So...whats for dinner?
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So much interesting conversation! First, tuna noodle casseroles. DH loves them and I like them, too. Problem is that tuna casserole is so easy to eat that you want to eat a lot of it. More chew is good for portion control!
Susan, I loved your bit of family background featuring your mom. She sounds like an interesting, admirable person. My middle sister, who is passionate about her "causes," came to mind. I've always felt guilty because I'm so passive in my causes. I rarely even summon the energy to e-mail, write or telephone my senators and representatives.
Gardengumby, the grass-fed beef ribeye had a good flavor and wasn't all that tough. It cut very easily in the raw state. All the ingredients for the fajitas were good except the corn tortillas. The selection of hispanic foods is huge in LA where we have a large hispanic population but not so in MN.
Laurie, you have WAY too much fun and social life! Your sons will realize one day how lucky they are to grow up in their neighborhood and town with parents who have lots of friends and enjoy family life. Good luck to mother and son as DS#1 starts kindergarten.
Lacey, you may always miss your professional involvement because you were so fully engaged in your work. The children were fortunate to have you in their school system. I can relate to missing the association with colleagues.
Eric, I had one bus driver for grades 1-9. He was a stern man and tolerated no mishavior on his bus. But every year at the end of school, he drove his route and picked up all the kids for a party at his house. I remember that we had home-made ice cream in addition to other food. His name was Mr. Thomas. I don't remember whether Thomas was his first or last name. In the south children don't address adults by their first names but often put Mr. or Mrs. in front of the first name.
Nancy, I know what you mean by overcooked veggies in southern households! My mother aways cooked green beans until they had no chew left in them! And they were well-seasoned with bacon grease, too. She peeled yellow squash, chopped them and "smothered" them down. I had never tasted broccoli or cauliflower until I went to college and was introduced to these unfamiliar veggies in the cafeteria.
Dinner tonight will be chicken breasts and corn on the cob and a salad. Either a caprese salad (fresh basil at the farmer's mkt today) or grated carrot (keep buying more carrots because they're so pretty!) and fresh pineapple salad. Haven't decided how to cook the chicken.
Off topic--is anybody else watching the US Open Tennis? Venus's tennis dress is unlike any tennis dress I've ever seen!
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Tonight is the naughty meatloaf, mashed potatoes and steamed broccoli. Last night was blue cheese burgers, baked potato salad and fresh corn on the cob. Shaping up to be a meat and potatoes week, lol! DH had endovenous laser on one leg on Mon, so I was the nurse again. He has way more nurse points than I do after all my surgery, so I am taking good care of him. He is not a very good patient though... he is using too much creativity in regards to his post-op instructions so I keep lecturing him!
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Off topic - Need some good thoughts and positive vibes for a dear friend. The results of her needle biopsy were positive. She's had to wait a week and a half for an appointment with the BC team. Her appointment is tomorrow. All she knows right now is she has BC and she's terrified. I've been trying to prepare her for what to expect. I pray the news is good and she's able to get through this with minimal treatment.
I had a new gustatory experience for dinner tonight - curried goat. A friend, who is Bengali, has been introducing me to Indian cuisine. It's a cuisine I had never tried, but one I'm finding I like. The goat was delicious. Much more tender than lamb. I'm still getting used to the spiciness, but it's growing on me.0 -
Carole, your writer is showing through with all of your thoughtful comments.
And you helped me figure out why I always ate too much tuna casserole, such soft chew...many years ago! I think I stopped making it when my kids were little and did not eat such mushy things, so I cooked more discreet foods that they could identify...and we also liked. So much for seventies' casseroles.
Special, I hope your nurse gig with DH is easier and faster than with DD. Is she enjoying her internship? Looks like it!
Hauntie, so nice to see your more frequent posts. Goat....hmmmmm....never tried it. Would be willing. But don't tell Bedo!
Sending caring and positive thoughts for your friend.
Tonight I was trying to clear out some perishable home food since we head to the lake in the morning. So we had caprese salad over a bed of romaine along with BLT's that included garlicky avocado spread instead of mayo. OMG! Yummmmmmm!0 -
lacey - DH's procedure was easier and he went back to work today for 1/2 day, then for post-op and a dentist appointment. He is just so bad about following directions - I keep having to be insistent, then he ends up realizing what I am telling him is correct. He has been so healthy he just has no experience. We had a lengthy compression garment conversation tonight ( I have had this surgery, plus have lymphedema - I know what I am talking about, lol!) - he took a shower (first time he was allowed to - he has been doing sponge bath since Mon. a.m.) and didn't want to put the compression thigh-high stocking back on to wear until bedtime. I pointed out that it might be ok to do that two weeks from now, but he just had this procedure on Mon.! He is supposed to wear it from morning until bedtime - the instructions don't say anything about being creative after a shower, argghhh! DD is doing ok - started not feeling well yesterday, I had a Z-Pak that we got from the primary care for the trip to Europe, so I put her on that - she is a bit better today, but she left the house this morning at 5:00 a.m., didn't get home until 9:30 p.m., she is working long hours, so I am a bit nervous. She has to do fish prep tomorrow (kind of like cooking for dolphins!)starting at 6:00 a.m., so she has to sleep fast!
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DH is taking me out for dinner tonight to celebrate my birthday. Only one place in town that really does a good job with fish so that is probably where we will go. I don't do fish at home since he doesn't care for it.
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Happy Birthday Chabba!
Special, i know what you mean about men with "no experience" with recovery compliance. My DH was always like that until he had a heart event about seven years ago. He is much more compliant these days.....
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Happy birthday chabba, have a great day!
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Happy birthday, Chabba! Had to write your name numerous times because my Kindle Fire kept changing it.
Today it decided to recognize the laundromat's WiFi. Our last laundry event here in Park Rapids. Tues. We'll travel north to Grand Marais where I'll get together with a bc friend I met here on bc.org in 2009 when we were undergoing bmx w/immediate recon. She lives in Thunder Bay.
(This darned kindle keeps changing my spelling!)
At the camper the slow cooker is on duty cooking beef short ribs. There was ONE recipe for beef ribs in my slow cooker recipe book and I'm loosely following it. 30 min. at 450 degrees in oven with sauce of bbcue sauce, preserves, and soy sauce mixture. I used rhubarb jam. Then hours on low in cooker.
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Carole, do you brown the ribs before putting in the crock pot? I've got a couple recipes for short ribs - one of 'em I've made a gazillion times, the other I've yet to try.
Maybe this weekend, who knows. Chabba, Happy Birthday!!
SpecialK - I totally understand about your husband. My hubby had hernia surgery in his early 40's. 3 DAYS after the surgery he was out digging post holes and couldn't understand why he was tired.
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Happy Birthday Chabba!
Lacey- That BLT sounded heavenly!
Special K- I hope your DD and DH feel better.
Thank you all for your kind words for DS starting school. He did great! The one who was the most nervous was my DH, which was kind of funny. He is very happy that I am bringing my neighbors son to school each morning now that the first day is over. It's his best friend. My neighbor drops her kids off here a little after 7 and we leave by 7:45 for me to be the bus driver in the mini van!! Kind of funny.
I am getting ready for our next camping adventure this weekend. We leave late day tomorrow through Monday. We have about the weirdest menu ever! Dh and I sat down last night to plan food. I did a pulled pork in the crock pot today to bring with us. We are having baked stuffed haddock one night and we will have corned beef dinner another in the crock pot....so random!! But what the hey?
Tonight is chicken cor don bleu with scalloped potatoes and zucchini. I need to clean up from the cooking I have done so I can do some more. We made muffins this afternoon too. It will be all be worth it when I get to relax this weekend and watch the boys run with thier friends.
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Happy Birthday Chabba!
For all you chickpea lovers, if you're not purists, here's a recipe for spicy chickpea "popcorn"
Rinse and pat or shake off extra water from a 15 oz can of chickpeas. On a rimmed baking sheet toss with 1 Tbsp olive oil and1/2 tsp crushed red pepper flakes. Bake at 400 degrees F until golden brown and crisp, about 40-45 minutes.
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OMG bedo, the chick pea popcorn sounds really great. And one could play around with the 'seasoning'. I'm wondering, are they hard right through. I promised my dentist years ago I wouldn't eat any more popcorn as I kept chewing on the hard bits and broke a few molars.
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Thank you all for the Birthday wishes. So far it has been a good day. Enjoyed cooking lunch as the Senior Center and then sat down and enjoyed eating with a couple of friends. Husband plans to take me out to dinner later.
At the moment though I'm in tears. A year ago right now my Brother called to wish me Happy Birthday. We both knew we were also saying a last good bye. He died at 11 am on the 30th. I HATE CANCER!!!! His was a particularly nasty and aggressive one that took 2 months from first sign to date of death.
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((((chabba))))
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Happy birthday.... and hugs....Chabba.
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Happy Birthday Chabba! Hope dinner was wonderful and a special occassion.
Today we bought a bushel of corn. Let's just say this is a lot of corn! For dinner I made, corn chowder with chicken stock. Delicious. We have begun to process the rest of the corn to freeze for baked corn for Thanksgiving and the rest of the winter. Also bought three flats of tomatoes and we will start our annual roasted tomato sauce fest tomorrow. Sometime in the cracks, I will get some actual billable hours.
*susan*
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Oh, I'm so very sorry for the painful loss of your brother, Chabba. I hope you are able to enjoy your birthday dinner despite this concurrent sad family event.
Laurie, your weekend menu sounds wonderful. Your cooking energy always amazes me!
Back in NH and not thrilled with the weather (cool and spitting)nor the forecast (thunderstorms feature in it), since Sat nite we have our Labor Day beach potluck dinner and party. DH serves as the party DJ ....and I am really hoping for clear skies since the party is at the beach! He loves this gig!
Tonight we grilled a sirloin steak and a potpourri of vegetables. Still using up some delicious tomatoes so made a caprese salad over some delightful red leaf lettuce I picked up today. My basil plants here are so much better than the paltry ones at home, that it was great to return to them......
It's lovely for DS1 to go to school with his best friend....that is often a strategy I encouraged parents to employ to assure their children's comfort. HaHaHaHa...Laurie the bus driver! Sweet! No more late weekday nights for you!
Have a great camping trip!
Susan, you are amazing. Your mom would be so proud to see you keep up the early legacy!0 -
Visited my dad today for his 87th birthday (actually on Saturday). Took him to lunch and made him a key lime pie (one of his faves) instead of cake for his birthday. It was a good day.
Because of a large lunch, dinner was just grilled cheese on rye and the last of the new potatoes made into a potato salad. I have half of the potato bed left to dig, but it will have to wait till the weather gets cooler. It was 100 here today.
I think tomorrow it's going to be baby back ribs with huli huli sauce. I'll repeat the pressure cooker/grill method. Definitely no ovens on here for the next few days.0 -
Oh Chabba, I'm sorry
Marple, that's a great idea to try different seasonings! I like them because they have protein. No, they're not hard all the way through so you won't get kernels. It takes me a bit longer than 45 min because I have a bad habit of never preheating, and I have a 'baby' stove.
I'm too embarrassed to say what I had for dinner besides chickpeas, but I love reading what everyone else is making.
Susan, my very favorite soup in the world is Southwestern corn chowder from the Moosewood low fat cookbook. It's made with sweet potatoes, and although you can make it with frozen corn, it is so delicious with fresh corn.
It's time to make lasagnas and dump all the remaining garden vegetables into them and freeze them.
6 more weeks and I'm headed off to the tundra with polar bears and northern lights. I might be going further north than Nome this time. That's OK, I've been to Barrow, which is the northernmost settlement on the continent. Will definately be making lots of soups and stews, lots of split pea soup.
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Happy Birthday and hugs to Chabba. Bedo, why are you headed North? Lacie, hope your beach potluck is good. Nance, Happy Bday to your Dad, key lime pie sounds great..Susan, a bushel is REALLY a lot of corn! LOL. Much love to all, especially those I didn't mention by name!
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Moon, I work up there sometimes. I want to be more in control of my schedule now, and right now I'm am not ready to commit to another full time job which will end only if I quit or get laid off. The pay is good and I like the Arctic for short periods. I'll be there for 3-4 months.
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During the winter? Brave girl!
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My friend met with her BC team yesterday. As I'm sure you all remember, it was more than a bit overwhelming. She has IDC. Tumor is less than 2 cm, ER/PR+, HER2-, grade 1. She won't know the stage until after they do the SNB. I spent quite a bit of time on the phone with her last night. I think it helped ease her mind some. I told her that as far as BC is concerned, what she's been told so far is relatively good news. As a near 20 year survivor, I've talked to so many woman just starting out on this journey. Something I'm always willing to do. It's just so much harder when you know and love the person going through it.
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Hauntie, you're a good friend. Several friends (long term survivors like yourself) reached out to me when I was diagnosed and I was ever so grateful. I have tried to do the same.
Tonight will be shish-ka-bob with ribeye, chicken thighs and garlic sausage, along with some of the never ending vegetables from the garden. Tomorrow are the baby backs.
Picked 10 cukes yesterday so may try some refrigerator pickles. But first I have to make room in the refrigerator!0 -
Gardengumby, the 30 min. in the 450 degree oven is to brown the beef ribs. I don't have a conventional oven in our camper but the microwave oven is also a convection oven so I preheated it to 450 and cooked the ribs for 30 min. I finished them in the crock pot and they were very tasty. The crockpot is not an acceptable substitute for an oven but it's handy when we're doing our rv summers. I do like the crockpot for cooking beans to freeze in portions for use in recipes.
Drawing a blank about dinner tonight. We're playing golf at 3:30. Maybe we'll have Mexican at the Mexican restaurant in Park Rapids. We've never tried it but have heard good things about it.
The good news is that the weather has turned nice again. The door and windows are open and the a/c is off.
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I have the camper all packed up and ready to go. I am going to pick up DS1 from school shortly and then we just have to wait for DH to get out of work and we will be on our way! I hope everyone has a great weekend.
Also, in case anyone missed it people are trying to do a card shower for Michelle. I sent my card out, if anyone wants her address pm me or TifJ for the address.
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I hope everyone has a nice long weekend, and enjoys their plans. DH will be taking it easy - he has struggled a bit with working Wed to today - a bit painful. DD is not feeling great, but does not seem to have descended into full-fledged illness since taking the Z-pak. She has her dive test today to the bottom of the dolphin pool - not sure how that will go but it has been put off and has to be done. I am glad she has the next two days off to rest a bit. Compounding her long hours (they ran out of otter food and she had to add 3 more hours to her 10-hour day to go to the zoo and get some) is a break-up with her boyfriend of two years. I am not unhappy about this because I never liked him, and honestly I don't think she is all that surprised either as he finally showed his true colors - y'all can guess how... but it is just added angst, and she is mad that she stayed with him as long as she did. As more experienced adults DH and I knew this day would come, but some lessons have to be learned the hard way, right?
A belated Happy Birthday to Chabba and Auntie's dad!
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Breaking up is no fun, even if it's for the better.
How did her dive go?
I've been vacuuming, which gives me the time to think about dinner.
For awhile I thought I was going to have to rent a snow blower to deal with the dog hair. The dogs are *S*H*E*D*D*I*N*G.
Eric
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eric - I think she was pleasantly surprised that the dive went perfectly. The only thing she did not achieve 100% on was her underwater swim. None of the interns (I think there are 8 or 9) did any better than she did though - 2 lengths of the pool without a breath is tough. Plus, she was doing this after her shift, on the last day of her 5 day in a row week - she put in 55 hours at that point, so she was a little tired! In some ways, I think she is relieved to be done with the BF - that relationship was stressful under the best of circumstances, as he is a Navy SEAL. Unfortunately, she has some things of his that need to be given to his mom, and there is some drama surrounding that - she just has not had time (or frankly, cared) and she is receiving some pressure. She also sold a boat and there are some issues with paperwork, because it is being titled in a different state that originally, so she is also dealing with pressure from the buyer. She is learning a bit about life as a "grown-up" right now!
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