So...whats for dinner?
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56F here. The junker car that DD drove for awhile, is going to go home the junk yard as soon as the engine comes out....a friend wants the engine for his car... I took it up to the gas station for a gallon or two of gas and the battery went from OK to dead in 1 the one mile trip.
Sharon is on the way over.
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I bought the smallest bottle of food-grade flaxseed oil that WF has. I plan to wait for two dry days in a row and do the seasoning out on/in the gas grill (natural gas, not propane). That way I won’t stink up the house, and I can just carry the spent paper towels out to the dumpster. Might wear a dust mask, though, while outdoors. The Lodge Logic in which I cooked last night’s steak I will just keep normally reseasoning with canola or grapeseed or any inexpensive oil except corn (which does get sticky—tried it once). Last time I did a marathon seasoning, I used Crisco, as a YouTube video suggested, but it didn’t do all that well.
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I use the grill when I need to season pans in the summer and I don't want to heat up the house. In the winter, the oven heat in the kitchen is most welcome.
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Minus, we live in a remote area, but not the outback, if that makes sense. We have spent a lot of our life in the outback though, places where the nearest town is a 10 hour drive away. It's not bad now, only a 2 hour drive to town
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Thanks for the update Freya. Sounds like we will definitely be hearing what you are cooking since you won't be running down the street to go out to dinner.
Eric - RIP for the car. It has done more than it's assigned duty.
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Eric , we beat you yesterday-- 65 here, 50s today . Is this the car that you and dd worked on together? If so, RIP.
Last night's Buffalo wings were delicious. This is a Serious Eats recipe that calls for dry brining the wings overnight with a mixture of salt and baking powder then baking them in a 450°oven before dousing them in the butter/hot sauce mixture. Still not the healthiest of fare but every bit as crisp and delicious as the fried version.
Absolutely nothing interesting for dinner. Perhaps I'll pull out some toasted ravs from the freezer and we'll have those with a wedge salad with leftover blue cheese dressing.
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Batteries do that sometimes, even with newer (those with less than 400,000 miles on the odometer) cars. :-) Since it's going to the junk yard in the next few weeks. So, I'm going to find the cheapest used battery I can find. For this, I'm not "above" going to a junk yard to buy a used, but tested good battery for $15.
Sharon is fighting a cold, so I'm eating lots of oranges (even though it now appears that Vit C doesn't really help) and washing my hands every chance I get.
Tonight I think I'm going to try some cream of potato soup. I've found some recipes in the old cookbooks and some in the newer cookbooks. The ingredient lists go from from basically milk and potatoes all the way through a very long list of stuff. Decisions, decisions. :-)
Last weekend, Sharon did some chicken recipes that we ate all week; one was a marinated chicken that made me think of Hawaii (pineapple and other fruit juices combined with Soy, while the other was a spicy chicken pasta dish. Both started out great and got even better as the week went on and the flavors had a chance to mix together. I'd add some grilled vegetables and she'd fix a salad for side dishes--meals that work for the "oh, wow, am I ever tired" evenings.
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I have not been posting about dinner because I have not been making any - but I have been reading along, lol! DH is up in SC (hey hammer!) with his mom taking care of insurance/bank/legal stuff and also being with her on what would have been his folk's 62nd anniversary - he didn't want her to be alone for that.
Freya - my dad was from Australia - he grew up in Ringwood, outside of Melbourne, and my DH spent some time in Darwin when he was active duty USAF. Fun to have you here with us!
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Something quick and simple
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Rotisserie chicken from WF. Too tired to strip & wash the kale I bought and saute it and the butternut spirals. Then a mini-cannoli (feeling sorry for myself) and a “Sumo” mandarin (the Baby Huey of tangerines).
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SpecialK, I had to laugh, we owned a house for years in Ringwood, and also lived in Darwin for quite a while. Due to DH's work we have lived in every state. We are now in our forever home.
Pad Siew tonight - a Thai style street food dish with steak strips and rice noodles.
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freya - wow! What a coincidence! We have moved a lot as well due to being a military family, probably not done yet even though DH is no longer active duty
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Auntie- Baked beans from scratch..love it! Never thought to even try that.
Ok, so, y'all....DH and I were invited to be 2 of 16 to enjoy an unbelievably prepared 4 course dinner with a champagne and canapés start...in the private home of a Charleston "philanthropist and socialite" .....I have been a few places and done a few things but have NEVER done anything like this dinner...4 James Beard award winning chefs prepared the private dinner and we had a level 3 Sommelier pair wines with each course/and sometimes 2 wines.... All small batch wines...nothing we could buy or get as they are no longer available.....finished with a dessert and dessert wine and then, the piece d' resistance was the 15 year old Pappy Van Winkle Bourbon at $7000.00/bottle....It was a No Child Hungry auction win that a friend of ours won about 18 months ago that came to fruition Saturday.....unbelievable. So, we returned home tonight after the big weekend in Charleston....dinner was chicken and broccoli with water and lemon haha!
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Dang, Special...your dh IS SO CLOSE TO US..."NEXT TIME" please let's get together!
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Freya...welcome to the table! This is such a warm and interesting group. Enjoy!
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hammer - he's in Beaufort, but I'm in Tampa. I had a consult in advance of a colonoscopy next week (not a great topic for this thread..., lol!) that I couldn't miss so he went by himself this time. When I come up that way I will let you know!
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WOW Happy. So did you wear your "little black dress" and pearls? Or did you opt for diamonds. Sounds like some serious wines. South and North Carolina are both on my bucket list. I've never been to either & have dreamed about the outer banks all my life.
Special - sorry about your upcoming colonoscopy. The procedure isn't bad, it's the darn prep. Of course we will want to know your results. Hoping for B9. It's too late in the evening to worry about upsetting dinner conversation talking about this.
BTW - my brain may be scrambled but I don't think we have anyone on this thread from CA, OR or WA. We used to have Debbie, and I hope she is still doing OK. But Eric & I representing the "west" really doesn't count. Hoping I didn't forget anyone's home state as I made my statement.
Eric - hope you don't catch the cold.
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minus, lol! I had my first colonoscopy 9 years ago, and did the pill prep. A lot less liquid volume to consume, and you start a clear liquid diet much sooner - an easier prep, but it is hard on the kidneys. Since I have had kidney filtered chemo in the meantime I elected the usual prep - ugh. A good friend just did this - at the same doc's office - and really struggled with the volume she had to consume. I have had reflux surgery that has made my ability to ingest volume compromised, and I physically can't vomit because of this surgery (sorry, probably TMI!) - more ugh. The bright note - my SIL is a gastro nurse, and BIL a gastroenterologist, so I may ask for advice about how much I really need to drink. The procedure I had last time was a piece of cake, hoping for the same this time. The staff at this office is top-notch. DH has had one done there as well. This is a screening, not a diagnostic, so I am not really worried beyond knowing that I apparently like to "make" things - nerve sheath tumor, assorted cysts, fibroids, an ovarian mass, tons of skin cancer, breast cancer.... Interestingly, my MO ordered a colonoscopy after I finished Herceptin and my insurance denied it due to not fitting the risk profile. Seriously?
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Special - WTH is high risk then? I always had several polyps removed and had 2 year call backs. And then I had chemo for BC. My next colonoscopy showed NO polyps and I got a 5 year call back. Obviously a skewed reading. Also my derm doc said my skin looked better than it had for 20 years in terms of pre-cancerous lesions. Again - obviously a skewed reading. I told her the treatment was not worth the clear skin. Now it's back to freezing 12 -15 places every 6 months.
They have changed some of the "prep liquid" requirements. My first time I could not get all the liquid down. Last time the quantity was smaller. One friend had a pill before the liquid prep. She was cleaned out for sure.
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Minus, interesting. I had polyps and have 3 year call backs. Go figure. I had to drink 2 quarts of liquid. I put it in tea last time. Much more doable.
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I watch my husband do the prep every 2 years, and hope I never have to do it.
Happy, thanks for the welcome, this has become my favourite thread. That dinner sounded amazing!
Spent the day "cooking", not food, but made enough soap to last us another year. It doesn't take long once you start, but it's one of those jobs that sits on the to do list for a while.
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I made the potato soup tonight. It turned out pretty well, even if I did improvise a bit. It was supposed to be garnished with parsley, but I didn't have that, so I used cilantro. I also used some crispy cooked bacon...just because... And, I added a lot more pepper than recommended. It pretty well filled up a 5 quart dutch oven, so there should be enough for a few days. The recipe came from "America's Cook Book" of 1952. This is one of my mom's cookbooks.
Happy, that sounds fun. Was it formal, semi-formal or amazing meal in an informal setting?
Colonoscopy? Piece of cake? I...don't...see....how....those....two...go....together.... :-)
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HH, that sounded like an amazing magical evening—the memories would probably sustain me though at least a week of chicken and broccoli dinners.
Speaking of which, tonight was leftover rotisserie chicken, sauteed butternut squash “noodles” with a little truffle oil & salt, and steamed broccoli with some of that Christian Poitier hollandaise (one packet got me through three meals). When I brought the chicken home yesterday, I had a dark quarter. Apparently, during the night (despite having ordered in for Mexican), Gordy ate the other dark quarter, so all that was left was breast. Despite covering it with the gelled juices in the container and then the skin, it was dry, dry, DRY. Gagged on it, in fact. I really hate white meat poultry unless it’s Southern-fried or napped with plenty of gravy. All my life I've thought it tasted like chalk and had the texture of cardboard. I guess food aversions are powerful (I really don’t like many fruits, either, unless they’re very sweet) and explain why it’s so difficult for some folks (ahem) to diet.
Drank two glasses of seltzer this evening, had two cups of green tea with lemon & honey but I’m still dehydrated. It’s so frustrating coughing stuff up but being unable to swallow it or cough it out without herculean effort (and intractable laryngitis). I sound like I have a three-pack habit, and I’ve never smoked. Seeing my MO on Thurs. and I think I will look for an ENT referral to get my cords ‘scoped to rule out what I fear may have been a hemorrhage or blood blister caused by coughing and throat clearing.
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Eric, bacon makes everything better
I usually make a crumb with fried bread crumbs, garlic, herbs and diced bacon to sprinkle over potato or cauliflower soup. It adds another texture to the creamy mix and little bursts of flavour.Thought I would add DH's latest favourite breakfast or snack using the air fryer. Cut the stem out of a field mushroom, crack in an egg, some diced bacon, peppers, shallots, top with cheese and put on for 10 mins. He puts it on, and by the time he has showered breakfast is ready.
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Welcome, Freya. Great to have you at the table. Dh and I made a trip to AUS and NZ 3 or 4 years ago. We have been watching the tennis in Melbourne and wishing we could go back to that city. We loved the area near the river with water taxis.
Last night's dinner was chicken enchiladas made with leftover roasted chicken. I used canned green sauce and didn't like the flavor as well as the red sauce. I made the tortillas.
The weather is cool enough for Dh to plan cooking a pot of chili with pinto beans not out of a can. Challenge is eating it before it gets warm again. This has been a winter with too much summer mixed in. And LOTS of rain. Cart path golf is not for me.
HH, the dinner sounds like a marvelous eating/sipping experience.
Minus, my mother has rebounded and is back to enjoying food. Thanks for asking. I have still not used the spiralizer I bought last year. It's wrapped on a cloth to keep it nice and clean.
For some reason I find myself interested in the air fryer.
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Thanks Carol. I love the tennis too. It has become such a great tournament, and this year has opened right up with some of the big guns out.
Melbourne is in mourning at the moment, some lunatic drove his car down the footpath mowing people down. 30 injured and 5 dead, including a 10yr old and a 3 month old baby. It was heartbreaking.
I hope you enjoyed your trip, NZ is incredibly beautiful.
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Sandy, not a white meat fan either. Sadly, dh eats only white breast meat. Actually, that's good because I split a chicken, give him the breast and the rest is for me!
Freya, you would love my SIL. She makes her own laundry soap and hand and bath soap occasionally. I don't bother because it's cheap to buy but I do make some of my own cleaning products and yesterday I made a linen spray with witch hazel and lavender oil.
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Some real renaissance ladies around here! Making your own soaps and cleaning products is great. I am too lazy (still work full time so I give myself a pass on this) to make my own.
That dinner sounds fantastic Happyhammer! I would love something like that but hubby is not very adventurous when it comes to food unfortunately. What I am making tonight will be a challenge for him.
Tonight will be chicken crepes made with cheese. I have some leftover chicken to use so I will shred it for the crepes. It is a WW recipe from years ago. I add either broccoli or asparagus to the filling and then roll them and bake them smothered with cheese (in this case a mixture or gruyere and cheddar) and it is delicious and healthy as long as I go easy on the cheese.
Happy Birthday Sandy!
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I need to check this thread more often ...loving all the conversation!
Dinner last night
baked pork chops breaded with Parmesan and Italian seasoning, long grain rice with garlic and herbs with a big ol toss salad.
Dinner with early so we treated our cell for the bowl of butter pecan ice cream and watch the game shows LOL
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April - I'd be happy to take your DH's place at dinner tonight. Yum. I'm assuming you make a cream sauce? And then sprinkle cheese? Or melt the cheese in the white sauce.
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