So...whats for dinner?
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..just thought I'd drop in and say hi.
Moon, next time, say something. You drove within 8-10 miles of where I live.
Wow, Special. It's good you had a quick thinking agent.
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Thanks Susan!!! I can do all that......think it will be a weekend meal.
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Eric I thought of it but you were already in the east or just leaving. We actually stayed at my Nephew's in Buckeye. LOL. If I e er get there again I'd love to meat you and your family.
Special, wow about the lamps! Fingers crossed you get your stuff out and everything goes right!
Sorry you have the crud Carole. I had that stuff just before my trip. Get better fast Red, we are on the same page - manwich for supper today too. Tomorrow it's the base of a Shepard s pie.
Minus I'm glad your trip went well. Sounds like you had fun.
Susan you know so much about food. Maybe we can absorb some through osmosis or something.
I do have to share one more picture. This is a sculpture. They also had wagons, more horses and InDians all sculpted with metal. Take special notice at the horses feet....
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Minus, I'll touch base with you on the details of the trip to Houston. I would love for us to get together. The only information I have now is that the transfer (sounds shady!) will probably be on the Sunday or Monday before Thanksgiving.
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Carole: I'll be in town. Sunday I'm free. Two doc appointments on Monday but one is non-essential & I can easily cancel. Funny mental image - you meeting somewhere in a parking lot to transfer a pig. A black market transaction?
Moon: Thanks for the tip about looking at the feet. I would have missed the deposit.
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Major job accomplished this morning. I organized my walk-in closet and inventoried shoes and clothes and got rid of a lot of both. The Veterans charity will have quite a pickup. Plus quite a bit went into garbage bags for the garbage folks. My closet looks so orderly!
On the food side the eggplant dish for dinner is all prepped. Eggplant slices browned, tomato sauce made with Italian sausage and ground chuck, romano cheese grated.
The eggplant for the baba ghanoush is roasted and all wrinkled. Now I'll check out some recipes.
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carole - good for you! I need to tackle the closet that has my children's artwork and mementos, and also the stuff I took out of my parents home of 50 years when I sold it - I have their letters to each other and official papers (birth certs, naturalization papers, etc.) but I really need to be able to use that closet, especially now that DD is back in the house and taking up closet space!
The outdoor kitchen is coming along - we now have concrete walls up and an electrical outlet. DD and I go and pick up 1200 lbs. of Ipe wood deck tiles on Tues. morning - while we will have help loading it, she and I will have to unload it ourselves, so I won't need to go to the gym!
Got my stitches out on the shin from the MOHS surgery, and also had final cryo treatment on the spot on my lymphedema arm this afternoon. Getting up at 4 am to drive over to the condo for the cleanout - the countdown has begun! Yay!
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Special - be careful with all the tile loading, especially since you already have an LE arm. Hope the trip to the coast goes well.
Sorting paperwork is the hardest for me. Just today I finally parted w/my brother's 7 diaries from his HS & college days. He died in 1994 and I brought them home when I cleaned out his place. He had no children & I have one son who would not be interested in reading them. I couldn't even touch them for all these years. I ended up tearing out some selections of special pages meaningful to me several months ago, but it took until today to consign the rest to the trash.
Dinner was Crunchmaster Multi-grain crackers w/a couple of Laughing Cow Swiss cheese chunks. The 2nd course was a Honey Crisp apple sliced thin & dipped in Philadelphia Strawberry cream cheese. Don't think I'll need anymore, but might snack on raw radishes & cauliflower later.
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Susan and SpecialK, fingers crossed for successful real estate final transactions!
Yesterday I spent the morning drying herbs (three giant bunches of basil, some thyme, oregano and sage, all from the herb garden) in the microwave. I really like how they keep their bright green color with that method. Since basil loses much of it's potency when dried, I froze half of it in small ice cube trays with olive oil. I really don't use much dried basil since I always have some growing either outside or inside in a pot, but there are a few recipes that call for dried, so I keep some on hand.
Carole, I'm so envious of your diligence in tackling your closet. I so need to do the same thing. I hope you and Lacey are feeling better.
Today I made Carole's pork butt roast with some potato pancakes, a sauteed mixture of greens with garlic and Aleppo pepper and a dash of vinegar, and applesauce. The leftover pork will be used in tacos later in the week.
It's Indian summer here, but we need rain!
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Nance,, neat that you are drying your own herbs. I have never tried the microwave method but it sounds like a good option for basil.
Carole and Minus, I hope that you can meet up during the pig transfer!
And I hope your "crud" is fast moving, Carole. Both DH and I ended up needing antibiotic "assistance" to chase ours.
Thanks for all the get better wishes, and Susan's soup offer. I felt more like I returned to the land of the living yesterday, and even ventured out and about. Today I even got up early and have pretty normal energy...so far. I hope I am getting back to a more "normal" state of functioning...and can get to finishing the many projects that await here.
I am duly impressed with your closet organization completion, Carole.......and, PAPER ORGANIZATION, ladies?! Oy!! I have a better shot at the silverfish taking care of it for me!
Made a real dinner of roast chicken with onions and carrots, butternut squash, garlic roasted broccoli, and cuke salad. Then I slow-cooked the carcass into a nice stock overnite, so will make some soups from that...probably a kale bean and a butternut squash. We are driving to CT on Tuesday to visit my stepmother, so would like to bring her some soups.
Today I also plan to make some pumpkin chocolate chip cookies for tailgating with DS2 and his friends tomorrow. Apparently he and his cohorts have decided to go minimal for their food efforts this time, so they won't be grilling on site (that's what happens when the thirty-somethings have other responsibilities, like new families!), so DH and I will make some sandwiches and roll ups to add to whatever else they bring. Love being with this group of young 'ens! But hope we don't freeze.
Portobello mushrooms and pumpkin ravs in fridge might dictate our dinner menu tonight.
This morning DH reminded me that he worked for a small neighborhood butcher shop as a young boy. It was fun to hear him talk about watching the butcher make sausage (out of quality ingredients....like Susan!) with the hand-cranked grinding device most of us seniors probably recall. Now why he cannot translate those food prep memories into more expanded kitchen skills here, I do not know!
He did transfer his shop cleaning skills to our kitchen, so I do really appreciate that. Real estate news...we might need to start another thread...DS2 made an offer on the new condo including a contingency related to sale of his current one. They are dickering about that, so we will hear what transpired tomorrow. If it is a "go" they will be in a frenzy getting their place set to sell....fast! Fortunately, they rented a storage unit when DGF moved here, so they can clear out any clutter. To be continued......
Special, glad you are getting very close to getting your friend's condo estate settled. Oy!
Eric, sorry to learn of your mother's shingles. I do so hope it is a very mild case.
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Lacey, I'm glad you're feeling better. Your chicken dinner and soups sound wonderful.
Real estate must be humming. Minus One's son, Susan, SpecialK, Lacey's son all involved in purchases and/or sales. Maybe I'd better renew my license. Just kidding! My main interest in real estate beside $ was an interest in looking at other people's houses. No wonder I didn't stick with it. My career came to a skidding halt before it got started when I was assigned desk duty on a weekend when I had committed to playing in a tennis tournament. Priorities.
I'm sitting here taking a coffee break in a very clean living room. Even the fan blades are clean. Amazing what one can accomplish staying home.
For lunch I'll have some chicken soup that I made some days ago. But no cooking for dinner today or tomorrow. Tonight we're having dinner with our former neighbors who moved out this summer to a rental house. Their house is for sale but so far they haven't succeeded in selling it. It's a niche property with a nice in-law apartment attached. I don't really understand why they moved out but they didn't consult me!
Tomorrow night we're having dinner at our club with some other couples. The women in the group are all part of our Friday golf group. The club gives members a free birthday meal and the friend who organized this dinner out had an Oct. birthday. We have a very good chef at the club and the prices are quite reasonable. I would just as soon eat out there as anywhere else here on the north shore.
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Carole - love your real estate license story. My ex-DH really wanted me to take on that career when our DS was young. He pushed & pushed, but it just wasn't for me. Sounds like some good meals coming up.
Lacey - glad you're up & around again. Yes, I remember the hand grinders. I think one was still hidden in a bottom cupboard at my Mom's when I got the house ready for sale after almost 60 years there. Yum for your roast chicken & fixings. Hope your DS2 has good luck w/his condo offer. My DS was warned that the owner of his recent purchase would not even consider an offer with ANY contingencies. Scary.
Nance - herbs in ice cube trays is a great idea.
Playing dominoes this afternoon. Seems like such an "old lady" pass time, but we have fun. I'm taking a platter of whole shrimp salad from Costo, another lady is making chicken salad sangys on mini croissants, someone will bring a pie, another some fruit. We don't plan ahead but we always have way too much to eat.
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Found a cute Maxine card for Halloween that reminded me of Carole's fall cleaning. On the front is a picture of Maxine in her kitchen w/spider webs, bats, ghosts, etc. and she says "My house isn't haunted". Open the card and it says......
"I just stopped cleaning it". Happy Early Halloween to everyone
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Minus!
And I would have enjoyed having you as my real estate broker because I bet you (and Carole) would be forthright and realistic. We had a woman like that with whom we worked for a year before ending up in this house. She was a character and drove like a madwoman (DS1 actually threw up in her car as we zoomed around curves once!), but never let by any defects she noticed in a house. THAT is my kind of broker!
Carole, you sure had your priorities straight! The joke in our house is that I never entered the real estate field, but informally managed to put people together to buy and sell their houses. True community organizing social work! It never even occurred to me how much money I saved people by doing that....and I bet I did not make the local brokers very happy. One neighbor "thanked me" by permitting me to select an item from his garage sale before his move. I picked an old bean pot which still reminds me of my faux real estate career! LOL I also sold our former house myself, which I doubt I could do now. 
I really loved the process of doing that...but hearing some of my friends talk about dealing with the younger couples who are looking at homes these days gives me pause. I think they are all under the spell of HGTV.
Just back from our walk...off to make the cookies.
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Oh my goodness I feel like I stepped away for a minute and I had 4 pages to read! I hope everyone is well and I loved looking at all of the pictures.
I only have a minute, DS1 has a friend over and I need to get started on dinner. Our camping trip was fantastic, lots of fun as always. Came back to busy, busy! Tonights dinner is chicken parm. We have had soccer 4 nights this week so this is our first not on the fly dinner...well except for chicken pot pie one night that cooked while we were out. I thought I would share some pics from camping.
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ok...that didn't work :-/
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Laurie - we'd love to see the camping pictures when you get a minute. But I remember those days. My spare minutes were at midnight when i was too tired to even read a book w/o falling asleep. Glad to have you posting again, even if sporadically.
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Susan - is my memory correct & this is your 3 week treatment again? Hope you're doing OK. Hard to believe it's been three weeks since I met Susan & Lacey in Boston.
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Today we traveled to St. Charles county to make a trip the home improvement store and decided to take advantage of the vast selection of eating places away from our little town. We settled on a new place that was opened by a guy who also has a food (taco) truck. The menu was pretty much tacos, although the nachos seemed to be a big seller. DH ordered the ground chuck tacos with pico de gallo and cotijo. I opted for the beef barbacoa tacos with cotijo and pickled onions. We ordered chips with which to sample three of their six salsas -- verde, fire roasted tomatillo and habanero. The place was packed due to the popularity of the food truck and we had to wait an incredibly long time for our food. When we finally got our order, it was incredibly underwhelming. Most everything suffered from a lack of flavor and complexity. Even the pickled onions were barely. And the chips were stale. After we left we went to ease our disappointment at the frozen yogurt store. The decadent chocolate and espresso fro yo lifted my mood considerably, even with the ensuing brain freeze.
Tonight was a ham and asparagus quiche with a blue cheese and bacon salad.
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Monica, really love the picture of you and the bear lol!
I have my dad's old fashioned meat grinder. It grinds well but it's kind of a pain to clean. I actually like trimming and cutting up whole pieces of meat -- chickens, large cuts of beef, etc. I've gotten better at it with practice. Perhaps I should have been a butcher.
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Nance - or a surgeon!!!
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Minus, you are right. This is my "off" week. Strangely, this is my lowest energy week. But, this cycle, though I am tired, I haven't napped much. Three weeks since we had dinner together? Hard to believe! Next week I have my monthly blood work, and my "oncologist" meeting, though this month I see a PA I have never met before. Next month, I see my onc again at her new workplace.
What a day we have had. We all signed a P&S. I might add a P&S that I worked very very hard to complete, and the Sellers have signed as off about 5 minutes ago!!!! But, the kitchenAid was troublesome. I wanted to make Mr. 02143 some cookie. While creaming the butter and sugar, the paddle was hitting the side of the bowl rendering it unusable. So, I pulled the kid's machine from the basement and finished the cookie dough. We will figure out the problem tomorrow. The dough has to chill and when it was ready, i turned on the oven and weighed the dough. When I put the cookie into the oven, it, well, started a fire! The damn element was on fire! At a loss, since Mr. 02143 was sleeping, I opened the Breville Oven box which arrived two days ago [my b-day present from my Mom], prepped the box, and then cooked the cookies. Not as even as the manufacturer states, but it is a decent oven!
What a day. I don't think I want one like this for at least a full week. Except, we have a purchase and sale! Next step, the Master Deed.
*susan*
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Appliance update. This morning we removed the oven door, and then pulled out the heating unit The heat coil had a huge hole where the fire had burned through. By a quirk of fate, we actually had a replacement element in the basement. After removing some gunk from the oven floor and walls, and wiping up the fire residue, the new element went in. Poof! Whoops, the connection was not tight. Second try and I have an oven again! Onto the KitchenAid mixer. I found my box of screwdrivers to adjust the screw that I assumed was the problem. No screw! The screw is missing! Well, no wonder this thing won't work. I have searched and searched, but no trace of that elusive screw. I have located a website that sells this screw, which is not just a standard machine screw. Waiting to order until we review both machines side-by-side, just in case we should be ordering a few additional things. The cost of shipping will be far greater than the cost of one screw I can assure you!
*susan*
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lacey - my mom had a hand cranked meat grinder - wish I could have brought it back to my home but it was so heavy the shipping would have been ridiculous!
susan - yay on the real estate deal! Yesterday we drove over to the condo (3.5 hour drive) removed all of our staging materials, which filled my decently sized SUV, and did some superficial cleaning. We were there as long as it took t get there, then we drove back again! Long day in the car and I discovered with all that sitting that I do indeed need to continue with physical therapy on my hip. The owner of the furniture that was still in the condo (our friend had left the contents to him) had two guys come and give estimates for whole lot, as the real estate agent indicated that the new owners have modern taste and will be having a decorator come and "do" the whole condo prior to them coming down to stay in it from NY. Closing is in 9 days, DH will drive back over for that. Also, apparently, in addition we have weird fires in common, lol!
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Susan, Breville oven = nice oven!
Kitchen aid disasters= tragic!
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Ha ha Minus, I don't think I could cut up people. I have a hard time watching the Knick and Grey's Anatomy when they're operating.
Steak and soba noodle stir fry tonight. Oh, and some bear claws I just took out of the oven.
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the lamb shanks are in the oven braising, the beans are simmering on the stove. I used a whole bottle of the wine that had no space on my countertop, so that is a good thing. Had to use vegetable stock instead of chicken in the beans...thought I had two containers alike, but I didn't and the chicken had already gone into the lamb braise... So we will see. I was really foolish--I purchased fresh herbs Tarragon, Thyme, and marjoram. No Marjoram in the recipe and I have no idea what to do with it. Only needed 3 tarragon leafs....but boy do they smell better thjan the dried. And thyme, well hey that's my favorite, so no problem using that up.
took a hard fall getting up from computer to check the b eans. Got my foot tangled up in a cord under the computer hutch and fell. I remembered to protect the right wrist but the left one and both knees are pretty hard hit. Icing now. am able to walk so think they are ok.
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red - oh no! Hope you are ok!
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Red - sorry to hear about your fall. Hope the injuries are minor.
Hijacking the thread for a short musical review. Went to see Mercury (baroque) this afternoon at a neighborhood concert. I am floating on air. The conductor, Antoine Plante, is originally from Montreal. He tells a story before each piece. They use only period instruments - gut strings, shorter & more curved Baroque bows, woodwinds w/less keys actually crafted of wood, brass w/no valves, etc. For the first concert of their 15th anniversary season, they picked favorite musical moments from past seasons. Group was 4 violins, 4 violin II, 2 Viola, 2 cello, 1 Violone, and Harpsichord on some selections. Program was Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Rebel's Les characteres de las danse, Bach's Concerto for two violins in Dm, and Vivaldi's Summer. His story about the Mozart was when he was a teen playing on the streets for extra money, they always got twice the contributions for Eine kleine Nachtmucik than any other piece. And how there was a storm & the lights went out at a previous outdoor performance, and the orchestra continued the entire piece, not missing a note. I believe the Bach concerto was the best I've ever heard. OK - back to our regular scheduled topic.
Two things from Costo that I've found good for snack munching: Dark Chocolate covered Almonds w/Turbinado sugar & sea salt; and Quinoa Clusters enrobed in Dark Chocolate with Acai & Blackberry. I watch sodium not fat, but the first has only 55 mg sodium per 1/4 cup & 200 calories, and the second has 0 sodium per 1/3 cup & 150 calories. Here's a link to an interesting article about Ancient Grains and NY City restaurants. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/18/dining/ancient-g...
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Red, I'm glad (hopeful?) that you're OK. I remember a few years back on this thread suggesting that "Velcro cable management" be checked out with an Internet search engine.
The crud has found me and I've been hiding in my hotel room hoping that I won't pass it on to anyone else.
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