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hmmm, nothing much better than a roast chicken, or really any sort of chicken! Guess I am just a simple minded fool!
then again grandmom raised chickens on her small farm so must be in my blood
so hit the farm stand and now need to decide which veggie to make first.....turnips, broccoli, cauliflower or tomatoes? sounds like a combo deal to me
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PTS- you are neither. A roasted medley of root veg. Yum. Can we get that in a pneumatic tube for Queen?
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PTS, I love broccoli and cauliflower roasted together...that would be my vote. Simple food is good!
Katy, you will be an honorary Jewish Mother to Jack before you know it....Hmm....how do dogs do with chicken and matzoh balls? :-)
xoxox
Octogirl
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Pennsygal: (drools dreamily) Bento box for lunch, perfect! The antibiotics are making my appetite just the teensiest bit erratic, though I've been switched to IV, so a collection of attractive doll-sized servings of tasty things is perfect....and virtual raw fish is fine for those of us with compromised immune systems, yet.
Jackbirdie: roast chicken with root veg sounds delicious! Besides, you've got to restock for all that matza soup.
Hoping to get sprung tomorrow, but might not be until Monday (cries)
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Octo- I am honored. Jack does very well with chicken. Tutti too. And I 'spect he wouldn't throw a mb out of bed as long as it had been cooked in the broth!
Here's a snack for you QMC
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QMC...my other favorite comfort soup besides matzoh ball is albondigas (Mexican meatball soup). not sure if you are into beef, but meatballs are one of my favorite things. Best eaten with lots of home made corn tortillas and a bit of lime and onion. Cilantro if you don't have the cilantro hating gene....
Hope this helps too...
xoxo
Octogirl
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the Mexican Meatball soup looks great to me
thinking I will roast a the green beans (forgot to list those) and have slice tomatoes and my last soft shell crab! think that will do it
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PTS - yum! You go girl!
Octo- you are such a girl after my own heart. First, yes to albondigas!!!!!
I also like a slice or two of cool avocado on the side. I bought fresh cilantro yesterday with that in mind. Forgot the lime, though.
Second- I used to have those plates! Haha. What a walk down memory lane.
Though I was subliminally aware before, the book Rainny recommended (The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken) which I am enjoying so much, reminds me that there are some common threads through every culture's food.
Meatballs
Flat bread (naan, pita, tortilla, etc.)
Stuffed things. Everybody loves a surprise. Putting something inside another something is the stuff of anthropological legend.
Dang, but I love food!
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Into beef, Mexican food and cilantro--I'll take that and leave some matzo soup for the super-tasters. (DH's like that.)
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with ice cream for desert!
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Good Afternoon Crazies!
Queen! So sorry you're stuck in the hospital. Luckily for you, Crazy Town has a beautiful spa hospital.
In fact, we have a pneumatic snack tube that goes from the Mayor's mansion right into your special spa hospital room. Instead of flowers, I'm sending you this beautiful marshmallow, strawberry bouquet!!! Hope you're feeling better soon!!
Ducky, I'm glad you shared how you're feeling. I miss the busy life of kids too. It's such a difficult transition. I think it's great you have Bobby a few days a week. He's one lucky boy to receive all that love from his great grandma. Those relationships are so important for babies and grandma's. I need a Bobby!! haha
Katy, Thank you for those very kind words. You're such a beautiful soul. I couldn't imagine Crazy Town without you here.
I know I've got much to catch up on. I've got some things going on (family stuff) making it difficult for me to catch up!! Also, I had my Verizon Wireless phone account hacked, so I've been busy trying to secure everything...checking credit report....etc. Hopefully, tonight I will finally get some quiet time to catch up on our wonderful thread!!
Hope you're all having a pain free, peaceful weekend so far.
Love to all!!
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Octo, your photo gets today's making-me-moan award. I love matzoh ball soup, but there is something about it that fully activates my salivary glands only around Passover.
Katy, that's true about the foods common to all cultures. I'd forgotten that about the book, which sent me on a spate of pocket-food-cookery, as I recall. So glad you're liking it!
Queen, we are coming to bust you out of there!
Just read the latest Consumer Reports (me, a nerd? huh?), which has an article on health insurance shopping and surprise medical bills. Thoroughly depressing!
Well, off to have a nice cup of hot tea and some jolly antibiotics!
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Jewel,
Queen, hope you're feeling better today and you get sprung out of there quickly!
Tom,
you're right about the AC. We never had AC in our house in Santa Monica or Malibu..we were right on the water and so never really needed it. Our first house in Santa Monica had it, but we never turned it on. Here in Sonoma in the last few years it's become a necessity. When we bought our new place last year part of the renovation was adding AC. We tend to have big hot spells up here that run in three day streaks and then it cools so more and more houses up here are adding AC..I'm always cold but even I like the AC in summer.
Jack,
it looks like that is one delicious soup you've got going on there....yow!!
Proud,
pretzels!! My NYC husband loves pretzels!!! native Ca that I am I just don't see it.They're ok but...he's rarely met a soft pretzel that he didn't like he used to have what I called Trunk pretzels, a bag of these Uncle Jerrys extra dark pretzels he kept in the trunk of his car..so he wouldn't be tempted too much.
Pennys,
That bento box looks great!!
Octo,
I love 3D printers....I want one of these sooooooo bad!!! Check it out!!!!!
Chloes,
love the idea of seltzer water to make stuff fluffy..I use it to for something but my brain is not working this afternoon so I can't remember what....
Slow,
Great idea posting the BRCA link for those who haven't done it.
Gaia,
Hope you're having a nice relaxing weekend
well, I will be using the weekend to catch up on a bunch of stuff, fighting the Pink, and doing some cooking before it's back to the script on Monday.
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Katy: yes about common food themes in different cultures....my father used to call won tons Chinese Kreplach...we'd go out to dinner in Chinatown every Sunday and he always had to order the 'kreplach soup that manages to have pork in it'. He explained his little joke (or so he saw it) to the servers at the little place we usually went and they'd sort of giggle and smile and humor him... My Mom, who was not really into food, (you can guess which side I take after in that regard) tolerated his sense of humor....I think because she hated to cook and Sunday she didn't need to (never occurred to my father that he could cook dinner....)
A Mom story: as I say, she was no cook. My grandmother was a FABULOUS cook, specializing in traditional Jewish food. Maybe it skipped a generation. But in any case, Mom had other great qualities. And while she wasn't really much into food, she knew the rest of us were. Which leads to my story: when I was very young we lived in Houston, Tx. I've heard that Houston is becoming sort of a food type of town these days but back then, not so much. At least not as far as I could tell as a kid...However, one thing you can get there that I've not seen in California much at all: bbq turkey. I mean REAL bbq: smoked whole in a wood smoker, served with an incredible hot bbq sauce. There was an amazing little place they always went to get the bbq turkey for Thanksgiving (which made my Mom happy, as then she didn't have to cook it)...But we missed that turkey so much when we moved to California when I was about ten or so...anyway, about a year after we moved, my mom went back to Houston for a visit just before Thanksgiving. On her way to the airport for the return trip, she stopped at the bbq turkey place, bought a whole turkey and the sauce, etc. and brought it home on the plane in her carry ons as a surprise for the rest of the family. Best Thanksgiving EVER!!!!
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Thanks all! The general: yes, feeling way better today but, as is the way with infections that haven't responded to oral medications, the weekend attending physician wants to keep me in for at least another 24 hours to make sure that the IV stuff really has eradicated all the Staph. (Possibly an analogy there between rads/cancer....?) But I will sustain myself with the results of the food porn drive.....
SlowDeep: and most definitely the idea of a spa hospital! Given the general going per diem rate for hospitals these days, surely they could spring for the occasional spa treatment for needy and/or cranky patients!
Rainny: now envisioning a throng of BCO participants charging up over the hill....
Did I miss anyone who deserves thanks? I'm sorry! But the lovely pictures have definitely diverted me; I'm not nearly sick enough to lie quietly and accept the hospital's ministrations, but not recovered enough to send home. Worst of both worlds.
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Octo,
same thing with my family. I'm Italian on both sides and both my grandmothers were amazing cooks..my mom was a terrible cook, truly awful like kill you with food poisoning awful...so that's why I started cooking very early on. Started by observing my grandmothers, then since they both died before I was 9 yrs old I started reading and learning.
Example of moms cooking..she never believed in preheating an oven so you can only imagine what the baking was like....
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QMC; so sorry to hear that!!! It is good to be cautious however, you don't want to mess around with some of these bugs. Just let us know when you need something to eat, nothing more fun than food porn!!
xoxox
Octogirl
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Octo- two great stories for the price of one! Thanks for digging that out of your mental archives. I had such an image of your mom's carry on a complete bbq'd turkey- and she didn't neglect the sauce! I think it's just as important that a mother recognize the importance of food and their family's predilections as it is to do it themselves. Some people just don't have the gene. In my case my mother had it in spades. Her mother did not. My father's mother did not. But her mother did. She was German and brought with her a recipe for gütte. It's a kind of scrapple-like loaf, made from a special cut of beef (probably the cheapest one tossed aside by the butcher and sold cheaply) and it had to be steel-cut oats. Unfortunately, the recipe has been lost, and who knows how to get the ingredients these days?
And the kreplach! I imagine you are flooded with memories every time you cross the threshold of a Chinese restaurant. Yes. Kreplach. Won ton. Dumplings. Dim sum. Samosas. Ravioli. Tacos (ok, a bit of a stretch- arguably not a filled/stuffed food since it isn't sealed) (also arguably not Mexican, but definitely American now). I'm sitting here,thinking of all the ways to present a surprise inside a packet. A wonderful way to while away a rainy afternoon, as I start to smell the bird roasting on a bed of fresh thyme, stuffed (there's that word again!) with onions, garlic, and quartered fresh orange.
I'm making myself CRAZY
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been trying to decide on a mom story so here is one. Mom worked and one day she said just make dinner. Me? I was about 12 at the time, maybe younger. Mom....make meatloaf, the meat is in the fridge. Me....How do I do that? Mom...you've watched me. Me....yikes. We[[ she rattled off her receipt. I proceed to follow it but was not too good on the dif between a teaspoon and a Tablespoon. Of course, I use Tablespoons of salt and not teaspoons. Think my brother never let me forget that.
Mom made much better meatloaf than I ever did
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These mom stories about food are so interesting. My mother's mother was not so much a cook: she had her limited repertoire of mostly Jewish recipes, and to add to that she was enormously territorial in the kitchen. She could bake, however, and had a serious sweet tooth. My mother's response to this was to get out of Dodge and learn to cook properly: she was always taking cooking lessons when I was a kid. And SHE was (and is, at age 83) enormously territorial in the kitchen. Consequently my sisters and I are all fairly serious cooks, albeit with different specialties. One sister has professional level baking skills, did all of our wedding cakes and still does them occasionally. Me, I do bread. Or at least did: aching to get back to it, once I'm capable of slapping the dough around. Which is not quite yet, but soon, I hope.
Sula, was your mom of the Depression generation? In which case preheating an empty oven might have been seen as wasteful...
Katy, now you're doing that food porn tease thing again. Bed of fresh thyme! Yum.
Must go and deal with the mussels. Later, gators.
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Rainny- I can think of no better therapy than slapping a little dough around.
Hoping you get back to it real soon. I remember after my BMX operating the lemon squeezer was more than I could do. And months after I still swore I'd never want a massage again. But today, if I felt like it, I could slap a little dough around. Then go for a massage. It does get better. You seem to be healing really well, and I'm throwing the gauntlet down for some serious bread porn teasing coming from you soon!
THROWDOWN 2015: your best bread. Stay tuned.
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Katy.. Yummy.. Looks like the chicken layed the onion 😃?? ( or should it be spelt laid.?? )
Queen.. So glad you are feeling better today! It hard to get out of hospital over the weekend!!
Rainny.. Hope you feel better soon.. Go easy on yourself.. It takes time.. more than I thought!
PTS.. I haven't made a meat loaf in years.. Must give it another go.!
Octo.. I love your Mum story about the turkey.!! Sound delicious !
Sula.. HaHa..It does help to pre-heat thr oven ;-) 👍
Just back from my Sunday walk.. perfect day.. perfect beach :-)
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step 2: bone broth. Gonna do this slow for 24 hrs. Too bad no source for chicken feet. All the nice roasted meat set aside for adding back later.
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Ok....thought you might like to see these.....my Grandaughter at her Frosh Hop...........it was tonight, and we had a shower for another grandaughter getting married in November.This is Makayla....she is 14......she is a freshman,and the boy is a junior......they all go as friends....she didn't even know the boy....its tradition at their school.............Upper classman take freshman girls............and the Upper classman girls take freshman boys.............I know dumb, but that is what they do........LOL....she was not allowed to drive with him he is 17, and she was not allowed to go to any "after" parties..........she was fine with that...............I ask you...does this child look 14......and with her hells she was 5 ft 11 inches..........thank God she wasn't taller then him..........
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Ducky.. Makayla looks beautiful..!! And a lovely photo of you both together.. She looks much older and sophisticated than 14 !!
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Thanks Lucy, and yes she does look older then 14..............I think its because she is so tall, but when she is in her sweats, and a tee shirt with her hair pulled up which belive it or not is very curly............she looks her age.............LOL......0
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ducky,
Wow! Your granddaughter is lovely and so tall, that's fashion model territory. You guys look so cute together
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Sula! I love the bear Hello!! Thank you! Brings back memories of a childhood spend going to Yellowstone! Your bear seems a bit friendlier tho!
Wow, Katy, your cooking looks delicious! I would love to have that bone broth soup recipe!
Ducky, your granddaughter is just lovely!!
I hope everyone has had a nice Saturday. I was in Crazy Town all day. I wonder when the fear will start to subside a bit. I want to get back out into the world and feel more normal...you all seem so strong and so productive. What inspirations you all are to me. Thank-you!
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Ducky- beautiful photos. That's a lot of girl for 14!
Jewel, there are many more talented cooks on here than me, but bone broth is easy. It's really just "stock" but cooked longer. The benefit is in getting the marrow broken down, and natural gelatins found in things like chicken feet. But that grosses me out. You can do it with mixed bones, beef and lamb and veal, or chicken or fish. You don't have to roast the chicken first, but it brings out the flavor. So I roast it first, just shove a quartered onion, a couple of cloves of garlic, and I like to quarter a whole orange and shove it in there too. Ifyou have some fresh thyme I like to put some under and in the bird too..I butter the bird and then squeeze the orange juice over it then stick them in the cavity.
After it's cooked I let it rest and when it's cool enough to handle I take all the nice meat off in big pieces and reserve for later use. I don't try to pick it clean because I like to leave some meat in to flavor the broth.
I add whole carrots and celery, with the leaves, more onion, whatever you have. Flat leaf parsley, more thyme, bay leaf, garlic....did your mother ever tell you the story of stone soup? It's like that.
I simmer mine on very low heat for at least 12 hours. You can go longer. Then you strain everything out to get a clear broth. First time through a strainer and if you want it even more refined, a second time through some cheesecloth. You can serve it just like that. Very good for you. And has great deep flavor. Or you can use it as a base, adding some nicely chopped carrots and a little more celery and add the reserved chicken, rice, or matzoh balks or beans to make up your own signature soup. It freezes well.
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