So...whats for dinner?
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Wow - how did I miss an entire page of posts? Sandy - glad for the B-9 results.
BEDO - Hooray. Of COURSE we remember you and have been missing you. I do hope now that you're leaving the wilds of Iowa you can join us at the kitchen table more often. (didn't they allow the internet in Iowa?) You are the one who eats eclectic meals like I do, so I'm particularly glad to see you back. Looking forward to hearing about the new baby.
Susan - I'm not sure why they won't eliminate the Benedryl. It hits me like it does you - out for the count. I know our protocols are different, but after infusion #1 when I didn't have an allergic reaction, the agreed to drop it and just watch really carefully the next time. I kept children's Benedryl in my backpack just in case. Glad to hear you're eating. Thanks for the Lacey update.
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Now I want chicken enchiladas! (cries, but only for a moment)
SpecialK: OW just OW. That's so something I'd do.
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A pork tenderloin is thawing. It will be flavored with rosemary and garlic and roasted for dinner. Sides will be baked sweet potato and salad.
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Well, there was a plan. The plan included lamb burgers, Greek lemon potatoes, and a green salad. But the lamb was having nothing to do with this plan. It laughed at me all afternoon and refused to thaw at the right moment. So, pulled a few meatballs from the freezer, doctored up some Rao's sauce, and made that salad. It was fine. The lettuce was a gorgeous and tight head of Boston lettuce with lots of crunch and not an iota of flavor. Man am I ready for local vegetables!
So, the lamb burgers will be tomorrow night's dinner, the timing of which is made more complicated by a check in of three young German men at around 6PM. Or not. Check in times are notorious, especially for people driving rental cars. These young men have requested extra breakfast items. They want lots of food! Since they have been so bloody polite and their communications have been clear and timely, I didn't push back. Each of these young men will have a croissant with jam, rye roll with cheese, and a fruit yogurt, plus fruit. Can you imagine eating that much for breakfast?
*susan*
p.s. Today is my seventh anniversary of finding those pesky tumors outside the breast. It is kind of a big deal actually. Seven years! I spent the day being grateful for seven years of good health, life, and still having a life worth living.
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Not much time- Special- healing mercies your way and hoping no LE flares!
Tonight I had a 4 oz grass fed beef steak burger with a salad of mixed greens, arugula, onion and homemade blue cheese. Yum.
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Impromptu chicken pot pies tonight at DH's suggestion. Used puff pastry dough and bits of this and that from the fridge. They hit the spot on this rainy chilly night. Enough already! Bring on summer!
Well done Susan on seven years. May you have many more.
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After a swim (my first in nearly three years!) and my monthly bc support group session in Evanston, I drove back to my neighborhood to meet Bob for dinner at Cellars (we needed to pick up the wines I bought at last week’s tasting). Of course, the moment I walked in & sat down at the bar, Rachel the bartender placed my usual flute of cava in front of me. Tonight’s special was a salmon sausage hoagy with sriracha mayo, oak leaf lettuce and red onion, with roasted Brussels sprouts. It was delicious but way too much for me to eat—got only halfway through. I had my leftovers packed, but we got so wrapped up in watching the end of the Cubs game I forgot to take them with me. Dang.
Dinner tomorrow—another riff on leftover rotisserie chicken. Maybe faux cacciatore with shiratake linguini and broccoli rabe. Bob has to stay down in Oak Lawn overnight, but I have an 8:30 pm training session.
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happy - thanks, so far so good!
susan - seven years is a very big deal! While I wish it was the type of anniversary you didn't have to think about I am so happy you are here, and hanging in - spending time with your sweet family and living your life!
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Susan - fantastic milestone. Celebrating with you.
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Eric, my late husband's step brother lives in Peoria and loves it. He's a retired trucker and Marine. I'm glad it's you with the snakes. Definitely not a fan. However, about a mile north of me there was a large black bear cub wandering around one of the subdivisions. We have moose around here as well as "normal" wildlife.
HUGS!
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Susan, that's a great milestone! So very happy for you! May you have 50 more good years!
HUGS!
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Susan, celebrating with you, too.
Dinner tonight will be pasta, linguine from a package. Homemade marinara with turkey Italian sausage. I learned how easy it is to turn ground pork into Italian sausage the year we bought the half pig. Now I do the same with ground turkey. It tastes good. Honest Injun!!
Salad will be our usual with beautiful crisp romaine and little halved grape tomatoes. But I will omit avocado and blue cheese from mine tonight and Dh will add sweet onion and both his and my portion of blue cheese and avocado to his salad. My dressing will be a good vinegar.
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Thinking something quick tonight. Tomorrow we are having Tacos for Cinco de Mayo
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Welcome to the world Charlie! Thanks for all your wishes!
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Bedo - how precious. Glad you got to be there. Are you going to stay with your DD or look for a new place? Can't remember - are they in New England or NY? Do you have to go back to Iowa and pick up your stuff? And BTW - we need to hear about Iowa sometime. It just sort of swallowed you whole.
Very late lunch at PF Changs. Crispy Honey Chicken, egg drop soup, fried rice, spring roll, and a glass of lovely Grenacha from Spain. I went to Costco after eating so I managed not to buy a lot of things I might have picked up if I had been hungry.
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Welcome Charlie! ❤❤❤
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Happy birthday to Charlie! He looks so happy and contented! Dinner (prepared by DH) was wild salmon w/lemon, herb & a bit of butter, roasted brussel sprouts, with a small glass of La Marca Proseco. Terrible rain & traffic this evening, so could not make it to my aromatherapy class.
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bedo - yay for Charlie! What a peaceful little face! So excited for all of you!
Dinner tonight was pasta salad and chicken salad over greens, not exciting, but it worked!
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What a cutie!
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Welcome Charlie!!!
Dinner was in fact lamb burgers with Greek Lemon potato, garlic yogurt sauce, and some pickled onions. Pretty good! I am making an Orange-Almond cake tonight, but I made a huge error. My last gasp fix might or might not have worked. Only baking time will tell! I have redone the instructions so that there are several more paragraph returns! Run-on paragraphs aren't good for me when it comes to precise recipes. I have to pay attention better if I want to make cakes.
*susan*
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Had to stay home from my training tonight—apparently, I might have dislocated my knee by swimming a couple of laps yesterday. (!!!) Because I didn’t have goggles or nose clip, I did backstroke, and the scissor kicking might have caused it. The inner surface of my R knee felt a bit tender last evening but I thought nothing of it (though I wondered, without cruciate ligaments, meniscus or articular cartilage due to the knee implant, what could I have injured?). I was walking to the door to supervise the gardening team today and my R knee suddenly began to buckle, with a searing soft-tissue-type pain. (Not bone—it felt very close to the surface and hurt only when articulating while weightbearing—felt just like when my medial meniscus gave way back in 2010). Happened on & off a few more times, so I called my trainer & the gym to cancel. He took me off his schedule until I can find out what’s causing this, but my guess is that it was the swimming (something I haven’t done in 3 years—heck, except for try-ons I haven’t even been in a swimsuit since July 2014). Of all the exercises I’d done over the years since my knee replacements—whether physical therapy, training or Silver Sneakers—none involved kicking, which flexes & extends the joint rapidly & repeatedly…and in the water, against resistance.
There’s an outside chance my knee implant could be failing, but it’s only 5 yrs old. And I did none of the activities I was warned not to do (no running, jogging, jumping, skipping, singles tennis, basketball, or downhill skiing; heck, I haven’t played tennis in 40 years nor skied in almost 30, and that was cross-country). OTOH, when they opened up my leg in 2012 for the first surgery, the top of the tibia was so deteriorated (had open reduction/internal fixation for a tibial plateau fracture caused by being hit by a car in 1996) that several screws and weakened bone had to be removed so I needed an extra-tall “tibial tray” for the lower half of the prosthesis. And I am obese, which is also a risk factor (but none of my doctors ever mentioned that in connection with anything orthopedic). AIs aside, I still weigh 10 lbs. less than when that R knee was replaced. Not an infection either, since the knee is cool, not red or swollen and my temp is normal. Hope I don’t need revision surgery, and the most drastic procedure they’d need to do is to realign the joint immobilize the medial collateral ligament until it stabilizes…and hit the gym again, with very specific exercises, and no swimming.
Dinner was the path of least resistance (especially since I made and ate a classic French herb-and-chevre omelette this morning): leftover roast chicken and grilled eggplant, nuked together; had 1/2 c. of gelato for dessert. No alcohol. Might have some melted provolone on whole-wheat matzo (don’t ask). Too close to bedtime to have a tomato or orange, or anything else acidic.
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Making chicken tacos tonigh
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Sandy - sorry about your knee. Hope you can stabalize w/o surgery.
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Welcome, Charlie! You look so sweet!
Sandy, hope your knee ailment isn't serious and you can get back to exercise. Though some people hate that word and substitute activity!
Susan, is there a link for the Greek potatoes?
Lamb burgers without buns tonight, leftover sweet potatoes warmed up in a little butter, coleslaw
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Carole,
I have not been able to find this recipe online. I will strive later to type up the recipe for you. It is quick [to prepare for the oven] and easy. Plus, it is delicious! I have never served my lamb burgers with a roll. I always figured if one did do bread that it would need to be a pita-like one, and they would fall apart with that application!
*susan
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Thanks, Susan. Easy and delicious are good adjectives together!
I had a scary experience recently when I googled "enchilada sauce recipe." I clicked on an entry. My screen went red and a pop up announced my computer had been compromised and I should call Microsoft immediately. Stunned, I called the number on the screen and a foreigner answered immediately claiming to be Microsoft. I hung up and googled the pop up on the screen and learned it was a scam.
I followed the instructions about closing down the computer, restarting and erasing browsing history. When I told Dh, he knew about the scam. Just wanted to alert those who might experience the same result to recipe search.
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Holy Cow!!!! That is scary! We used to get those scam calls until I verbally blasted one guy over the phone that I knew he was a scammer!!!!!
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Sports med. doc’s PA messaged me back: says anterior knee pain is common after exercise, usually due to patellar tendon strain or even irritation, or patellar mistracking. (Still have a patella after knee replacement, though it’s Teflon). Says I can carefully resume training but stay out of the pool for now. I recall having had patellar-mistracking in the months following OR/IF surgery for tibial plateau fx back in ’96, and having had to tape my knee. Maybe I need to visit Athletico for a refresher on how to tape it. The knee has stabilized since last night, though there’s a tender spot on the inside front of the tibia just below the joint. If the problem recurs, the P.A. says to go to the walk-in ortho clinic.
Not sure what we’ll do about Cinco de Mayo dinner—Mexican joints will probably be packed. I have no tequila in the house either.
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Tacos made with chicken were good
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We had a huge lunch Cinco de Mayo celebration, so not hungry for dinner. However, no guac at the celebration, so picked up some fresh made from store & had some guac & chips. Now, about that margarita . . . sure would have been a fitting drink for the day!
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