So...whats for dinner?
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Celebrating our 37th anniversary today, so no cooking for me tonight. Not sure yet who will be doing it for me though. I feel certain that there is seafood in my future however.
Wicked storms and tornadoes in Missouri last night. Not my favorite harbinger of spring.
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Happy anniversary!!!!
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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY Nance. I hope you have a lovely day.
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Happy Anniversary, Nance!!! Hope dinner was yummy!
DH loved the paczki - lots of Polish bakeries in the Detroit area, not so much here in Spokane. I can't stand to even go into a bakery
BUT CinnaBons call my name and I find them hard to resist. HUGS!
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Happy anniversary, Nance. Do report on your celebratory meal.
We are having grilled lamb chops for dinner. With roasted sweet potato chunks and chopped salad with kale (bagged). I do love that salad and a bag is $2.58 at Sam's Club
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Sandy, when you posted about your purple glasses, I had a little cry. Before I was dxd, I lost a darling friend to ovarian cancer. She was a 6' tall, elegant, vivacious glamazon. The last 2 years of her life she was on constant treatment, so bald. She went au natural, no wig or head covering but always with a fabulous pair of glasses. We scoured antique shops and online for beautiful ornate and or colourful ones. I have found a few for myself now.
Wear purple, a red hat, and wild glasses - grow old playfully
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Happy anniversary, Nancy!
Had a late lunch of a samosa, some leftover shwarma & rice, tuna and salad. Gordy didn’t eat his half of the jambalaya & greens last night, and still has the rest of the shwarma & rice plus an omelette waiting for him in the fridge. But I have 7 shrimp I didn’t cook (fresh, so I can freeze them) and a big sockeye salmon filet, which I can’t refreeze as it was sold as “previously frozen.” Or can I, since WF defrosted and then displayed it wrapped and under refrigeration (and I re-refrigerated it when I got home, less than 15 minutes after removing it from the cold display case)? I hate to waste food.
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Oh Val, I want to come eat with you. And homemade wontons? Yum.
Funny - Both Carolina's have always been on my bucket list - and now we have Happy Hammer and Valstim. One of you from each state.
My lunch was the left over roasted root veggies from earlier this week. Supper will have to be the California Roll I bought at the grocery sushi bar yesterday.
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Minus, I want to come eat with every one of you. What a terrific dinner party that would be
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Decided not to tempt fate, so I froze the leftover jambalaya (Gordy ate the shwarma) and pan-seared the salmon. Sauteed some broccolini and nuked the leftover greens.
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Shrimp and pasta tonight. Prep is done. Shrimp peeled and deveined. Garlic minced. Lemon zest and juice in small containers.
Side will be romaine salad with avocado.
Must go out to patio and clip some parsley
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For lunch, some tabbouleh with cuke & tomato and a bit of tahini dressing. Jonesing for fried oysters tonight—may order out, may head to the Fish Keg in Evanston. Too cold out and too much chance of snow to risk driving somewhere. Tomorrow night, since we'll be seeing Carmen, the Lyric Opera's restaurant's menu will likely be Spanish-themed (paella, tapas, etc.). For The King & I it was Thai.
Update: None of the takeout options floated my boat. So I found an unopened package of kraut in the fridge, rinsed & drained it, stirred in the remains of a crumbled slice of bacon and caraway seeds to taste, and am steaming it with two veal hot dogs, a chicken bratwurst and a duck sausage to make a choucroute garnie.
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Can you tell we are going low carb? Dinners mostly the same- Again, protein- carbs (4 ounces of grass fed ground beef) grilled burger, salad and roasted cabbage and green beans. Very good!
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Went to Yoga this morning then walked on the treadmill. (I'll share about my new exercise program another time). Then went to electrolysis to remove the stubborn hairs that hide below my chin in the wrinkles on my neck. Stopped at Central market (oh LuvMyGoats - were are you). Picked up some Robert Rothchild Lemon Wasabi and some pumpernickel bagels (the only place in town that they are "real"). So of course I had to get some smoked salmon cream cheese spread. From there went to the hand orthopedic surgeon for another cortisone shot for my trigger thumb. I'm still trying to find the new "Lemon Grass Asian Meals" Supposedly they are in the frozen section and I have a ($2.50) coupon. Anyone else seen them yet? I don't usually buy frozen dinners but these really look good. Then I stopped & used a coupon and a Target gift cert to snag a bottle of Cera-Ve Lotion for $3.97 - usually $13.97. This is the only lotion my dermatologist will recommend. Truly great stuff. Not greasy when you put it on, and it stays on through at least 3 hand washings.
Got home to find 5 messages on my answering machine (yup - I'm a luddide) that a neighbor had died. So finally, guess what dinner was? The rest of an open bottle of Savignon Blanc from the fridge along with a pumpernickel bagel with salmon spread. Tomorrow I have a lymphadema treatment at MD Anderson at 10am, then I'll walk on the treadmill again out on that end of town. Whew!!!
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Minus, well done on the exercise program. Sorry to hear about your neighbour.
I really need to get some more exercise in. So easy to get out of the habit. I'm in that place right now where I am so swollen, thank you steroids! I look like a keg on legs. The skin on my face is so puffy, tight and stretched, I smile and my eyes close. Oh yeah, I have those sneaky little chin hairs too. Lucky DH doesn't just love me for my looks lol.
Dinner tonight was honey king prawns with steamed rice.
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I haven't figured Jessiecat our. I put down both canned cat food and dry food from a bag. He ate all the dry food, sniffed at the canned stuff and walked away. I put out more dry food and he ran back over to eat (only the dry food). He is totally ignoring the canned food.
The dogs, however, are circling very closely to the bowl of canned food.... :-)
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Eric, there is no figuring out cats.
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Eric, has the cat been checked for diabetes? Is he peeing more? Is he drinking a lot of water? Even if not, the fact that he went for the carbs over the protein makes me think he should be tested for this. I have a diabetic kitty and the first signs were the above that I wrote. Hope you figure it out. I know it is maddening.
Tonight we are having hamburgers and oven baked sweet potato fries for me and regular spuds for hubby (he is not a big fan which I don't get cause I love, love sweet potato!) I need an easy Friday night and that works for me. I made fish earlier this week and thought about shrimp tonight but I will make shrimp tomorrow. I think I will make scampi.
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A few weeks ago, when he was being treated for the abscess, the vet checked him out...Including for diabetes...and all was normal.
So I'm not sure, other than to "humor" him in his advanced years (he's 17).
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Chisandy: I'd be interested in what you thought of Carmen. My husband and I saw it a couple of weeks ago.
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I saw a traveling concert-version production by the Met when they came to my jr. high in Brooklyn ages ago, and we rented the Julia Migenes-Johnson version (anomalous because she’s a lyric singing what was written as a mezzo role) on LaserDisc. We’ve been to a couple of musicals (Carousel and The King & I) at the Lyric, but Bob hasn’t seen an actual live opera. (I was in the chorus of my college’s production of Der Freischutz when dinosaurs roamed the earth). I figured Carmen would be a good opera "gateway drug” for him. We’ve been to the CSO often, though.
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Dinner tonight will be blackened chicken fetuccini alfredo. I top it with grated parm and green onions.
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Chisandy: definitely a good "gateway" opera!
)Husband and I both down with Galloping ICCKKKK so haven't had much interesting for dinner. Popsicles are about our speed right now.)
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Queen - nice to see you again.
Late lunch was 5 pieces of California Roll. Dinner isn't happening because I have tickets for the Brentano String Quartet downtown. My niece is going to join me since my SIL is out of town. There is a pre-concert lecture at 7pm. She lives closer to town so I'll pick her up shortly after 6pm. Adding to the normal Friday traffic & TGIF craziness, this is "go Texan" day. Trail riders & their horses and in many cases real covered wagons, are converging on the City from all over Texas to camp one more night in a large park before the final parade tomorrow to the rodeo grounds. Some have been riding more than a week. It's no joke when one of the big rides is headed down the street you're trying to drive or cross. Patience is the word.
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Minus, I cannot imagine horseback riders and covered wagons in Houston traffic!! For us, Houston is in the same category with Atlanta.
Tonight's dinner will be salmon, asparagus and salad. I may try the salmon cooking method I saw recently on ATK, mentioned by ChiSandy. Coarse salt and ground pepper in nonstick skillet. Salmon placed skin down in unheated skillet, cooked 5 or 6 min. on each side. Looked good on tv.
Gorgeous day today, cold early and warming up to 70 or near 70. I played golf and enjoyed being outdoors, even played halfway decently.
Missing LuvMyGoats, Carrie, Moon, Susan and others.
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Carole: You're right about the horses on the streets. At least it's only once a year. Here's the size difference between Houston & Atlanta: The city of Houston has 2,160,821 people in city limits,which makes it the 4th largest. Atlanta has only 443,775 people in city limits. In any case, WAY too many people.
How did the salmon turn out for you?
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Carole, remember the 15-minute room-temp. brine first for the salmon. It makes all the difference. And I would remove it from the pan as soon as it goes from fully translucent to not-yet opaque, because it will “carryover cook.” Atlantic salmon works better for this than Pacific, because Atlantic has enough intrinsic fat to keep from overcooking. Mine went a bit too far, but still cleaved off in slabs with a fork rather than flaking (which our clueless Home Ec teachers used to tell us was how long to cook fish).
Queen, hope you feel better. It was a great production of Carmen. The leading role was played by a Russian mezzo, who had a marvelous voice and could act, but was too fair-skinned to make a credible Gypsy. The tenor playing Don Jose was actually Spanish (from Malta) and his voice was amazing. There was more ballet than in most prior productions, a children’s chorus, and English titles projected above the stage (the French diction got sort of muddled by the stylized operatic singing). We had great seats—third row, close to the aisle. Only downside was at the end we were practically last out of the theater (cheap seats=fast getaway). Somehow, we managed to snag a cab after walking only a block. We took the CTA train down, because Bob got home at 4 and reported Lake Shore Dr. was jammed—a cab or Uber would never have gotten us to our pre-theater dinner in time (and Uber would have been on surge pricing).
Dinner was in the opera house’s Pedersen Room. 3-course prix fixe: salad, choice of one each app and entree all on one “bento box”-type plate. We went for a “ribollita” soup for our app (but didn’t opt to add sausage—it was all veggies in consomme). Entree was grilled shrimp over polenta and caponata. We split a bottle of Aria Pinot Noir Cava—and because we had some left over, ordered cheese & fruit for dessert.
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Chisandy: thank you for reporting in on Carmen! My husband and I saw the first cast, and weren't terribly impressed with the performer who played the title role. It was her debut in the role, and so I'm happy to cut her some slack, but she sounded mushmouthed--'Micaela' sang circles around her. At least that rendered Jose's dithering about which woman to choose a bit more plausible.
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This was still the first cast. I totally agree ‘Micaela’ was both better and far more believable.
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HI All. It is me again. Lots of food has happened, but as I become less strong, my meals have become a bit simpler. I am trying to find ways to cut corners without cutting quality. It is a pretty hopeless goal I am afraid!
Right now, I am sitting in Florida with fuzzy socks and a sweater. Been a bit cool for the past few days. Tomorrow, we will head to Fort Lauderdale for two nights before heading home. My latest scans are back and the news is not very good. A significant progression, so my days of oral chemo are over. I will have a port inserted on the 14th and then receive weekly taxol. I am still working through the options of work, Olivia, AirBNB, cooking, and family. What will need to go? How much will I be able to manage? Can I be an AirBNB host while bald or will that weird people out? Of course, there are no answers until I have a few infusions and know what I am actually looking at.
Tonight, my friend L. and I will be making a feast with lots of vegetables. [No vegetables seem to be served in restaurant here, except a leaf of lettuce under the fries!] We bought some local red leaf lettuce, tomatoes from a farm right here in Hobe Sound, a cute little avocado, asparagus, etc. I will make a large salad and grilled asparagus. We have two rib eyes steaks dry brining and will grill those up. Last item are some lovely local potatoes which I will steam and roast with a bit of butter and garlic.
Hope all are well.
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