So...whats for dinner?
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Oh beautiful. Can't wait to hear about the wedding doings.
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Sharon pronounced the sourdough bread "wonderful"...and is complaining about the calories as she slices off her 3rd piece..
I'm such a bad influence. :-)
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The picture of Olivia brought a smile to my face. She's adorable.
Lacey looks pretty in her dress. Goodness, how time passes. It was only yesterday when this wedding was months in the future.
Eric, I can almost smell the wonderful aroma of your sour dough bread! Is Sharon maintaining her weight loss? I thought about her yesterday when I watched a bit of a Jenny Craig infomercial. Maintenance is a challenge.
Dinner last night was one of the eggplant casseroles I made on Friday and froze. It was delicious with a crunchy bag salad.
I have a yen for chicken enchiladas. That may be dinner tonight.
Minus, I wonder if you and your neighbors couldn't take turns hosting the dominos game.
WW meeting this morning. I'm not expecting any weight loss. I'm at that stage when the last 5 to 7 lbs don't come off easily.
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Olivia is ADORABLE in that photo! Love it! Grandchildren are the absolute best. Enjoy every moment with her Susan. You see her a lot more than I get to see my two which is awesome.
Carole, good luck with weigh in. How I remember that - I really need to go back. I gain weight reading posts like Eric's about the bread...LOL
Speaking of gaining weight, that pasta machine is evil/wonderful. It is way too easy to pop out fresh pasta now. I made beautiful ravioli over the weekend (at least I used a marinara sauce with them and not my Bolognese which I have some in the freezer right now...LOL I made a couple of different types. One a mushroom, one a butternut squash and one the standard ricotta/parmigiano type. I froze the butternut squash ones which we will have with a brown butter soon...oh boy, butter! LOL We ate mushroom (mostly me) and cheese ravioli.
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Love Lacey's dress. Like Carole, I hope we get details soon.
Grilled pork steak and garlicky come slaw is on the menu. Don't know if that's what will actually transpire
We've had 8 inches of rain since Wednesday, flooding everywhere. Haven't checked on the garden yet. Fingers crossed.
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That little Olivia...those little legs crossed...precious!
Love the wedding attire- yes, it does seem like a long time ago when the plans were just beginning.
All this talk about yummy breads and pasta...I can resist, I can resist, I can resist
Continuing the Keto way of eating so- last night was pulled pork, coleslaw and salad with homemade blue cheese dressing...all items were made without any sugar. It was really good!
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Having leftovers from last night
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April, your home-made pasta sounds so-o-o enticing. Glad you're enjoying your new machine. Maybe I'll make some orecchiette by hand my next "free" afternoon.
The weigh-in wasn't good. I'm up .6 lb this week. Afterwards I ran errands and came home and got to work on the enchiladas. I made a half batch of corn tortillas, 8 tortillas. Now a big chicken breast is roasting and sending out a spicy aroma. I took out a small carton of black beans to add to the filling.
The weather is delightful today. Yesterday's violent storms ushered in some cooler air overnight. I have windows and doors open, a nice change from a/c.
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Sunny now, but storm predicted for tonight. Still cold (49). Wanted to walk to the gym (7:30 training session), and then to WF, but not in the rain. Will have to drive (and parking sucks in the evening as all the millennials are exercising after work). Dinner will be late—Gordy won’t be home from rehearsal till 10, so will just buy a rotisserie chicken and make some veggies.
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Carole - how often do you weigh? I got in the habit of getting on the scales first thing every morning while I was doing chemo (and losing weight). People keep telling me that is too often, but I round off & watch for trends. Anything over .5 means I add another pound, but if it's only .4, I get to keep the lower value. It's interesting to watch based on when I go out to eat (major gain) vs when I'm too busy to eat but one meal a day vs times like last night when I finished off the bag of Dark Chocolate & Caramel Pretzel Treats with Sea Salt instead of dinner. Oops!!!
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Avert your eyes Keto eaters. I started a polish yesterday and then made a focaccia dough today. Stretch and fold, stretch and fold, stretch and fold, rest, shape, dress and bake. Pizza Focaccia! Enough for a small village! For the oil, I made garlic confit and used the garlic as a topping. I then took some of the oil and mixed it with some of the basil oil I made at the end of the summer. One half got some sun-dried tomatoes, garlic, and goat cheese while the other side was dressed with cartelized onions, Italian sausage, mozzarella and then some parmesan all over.
We will have some for lunch post-infusion tomorrow and then I will portion it to freeze for "those" meals in the future. In the future, this might be a side dish though. Can't have bread for dinner on a regular basis!
*susan*
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Susan- that looks yummy and "bread for supper" might be perfect for "those" days...love that you can freeze it. Looks delish albeit not "Keto" friendly. In your pocket tomorrow!
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Surprised to find upon my return to the gym tonight (my personal trainer's first day back after his knee surgery) that I did not gain any weight during April. After my workout, I picked up a roast chicken and some mac & cheese (sometimes a gal needs comfort) at WF, and sauteed some cauliflower/carrot “rice" in coconut oil with a little salt and crushed garlic. Dessert was a decaf cortado and a square of 85% dark chocolate. Trying not to think about the bag of mini-croissants…
Will make an omelette tomorrow morning with mushrooms and ramps. (I love ramps—the white part is like garlic & scallion and the leaves work like kale or spinach—but they have such a short season).
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Susan, I think I am going to book a stay at your AirBnB....LOL...just to eat your incredible food/baking. Those pizzas look incredible. You are amazing. Not sure where you find the energy. Are you still also working from home (besides the guests) in your other job too? If so, I want some more coffee cause you are putting most people to shame.
Lacey's dress is so pretty. Love the color. I need to buy one for a June wedding. My stepson is getting married and I still have not purchased something to wear. Nothing in my closet is doing it for me right now. I hate clothes shopping (I know, revoke my female card but it is true) for clothes. I do love to buy handbags though...LOL
Have a great day everyone! Eric, stay cool. Saw on the news this morning that Phoenix will be 96! YIKES!
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Minus, the WW meeting and weigh-in is weekly. I often step on my "evil" scale first thing in the morning.
I have an apptment with my bc dr.'s NP this morning for an ultrasound check of chest and underarms. I called a couple of months ago to see if I had a scheduled apptment for 2017 and was told I hadn't been in since 2014!!!! I didn't even realize I was missing the annual checkups. I know this happened because we had begun leaving in late May and going north to MN. The apptments were usually in June.
The chicken enchiladas last night were good but not wonderful. Still we finished off the dish of 8 small enchiladas. My home-made tortillas measure 5 in. diameter. I think the filling should have been spicier.
Dinner tonight will probably be stuffed peppers, a veg. and salad.
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Dinner last night was supposed to be chicken enchiladas (Carole - great minds...), as I had roasted five big skin-on and bone-in breasts on Sunday. I had a check up at the surgeon in the morning which was all good, and a skin check at the derm in the afternoon. As per usual, ended up with a biopsy on my right shoulder of a suspicious area where I had a previously treated skin cancer. This is my worse LE arm so it made me nervous that we will have to go at it again. I'm sure the biopsy will show recurrence and will now need MOHS since it is back. So, I came home and decided to fill the window washer fluid reservoir under the car hood, before coming in to make enchiladas.This is a new car and I was unfamiliar with the hydraulic action of the hood, previous cars had the stick thing that props the hood up. Filled the reservoir no problem, and while my neighbor jokingly asked if I knew what I was doing, I dropped the hood on my right hand. Spent some quality time at urgent care, nothing broken, thank goodness, but my poor LE arm! Dinner was not enchiladas, it was comfort food mac n cheese. Eaten with my left hand. Spending today icing and elevating
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Ha, we had chicken enchiladas last night too. Or rather DH did, I had little appetite having had a largish lunch.
Oh no Speciall! Ouch! Hope you get no flares!
Beautiful pizzas Susan. Your Airbnb fame must be spreading far and wide.
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SpecialK, I'm so sorry! Mac and cheese sounds comforting, for sure
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SpecialK, you earned that mac&cheese. Fingers crossed on the skin biopsies—my next mapping visit is a week from Thurs. and I think my derm is gonna be biopsying at least a couple of pearly pink nodules that are likely just seborrheic hyperplasias but look like they could be basal or even squamous. Then there’s a mole on my upper R arm (the LE arm) I hadn’t noticed till a few weeks ago. Heeere we go again….
Dinner will be leftover roast chicken and some veggie or another. Will save making that omelet until I get home from Silver Sneakers class.
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Ok ladies and gent, i'm doing chicken enchiladas tomorrow. Tonight is stuffed peppers.
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Special - hope your arm is OK today. When will you get biopsy results?
I passed through my regular 6 month full body skin exam at my dermatologist's last week with no biopsies. Hooray. And she probably didn't freeze more than 25 places. One she's very suspicious of and watching. Hope the freezing works because it's on my cheek to the side of my nose but more to the center. It will be an awful place to try to biopsy - or for MOHS surgery.
Carole - thinking of you as you renew this testing.
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susan - excellent and delish-looking pizza! I want some!
I am going to try making the enchiladas tonight - maybe DD will help and learn how to make them in the process. Thanks all for the good hand/arm wishes! My hand is not as swollen today - it had an egg sized blow up on the hand, which is down, but the bruising is starting from knuckles to wrist. I actually did the dishes a little while ago and it felt good under the warm water and to move the fingers. At the point that I finished though it did hurt so I sat and iced.
carole - the mac n cheese hit the spot!
chisandy - all of my biopsies have ended up being basal cell carcinomas, it has become routine at this point, but I appreciate the hopeful vote! I hope your visit for the skin check reveals nothing that requires treatment! What is so crazy to me is that after having the first skin cancer at 35, and spending the next 25 years staying out of the sun, I have at least two new skin cancers per year! I am the poster child for using sunscreen on your kids, I even dragged my two to the derm with me to make them watch one being frozen off - so they would know why I was slathering sunscreen on them! They are both fair-skinned and blue-eyed, but they learned nothing and I worry they will have to deal with this as well. Maybe they will inherit DH's ability to tolerate the sun and NEVER have a problem. He is fair-skinned and blue-eyed as well, but even growing up in Miami and being outside all the time, he has never had a skin cancer.
minus - the biopsy results usually take a couple of weeks, they said to call them if I have not heard from them by three weeks. They usually send a certified letter, which always intrigues my mail carrier, lol! It will be a MOHS since it is recurrent in this location, which worries me since that means a bigger incision in my LE arm. This is a lot of trauma in a short period, when coupled with the lymphoscintigraphy study done last week with four needles to that hand, and now the hand injury. Ugh! The good news is that scheduling the MOHS will probably not happen until June so the hand will be good by then, and it will have been some time since the scan. I did have a MOHS on my ear at the tragus, where it meets my cheek. First one on my face, but my derm is really good with a scalpel, he blended the incision into the natural fold. It is so good the nurse took a pic when the stitches came out because she was so impressed with his work! Mid-cheek is tough because there is nowhere to hide it. Ask your doc about using Imiquimod topical if the lesion is not too deep. I was part of the trial with NIH for skin cancer when I was treated at the National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda. It leaves a lightened area, but no scar.
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wow—I got my skin biopsy results (the mole and seborrheic hyperplasia that turned out benign) within two days.
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Today was an early and long day at the hospital. Started with blood at 7:30AM and didn't get home until noon. Turns out, we had to reduce the Benadryl by half again. Not possible to drop completely. That, of course, meant that I crawled into bed when we got home and didn't get up until about 2PM. Had a small bowl of soup and a tiny bit of the focaccia. Mr. SMT ate lunch while I slept. He ate more than a tiny bit! I have now divided the bread, wrapped each one in saran wrap and they are freezing.
Like the last cycle, this infusion hit me hard. I had no energy to make dinner so we went to our local Mexican place. I decided not to get the soup and instead got some flautos [potato chicken and cheese], some beans and a small amount of guacamole. I managed to eat the flautos, he has gotten very chef-y with the presentation, but left more than half the beans and half the guacamole. Mr. SMT had no problem polishing off his carnitas burrito!
Lacey is back in Boston and cold after a week in balmy, okay warm, Florida. Just got a short message from her so nothing more to report.
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Take it easy, Susan and thank goodness you have some good restaurants to take the pressure off you on your chemo days.
The DOMS (delayed-onset muscle soreness) from last night’s training and this morning’s Silver Sneakers workout (deceptively difficult for a sedentary de-conditioned klutz) is starting to kick in despite warm showers last night and today (I don’t trust myself to take a muscle-soothing juniper oil tub bath, and the tub is sort of icky with soap scum anyway). Had a late breakfast of a 2-egg omelet (ramps, mushrooms, prosciutto & provolone), with a cappuccino. Had the leftover mac & cheese as a late lunch (truly comfort food—weird, because I never liked it as a kid). Will make stir-fry tonight with leftover chicken breast, snap peas and cauliflower “rice."
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For those who remember me my daughter is being induced gently and is in "mild" labor 2 weeks early. I am coming home from an assignment in " no where" early and hope to share Susan's joy of a first grandchild soon. Charlie. Can't wait to see you Charlie, and see my beautiful daughter and son in law.
For dinner burritos with salsa, block cheese and canned vegetarian refried beans. I made a lot of them and will serve them with 2% Greek yogurt and avocados.
I have not been posting for a long time, but STILL think of all of you, and if I ever write a journal (that is not happening) you would all be part of it.
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Bedo, a mazel tov in advance. 2 weeks early isn’t bad—my son was supposed to be born on Thanksgiving but decided to enter the world three days before Halloween (I RSPVed for my friend’s party—broke water while standing in front of my closet debating whether to dress as a pregnant bride or a pregnant nun—from the labor room).
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chisandy - yay for the benign results!
susan - sounds like you are hanging in there and refining how your infusions go, and how to handle the SEs.
bedo - yay to "see" you and for your first grandchild! So excited for you and your family!
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Bedo, what lovely news! Cheers!
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Yup - my skin cancers have all been basal cell so far too. I've had 6 or 7 MOHS surgeries starting before age 25, when I started staying out of the sun. So I guess damage from my younger years is going to keep showing it's ugly results. My derm PS is also excellent, but the scars on either side of my nose have become prominent as I age. Both were very deep basals with not much skin to pull over.
I had the leftover LemonGrass Stir Fry Chicken for late lunch. I added fresh sauteed carrots & celery and served w/leftover Seeds of Change brown rice w/quinoa. I thought I'd be hungry later but I've been too busy to think about it. So my evening snack was the last couple of the Rainforest crackers I got in Washington.
Tentatively planning white clam sauce over pasta tomorrow, but lots of salad stuff that needs to be used.
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