So...whats for dinner?
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We played dominoes this afternoon & my diet got smashed. I had only a Pecan Sandie for breakfast since I wanted to save room. It was from the best bakery in creation which I found last week. Good but also expensive - one large Pecan Sandie was $1.75 and worth every bit of that price. For the games, I took a loaf of Sweet Pear Bread from the same bakery. Ooo la la. Others brought - carrot & raisin salad, vegetable salad w/red cabbage, cherry tomatoes, pears, some red lettuce, etc, lasagne, chocolate chip cookies, homemade fudge, pretzels covered in dark chocolate, licorice from Trader Joe's... I know there was more but I've already forgotten. I can guarantee I do not want any dinner. Most of these ladies don't drink so I'm home now & enjoying a glass of wine to settle all the food.
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Chi Sandy I am not a lawyer, I am a retired Circuit Clerk.
Dinner was Liver and Onions. (out, I would never cook it.)
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Redhead - I agree, I would never cook liver & onions. But then I would never eat it either. My mother never cooked it. My grandma never cooked it. When my ex wanted that treat, we went to Luby's cafeteria so I could have something else.
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That said - I'm a transplant to the South even if I have been here 45 years. Everyone here eats greens (collard & mustard & turnip). I don't eat greens either. I sort of got in trouble at dominoes today since I expressed my distaste for greens. But I love spinach and I like turnips. And my Mom always made hamhock & beans (although if I remember correctly it was when my Dad was away since he wanted meat & potatoes). It was a different generation.
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I love liver & onions (don’t have it too often) as long as it’s rare, as well as greens (although most places don’t make them spicy enough—one local supermarket, Mariano’s, makes them in their BBQ dept. with kale and shredded carrots instead of collards/mustard/turnip greens. Go figure). But my favorite way to eat liver is good old-fashioned chopped liver (made with schmaltz). On rye with chopped onions & hard-cooked egg whites. Washed down with a diet Dr. Brown’s Cream soda.
Tonight after the show we went to Mercat a la Planxa. Bob & our friends had an early dinner (about 5:30) and I was able to move the res up from 10 to 9:30 pm, because the show ended earlier than in the past (7:30 curtain when it used to be 8—the staff gets double overtime after 10). So we ate fairly light: an assortment of 3 kinds of olives, a charcuterie platter, grilled diver scallops, bacon-wrapped chorizo-stuffed dates, sauteed garlic shrimp and an insanely good dark chocolate pudding with a scoop of espresso helado in a caramel “cup.” Acccompanied by a fair amount of sangria.
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Love greens, especially Southern style! I miss my grandmother's. She had just the right combo of porkiness and seasoning. I've not been able to quite duplicate. I also like liver and onions occasionally, if it is sliced thin and cooked correctly, but dh gags at the mention of it, so I never eat it. There is a local restaurant that has it sometimes, but I'm so picky about it, I'm always reluctant to try theirs.
Carole, I envy your mom's adjustment and contentment with the nursing home. My dad has been doing nothing but complain the two weeks he's been there. Part of the reason is that because his arm is still in a sling he hasn't been able to do the rehab on it. Hopefully that will change when he sees the ortho doc next week. It's trying for both of us.
Yesterday I made French onion soup. I was late getting started on it but the pressure cooker cut down on the broth time significantly. I didn't, however, have enough time to chill it enough to easily remove all of the fat, so it tasted a little greasy to me. I'll be able to skim the leftovers today, although I'll lose a few onions in the process.
Tonight is turkey pot pies. I have some pie dough left from last weekend that must be used, not to mention turkey and gravy.
Sandy, you are still eating good in the neighborhood! Minus, i love your chicken foot group's adventures in eating. That's my kind of eating.
Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!
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I'm making chicken soup. Bought a couple boneless chicken breasts on sale. They're simmering in store bought broth. I'll add onions, carrots, zucchini later and maybe a smattering of kale at the last minute. I'm really trying to be good about eating vegetables.
If chocolate had vitamins, protein, and fiber. I'd be happy as a clam!
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I started out to make Beef Burgundy with mushrooms & wine, but decided to add carrots & new potatoes. So of course I had to add more liquid. I'm not sure what this will turn out to be but it sure smells good. One of the kitchen smells I really like - sauteed onions.
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Oh I can smell all the goodies in everyone's kitchen (except mine) I had thought to try a few recipes I had seen on line and made the mistake of trusting my memory for the ingredients when I went to the store. In my defense, I had went to a real estate open house, then went to the nursing home to give Dad a manicure and a shave and a couple of sweaters I had found yesterday for him got the approval..YAY, He went to lunch, and I decided to hit the grocery on the way home. SO---I was going to try Chicken & Dumplings in the crockpot--(you use snipped up refrigerator biscuits at the end for the "dumplings", and a strawberry banana cheesecake salad, and cool whip cookies. Discovered when I was ready to get started that I needed another can of soup for the dumplings, I needed mini marshmallows and yogurt for the salad, which I discovered AFTER I came home, put away my groceries and settled in on a dreary afternoon. Predicting snow for 3am tomorrow, I heard a dusting but a friend says 1-3 inches..... I think if I can get up early enough for 7"30 mass tomorrow, I can pick up what I need on the way home and be ok. If I get up and there is 3 inches of snow----I may get creative....
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I love creative Red. We don't have a grocery store anywhere close so I have to plan ahead for a week. If I forget something, I do creative... (or Stauffer's Mac & Cheese) If the strawberry/banana cheescake salad works out, please post the recipe.
Nance - sorry your Dad isn't settling faster. Maybe it will help when he has the use of his arm back.
Lacey - I'm not sure when you're visiting Susan but please give her a hug for me and let her know we are ALL thinking about her.
Dinner was yummy. Sort of stewish even through the beef had been cut in stir fry sizes, but a thicker 'gravy'.
Eric - hope you are doing OK. Did your DD tell lots of stories about the first few months?
Carole - glad you are treating yourself to some down time. Your deserve it.
April - oh no - bread. My most serious downfall also. I can do w/o fried foods & even without sweets most of the time, but bread.... Kroger has a new Rosemary/Olive Oil round loaf by La Brea.
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Lurk a lot here- praying for those of you who have lost loved ones and those in pain. Thank you so much for making things so "normal" by sharing recipes, etc. Trying to get back to a new normal and appreciate all of you on this thread. Tried a new recipe tonight...had time as it's Saturday- spent time getting our Christmas tree and decorating in the house. LOVE this time of year- last Christmas is a blur- surgery late OCt and rads over the holidays...enjoying this one!!0 -
Tonight was finger food at the cast party--nothing special, but I was starving. We're staying over at the Hilton to avoid the Bears game parking crunch and 3" of snow, rain, or sleet predicted for tomorrow--our matinee is the last show of the run. Just as we are getting into the groove, it's over till next year
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Hammer,
Looks yummy. Green chile stew? I can almost smell the cumin! Is the recipe online?
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Had a big package of ground beef last night so I cooked it all up and made sloppy joes with half of it and saved the other half for tonight. Making spaghetti, salad and garlic bread tonight.
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Woke up this morning to hamster sized snow flakes covering everything. This was supposed to be "a few flakes mixed with rain, little or no accumulation mainly on grassy areas." Yeah right. We have at least an inch and it's still coming down heavily. I should have been a weatherman.
Perfect morning for steel cut oats with apples and walnuts. Fixed up a bowl and put it in the pressure cooker . This is not much faster, but less mess as it cooks right in the bowl. It could have cooked a little longer as there was still liquid left, but I finished it off in the microwave. Ate it with a slice of harvest (fruit and nut) bread that I found in the freezer. A bit of a carb load, but very satisfying.
It's time to replenish my harvest bread supply as well as other holiday baking endeavors, so today I must put together a shopping list.
Dinner is still a bit of a mystery. The day calls for soup but we're leaving town for a couple of days so I don't want a lot of leftovers. Besides, we still have onion soup left which we'll finish off for lunch. Maybe I'll watch some cooking shows for inspiration.
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Pretty scene, Nance, but I am still not ready for the white stuff....and we are slated to get some this week.
Some of my resistance is related to what I''m assuming is a lingering virus (am definitely re-calling the doc tomorrow to see if I should be on a Z-pac...this has gone on for waay to long and clearly my body has not put up a successful enough fight). New complaint, all the coughing has resulted in my straining muscles in my back, so there's that now, too. Arrrgh.....end of rant.
On Friday, DH and I headed to Somerville and visited Susan, DH and her adorable granddaughter. We enjoyed her wonderful pasta e fagiole soup, and two (!) freshly made breads, one a crusty baguette, and the other, individual onion rolls. Totally delicious! Then we got to meet Olivia (who was napping during our lunch) in all of her adorableness. She is such a beautiful, bright and totally engaged active 6+ month old. Olivia's dad arrived to pick her up while we were there, so we had a nice visit with him also. Clearly a young loving dad so smitten with his little one! We left in time for Susan to finish prep for her next Air BnB guests who were arriving that afternoon. We had enjoyed hearing about the many interesting guests that she'd hosted since June.....a lot! And it appears that they will continue to be busy with that endeavor. So glad we visited!
Last night we attended our DS2's holiday Open House. First off, I have to say, our soon to be DDIL is amazingly talented in the area of interior design and home decor, so we were treated to their beautiful holiday decorated home from the bows on the front railings to the holly-leafed collar on their pooch! She had a table full of casual eats, dips, cheeses and pita turkey roll ups that DS2 made. The speciality offering was her shrimp and grits dish which is so delish. The most special thing for DH and I, however, was spending the evening (spasming back and all) re-connecting with the the good friends DS2 grew up with, (he was a part of an unusually large group of bright "good citizen" guys in HS who have all remained close, living in Boston after returning from colleges afar). It was great to meet their wives, (beyond Facebook pix!) hear about their current lives, catch up with his college friends with whom we tailgate, then meet other newer friends of theirs whom we've known about but never met. It was a really fun evening for these old folks! And many of these "kids" reminded us as we left that they'll see us at Amelia Island for the wedding. We left with smiles.....Haha....at our next holiday party the conversations will include more about medicare and illnesses.
My contribution to the party food was a large platter of pizzelle, and another one of candy cane shaped almond flavored butter cookies (request of "DDIL"). Visuals below...
Today, I am totally resting.....then will make chicken for dinner with winter squash and a salad. Tomorrow I will make a big pot of kale laden soup repeating a recipe I made up a few winters ago, called "snowy day soup" in anticipation of the wintry forecast.
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Man , the snow is here too Nance and ChiSandy. So much for a dusting that would be gone b y afternoon. I have the chicken/dumpling stuff in the crockpot--it smells good, but once again, I thought I had unplugged the food processor and plugged in the crockpot, but I turned to put something in the sink and REPLUGGED IN THE FOOD PROCESSOR. Ran an errand, came back, no good smell, felt the pot---cold. So put it on high, went to church and came home to yummy smells in the kitchen course, anyting with onions, celery and carrots is gonna smell divine.to me. Snowing to beat the band, had to clear all round the car and walking in slush from the church to the car......Going to put on my boots and fill the bird and critter feeders before going to the nursing home.
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And Nance, I think it would be a riot to hear a weather person forecast "hamster-size" snowflakes!!
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I messed this up. Help.
I wanted to make this to thank a neighbor who has helped me (and for myself)
http://www.eatliverun.com/crock-pot-chickpea-butte...
But when I got home
1) The Jalapeno pepper that I bought was missing, so I thought "So what, I'll add red pepper flakes later"????
2) I put red split peas in instead of red lentils, so scooped them out and added regular lentils, then thought "waste not, want not" and added them too because I have no red lentils
3) I thought I bought cut up canned tomatoes, but they were really crushed. So I put them in as is.
It's in the crock pot as of 15 minutes ago. Oh boy.
This was one of my favorite recipes when I made it right, but I've had a busy weekend
Thank you for any ideas
It seems that I am upset by Leon Russel's death He was an amazing studio musician and played piano of every one of the Beach Boy's albums plus Elton John and so many more. Plus, he was my favorite rocker. *sigh* I know, big weirdo, but it was part of my youth
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Beautiful pics of food, cookies, and hamster sized snowflakes, lol!
Am back home after FIL's funeral services and military honors ceremony at the national cemetery, arrived at about 9 last night. My DS drove through the night Thurs to be there, and he and DD participated in the service by bringing the sacraments forward to the altar, along with their cousin. There were the three grandchildren present out of seven (one in Japan, one taking college finals, one who just didn't show up, and the little one taking school testing) so it was nice that they could have a hand in the proceedings. My MIL is hanging in but she looked totally exhausted, and with so much family in the house it was a bit crazy, but it was good to see everyone. The honor guard at the national cemetery forgot to bring their blanks so they could not do FIL's 21 gun - DH was mighty pissed, and the funeral director brought him over to the assembled young troops, introduced him as Colonel V, and they got a piece of his mind. They did do a very nice flag folding and played taps, but they had one opportunity to do this right and they blew it, and it was a disappointment. DD then suggested that we do our own salute since FIL/MIL's house is somewhat remote and on the water. She had her gun, one BIL had his, and my FIL had a 32, a 22 rifle and a shotgun. So, DD, DS, DH, and two BILs did their own 3 volley salute off the dock at sunset with a toast to "Papa" - they are definitely a "can do" bunch! DD and I had to go buy ammo directly after the lunch reception at the church and walked in dressed in black with sunglasses on - the guys at the gun store were a bit surprised to see us looking quite formal, but they were very supportive when we explained why we were there and they even threw in some free ammo to help out.
Back to the usual at home - decorating for the holiday and having a pork roast, mashed potatoes and steamed green beans with dill tonight. Poor DH had to go into work today just to try to catch up. He got home earlier than I did yesterday (DD and I drove separately from him) and got the lights on the big tree for me and washed the dog. He's a good man!
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Made a lemon meringue pie to go with dinner. Was so upset that my original pie crust flopped so I grabbed the graham cracker crust that I had on hand and used that one. Pie is done and cooling. I am also slated for snow in the morning tomorrow.
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Lacey - actually we (St. Louis) have a local weather guy who coined that term "hamster flakes". His name is Dave Murray - was so successful here that he went on to the national scene (ABC or CBS I think) for a while, didn't like it and came back to St. Louis. He's about the best weather guy here but he kind of missed it today. For what it's worth, I'm not ready for this stuff either. In fact, if I never saw snow here again it wouldn't hurt my feelings one bit. As always, your cookies are beautiful!
SpecialK - how disappointing about the ceremony but it sounds like it was handled just fine! Your DH is indeed a good man.
Decided on easy tonight -- chicken/pork Trader Joe"s tamales with a side of black beans from the freezer and a cabbage slaw.
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By the way Lacey - I'm so glad you got to visit with Susan and her family. Sounds like she is as busy as ever. I certainly miss her but wish her well.
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auntie - disappointing is the word for sure. They offered to re-do when MIL passes away, as she will be interred with FIL, but that is a day late and a dollar short for her - she should have been able to witness that tribute to her husnand. DH is at work and he just cc'ed an email to our home address that he sent to the funeral director, and he is asking her to forward him the contact info for the honor guard. She was awesome on all fronts - and this was not under her control, and she is writing her own letter, but his will come on Special Operations Command letterhead with his full title. Not only was my FIL a WWII vet, he was a Colonel himself - so I think whoever was supposed to double check whether or not they had packed the blank rounds for the 21-gun is going to get a dressing down. And possibly a spanking. And maybe a re-write on procedure. Good thing we are a well-armed family and could do our own, lol! The survey of the fam on who had guns, how many, and what kind, was pretty funny. DD has a concealed carry license and while I was surprised she had her gun with her since I was driving us there, I should have known better. She takes no chances, that one!
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Special, I would not want to be that honor guard when word gets to the higher up in charge of that unit! Some poor soul is going to get a major reaming out!
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Nance, it was still snowing when I got to the nursing home, so I told my dad it was snowing hamsters outside and he just cracked up and watched it for the longest time, then, he would watch tv, look out and say It's still snowing Hamsters. out there............We thought for sure we would get birds on his feeder today. We could see them flying and lighting in the trees but none came to his window....bummer.
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Wow, Special. That is amazing in a bad way. I can't imagine how I would have felt had the Marine unit forgot the blanks for my dad's funeral. Hopefully the letter on SOCOM letterhead will cause an improvement.
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specialK!
You were one of the people in this forum that talked me off the ledge In the early days after my (first) diagnosis a couple years ago. I came here thinking I would figure out everything in about a week, and you all could tell me how long I had to live. Haha....
Bless you for helping out the newbies. You're a gem!!
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ms latte - Hey! Good to see you! Thanks, helping anyone new also helps me - it is my silver lining! How are you doing?
eric - I know, right? It was a surreal moment - we were all looking at each other and saying - really?????
mommy - yes, I think there may be some consequences when his letter arrives. DH did approach the young tech sergeant who seemed to be in charge and was standing alone after the ceremony and said he did forgive him, but included in the letter will be that this same individual failed to salute when DH was introduced as Col V, then failed to salute again when DH approached him again later. Eeesh.
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