So...whats for dinner?
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All I crave is fresh fruit and fresh veggies. Had masectomy last Tuesday and have been eating just the fruits and veggies with some protein. When I had chemo treatment over four months, I craved protein, just wanted that. So ate it whenever I felt the craving for it. Wonder if these cravings are what the body needs most for healing so that's why you get these?
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JC,
I have always assumed that my body asks for what it needs. I understand that for some people, who perhaps have spent too many years eating fast food, or simply inconsistently, etc, that this doesn't really work for them. And other folks i know don't even know what their bodies are asking for. If your body wants fruit, bring on the peaches! I would caution that you should probably make sure that you do have some protein-rich vegetables on your plate, or a hard boiled egg if meat doesn't appeal. Healing from surgery does require some protein, and I bet your body asks for it soon.
Good luck with your recovery.
*susan*
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OO Nancy - I would love a good salisbury steak recipe. I think my tastes have changed over the years and the one or two recipes I have I remember as being too salty. I have some recipe from DD's childhood I'll have to look up - from one of those starting out with real food baby cookbooks. Your gravy sounds divine too.
Local TV had chayote squash slaw on this morning. Looked really great.
http://www.fox4news.com/story/29533554/chayote-gre...
I have 2 ears of corn left. I think we'll have those with the leftovers tonight, cut off the cob to accommodate DH's crown repair.
JC - all those vegies/fruits are great for the bowel sluggishness that goes with major surgery. Vitamin C in them is also great for cell repair. Excellent time of year to be craving these lol. Do think Susan is right on adding protein back in when your tummy can handle it. I had never thought of protein rich vegetables. Maybe a cold bean salad with lots of vegies in it? Even canned rinsed beans if you don't want to cook?
Not sure if I believe list above. Maybe the protein is not in an available form. This one below is kinda hard to read but maybe I understand it better. Per 100 grams of the food that is the % protein. I believe the 100 grams of chicken breast is the standard size of "deck of playing cards" often quoted in diets.
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I dunno, when I was going through chemo I craved caramel/cheese popcorn. Not exactly a nutrient rich food. These days, I rarely crave meat (although my thoughts are frolicking with fried chicken at the moment), but I definitely have fruit cravings when I don't have it. Love those summer fruits! In the winter, it's bananas and citrus mostly.
Luv, this is the recipe I used:
http://oneperfectbite.blogspot.com/2010/11/salisbury-steak-with-caramelized-onion.html?m=1
It was pretty good but I think it had too much parsley. I made a note to that effect. I have other recipes that I like better. And I think I prefer mushroom gravy with the beef.
I found a couple of pork chops while freezer diving, so that will be dinner. I think I'll roast some vegetables with olive oil and a splash of balsamic -- asparagus, a fennel bulb, peppers, a red onion. Maybe I'll throw in a few green beans, a potato and a tomato. The tomatoes I got from a friend are pretty tasteless so roasting will probably help them.
SK - are you cool yet??
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auntie - I better be cool by tonight or heads will roll. I just ran errands in 95 F. and sticky and am frustrated because we have to submit a form with paint chips to the homeowner's assn. before we can repaint - we are painting the house the same color - but have to re-apply with a $25 check. I call BS on that. There are approved color combinations, which I understand - that way nobody has a purple house - but this paint store is not open on the weekends and closes at 5 pm M-F, I tried to go on Sat and figured that out - went today and the approved color combo no longer exists so I can't attach the right paint chips to the form. I am about to scream. Actually I am calling the homeowner peeps and giving them a piece of my non-airconditioned mind. The fan motor was supposed to arrive today - have heard nothing to the contrary so I assume that the AC guy will be here later this evening. Last time this happened the house cooled down pretty quickly once we were able to re-start. My fear is that there is an issue beyond the fan - will keep you posted!!! I am doing a chuck roast with mushrooms and onions in the crockpot in an effort not to heat up the house. Will have some leftover rice and a salad.
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Special, I would never live anywhere with a homeowner's association, but this is why they exist. Exhibit A: my next door neighbor's house.
We call this barney purple with Fischer Price green trim. They painted this at vast expense, carefully preparing the wood. Were these colors chosen by their 2-year old. And the most amazing thing? They painted the house this color and then put it on the market 2 months later.
*susan*
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susan - Most of the housing in this area is controlled by HAs, the awesome older homes I would have loved were out of our price range in 2006 when we moved here - but OMG the purple house is crazy! Did it sell? It is a Barney house!!! We had a house in our neighborhood that was painted in an approved color scheme, albeit a horrible shade of green and yellow, and we called it the Green Bay Packer house. There were some odd folks who lived there and when they moved (the nice way of saying evicted and foreclosed on) and a cute young family bought it and moved in and re-painted and landscaped and really spruced the place up - the neighbors across the street were so excited they threw them a party, lol!
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Special, That house took a very, very long time to sell in a very, very hot market. And the owner's unit [it is a two family] had been rehabbed just a few years before with a brand new kitchen, and an additional bedroom. The color of the house must have been a huge turn-off, and in the end, the seller did not get her money back on her purchase and upgrades. Now we have a young doctor and his wife, who might also be a doctor, living there. Repainting when the condition is so perfect makes no sense, so there it is, the Barney Purple house. I work quite hard when taking pictures of my garden, etc. to make sure the house is not included. Just shocking I think.
I understand that Florida and many other parts of the country are home owners association land. Very rare up here.
*susan*
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Susan - sure would be easy marker for directions, next door to the purple house. But it does look like they did a good job lol.
Special - fingers crossed for coolness.
Thanks Nancy for the the Salisbury steak recipe. I surfed around some of that blog it was on. Some lovely stuff. She has a whole chicken in the slow cooker on this week's menu. Not sure I could get that in mine but it looks good.
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Houston has absolutely NO zoning so we have to have Deed Restrictions. If the HOAs didn't enforce them, your nice house might end up with a gas station next door and a Stop & Go across the street. Lots of politics of course, but it's sure lots of work for those of us who volunteer with the Civic Clubs.
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All - the AC in ON!!!! Yay!!!!!!!!
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Cool!
Couldn't resist that:-)
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eric - lol!!! I am hoping so - asap!
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SK - double yay!
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Triple Yay!!
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SpecialK, so your nakid running can be done inside now. Phew!!!! Does mold start to grow this fast? It is so humid down there that I am just wondering.
Someone is making dinner tonight!!! He is grilling up some loin lamb chops which are a bit gnarly but delicious, steaming some local beans and making a baked potato. Lately I have been eating so little, we will divide on of these monster spuds.
Welcome home Eric. I bet your family is happy to have you home, and you are happy to be eating food made in more than one pot.
*susan*
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Susan,
I grew up in San Francisco surrounded by all the "painted ladies" as they call the Victorian houses so the purple house looks on the edge of normal to me. I would however not be crazy about our neighbors doing that..it just depends on the house and of course the neighborhood. Betcha that house went at bargain prices
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Thanks!!! I'm pretty excited! I had a rough day yesterday - had an ice pick migraine that mercifully let up today. Crazy, but I'm thinking it is from the blueberries! I don't think nine days in a hot house was helpful either.
susan- I'm thinking nobody on the inside of my house wants to see me running around nekkid either, lol!
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Happy dance for SpecialK! With clothes on!
Susan, the purple color doesn't look all that purple in your photo. Is it a vivid purple? There's a house in a very upscale subdivision back in Louisiana that is the color of a purple eggplant or maybe a purple plum. There is definitely a Home Owners Assoc. but the color must have been approved.
Dinner tonight is a skillet dish with smoked sausage (with turkey), sliced leftover boiled potatoes, red bell pepper, mushrooms, and green onions. I'm sure dh will be putting ketchup on his serving!
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4 susan_02143, I am going to up my protein levels as that makes sense especially after just going through surgery for healing. Hard boiled eggs sound good in a veggie rich salad, YUM!
Nelly3 luvmygoats, didn't know that those veggies in your post had protein in them, so I am getting some by eating most of those pictured. Agree have to add some more protein though so will add some chicken and other meat to my fruit, veggie diet. Thanks!
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jsfree, spinach, peas, lima peas, kale, broccoli raab, mushrooms, artichokes, most greens like collard, and broccoli are all high protein vegetables. If I recall correctly, sun dried tomatoes also give you a good amount of protein. I ate a lot of hard boiled eggs during chemo. If you crave any dairy, then smoothies with yogurt could also give you a great protein source. And if you are eating salads, a bit of cubed cheese is a great touch.
You will find that people on this thread put more-than-average effort into eating things that are decent. Let us know what you are craving, and someone will know how to get it into your diet.
Nice that my years as a vegetarian, several of them as a macro, is useful to someone!
*susan*
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Jcfree Welcome and so glad that you sound like you are recovering a bit from your surgery. You will find a lot of tips here on the board. It was a life saver psychologically for me.
When I lost a lot of weight and became very anemic due to treatment for another problem I drank ensure. It has a lot of protein, I was not hungry at all and it was easy to just get the eating over with. I was vegetarian, now I eat fish, but I felt like Rosemary's baby's Mama at the time.
Hope you have a good tomorrow
The ladies here are very nice.
Special so glad about the air conditioning. They would have arrested me by now. I go psycho in the heat. Glad you are comfy
Didn't really eat dinner, but made bluefish over greens for lunch at work tomorrow
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Special, so glad you can cool off....with your clothes on!
Susan, I also thought that the purple house reminded me of the painted lady victorians....which are often pink. It's a real trade off to have HOA regulations vs. "owner's delight" when it comes to neighborhood house colors.
Sula, that dessert was so beautiful! Bet you all enjoyed it!
We are back home after....packing up the car, then enjoying Marconi Beach yesterday, (we were happy that we saved eighty dollars using our senior parking pass for Nat'l Seashore beaches during our four visits....the advantage of being old
. On the way home we stopped in Plymouth and had a very nice dinner...DH had halibut with a pecan sauce, squash and a simple salad. I ordered a baby kale salad with berries and goat cheese...it was huge and great, except not a piece of kale was in it! I actually did not care since the many greens (and purples!) in it were lovely! My entree was chili rubbed salmon over broccoli rabe with basmati rice. Most of it came home as I was full from the salad.Today we were both really tired from all the transitioning and not everything is yet unpacked....partially because we will head to the lake in a few days. I am honestly tired of these short trips, and have more coming up. Maybe I am just too used to the winter pace of hanging out at home thru snowstorms!
We had no food in the house today, and first thing, DH offered to head to the store since I had a doc appt. Yay! He actually filled the fridge with everything we needed....lots of fruit and greens and yogurt...and chicken breasts to grill tonight.
So we had our first home cooked meal in over a week.....teriyaki chicken, an arugula and baby kale salad with blueberries, pecans, red onion and carrot, dressed with a spicy chile almond dressing to which I added a bit of white balsamic. Very good if you like spicy! Our veggie was mashed butternut squash with a bit of maple syrup added.
I got on the scale this morning so I could avoid being shocked/horrified at the doc appt. As expected, I was three pounds heavier than last week! DH is also horrified that his P-town meals added several pounds, so he avoided buying bread for dinner today. Amazing!
Tomorrow I am meeting up with former colleagues for lunch. Had planned to go to the beach, but thunderstorm forecast is moving us inside....more food! Then Wednesday we are supposed to go boating with friends to which we are bringing lunch. DH is planning to pick up sandwiches for that. Good lord....so much food! Maybe the thunderstorms will cancel us out.And DH just reminded me that for next week our friend at Martha's Vineyard is busy making reservations for a few dinners there while we are visiting. So I might just fast until then! And getting back to my full exercise regimen would help. It seems our three mile morning walks did not! I guess I really need to be in charge of my own food prep.
Carole, I hope you had a great time meeting up with your bc friend. I do often think of the ways BC has expanded my life experiences/connections. And Minus, I hope we will be seeing you sometime in the next few months.
Am up too late again and actually fell asleep this afternoon for an hour....odd for this non- napper. I need to re-establish better sleep habits.......nite!
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susan_02143, Wow, I learned some good stuff here about protein rich veggies. I just always thought that beans were the only veggies that had protein, great to learn there is so much more variety of veggies with protein. Often during hot weather I do not want to eat meat or poultry and just like a chef salad so now can use these protein rich veggies in my salad and know I am getting protein if I don't feel like having a meat or poultry. Thanks for the protein info!
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Jcfree....welcome!
And Susan, thanks for the quick summary of protein rich veggies you enjoyed. I had forgotten that you were vegetarian back in the day.....
I have to share a non food related story that happened in P- town.
Each morning as we would take our three mile walk into town, we passed lots of other walkers going in the opposite direction. Our impulse was to say "Hi", and we were struck by how many people did not look up or respond. DH recalled how, on our walks in Pariano last September, everyone we passed would greet us with a cheery "Bon Giorno". So he decided to try doing that as we walked. Well, it was hysterical! We passed and greeted at least 25 people who totally ignored his efforts. But he persisted.....and a few blocks later, a man out watering his postage stamp front lawn looked up after DH's greeting, smiled, and sang out the most beautiful Bon Giorno in return. DH was delighted and we smiled for the rest of our walk (and day)! I was reminded of this experience last night (this morning!) when Seth Myers was sharing his stories about hiking in Italy last week, and he said some very funny things about his dilemma in deciding how to respond to the greeting Italians. Oh well.....I am realizing that this is one of those "you had to have been there" moments to be amused. But if you ever pass anyone on your walks, do greet them....in any language you prefer! :
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Lacey - that's a good story about the greeting. I should try it since I'm 1/2 Italian. We don't take many walks but when we do, I hope I could see the reactions (or non-reactions) of passers-by. Although I get a few chuckles from a retired law professor at my office that loves to sing "everybody loves somebody". LOLOL
shelly
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Lacey, I love your greeting story. I always thought 'greeting' was an East coast vs. West thing. I grew up in CA, have lived in New Mexico, Utah & Texas and traveled extensively in the West. Everyone always said hello on the streets, or at least smiled. When I made trips to NYC in college it was sort of a game so smile & say hi. Very few people answered & it sure startled everyone. Now of course most people have their noses down in a phone and would never see you - or at the very least - ear buds so they wouldn't hear you. I don't understand why there aren't more collisions.
I've been putting together a new TV/entertainment center & moving everything around so haven't been cooking much. Last night I was 'crying' about 148 cassette tapes since that player will no longer work. Silly since I still have the vinyl in most cases, but lots of music & lots of memories. Today the front porch is filled w/furniture & boxes for Salvation Army. I did brown some pork chops Sunday - sage & S&P - then slow cooked in electric skillet. When finished, I added sour cream to the drippings & made a lovely sauce. Last night was left over meatloaf.
Hi to everyone. Even if I'm not answering individually, I'm reading and you're in my thoughts.
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Lacey, here in the country the practice when encountering someone in a vehicle is to raise one's index finger in greeting (no, not the middle finger.) Everyone will at least say hi if you pass while walking, if not more, I'm not sure how they would react to a foreign language! ("Huh?")
Tonight we're having sirloin burgers on brioche buns and more fried onion rings. Apparently we didn't get enough last time. I'll throw in a salad too for some attempt at a healthy meal..
Tonight I'm making a no knead pizza dough for pizza cooked in an iron skillet for tomorrow's dinner (overnight rise). It's not totally deep dish but not the usual thin crust that I usually make. It will mean heating up the oven unfortunately, but not for long. DH likes lots of sauce on his, just like his pasta, and this pizza will stand up to it.
It was 97 and extremely humid here this afternoon. The whole week is expected to be like that. Hello July!
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People here in small-town MN are friendly. They almost always make eye contact and smile and speak. The other bikers on the bike trails are friendly, too, except for the occasional "serious" biker. It's probably mostly city folks who can't be bothered to acknowledge other humans.
I didn't realize you were once vegetarian, Susan. If you ever mentioned it, I had forgotten. Glad you were able to give some good advice about proteins in vegetables.
I made a large container of mashed potato salad this afternoon. I had some potatoes that had made the trip north with us and I had a yen for potato salad. It has diced celery, dill pickle relish, boiled eggs, and a mayo and yellow mustard dressing. A package of boneless, skinless chicken thighs are thawing. I'm thinking I will season and bread them with whole wheat panko and pan fry to a nice brown color, using an electric skillet outside on the deck.
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And I 'm back--the computer problem was the cable connecting the monitor to the "brains". Thank heaven a 19.99 fix!
The Purple house made me think of Cape May, but not so much even there would you see that.....We h ad a guy whose house was needing paint and his neighbors were complaining so he painted it about that color with a lot of white poured in. It was a to tal loss when he sold it.....We think he bought the cheapest paint he could find...
Am making an Orzo, Arugula salad---also has pine nuts, feta cheese and dried cranberries and dressed with Lemonjuice/olive oil. I am downsizing it so we will see how good I do.
Suladog, is tart crust dough different from the regular pie crust dough?
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