, then we both had chicken club sandwiches with fries (really!). We each took half of our sandwiches home for tomorrow.
Susan that lamburger dinner sounds mouthwatering!! And yes, spring garden offerings are so wonderful
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Lacey, Lunch in the bag! Brilliant.
Mr. 02143 has a lamb burger for lunch tomorrow which means I get to have soup! The stock is all happy in the fridge. Today's batch was HUGE!!!!!
*susan*
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I made thin pork chops dredged in corn starch and marinated in a mixture of organic soy, sesame oil and garlic. Had oven roasted potatoes and a medley of asparagus, red pepper and red onion sautéed. DD and her friend were on their way to the spring fed river this morning to snorkel and boat but were in an accident with an elderly gentleman (his fault) so the boat and trailer had to come an hour home on a flatbed, boat is OK, trailer not so much. They decided to snorkel in the pool and had fun playing in the pool with the dog.
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SpecialK, glad DD and friend were not injured in the accident.
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carole - thanks, me too! DD was pretty calm during the numerous phone calls home, and she was worried about the elderly man who hit her. She did some evasive moves or her new SUV, the trailer and the boat would have been hit. The man was cited and has insurance so this will all be ok for her, but she felt bad for him. She said he was shaking and very apologetic. He didn't have a cell phone so she made some calls for him. As her mom, once I knew she was fine I was proud of her empathy toward him and that she didn't get mad that her property was damaged and her day's activities had to change - signs of maturity - yay!
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Special, it sounds like DD handled the accident and herself with responsibility and grace. Definitely a daughter to be proud of! Glad she is fine and was able to have some fun once home. Do some drivers NOT carry insurance? Yikes!
Rainy day here so no excuse to ignore indoor tasks any longer! Am trying to get out of the fog I feel after taking a melatonin last night. I thought it would help me not awaken in the middle of the night (it didn't), and feel more rested (I don't). Not sure if it would make sense to try it one more time tonight......I would love to improve my sleep mainly to preserve my brain function!
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lacey - here in FL lots and lots of drivers are uninsured, up to about 40%. It is illegal, but it is a fact. It is one of the reasons our rates are so high, and people are fools if they don't have uninsured motorist coverage. Personal injury lawsuits are ridiculous here and the majority of people involved in accidents retain attorneys and sue for all they can - it is a serious flaw in the law here and a secondary reason rates are so high. In Virginia I was paying about $400/month for two adults and two teenagers, we came here and the amount doubled, I almost fell over. We have no fault coverage here and many people have what they call 10/20/10 meaning they only need minimal coverage. If someone hits you, they being at fault, with that coverage and you have a new car, or there are multiple cars, they won't have enough coverage to pay for everything - so your uninsured motorist becomes "underinsured" motorist coverage. And, again, rates go up. It is a broken system.
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Found this really MOTIVATING fb page for us survivors....Follow it!
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Thanks, Alibeth.
Skirt steak thawing. Thinking of making beef and broccoli with soba noodles using a recipe from Epicurious that I used once before with success. Broccoli on hand that needs to be cooked. The neat thing about soba noodles is that they can be cooked in advance and are sturdy noodles. Tasty, too.
The 5th wheel camper is parked outside the house now and the many, many trips back and forth can commence as we prepare for the journey north. Seems like it wasn't that long ago that we returned home last Oct. The swift passage of time is especially scary at this elderly stage of life.
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The food education continues! Just googled dan dan noodles, thinking it was a certain type of noodle. Only to discover that it's the name of a dish, the origin of the name coming from the pole that vendors in China balanced on their shoulders with a pot of noodles at one end and a pot of chili sauce at the other end. That evokes a vivid picture for me and makes me rather curious to try the dish. But there are umpteen versions with different ingredients.
Susan, have you ever looked at Alton Brown's recipe? It has a lot of peanut butter in the sauce.
Luv, where are you these days? Are you busy rescuing the goats from floods? We miss you.
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Dan dan noodles have NO PEANUT BUTTER. Ever!
Here is Dunlop's recipe which is pretty darn authentic: http://uktv.co.uk/food/recipe/aid/516692
The hardest part of this dish is finding the Tianjin preserved vegetables. They come in a crock and if you rinse them properly bring such a wonderful depth of flavor to any dish. In actual fact almost any noodle will do, but fresh Chinese ones are obviously best. You will have to find an Asian market since I don't see these vegetables on amazon.
*susan*
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p.s. my goodness.... just read Alton Brown's recipe. That is not even remotely a Chinese dish, though it might be slightly Thai. But Then you get to the Ramen noodles, which is Japanese. And there is no pork! Avoid this recipe, unless what you enjoy is peanut noodles. :-)
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Thanks, Susan.
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Just finished a mini weeding tour of the (Fort Knox) garden. In spite of the nearly inch a day rainfall, things besides weeds are actually growing and producing! I spied a half dozen tiny yellow squashes, some teeny French filet beans, a two inch long jalapeno, one small purple and one small Italian pepper and several tomatoes, the largest of which is tennis ball sized. I even picked a few yellow cherry tomatoes for tonight's salad. Can't wait!
Tonight is a giant salad with grilled steak and the blue cheese dressing. I had enough to make both Susan's and Carole's recipes. My guess is we'll like them both. I wish I had some baby potatoes to put in the salad, Nicoise style, but I don't think I probably have any yet. I don't think they've bloomed yet, but it's hard to tell -- the deer have eaten the tops off the plants.
The pressure cooker beans were a great success. They cooked for 3 minutes! Although the whole process probably took a half hour, not including soaking, it was amazing. I learned several things in the process. One, the smokiness of the ham hock I used was intensified and two, the flavors of the dried herbs I used disappeared so perhaps they should be added afterwards. I usually use a ham bone instead of a ham hock so it may be I'm not used to the smoky taste in this particular dish. Carole - you cook lots of beans too -- you have to try this! I'm going to try Cuban black beans next time.
Friday, I'm meeting with a Certified Diabetes Educator to fine tune my insulin regimen. Prior to that meeting, she wants me to write down everything I eat. Nothing like recording every single morsel that goes into your mouth to keep you honest! I'm having a severe case of acid reflux today, so I'm being cautious about what I'm eating anyway and drinking lots and lots of water. Ugh. Shades of chemo.
SK - glad your girl is ok and it's sweet that she had such empathy for the other driver. She is certainly your daughter!
And in today's Nature Report, yesterday we spotted another mama deer with twins! Not really unusual, but the first we've seen this year. So many mouths to feed, it's a good thing I'm not the only one with a garden around here lol! All the baby birds have hatched. The only ones not fledged are the house finches in the hanging fern. I'll be glad when they're gone so I can trim the bushes next to the porch. I've put it off so as not to disturb all the bird families with the noisy hedge trimmer but they're getting a little wild. Baby bunny keeps working on DH's shoes. He comes several times a day to dine. Both laces and tongues of the shoes are gone and he's now working on the front of the left shoe. It's humorous to watch, he tears into it like he's eating a steak! And then there was this to greet me as I was coming in:
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Now, for peanut noodles, I love this dish. I have posted before, so it might be "old" hat.
Cold Sesame Needles
YIELD
6 servings
ACTIVE TIME
15 minutes
CATEGORIES
noodles, sesame, chinese
INGREDIENTS
- 1/2 pound Chinese egg noodles, vermicelli or angel hair pasta
Dressing
- 2 scallions, trimmed and chipped, including green
- 1/2 cup vegetable or chicken broth [Sarah uses pasta cooking water]
- 1/4 cup smooth peanut butter, preferably sugar and salt free [Sarah grinds 3/4 cup unsalted roasted peanuts]
- 1/4 cup rice vinegar or cider vinegar
- 1/2 cup low-sodium soy sauce [Sarah uses 1/4 cup]
- 2 teaspoons roasted sesame oil
Other
- And some or all of the following:
- 1 cucumber, peeled, seeded and diced
- 1 cup sliced radishes
- 1 bunch scallions, trimmed and cit in thin rounds, including most of the green
- 1 cup bean sprouts
- 1 carrot, shredded
- 1 cup snow peas
- 1/2 cup chopped cilantro
- 1/4 cup toasted sesame seeds
INSTRUCTIONS
- Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add the noodles and boil for 3 to 4 minutes, until tender. Drain in a colander, then cool under running cold water. Shake noodles dry and transfer to a large, shallow bowl.
- Blend all the dressing ingredients in a blender or food processor. Pour over the noodles, turning until completely mixed.
- Add any or all of the remaining ingredients, mix well and serve. Or cover and chill and mix in the additions right before serving.
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Thank you for the recipe Susan, although it's doubtful I'll ever find the preserved vegetables. One recipe I have used calls for some tahini, which I expect has been Americanized. Alton's recipe doesn't have pork?? Interesting.
Carole - I make that soba noodle recipe too. In fact, since I have two steaks, I think I'll save one for that dish since I still have some pak choi from my friend. I really need to get to the Asian market since I dropped my dark soy sauce onto the tile floor.
DH is making noises about visiting the Gulf Coast in August. I'm sorry you'll still be in Minnesota -- we owe you lunch!
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alibeth thanks for the link.Walked this am. at the lake and for the first time I saw a snake also--just his tail end, but he was a great big black one. I had stepped off the trail to look at a tall yellow wildflower (I don't think it's mustard, but it had branches and lots of tiny yellow blooms) and I heard something in the underbrush next to me, thought it was a skunk or a possum and I saw the back of a black snake gliding into the weeds. Let me tell you I shifted into reverse pretty quick.....
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auntie - thanks for saying that, you are sweet! Sorry about the snake! Regular occurrence around here!
The sesame noodles recipe is very similar to mine - I sub almond or cashew butter for the peanut butter, and omit the sprouts - I am a non-sprout person. I have served this room temp or chilled, and I have made it for a bunch - it is a good dish for large groups.
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SpecialK - I love Greek Lemon potatoes...I have a similar recipe that I just made last night - has lemon, garlic, rosemary, capers, olive oil and potatoes with chicken. I will have to try your recipe. Looks like alot less work than what I made last night!!
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thinking - I love them too! When I lived in the Washington, D.C. area there was a roast chicken place - not part of a chain or anything. They had roast chicken, but everything else was Greek - great salads and those awesome potatoes. That is how I got hooked on them! Early one morning I was returning DVDs to Blockbuster and noticed that the chicken place looked really smoky inside - I ended up calling the fire department because I was worried about fire and that there might have been someone inside - an employee had left chickens in the oven with it on overnight! It was a bit comical when the fully garbed firefighter, complete with oxygen on, carried out a pan of smoking charred chickens. The owner showed up and told me I was entitled to free food for life! Too bad we moved away, lol!
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SpecialK - thats really funny! too bad you moved! I had gone to a Greek Restaurant a few years ago and that's where I first had the lemon potatoes. Never tried to make them at home until I saw this recipe in a magazine for Chicken and Potatoes with Lemon. So I tried and it was just as good.
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Greek lemon potatoes sounds really good. I'll have to make a mental note to cook that. Thinking Positive, do you have a link for your recipe?
Nance, I'm sorry we will miss your trip to the Gulf Coast but August weather is the pits. It's as bad as June, July, and September! LOL! Glad you're starting to see veggies growing in your garden. That is so rewarding. I walked (hobbled) out to our neighbor's blueberry bushes today and snacked on ripe berries. These folks just stick bushes and plants in the ground and it all grows. I have been amazed at their success. While I was helping myself to the blueberries, a bird flew to a nearby bush and grabbed a berry and flew off.
Susan, that peanut noodle salad sounds good.
I don't own a pressure cooker. I remember that Susan's has two pots of different sizes. What brand do you own, Nance?
We had black runner snakes come across our yard when I was a kid. Once I stepped on one with my bare foot. It felt cool. Of course, I was traumatized. They're harmless.
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carolhalston, no I don't. I cut it out of a magazine..but I will type it up for you and post it.
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carolhalston...here it is..found it online. ( I made it with skinless chicken breasts and thighs)
Lemon-Rosemary-Garlic Chicken and Potatoes
Nicknamed "Anytime Chicken" by Test Kitchen Specialist Vanessa McNeil Rocchio, this winner of a chicken dinner is our new favorite roasting-pan supper for weeknights or easy entertaining with friends.- Yield: Makes 6 servings
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
- 1 (3.5-oz.) jar capers, drained
- 2 lemons, sliced
- 10 garlic cloves, smashed
- 3 tablespoons fresh rosemary leaves
- 2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 6 chicken legs (about 1 1/2 lb.)
- 4 skin-on, bone-in chicken thighs (about 2 1/2 lb.)
- 2 pounds small red potatoes
- Crusty French bread
Preparation
1. Preheat oven to 450°. Stir together first 8 ingredients in a medium bowl.
2. Place a roasting pan on stove top over 2 burners. Add 3 Tbsp. olive oil, and heat over medium-high heat. Sprinkle chicken with desired amount of salt and pepper; place, skin sides down, in pan. Add potatoes. Cook 9 to 10 minutes or until chicken is browned. Turn chicken, and pour lemon mixture over chicken.
3. Bake at 450° for 45 to 50 minutes or until chicken is done. Serve chicken with sauce and French bread.
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