So...whats for dinner?
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Oh good
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I was having the same issues but was able to post on my phone. Glad it wasn't just me.
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Lacey, I knew you could make ricotta, but unlike creme freche (which I make often), it's readily available even here. I had never knowingly tasted anyone's homemade so just didn't know how good it is and assumed it wasn't worth the effort. Silly me!
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At BWI airport... HOMEWARD BOUND!!!!!
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Eric - Hooray. I know you're more than ready. Susan - I don't like technology to win either so I'm quickly checking before I head to water aerobics. Bedo - my post last night that wouldn't work was to count me in for the road trip. I'd come visit even if you move to St. Louis - or Montana.
If I use preview pane & go back a page, the thread get's stuck there. Had to close the thread, loose my post and start over. Can't use 'back to top". Backspace only sometimes works.
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My best friend from High School is coming to visit today. We lost touch sometime back in the mid-late 80's but with the miracle of social media, found each other again last summer. We had a wonderful day together while she was East visiting her Mother. Her annual pilgrimage to see Mom is this week, so she is stopping by the house with her husband for a quick lunch.
We made Paté Brisee, and then I cooked some leeks and this all has turned into a leek and goat cheese quiche. I then made my green bean salad with haricot vert, orange rind, hazelnut oil, and tons of chives. One of my favorites for make-ahead. A quick trip to the farmer's market and I have a large salad of local lettuces with carrots, spring onions, and tomatoes [not local]. I poached some wild caught salmon and have a mustard sauce and bracing cucumber salad to compliment. I totally forgot to make a bunch of drinks, so selection of sweet tea, no sweet tea, and Somerville's finest tap water. No dessert either. Just ran out of time. As it was, I didn't crawl into bed last night until almost 1am which is WAY past my bedtime.
Yup. Over did again!
*susan*
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Susan, that's an awesome lunch! Enjoy your visit.
Eric, welcome home!
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You can go to any page by going to URL and change the last # which is the page #. Just for grins I tried going backward/forward and I couldn't and I'm on PC with Firefox so not just devices/phones.
Big shopping after very unsatisfying MO visit. Not sure what to make of this guy. Anyway DH and I shared a deli sandwich from Wally World for dinner last night. DD voted for hamburgers so we are having those when DH gets home to grill. Have makings for fruit salad and bought 2 kinds of potato salad at Central Market. Also have some small portobello mushrooms, big cebolita onions and red/orange peppers to skewer. Thawed out some bulk frozen chicken breasts to do at the end for later tomorrow. Making what I call a cheesecake pie. We are all trying to diet but we need something sweet. It is pudding mix, cream cheese, supposed to be sour cream but I will sub vanilla yogurt for most of that in a graham crust. Birthday dinner sort of. I have good olive oil I can put on the skewers, anything else. I bought fresh dill thinking I might marinate them. Now I have to use up fresh dill which I never buy. Can you roast potatoes with dill?
MO tells me 10 years on Femara, we have never discussed time length. Boo Hiss. Discussed Prolia again and he has me coming in in 2 weeks for that BUT I think I've changed my mind. I think I should wait until my bone density in April to see what the Fosamax has done. I quiver to think what the Prolia co-pay will be if my insurance even will approve it. MO must be getting a cut for the Prolia he is so hot to go there. Otherwise same old I'll call you if anything is abnormal. PTL they have a patient portal so I can check my own abby-normals ha-ha.
Susan - I just found my frozen leeks. That quiche sounds amazing, I know not with my frozen leeks lol. Enjoy your lunch with your friend and I hope someone else in your family does your dishes tonight so you can rest.
No clue why this community cannot support a farmers' market. They've tried, even built a nice shed near the grocer. Grocer wouldn't lose that much business and might even draw in some. I went up the road to check at the meat market but local guy wasn't set up there today. I think he is mostly weekday. Was hoping for a local canteloupe. I saw him yesterday on way into town but didn't want to stop. County seat 20 miles south has a lovely 2-shed market.
TJ's doesn't have figs yet but CM did. $5.99/lb but very tiny ones. I bought 1/3# just enough to do me b4 they get too soft. CM guy agreed they were Calif. product so that explains delay and what I see as a shortage.
Yay Eric getting home again. Your trip is in those missing pages I still need to read.
Nancy/Red - did the rain tap finally turn off?
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Luv - it has not rained yesterday or today yet but there's a chance daily. Still a big improvement. I bought fresh figs at Global Foods the other day. They are tiny too, and usually they are not.
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Lacey - forgot to say, love the pic of your DH!
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Susan, your luncheon sounds absolutely wonderful! Glad (from Facebook note) it went well all around! Lovely....those kinds of relationship renewals are so precious.
Eric, you are probably home by now... engaged in many tasks as usual....with appreciative recipients! Thank you for your hard work and personal sacrifice for the greater good!
In contrast....this AM, DH and I got up really early to do some serious beaching on our first great summery day here (finally). We headed into Truro for coffee... Found that our former coffee spot was out of business, but next to it was a newer gourmet chocolatier and specialty coffee shop. Not really our thing, but it was a coffee option, and close to Head of the Meadow beach ( ha! took ten minutes to make the coffee!). Begore leaving, I took advantage of their speciality and bought three pieces of great chocolate covered English toffee...aka treakle?
Got to the beach by 10:30 and enjoyed a beautiful few hours there in full sun, so lathered ourselves a lot with #50 sunscreen. It paid off! Neither of us has a bit of burn!
We went to the Atlantic Spice Co on the way back and loaded up on spices (I think) I need.
So after swimming in the pool a bit, we decided to stay in for dinner, and eat food we could avoid taking home tomorrow. DH made himself a tuna sandwich using the Trader's yogurt dip with cilantro and chives,(we had no mayo). I ended up having chili lime chips and the yogurt dip! Too bad those chips weren't carrots! I dread getting on the scale! We had a fresh raspberry piece of pie for dessert. Heavenly!
Tomorrow we pack up and head home after another beach visit....back to reality! But probably not before a stop at one of the seafood places we often enjoy en route in Plymouth. So will end La Grande Bouffe!
Special, I hope you are back to enjoying AC after all of your effort!
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lacey- shockingly, we still have no AC in one half of the house. We thought everything was set but when the AC guy came in to turn it on at the thermostat we realized there was no fan. The part has to come from Miami and won't be here until Monday. Tonight I made turkey kielbasa with sautéed spicy cabbage with mashed potatoes, while simultaneously making and baking blueberry gallettes just so I could get out of there as fast as possible. I did have lunch out today with a former co-worker, single and 70, that I walked through treatment for breast cancer. She is retiring and moving to California to be closer to her daughter and granddaughter. I'm so happy for her and we had a nice time
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My lunch with my best friend [high school] and her husband was wonderful!!! The food was great, but that was besides the point. I had lost touch with J. years ago. I moved all over the country, and after the kid was born we saw each other once, and then I disappeared. She found me via LinkedIn last summer, so we spent one day together last year, and today, we had a shorter visit. Today was just a continuation, and gosh, I still really like her! 40 years later, and I marvel at how similar our life choices have been. Though I was not hungry, 8pm is pill time and I must have food in my stomach, so I ate some lunch leftovers just because I had to. That quiche was mighty good, and the french beans were delicious.
There is nothing like a "old" friend.
*susan*
p.s. We may have found "THE" place!!!
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ricotta seems to be on everyone's mind. I made a gluten free homemade ricotta strawberry tart with a strawberry balsamic glaze. We had friends over this evening and it's great to get back to entertaining again
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Suladog, that looks good. :-)
When I'm wanting read around in the thread while I'm posting, I open up a new tab and write the post in one while I'm skimming around in the other tab.
I'm still on east coast time. All but the 05July, I was getting up at 5:15am. This morning I got up at 2:10am and was wide awake. Rather than fight it, I got up and took care of my travel paperwork.
It used to be I could whip through the travel form process for a 2 week deployment in about 10 minutes. This, the first time I've used the new system, took about an hour and I'm sure something won't be correct. Hopefully familiarity will speed things back up.
I'm glad I can get back to cooking "normal" again. I ate out twice during the 14 day deployment and the rest of the time I cooked/prepared the rest of the meals out of the about $80 worth of groceries I bought at Walmart. So, this time "I ate the bear" (as in, "Sometimes I eat the bear and sometimes it eats me.") on the flat rate per diem. As expected, it is usually "the bear eats me", so this is a welcome change. :-)
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Luv, it rained here Saturday again, we were under storm watch and a town abut 6 miles over from me got 6 inches....I think I got another 4....sump pump not pumping, no water standing, but it is coming up from the cracks in the cement floor as the ground is so saturated. Predicting more today, Monday, Tues. plus extremely high heat and humidity. So far nothing and the wrens are singing in my backyard. My guess is the dew worms are all exposed in the garden.....maybe.....its like walking on a soaked sponge out there.
Actually went to Mass last night right in the middle of the rain and went this a.m. to a local spot and had a huge Mexican omelet with hash browns and rye toast and oodles of coffee. Found a small single beef roast at SAMS CLUB (yes, somebody must have screwed up packing it). So that is in the crock pot with Merlot, onions, garlic, celery and a whole package of carrots, as my dad's favorite veggie).
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I wrote a post last night and was unable to post it. I copied the text. Here it is.
Nance, the mustard didn't work for me. A song is coming to mind: "too old to cut the mustard any more!" Different mustard. I downed a couple of teaspoons of mustard one night after biking and still got leg cramps. I keep potassium supplements on hand and pop a couple of them. It also helps to rub the cramp with a Ben Gay type of salve like Reflex and slap hard with my hand. My father got cramps and I do, too. They are so painful when they hit.
Dinner tonight was fettucini bought by mistake. I meant to buy linguine. The sauce was home-made marinara (with Italian sausage) that was out of the freezer and the grated cheese was parm/reg. I made a pig of myself because the ratio of sauce to pasta was perfect for me. I don't like my pasta drowned in sauce. And I can enjoy pasta with no sauce heavily sprinkled with good Italian cheese. The salad was good, too. Romaine, diced tomato and cucumber, avocado and blue cheese with CA extra virgin olive oil and white balsamic. Garlic bread would have been great but we didn't have any. Our chubby bodies thank us!
Susan, that's great that you enjoyed the visit with the old friend and the food was all good.
Eric, glad you're back home and back to family life and cooking.
SpecialK, you've been without whole-house a/c for far too long.
Luv, I'm sure your time with DD will be a celebration.
Lacey, your vacation has been a foodie's delight!
Sula, what a beautiful tart.
Our lovely MN weather has turned into humid warmth, thanks to a south wind. I loaded up the laundry this morning and went to the Laundromat in town that I have used in past summers. First laundry since leaving home on June 26th. DH is outside working on additions to the deck he built the last couple of days. He's building a couple of tables in the outer corners and an L-shaped bench in one corner. I'll post a picture.
Dinner tonight will be leftover spaghetti with a little more sauce from a Rao jar. And a repeat of the salad, too. Tonight is a cocktail night. Yay! We are having a drink now on the average of every other night. And feeling SO virtuous!
Sorry if I missed responding and I'm sure I did.
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If I recall correctly, bananas have quite a bit of potassium.
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I read all your posts. I am supposed to be practicing. I told my teacher I don't like to and paid for a missed lesson this week because I didn't practice all week.. I've always just gotten by but I can't fool him so I'm going to practice scales after this. I told him practicing stinks, it's boring. He said "What is worse practicing or being boring and stinking at violin?" Good point
It is so hot. I am making more buttermilk cucumber soup and Nance's cod and little neck clams recipe (after I practice)
Minus you can come up here anytime. It's nice and cool in this little cabin attached to a 1700's house. I have a window unit which cools the whole room. I shut the bathroom and kitchen doors.
I'm going to go now. I'm procrastinating.
So glad you're all here.
Oh! I scored 4 pounds of local freshly caught bluefish at $7/pound. Pollock is on sale at $5/pound. I haven't bought it yet because everything I read says it's like cod but soft., the poor man's lobster, don't broil, it but there are no recipes on the web, so I don't want to buy it unless I know what to do with it. Thanks!
Added The blue fish is local, the Pollock is at the store the ad says wild all natural, which I know means nothing. I just fed the neighbor's cat. She will return from Paris in 7 days. Pro...crass...tin.a.ting...
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I thought that maybe you would like to see a picture of me at the community garden. That is my grand-dog. She inherited my hair.
This was last summer.
OK Stop it. Back away from the computer. Go practice.
I have no idea if you can see this. Computers make me cross
I erased it because it doesn't work.
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First off Carole I hope you have a safe place to go today. Minnesota does look very stormy. Stay safe my friend.
Nope Bedo, sorry no picture. Darn it.
I too am procrastinating. Should get up and get something done about the dishes that would not fit in the dishwasher. The burgers were great 85% lean which I know they should have been a little fattier. I added - horrors I know - a bit of bread crumbs to make them hold together better. DH and DD loved them. Made a good fruit salad, I liked the dressing I bought for it, they both declined it. Potato salad gone. Grilled onions, mushrooms and red pepper and that's gone. The chicken breasts I did add on were very good. DD took hers home and we will have ours tomorrow on salad. DH going forcrown prep on tooth but thinks his abscess is coming back again so not sure what dentist will do.
Susan - so glad you had a wonderful visit with your friend. I have neglected to say how thrilled I was with your scan news and still need to read those pages I missed. DH and I have talked too about what we would like to eventually do. I don't see him living in town and he def. does not want to buy another house. So rent of anything decent would eat us up. So guess we're staying put until they something forces us to move. Lot is large but can get that mowed. I hope that what you hinted at about "The Place" comes to fruition.
Suladog - I could just eat up that tart. Yummy.
Special - hoping your AC gets its stuff together tomorrow.
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When I get leg cramps, I either get in the tub and just keep running very warm water over the crampy leg, or sit on the edge and keep splashing the water over it. Getting in the tub is more trouble, but does the trick. Sometimes I can't get in there fast enough. However, after siting in there for 10 minutes, the cramp is gone and it feels so good to get into bed all warm. I used to take potassium, but learned that it is not good to do that on a regular basis. Hope this helps.
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At the end of the day, we voted and the vote was a "no" for buying this property. Just a few too many cons, in spite of the fact that this would have been a great from an investment choice. But first thing about this potential purchase is making it a home. And so, we are following our own advice and being patient. We were all very hot [stop rolling your eyes people in Texas, Arizona, and Missouri people] and no one had energy to cook and to be honest, the idea of heating the kitchen was abhorrent. So we ordered pizza and I make a salad with some local lettuce. As always, I took all five [count them FIVE] pills and within 6 minutes, I was not well. Who knows why I responded this way tonight, but it was ugly. An hour later, it has all passed.
SpecialK, you MUST MUST MUST get A/C soon. I am so impressed that you haven't run down the street naked, screaming for the Lennox maintenance man.
*susan*
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Ok- when you make a tart in the pan with the false bottom, do you grease the pan well or what makes the pie crust pop out of the frilly edges without getting stuck? I have a pan like this, but have never tried to use it....
Susan, when you take your five pills, do you pop them all in your mouth at the same time, or take them in a sequence? The reason I ask is that with both my deceased mom and myself, who have to take meds at bedtime, if we don't follow the same sequence, we get bad outcomes......it sounds crazy and when my mom told me to give them to her in a certain order, I didn't believe it, but now that I take 3 pills and my supplement at night, if I mess up the order of the prescription drugs, I get sick....
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Red, isn't that interesting? As it happens, I take my stupid pills in the exact same order every night. I start with the really expensive that is about the size of Rhode Island, and then the other four in two batches. It take a full 16 oz glass of water to get all five down. This happened once during the last cycle at about the same time. I am not going to be obsessed, but I am making note. Thank you for confirming that the order is important.
*susan*
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susan- lol on running down the street naked! If I did that everyone else would be screaming too!!! The fan motor comes tomorrow so I am hopeful that tomorrow at this time I will be air conditioned and my neighborhood will be safe from any naked running events.
Tonight was steaks, sautéed corn and a romaine salad with avocado, goat cheese, red onion and a creamy vinaigrette.
Hope everyone is doing well - welcome home Eric
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Redhead,
I don't grease the pan before. Most tart dough both glute and gluten free are very buttery and so the tart ring slips right off. The pan must cool first however. Practice makes perfect and is also delicious
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No A/C in Florida? Uggh. Some of the folks I worked with were from south Florida and they said that inside the warehouse was "just like home". It was not a comfortable place. :-)
Hopefully the fan motor *does* come in tomorrow.
Sharon made a baked chilli-mac and cheese for tonight..
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Very pretty Sula. Looks good enough to eat :-) I haven't made a tart in quite some time.
Special -- aaack! Still no a/c! But I did love the image of you running nekked down the street lol!
Sunshine - warm/hot water helps my cramps too but I often get them in the middle of the night so substitute a warm wet towel. Not as good as a soak but the best I can muster from a deep sleep.
Carole - I hope you enjoyed your time with your bco pal. How cool is that to have people you feel you know all over the place! Who knew breast cancer could be the tie that binds.
Last night I made salisbury steaks with a caramelized onion gravy. Sides were brown and red rice and haricots verts sauteed with a shallot and butter. Boy were they good. I know there are more to be picked but it was so freakin' hot and sunny today I didn't get out to do it. The few things I did do outside about did me in. BUT I'M NOT COMPLAINING. No siree, a day of sunshine beats a day of rain right now no matter how hot it is.
Tonight I had fish tacos (DH had a mini pizza from the freezer) with a chipotle slaw and some fresh corn sauteed with onion, garlic, green pepper and a jalapeno from the garden. Not much heat in these jalapenos. Maybe now that the temps are hotter, they will be too.
Bedo, hope your fish dish turns out grand. And you practice!
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Carole - I like my pasta with little sauce too (unless it's butter and garlic of course). I'm in love with the noodle. DH is just the opposite. He could put the whole container on his. In fact, he wouldn't care if there was pasta in it or not.
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