So...whats for dinner?
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Oh, and I don't care for Edge either.
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freezing rain, driving rain, downed power lines, downed tree limbs, road closures......No bowling tonight as the bowling alley and the mall have lost power at noon and still not back on. I cancelled my Dad's wound clinic apt at 2;pm this a.m. and I want you to know that 1 pm it was raining so hard you couldn't see across the street. It took me forever to get home detouring around closed streets.
He is safe with chicken pot pie to have for supper and I am safe with Gumbo on the stove.......So far, power is on.
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Love reading about everyones Christmas shenanigans and all the great food involved
Susan glad that you have become the "cruise ship navigator" I have always told my family that I am the cruise navigator and if everyone just listens and "follow my direction" no one will get hurt! haha of course that didn't always go as planned
I used Susan's potato recipe and it came out great...I always forget about that great Gruyere cheese. I had a great macaroni and cheese at my SIL dinner on Christmas day. It remained creamy after baking and hanging at the buffet...her response was that it had an egg in the mix. Hmmm? anyone aware of this? Said it was her grandmas recipe.
Me, hubby, 2 kids and future Dil decided to call ourselves the Christmas crashers...we hit up everyones family dinners (after the dinner) so that we got to see all friends and family. We just called everyone...asked what time their dinner was...and then showed up a few hrs later to chill have a drink and chat. Busy busy Kids all gone home now and it time to close the kitchen and let it rest. Leftovers till there gone.
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I'm not sure what's for dinner tonight. Sharon's doing the Jenny Craig (lost 1-1/2 pounds this week) meals, so DD and I are on our own...... I'm sure it will involve leftovers! :-)
The weather here is cool (low 50s) but clear.
While dusting the house, I broke a valance clip on some metal blinds. All parts must be ordered on-line--7 to 10 day time to ship and another 7 days to get here...all for a tiny plastic clip. sigh.....
As for the attorney. The first estate attorney I called doesn't do that kind of work (?) and recommended that I contact the original attorney. When I told him the original attorney had died 15 years earlier and I wasn't able to find who took over his work, he told me he'd check with the bar association for me and call back in a few minutes. Ten minutes later, he had the name of someone that *should* be able to help me. I was impressed with this attorney's willingness to help and hope the recommended attorney can help me.
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Eric, amazing how hard it can be to find a decent estate lawyer. Here in Boston, we actually have many but they are very expensive. It is time for me to have a session or two with one. I am thinking that my real estate lawyer would be a good place to ask for a recommendation. Only lawyer I know that I would take a suggestion.
Moon, those grand babes are just gorgeous. They must give you much joy. Are you still watching them one day a week?
The weather west of here is just wild. Sadly, it may have made its way to us now. The temps are dropping and they are warning that we will have an ice storm tomorrow. The kids have to go to yet another funeral tomorrow north of the city. I really hope that the roads are not too slippery. The disaster rye bread tastes great! It has a beautiful crumb. Great sandwich bread. So I guess I should freeze the three extra loaves. Today's breakfast was half a toasted English muffin with some peanut butter. I think this is better than the oatmealDinner was a lamb stew from the magic freezer over some Jasmine rice. I ate more rice than lamb. My body is still figuring out these drugs. I thought I was stuffed after just a few bites, and now I am munching on some nuts. Giving yourself chemo is really surreal.
*susan*
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Breakfast was two eggs fried over easy in butter w/an English Muffin on the side. I love eggs but always forger about them.
Dinner was a huge Russet potato, baked & covered w/butter & salt. Yummy.
Dessert was three (3) DeMets Turtles that I was gifted. Didn't need even one.
Eric our temperatures yesterday went from 77 at noon to 47 after dinner. I've been cold all day. Good luck with the attorney issue. I put my first DH through law school, only so after the divorce he could sue me for child custody & I had to pay for another atty. My dear brother is also an attorney, but anytime I ask for advice, he says I'm not that kind of atty. Hummm. You probably don't want to hear my opinion of lawyers.
Carbury - great to hear from you. I like the "crashers" idea.
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Minus, ungrateful wretch. Did he win? And that potato sounds good...... what is it about chemo and carbs? *susan*
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Susan - chit no. I raised the kid & he disappeared. Sounds like you are at least looking on line. How are the SEs? Worrying about you. I know - no percentage in that but still, I care.
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Minus,
It is only day 2. I have enough experience at this to know that my body will make some adjustments.... so far, my stomach has let me know that something foreign is irritating it. One bout of "explosive" diarrhea [TMI], a headache that requires Advil after each dose. I am having some "normal" appetite issues, but I do expect that to fade. HandFoot is already happening in my feet, but only because the last drug got me started. I bumped my hand against a metal tab on my bread forms, and actually was cut down several layers! I think that I need to make it full the whole cycle before I report anything definitive. Does that make sense? Each cycle is 14 days on; 7 days off.
Truly appreciate your concern and thoughts.... damn we need to have dinner again!
*susan*
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No attorney ideas here, I'm afraid. I always sort of wished there was one in the family so we could access referrals if needed, but we seem to have slid by so far. Minus, I can totally understand your disdain for them!
Carrie, loved your idea for connecting with the fam! Covers a lot of ground and leaves very few dishes to be done!
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Susan, so nice that your rye bread turned out to have serendipitous taste and crumb!
Spent half of today labelling and stuffing envelopes for the local school admin....the excitement of volunteering. And I may actually return later in the week as this parent survey mailing is H.U.G.E. I'm not sure how they will be able to get it out w/o a lot of volunteer help.
Then off to the gym to try to get back in the swing of healthy behavior....HA! My body is screaming from the effort....but after all my holiday indulgences, no surprise.
Minus, those turtles are one of my absolute faves!! Three sounds like a nice amount.
After the gym, I decided to cancel its benefit by eating out. We found a little pub where I had a delicious crabcake BLT and DH had a very interesting salad with baby greens, pomegranate, and almonds, accompanied by a crabcake. We were both sated! Glad we found it.
Last evening I made spinach turkey meatballs and we ate some with marinara sauce over wheat angel hair and a salad. I have never liked the idea of ground turkey meatballs, but am trying to change my rigidity about that.....and had loads of spinach to use, thus the spinach addition. I did not like the first bite....but adapted, and enjoyed the meal a lot. Besides a tomato sauce what have people done with such fowl meatballs? Feeling turkey meatball challenged!
One of my favorite work friends who is on school break is coming over for tea in the morning. We'll have pizzelles, Welsh cakes, and some fruit....maybe yogurt. Lots of excess from the holiday....a good time to have a friend over for tea!
Bracing for oncoming winter weather! Hope all you midwest and southwesterners are staying safe.
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Hmmm...on second thought, Susan, maybe that resource I mentioned to you several months ago may well have estate lawyer ideas. I am sorry that you are already experiencing those SEs, but am also hopeful that your prediction based on past experience will prove to be accurate, and your body will adapt in a very tolerable way. With ya in spirit.....
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Great to have you check in, Luv. Yes, what will happen to the goats if you move?
Carrie, I would love to have that mac and cheese recipe. I've never had a mac and cheese stay creamy.
The stuffed cabbage leaves with the Rao sauce was good last night. The salad was also good with the additions of avocado, Greek olives and blue cheese.
Yesterday was ideal weather for jeans. The dreaded humidity gone. Today is another good day but then the rain returns. My sister and I have 5 to 6 hours of driving to Sandersville, MS. That's round trip. We're taking the 12 year old and 10 year old home.
Susan, how's the toilet hunt going?
Lacey, crab cake blt sounds like a good variation of blt.
Something easy for dinner tonight. That's usually rib eye.
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Hi all - have not been on the computer lately, but have been missing you all!
Had fun reading about everyone's holiday escapades and meals! Ours was low key - DD had to work Christmas Eve, and then we wrapped gifts together - we are wrapping procrastinators! We did gifts Christmas morning - just the four of us, the dog (who really enjoys Christmas and opens his own gifts, and those of the other pets!), and the new kitten - whose name is Flynn (finally!) DD gave me a cake pop pan and book (hint, hint - the kid loves cake pops), and I got a new glass bowl with a scraper beater for the KitchenAid mixer, which I asked for from DH, also got a cookbook from DS - which I also asked for. DD gave me the only "surprise" gift - other than the kitten - which was a YETI rambler cup - keeps things hot and cold for hours - and they are backordered to the tune of 12 million nationwide. She has a friend who works for YETI and she asked him to express one to her - so I felt extra special! Mostly I received the kitten and a new fridge for the garage, which I bought myself. It was delivered on the morning of the 24th. Shocking that my barely 4 year old Whirlpool was irretrievably broken by a catastrophic leak, which would have cost more to fix than it did to buy a new fridge - got a "garage-ready" one so hopefully our unmercifully hot temps in the summer - and apparently Christmas which was a record 85 degrees - will not ruin this one.
We had peppered pork tenderloin, red potato salad with sour cream dressing and dill, Asian cabbage salad for dinner on the 23rd, spaghetti with Bolognese sauce, salad and garlic rolls on Christmas Eve, sticky buns (country biscuit dough, dipped in butter and rolled in cinnamon sugar - kind of like Monkey Bread), scrambled eggs with goat cheese, and home fries for Christmas breakfast - DD made "peach" Bellini's with prosecco, OJ, peach schnapps, and grenadine - after which I took a nap, and we standing rib roast, penne alfredo with pancetta, and sautéed zucchini on Christmas night. I did not make a single dessert or baked good, other than caramel corm which I took to my in-laws on the weekend prior. I have managed to lose 5 lbs. since surgery on the 10th - but it helped that we attended no parties or gatherings and nobody gifted us with any sweets either. Other than cake pops - haha, my family are not really dessert eaters - I didn't routinely serve dessert when my kids were growing up either. Surgery tends to depress my appetite, so I have also been eating small portions. I had done some backsliding and re-gained a few lbs., so this is a good thing.
luv - good to hear from you - I am also wondering about the goats if you move!
eric - yes, you are a gem! Love the good care you give to your mom and MIL.
susan - hang in there, glad you are steady enough to prepare (the toilet thing made me laugh), and that you are figuring out your way with this new drug - and certainly hoping it does the job. Also, glad to hear the rye bread tastes great after giving you some trouble earlier!
To all of our tablemates in the midst of weather - be careful, and stay warm and dry!
lacey - I like turkey burgers with spinach broiled, topped with cheese and eaten on a bun with condiments, or small-ish turkey meatloaves, baked and topped with a ketchup/brown sugar/dry mustard mixture about 15 minutes before they are done.
moon - precious pic of the babies!
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Happy Birthday Bedo! Hope you enjoy some mussels, calamari, big pots of soup, and can stay all snuggled at home in PJ's on this rather nasty day.
*susan*
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Happy birthday BEDO!!!!! Guess you all are getting the weather we had in the Midwest yesterday!
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Moon, what beautiful babies!
I love all your Christmas stories. My daughter has a large family on her Dad's side in Philly and her new hubby has one there too. They went there for Thanksgiving and decided to do low key with just the three of us for Christmas. We went for Chinese food which DD and I have done our whole lives, in Cambridge, but we didn't want to show him how odd we really were buy not giving presents- last year DD regifted me a $5 ring and I bought her a $2 scratch ticket (she won $2) and paid off a $50 layaway for a little girl in her name. So we decided to act "normal" I gave them the Cat Stevens album Tea for the Tillerman and they gave me a beautiful fleece vest and pin from a crafts show. My DD have er DH a 33 turntable for his birthday and his mom and I are building the collection. I bought The Band before, but I didn't want to show them what a horrible person I used to be so I stayed away from Lou Reed, Janis and Jimi.
DSIL got a job in Boston Yay! at Wayfair So will stay close and I get the family discount.
Good to hear from you Goats and glad your well Susan how did you EVER remember my birthday? I took the day off.
Hello Eric, carberry, special, red, Auntie, minus, goats, Eric Carol lacey and everyone who I forgot because I'm OLD!
I need a good person to tell me how to retire, what to do with the atlanta house, my 401k etc if any of you Boston ladies know of one.
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Happy birthday Bedo and may your day be lovely!
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Nancy, I got tired of scraped knuckles and now grate my Parm Reg and Gruyere with a Zyliss rotary grater (the kind waitstaff at Italian restaurants use). Comes apart and goes in the dishwasher.
Lacey, so funny about the black rice. Last year DH & I went to Mercat a la Planxa (Iron Chef Jose Garces' place in the S. Loop) for dinner and decided, for a change of pace, to share a squid ink paella. Bad idea. Oh, it was yummy, but it took me days to get the stains out of my manicure (cuticles included) and when I got home to brush my teeth, it really freaked me out.
Christmas was low-key for us too. Our friends roasted goose, but because of my cold were fine with me not preparing any dishes to bring but just bring wine & champagne. Last night's dinner was a raid-the-freezer meal: nuked buffalo chicken wings, celery sticks, and crumbled some Roth Kase Buttermilk Blue cheese into ranch dressing. Washed it down with seltzer & lime. Defrosted a little American Wagyu ribeye filet (part of our last shipment from the Signorello Wine/Steak River Farms meat club--which has been discontinued in favor of “allocation lists"), and will pan-sear it, along with broccoli rabe, wild mushrooms, and Cook's Illustrated's recipe for skillet-roasted cauliflower (sans breadcrumb garnish). On any other night when having a great steak, I'd whip out the new Coravin and use it to pour a couple of oz. of a really good Cabernet without actually opening the bottle; but seeing as how much wine I drank on the cruise and that New Year's Eve is coming up in a couple of days, I'm teetotaling it at home for quite awhile. I have some Sutter Home Fre (no-alcohol) Red Blend opened for when I made glogg Christmas Eve, but de-alcoholized wine tastes like sour boiled grape juice to me (as opposed to some dealcoholized beers--especially Kaliber--that taste like the real thing). For brunch this morning, I took a slice of low-carb whole wheat bread, cookie-cuttered out two circles from it, used the circles with a turkey sausage patty as sort of a sausage-biscuit, and fried an egg in the hole. Washed it down with a breve cappuccino. (Ten-day-old beans still good).
When we get home from B'way Cellars Thurs. night (if I'm still feeling too punk to walk the 1/4 mi each way, I'll drive and forgo dinner wine), I will put out some pate, jamon & lomo Iberico I got at the Barcelona airport duty-free shop, cheeses, paddlefish and whitefish caviars, and a platter of the baklava and specialty cookies we got as presents. And I will be pouring the bubbly, of course (I think the '99 DP is still good, but will supplement it with PJ Flower Bottle and Santana Supernatural Brut or DVX).
Still have a lot of crud rattling around in my lungs--tough to cough it up, but what does come up (as well as postnasal drip) still looks viral, so not going to my PCP because he'd probably give me an antibiotic (don't want to create superbugs or develop yet another allergy). Ventolin inhaler not cutting it, so DH's office e-mailed in a 'scrip for generic Duo-Neb (DS and I each have our own nebulizers--the family that wheezes together....). CVS delivered it, and my insurance (United, to which I must bid adieu on Fri.) covered it completely. (Medicare Part D will not be so generous). I can try some in an hour. I know one of the treatments for asthma is a steroid inhaler, but those will further trash my already osteopenic bones and cause irreversible vocal cord atrophy. Not performing as much these days, but seeing as how my next two gigs are unplugged house concerts I need all the volume I can muster.
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Happy Birthday Bedo.
I found a lawyer that will take the work and their rate is $275 per hour. We may also have to engage an accountant, so that will be extra. But it's money well spent. I don't want to have any ugly surprises.
Chi, the ink paella result sounds like some of the kids taking a black marker and coloring a few of their teeth! I'd look up in the mirror on the bus, do a "double take" and get lots of giggles... I hope the new stuff helps clear out the lungs. I hate being like that.
Special, a cake pop pan?
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Chi, I have one of those zyliss graters. It's sitting on the shelf in my gadget box -- those things that I don't use but can't bear to part with (yet.) The size of the thing and the rotary motion is a little painful to my arthritic hands. I now grate large chunks on the microplane box grater with a cut proof glove underneath a latex glove. Of course you have to watch that you don't end up with bits of latex in the cheese lol! I suppose that's better than bits of flesh, however
Ventured out to the supermarket today. Picked up a couple of artichokes to try in the pressure cooker with garlic and lemon. I'll be very happy if that turns out well. The machine cooks rice like a champ.
Tonight is smoked garlic sausage with sauerkraut and mashed potatoes (weird combo i know. It's my late mil's fault), spiced apples and cornbread. The highlight for me will be the cornbread.
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Oh so fun Special. DH works for a sports retailer and he gave DD a Yeti cup. They got 100 in and were sold out in I think 2-3 hours. I love my Yeti cooler but then you know - wink, wink - it was a raffle reward item at his work.
Happy Birthday Bedo.
Dinner last night was a use it up kind of night. A box of Zatarains wild rice mix with the leftover turkey with some frozen soup seasoning vegies and a little turkey gravy over it for good measure. Plenty of it left for tonight and then more freezer diving tomorrow. Have a bunch 'o gold potatoes I need to use up. Just had one nuked for lunch. I bought a bottle of tzatziki seasoning a while back and put that over it with some butter. I think dill is just about my favorite flavor.
Bought a bag of frozen black eyed peas to cook/send some home with DD. She bravely answered when I asked her that she had never eaten any I had sent home with her. So - did not bother to cook them. I guess I will do that for New Years Day. The do have "fresh" ones in the produce section but they are actually rehydrated dry ones. Umm - why bother and pay the added price. The farmers' market in the county seat might have frozen fresh ones but not going that far. Will just make it into town tomorrow which means Brookshires. I didn't even get to Central Market or TJs this Christmas. But January starts my doc visits again which means excuse to shop. I may go shopping on NYD since DH is off and can dog sit. One of these days I will have to get to that new Fresh Market. Whole Paycheck is coming along though much more slowly than I would have anticipated. And just looked - Susan's Surly Table will be in the same center. They just opened out in Southlake out near the airport - 1st in Tarrant County.
Carole and Carrie - I've made a mac 'n cheese with egg in it and it turned out weird. Probably more recipe related than the egg in it.
http://www.food.com/recipe/ultimate-macaroni-and-c...
I made this not long ago. Deli was clearing out "Dutch Garden" processed cheese with pimiento. It made great mac 'n cheese. Doubt I used the quart of whole milk, probably used a bit a heavy cream and some evap. milk. I am really bad about making something and then wondering what I did differently that I liked. I'm usually doing good if I bookmark the internet site.
Moving is a problem. After living in the country for 17 years I'm not sure DH will tolerate close neighbors. We have traffic sure. We live on a road that leads further out from the high school and is a main road into town. So yes we have that and esp. since we live on the corner. But we moved from a house that was the 2nd one on the access road from the major loop around Ft Worth. So traffic noise is relative. At least we don't have police helicopters at all hours. And this house is paid for. We got a terrific deal on it but then put more money into adding on. Would be very hard pressed in town to get anything decent in decent neighborhood for what we would get for this plus the added real estate fees. Neighbor down the street just moved into next bigger town going into Ft Worth but their son lives there. Husband was becoming incapable physically of caring for bigger acreage - much more than we have. Building something I understand from a mutual friend but then again it is not country. The goats - dilemma. I have 13, 2 are much older and in 2 years probably won't be with me. The youngest 2 now will be 3 in March. So many years left for them. I made a pact with myself/DH (mostly myself) to not sell any does because I don't want them bred. I have 9 of them. All males except Mr. Bucky (one of the old ones) are neutered which is good. Breeding bucks smell. But I can take steps to clean this house out.
Anyone have any ideas for turning a very small bedroom into a sitting room? (When DD lived in the dorm she thought it was funny everyone complaining about the small rooms. It was a bit smaller than hers at home but not by much) It will still have to have a single bed/daybed since it is where DD sleeps when she comes out. It has a very basic single bed with an old mattress. No headboard/footboard. The frame is the same one from when she moved from toddler bed (she is 28 1/2 haha). We let her paint the room electric blue. Hmm lots of things need to happen there. Stuffed in the back of the closet are all my scrubs. DH said "send them to Goodwill". I guess he's accepting of the fact I'll not be working again. License renews in Sept - I'll probably make it inactive. Not sure what that means other than I don't have to do continuing education which is a joke. Read a workbook/answer questions. Does not require "class" attendance.
Sandy - I dread navigating the Medicare waters. Since DH is still working and has really good insurance for a retail co, he is only on Part A starting in January. I made him be a big boy and call the ins. co himself to find out how that worked rather than delegating it to me. I have recycled so much junk from ins. companies. They could certainly reduce their rates with curtailing some of that. I too hope your neb treatments do the trick.
Waiting and waiting on UPS delivery. I love Amazon Prime but geesh. Split his order in 2, one delivered yesterday and one today. I was pleased it was going to be delivered Wednesday. It was nothing urgent, well maybe kinda. We have had a roof turbine ventilator ice up a couple of years ago and nearly ripped it out of the roofing it was sooo out of balance. Mr. Not Plan Ahead - how are your vent covers? "Shot" Maybe you should check for some. Nope none locally, maybe in Ft Worth but none at Lowes/Home Depot. Yup Amazon has them.
Funny Nancy - bits of latex. Hear the National Guard has been called out in MO. Not good. We are thawing but the side yard is still covered over.
Susan - I hope you are continuing to do relatively well with your self administered chemo.
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Bedo - Glad Susan remembered your B-day so we could all chime in with wishes. Hope you're treating yourself to something extravagant. What's wrong with Lou Reed? Boy, I guess I'd be in trouble if I listed some of my vinyl. Your exchange sounds fun & so glad your DSIL got a job in Boston.
Special & ChiSandy - your meals sound wonderful, Sandy - I agree that non-alcoholic wine is a waste of my time.
Eric - glad you found a lawyer who does estate & trust work. Hope you find him/her easy to communicate with. I agree, money well spent to avoid problems later.
Lunch today with ex-DH & his wife was very nice. I had Rainbow trout, spinach w/pecans, French green lentils, nice glass of Hahn Meritage. He had a tenderloin steak. She had Sweet Potato & Spinach Enchiladas. Excellent bread - nine grain, rosemary, cranberry/walnut & sourdough from their own bakery. You can see I won't need dinner.
But I have to confess - yes I ate 3 turtles just like I planned. But then I went back and ate two more. Sigh.
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Luv gave my sportsfan children yeti cups for Christmas, they were pricey but I think worth it. the best concept being that your beverage stays cold to the last drop, no warm stuff wasted.
So apparently Ina Garten was reading our minds and was answering questions about pasta (mac n cheese) in a nutshell, she said a good white sauce and good cheeses (not stabilized cheese) whatever that means. Take the white sauce off the heat before adding the cheese...no mention if it stays creamy or not.
Happy Birthday Bedo I hope u did something fun and adventurous to celebrate.
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Happy Birthday. Bedo!
Minus, LOL on the turtles. LOL your lunch sounded wonderful.
I think I'll take a break from leftovers and make chicken tonight. Then tomorrow will be bean soup with the ham bone. Of course I'll have to give most of that away or find room to freeze it. Or maybe it will e easier to find room for the bone and wait for the weekend to age the soup. LOL
Eric, my DBIL and DSIL are both lawyers. But we have other lawyer s when we need them because everyone is soecialuzed. But, they can help steer us to a reliable one which is worth their weight in gold. LOL
LMG, good to hear from you and I don't know what we'd do if we had to move after being here 34 years.
Medicare screwed me up once already. Well see what happens with the correction in place. My DH still has good insurance so his is primary and I don't need the drug part yet. I dread changing that. Well pay so much more. Oh. And he STILL doesn't know if he's going to Florida. They keep changing their minds.
Nancy, before food processors I used to leave a part of me in every batch of potato pancakes. LOL
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eric - here is a link to the site by the person whose cake pop cookbook she gave me, and it shows them. Little round bites of cake on a stick with a frosting coating of some kind. Like a cake lollipop! I am not sure if I will make fancy ones or not!
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decided to post 2 so I didn't lose my long posts.
I received a laptop for christmas but have to back up the operating system before I start putting in apps..In had to find DVD-Rs to do that. Did NOT want to go o Walmart so got them at our IT store in town. Worth it not o venture in Wallyworld.
Chisandy, LOL at the black rice adventure. Reminds me of children's cakes with the awful bright blue or purple icing. Your teeth natch. As does your poop. Oops TMI. LOL
Specialk, glad you enjoyed xmas. Let us know if the cake pop pans work. Be nice to know. I just passes on my Sesame street pans to my daughters. Be a few years before they need the Star wars ones. LOL. I have 2 stand up cake pans I used to make dogs and lions. Way back when.
Carole I'm going to be lazy and ask what Rad sauce is?
Red hope things are going ok with you.
Susan hope you felt a handle on the SES quickly.
Hope everyone is safe from the nasty stuff that went by us last night. Got 8 inches here. DH got 13 an hour and a half north. Quite a change. If I forgot someone. I'm sorry. Much love to all
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Lacey - is it you who has sort of followed Laurie on FaceBook? If so, will you please tell her Happy New Year from the dinner thread - or the kitchen table as we're sometimes called.
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Thank you all for your Birthday wishes! They made me feel really good!
Choices were, stay in PJs, read, practice violin , play farmville with my Spanish speaking "friends" (who I don't know) get day drunk, take a nap before going out with friends for dinner. I chose: PJs Practice, (Susan, I finally recognized Romeo and Juliet's Tchaikovsky's flute section after I've almost got it down, but didn't cheat it made me feel really good to do that) Play Farmville, and make 3 fires , read, snuggle with cats and be alone with my thoughts (my favorite thing on my days off) before going out for dinner. I know that you are all wild women and yes, minus, Lou Reed was a bad boy
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Nancy, sounds like you’re doing choucroute garnie--swap out the mashed spuds for home-fries or warm potato salad and you’ll be all the way there! (I like to throw in some juniper berries and caraway seeds and rinse the kraut first for a milder taste). And I treasure my kevlar/steel mesh glove ever since I took 6 stitches in each of my L ring & middle fingers last spring while trying to slice a very desiccated lime. (I paid more out of pocket for that at the doc-in-the-box around the block than DH paid for 4 hospitalizations & 2 surgeries this summer. He’s been on Medicare since Oct. 2014, I still have conventional insurance for two more days. Under Part D, drugs will cost us more--especially since mfrs.’ co-pay discount cards won’t be available, but with my supplement everything else will be cheaper than my current premium/deductible/co-pays. And many more providers take Medicare than my PPO).
luvmygoats, the NY TImes had an article today on Southern field peas--they’re much more flavorful than the usual run of black-eyed peas. Might be worth searching for them if you have a particularly large and ethnically diverse produce section at your grocery.
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Not so much diversity Sandy lol. Brookshires is run of the mill grocery but really has decent stock. I live in (actually about 5 miles outside) small town NW of Ft Worth. Population 2500 I think. Central Market has lots of stuff - local Texas company but about as gourmet as I've seen. Yes field peas. I love cream peas, much more delicate than black eyes though some I think consider them cow fodder. They too are probably in the farmers market freezer. Just the southern good luck to eat black eyes on NYD. Boring story - others who have read this can tune out lol. In 1961 my very Texan DM/DF and my brother and I moved from Albuquerque to Honolulu. I was in the 4th grade. My GM mailed dried black eyes to my DM. Our Chinese landlords who lived next door invited us for NYD dinner. DM says great but I must bring my good luck black eyed peas. Landlord says bring them on - we need good luck. The following year they invited us again with the caveat my DM bring those "black beans" again. Had had new grandson, property had gone up in value and other things. It is a family story I continue to pass down to my DD.
OO Sandy - I was able to pull up the NYT article. Will enjoy reading that. I have (notice past tense!) planted cream peas. Not much of a gardener now. DH graveled over my garden which I was seriously NOT using for parking for his hauling trailer. Not heard of Sea Island Red peas. There are all kinds of obscure southern peas. Several varieties of cream peas themselves.
On a sad note my rosemary bush/baby tree took a hit from the soft wet snow. Hope it bounces back. Other snows, ice and stuff haven't bothered it. Usually we get that dry snow that doesn't stick on much. That explains why I thought the snow was so artful on the tree limbs.
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