So...whats for dinner?
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michelle and laurie i have never heard of the groton you are talking about. so interesting, not sure if i could sell it in this house. I love the herb recipe though and gonna make some, there is nothing worse than trying to put together a soup or stew and not having the right seasonings on hand.
Michelle My Dh and I are heading to Foxwoods tomorrow for a convention for our business. He has gone every year and I have always had to work, so this is my year to go along. We willl be there tues through Thurs.
Went to an house warming picnic at my brothers yesterday and all the food was soo good, maybe just because he did all the cooking and it was a break from me doing it. My sister-in-law has not seen me since visiting me in the hosp after my surgery and she started crying when talking about that day...ha ha must be I looked pretty bad!
Debbie sounds like you had a blast of a vacation! We had a lot of labor day parties as well and last night we just crashed and put in the movie Toy story 3 and was asleep by 9.
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Welcome back Debbie! It sounds like you had a great trip LOADED with fun. So happy for you that it went well and you got to spend time with friends.
Michelle- Have fun at the casino with your girls today, it's a perfect day for it weather wise. Sounds like fun!
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Lynn18 - i do not have a good recipe (that i want to use) for tamales. I did actually go and help make them for a New Year's celebration in MEXICO.. yes, Mexico. My cousin in laws live in El Paso.. Three wonderful women who married my nephews who settle there. One of their mothers was busy making tamales while everyone else partied at a casino thing. I offered to go help the mother (I can't even remember her name altho it was something like Esmerelda..
I got to her house a two story, almost Victorian thing of past grandeur in Juarez and went in and the kitchen was a mess. It is such a huge process. one has to blend (by hand the lard with the cornmeal, and cook the meat and shred it. 'Momita' was using a mixer to blend the lard and cornmeal and the safety pin on her pants broke and her pants fell down. i helped her pull up her pants, but we were both laughing so hard we almost died of crying. .. and of course there was a language barrier that prevented us from sharing details.
We then had to smear the cornmeal mixture on the corn husks, drop the spicy meat mixture upon it and roll it up and put it in the huge steamer.. tons of work. but they were omg delicious.
I wouldn't want to use so much lard in my recipe and am thinking of making a type of cornmeal polenta casserole with cheese on top and served with a green chili salsa. with less lard.. i don't know if i could make a steamer large enough to steam all i want to make if I wrapped them.
I used to know of a church that i played at that would assemble the ladies who would make 1000s and sell them... i could not wait for 'tamale days'.
They are good for a reason and the reason is all the fat they put in them.
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Debbie, welcome back! Sounds like the partying is still continuing. So glad you had such a nice time.
I am back from a couple of days down the jersey shore. Had a great time. Went out to eat every night. Had pizza twice, but countered that with broiled salmon and broiled flounder on the other nights, so all is well, right? And only had one ice cream cone on the boardwalk. Did over indulge in the pound of fudge we brought home though. Think I'll bring the other pound to the chemo nurses at my Herceptin on Wednesday. My DD wants to keep it, but I'll probably eat most of it if I do. And I think the chemo nurses would enjoy it. Enjoy labor day everyone.0 -
luvrving,
thanks for the snack tips, those sound yummy. I have been using my Jack Lalane juicer again lately, and juicing yummy fruit blends in the morning.
For dinner last night , I ate greek yogurt with almonds, and for a snack later I ate, some veggie chips, a string cheese, and a banana :O)
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Michelle- Have a fun time at foxwoods, hope you win big!! Congrats on getting down #6 2 more to go hope you are feeling good. On the gofl clubs/ I asked my DH what was so special about these clubs verses the ones he had at home his response? There just nicer!!! LOL!
Laurie- Hope everything at home is getting more organized since the lightning strike. Also wanted to say, i think you are a great mom!!
Kay-Thanks! I did have a wonderful time, ate to much but thats ok it was worth it ha! Fudge sounds so good right now- When we got back from our trip and spent the night at the sheraton airport hotel i ordered a hotfudge brownie with icecream took it to the room, it was yummy! Will be thinking about you on wednesday!
Carberry- Awee im sure you look great, your family is just so worried about you! Im jelous you all get to go to foxwoods LOL!
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Edited to delete buttermilk pie recipe until i get the right ingredients
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OMG, Debbie! I read this recipe and my blood sugar just broke through the ozone layer...LOL! And funny response from DH on the golf clubs! When we used to bowl, it seemed the guys were always buying new bowling balls. When I asked why, the answer was "I rolled all the strikes out of my old one!" My bowling ball was so old it still had my initials from my first marriage, and I had been remarried for 20 years...LOL!!!
We are home from Foxwoods with a little less cash but a few more good memories! And my daughter (age 30) ran in to one of her professors, who has pretty much guaranteed her a job when she graduates in December (accounting major). He asked her if she would be interested in working for a non-profit in Washington, DC, and he also said he is working on a job for her at a CPA firm in Concord, NH. So SHE was the big winner! And then we ran in to him again in the parking garage, so the fates were with her today. She will see him at the school's job fair on Friday. Being an older student with 4.0 GPA and graduating in December instead of May looks like it's going to work out very well for her. She wasn't going to go with us today because she is really short on cash, but Mom took care of her. Looks like it was a very good investment!!!
Michelle
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Michelle- LOL! I know, i think i should call my friend and make sure that is right, 4 cups of sugar sounds like its way to much, no wonder i had so much energy after i ate it haha! They should call this, Shock pie LOL! What a funny story on the bowling ball, i cracked up- We were on a bowling league and i never got a ball always used theres but now my DH had 2,, go figure!
Sorry you didnt win big, but glad you had fun, Wow thats wonderful about your daughter im a big believer of things happening for a reasona and being in the right place at the right time" Great News!
Also wanted to mention my friends all took pictures while i was in KY when they get them devoloped they are going to send them to my email and i should be able to post them soon,,,
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Ok dont anyone make the buttermilk pie recipe i posted i couldnt get ahold of my friend who gave me the recipe, she was drinking wine when she wrote it out, i wondered why there was no buttermilk in the recipe, i just typed in buttermilk pie recipes and all of them had buttermilk and only about 1 to 2 cups os sugar,,, (Sorry) I will let you know for sure, but it really was good she must not of been drinking when she made it LOL!
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Michelle that is great about your daughter...ha ha maybe i will have the same luck? hmmm prob not, if i didint have bad luck I wouldnt have any luck at all. You are my hero, doing all this stuff and going through chemo
Debbie that is so funny about the pie! will wait for a re-post to get the real deal.
Well off to the casino and no cooking for 3 days...I guess I am already winning!!
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That is so wonderful for your daughter Michelle! I think it is a pretty tough market out there, so that makes it even more impressive. I am an accountant too, I hope your daughter will like the profession. It is quite a difference to choose between a CPA firm and working for a non profit, not to mention the different locations, so your daughter will have quite a choice to make.
Debbie, that is funny. I guess it's a good thing you found out before you tried the recipe.
Last night, I went to Fridays in NJ and met a few women from the website for dinner. It was a lot of fun. One of them, ChrissyB came all the way from Australia. They have a nice 3 course meal for ?16.99. I had a salad, salmon, and Oreo ice cream. I am almost to the point of liking salmon. LOL. It was actually very good, but the conversation was better.0 -
Kay - I have been following the ChrissyB thread...what an adventure for her! And it is so cool that she will meet lots of BCO gals along her journey. I like salmon but DH won't go near it, so I never cook it. I am guessing that my daughter would choose the CPA firm because she was explaining that there are some impending rule changes for getting your CPA and she wants to be "grandfathered" into the old rules. She worked in accounting for a small company in Kansas before deciding to go get her degree, so she definitely knows what she wants. But there would be a sense of adventure in going to DC, so we'll see. I'm betting that the CPA firm would be her choice because she wouldn't want to be that far away. She might change her mind if things continue to go OK for me. I'd love her to spread her wings and choose a little adventure. We'll see...the pay will have to be right and non profits don't usually pay that well.
It's going to be raining most of the week, which means I'm going to try and do not much of anything except a little cleaning. My grandson's 8th birthday party was supposed to be held the weekend Irene made her appearance. So it's rescheduled for here on Saturday. The long-range forecast looks perfect - sunny and 77.
I am home alone today...DH went to play in some golf tournament event that will consume the whole day and includes dinner tonight. He hunted down his rain suit because it's not supposed to be nice at all. I will have the whole day to do as little as I want. So my day will be R&R. I need to make one 15 minute trip to get some generic Prilosec as I took my last one yesterday. Otherwise, I'm gonna be a sluggo!
Carrie - good luck at the casino! Will you be there for 3 days? If so, be a winner!!!
Michelle
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Guess who came home about an hour after he left? Yup, the "not going to be canceled" golf tournament was canceled! He made me hot dogs for lunch...lol. Luckily there were some cukes and peppers left over from Saturday that I also ate. Thinking about apple pie right now, not sure if I'll do it now or save it for after dinner. Hmmm, speaking of dinner....wasn't planning on him for dinner. I don't think he'll want Greek yogurt with berries even if it is followed by apple pie. Should be interesting to see what he comes up with!
My new Kindle arrived today. No sun to give it a good test outside, though. It is a tiny, lightweight little thing. I really am a techno-junkie and really disappointed that I could find no good use for the Android tablet that DH got me for Christmas. He was about 6 months too early and the thing won't play a movie and has crappy battery life. Such an unfortunate purchase. Oh well...going to relax and finish a book I started on my netbook, now on my Kindle.
Michelle
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Michelle- Whats a Kindle? Is it a moped? I was going to say, enjoy your day alone, until your DH golf got cancelled.! Hope you are starting to feel better.
Kay- I hadnt seen you in awhile, glad to see you back. Sounds like you had a great time with some of the girls from here. I have been trying to get together with GMP from here for 3 years we talk on the phone alot. we went through chemo togeter on the May thread and have been great friends every since. We call each other BCFF ( Best Chemo friends for ever)
Carrie- Hope you win big!!!!!!!!!
Im making chicken cordon blu tonigth but making a hollandaise sauce to go over it, with asperagus- I bought some beautiful looking strawberries yesterday so making strawberries dipped in chocloate yumm!!
Last night i made a crab and articoke dip so today for lunch i put it on sourdough bread and grilled it for a sandwich it was soooooo good!
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was going stir crazy being home for 6 days, so yesterday around 2pm I drove 30 min, to visit my aunt, and walk around her town, I had a major sweet tooth, and had a litlle piece of gourmet carrot cake, a little piece of fudge, two pieces of sea foam candy, ( for those of you that don't know what that is, its amazing. Whipped honey comb dipped in chocolate :O) and for dinner later, I had a halibut fish burger and amazing fries, so it wasn't my normal eat healthy day, but my taste is down, and I wanted some yummy stuff that I could actually taste
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Debbie - ROFLMAO!!! I'm going to assume you were serious when you asked...a Kindle is an eReader - a way to carry around a whole library of books in a little 6 x 9 device that you can actually use in the sun while sitting by a pool. Kindle is Amazon's version, there are thousands of free or very inexpensive books, plus you can read newspapers, magazines, whatever else on it. The battery lasts for weeks.
It comes with built-in wifi and 3-G signal so you can download a book in just a few seconds anywhere that has cell service or anywhere that has wifi.
Zumbagirl - I know what you mean about eating things that taste good! All things in moderation, right?
Michelle
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OMG, we went for Chinese food. He picked the restaurant. I tried to warn him that we should go to the one Joycek suggested, but he wanted to try this other one because it was "big"...lol. He reads more about a golf course before he plays it than he does a restaurant!!! Anyways, this place was the pits and we'll be lucky if we don't both end up with tummy aches.
So there's a story that goes back to a Christmas about 10 years ago. We went out for a nice holiday dinner with some good friends, and he had the wine list in his hands...for a long time. It was like a bible - this place was known for its extensive wine list. So finally I said, just pick one. So he did. But he didn't pay attention to the price...until the bill came and he asked the server about the $100 item on the bill. Yeah, it was the wine - a half bottle of wine - $50 a glass - and terrible!!! After that, he swore he'd never pick wine again and it was a big joke among our friends. I think we've reached that point with ethnic restaurants! He's good with desserts, donuts and muffins, though!!!!
Michelle
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Apple: Sounds like those tamales were very authentic. Sounds like quite an adventure making them in Mexico, I am sure they were wonderful. Yes, I have heard that lard is the traditional ingredient that makes them so good. The polenta casserole sounds good. I sampled a zucchini spinach polenta casserole at Trader Joe's and it was very good.
I love my Kindle, it was my "finished with chemo" gift to myself. I even have a couple of cookbooks on it.
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Michelle,
We bought our daughter a Kindle for Christmas ( along with an Amazon gift card ) a couple of years ago and, as she said erven now, it was the BEST gift we have ever given her!
I still cling a bit to the actual books with paper pages (have even avoided getting a cell phone), but even I look with awe at that Kindle! I think you will love it!
Great news for your daughter having a lead on a job! Things right now are so hard for the kids just starting out, that any help is a blessing! Much in the way that I think you meeting JoyceK was no accident, I also believe, your trip to the casino with your daughter, led her right to where she was meant to be!
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Michelle- LOL!! i really didnt know what it was, but when you told me it kind of all came back to me i guess i never knew the name of it. Haha!! Funny story about the wine, we love to drink wine but i think the less expensive ones are much better.
Seaside- Seems everyone knew what a kindle was but me LOL!
I dont feel so good tonight, sore throat, swollen glands, and achey body must of picked it up on the plane, (sucks) plus i still have major jet lag.
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Ah Debbie, the things we learn on this discussion thread...lol! Hope you're feeling better after a good night's sleep. I always have trouble with jet lag going west. For some reason, going east never bothers me.
I finally slept really well last night and my knees are not bothering me I need to do some real cleaning today, so it's a good thing.
Michelle
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hoping to have a nonsluggo day.. We had chicken and rice last nite, and one of the boys ate a whole carton of light sour cream.. one of the ingredients. I swear they are like vacuum cleaners.
swooosh................
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Apple - lol! I have a friend - mid 60's. She hates meat but will eat a huge portion of anything with fat. And she has the most incredible sweet tooth. A whole carton of sour cream or half pound of cheese is routine for her...lol.
Yogurt with blackberries and blueberries for breakfast this morning. Now it's time to get off the internet and get something done!
Michelle
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It's 61 degrees, rainy, raw...ick! It's a beef stew kind of day and that's what's for dinner! Just got back from a quick lunch out with DH then a trip to the grocery store. Now I know why I got a wig...the ball cap just doesn't cut it when it's this chilly! Won't make that mistake again...lol!
Michelle
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try having a baseball clap get blown off your head by freezing winds (January - Kansas City downtown where the breeze blows might fast down the street.. Way too fast to catch a hat.).. and then go to the opera with only a wool scarf.. I just took it off during the performance.. it was just too hot.
My 'seating neighbors' were so kind and solacing... omg,... do you have cancer ?- you poor thing, you are so pretty.. one elderly man insisted on giving me 50 dollars. He said... 'i have cancer too. I know it's expensive."
really.
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so tonite... i am making planko pork loin.. with mashed potatoes and gravy which i adore.
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Goat cheese and red peeper pasts, salad & red wine
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Well seems as though while Irene spared us the brunt of her fury, Lee has not been so kind.... Started raining with a vengence during the night and hasn't let up!!
We're on a hill so we are doing all right but, the flooding here is just awful! We are now in a state of emergency. Schools, including the colleges have let the students out and my husband's work told them all to go home while they still can get there! So we have all made it home safe! Flooded roads everywhere!
Dinner tonight is roasted chicken, mashed potatoes with gravy (a favorite of mine, too, Apple!), and peas (not one of my favs but, my son and daughter like them)....
Hope everyone is safe, wherever you are!
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Lovegolf,
That pasta sounds good... Do you have a recipe that you use?0
