So...whats for dinner?
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Michelle, I'm glad you're home. We miss your posts on here.
Eric
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Michelle- Checking in to see how you are, I am glad you are home. I think about you alot (all of you) and saying special prayers for you. Much love to you
(((((((Everyone))))))
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So glad you are home in your own comfy house Michelle. Hope your family is serving you lots of bowls of ice cream, while you relax in your chair looking out on the lake.
Last night was a bowl of ice cream for me...the heat just makes me not want anything to eat. Hubby did a tuna sandwhich.
Lacey so envious of your tjmaxx run. it has been on my list for awhile, but way outta my way. I try not to make the trip unless I have other things to do in that area.
Just found out they found a tumor on my Dad's lung while viewing his stomach during a colonoscopy. Gets a biopsy next Tues. My poor mom just gets so discouraged with all of their health issues....just when we think they are all healthy, something else pops up. Mom having her own issues with not being able to eat, nausea, vomiting, and lost a lot of weight. My sis has been a gem in helping them with all of their appts. since I am now working full time.
Stay cool everyone! Drink your water.
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Michelle - so glad that you are home - I am so hoping that these current issues can be resolved quickly. So glad that your loving family is there with you. Know I am thinking of you all!
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Carrie, I'm so sorry about your parents health issues. Believe me, I know how hard that is, as do many of us here. Hope they can be resolved.
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Carrie I am so sorry your parents are struggling. I hope the tests come back with some good news. It is so difficult to watch someone you love struggle.
We are dealing with our own issues in the health front. Dh's mother was just given 6-12 months to live by her Dr for stage IV uterine cancer. She is not talking about it and does not want to seek treatment so we are all pretending it is not happening. This weekend there is a big family reunion for his side of the family on the Cape. I am not going and Dh is bringing the boys- I will stay home alone. His family spoils my Dh rotten as the youngest of five kids and I honestly believe they enjoy having them to themselves. So I have decided to let them have him and the boys- me and my planning and OCD will stay home and relax. They are all spur of the moment people who sleep on floors and pile in together. I am not. Seems strange to stay home but it is for the best.
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Just to clarify- we are pretending it is not happening because my MIL is and will not speak of it. If you try to discuss it with her she will leave the room if not the entire property. After being so open with my mother when she was told she had little time life I find this very difficult and I am so sad for my husband. Everyone is trying to make the best of things....
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Aw Laurie, I'm so sorry. I hope she comes around so people can at least say their goodbyes. Sad on so many levels.
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Michelle: Hope you are resting & eating. You are in our prayers.
Debbie6122: How is everything out there in the West? I often think of you and your DH and your Dad and send prayers your way too.
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Wow, seems like everyone is having problems. Adding you all to my prayers. My DH parents were pretty good about preparing for the end. DFIL even cleaned out the basement. There was stuff to go through, but not the dumpster of stuff we had to go through for my dad!
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Carrie, I am also sorry to learn of your parents' health struggles, and can certainly understand how your mother feels discouraged when confronted with one condition after another between them. Thank goodness your sister is there to help with the appts. Has your job gotten any less stressful? I hope you can get to TJMAXX soon for a little retail therapy.
Laurie, wow, that is a really tough situation with your MIL. I also feel badly for your DH...but maybe in time she will soften so that her family can support her in her last months. Families are so very interesting, eh?! Oy!
If you get enough compulsing in at home, and feel like a ride, we're at Newfound for the weekend. Would love to have you visit. If you are game, I can PM you where we are....
Speaking of compulsing, I was extremely happy to find our lake house exactly the way we left it two weeks ago. DS2 said that we'd never even notice that he had his ten friends and three toddlers visit here over last weekend, and he was right! I so appreciate their thoughtfulness.
Well, I'd better get some shut eye since a walk will only be possible tomorrow in the early morning...and it's nearly that now!
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Last night I made another Grace Young recipe in the wok, Chicken with Red Peppers and Pineapple. DH loves pineapple more than life itself. I was tempted to add a couple of the Thai chilis, but decided to fix it "straight" the first time. It was very very good, but the heat would have been good too. I was extremely pleased with how the new wok continues to perform. Everything cooks exactly the way it should and NO sticking! My patina is developing wonderfully and I can't help but admire it. Susan, I decided that would be an excellent epitaph, "Her Patina Would Make You Swoon."
I'm having two lady friends for lunch today and am fixing something fairly sensible, another Salad Nicoise (still have those potatoes and haricots verts) and sliced local peaches. I did make some sour cherry handpies for dessert, but only a few
Dinner tonight will be baby back ribs, corn on the cob and a yellow squash casserole.Tomorrow is my birthday and I'm planning a complete carb fest -- fried chicken, corn on the cob, biscuits, green beans and white and chocolate cupcakes for dessert. Monday we're going out to dinner to a tepanyaki (sp?) grill with another friend whose birthday is a couple of days after mine. Always a good time. If you don't hear from me for a few days it's because I'm in a carbohydrate coma. I have enough insulin to cover the carbs, but sadly, not the calories
I'm sorry so many of us are going through some difficult times. Here's a ((((((GROUP HUG)))))))!
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Happy happy birthday, Nance. It sounds like you are planning a wonderful time (and marvelous food). Enjoy!
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Made spaghetti last night and hot dogs the night b4. Just not into cooking much. But I have made "wet walnuts" for an ice cream social tomorrow after our Mexican food group goes out. Yummy spiced with bourbon and cinnamon. Hope it sets up to some thickness; think it will as it cools. For some reason my grocery was clearancing English walnuts;they are divine. Might have to go back to town to see if there are more. I think Texans don't know what they are. Pecans even here are outta sight. Blue Bell has a new ice cream - coconut fudge which is not chocolate based but vanilla with tons of coconut.
Happy Birthday Nancy. I had not heard of Teppanyaki but found it is Japanese griddle. With my DH's work schedule we just never go out except maybe every other month with the group.
My grocery usually gets local canteloupes since there is a huge farm oh about 12 miles up the road. I've bought roadside from them. But Noooo not yet. I wonder if our coolish, late freeze spring got them too like most of the peaches.
Susan - love your fish bargain. Yum.
Carrie - hope your dad's biopsy turns out to be nothing of consequence. Prayers from here.
Laurie - sorry to hear about your MIL. Hopefully she will let the family "in" when the time is right.
Thinking of Michelle and hoping to hear good news.
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wet walnuts... with bourbon. Sounds wonderful. Could you provide the recipe, maybe? Thanks!!!
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Last night was grilled burgers on English muffins [too hot to make rolls], steamed corn and a salad with lots of lettuce and bits of other vegetables. Today it is already 98 degrees with no cooling in sight. Dinner will be made on the grill.... grilled lamb chops, grilled corn, grilled zucchini with some French bread, blue cheese and a bottle of Cote du Rhone. Have no idea why husband picked up the last three items on his way home from meeting with his surgeon. Must mean he is happy about something.
If he hadn't bought those items, we might be headed someplace with air-conditioning for mediocre food. But we will prevail! and hope this weather breaks soon.
*susan*
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Gardengumby - this is the link to the ice cream cake with walnut topping. The walnut recipe is about 1/4 way down with the instructions further down. It was easy. I did toast the nuts for 10 minutes at 350 degrees. Recipe calls for whiskey but bourbon did well. I thought I had some spiced rum and was going to use that but DH must have used it up. Oh - I did add just a dash of ground cinnamon. Seems to be setting up nicely. I may try a cook-off and make a 2nd kind just for fun. This was pretty good only calling for light corn syrup & sugar for sweetening. I read many that had maple syrup which I have but am stingy with it. I let it cool just a little b4 adding the bourbon. These come in a jar in the ice cream aisle but I've never tried them.
Susan - I can't imagine enduring those temps without AC.
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Thanks, luv!
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Lacey- Thank you so much for the tempting and wonderful offer! This is the forst time I have been alone in almost 6 years and I am being very lazy. I have been reading and lounging all day- in the a/c and by the pool. Tomorrow afternoon my brother and his girlfriend are supposed to come visit and have dinner together. Your offer is very tempting- I love New Found Lake. Enjoy your weekend and if I get stood up tomorrow I will let you know!
I have been reading a wonderful book called The Snow Child all day- I am more than half way through. I ran errands this morning and got a few things done and picked up a BLT from a local shop in town for lunch. Dinner tonight was a pizza I made with a pesto tomato sauce, Gorgonzola, mozzarella, spinach, mushrooms and tomatoes. I made a nice salad to go with it- it was very good. I believe I am headed to bed early with my book and to get a good night sleep.
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Susan, that meal sounds wonderful (tho I would not want to be the griller in this heat). And I do hope that dh's splurge has to do with some good news, as you surmised.
I did have to chuckle about your roll situation last evening.....your homemade hamburger rolls must be damn good! We still use store bought from the deli section.
Laurie your weekend already sounds like fun!! I always treasured any alone time when my active boys were little. I'm impressed with your reading track record! I have such a difficult time concentrating on reading while on Tamox. I've barely finished any books! Of course the invite stands, but your weekend sounds great already.
Tonight we went to a local restaurant that has the best elevated view of the lake...where we went last year with you, Michelle. We were horrified at how much their dinner prices have increased, and decided to have shrimp and tuna appetizers and caesar salads which were quite nice and certainly filling enough..... but not so much to keep us from stopping at the new ice cream spot on the way home. Yum!
Keeping cool in the lake was great on this hot day....DH and I may take the kayaks out in the early morning if I can get myself to bed at a decent hour. Our hot weather is forecasted to leave in the next couple of days.0 -
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Hugs to everyone who needs them.
I'm pretty lucky and don't need any at the moment...
Tonight we took DD out in a 1964 Jeep and let her get used to the idea of no power steering, no power brakes and a manual transmission.
She said she got quite an arms and legs workout. :-) It wasn't long before she quit stalling the engine, and another 15 or 20 minutes before she quit lurching (to shrieks of laughter) across the empty parking lot.
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Tried something new with the baby back ribs last night. I usually cook ribs on low heat for a couple of hours before grilling them. I read about cooking baby backs in a pressure cooker before finishing them on the grill, so I tried it. Wow, moist and fall off the bone tender in only 20 minutes and I didn't have to turn on the oven! I marinated and cooked them in a mixture of hoisin, ginger, honey and garlic chili sauce. I forget about my pressure cooker and need to use it more.
Because today is my birthday, I'm doing absolutely nothing. No cooking, no cleaning, no errands nothing but fun stuff. I plan to read, putter around on the computer and drink coffee all day. Maybe I'll even take a nap. Wish I had a pool like you Laurie. Sounds like heaven to me.
Thinking of you Michelle, hope you are feeling better today. Have a lovely weekend everyone.0 -
Happy Birthday Nancy! [Very interested in the pressure cooker idea. Have a link to how to make this happen?]
*susan*
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Happy Birthday Nancy! I hope you have a wonderful time indulging!
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Happy Birthday Nancy!!!
Still hotter than blazes here and both kids are away so we're heading out just the 2 of us to a really good local restaurant. It's a bit on the pricey side so it's been awhile since we've been there. Hope it's as good as it was last time!
Michelle,
Hope you are feeling better and regaining strength with each day! You and your family are in my thoughts even when, I'm not posting.0 -
Happy birthday, Nancy!!! Hope you enjoy your day of self-indulgence.
At the laundry mat using their Wi-Fi while machines wash the clothes. Attended a child's,bday party at the campground at noon.
Dinner tonight will be pasta with Ital. Sausage and tomato sauce and a green salad with romaine and avocado.
Sorry about family health problems mentioned in recent posts. Hoping for best case outcomes.
Thinking of you, Michelle.
Enjoy your respite, Laurie.
Weather delightful today. High in 70's. Low humidity. Good forecast for upcoming week.0 -
*H*A*P*P*Y* B*I*R*T*H*D*A*Y*
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Decision has been made. In light of the fact that the promised cold front is missing in action, someone else will cook dinner for us. I have no idea who just yet, but it is just too brutally hot to cook in my house.
*susan*
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