So...whats for dinner?
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Check out this month’s Bon Appetit—it has an article on Oaxacan food.
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Last night was burger night. I gave Dh choice of beef, turkey, lamb or pork. He picked pork. 4 oz pattie for me, 5 oz for him. He made a delicious tossed salad while I cooked the patties using the cast iron grill. Home-made wheat buns heating in toaster oven.
Yum.
Today yard work, mostly pruning, then laundry and cooking. I have fresh okra and three nice eggplants to turn into meal components
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Lol Carole, we really are on the same food page - we had pork burgers last night too. Along with some some not-so-sweet corn on the cob, despite it's advertising.
Still not much appetite which I'm blaming in part on my current attempt at Effexor withdrawal. But to make it worse, It's combined with my dad's current situation which is that he's about to get kicked out of supportive living due to a decline in his physical abilities. His next stop is a nursing home, which will break his heart and mine, and also presents a lot of logistical hurdles.
We are having a cool rainy spell. I did get cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers and squash planted. Still need to plant beans but I'll wait until it warms and dries out a bit. The tomatoes are not happy about the cool nights so I expect they'll pout a bit until the weather warms again. Fortunately the raised beds warm faster than the ground. The potatoes have started to sprout and the onions are happy about the rain. Still need to add compost top dressing and mulch. I have the herb bed to plant yet although i still have some growing in pots from this winter. Spring is moving along.
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DH ate lunch at 4pm yesterday so he had a protein shake for dinner, which he made himself - chocolate with frozen banana slices and a spoonful of peanut butter. I had a hair appt and ran errands so also ate at 4pm so I wasn't hungry either. DD is rehabbing a baby duck found out in the bay by her commercial fisherman friend, and she got takeout on the way back from getting new tires - so no dinner making for me last night!
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Nance - so sorry to hear about your Dad. Yes, it will be a disappointment. Does he suspect it's coming? I'll keep you both in my thoughts.
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No Minus, I don't think he does which makes it especially hard.
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auntie - so sorry you will be having to deal with more dad issues, hoping things go as smoothly as possible.
Dinner tonight will be small sirloins and kale Caesar salad
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Kale Caesar salad sounds interesting and unusual.
I had leftover ground pork. I used it in an okra and tomato dish that is our main course tonight. The side will be a bag salad with kale. Plus additions.
I made two eggplant casseroles for the freezer today. A busy day.
Nance, the nursing home has worked out well for my mother. She has made friends and enjoys her popularity with the staff. Good luck with dealing with the issue with your dad
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Yesterday I made a spicy chicken, rice and sausage one pot dish for our dinner. Then I made a pork and vegetable stew for Olivia's lunch today. Tonight we were supposed to have the chicken leftovers or the pork stew but neither of us is interesting in such a heavy meal. I have pulled out a ciabatta and we will nibble on bread, pesto, cheese, and in my case, a few olives.
Nance, oh your Dad is not going to be thrilled with this change, will he?
Need to make more granola in the morning. Turnover day so laundry and cleaning. Current guests are very pleasant. Young couple plus a sister, originally from Brisbane but two of them are now living in Ithaca while the other lives in Banff. Next group is a middle aged couple here to visit their daughter who lives close by. They do all start to blend together except for the ones I particularly like. After this, three weeks of graduation folks who paid a ton of money to stay here! Let us see if I can please them too.
*susan*
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carole - I just sub the kale for romaine, or if I don't have enough of either, I mix them. Otherwise the rest is the same - croutons, dressing, and parm - also a lot of cracked black pepper.
susan - I am sure the grad folks will be happy to stay in your lovely home! I am doing my first stay in an airbnb the third week in May - a reunion for an old AF squadron up in Panama City Beach. Have not seen some of these folks for 30 years - eeeks!
Also, side note - the day brought another snake, different kind - ribbon snake. Glad the dog went out of the pool enclosure first and startled it.
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Special, thank you for your vote of confidence! I have raised my prices by quite a bit, and these folks are paying $30 a night more than that! I am thinking I should have some cute bundt cakes or cookies for them when they arrive.
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susan - If you run out of time or energy, how about just mints on the pillows?
My friend who always hosted Chickenfoot is the one who died on March 27th, a month ago. There were 6 ladies who usually played two Friday afternoons a month. She and her husband had been together since she was 14, so 60 years. We've all been worried about him, but he seems to be doing OK. There are two sons & their wives who live fairly close. Anyway, he wanted us all to come over & play this afternoon. He actually sat & played for 3 hours, along with he wife's male cousin who was in town for a couple of days.
Snacks/lunch/dinner = a huge tray of deli sangys (ham, turkey, etc), a spinach/artichoke quiche, carrot/raisin salad w/crushed pineapple, green salad w/strawberries, chocolate doughnuts (more like crullers) and my last bottle of the Cote du Rhone Villages wine. Afterwards the husband wanted to go out for pizza. I would have been thrilled to just come home & sink into my chair w/a book, but I figure he asks when he wants company so 4 of us & one other husband went with him. The #1 special is two big pieces of pizza and a salad, which I ordered. I ate the salad & brought the pizza home for tomorrow.
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The gourmet donut experiment continued today, as I managed to find a (rare) parking space at the Armitage Ave. branch of Glazed & Infused, right next door to a branch of Chase that bought back my British pounds (which were doing me no good sitting in my wallet) for $1.22 each. Compared to Stan’s Donuts, Glazed & Infused has fewer varieties but they’re all one price (Stan’s has three price tiers). Glazed & Infused’s Boston Creme (custard-filled) is better than Dunkin’s (but can’t speak as to Stan’s, since Gordy relieved me of that one); it has only one cream-filled one, a powdered-sugar matcha-flavored whipped cream (with which, logically, I will drink green tea). Their maple bacon Long John is not only longer than Stan’s, but has one long strip of bacon and is yeast-raised instead of cake. (I’m a yeast-raised fan, which is why I prefer Krispy Kreme to Dunkin’). The two shops I’ve yet to try are Do-Rite (Loop & Navy Pier) and Donut Vault (just NW of the Loop, in a back alley, usually sold out before noon). Neither are particularly convenient to parking (double-digit garage price, not just parking meter); the Loop Do-Rite is accessible by CTA train…wrong line, though, requiring a change of trains. I think, therefore (especially since I have to get back on the diet-wagon), that my donut explorations have come to an end
For dinner tonight, Whole Foods had a sale on fresh sea scallops. So I tossed them in a little gojuchang (Korean chili) paste, garlic, ginger, salt. and coconut oil and pan-seared them. I also stir-fried some cauliflower “veggie fried rice” (carrots, ginger, onions, zucchini, orange, white and purple cauliflower) in garlic-ginger oil and added a little tamari and topped it off with a few drops of toasted sesame oil. Drank a WA riesling with it—perfect. Tomorrow night will be pan-seared salmon with asparagus (maybe some more of that cauliflower rice for me and real rice for the guys). Also have some really nice ramps—might saute them, or maybe make an omelette with them in the a.m.
My garden service got back to me today and apologized profusely—their supervisor was suddenly hospitalized before he could give his crew instructions as to what to do where. They’ll do the spring cleanup (rake, leaf-blow, seed, aerate) Tuesday; and they will replace any of my herbs and berries that don’t come back up w/in a reasonable time.
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Dinner will be at the Oak Grill at our club tonight. I will be claiming a free entree for my birthday, which was in March. I didn't have a chance to take advantage of the complementary meal so will do so tonight. Another couple will be joining us.
Sandy, I have to skim your discussion of doughnuts!
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reflections about my friend - I've given some thought to all our feelings about playing the same games in the same place (her house) & going to one of her favorite places for dinner without her only one month later. I missed her. I don't know if it was "better" (healing? cathartic?) for her husband to have us all together doing the same thing, or if it was too painful & made him miss her more. Grief is universal, but timing and how we make it through the journey is such an individual thing.
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Minus, hard hard hard... all the way around. Here is a little Olivia joy for you. She loves books!
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Thanks for posting Susan. It gave a lift to my day. Best thing in the world - a love of books. Oh my, she's growing up so fast.
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Auntie...the news of your dad makes me sad and kind of scares me...because I will probably be just like him and fighting it all the way.
Susan, that's a great picture of Olivia. I love it. I hope the interest in books translates to a lifelong love of reading.
Minus, I doubt there is any right way to go through "it" (grief). For me, I just wanted to go hide and had it not been for the efforts of two friends, I'd have stayed that way for a very long time.....
Chi. I love doughnuts..especially cream filled chocolate long johns. :-)
Dinner tonight will probably something over near Arizona State University. DD starts finals next week, was diagnosed with strep throat yesterday (talk about bad timing) and she has an apartment for the summer. She has a job about a mile from the apartment, which makes it nice for that. She put down the deposit so she doesn't need a co-signer and already has the apartment key, so she is asking for help to start moving her stuff from the dorm to the apartment so it isn't a huge deal next Friday when they *MUST* be out of the dorm. She doesn't have that much stuff, but some of it won't fit into a small car...hence the request for help and the likelihood of eating out.
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Bob and Gordy relieved me of two and a half more donuts before I awoke this morning (Bob grabbed the second Boston Creme and Gordy the Matcha cream-filled and half the maple-bacon raised Long John—oddly, the triple-chocolate-cake one I chose specifically for him, and the blood orange-passionfruit-glaised raised one I picked for Bob remain in the box). So I had the remaining half of the raised maple-bacon; the other half of the cake version from Stan’s remains uneaten.
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One of the pictures I found in mom's house was of my third birthday. According to my mom that was they day they moved from military housing to the house in town and they had forgot about my birthday. She said she went down to the bakery at what turned out to be a few minutes before closing and all they had was a chocolate long john doughnut. She said the owner put three "flowers" on it, along with 3 candles and gave it to her. I apparently loved it --I had a huge smile on my face--and maybe that's why I like chocolate long johns...
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Eric - wonderful story. I love family legends.
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Olivia, the modem bluestocking! So sweet, what lovely hair she has too.
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Minus, She is growing up! She can sprint, run, dance, still looses her balance when she tries to pivot, but she is absolutely a toddler! In fact, she turns one in about 2 weeks. Hard to believe isn't it? *susan*
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Susan: way way late, but hopefully appreciated--I saw your picture with the involuntary buzz cut, and my first thought (honest!) was "What lovely eyes, and contemplative expression..."
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Pork tenderloin, steamed veggies and a side dish
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A sourdough bread day today.
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I just tried a LemonGrass Kitchen frozen selection. I know, I know - but I'm deep into trying to get the Civic Association taxes ready to go the CPA tomorrow and I knew if I stopped to cook, I would not have the discipline to go back to the corporate taxes. And I bought this as a trial when I had a coupon for $1.25 off.
Anyway - the only frozen mass-produced dinner I ever eat is Stauffers Mac & Cheese, & maybe PF Chang's Stir Fried Rice once a year, so you can see I'm not a "TV" dinner fan. Normally I'd just as soon have eggs or cereal. I had Lemon Grass Stir Fry Chicken. For a frozen dinner it wasn't bad The white meat chicken hunks were decent & the sauce was delicious. Recommended served over rice, but I didn't even take the time to do that. Enough for two and I will add mushrooms & water chestnuts to the leftover portion later this week.
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I don't know LemonGrass Kitchen. Is this a frozen prepared food?
I made some hamburger rolls today and we will grill some up to accompany those lovely rolls. I have made a carolina-style cole slaw. That is plenty for one meal for us. Brunch was the standard pancakes, scrambled eggs and bacon. This year's maple syrup harvest is particularly good and Mr. SMT just can't get enough pancakes these days. After all, they are simply a syrup delivery system. I am willing to make them once a week, but no more than that!
*susan*
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Yup Susan,frozen prepared & it is a new vendor - Asian inspired. http://www.lemongrasskitchen.com/products/
Of course there's a fair amount of sodium, but the one I tried said "no MSG".
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With Lacey's permission, here is a photo of her dress! I cropped it from a much larger one, so it isn't perfect.
*susan*
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