So...whats for dinner?
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To clarify about the shrimp-it was 100 lbs of "heads on" medium sized shrimp. Took several hours for him to "de head" them. We ended up with about 65 lbs of shrimp. DH does this several times a year. He has a great system and sets up in the garage- never in the house, haha. We live just below Charlotte but he is from Charleston and that is where we met- 34 years ago. DH knows several shrimpers down in McClellanville and we get our shrimp right off the boat when he goes down there. Nothing like it.
Cats are funny but, Bedo- you are so funny talking about yours. I was laughing aloud reading your post. Thanks for the chuckle!
Mommy- BLTs sound great- may make some for lunch.
Happy Sunday everyone!
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How fun to have Happy & Valstim join us at the kitchen table. Welcome ladies.
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Watermelon for breakfast!!
A group of neighbor ladies is going to see "Shear Madness" this afternoon at a local rep theater. The play supposedly holds the Guinness World Records for the longest-running play U.S. play; over 15,000 productions in Boston alone. We'll eat afterwards but no decisions on what kind of food or where yet. It will be before 5pm so we shouldn't need reservations anywhere.
Sandy - wow, I didn't know the Uber drivers rated customers. Eeek. Special - I too have a number of shoes that are no longer comfortable post chemo. And more that are not advisable to wear due to the dead feed of neuropathy. Bedo - thanks for the smiles.
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valstim - good to see you over from the surgery thread, welcome and also to happyhammer. I was just in S. Carolina last weekend to see my in-laws - they live in Beaufort - good shrimp area!
I just made something interesting - I needed to use up some of the duck eggs because DD brought home a whole new bag. I have to admit that I don't want to eat them - I am not that much of an egg person, but the texture and viscosity of the whites of the duck eggs are a bit off-putting for me. I don't mind cooking them for DH though - he loves them! I decided to make a frittata because I could use a bunch of the eggs and have leftovers for sending with him to work over the next couple of days. I had made the Yukon potato salad yesterday, with some crumbled bacon, celery, red onion and a mayo dressing with a tiny bit of sugar and salt and pepper. I cooked some orange pepper and onion in the sauté pan with olive oil, then added a little clean bacon fat and two big spoons of the potato salad. I cooked this until the potatoes got a little crust and I was curious if the mayo would sort of melt in, and it did. I added a big handful of torn kale, then added the duck eggs that had been whisked with some sharp cheddar. I cooked it in the pan until the edges set and then put it in the oven for about 20 minutes, topping it with some grated parm the last five minutes. Success!
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Hey there SpecialK, Hi minustwo and all the others. I love this thread. It really has gotten me through some dark times. Just to let you ladies know, even though some do not post, there are a lot of us lurkers out there. Hey ChiSandy, grew up in Chicago, Lake Forest to be exact, I know a yuppie, but we never knew it growing up.
Making stuffed peppers. i have some lovely red peppers from my garden, italian sausage and onions and my last jar of tomatoes from last year. Then I will have my version of succotash: baby limas, corn, okra (fresh from the garden) onions and hot smoked sausage..
yum. At least I have the energy. Had #16/33 rads on Friday and was wiped out yesterday. Today I'm the energizer bunny.
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For my fellow spiralizers..... I was watching Sara Moulton on CREATE and her guest Amanda Cohen just made this fabulous looking zucchini dish. Does need labneh, or in a pinch, you could thicken your own yogurt. Vegetarian [not Vegan.]
http://saramoulton.com/2015/11/zucchini-and-pasta-...
*susan*
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Thanks, Susan. This looks really good. I'm just getting started with spiraling and just bought a cuisinart spiralizer. I found this recipe the other day on Pinterest that I'm trying tonight for dinner.
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Busy group here....is everyone sitting in air conditioning, needing something to do indoors? I too am enjoying our expanded table! And love all that shrimp talk......
Special, that duck egg frittata sounds delish!
We went to our paltry Farmer's Market today after having a casual local brunch out (fruit and oatmeal for me, veggie omelet for him) due to no food in the house! I'm so disappointed that the market has fewer vendors than last year and I am missing my favorite family farm that offered fabulous greens of so many varieties. I think Sunday is not the best day for a FM in this town since so many people are away on weekends. So I'm guessing that they are losing vendors.
I am off to TJMaxx to replace a carry-on size suitcase that I ruined in Chicago last Sept, trying to go through a turnstyle with it in tow! Admittedly stupid move, but the suitcase friendly non turnstyle exit was closed. So, off I go. DH has the mission to pick up some groceries for dinner (probably chicken...if he has abeer, he will happily grill, despite the heat and humidity), and breakfast foods to get us through Tuesday AM.
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Dinner won't take me long to make. Hubby cooked up the bacon earlier today so I won't have to stand for a long time making dinner. Hiding inside with air conditioning today
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Costco has a 2-pc. composite polycarb/fiberglass 4-wheel spinner luggage set (rollaboard and 26”) for $105. Might not be there tomorrow. Lightweight, though not as light as my Rimowa Salsa Air pieces--but heckuva lot cheaper.
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Thanks for the warm welcome, y'all
It's like a sauna here! Just went over to help DH pick our neighbor's garden. Oh my- brutal! Have been giving away veggies to other neighbors so will take some of the bounty to a local food pantry in the morning. Folks are always glad to get fresh stuff!
Don't eat duck eggs but the frittata sounds lovely, Special.
Good luck finding replacement suitcases that you like and suit your needs, Lacey and Sandy. I always hate having to replace something like that but with the new technology- maybe you will find something even better than what you had- Sandy the price you quoted sounded great!.
SO, our local grocery helped cook dinner tonight. Broke down and bought a rotisserie chicken. Having it with leftover veggies and a green salad. Easy-peasy. Too hot and humid to cook or grill here.
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The show "Shear Madness" was really funny. I understand it's still playing in Boston - more than 15,000 performances. Any of you Boston gals see it?
Dinner was at Berryhill Cantina. All the food was good - and large servings. I had breakfast burritos w/egg, potato & cheese. One had their specialty - fish tacos. One had 1/2 & 1/2 quesadillas - poblano/chicken & spinach/???. One had fajita tacos - beef & chicken. Sure glad I hadn't eaten lunch.
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Thanks Susan & Dara for the recipes. I love my manual Oxo spiralizer.
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Thanks for reminding me about spiralizing- bought a spiralizer in early spring and thought I would wait to have fresh zucchini to use it. Forgot abt it- have plenty of zucchini so will try it now.
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Camp log Day 32:
I have let the Cat down again. Apparently, Fresh Step is not acceptable. That is all that was available in Copake, NY after camp sick call last night. He is used to Seal and Clump. He strode around all last night stating "Mack!" "MacK!!" in the dark. I think that is a swear word.
I am growing weary of his demands, and those of some of the campers.
A bug bite is not cause to arrive an hour early for sick call.
The flu continues to march through camp. In July!!
I fear for my sanity and long for my garden and peaceful life in Providence. Lobster and whole bellies by the sea wouldn't hurt either.
3 1/2 weeks left
A cookout with macaroni salad, watermelon and warmed up veggie burgers for dinnner
In a fit of passive agressiveness,,I served the Cat dry food-Purina Complete.
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bedo - you are hilarious
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.....ooooh.....whole-belly clams...fresh from the fryer....homemade tartar sauce, hand-cut fries with salt & malt vinegar....but I draw the line at Moxie. (bleccch--only thing worse is Diet Moxie).
Decided to grill before the storm hit. Defrosted a Niman Ranch grass-fed “Bistro (hanger) steak.” Seasoned it with espresso salt and pepper. Started with an insalata Caprese (yellow tomato, basil, mozzarella di bufala over arugula). With the steak, I grilled asparagus and a small sweet potato, and finished the last glass of Rioja. Think I’ll have some yogurt and tart cherries. Hope it keeps me away from the gelato, sorbet, salt caramels and chocolate-covered mini grahams.
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Bedo, your cat stories make me smile.
My first cat (a stray) enslaved me about 2 months after I moved into the college house. She ended up with the name of Pest. 3am would roll around and she would do the, "I am Cat. I am mighty. Hear me meow". I was amazed that a cat could be so loud. Mickey laughingly thought it was a terrible name...until she got to experience the 3am announcement.
I guess the funniest (to us humans) story about Pest involved my large shop vacuum. I had set the hose down on the floor to move something and left the thing running. Pest went up to sniff at the hose and it jumped onto her face. "All Engines Back Full -- Emergency. Sound the collision alarm." Pest never trusted that vacuum again.
Dinner last night was fish tacos. Tonight I pulled some flank steak from the freezer and used the rest of the "fixin's" for beef tacos. Basically he "fixen's" are about 1/2 cup of sour cream mixed with 3-4 tablespoons of lime juice, 4-5 scallions, 4 or so cups of shredded lettuce (I substituted the 1/4 head of red cabbage I had on hand), a diced Jalapeno and salt plus black pepper.
All of those measurements were "estimated and/or to taste".
Yesterday was 6-1/2 hours of working on mom's bank stuff and 4 hours of today was spent working on the power windows on mom's car. It's not even Monday and I'm tired. ;-)
HI HappyHammer, DaraB and Valstim.
As a kid, I spent many summers in (very) rural Kentucky. I remember people joking about zucchini being left on the front seat, instead of car theft, as being the reason people locked their car's doors. If people were successful in keeping the squash bugs and vine borers away, there would be mountains of zucchini.
Dara, if you've heard of 29 Palms...that's where I grew up. It's on the north side of the Joshua Tree National Park.
I love shrimp, as does Sharon, but DD gets hives if she eats/handles it, so we don't eat it unless she's going to be gone. I have a recipe, maybe posted way back when on this thread, involving bacon, a Habanero pepper, garlic,beer and pouring atop a rice/shrimp mixture.
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Yikes, Bedo! I do not envy your kiddie petri dish existence with the flu as main germ. And if the kids are feeling awful, homesickness must abound! Are you moving as soon as you return home? Or maybe you already have....
Minus, I meant to mention that I saw Shear Madness circa 1970 here in Boston. It was fun then, and I'm sure it still is, especially with the inventive way they keep changing it. Of course my memory of a play that long ago (even pre-DH!) may not be too detailed. Sounds like you enjoyed your dinner!
Special, I empathize with your post chemo foot issues. It is so easy to take our feet for granted until they make themselves known in untoward ways. This new blister business is not at all welcome! However, I can hardly complain when I know I can find some remedies (got the mole skin), different shoes, etc, when I think of what our Susan goes through daily.
I did get a suitcase, tho not nearly as good a deal as you described, Sandy. And I'm ambivalent about the size, not exactly "carry on small", but not "serious suitcase large". Does the fact that I like the two tone silver color count for something?? It will do.....and my friend at the Vineyard won't think I'm moving in for a month!
So for dinner, DH grilled chicken breasts that I'd pounded and marinated in a doctored up teriyaki sauce. Also grilled balsamic marinated zucchini rounds and vidalia onion quarters. I made a salad with our paltry lettuce supply and the pink tomatoes we bought today at FM, and completed the meal with local corn on the cob which was not as tasty as the ears we've been getting from Florida.
Tomorrow I will engage inmy onerous packing task....again!! I am clearly not cut out to be "on the move" like we've been this month.....six "places" in less than four weeks. I am more of a homebody...and my recent tendency towards poor organization is really showing. Among other things (like losing a pair of glasses!!), tonight I went to do a wash, and could not find the bag of laundry I "knew" I'd dragged home from NH. Fortunately, I found it stashed in a corner of my car trunk....DH had packed it there then forgot about it. Maybe we are both getting too old to run around like this.
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If I had a cat named Pest, I’d have to get it a companion named Buddha.
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lol Sandy!
I always joked that my precious angel kitty Charcoal had the body of a god, but unfortunately it was Buddha's. Now I joke that my kitty Princess has the body of a goddess and thankfully it's not Buddha
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Not much better here Joyce as far as the heat goes.
Have to make search of the freezer to see what to do for dinner
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Heat and humidity here too. We're under a heat advisory until Friday. Tomorrow we take dad to the heart doc. That should be fun in 95 degrees with the same percentage humidity.
I already had foot neuropathy from diabetes which chemo exacerbated. And I too have shoes that I can no longer wear. I was especially saddened about a pair of Clark's sandals that were my walking sandals that suddenly started making blisters. Not a good thing when you have numb feet. I now wear easy spirit sneakers that come in a variety of colors, that I put gel soles in. I have about six pairs in different colors. A fashion statement I am not but comfortable feet I have.
I'm sitting here drinking coffee and I can see red tomatoes in my garden. I'd better pick them before the critters see them too. The squirrels seem to be stuffed and sated with the apples and there are still some on the tree. Maybe we'll get applesauce after all.
Lacy, my suitcase is larger than it need be because my pillow goes everywhere with me. Unfortunately, it's a kidney shaped dense memory foam that weighs about 5 pounds (dh swears it's more.) I've looked for a similar one in a more travel friendly size but I'm reluctant to buy one sight unseen. As inconvenient as it is, it's made a world of difference in sleeping while traveling.
I don't know what's for dinner. Perhaps fish sandwiches on rye bread. Mac and cheese and sliced tomatoes sound doable. Or there's a flat iron steak to be had in the freezer. I envy everyone's meals and I'm missing the gulf and it's seafood bounty.
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I sympathize with all in heat and humidity - it is before 11:00 am right now and 87 F, but with the heat index it feels like 98 F, and it will get worse before the day is out. We have had rain every day for the last week, which is great for the grass but not so much for me! The ground is so wet that the heat makes it positively steamy! This kind of weather exhausts me and makes my lymphedema flare - both of which make me cranky, lol! I am a California girl but have lived on the east coast in humid summers since the 90's and have never acclimated! Eeesh! Stay cool everyone, however you can!
Don't know what dinner will be tonight - I really need to go to the produce stand or grocery store, but I don't want to go outside. When it is hot like this I tend to favor main dish salads for dinner, but that circles back around to needing to go out and shop, lol!
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Has anyone heard about the 'heat dome' forming over the Midwest due to corn sweating? Ok so I'm a news junkie.
So tonite is chicken salad with grapes and walnuts.
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Dinner tonight will be clean-out-the-crisper-and-deli-drawer. (Probably chicken-feta-spinach sausages and broccolini). We’re off to Rome on Wed., so trying to get rid of everything that needs to be eaten that our son won’t touch (or can’t figure out how to prepare). Our five tomato plants are bearing like crazy, but seem to be starting to ripen all at once. (We have a few small ones already on the sill--have to pick them before the squirrels do). Our nightmare will be if they’ve all managed to ripen (and possibly rot) before we get home on the 31st. Our son hates tomatoes. So I may invite friends who live in apts. to come & pick them as needed. Usually, we get about 5-10 tomatoes per year due to lack of sun in the patch of garden where we used to plant them. By the time the last green one ripens on the sill it’s well into Oct. But this year we have them in containers on our sunny deck, and they’re going nuts. (We bought only one Early Girl, hoping to stagger ripening, but the heirloom clusters started first and the Big Boy is already starting).
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Quiche with eggs from our neighbors chickens...they have chickens and a lovely garden as well and are on vacay so we are picking up the eggs and the veggies...and had a lovely tossed salad with tomatoes and cukes they also grew- feeling pretty good about farm to table approach tonight
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I didn't eat dinner tonight - just not hungry. Made a grilled cheese and tomato basil soup for DH. That is DD's fave meal, along with an artichoke, lol!
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oh valstim my Mom used to make that when I was young. I remember going back 5-6 times and eating almost an entire bowl
Happy, love that pic. Ha" eggs from our neighbor's garden" I will have to make that when I go home.
One of the other 120 organic gardeners is watching and reaping the produce from the plot that I started before I left. She emailed me today saying that it is getting big and beautiful. I think she means tomatoes, zucchini and what ever else I planted before I left. I hope that she and her little ones are enjoying it.
For dinner. Spaghetti and a cheese sandwich
I've lost about 5 -6 pounds. Not sure if that is good or not. I guess it is.
The Cat and I slept together in the bed last night. I know that you are all relieved to hear that. I gave him some of the cheese ie Processed Cheese Food.
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Haha...Bedo- did go back and edit my earlier dinner post...wish we could plant chickens for eggs...haha....however, we really ARE enjoying the fresh eggs and veggies....lovely.
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