So...whats for dinner?
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Thanks ladies. Yes, the family wants donations to the American Lung Assoc - which is wonderful but not very personal. The husband isn't sure he'll remember to ask so I will be calling the funeral home tomorrow afternoon to make sure they will provide coffee after the remarks. I think I'll order cookies too & just have them bill me.
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Minus, I am so very sorry about your friend. What a terrible loss this is. I can only imagine that Mr. Friend is at a loss. What a brilliant idea to suggest taking him out for a meal, or inviting him to a home. You have great thoughts! I can't imagine loosing 60 lbs! You must have been almost nothing! I am determined to reset my desire for real food. We went to Fish night at our local fish monger tonight. I managed to eat two pieces of fish and a bit of cole slaw. This is a definite start.
Special, the birthday dog story is priceless!!!! You have the best stories!
I am very pleased with the response today from both my doctor and the entire Dana Farber team. The place is such a factory, but I am thrilled that when I needed assistance, all the right people stepped up to the plate. I am especially pleased that my doctor took this message so seriously. After all, I need to know that I can rely on her as we go forward. She has once again passed a test that I wish we hadn't had.
My dear BCO friend, who should be here right now, never made it out of Albuquerque today due to United screw ups. She won't get here until tomorrow, and I am mighty disappointed. Thursday was to be our day together. Planning to make some bagels for her Jewish half for Saturday breakfast, and Leslie has offered to do some solo Olivia duty on Friday so that the two of us can do some adventuring together.
*susan*
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Oh. Wheat bread..... for every cup of whole wheat, try adding a tablespoon of wheat gluten. It improves the textures of whole wheat breads in a really great way! My biggest problem with 100% whole wheat bread is the overwhelming, almost nutty sweetness that permeates the bread.
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Sauteed shrimp in garlic, olive oil & butter; added salt & minced oregano & flatleaf parsley; then a splash of leftover champagne and a diced tomato. Transferred to a plate while I sauteed some spiralized butternut squash “noodles” in the pan reduction, then returned the shrimp & tomatoes to the pan and tossed with the squash. It was all I could do to leave half over for Gordy.
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Minus, I'm sorry to hear about your friend/neighbor. That's always in the back of my mind when Sharon goes in for "something". I can see the no food request. I remember for the longest time only eating because the neighbor said I had to eat and they had me over to their house for the food. Unfortunately once the lack of appetite passed, I went way the other way and gained almost 70 pounds in a year.
I've never had success with using only whole wheat flour in a bread. I can go about 1/2 whole wheat and 1/2 white, if I use bread flour for the white stuff. Anything beyond that and "it's a brick". I can get almost acceptable whole wheat pancakes if I use yeast, baking powder, 1/2 and 1/2 instead of milk and then add some soda water. I've never tried the gluten trick...Hmm :-)
Susan, I'm glad the nurse situation worked out for you. I remember the nurse that did Sharon's infusions. She was great. I hope the new nurse is good. I saw that picture. Olivia and you both look in awe of each other. :-)
DD works at one of the drive up coffee/bagel/sweets place and she suggested making some dog treats for dogs in customers' cars. They tried it and it's a real hit with the customers and the dogs.
Dinner all last week and this week here has been "direct from the freezer in the other room". We've been using up the freezer stuff so we don't end up with "I think that steak came from a Woolly Mammoth".
It's kind of been like that here, Carole.....we've already been in the upper 90F degree range, but the humidity is very low, so it's not been too horrible.
I was looking at the estimated net worth of the chefs. Wow. I know some of the names, but not that many. I guess I don't get out enough!
Oh, one of my 9 cars (!) is going away. Dad to my test daughters would like the engine for one of his cars, so we're going to pull out the engine and take the rest of it to the junk yard. This is DD's first car and the one she had her (hopefully only) collision with. The car has probably been driven 500,000 miles and the engine is probably only 2 years old with 20,000 miles on it. He gave me that car with the new engine, so I might as well give him back the engine. The engine came from another car that had been driven less than 7,000 miles when it was hit from behind by a large dump truck. The car was damaged beyond repair, but the engine was perfectly fine.....
Sharon has some chemistry questions and we brainstorm to get the answers...so off to that....
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Eric - 9 cars? Nine? Hope you don't have to pay for insurance on all of those. I love your DD's idea about the dog treats. Did she get a raise for the suggestion? How has school been as we head towards the end of the 1st year?
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Susan, the nutty sweetness is the quality I like about wheat bread! I always added gluten to recipes when I made bread in a bread machine but didn't remember the gluten in the pantry yesterday.
Great minds, Nance. We're having lamb burgers tonight. I'll cook the patties on a cast iron grill pan. Side will be crunchy salad with kale
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Minus, I am so very sorry about your friend/neighbor. I like the suggestions people gave you for what to do for him. Especially spending time with him so he does not get too lonely after 60 years with his wife. So sad.
Susan, so glad you have what you need in terms of a good nurse. Squeaky wheel gets the grease for sure.
Tonight will be turkey chili with beans. I made it in the crock pot today while I was at work. I have some flour tortillas so maybe we will make a kind of taco thing with them, who knows. Lettuce, tomato, jalapeno peppers, cheddar or jack and sour cream. Yummo! LOL
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Susan, good for you for getting the nurse situation handled. You don't need more stress.
MInus, very sorry about your friend. That's so shocking. I'm sure her husband is having a hard time processing it all.
Sandy, glad your new pan is a keeper! Good price too. I'll keep it in mind if I ever have to replace any of mine. Sorry about the porch but it will be good to have it stable and safe!
HUGS!
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Minus- so very sorry about your neighbor...so sad! Your plan sounds like a good one though.
Made some tuna salad tonight for supper. Don't make it very often but am glad when I do.
Also, pickling some beets and onion IN THE CROCK POT! I did it a few weeks ago and it worked great! I love them but DH doesn't. A few years ago we canned some but it just wasn't worth the effort. This is soooo simple and the small batch lsats about 1-2 weeks for me. YAY!
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DD had named her car Lucy. It is a 1993 Volvo 960 with some unknown, but well in excess of 400,000, miles on it. The engine was newer, with only 60,000 or so miles on it and the friend that gave us the car asked if he could have the engine back....so today I took the engine out, hauled the remainder of the car to the wrecking yard and my friend now has the engine. Tomorrow we'll install it in one of his cars.
So, soon, Lucy will be in the sky with diamonds.... :-)
I'm not sure what will be for dinner. I've just finished cleaning off my tools and putting them away, I've not even showered yet (taking a breather for a moment and sitting on the floor) and Sharon is exhausted. We may end up going out.
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We’d procrastinated on that porch for a couple of years. Today, because of the storms, all they could do was haul away the debris…including the wood stashed in the crawl space 27 years ago by our last contractors. It’s a wonder we didn’t get termites or carpenter ants. Hope there’s enough clear weather tomorrow that they can at least put up the stringers if not the risers and lattice underneath. Saturday looks sunny and a bit warmer.
20/20 wine tasting & buffet tonight. Standout foods were spinach/strawberry/feta salad, grilled artichoke quarters with basil remoulade, prosciutto-wrapped asparagus, housemade duck sausage, Buffalo cauliflower with blue cheese, blini with lemon creme fraiche & smoked salmon, shrimp Creole and a terrific leg of lamb. Wines went very well with them.
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Scored a huge, fragrant, juicy cantaloupe for $0.88.
Dinner was half of a Dole salad kit - Sunflower Crunch - with sunflower seeds, carrots, green cabbage, kale, Romaine, red cabbage. green onions. I didn't add the pre-packaged bacon & used an alternate dressing. I've always resisted the salad kits because of the price, but these may be a really good buy for me. $3.50 and I get two full meals, That's a meal for $1.75. No veggie drawer full of wilting lettuce the 5 or 6 things it takes to make an interesting salad. I added some scraps (literally) of leftover rotisserie chicken and had one King's Hawaiian Roll to use for a pusher.
Dressing was Panera Bread "at home" Asian Sesame vinaigrette. It's delicious & only 160 sodium for 2 Tblsp. Since I only use one Tblsp, that's minimum sodium and only 25 calories. I'll try the pre-packaged dressing on the 2nd half tomorrow - Sweet Onion & Citrus.
Off to eat half of a fresh California Roll with Robert Rothchild Lemon-Wasabi sauce for a late brunch.
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Hi Minus, I love the salad kits. Why? it stops me from having left over wilted items. We have a Fresh Market that will make a 'salad bag' out of their loose fresh items. Including fruit. For 2 it comes about 6.50. We get 2 meals when I add either shrimp or chicken depending on the mix. I make my own dressings. It is directly from the produce section, not a salad bar. We do that a lot in warm weather.
Dinner tonight is pork kebabs. Pork chunks, pineapple, red peppers and onions.
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I wish it were possible to buy just the amt. of fresh herbs I need—not only is there so much waste in having to buy large bunches or even little plastic boxes of them, it is a true PITA to have to keep culling the spent & even rotting stuff every time I use them. (Once it gets warmer I will grow my own again—I tried to do so indoors with little success).
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Last of the pork roast, mashed potatoes and a veggie
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Dinner will be a diet challenge tonight: Bar Show Cast Party/Rookie Show at a bar/Italian rest. in the S. Loop will feature a buffet of pastas, salads (not sure how “green”), fries, chicken (probably fried), bar food, & dessert. Italian beef (minus the roll) & sausage might be my low-carb salvation.
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Another kitchen session this afternoon making two meals of stuffed cabbage leaves for the freezer. The stuffing was ground turkey and ground lamb mixture with cooked brown rice and canned diced tomatoes, onion, garlic, s & p and cayenne Sauce was jarred Emeril's. It all started when I plucked a pretty Savoy cabbage from a produce shelf.
I also cooked a side dish for tonight. Okra and tomatoes. The okra is from Quatemala and looked nice in the package but it turned a purplish color as I cooked it. It tastes like okra.
Pan-seared catfish fillets for dinner with the okra and a salad.
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Carole, busy cook, aren't you? Wow!
I keep finding all these good recipes that pop up in my email and on Facebook that I print out because they sound yummy. Maybe I'll have to start cooking from scratch more often.
HUGS!!
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Mommy - now I'm hungry for pork roast. I'll have to get busy & cook one before it gets any hotter here. I rarely turn on the oven once the A/C runs 24/7.
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Val - I have a good friend who is relatively new to being single since her husband died a year ago. She has started buying salad by the pound from the grocery store salad bars. I'd try that option, but I live in a grocery store desert and have to drive 20-30 minutes each way to a decent store.
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Minus I hear ya about the grocery store desert. We have a store here (Lowe's Foods) that has an herb type garden near the organic produce. You can snip just what you need. They weigh it by the ounce. Love it. Though the more popular ones, usually go fast.
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Managed to pick my way around the carbs on the buffet tonight (slider sans bun, unbreaded chicken wings, sausage & peppers & salad. You could tell who's doing Lent: they loaded up on the salad, pasta, mac & cheese. Even did karaoke...first time in 25 yrs. And the group number I was in during the Bar Show won the ensemble award. Took the L both ways, walking to & from. Got my workout in that way. Will try to swim tomorrow (though won't be up & out in time for water aerobics class--if I had a tattoo it'd say "not a morning person.")
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Minus, I usually inject my pork or beef roasts with either wine or juice. I injected the pork roast I had made with apple juice before cooking it in the Crock-pot
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Love the idea of a supermarket where you can snip your herbs.
Did not pan sear the catfish fillets last night. Breaded them in a seasoned cornmeal and cooked in hot oven. An old WW recipe.
I do Cajun style pork roast. Make deep slits and stuff with garlic, green onion and cayenne mixture. Smells wonderful cooking. Fatty roast like butt is tastier. The drippings make a delicious gravy. A winter food good for serving a crowd.
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Been a wild few days. My dear friend V. arrived and I am not that used to being with other human beings for so many hours a day! Food-wise, Friday we had swordfish on the grill, grilled vegetables, a large green salad, and a lovely loaf of French bread. I did an herbed goat cheese as well The leftover fish turned into a swordfish salad for lunch. Toasted up the second half of the bread and we nibbled on the sparse offerings. Olivia needs a 2-egg omelette going forward. She polishes off one egg and wants more! Last night we went out to dinner choosing the Summer Shack, a local fish restaurant so that V. could have something lobster, something fish, something alcoholic. They were "on" last night and she declared the Lobster Bisque to be excellent. Yesterday, I had to make more granola and then as a treat, I have some bagels. When everyone else FINALLY gets up, I will get to boiling and baking. The kid took one tray home and will be doing the same in her house. This week's guests are good people, so they have been offered bagels as well.
Weird snow storm yesterday, so the roads are slippery. Our guests left their car elsewhere in the city and took an Über home.
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No swim today—woke up really sore, especially the piriformis muscles on either side of my back. (Trainer warned me that might happen after the glute & hamstring stretches but to gently stretch and heat to avoid them seizing up—as they are wont to do and suddenly did in Dec.). DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness) again. Thurs. workout was a bit more intense than before—added new exercises and raised the pulleys (to 30 lbs.) and free weights a notch. (10 lb hand weights x2—heaviest I’d tried before were 8s, and even in OT at ortho rehab they took me up to only 5s).
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Pork loin is a bit bland for my taste, I prefer sirloin or butt roast too. I've used Carole's method of inserting green onion and garlic into slits and it's quite tasty.
I grow a pot of herbs indoors each winter pretty successfully. Except this year, I got a white fly infestation that did in the thyme, basil and Thai basil. Parsley and oregano were unscathed. I managed to limp through the winter with enough basil to get by.
Kids and grand dog are here. DDIL has a cold so I made her some homemade chicken soup. Otherwise we had a trio of salads - chicken, deviled ham and fruit, on homemade small brioche buns. Tonight is a top round of beef roast, horseradish cream, roasted potatoes, onions and asparagus, gruyere and scallion popovers and lemon meringue pie for dessert. The beef has been dry brining since yesterday.
I will be sanitizing everything after the kids because I am DONE WITH COLDS this year! I just hope I have enough antibodys to resist DDIL's.
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Nance - I would love to come eat at your house, except I too don't want a cold. The lunch & dinner both sound delicious. I'll keep my fingers crossed the germs don't get you.
I wanted to send another thanks to Special K. I've been cooking hard boiled eggs for 40+ years and never had such a wonderful solution to peeling. I got a jump on the bunny today and boiled a dozen. I'll take some deviled eggs down the block tomorrow. But Special - you are a genius. The skins just slide right off.
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For any newbies, this is soooooo worth sharing. Thanks!!! Special K
Put the eggs in a cold water & bring to a boil. Turn down to simmer for 15 minutes.
Pour off the hot water. Run cold water over the eggs for a couple of minutes
Then fill the pan w/cold water. Let sit about 10 minutes before pouring water off.
Put the lid on the pan and shake vigorously. Shells slide off.0
