So...whats for dinner?
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Redheaded, I have not seen Rao's Eggplant sauce. The bowling alley in Bemidji was new looking and quite pleasant inside. Bemidji claims to be the home of Paul Bunyan and Babe the blue ox. There's a huge murel across the top of the bowling lanes depicting Paul and Babe. And the interior is well lighted.
Tonight's dinner will FINALLY feature leftover navy beans and rice. Plus dh will grill some store-made brats that have been simmered in chicken broth. He will put them on a hot grill long enough to brown them. I'll slice up some home-grown cucumbers for a salad. I bought them at a farmers' mkt.
We drove to Bemidji today to look at a boat. While we were there, we went to an ice cream place and had a delicious ice cream that had caramel, chunks of dark chocolate and a tinge of sea salt. It was delicious.
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Sorry to disappear... but man the third week of this drug knocks me to the curb. We have eaten. We have had grilled chicken. We have had lava bean salad. The French cousin went to Concord but is now back home with us. Tonight, we did a family meal. The three of us had swordfish grilled, while the kids had steaks on the grill. First course [we missed the real first course] was the protein, baked potato, and fof "us" broccoli and for them "grilled asparagus." We then did a cheese/salad course. The cheeses were selected by Marie-Sophie. We finished with extraordinary French chocolates that M-S brought from France as a gift. Her mother picked the most special gifts for her to bring with her.
I am exhausted. But, would you be with a day like this? Wake at 6:30, code from 8-10:30. Conference call to troubleshoot a web integration issue. Work with a different client by email to fix another issue. Go to open house. Then at 1:15 drive to Concord. Drive to Farm 1, Farm 2, then supermarket. Home. Email buyers email which took 40 minutes to write. Visit two more properties. Cook dinner for five. Dinner over at 9. Make popcorn for the "movie club" group of three watching Sandlot.
Off to do tourist Boston in the AM. It is time to get this young woman into Boston proper. She is ready. There is an interactive art festival happening on the Greenway, so we will head in that general direction. The website is very non-specific. Since I just fell asleep between writing those two sentences, I need to close out.
Sorry not to respond to each of you, but I do read all of your posts.
*susan*
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Susan - you are amazing. I don't know where you find your energy. Glad your cousin is having a good visit. Hope tourist Boston goes well. I'll be looking for a list of what we should see in another couple of months.
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Susan, you just exhausted me...and all I did today was take a three mile walk to the general store, keep dying doggie vigil while sitting and talking with DF and my DH, go out to dinner (a beautiful harborside table), and then attend a great movie and talk event featuring the cartoon editor of the New Yorker. Oh and packed for our trip home in the morning. (Return packup is soooo easy! No decisions!) So, compared to your feats, I should be loaded with spare energy! Hope you have fun in "the bean" tomorrow.
Shall I suggest that you be careful not to overdo! LOLWill post some pix of Vineyard when I'm home. Eager to return, tho it is soooo beautiful here.
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Wow, that's your kicked to the curb routine? Double wow Susan. When I feel kicked to the curb, it takes me half an hour to work up the energy to go from the bed to the couch. I really hope the SEs calm down.
Lacey, I also have a "famous people story". While working at the Superbowl, I was needing to get a picture of a hallway where I was going to be setting up some equipment. I was all set up to get a picture when a bunch of people begin walking in. I'm sitting there waiting with my phone/camera in my hand, starting to look impatient when several folks stop and ask if I want to take their picture..."No, I'm trying to get a picture of the corner of the hallway." After they left, the nearby security guard that was with me started laughing...the bunch of people were the Patriots players coming in for their team picture.
About 5 years ago, a friend rescued two nearly dead dogs that were (probably abandoned) in the desert Two weeks ago, one of the dogs died while asleep and the other dog is taking it hard..but then my friend is also taking it hard...dogs and cats sure know how to burrow into a heart.
Carole, DD makes a good navy bean, rice and chicken dish.
The Mother Hubbard rhyme is certainly "weird". For what it's worth, "Pop, goes the Weasel", in college, was a great beer drinking song! :-)
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Susan, most of us would be falling asleep between sentences after following your routine WITHOUT a treatment drug. Please take it easy on yourself.
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Oh Goats, you had me laughing so hard. I always thought jello came from horse hooves, don't know where I got that idea.
Going to the Farmer's market to pick up squid. I know,
gross, right? But they are little and good sautéed in oil S+P0 -
Gelatin is actually very much from animal by-products. And squid is delicious!!!! I like to add some hot peppers to the pan for some added kick. That is a Portuguese thing so common around here.
*susan*
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making lasagna roll-ups
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Bedo - I bought some green beans - admittedly from WallyWorld - to try your pickled green beans. I went to Spouts too but forgot to look for them there but did a doubletake at WW when I saw them. Sprouts had their cage free eggs $2.50/dozen. I know cage free is just a fancier name from not quite so crowded but I was very pleased at the price. They also had mangoes 3/$1 and had their figs in unlike TJs who doesn't yet. I have yet to get to Fresh Market. I passed right by it yest but it was so hot and I was on a mission to go/get what I needed for today. Not planning to back to Ft Worth until the end of August.
Yesterday was a roasted garlic deli chicken from WW with some pre-pack potato salad and pineapple/watermelon. Today we are going to that pool party. Maybe dangle feet very late, no swimmy. Making something called not kidding you "John Wayne Chile Rellenos Casserole". See Ree Drummond has a version too. Bought 2 largish cans of whole chiles yesterday at WW, never made it to the big Mexican Market, never remembered I wanted to go. I might need to get these rinsed pronto, hope they're not too hot. Also Hidden Valley Fiesta Ranch Dip. Hosts making ice cream and German Choc. Cake so no sweets needed. Taking plenty of canned stuff to drink, DH with his Shiner, me with my canned Perrier and Pure Leaf raspberry Tea plus a bottle of wine Sweet Edd's that we had in April and DH and I loved. Hostess makes killer margaritas that I might have to sneak some sugar into. This is the Mexican Food group we go out to eat with regularly. "Mexican Food" a loose term with us lol.
Gadzooks Susan - No way could I keep up with you. Hope you get some down time for Susan this weekend.
Doggy is better and then not. Went for Optometrist appt and she did not eat all day with DH home. Think a bit of separation anxiety? And really/truly this is a quiet house. Not much excitement day to day. Then last night when we were fixing our plates she got into the trash ready to go out. Pulled out a chicken bone from the deli chicken. Don't think she got much, maybe a gristly end. Thank goodness she growled fiercely at DH but he got her to leave it. Today it is back to scarfing down food.
At least I can say the opto. was better than the other one but darn it checked my vision RX and she didn't put in pupillary distance. I'm pretty sure in this state it is required and she sure knows it was my glaucoma doc who referred me there. Hoping it was just an oversight and I can get it corrected. Filed on my med. insurance, she was not cheap. See what they pay, not sure she can collect anything since I have the other doc.
Mommy - must have cooled off some up there.
Off to round up ingredients and things to carry them in. Hope everyone has a good day.
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Today was a bunch of bush trimming and lawn mowing (lawns in a desert make no sense to me, but....) Next is driving the 57 truck to the scrap metal place with the bent parts from DD's car..
The store had unfrozen whole pork loins for $1 a pound (!), so I got two and went after them with the old meat saw. The refrigerator is full of pork and I'm slowly moving it to the freezer. There were some left over bones that, in a moment of "well, OK", went to the dogs. They are outside under the orange tree and fully enjoying themselves.
We haven't decided on dinner yet. I'm thinking of hamburgers on the grill or maybe some BBQ chicken as they are non-house heating and Sharon is in full agreement on the non-house heating. It was over 100F at 7am this morning... Maybe some pork on the grill...hmmm.....
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Plan to cook some fresh green beans that have been in the refrigerator a number of days. Will dice up a couple of slices of bacon for flavor and cook the beans in chicken broth with very small new potatoes. The meat will be pork medallions. May do the pork piccata dish. I may do the cooking outside on the deck. I have an electric one-burner and also an electric skillet. It's difficult for me to tear myself away from the stove top, but keeping the cooking heat outside would be smart.
It is quite bearable outside though more humid than I like but it was warmer inside the camper so I have the a/c units going. Most of the campground folks went by boat to "the sandbar," where they hang out and drink and eat and socialize. We were invited but passed.
DH located a used older boat in St. Cloud, two hours away, that seems to have all of his requirements. We will probably drive down there on Mon. to look at it.
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luv- its only in the 80s here. Supposed to get back into the 90s here by Tues. and be like that right up to Sat.! Made enough of tonight's dinner for another night!
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Hot, HUMID, and threatening storms. Said we would have this a.m., but didn't, still nothing this afternoon, don't know if we will be hit or missed tonight.
Susan, your post wore me out and I don't know how the heck you do all you do....
Today I slept till 8: a.m. then I dressed, went to Farmer's market and bought Green beans . new potatoes and beets and some lavender spritz that is supposed to be a natural bug repellant. Then to Dad's to check on him, helped him get his breakfast after he refused to go out to eat. He hinted that I could l make pancakes and sausage, but I did that for him on Thursday am. and when I went back at noon he was cooking oatmeal and jumped all over me about not being able to poop if he didn't eat his oats and bran flakes every day ....so I thought, you don't need to eat a four course breakfast twice this week...... So then I went and walked 1 mile around the lake and had breakfast (waffle/bacon/coffee) then to grocery store to pick up the stuff I needed to fix the green beans (bacon) and 79.00 later, I came home, put away groceries, did a couple loads of laundry, visited my elderly neighbor, and cooked summer squash with onions/garlic, a grilled steak and a baked potato. Now I have dishes in the sink and laundry to put away, and I just want to soak in the tub, but I need to wash my hair, so a shower it will be......
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I see that everyone is busy despite the weather issues, and your shopping/meals sound great!
Carole, hope the boat works out....you probably know that old saying about the first and last days of a boat owner's life.
. We saw some outrageously large and beautiful ones on the way back from MV. SO WE ARE HOME!!! Yay!
DF did not really want us to leave, so it was a difficult departure, but I encouraged her to get herself a ferry ticket (with her car transport) to leave later today since the dog is still alive and she will be more supported in her home town as she goes through the finality of this...and can
include her adult daughter whose dog it really is. Drama all the way around..many family issues. My DH is a relative saint the way he managed this, including helping DF administer treatments to the dog while we were there, since I am very allergic to the pooch.
Relating to weather, I am shocked at how cool it is out...tho I know we are scheduled for the heatwave this week.
We had practically nothing to eat this morning before heading to the boat, so were really starving by the time we arrived home. Not a thing to eat in the fridge...very tired....so we decided why not go out??!! We went to a very small Italian restaurant in a nearby town, started by a chef/owner whose restaurant we frequented thirty years ago. DH was happy to chat with the chef about how we frequented his place "back in the day" and were "charter members". LOL He had veal saltombocca, and I had eggplant rollatine with pasta. Both were good. We shared a salad.Tho we could have ignored dessert, there was an ice cream place across the street and we made it over there selecting some tasty flavors. I enjoyed talkng with the college kids who were working there about their college experiences.
So we are mired in laundry and I will get back to that now.....
Eric, the story about the Pat's Pic was funny. Suppose that they thought you were just being glib? Although, I suspect more than a few of them have iPhone pix of hallway corners! LOL
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Hopefully I didn't deflate their egos. <groan/> In reality, I was busy and in a hurry. Plus, I figured that with the "all access/good anywhere" pass I was wearing, I wasn't supposed to be running around like a crazed 10 year old fan.
Dinner tonight is BBQ chicken and grilled hamburgers. It's 108 outside, so I almost don't need the propane running.. :-)
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Eric......LOL. And I doubt those EVER get deflated!
Hope things cool down for you westerners. Waiting for thunderstorms here.
We'd planned to head to the Farmer's Market at noon, but any lightening will obviously impact their opening. What a hard life farming is.Have a good Sunday everyone......
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Laundry day for me. Hit my favorite laundromat at a great time. Not busy.
Will be a hot day today. In the 80's. Dinner will be chicken or beef fajitas with corn tortillas. Will cook out on the deck again, using the electric skillet. Handy because the temperature can be set so easily.
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Dropping off laundry, put in my list with peapod for pick up tomorrow-$2.95, robot vacuum running and litter robot taking care of the cat poo.
Could I be any lazier? No, .
I hope all you Floridians (sp)? Southerners and Westerners stay cool and get some rain.
Hope everyone one with sides feels OK
Remember, All dogs go to Heaven.
Hake for dinner with caper butter sauce and shallots. The Captain brought it just for me.
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Sharon and I were out on the back porch just lounging. For what it's worth, at 7am it was already in the upper 80 degree range. Anyway we kept wondering aloud what was happening to the surface of the water in the bird bath. I finally got up to see what was happening to the water and realized it was one of those one drop every 10 seconds rain "storms"..
We came inside just before 8am when it hit 90F.. So, yes, we are getting rain out west. Right now it's just one of those dehydrated rains. :-)
Breakfast this morning....Sharon is cooking bacon and eggs and I'm contributing aebleskiver.
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I'd like some aebleskiver....bet you have the right pan to cook them in.....
I went to Bob Evans this a.m. and made the mistake of ordering "multigrain pancakes. Needless to say, I was not sure if they were cooked right, but they seemed kind of doughy in the middle, so I ate 3/4 of them along with the bacon and coffee and called it done.......Will not repeat it.
Dinner tonight was pasta with some more of the Rao's Eggplant sauce. Can't say I am a big fan of it, but it had nothing unhealthy in it preservative wise. So I thought of it as a healthy choice. Can't take my carbs away, but maybe some of the sugar and other crap they add to the food.....
Hope everyone is well. WE have been predicted to get storms for 2 days now, but just the heat and humidity so far......
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I saw an old acquaintance today whose daughters now live in AZ and she also spoke of the intense heat they are having....tho I guess you guys are used to this. Or are there summers when you do not hit the hundreds? We expected thunder storms all day, and finally took our walk at 5:30PM keeping an eye to the sky. Nothing!
I was happy that it stayed dry this afternoon since the Farmer's Market folks did not have to scramble. We had a ball there loading up on greens and veggies, and it was fun to see what a new Asian vendor had from his farm. His produce was all lined up in the most meticulous and visually appealing way, and many of the greens were new to me. He answered lots of buyers questions about things like amaranth, unusual spinach greens, and purslane. Well, it was a riot to learn that it is the weed we pull up from between our patio flagstones! Not so sure I am ready to eat that! Always have to worry about the darn allergies....
So I spent the afternoon cleaning and storing all the greens and veggies (including a huge amt of basil that was on sale). I will be making pesto like mad tomorrow. I already gave one bunch to my next door neighbor, but everyone else is away, so here I am with basil galore. The bunches of it still have roots attached and I thought I might pop some back into the ground to see if it will regrow. We'll see.
Tonight we had grilled balsamic, garlic, and rosemary marinated chicken breasts, and grilled sweet onion and yellow squash, along with local first of the lot corn, and a huge salad with almost every green variety we bought, including pea tendrils which I love.
Most likely we will repeat that menu tomorrrow night since we always get back from stretching class late and I am usually too tired to create a new meal.
On Wednesday we head back to the lake (because why would we want to stay still, afterall!!), and we just had a call from a neighbor there asking if DH would be willing to assemble and bring all the songs he can with the word "moon" in the title. The association is holding a "Blue Moon" party this weekend, thus the request. I had not even read about it yet, but it should be fun.
Bedo, you sound less lazy and more millennial-ish since that is how many of the young'ens manage their lives. So you are young at heart!! The hake dinner sounds great.
DH and I are moving into the barnyard for our food this week since we figure our mercury levels must be pretty high after totally eating fish for the last two out of three weeks, daily! Yikes!
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Purslane info.....next we'll be eating crabgrass!
https://web.extension.illinois.edu/cfiv/homeowners/030726.html
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Two whole chickens..using the covered grill like an oven.
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I missed the posts before mine.
The aebleskiver pan is a specialty item, and new ones are $20-$30, so it's not a huge investment of money. The thing looks like a round skillet with 7 "looks like tennis balls cut in half" depressions in it. Any of the search pages should offer a bunch of options and show pictures.
As for summers. I've been here since 1979 and, every summer, there are several days where the high temperatures exceed 115F degrees. I think people would panic if a summer went by where the high temperatures stayed below 100F degrees. :-)
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Last night was a salad dinner - curried chicken salad over romaine, red potato salad with sour cream and dill and we each had an artichoke. It has been raining a lot here - more than usual, but with no let up in the heat - so somewhat of a steam room effect. We had a dry early summer but now it is not - even got an email from our lawn guy saying it is too wet to mow without risking damage because of the muddy soil. Unfortunately, rain in the summer in FL also means lightning. DD was driving to work the other day and the semi in front of her was hit by a bolt and blew out a tire. No accident but the truck stopped dead (probably fried the electrical) in the middle of I-75, so created a traffic mess. A few days before that she witnessed a single car spin out in heavy rain and hit the jersey wall, airbags deployed - she stopped because she has first responder training and the accident had just happened. The driver was a 19 year old young man - he was crying, so she calmed him down and called FHP. He was unhurt but scared and his car was in a precarious spot on the overpass. Eeesh!
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I grow purslane and besides being higher in Omega 3 than any other plant and good for one is absolutely delicious. If you have purslane in your garden you will have more purslane
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Haha Lacey, I also don't shop for clothes much any more and rely on my "personal stylist" to send me things from Stitch Fix, once a month, I send back what I don't like in the prepaid envelope for no charge, and I rented my "Mother in Law" dress from Rent the Runway, although it was not a typical MIL dress, it would have cost $500, too rich for me. My DD keeps me young.
May I have your pesto recipe? I am also over run with basil
Also, you can make a TON of Kimchi with Bok Choy cabbage, if you like it, it's Korean from one of my oldest friends who I met in 4th grade
Oh, Special, so glad no one was hurt!
Sushi for dinner.
No idea what happened last week to make me tired. Probably "acute exhaustion" haha due to cats jumping on me in the night or the perfect storm of little things. Feeling a lot better today.
Rain and crazy down pours today.
I know that Adult gummy multi-vitamins are not food but they sure taste good- I ordered them with my peapod order and just got them today. Yum. Will have to remind myself not to eat the whole bottle. Could be dangerous if you have kids.
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Bedo - I love Bok Choy. I used to saute it with Mei Yen seasoning but I'm having a problem finding that seasoning any more. However, I did buy some Bok Choy yesterday so we'll see what mood strikes me.
Edited to say - Bedo I'm so glad that you've found your adventurous seafood gene. Sushi!!! Hooray. And all the other great seafood you've been posting regularly.
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Tonight was chili natchos - or the name we coined Natchilis, like Brangelina or Bennifer, It was chips (I used Luke's Kale chips - delish!) with the hot leftover chili spooned over, with toppings - shredded lettuce, salsa, pepperjack cheese, black olives, red onion, avocado chunks, diced tomatoes, and scallions. Easy, fun and yummy!
I like to add bok choy to stir fry in place of celery - works great!
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