So...whats for dinner?
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well we ended at a final total of 27 in! Good thing is the 40 mph winds finally settled making it easier for the snow plows to keep the roads clear. They have opened the roads up for travel today, but I think I will stay put and clean the house for arrival of son and DIL. I am planning on going south for the winter after Christmas, but right now my SIL (my brother that committed suicide, wife) is living in our house until she buys a new home and I don't want to infringe on her space.
Tonight we will clean up the fragments in the crisper bin and try to put a salad together...don't want to add to the fridge space with any leftovers just before all the turkey cooking.
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Last night's dinner was an oven dish (aka hot dish in Mn). Cabbage, peeled and sliced russet potatoes and smoked polish sausage. Dribbled some evoo and placed pats of butter before covering and popping into oven.
Tasted good. Condiments were mustard and sour cream.
We will be departing early tomorrow, headed to a niece's house in Indiana for Thanksgiving dinner. Tonight's dinner will be a rib eye steak with a romaine salad or hand chopped coleslaw. Also small boiled potatoes.
I have to pack this afternoon, a hated chore
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OMG, Carrie—I guess upstate NY has cornered the market on Snowmageddon. (Chicago’s advantage is that it’s upwind of all the Great Lakes except Superior--which has MI’s U.P. and WI as a land buffer). We just have raw chilly weather (cold rain, possibly mixed with sleet, by late tonight). Amazed that my chives are still green & growing!
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UMMM 27 inches of snow????? I am grateful for just high winds and some rain. A little sprinkle of frost on the windshield. Good Grief. I mean, over the river and thru the snow, but WOW.
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So Friday I started with a pain in a back molar that already has a crown. By the middle of the night I took a Tramadol left over from some surgery or other. (and I have a REALLY high pain threshold) By Saturday I called the dentist and he put me on antibiotics. I was going to tour a Conservatory senior living place that was having a "nutcracker sale" with a friend. That turned out to be more of a craft show - homemade jewelry & plants in decorated OJ cans. The only thing I could eat was soup so we went to a Chinese place she likes & I had egg drop. The last few days have been really soft stuff - mostly more soup. I went to a new "pastry cafe" for lunch Monday and they had a soup/quiche special. The soup was Italian Chicken noodle - creamy base & full of mushrooms & linguine noodles. I'd love to have that recipe. The quiche was spinach so soft enough to gum instead of closing my teeth. And I got a couple of raspberry swirls to dunk in my coffee - wonderful shortbread rolled around raspberry jam & sliced thin.
Unfortunately the dentist tells me I need a root canal (& there may be 3 roots in one tooth) & I have to go to an endodontist since the roots are not straight down but curvy. Ugh!!! So here's the mystery ... will the antibiotics work enough for me to cook the pork loin & bought for Thanksgiving? Or will I freeze it? Will I be able to eat anything except scrambled eggs? I can still make the dressing/stuffing since that's soft. I prepped the asparagus and the spiralized zucchini today. I wonder how soft I'll have to cook them? More UGH!!! At least the plan was to go to friends houses or eat home and I didn't have plan for a house full. Sounds like my choice will be me & myself for a dinner of something soft.
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Oh Minus, how terrible! Hope you can get that resolved soon. What timing, UGH indeed.
Thanks for the hug Red, I know you can appreciate all this. Really hope your cold abandons you soon.
I bought a whole untrimmed tenderloin at Costco yesterday. I'm planning to make beef Wellington for Christmas. I trimmed the thing today so for dinner we had tenderloin tips with some sauteed onions and peppers, brown rice and a wine sauce.
Yike Carrie, 27 inches! I'm afraid that would make me lose my mind, I despise winter so badly.
Although I'm not cooking until Saturday, I'll be doing some food prep tomorrow -- pie crusts, cranberry chutney, butter rolls to take to dh sister's Thursday.
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Uggh, Minus. I hope it will work quickly enough for you to eat more or less normal foods on Thursday.
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Carrie: my sympathies in re. 27" of snow--I live downwind of Lake Michigan in SW Michigan, and have spent the last twenty odd years trying to explain the difference between where we live and, say, Chicago or Kalamazoo. Buffalo and the U.P.:? doesn't matter which way the wind blows, you're gonna get socked. I rather imagine the Finger Lakes area is similar?
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minus - what a bummer! Some of the worst pain I have ever experienced was an abscess under a crowned tooth that had a root canal about 30 years earlier. I had to see an endodontist also, there was an additional root there that had gone unseen due to the technology of the time. I had to wait 24 hours before I could be seen and my dentist was kind enough to inject me with numbing agent in the morning, then again at the close of business while I waited.
carberry - I lived in Rome, NY for 4 years - it really snows in upstate NY - a lot!!!
Tomorrow DS arrives, I have to pick him up at the airport, but am hoping that since it will be early - he arrives at 9 am - it won't be too crazy yet. DH came home tonight from seeing his parents in SC - my FIL is now on hospice, they will switch to 24 hour assistance in a week or so as he is not doing well at all. He has to work half a day tomorrow, then will be off until Monday. We are having Thanksgiving with friends, at their home, and there will be 14 of us. I have to cook tomorrow, side dishes, a ham, desserts. Looking forward to all of it, but am only 2 weeks out form surgery and am struggling a bit with stamina.
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Nance - I don't think I ever told this story about my Dad. When my Mom died we had to sell the big house. I took him to several rental houses and every one he said - nope, not moving; nope just ready to die w/o Mother here anyway. Finally my son helped me find a small rental hse across town. I signed the lease & ordered the movers & crossed my fingers. I arranged for him to be gone when they picked up the furniture - all the while he kept saying - I'm not moving. Voila - at the end of the day the care giver brought him to the new house. All his old furniture & stuff was in place- pictures hung and everything. He said - hmmm - looks pretty much like home. Whew. Dodged that bullet, although it took me a month to recuperate. It's hard trying to make things right for our folks.
Oh a tenderloin... I looked at Kroger since it was on sale. You had to buy the full cryovac pkg so I decided it was way to exorbitant for one person alone. You'll have to report on your Wellington.
Special - I think you'll be OK at the airport at 9am in the morning. Please take lots of breaks between cooking for intermediate naps. You know the drill - take it as easy as you can. It's not work messing up all this good surgery work.
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minus - I will pace myself, I promise! I def don't want to go backward at this point - it has taken too much to get to this point!
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Hugs to those of you shoveling snow - 27 inches is definitely a lot! I live in CT where we either get socked with a lot or see very little. We are the "in-between" state in terms of weather. We can either look like Upstate NY or N. Carolina in terms of weather. I have seen everything from blizzards on Christmas to 75 degrees and dragging out the grill for steaks...LOL
Minus, nothing worse than a tooth thing. I have only had one cavity in my entire life (strong enamel according to my dentist but have gum issues so I don't get off scott free) and it was in a wisdom tooth that was crowding my molar. It was impacted AND diseased and I have never felt worse pain except maybe an ear infection that rivaled it. Hugs and feel better chica...xo
Special, surgery is a big deal so heed all advice and take it as easy as you can.
We get to leave work at 2PM today and then the real work begins. I am having 12 for dinner tomorrow and thankfully my DD is coming from MA today to help me since I am struggling with a lot of pretty bad joint pain from severe osteoarthritis in my knees. Runs in my family and the Femara doesn't help it either.
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. Enjoy the food and the family..and whatever you do, don't talk about the election!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think things will go much better, especially if there is wine or spirits. HA!
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Carrie, I hope your family can work out Thanksgiving as planned despite the snow. It just seems waaaaay to early for such a deluge, even up north.
Minus, I hope you can get relief from that terrible pain....I suspect such distress is the only motivator one might have for getting a root canal. Good luck
And I concur with the other "mother hens", Special. Please try to take it easy so your body can fully heal. You have been through so much.
So yesterday I got most of my shopping done, and made cranberry sauce and cooked up the sausage and onions for the stuffung. While I was out, DH cleaned up my mother's silverware (which I have never even touched since she passed seven years ago), and organized and set the table for tomorrow. I almost passed out with surprise. Yay DH! So today, another trip (Trader's) to pick up cheeses, flowers, then cooking everything that I can finish today. My next door neighbor loaned me her ricer, so I'm a bit less worried about making terrible mashed potatoes.
Have a good Thanksgiving everyone.....
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Thanks all - I am being good!
lacey - how sweet of your DH to polish the mom silver and set the table! He's a keeper, lol! Riced mashed potatoes are the best!
Happy Thanksgiving to all of our kitchen table members!
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You are right about that Sandy. I was born in upper WI and it can get really cold and snowy there. Hubby remembers when he was in boot camp for the Navy in Great Lakes back in the '80s and they wouldn't let them go even to chow one day because it was so cold there.
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We are expecting the newlyweds from ohio tonight, and then tomorrow we will travel about an hour to DH family for turkey. The roads have cleared beautifully as if nothing ever happened....warmed up a little and now will get rain tomorrow so all the snow will probably disappear...funky stuff!
Minus..so sorry about that tooth. the dentist once said to me " nobody likes us dentists until its the middle of the night and they have a toothache" Maybe a turkey smoothie?
Have fun cooking everyone and enjoy your families
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Tonight was a quick dinner of spaghetti
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Cocooning tonight—got up early for my mani-pedi. (The monthly pedi is actually quite stressful, as I have chronically ingrown toenails regardless of how straight across and long they are. The nail bed curls under very tightly at the sides, and it hurts like hell to have them dug out to prevent infection). Raw and rainy outside. No need to go out & shop for tomorrow, as I already bought the asparagus & prosciutto I’m bringing as an appetizer, along with a couple bottles each of red & white wines (Beaujolais Nouveau & dry riesling). Also bringing some Govino reusable plastic stemless wineglasses—our hosts have thick black goblets that make it hard to smell, taste and see the wine. Tonight I will grill a grass-fed ribeye…indoors…on the ridged side of our stove’s cast-iron center griddle. Just too nasty out there to use the gas grill. Will have the range-hood and ceiling fans going and windows open to avoid setting off the smoke detectors. Will make sauteed broccolini to go with it.
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Sandy, one of the best things I ever did was have my ingrown toenails permanently removed. I had the same problem, no matter how straight they were cut, they always grew in. I've had no problems these nearly 20 years now.
Minus, omigosh, what a feat that was moving your dad! But what a great solution. Actually, that's pretty much what happened moving my dad into supportive living, except he was aware of it.
Tonight is smoked sausage, sauerkraut and mashed potatoes. This is one of DH's favorite dinners. Me - not so much. I think I'll make some cornbread in my 7"cast iron skillet for me. It's the perfect size for the two of us.
Wow Carrie, if snow was guaranteed to be gone the next day, I could tolerate it lol
Happy thanksgiving my friends. Have a lovely day no matter how you spend it.
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Nancy, when you say “removed,” did you mean removing the entire toenails completely? I can’t imagine not having nails on my big toes. Or did you have the surgery that shaves the sides of the nail beds so they don’t curve? 20 years ago I let my podiatrist talk me into the latter—one side of one nail per session several months apart. He promised that I would never get ingrown toenails again. Even with lidocaine (which injections were agonizing) it still hurt like hell—and while I was lying helplessly on the table, he began asking me for legal advice about a landlord-tenant dispute. I didn’t get the other side, nor the other toe, done. The side that was done began ingrowing again less than a year later.
No, I’d rather let my pedicurist go digging every four weeks. My current podiatrist says that as long as scrupulous anti-infection precautions are followed, it’s less invasive than the surgery (and that she’d charge four times as much as the pedicurist for the same service, 100% on my dime unless I develop diabetes…...without the sugar scrub, paraffin mask, massage and pretty polish, much less the ginger-peach tea).
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Supper was steamed, spiralized zucchini w/butter & spices and two fried eggs. I'm going with the pork loin tomorrow. I just have to decide whether to freeze half before I cook it or after.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Stay safe on the roads & at the airports.
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Sandy, I don't know exactly how it was done (I didn't watch, even though I was sitting in a podiatrist chair), but the sides of the nail were cut and the bed cauterized. I got a couple of shots in the toe, which did not hurt at all. The procedure itself was painless until after the shots wore off and even then, it wasn't horrible. All done in one visit. I have all of my toenails and get regular pedicures. Haven't had an ingrown since. Which is a good thing since I have lots of other problems with my feet. But then, I'm diabetic. Seems to go with the territory.
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Minus, sounds like your tooth issue is better. May it stay that way.
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Dinner tonight...turkey. Two years ago my brother got me a turkey deep fryer and this year Sharon and I decided to try it.....after buying a 19 pound turkey.....which turned out to be too big for the fryer. So, we went out and got two 12 pound birds. One was done tonight so I could make sure everything was good to go tomorrow, and I will do the other one tomorrow. The recommended time in the fryer was 3-1/2 minutes per pound, but that got the turkey to over 200F internal temperature. I'm going to try about 2-1/2 minutes per pound tomorrow and see how that goes.
Today was a "non-sick day". I visited the dentist for a routine checkup and the doctor to check/adjust/renew my blood pressure medication. My tongue correctly reported a cracked filling that will be fixed next Wednesday and the blood pressure is "within normal limits" at 120/81.
I've never had ingrown toenails and I consider myself lucky. DD keeps wanting me to get the pedi and I keep saying "no". :-)
As for snow. I have to drive to find snow. The weather today was clear, calm, mid 70F range and it will be the same tomorrow..shorts weather. I guess this is when we get reimbursed for the hot summers.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone and enjoy your time with friends and family. Our table will be five--DD, Sharon, MIL, myself and a friend of MIL's. And Minus, I hope the antibiotics are helping with the toothache.
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eric - go get a pedi! My DH had one, reluctantly, and then said to me in the next chair - OMG why have I not been doing this before??? He loved it!
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Nancy, I think I will ask my current podiatrist (who treated a stress fracture and fit me for orthotics) about that surgery and whether it’d work for me. Maybe it didn’t “take” because my nail beds turn under too far and grow back that way.
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Eric - I'm assuming your DD will be home for the weekend? It will be fun to hear all her stories. I agree with Special about the pedicure. When I finally convinced my Dad to go, he was in heaven.
Sandy - hope maybe this will be a solution.
Thanks for the tooth wishes. The antibiotics seem to have calmed the pain. Looking forward to hearing about everyone's meals & adventures over the weekend.
Bedo - come out, come out. Don't make me have to summon the flying monkeys.
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Happy Thanksgiving! Safe travels!
I had a pedicure once, but didn't care for it. I'm trying Thai Reflexology tomorrow.
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Good Morning - Gobble, Gobble! My sausage has been cooked for my stuffing and the bird has been washed and dried and is almost ready to be smeared with butter and popped in the oven. We have a 20.8 lb bird this year for 10 of us (was 12 but two will only come for dessert) and all of the trimmings.
My sausage bread stuffing is a must with celery, onions and mushrooms. For our first course, I make avgolemono soup (A Greek egg-lemon soup made with turkey broth) which is a tradition that began with my grandmother and I would have it no other way. I buy extra turkey wings and use the neck from the turkey as well to make a nice rich broth which I use for the soup and I also use some for my pan gravy and to moisten the stuffing.
I also make traditional mashed potatoes, and a salad with goat cheese and cranberries and a vinaigrette.
I made a pan of baked ziti (a request from my oldest granddaughter!) and we will have hericot vert, brussel sprouts, sweet potato casserole and my homemade cranberry orange relish.
We have Yeast rolls from the bakery and a loaf of lovely marble rye bread and my daughter made a lemon meringue, a chocolate cream and an apple pie as well as a chocolate raspberry cheesecake all from scratch.
My daughter in law is making a broccoli casserole and she is bringing a couple of six packs of IPA. My DD brought a couple of bottles of a lovely chardonnay and a bottle of Pinot Grigio. I am sure I am forgetting some food that we will have on our table today but you get the drift. Lots and lots of great yummy food.
Edited to add we also have snacks before dinner is served = baked brie in puff pastry with raspberry jam and chopped walnuts, crudité platter and cheese and crackers for the kids who don't like the brie (at least they did not like it last year...they are older now so who knows? lol)
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope you have a day filled with love and laughter and lots of good food. Even if you are not having a dinner with family or friends, know you are loved and thought of today. xoxo
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
It seems weird to not have the turkey in the oven. Last night I took one of the two turkeys and deep fried it and the 45 minutes was a bit too long, so I'll back it down to 40 minutes and see how it does...I can always cook it some more, if needed.
At the same time, having the oven free is a wonderful thing. :-) I baked the pumpkin last night and I mixed everything up for the pie that is now in the oven. I'm working on the cream cheese no bake pie and the sourdough is busy in the four (dinner rolls).
MIL is bringing a green bean casserole and I'll be providing squash and mashed potatoes and if I have the stuff, a twice baked potato for DD (she loves them). Also being made is my mom's (and mine too) favorite--a crushed pineapple, mandarin orange, sour cream and coconut flake salad.
I guess I'm trying to keep a bit busy. I raised a glass of milk (too early for anything else) to Mickey's memory this morning. It's hard to believe it's been exactly 33 years.
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