So...whats for dinner?
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Special, thanks for the offer but trying to resist temptation! The idea was to keep my mom from eating too much of it- we thought she didn't want us to have it, haha. Of course, when I grew up, knew exactly why she did that.
Isn't that the truth about the freezer? I date things, try to rotate it, etc, but do find "dinosaurs" as well.
DS is here watching a bowl game with DH. Have had pork sammies for lunch. Dinner tonight will be leftover stroganoff and/or leftover spaghetti with meat sauce and a big tossed salad. Trying to get any leftovers and such out of here before I go low carb next week
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Lacey--were you at the Knicks/Celtic's game? My Dad and watched it on TV!
Dinner tonight will be a pot of chili that I just started----We are getting really high winds today and tomorrow and the wind chills to go with them. So, chili sounded like a plan.
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Beef stroganoff. I never think of cooking that dish and we enjoy it. Good idea 💡!
We're having split pea soup cooked with a meaty ham bone. Dh is the chef. I'll make a salad. Cornbread would be good
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Carole - yum, I love beef stroganoff and also split pea soup w/ham.
Most of my dinners this week were leftover variations of the prime rib I cooked on Christmas Eve. Finally finished the last as a roasts beef sandwich on sourdough bread yesterday. Today I went to the only 'new mexico' mexican restaurant in Houston and had a stack of green chili enchiladas w/chicken. And two margaritas. Tomorrow will be salad & bagels w/cream cheese & smoked salmon.
New Year's Eve, those of my chickenfoot domino group who are in town will start playing at 4pm and quit around 10pm to head for our beds. I am going to make Hawaiian Sweet Roll sliders. If they turn out, I'll post the recipe. Since this is the South, someone will be making a black eyed pea dish for luck - and probably someone will be making something with cabbage for the same.
Did you all see Mark Bittman's 3 ingredient no knead bread recipe on line? I can hardly wait to try it.
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Haha....nothing goes into my freezer without a date.....but seems to be an irrelevant effort. I have a side by side twenty five year old fridge. I cannot "find" much in this tall machine.....I think I would do better visually with one of those bottom drawer freezers. Oh well....
In fact the turkey cutlets were delicious! I sauteed them, then heated them in oven covered with Rao's sauce (on sale at our local market), a nice fresh mozzarella, and some manchego cheese (using up leftovers from holidays). Made some cappelini to go with the turkey dish. And of course a large garden salad with my fave horseradish dressing. I am with you, Happy, with the need to distance from carbs.
Beef stroganoff.... always loved it and made it often when we were first married. Not sure why I abandoned it then,...but I know why I do now. Waaaay too second helping satisfying with that creamy texture and noodle carbs.
Minus , that sounds like a fun New Years Eve!
Red, The Celts Knicks game...a great game by our standards....was in NYC and we were home in Boston...the game we attended this week was with Memphis here in Boston. Since we have half season tickets, we will probably not be travelling to any out of town games. Some weeks I feel like Lucy on the chocolate candy conveyor belt with so many games we are scheduled to attend! But no real complaints....we love it! Some retired people take cruises....we go to Celtics games.
They are playing the Cavs right now and doing just fine at the moment, so I will go watch.....
Update on Rhonda...she is amazingly cleaning every bit of dust that ever existed in the upstairs of our house! Functional and hilarious! We have a robot cleaning pet!! Our pets always created the need for cleaning.
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So Lacey...you may need to be on the next robo~vacuum commercials...you are making me want one! I do not often make beef stroganoff but my mom loves it so decided to do it. We have it over rice though I know many like it with egg noodles. Yep, apparently am carb loading to really put my body into the crazy zone when I go back to low card eating next week. Actually am looking forward to the low carbs as I do and feel better then....and, my weight will be better. Need to can the extra lbs since I am ER+.
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Me too, Happy....I've gotten relaxed of late, and have to get back on my healthy "program".
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(Dang it--my computer ate the beginning of my post--including the show we saw last night, the last two days' meals, etc. But here's The Inn at Little Washington (at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mts.) earlier tonight:
First amuse-bouche was eaten before I could photograph it: a potato chip stuffed with "pimento cheese" that no Southern mom ever made unless she'd gone to culinary school. (I could taste fresh chive, chèvre, creme fraiche, and cheddar). Amuse-bouche # 2 was red pepper-carrot-vodka soup and a Comte cheese gougere:
Amuse-bouche #3, a pork-belly skewer with kimchi on a tamari reduction:
Appetizer: "A Tin of Sin;" American farmed osetra caviar on a bed of cucumber gelee and crabmeat salad, accompanied by champagne:
Next, lamb carpaccio with "Caesar salad ice cream," microgreens, pureed romaine and "Parmigiano-Reggiano snow," served with a Pinot Noir (aka Spatburgunder) rose from the Baden region of Germany:
Next was crispy veal sweetbreads with apricots and country ham, accompanied with an Alsatian vendange tardive Pinot Gris. Alas, I ate it too fast. Oops. Where were my manners? Maybe my sister snapped a pic.
Next, poached lobster in a yellow-tomato, fennel pollen & saffron broth with garlic custard, with a Russian River area oaked chardonnay:
Here's the wine:
Pre-dessert intermezzo: "Dreamsicle" with graham cracker crumbs:
Dessert: "Seven Deadly Sins," miniatures of their most famous sweets: mint ice cream with chocolate ribbons, chocolate lava cake with a black truffle sugar topping, apple-tartlet, butterscotch ice cream sandwich with warm caramel sauce, limoncello mousse cheesecake with raspberry yogurt, vanilla panna cotta, and "chocolate bomb:" a shell of dark chocolate surrounding dark chocolate mousse. Scattered throughout the plate were grains of dark-chocolate enrobed puffed arborio rice:
No dessert wine--I had to drive, and even sharing each glass of the pairings with my sis & niece pushed the limits of what I could safely imbibe. So I had a double espresso (from artisanally roasted beans from the next town over). Just as we were about to leave, we heard a cowbell and a moo (from one of those toys you turn over).....the folks at the next table had ordered the cheese course:
Finally, our souvenirs (besides the menus, which I will try to photograph tomorrow at my sis' house before I head home)--candies & cookies in a little box replica of the Inn:
Yea, verily, I was weak--ate a lemon snap, shortbread, chocolate cherry & 2 chocolate blueberries (plus doing my nails and drinking some orange herb tea while waiting for all these pics to load). Hope they can manage to make it home unmolested in my carry-on!
This is only the third time I've ever been here (last time was 22 years ago). Even the priciest place in Paris is cheaper, but boy, was this worth it!
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Beautiful food, ChiSandy.
Lacey, you probably talked me out of the stroganoff! It is one of those second helping foods. Like tuna casserole.
The split pea soup was very good and there is more to be enjoyed. Dh made cornbread muffins using a box of Jiffy mix. He likes sweet cornbread.
Your Christmas beef has me desiring beef, Minus. I have leftover linguine that could become pasta pie. But it would be challenging to restrict to small portion. Probably should toss it.
Dinner is to be decided
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No idea about what to do for dinner. Kind of leaning towards pancakes and bacon for dinner
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Carole - so glad to have you back at the table more often. Sending wishes that your Mother is comfortable.
Lacey - I too have had to deal with docs retiring & accepting promotions to other facilities. I've tried very hard to make sure all the new ones are under 50 so they'll still be working up until I don't need them anymore. Funny - I keep seeing my 'old' OB/Gyn at restaurants & concerts around town. Last time she gave me her personal business card & said let's do lunch.
I LOVE the four piece rule. Unfortunately my downfall is bread and not candy. although I'm doing a very good job of consuming a 10 oz box of See's Peanut Brittle all by myself. Just think of the discipline it required not to buy the 1 lb box - LOL.
Nance - did you get your Dad moved OK?
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Hubby told me pancakes and bacon sounded good to him so that is what I am doing for dinner
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Minus, I think DD will have your downfall.
When I took a couple of loaves of sourdough from the oven, DD was there with a stick of real butter. Sharon and I did get about 1/2 a loaf of bread. :-)
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Oh no, my DH is sick- ear and throat crud. think I'll be making a comforting soup for supper. Trying to figure our what might taste good to him.
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We'll have leftover chicken thighs cooked with lemon and olives and winter squash mash flavored with brown sugar and butter. It's one of those round "squatty" squash that I cooked and peeled a couple of days ago. Not sure of the name. I'll also make a romaine salad with additions including avocado.
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Chili for supper tonight--made it yesterday and was just getting ready to eat some when m y pal Melodie knocked on the back door and wanted to go eat out---so we went to Fiesta Ranchero (it was 1/2 price margarita night) so since she was driving, I had two frozen strawberry M with a burrito bowl. Can't remember the last time I had two drinks the same night, but boy were they good. I showed her when I got out the car that I could still touch both of my noses without any difficulty.
Today, I had to do something with the Challah bread I bought Christmas Eve and didn't use. So, I made the French toast in Ina Garten's cookbook---you use whipping cream and orange zest and honey and kosher salt------OMG-----I will eat the rest of this loaf of bread pretty quickly. She also has a French toast bread pudding recipe that you do in the oven, but I did it in the skillet and it was divine.
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Made a Greek chicken dish with artichokes and lemon over rice...soothing and delish. Served it with steamed broccoli.
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I made deviled eggs - and thank you so much Special for your 'shake the pan' method of peeling. But oops, one slipped and cracked before putting it into the pot, so I had a fried egg in butter. That will serve for dinner along with the Royal Comice Pear and a handful of pistachios that I had before I started with the eggs. Maybe some popcorn if I'm still up & running at 10pm.
One of our stores has large avocados for $0.69. That's a good deal since all the others are $0.87 for the medium size. I understand avocados will be in short supply this year due to the CA drought.
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Special...what is your trick for peeling boiled eggs? Would love to know!
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Hammer - this is what Special K posted some pages back:
Put the eggs in a pan of cold water, bring it to a boil, turn down to a simmer & cook for 15 minutes. (someone else said 11 minutes because that's what her Mom said). Pour off the hot water, run cold water over the eggs for a couple of minutes, then fill pan with cold water. Leave the eggs in the cold water for about 10 minutes, then pour water off completely. Put the lid on the pan & shake vigorously. The shells slide right off.
Special also said she keeps peeled hard-boiled eggs in a container in the fridge.
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Ah yes, bread. One of my favorite snacks is a slice of rye toast with real butter. I think I could give up pasta before good bread. (Well, maybe.)
Tonight was a pork chop and rice dish in the pressure cooker that was only moderately successful. I've had a moth attack in my brown rice supply (in spite of my traps! AACK!) Therefore I was forced to use white rice. The result was that the pork chops could have used a few more minutes but the rice was overcooked. Brown rice would have worked perfectly. The result was edible, but that's all. I did have some lovely asparagus that I got today along with a beautiful artichoke. I'll have the artichoke later in the week.
Sandy, I'm enjoying your culinary adventures.
I have loads of cookies that need to be disposed of too. It seems I've had at least two cookies a day and they are still so many. I expect I'll just grit my teeth and pitch them. I have to have bloodwork done Monday, so we'll see how much damage has been done.
We did get my dad moved without incident Minus, thanks for asking. He was very glad to be home. I hope it lasts for a while, but he seems to be bordering on frail so well see.
Some friends were to come for homemade pizza and movies tomorrow night, but now one of them has got the dreaded respiratory bug so now I don't know. Could be a quiet night, which would be alright too.
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minus - thanks for briefing the hard boiled egg procedure
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Breakfast this morning was a leftover deviled egg & beignet from Bayou Cafe (yesterday’s breakfast) along with some of the Hyatt Place Arlington’s daily “breakfast potato skillet” (potato wedges, onions, peppers, and ground beef). Lunch was chop chae and Korean fried chicken legs at Bon Chon in Arlington—and I took another leg along with me to the airport, where I ate it along with a glass of rose cava as I waited to board my plane. Got home to a real mess—my housekeeper got strep and an ear infection while visiting her son in Alabama for Christmas (she left before we left for NY) and won’t be able to fly home for at least another week. And my husband and son (though I love them dearly) have never had to fend for themselves—my son lives with us, my husband lived with his folks till our wedding day, and whenever I’ve been away our housekeeper cleans up after them. So as soon as I got in the door, it was load the dishwasher (my husband tried unsuccessfully to wash dishes), go through the fridge and toss out stuff I’d bought as long ago as Dec. 20 (pretty sure that roast chicken wasn’t gonna be safe to eat), clean the litterboxes, go through all the mail and phone messages, make seltzer and refrigerate whichever fruit gifts that arrived during the week hadn’t started rotting yet. (What part of “perishable” did my guys not understand)? Rewarded myself with a persimmon and a decaf cappuccino.
Gotta get up early—replenish some perishable (perished) staples, finish at least straightening (if not hard cleaning) because after dinner at B’way Cellars, we’re walking back and having at least a dozen friends over for champagne to ring in the New Year.
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Hoping the heavy rain that is forecast for tonight holds off until we return home. The dinner reservation is for 7. Not sure how many people because we were invited by another couple to join them and dh was the one who accepted. We're going to their house at 6. I'm hoping the restaurant has a beef offering as a special since Minus has me all "primed" for beef.
Happy New Year to all.
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Beef is on the menu for tonight again. Made a tenderloin roast on Xmas day and tonight are gorgeous club steaks (aka rib-eye) with mushrooms and shallots in a red wine reduction and shrimp risotto with saffron and a tomato blush (just a hint of gorgeous san marzano tomato) and spinach salad with walnuts and goat cheese with a vinaigrette.
We were going to go out, but DH's son and fiancée are coming over earlier for our Xmas since they did not make it on Xmas and by the time they leave it will be a bit later (they have dinner reservations at 7 and are going to a party so they are leaving here at 6:30 and we don't like to go out to a later dinner on NY Eve cause of the drunks on the road) so I will cook.
Happy Holidays to all!
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HH, I do hope your DH is feeling better.
Sandy, those dinner pix are quite the works of art! And I loved the souvenir.... Sorry your trip's spell was broken with housekeeping chores upon your return. I have always been thankful that all the men in my family have the "neat gene". Tho sometimes dinner items I have left for DH in fridge if I am away, have been there awaiting disposal, since he often opts to eat out in my absence.
Nance, I am hoping that your dad can enjoy many days of feeling content and relieved to be "home". Glad the move went well. He is lucky to have a devoted daughter in you.
Yesterday DH and I decided we needed to get to the gym for our last time at that facility. Our stretching trainer had no one else show up for her noon class so she designed a session for the two of us, which I really needed. DH not so much.....he managed to irritate the muscle in his back that was healing after the recent dog chasing fall. So he is in a lot of pain again.....it will pass. After our class, I managed to do most of my former workout and it felt great. So sad we have to leave that gym....but will try the Y that is in our town.
Last evening, for dinner, we had the turkey cutlet and pasta leftovers, and I discovered some portobello mushrooms in the fridge hiding behind a large bunch of kale that I'd forgotten. So, I stuffed them with some diced, sautéed butternut squash, garlic and onion, breadcrumbs and a balsamic/evoo mix, then baked them with grated cheese on top...an experiment. They were delightful. I even wrote it down so we can have them again
Tonight we are going to dinner at one of our favorite authentic Italian reataurants, La Morra, in Brookline. They are having a special NYE menu. We would not typically go out for a speciality dinner like this, since they are often overpriced, BUT, DH discovered a gift card for the restaurant that we'd neglected to use....so off we go. We must be more attentive to our consumable gifts!!
Minus, thanks for reminding us of Special's tip for peeling hard boiled eggs!
Happy New Year's Eve, everyone!
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April, we posted at the same time, so just saw your NYE menu.....WOW! Sounds soooo delicious! Enjoy!
If we had not discovered the LaMorra gift card, DH had planned to cook tonight....lobster paella. He makes a wonderful dinner....the only two selections in his repertoire, the paella, and rack of lamb. He's made each about three times....and always a big production (and I have to stay out of the kitchen, since it is chaos), with great need for fanfare. But the end product is always wonderful, and a way we have spent some recent NYE's.
Unfortunately, the last time he made paella was on a Christmas Day, and as we were opening gifts, I walked into the kitchen to replenish my coffee and got a terrible waft of gas. He had left the stove burner on so low that it was just emitting gas with no flame. I ran around opening all the windows and doors, and banned him from cooking for a while. ;/ We were lucky not to be one of those tragic holiday house explosion stories! Recently, we've decided he can make one of his famous paella meals again....just with better supervision by the head chef. And then.....he discovered the gift card! Lucky us!
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Oh, by the way. For today only, your wish for more time in the day will come true. Today there will be a 61 second minute. This happens one second before 7pm EST; 6pm CST; 5pm MST, 4pm PST.
It's called a leap second, and like the leap year, it's a contrivance to keep two time scales relatively close (atomic time and solar time)...with atomic time being much more stable. The atomic clocks might gain or lose a second every 100 million years, while the time based on the earth's rotation is slowing a second about every half a dozen years.
Don't waste it all in one place! :-)
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Eric, that made me laugh! It has been a couple of years since I posted here, but I think about this forum a lot. Good to see a lot of the "oldtimers" are still here. My daughter (a freshman in college) has been a vegan for 2 years now. It was a new year's resolution 2 years ago. I never thought it would last, but it did. She is home for winter break, and today we went to a restaurant called V Street in Rittenhouse Square in Philly. It is all vegan. There are 2 other vegan restaurants in Philly owned by the same guy (Rich Landau and his wife Kate Jacoby). V Street is the middle one, Vedge is a bit fancier and there is a new cafeteria style one. V Street is marketed as street fare. It has a very urban, chic feel. We had their take on a bagel with lox. It was so delicious, tasted better than the real thing (which I don't really like). A beet sliced very thinly posed as the lox, and some kind of a dill flavored spread the cream cheese and some fresh tomatoes. Also had a French dip with mushrooms standing in for roast beef. I think what makes his food so scrumptious is his broths. The mushroom broth for the dip is just heaven. Also had a shawarma sandwich with seitan. I am not a big fan of seitan though. But even so it was very good. We each ordered one and shared everything. Had some biscuits and gravy with it too that was the absolute best I have ever tasted and a carrot salad which was truly delicious. What a treat it was.
Happy New Year to everyone! Hope 2017 brings only good health and wonderful blessings for all. Kay
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Our DD is a college freshman at Arizona State University. She will be 19 in a few days.
We were cleaning up a bit yesterday and got to looking at DD pictures...from 15 minutes old through present day. Old sure did get here in a hurry. :-)
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