So...whats for dinner?
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Oh Minus. You know that I couldn't agree more. Mediocre calories that you pay for ... that doesn't fit my life plan. But, you are a good friend to do this. Maybe going forward, he will accept invitations to enjoy a bowl of soup with you at your home? I see that you don't think so. He might find the number of people willing go to such places dwindles over time.
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Minus, I find that fried shrimp are a gamble unless you know your restaurant. I like fresh shrimp lightly breaded before they're cooked. If the price is cheap, the shrimp probably arrived in a large truck in a plastic bag pre-breaded. And possibly from a foreign country. Oysters are safer because they aren't suited to the pre-breaded frozen treatment. Plus the high price lets you know they're fresh!
We have local seafood places that are safe bets for fried shrimp, oysters and catfish. And I do love them all but my WW points steer me away from them. Speaking of WW, I wasn't looking forward to my weigh in yesterday, thinking I had blown the week on Sunday night with ribeye and oven home fries, but I was down enough for a 5 lbs total loss since I started on my newest "journey." The average has been about 1 lb a week and that really is a reasonable loss.
Last night was a yummy meal. Lamb burgers on home-made wheat buns out of the freezer. Burgers dressed with yogurt/cucumber sauce and romaine lettuce. Side was fresh beets sprinkled with champagne vinegar for me. DH added onions to his beets and chose his own vinegar.
Tonight will be a skillet meal with zucchini, Rotel tomatoes, and ground beef. I have regular ground chuck and some grass fed that I bought yesterday to see if there was any taste difference to justify the price difference.
Instead of going to the gym this morning I will do yard work. My schedule is tight with the hours spent at the nursing home 3 or 4 days a week so I have to squeeze in the weeding and mulching somewhere.
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April, I meant to say "WOW" in response to your Easter menus!
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Carole - I agree. I don't usually order anything fried - and prefer shrimp cold boiled or sauteed. It will be a challenge since this guy like everything fried - chicken fried steak, fried eggplant, fried cheese, etc. Let us know the results of the 'grass fed' test.
After 3 straight days of yard work last week, my muscles were still sore when I went to Silver Sneakers class today. Probably because I did no stretching over the weekend.
Dinner was scrambled eggs loaded onto two flour tortillas w/cheese & green chili salsa. Doc appointments tomorrow & a meeting tomorrow night, so I may eat linner on the way home from the medical center.
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Tonight was takeout pizza at Brian's house. This is test daughters dad. Test daughter, DD and the two spouses (his wife is Sharon and so is "mine") call us "the other half of each other's brain. Sounds complicated. :-)
Anyway, I took 1/2 a day off work today to help him do some transmission work on older test daughter's car, a 2008 or 2009 Volvo. Let's see....take engine half way out of car, remove transmission, replace bad part, reinstall transmission, reinstall engine....and then reinstall the 5 million things that had to be disconnected before one could take the engine half way out of the car. .
We've got the engine reinstalled back in the car and about 4 million of the 5 million things reconnected. He can get the rest tomorrow as the remainder is neither heavy, nor bulky nor needs four hands. We figure he's got about 3 more hours of work to finish it off.
I didn't get to the gym today but I figured I did a 5 hour abs and arm workout.
I never really liked fried shrimp...I like them "in something", like jambalaya or as an appetizer, but just not fried.
I haven't decided what to do for Easter...Saturday, after I finish at mom's house (and I do mean finished) I'll probably go over to the meat market and get a ham. I did some bacon wrapped asparagus awhile back and that was good, so I'll probably do that again. I don't know what else..something to think about. The lamb sounds interesting, but I'd like to try something at least once before "springing" it on DD and MIL.
Minus...hopefully things settle down with the number of times he wants to take everyone out. For me, if I eat out too many times, I get kind of a "blah" feeling.
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I was too tired to cook last night so I heated up the last frozen eggplant dish and made a good tossed salad with romaine and additions. The eggplant was delicious. I'll have to make a few more. At this point I'm using up freezer contents before we head north in late May.
Tonight we'll have the zucchini skillet dish.
For Easter dinner at my younger sister's house I will probably cook fresh green beans. It will be my job to get my mother there and she will want me to pick her up by 9:30 so I won't have a lot of time Easter morning.
Dh will make macaroni and cheese. He will drive separately in his truck. It looks like we will have a crowd.
More yard work today on my usual golf day
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More mushrooming projects have taken over!
I buy cream from High Lawn, a local dairy. The cream is not homogenized or ultra-pasteurized. It has to be used fairly quickly. I had two containers since I was planning to make chowder. The first one I bought was about 1/3 coagulated. Well, damn, the second one may have been even worse! I did make some Potatoes Dauphonaise for the "boys" dinner on Sunday. And now, I had all this cream, most of it coagulated. What to do? Make butter! So now, I have some very expensive, but delicious butter, and the resulting buttermilk. What do these two ingredients scream to you? To me? This means biscuits!
I have a pot of chicken stock simmering on the stove. Though we had planned to have eggs and biscuits for dinner, we have changed the plan to vegetable soup and biscuits. Delicious, and my stomach will appreciate an easy-to-digest meal.
When I was just a wee one, we lived in NY. Started in the city in a Jewish enclave of Queens. This is where I learned to love the Ashkenazi food. When we moved to the suburbs, the things I loved to eat changed a bit as well. Every day, my father would take the train to the city and then turn around and come back home. Every day he passed a wonderful bakery and during this time of year, he would bring home Hot Cross Buns. I loved these Buns.... but when we moved to Massachusetts, my mother bought them from the local supermarket and they were just wretched. Why do I have a craving for Hot Cross Buns this year? Who knows. There were no candied citrus rinds at the Whole Foods, and the packages of them at the grocery store are too sweet and old. So yup! I am making some candied orange and lemon rinds. This seems to be a two-day process, then I will make the dough using a wonderful UK recipe that includes lots of whole wheat, and then, I will have 12 buns of which I might eat one or two. Mr. SMT has no Hot Cross Bun childhood memories and doesn't really care for them. Maybe this weekend's guests like them?
*susan*
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Susan, I too will be making hot cross buns this weekend. I toyed with the idea of making the candied orange peel but as my food interest and energy is still limited, I decided to use golden raisins instead.
DH caught the stomach bug so we both have limited appetites. I think tonight will be a very light pasta dish that includes asparagus and a small salad. I have a doc appointment tomorrow. She'll be happy about the weight loss, if not the reason for it.
Count me among those who will only eat fried shrimp from a trusted source. I like mine the same as Carole does. But then, I like it just about any way.
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Nance.... wise choice! This candied fruit thing is taken WAY longer than I expected. I also have some currents since I am going old-school (kinda'.) I don't think that the fruit is old-school, but I like it!
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Strong biscuit envy!
Have never eaten hot cross buns. They sound like dessert bread with the candied citrus.
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Carole,
Hot Cross Buns are definitely NOT a dessert bread. They are quite savory; far less sweet than a typical American quick bread for example. A loaf of banana or cranberry-walnut bread calls for 3/4 cup sugar, while 12 hot cross buns about double the amount of dough only calls for 1/2 cup of sugar. But there are these pops of fruit which I find really pleasant.
Hot Cross Buns even have a wikipedia entry: Hot Cross Buns
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Poem that my mother used to 'chant'. I well remember hot cross bun. And yes, they are not sweet.
Hot-cross buns!
Hot-cross buns!
One a penny, two a penny,
Hot-cross buns!
If you have no daughters,
Give them to your sons;
One a penny, two a penny,
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Count me among those who grew up eating hot cross buns at this time of year - definitely a tradition in my house, driven by my British mom. I have BIL/SIL and their DGD (her dad, their son - is a chef and has to work on Sunday) coming to join DH and DD and I for Easter. Have not yet decided everything we will eat, but I better get it in gear. We were out of town last weekend and attended a military retirement in the FL panhandle on Monday morning so I am off on my days this week - I keep thinking that today is Wed! Nope! I managed to roll the luggage cart over the middle toe on my right foot and crushed it like a grape - it split open and bled copiously and it now looks pretty ugly - had to jam it in a pointy toed pump for the ceremony, but I managed to hobble around without too much discomfort. Sandals don't hurt at all, although the toe is the color of eggplant, so while my foot is not cute it is good that I live in FL! I did the same thing the first day of our trip to Italy in '09 - I apparently should keep my distance from suitcases, lol!
Edited to add - I have cooked nothing since last week.....
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The recipe that I actually use for Hot Cross Buns has even less sugar! It is an enriched dough [butter and milk] but very little sugar. The sponge is sponging as we speak.
*susan*
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OK - I am not going to eat bread or cake or pie or bunscookies this weekend. However I can't discount the possibility of some chocolates. It appears that even on one meal a day, I will have to go to the gym & walk on the treadmill 5 days out of 7. And take at least 4 hour long exercise or yoga classes. I only went to one class last week and the weight has been creeping up a couple of pounds.
Yesterday I stopped at Katz Deli on the way home from the med center. I had a delicious French Dip with Provolone cheese. For those of you who know Katz, it was open faced so it only counts as 1/2 a sangy, right? Or I can rationalize that it was on a French roll that was only 4 or 5" long. This lunch special came with a side and I had a dinner salad - which turned out to large also. I didn't succumb to fries and I didn't even turn my head towards the milkshakes. Katz still serves the 'whole' shake - so you get a glass & another batch in the silver mixer.
Lunch today was a tomato cut up in a bowl of cottage cheese. Dinner will be a salad. Or maybe zucchini and yellow squash 'noodles' steamed with garlic.
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Tonight's dinner requires almost no prep, for which I am grateful. Dh will grill lamb loin chops. We will have a baked sweet potato and salad as sides.
When we entered the YMCA this morning, there was a sugary spread of sweets on one of the tables in the visiting area. I managed to avoid the temptation. Dh had a brownie.
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Carole - actually I may change my dinner plan. A baked potato sounds good.
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Minus, I do not recommend my diet plan. Taxol feels like overkill! I have put two pounds back on during my off week which is probably a good thing.
Carole, we have been eating a lot of baked sweet potatoes. My local market has these lovely, little ones. You buy a bag of them. Mr. SMT eats two for a meal, while I can manage one. Just serve with a bit of butter. So delicious! Olivia loves them as well!
Dinner tonight is ridiculously simple. Vinegar cole slaw and a grilled burger. He will have a roll. I won't. He wants some chips. I don't. I was able to get the hot cross bun dough made and I have retarded the rise in the fridge. Plus I have made another batch of granola [boy do our AirBNB people love this stuff, and then they put that in the review, so the next people want it too.]
*susan*
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So...am eating a little or a lot and, shuffling around this week with joint pain and hot flashes as I went back on an AI after being off for a few weeks....have gained 9 lbs in past 10 days of it....watching what I eat and not....feet and ankles are swollen but did get back on track with exercise a few days ago so am hoping that helps. Know this isn't the thread for this but wanted to explain my absence and mindset. Want to mention to yall as I cannot mention to fam....I think the crazy weight gain for no real reason happened right before dx of BC so am apprehensive as to what this might mean.
With all of that said...supper tonight was tossed salad with a homemade ranch dressing (included buttermilk and plain yogurt and lots of herbs) with a 5 ounce grilled grass fed burger patty. Love that combo!
DH is working out of state so Easter is not the same since our DS1 nd DS2 are out of town and not able to come "home". May or may not go to Hickory, NC to be with my sister and her precious fam and my mom. Jut not sure yet.
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Happy - there are no subjects out of bounds at the kitchen table. Sorry you are apprehensive about recurrence. I haven't had Als, so I can't personally speak to weight gain, but I think that's a major SE.
Susan - oh yes - that diet is a bear. I lost 60 lbs on Taxotere. So 10 lbs would have been good, but I was positively skeletal by the end of the 6 treatments. I'm glad to hear you are able to eat during your week off. I'm going to look for small sweet potatoes, but my favorites are Organic sweet potatoes from New Jersey - and they aren't small.
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Oh - forgot to report my exciting dinner. Sauteed ends & pieces of zucchini & yellow squash that didn't go through the Spiralizer. Avocado split in half with a scoop of tuna & mayo on each half. One small King's Hawaiian roll that I found in the back of the fridge. I needed a 'pusher'.
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Happy,
AI's do in fact, slow down your metabolism or something. Weight gain when you first start them is a common side effect. Which of the little pills have you been given? For me, the first 18 months were the hardest. I had lots of bone pain, aches, and felt "puffy".... I tried to walk the supermarket 3x, every day, but eventually I had to have a life, and work, and so I stopped that. That much weight in so few days doesn't sound particularly normal however. That is a lot!
So sorry that your family won't be surrounding you on Easter. Maybe a drive up to Hickory would be beautiful. I always found driving into the mountains makes my heart a little lighter. Don't know, of course, if driving your towards your mother and siblings will do the same. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.
I think discussing AI side effects is exactly what one does around the kitchen table.
*susan*
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Hot Cross Buns have not been behaving as expected. I ended up shaping them last night and throwing them in the fridge. It was too late to wait for a rise, which is actually the issue. The rise is not robust enough. I will still bake them off this morning. Sometimes when you do, you end up with something worth eating. Olivia arrives in about an hour, and a long day begins.
Today's check in is a young man, about 21 I would guess, and his father. This trip from Washington State is his father's graduation gift. Turns out they are already in Boston and will be going to the JFK Center today. Then they will check in.
*susan*
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I took arimidex for 5 years and experienced weight gain, higher bp and cholesterol and diagnosis of pre-diabetes. I blamed it all on the med. When I stopped taking it, none of these issues went away. I think getting older was a factor and becoming less active.
My side effect was warm flushes. I kept exercising as recommended and didn't have the joint pain that many women experience.
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Happy, this is exactly the forum to talk about these things, so please do.
I lost 15 pounds on taxotere, started femara and promptly gained that back and more. At my doc appt yesterday, I had lost 10. Don't know how much of that was from my bout with the noro virus or from being off the femara but I'll take it either way. What I do know is that since being off femara, I can actually go down the stairs like a normal person instead of sideways and stand straight up from a sitting position without going through the hunchback stage.
Dinner is an unknown. Still battling food apathy. Easter dinner is at friends'. Hope we can muster up enough food enthusiasm to make us acceptable dinner guests.
I am planting potatoes and onions today. Yesterday we cleaned out the garden beds. We need to add amendments but the potato bed is ready to go.
On a nature note, the hummingbirds are back and a welcome sight as are the house wrens. Still waiting for the orioles. DH and I were sitting on the porch yesterday when a bald eagle flew low over the front yard.. I love spring!
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Hard to take a picture of these gems.... not sure why. Miss O loved them! Especially the currants and orange rind. As you can see, a few had currant explosions and lost their shape. Oh well! Tonight's AirBNB guests will get a couple in their room. Otherwise, they will go to waste.
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I see that we've reached 1000 pages. Wow!
Susan, a fresh hot cross bun is a terrible thing to waste
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I've never made hot cross buns. ...Any good recipes?????
If I have time this weekend (last push to get mom's house emptied so the contractors can get to work on the inside), I will try it for Easter.
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Eric, I've used several but this is the one I use most often.
http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/easy-hot-cross-buns-recipe
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Thanks.
The contractors are painting the outside of mom's house and the motion detector cameras keep sensing the motion outside the windows....and the cameras keep sending me images of the nearly empty house to my cellphone.
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