So...whats for dinner?
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Thanks SpecialK. I left out the busy part, Tuesday & Wednesday will be spent driving to and from visiting my MIL. She went into a nursing home last year, she is 92. She loved being there, and enjoyed interracting with the other women. All of a sudden she is refusing to shower, refusing to take her meds, refusing to see her doctor, refusing to speak english (she is fluent in 5 languages), basically saying no to everything.
She does have mild dementia, not sure if it can change this quickly, or if she is just being difficult. My SIL visits her everyday, but missed a couple as she was ill, this all started just afterwards. I love her to bits, but she can be very manipulative with her daughter.
Thank you Minus and Carol, I've had a good run so far, and treatments are improving all the time.
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Freya - sorry to hear also of your worry about your MIL, dealing with aging parents is hard when you have your own health to consider. I have limited personal experience with dementia but have several friends who have dealt with this with their parents and my understanding is that behavior can indeed turn on a dime and change quite quickly. Hoping there is something that can be done to bring your MIL back to her social and cooperative self - I am sure that would be a relief for you and your DH. Safe travels when you go to visit, is it a long trip?
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Freya, tough news, ugh. I'll add my ((hug)) to Carole's. Several of us here are dealing with aged parents so we feel your pain there.
I'm worried about you storm folks, so check in when you can. Weird weather around here! Didn't make it to 30 yesterday and supposed to be 60 today. Sheesh.
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I'm here Auntie Nance! The storm was incredible! Blizzard conditions for 6 hours (thankfully a very fast moving storm) and where I live (in Central CT near the CT River) we got 16.5 inches. We had yesterday off work (even the State told non-essential workers to stay home which is rare) and today, we opened an hour late. The roads are still pretty awful and what normally takes me 25-30 mins commute took an hour today. Ugh! I hate winter. The older I get, the less tolerance I have for it.
I was a cooking machine yesterday since I had the time. I made the mac and cheese, home made brownies, chocolate chip cookies, pulled pork, stuffed cabbage, and I made 7 quarts of home made chicken stock. I usually get 8 out of this recipe but I guess it cooked down a little more than usual cause I was so busy and not paying as much attention to it.
Tonight will be home made chicken soup with the noodles I also made yesterday. I love chicken soup and my hubby needs to stay good and healthy for his surgery on Feb. 21st. I will also have pulled pork sandwich with the soup if hubby wants one but I am good with my soup and some bread that I made in the bread machine.
Enjoy your day~!
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April - glad you checked in. Wow, you had a serious cooking day. Did you share about your DH surgery before & I forgot? Hope it's minor.
Nance - how is your Dad doing? And Carole, your Mother? And Special, your MIL? And anyone else with aging parents. It seems like yesterday that I was trying to help my own parents but Dad died in 2007 and Mom three years before.
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Hubby has a torn ACL Minus and since he needed a total knee replacement on that knee anyway, it is going to be done all at once. It will be a bit tougher to rehab from, but last time he had the other knee done, the doctor said it was the worst one he had ever rebuilt and a surgery that was supposed to take about 3 hours took 6! He did all the exercises and was back to work and driving in about 4 weeks instead of 6-8 they told him. He is determined NOT to be down long.
If it were me, I would whimper on the couch as long as possible and take pain killers until they MADE me take the advil instead. I HATE pain when it comes to my knees/legs. Childbirth, C-Sections and other pain I can deal, but my darn knees are terrible too and I can't stand that kind of pain. It eats at you all day long and especially at night when you are in one position and move when you are half asleep. OWIE!! LOL I will be having my knees done next year most likely. Right now, they really can't spare me in work to take the time and just do it!
I was ready to do it in 2013 when this darn BC came a callin and after I had back to back lumpectomies, I did not wish to go back under anesthesia for a while. (I hate hate hate being put out and in fact had both of my C-Sections with a spinal to be awake the whole time)
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Freya, I too hope that your MO has a good treatment plan for you. HUGS! I was amazed to read that you brought a dinner to have at the hotel, especially with what you were going through.
I somehow am struggling with this site, which partially accounts for my infrequent posting. Every time I try to log in to post (I used to have it set on the automatic set up, which disappeared while I was traveling), my password is not accepted....so I reset (actually use same one which is accepted) and get into BC.org, but our dinner page never shows up in the list so I ferret out a name of one of "us" on another thread and lift their latest comment to get to this thread. WAY TOO MUCH WORK! So, I can read posts with no problem, but won't be posting much.
I just rec'd a large epacket of forms to fill out for my Dana Farber appt next week. I hope I will not be sorry that I chose to follow my wonderful MO there. It is definitely more of a hassle, time, travel, and expense wise. We'll see. I am eager for her to review my lung images, especially since my DDIL was concerned that my PCP might have missed something. Her dad is being treated for lung cancer currently, so her MD antennae are up.
When I last posted I was heading to gym.....but when I got up from the chair I strained my back somehow and have been nursing that all week. So have done no exercise all week! Boo!
This week we have been eating WW cabbage soup and assorted leftovers from last Sunday.
Tonight we'll eat out. Seeing "I Am Jane Doe" a movie about human trafficking, then having dinner sonewhere then seeing a mainstream movie since we have seen none of the many movies released in the past few months. Maybe The Lion. If my back doesn't hold up after sitting for the first movie, we may return home, but DH is probably sick of cabbage soup!
Nance, I also hope your virus clears up soon. HUGS being sent your way....
Special, happy for your test results!
Got about 14 inches of snow. Maybe this weekend....not too excited about that.
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We got about 16 inches here where I am in Western Connecticut. Had a few claps of thundersnow.
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Dinner last night was leftover chicken Vesuvio. As soon as I finished, Bob arrived bearing a few squares of sausage & anchovy S. Side thin crust (instead of cutting it into nice even wedge-shaped slices, they hack up thin-crust pizza into little squares so you can’t even figure out the calorie or carb counts). Thought Gordy would eat it, but it’s still in the fridge. I passed it up this a.m. in favor of an egg Benedict (poached egg atop jamon serrano on an end-piece of whole-wheat toast topped by some Christian Poitier hollandaise sauce which I merely nuked for 10 sec.).
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My mom's burial service was today and tonight is dinner tonight with my brother and sister in law.
It's sunny, mid 80F degrees, slight breeze, etc.
A Navy honor guard did the rifle vollies, taps and flag presentation.
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eric - I am sure this brings up your loss again, military funeral honors is indeed a moving tribute, I salute your mom's memory and her devotion to her country. Sounds like you had beautiful weather, and thank goodness your folks brought their blank rifle rounds! They must have had a better checklist than the ones who handled my FIL's service.
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Just got a vintage Lodge 6" skillet on eBay, seasoned so well the interior is like a baby's bottom. Since I had only one egg (poached in stainless) this morning, I'm going to the stove to fry another and report back. My Lodge Logic (factory-preseasoned) 10-incher I use to cook steaks and bake cornbread has a long way to go before the seasoning closes up the spaces between the sand-cast “pebbles" on its surface—assuming they ever close. The no-name one with a tad smoother yet still pebbly surface (but some rust on the outside bottom) is the one I'm going to try for the 6-coat flaxseed oil super-seasoning method (once I get my gas grill fixed so I can do it outdoors and not stink up the house). I am not about to use power tools (which I don't own) to sand those latter pans down to smoothness. The seller of the 6-incher says he uses a 50-50 mix of water/vinegar, followed by a good scrubbing with a brass grill brush, to get rid of rust on his flea-market/yard sale finds.
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Heated the skillet screaming-hot, poured in a few drops of olive oil, and cracked the egg into it. It stuck only in one tiny space, and the corner of my old nylon spatula cleaned that right up. My 7” All-Clad nonstick French skillet will be seeing a lot less action.
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Oh Eric, the weather was nice for your moms service but like Special said, it must have brought the grief back up again....Not that you can get away from it but military services seem to be especially heart rending. Thinking of you and your family. Hugs!
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Eric - you're in my thoughts.
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Thinking of you Eric . . .
Tonight I made jambalaya in the slow cooker. I didn't have high expectations for it but it was better than I anticipated. I'll tweak it a bit next time and I think it will be better. One thing I'll do is make half as much - lots of leftovers!
Spent the day with dad yesterday. He's been experiencing some weakness which I think is from some medication, but today he seemed to be doing better. This is the way things seem to go -- good days then a few bad and back again.
Ran the new dishwasher for the first time. Extremely quiet and all dishes were clean and dry. A hopeful sign!
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Glad nobody lost power during the storm.
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im at the vet with Jessiecat.....He's 17, at least and i'm not sure how it's all going to turn out. :-(
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Oh Eric...that doesn't sound good. More thoughts and hugs your way.
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Oh no Eric!
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Eric - holding you in my thoughts.
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It looks like he got bit by a spider. The vet said that if it's one of those Brown Recluse spiders, then the outcome will be pretty poor.
The vet did a bunch of blood tests and an X-ray and "for a 17 year old cat, he's not in bad shape". No kidney, liver, heart or lung issues, so he went ahead and shaved Jessie and cleaned out a huge abscess in his mouth--it didn't involve teeth--and removed a lot of necrotic tissue.
He's home with antibiotics and some pain killer, but doesn't seem to be interested in turkey broth, tuna fish or anything else tasty and soft that cats would like. The dogs try to eat the broth and tuna, so they're sitting outside and sounding very annoyed.
Adding.
He is trying to hide and that worries me a lot.
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I have Samsung washer and dryer (and yup, the clothes washer was a recalled one). I replaced the bad one with a front loader from Samsung because I actually liked it. My kitchen came with a GE Profile gas range and dishwasher. I had to purchase a refrigerator and got a French door Frigidaire Gallery - I'd had Frigidaire Gallery fridge, gas range and dishwasher in my old home. Didn't like the Frigidaire gas range that much - the 5th oval burner was wasted and it was hard to clean. But I adored the dishwasher. After coping with the GE dishwasher for less than 2 months I actually replaced a working appliance. I had sworn off doing that years ago because when you do that the gods don't like it and the replacement dies 1 day past the warranty expiration date. I also have a Frigidaire freezer coming next Saturday (the White-Westinghouse one that was 20 years old, died).
HUGS!
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Eric, hugs. Hugs to all with elderly patents too, thats not easy. And Sandy, hope your kitchen is moving along. Glad Lacey and Carol and anyone else in the storm's path is safe. Nasty storm for sure but it was south of us, so we were spared.
This Monday my DD2 called me up at 9:30 pm to ask if there was anyway I could sit that night. She got called in for 6 am and so I spent the night to be there in the morning. It was the first day I left the house since I got sick at the end of January. So of course I went. Then I went for my usual Thursday overnite with them. Things going well, the Mommy and me dance class was ok, until my DGD1 puked on my DD2. Oops, home we went. She threw up 4 times, then my daughter looks at me and says, oh no. She ran to do the same. Up til 3 am, 6 loads of laundry, including the special blanky, (both of them)holding puky baby while DD throws up. Fun. So, after almost 3 weeks of being sick, I now have at least an 80 percent chance of getting that myself. Sigh.
Since I'm in a holding pattern until I see if I'm contagious, I cooked another Home Chef box. This one was Dijon Chicken with green beans. It was supposed to have mashed cauliflower, but I swapped out tge squash I had in my fridge as it was getting iffy. I'll use the cauliflower later. The chicken was breaded with parm and panko. The sauce was dijon and evaporated milk and finished with butter. It was really good, my DH ate his all up. I had half of the chicken and the rest of the veggies Turned out great. Had just enough leftover for a small lunch, stored it in the freezer. Looking forward to the next meal, steak wellington. Probably make it for myself on Valentines day. LOL.
Much love to all.
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Eric, hope your kitty will soon be on the mend. 17 is a good long life in cat years but Jessie may not have exhausted all nine lives. (My first two lived to 17, but my fourth cat made it almost to 20 despite kidney failure, heart murmur and a spinal stroke).
Whole Foods had pasture-raised ribeyes on sale for $12/lb., and we haven’t had red meat all week; so I bought one. Spent much of the afternoon working on my older skillet (the one with the rust spots on the outside bottom). Dabbed some vinegar/water solution on it, scrubbed with a stainless ChoreBoy and a chain-mail scrubber, then immediately dried & oiled (canola) it. Rubbed in a bit of flax oil (not as stinky as canola) after heating it up, then when it had cooled I wiped it out, put it in the oven upside down. Reinforced the seasoning on my Lodge Logic with coconut oil and put it back into the oven. Cranked the oven up to 500F so that the pan would be evenly hot when I put it on the burner for searing the steak. Surprised that the steak stuck less than before—and discovered, after cleaning out the steak fat, that I had used the old yard-sale (newly flax-oil-seasoned) pan instead of the Lodge Logic. Found this out when I recalled seeing the “Lodge” logo on the bottom of the pan still cooling in the oven. Flipped over the pan I’d used and determined from its markings it’s a 1960s-era Lodge (made after they switched to mass-casting but before spraying on pre-seasoning coatings). Got an incredible sear, came out perfectly mid-rare, and the herb butter sank in while I tented the steak and nuked the WF prefab sides (balsamic grilled zucchini & yellow squashes, and grilled plaintains) and made an insalata Caprese: heirloom tomato, mozzarella di bufala, basil, orange olive oil & lemon white balsamic vinegar). Dessert was Michigan hothouse-grown strawberries dipped into real balsamico. (One st
I’m really enjoying my cast iron (building up my arms). Just ordered a new 12-incher with helper handles (my 10-inchers were made before the advent of those). Have a newfound appreciation for my Ove-Gloves. Still using nonstick stainless for scrambled eggs, fish, & acidic foods.
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Maybe it's just me, but I think the older stuff is much better at the non-stick.
Jessie is still going. He doesn't seem to like the turkey broth (!?), nor the tuna, but he did eat a couple of chunks of dry food and he drank a lot of water. I'm hoping, but if it looks like he's painfully existing just to keep me happy....
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Haven't looked in the freezer yet to see what sparks my interest to make for tonight.
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Yikes Monica! Joe you escape the latest scourge. You've had more than your share.
Aww Eric, what a good kitty. Our oldest lived to 18. She was pretty heathy up until the end. If Jessie's in good shape otherwise, he may just pull out of it. Here's hoping!
I have a chuck roast in the fridge waiting for me to determine its fate. It will probably be pot roast with veggies. No imagination, I know. The problem is absolutely nothing sounds good right now. I'm going on 3 weeks with this virus and I don't feel much better than I did at week one. My voice started to come back yesterday. Still raspy, but at least I could complete a sentence without cracking. Now if I could just get the nose to quit the faucet imitation . . .
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Chi, some of my mom's cast iron skillets are *smooth* inside and turned out wonderful. Several items, I can, in a cold and dry (no oil) skillet, put an egg in it, turn up the heat, cook the egg "sunny side up", and the cooked egg will *slide* out when I tip the pan.
When I cleaned and reseasoned all of my mom's stuff (175 pounds, or more), I put on my propeller hat and built some makeshift (but very effective) cleaning and de-rusting "machines". It still took me 3-4 months to do it all. But, oh, was it worth it. :-)
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eric - hope your kitty is hanging in and improving, will send up some positive thoughts for him.
auntie - DH had a similar sounding virus in Oct. This man is never sick and he was in bed for two straight weeks - it took at least three weeks for him to feel human, and it was a little scary for him. I think he continued to be fatigued for a while after that, but was able to return to work. No fun and I hope you feel better soon!
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