So...whats for dinner?
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Just returned from my post-op - had a bunch of stitches out and am sore and bruised, but things look as good as possible right now - actually surprised at how good! I am feeling good about this being the last surgery! Yay! Thanks for the healing thoughts!
I won't be doing much cooking - beyond making some cookies and caramel corm this evening - DD and DH are heading back up to SC to see my FIL. His last transfusion did not give him the bounce he usually gets and they will try again on Wed., but if his Hgb does not improve they will bring Hospice in and just keep him comfortable.
auntie - so sorry your dad had a fall - it is so scary, right? My mom had a few, but my dad never did. My MIL has had a bunch and all of the kids/spouses are worried about her living arrangements going forward. None of us want her to be alone, but nobody lives closer than a 5 hour drive. Dilemma!
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cooked up some noodles and added them to last night's chili
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Mommyof2, we love pasta in chili. Also in beef veggie soup. Guess we just love pasta
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me too but I try to limit how much of it I eat
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SpecialK, my thoughts are with your DD and DH as they go to see your FIL.
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So sorry to hear of Erics mom passing. You were a great son,Eric, and I know your mom must have been proud of your accomplishments.
I just spent some time catching up on all of the posts I have missed. we have had a tough summer here in NY with several deaths of friends and family, a lot of them cancer related. My brother, just a year older than me, decided to end his life, and we are left without any closure as to what led to his decision. I feel as if I have fallen into a deep hole and cannot get out. Struggling to keep my parents going through all of this, but their health is failing and it has become a daily struggle that me and my sister share.
On the bright side, my son got married 2 weeks after my brothers funeral and we pulled ourselves together and made it a wonderful celebration. Now we are assisting my brothers widow in relocating to NC to be close to her son. We continue to cook, just not feeling the desire to do anything to write about.
6 year anniversary of the BC...mammo of the one boob I have left was all good to go.
Happy Cooking everyone! I am following you.
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My son with his new bride....
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Oh Carrie, how nice to hear from you but what a mixture of sadness and happiness. I'm very sorry for your losses but what a lovely picture you've posted.
Carole, wishing you all the best with your mom's procedure.
Sloppy Joes and oven fries for dinner.
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Carrie - thanks for posting. I'm sorry about your brother and to hear that your parents are failing. But thrilled about your son. Thanks for the picture. We'll keep you in our thoughts.
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Bob brought home some good ol’-fashioned Polish leftovers from his office: borscht (universal for E. Europe), sauerkraut soup, boiled new potatoes and a liver meatball. Added a small tomato from my stash of homegrowns, with some fresh grey sea salt.
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Specialk...glad to hear your surgery went well!!
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Wow, Carrie, as much as I was so happy to see you back at the kitchen table, I am so sorry to learn of the trials you've been coping with. So very sad. Your life has been complex, and exhausting throughout all of this, I'm sure. I'm so glad that you were able to experience the joy of your son's wedding. The photo is stunning.....thank you
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Lacey, here are some simple sides for the IP. I can only vouch for the mashed potatoes but I will try sweet potatoes to mash in the future.
/http://www.seasonedhomemaker.com/simplified-thanksgiving-side-dishes/
If you look on my Pinterest board, I have a collection of pressure cooker recipes.
It looks like dad will be going to rehab again for who knows how long. We've decided to hire movers and to store his things for a time to see if he'll be able to return to supportive living. I think he will, if nothing else goes wrong, which may be a big if. The real problem is getting all of this to happen in three days. Yike. The clock starts ticking tomorrow.
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Carrie, it's great to have you check in. You were missed. So sorry about your brother. We have had suicide in my dad's side of the family and it had deep effects.
Nance, I hope your dad can hang in there and keep his spirits up. Same hope for you.
My mother is such a trooper. She came through her kidney stone procedure with no problems. She loves all the declarations about how young she looks!
I had breakfast and lunch at the hospital cafeteria. Dh has a meeting tonight so dinner is Subway sandwiches. I am trying the Reuben sandwich
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Nance, coincidentally, I was just on Pinterest looking for ways to prep mashed potatoes early. So I will check your page. Thanks! And I also hope that your dad is able to rally through his recovery with the energy that Carole's mother seems to possess! Wish I could be helpful. You've had so much on your plate for so many months now.
Carole, I can just imagine how pleased your mother must be with the compliments related to her youthful image. Sweet! Glad she did well with her procedure.
So for all of my (and my family's) talk about having a small Thanksgiving here (with just the four of us), it is hard to do that. We always have appetizers early in the day while the football games start (that's the DS2 influence), then we always have the traditional dinner foods which everyone likes....in my opinion too many, especially since I am not a potato gal...or even stuffing anymore....but DS2' fiance is all about those, so....we will be catering to everyone's tastes...and having too much food. Oh well....ridiculous to complain about excess at a time to be thankful! I will be sending a lot home with the people who like eating such....
Tonight DH was out, and I had a salad with my favorite horseradish vinaigrette. My next door neighbor just returned from having a medical procedure, and was having a store bought chicken, so I made them a nice big salad of the same variety. If I had not done that, my dinner would have been more creatively unhealthful!
Tomorrow I will attend a "tea" sponsored by a neighbor who goes to Haiti several times a year with nursing students to provide medical services. She also supports a community center for elderly Haitians in Boston. For the tea, everyone brings a grocery bag or two of food for the folks at the center. After the tea, we sort it out and make a tone of bages to distribute to the center members. Today I shopped for that...and among other items got lots of cans of sardines which is very popular with that population. I cannot recall ever eating a sardine in my adult life. But I know that they are really good nutritionally.
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HI Carrie. It's been a long time since I've seen you post here. Welcome back.
Wow. All of that is quite a load to carry. Hugs. But, your son's marriage is a bright spot. That is a great picture.
Nance....hugs to you too. My journey on that path is ending.
Carole, your mom sounds a lot like my mom--keep chugging along through the most adverse things.
House cleaning....Three generations of my family reach back to before the 1860s, so there are a huge number of family antiques-family heirlooms. That stuff is going to be tough. Even more tough is the stuff that I remember as a little kid.
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Thinking of making a chicken pot pie
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Just wrote a post but managed not to post it successfully.😔
Dinner tonight will feature chicken thighs, a veggie and salad.
This is the abbreviated re-write
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tuna noodle casserole. Our weather is holding at a nice 60 degrees. I feel as if I should be grilling, but it gets dark so early I would have to be out there by 5 at the latest and that's way too early for dinner.
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I grilled a petite sirloin filet late last night when I got home from rehearsal. Had some roasted Parmesan Brussels sprouts and half a nuked sweet potato with cinnamon. Tonight will probably nuke a small quiche and cut up one of my homegrown tomatoes. It's gonna hit 70 tomorrow, but then Fri. aft. the bottom will fall out and we're forecast to get the “s-word" (flurries) by Sat. morning. So I will pick the rest of the tomatoes tomorrow, even the ones that have yet to “blush.” Pity—the plants are still blossoming! Will also cut back the chives and mint to dry or freeze (they're perennials). Already repotted the basil, thyme & rosemary to spend the winter in the kitchen.
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Wine Report - It's unusual for me to buy wine that costs more than $10-12. I really think you can find very good wines with out paying an arm & a leg so maybe I'm a bit of a reverse wine snob. I was elated when our newspaper included the following in their picks of the week and I hustled out to buy some. Susan & I emailed about this so I promised to update.
2015 Kirkland Cotes du Rhone Villages. overall score - 18.9 out of 20 (8.9 for quality, 10 for value); A classic GSM at 14% alcohol; Tasters: gave it a unanimous recommendation with 4 scores at 9 or higher. "big fruit flavors"; $6.99. It actually is imported from France. According to the bottle, only 1/5 of the wine produced in the Southern Rhone's Cotes du Rhone area qualifies for the superior designation of "CDR Villages" "Syrah delivers the deep black fruit concentration and smooth chocolate. Grenache adds balanced harmony, warmth & friut-forward notes of black plum and blackberry. Mourvedre gives the sense of sweet earth to this classic blend from the Rhone." So...are you impressed???
Now my comments - and again I'm just a regular person w/no wine education who enjoys some wines sometimes. Maybe I could taste raspberry (LOL- not) It's a very serviceable table wine. Fairly mild, very smooth, not too sweet and not too dry. Not a lot of tannin - which I'm happy about. I'm glad I bought 6 bottles (Costco stuff disappears quickly) but I will likely drink this with meals & stick with something a bit more "bold" for just drinking (like a Meritage or Malbec).
Sorry for the digression, but I know there are some of you who occasionally quaff a glass and don't appreciate the big prices. And you might be buying wine to go with the holiday dinner. It will be good with turkey for the red drinkers and soft enough for the occasional drinkers.
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I love a good Rhone—whether a generic Côtes, a northern like Hermitage or a southern like Chateauneuf-du-Pape. It’s the quintessential winter wine—big without being tannic like Cabernet Sauvignon, more character than Malbec (which in France is a blending grape for Bordeaux), Merlot (ditto, except on the Pomerol side where it’s the primary grape), weightier than Beaujolais and less costly than Burgundy. And Costco is probably the best-kept (soon to be the worst-kept) secret in the wine world—especially their French wines (even actual Champagne) sold under the Kirkland label.
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Carberry: I do love a good tuna noodle casserole! What's your recipe?
Chisandy: my sympathies about the weather (I'm downwind of Lake Michigan,) i'm not looking forward to the 's-word', though stocking up on cold-weather ingredients for meals here.
MinusTwo: I'm with you on the 'no need to pay more than that for a bottle of wine". There are decent wines out there for more, but hey, then I'd feel funny about actually drinking it! ( appreciate one of the clerks at the local full-service wine store, who described a sparkling wine as 'good pizza wine'.
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Latest forecast is that the storm will move through quickly Fri. aft. with temps still in the low 50s or upper 40s. When the bottom drops out in the wee hours of Sat., the moisture will even have passed MI. So hats, gloves & zipping the liner back into your coat—but no need for boots, shovels or rock salt….yet. Thanksgiving will be wet & raw but not snowy.
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Didn't make the chicken pot pie yesterday. So I am making it today.
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I took my nephew out for a quick lunch yesterday - Carolina pulled pork sandwiches - so I really wasn't hungry for dinner. I ended up eating 1/2 a cup of shelled pistachio nuts and two apples sliced & swiped in strawberry cream cheese.
Eric - hopefully there is no rush to sort out all the history in your Mom's house. My parents had been in the same big, old house for almost 60 years and I had basically 2 weeks to clear out everything. Aside from the furniture & the dishes we used every holiday, there were so many papers I wanted to spend more time reading. My dad had income tax files for every year since the 30's with copies of W-2s and other receipts that told great stories. My Mom had letters that her Dad had written her every week from the 30's to 1969. Thinking of you.
Nance - how is your Dad adjusting?
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Just wanted to say hi - have not been cooking, so have nothing to post. My DH and DD are in SC seeing my in-laws, my FIL is not doing well. He is having a transfusion today but if it fails to boost his Hgb like the last one a couple of weeks ago, they will call in Hospice.
carberry - so sorry to hear of your sad news, but loved the beautiful wedding pic!
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Crab cakes and a side of farro with a mixture of Italian cheeses from a bag. Dh mixed up a remoulade sauce. The farro needed livening up. Too bland. Crab cakes were very good.
Last night we had braised chicken thighs that were outstanding. NYT recipe. Garlic, crushed red pepper, fennel seeds, fresh rosemary, and olive oil. Olives with pits. Wedges of lemon. Thighs marinate for at least 15 minutes. Roast uncovered for 20 min. Then covered for an hour with the olives. Such a delicious flavor.
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No cooking here right now. Thanksgiving....
I've been busy closing mom's utility and newspaper accounts. Fortunately all the accounts were all in my name or I was listed as someone who could make changes to the accounts....so it's been procedurally easy. Note I didn't say easy. :-|
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I feel for you Eric. I am still finalizing all of my Dad's Estate stuff and we just finally got an acceptable offer on his house. The low balling was just awful because much of the décor is outdated but it is in a very desirable area with low taxes, good schools and so we held out for a better offer and finally we got one. It is from an investor (one of the many who low balled us in the beginning) who is going to remodel it and flip it for a profit, but at least he realized we were not going to take pennies.
Good luck with all of the myriad of details that go into this process. I feel you.
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