So...whats for dinner?
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Dinner is leftovers from yesterday
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April, do not scold your daughter. Mothers deserve nice presents. Beautiful machine! It might even carry on a conversation with you. LOL.
I own the Kitchen Aid pasta making attachments including the extruder and have used them but not in a couple of years. Being a caregiver has taken away much of my "play in the kitchen" time.
A pork tenderloin is thawing and will be the meat course for tonight's meal. Now that I have mastered not over cooking this cut of pork, I am enjoying it. I will use some fresh rosemary from a pot on the patio and fresh garlic to flavor the tenderloin. I have fresh beets to cook this afternoon and salad makings
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I forgot to say it was good to have Moon check in
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Nance - you have a new picture! And i think new glasses? How's your Dad doing?
April - thanks for sharing the details. Everything sounds delicious. I got it about the hands. I can no longer knead bread. Most annoying.
Carole - I love the little pork tenderloins. They're perfect for one of two. But it was hard for me to dial back on the cooking time too. I'm of the generation that my Mother always said to cook pork almost until it rattled in the pan so you wouldn't get trichinosis.
I took my nephew to lunch at a neighborhood restaurant that's been there since 1956 - mostly Italian. There have been some changes since the older parents died, but the food is still good. He had a shrimp salad poor boy. I had lunch size 'spaghetti works' - noodles, meat sauce, meat ball, mushrooms, covered with two cheeses & melted under the broiler. Needless to say, no dinner for me.
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Minus - good eye, true on both counts! Dad is hanging in there, I will see him Thursday.
Dinner tonight will be fish sandwiches and some fresh corn on the cob. No high expectations there, but maybe I'll be surprised.
Nice to hear from you Monica!
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We went to the Signature Room at the 95th fl. of the John Hancock bldg. for brunch. Gorgeous views due to perfect weather. There was a buffet of various salads, cold seafoods (oysters, snow crab legs, shrimp, lox), mini lobster rolls, shu mai, spanakopita, artichoke fritters, omelet and leg-of-lamb-carving stations, and various miniature desserts (tartlets, mousses, red velvet whoopie pies, brownies) and a sundae bar. We also got to order entrees off the menu: I had seared duck breast with wheat berries, enoki mushrooms and baby bok choy. The rule was you could order as many entrees as you wanted, but not take anything home. Had never encountered this at the Sig. Rm. before—but now that I think of it, this was the first time we dined at noon instead of getting stuck with the 3pm sitting (by then, they were pushing food and asking not just if we wanted anything wrapped but also a second entree to take home). Poor Gordy ordered the pork tenderloin but had pigged out on seafood & salads, so he valiantly cleaned his plate and couldn't eat anything else till midnight!
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Tonight will be either sauerkraut with beef kielbasa (no pork or shellfish at home during Passover), or insalata Caprese (with some nice tomatoes, mozzarella, basil and Little Gem lettuce).
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Dinner was our Indian leftovers. Tomorrow, I start Cycle 2, Infusion 1.
My guest had a slower time at the Boston Marathon than he had hoped for. He was disappointed. He did not qualify for a repeat. They leave at 4AM. We leave at 7:15. I had expected that they would be leaving after us, so this a bonus. Tomorrow night, no guests by choice. I am trying not to do check ins on treatment days. I have decided that tomorrow we will remove the steroids. I am still nervous about the allergic reactions from week 1 after all.
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Susan...glad you are giving yourself some room....will be sending positive energy your way tomorrow...please let us know how you are doing when you can.
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I, too, am sending positive thoughts/energy your way, Susan.
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Best wishes for an easy effective treatment Susan
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Susan - hope you do OK w/o the steroids. I spread mine out longer than prescribed by doing one a day instead of two for the second two days so there wasn't such a precipitous drop off of energy. Keeping you in our thoughts.
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Susan, wishing you an easy time of it (or as easy as it can be considering) and lots of good times with precious Olivia.
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steak, salad and a veggie
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Anything I can throw on the grill—it’s the last warm dry night we’ll have for over a week.
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Today's infusion was in the "corner" room. I was in this room during week 1, and then week 2 and 3 I was in a dark interior room right at the entrance to the kitchen.
Here is the view. But you know, that is nice while they bring you the blankets, but once the Benadryl starts, I don't see anything. Today we omitted the decadron. So the only pre-meds were the Pepsid and Benadryl. The moment that hit the system, I began to feel a bit dizzy and I fell asleep. Without the decadron there was counter balance. They had to wake me up for the Taxol safety check. I slept for the full hour of Taxol. Came home, and fell asleep for the next 2 1/2 hours. I got up to have some coffee and then crashed again!!! I had no appetite until about 6:30 and suddenly I was ravenous. We ordered a chicken parmesan from a local restaurant to go. One order, split two ways, and we still have at least two servings left! This is why we never go to this spot to eat in. Portions are simply too big.
My fever went up to 100.6 tonight, but seems to have broken before it hit the magic number, thank goodness. ER's and I hate each other.
See how I am doing in the AM.
*susan*
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Susan, hoping for you feeling ok in the AM with no fever. Hugs.
Supper last night was "Not too Sloppy Joes" a brand of jarred sauce. It was just OK, but, way to salty for me. Will have to dilute with a lot of veggies before I top it with mashed potatos for a cottage pie.
Tonite, leftovers at my DD2. So of course Scalloped potato and ham. They didnt have the reg ham dinner on Sunday, so a good chance to get rid of it all, since I only used about a third for Sunday, and leftovers for my DH. BTW, Aldis has good ham.
Nance, love your new photo.
ChiSandy, that sounded amazing, but It hardly worth paying for a buffet when I fill up so fast. Darn...
Much love to all
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Moon...glad to see you at the table.
Susan- love the windows, hate Benedryl-completely understand what you are saying abt your reaction. My MO reduced the dose by 1/2 and that helped a lot though still was super sleepy and knocked out...hoping you awaken fever-free and feeling OK!
Made an egg salad for the week and had it with these really thin pita chips for supper..light and good. Trying to decide abt trying the Keto diet...anyone tried it?
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I was thinking about you today as I was working. That is a nice view, but like you said, it really doesn't matter.
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Hers my DGD1. Oh. And my DH.
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And DGD2. They grow so fast.
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Moon- precious little peeps!
Nance- love the haircut and new specs!
Eric- you are right- while the view is nice- Benny causes it not to really matter. Hate that! Hate hate, too...but sometimes you just HAVE to hate stuff! Especially when dealing with all that is BC.
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Long, long drive home from the eye doctor today—here in Chicago there are no alternate routes. Took surface streets to avoid the construction bottlenecks on I-55 & Lake Shore Drive, only to encounter freight trains, Cubs traffic and panhandlers working the intersections and causing huge backups. Between my eyes still being dilated (and the sunglasses being no match for bright sunshine) and my sciatica acting up from all that sitting in traffic, I knew I wasn’t going out for dinner—much less shopping. I defrosted a grass-fed NY strip steak and grilled it along with some spring bulb onions and asparagus, and dined alfresco on my deck…because I could. Tomorrow another “pneumonia front” comes through (last evening it was 42, today it was in the upper 70s, by this time tomorrow night it’ll be back down into the low 50s or even mid-40s with rain & possibly thunderstorms), so it was my last chance to grill for at least the next week. Ate all but one onion, about 1/3 of the steak and half the asparagus, and refrigerated the rest for Gordy.
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Last night was sautéed slices of chicken breast with a hot sweet sauce tossed with soba noodles. Dh made a salad of packaged greens with kale, avocado, and blue cheese. He was too lavish with the blue cheese but it sure tasted good. The soba noodle bowl was delicious. I love those buckwheat noodles.
The sauce is brown sugar, fish sauce, rice vinegar, soy sauce, dark sesame oil and sambal oelek. Very tasty.
Dinner has not been planned. Maybe a burger with home-made wheat buns from the freezer.
Anxiously awaiting a report from Susan
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Salad, chicken and a side dish
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Fever broke before getting to the magic number. Don't feel skittish today which is great. Just very dried out from the Taxol/Benadryl combo.
*susan*
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Great pictures, Moon!
I'm glad for your lack of 'roid jitters, Susan.
...Preparing for the most holy of corporate rituals...the meeting....Back to work for me.
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Hello to All
Dinner tonight will be pan seared thin chops. I soak them in buttermilk, chopped garlic and hot sauce. Then roll them in bread crumbs. Yellow rice and Brussel sprouts.
carole I will be copying your recipe for a weekend dinner. I have everything on hand for the sauce.
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Susan - Glad you're not jittery. Will they reduce the Benadryl a bit? When I have to take it, I always request a children's dose but that still totally knocks me out for at least 24 hours.
Off to MDAnderson to see my LE/PT. She is so great. I think she's agreed to keep me on for a few 'tune up' sessions twice a year, but my RO who wrote the orders is now a regional director and probably not seeing patients anymore. Wearing sleeves in the Houston summers is just awful so I try to avoid flares.
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Minus, my taxol experience will be different than yours since I am receiving a palliative dose, not a curative one. So, the good news about that, once you stop choking on the word palliative is, they will reduce the Benadryl by half next week. If there is no allergic response, they will drop it completely the following week! Then, I will be able to drive myself. I won't sleep through the whole thing and can enjoy the view.
I had a two hour nap, since my 9 hours of sleep last night wasn't enough. ;-) Being lazy tonight, grilled lamb chops, a Russet potato either baked or made into a Rostis, and some little green peas.
*susan*
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