So...whats for dinner?

Garden, good luck with managing your retirement communications.  Your new house will probably be wonderful.  Thai and Mexican carry out sound good to me!

My lunch today at Crabby Shack in downtown Madisonville was excellent.  I had the crabcakes and they couldn't have been better.

No dinner for me tonight.  Maybe some grapes and a few almonds.

Nancy, please remind me when you're going to be in Biloxi and DH and I can drive over and have lunch with you and your dh.

corgette?  What's corgette?  zucchini??? never heard of it!!! 

BBC Good Food shows picture of zucchini. Courgette - use your best French pronunciation. I think it is used most anywhere but US but I'm not the expert. Susan is.

Leftover pork chops last night. Tonight is tacos. I have to make tacos for a crowd next weekend so trying out some different shells. DH won't care; he'll eat it. It is finally raining here. Expecting about 1-1.5 inches thru tomorrow. Last had that much rain the 1st week of June. Making the apple butter BBQ chicken tomorrow.

Carole - glad today was better than yesterday. Whew. You're more ready for fall/winter than I am.

Good news that Michelle was able to go to chemo. Ahh - the rejuvenation of Florida.

Just lost power for a bit. If it hoes out again it will be for a long time. Tv is rebooting. Sigh.

We literately cooked ourselves.

Did everyone stop cooking and eatimg?

GG - unfortunately, I did not stop eating, but since nobody was home all week I did stop cooking after the intern feeding frenzy.

Yeseterday was emotionally exhausting. No reason to relay the whole story, but the upshot is, my PET was clean. I napped for what felt like hours, and ended the day eating Rhode Island calamari at a local restaurant. Well, ended with an adult beverage. Today I took my sister out to lunch at a Turkish restaurant to celebrate her 51st birthday. I love this place's red lentil soup. I could have that every single day with just a bit of pita bread and be very happy.

Tonight, we will have our Indian leftovers.

*susan*

Susan, congrats

Joyce glad to hear Michelle is up for pizza. You all enjoy!

Nance bean soup sounds great.

I just had a hamburger. It was good. But boring.

Laurie glad you are all feeling better.

Much love.

This is a hit in my family. Potatos o'brien frozen 1 bag. 1 can creamed corn.

bacon or sausage. Veggie subs works too

combine and bake or nuke til potatos are done. Sounds bad but tastes great. You can up nutrition by including sweet potatos and it really is good. Cheap and easy. Leftovers just add milk or cream or soy milk to make soup. But I never have enough to make soup.

Dinner tonight was a slice of Americana. Fried chicken thighs, garden tomatoes just sliced, steamed green beans and baked local corn. The peach clafouti just came out of the oven [local peaches] and we will all enjoy a spoonful or two in a little bit. Mr. 02143 remarked "I love how we can move from India, to the deep South, to Greek [tomorrow] in three days without any jet lag."

Kids will return home from a wedding weekend late tonight. The four-legged, hairy housemates can't wait.

*susan*

Susan, I too enjoyed Mr 02143's clever comment. Peach clafouti??? Oh my....be still my heart and tummy!



According to DH who returned tonight, I am probably on for making that fancy dinner in May since there is some other conflict in Jan when the board next meets. May seems nice and far away.



Cooked most of today....roasted lots of stuff, tomatillos (will try a roasted salsa this time), onions, several colors of peppers, eggplant, and several sizes and colors of tomatoes. the whole effort was a bit haphazard, but I got it done. Then I made a corn, leek, red pepper, potato chowder, which tastes pretty good. I used the stock I made with the green tops of the leeks (drives me crazy to chuck those), and I added some chicken flavored "better than bouillon" for a bit more flavor. Looking forward to having it tomorrow!



Tonight we went to a casual town fundraiser (auction of painted Adirondak chairs)where the refreshments were great......huge fruit tray, delightful array of sandwiches on focaccio, (sp?)and plenty of tasty finger desserts.



I hope you had a great dinner with Michelle last night, Joyce!

Comfort food today, chicken with homemade noodles. I also tried something new for me. Although I make bagels regularly, I've never made pretzels, so I did. I love 'em. So pretty and very easy. I'm a little embarrassed to say that it took me a few minutes to figure out how to shape a pretzel. I know very well what one looks like but recreating it was something else until I Iooked at a picture. It was a duh moment to be sure. Now I'm looking for a good beer cheddar horseradish dipping sauce.



Dh has requested hand pies. He has discovered that he can eat one without doing too much damage to his diet. Fortunately I have pastry crust and fillings already made up in the freezer. It'll be easy to make him a happy man today.

Laurie,



It was Nancy and, yes, there's broth/stock in the recipe. I've made it several times sometimes adding things like browned sausage and chick peas, etc. Sometimes not. It is delicious!! The recipe is back on page 352 (just change the page number in the url) or do a search on auntienance with Minestrone as the subject and it should come up.



I noted that Nancy had said in a later post to not add the pasta to the soup but to cook it separately so it doesn't soak up all the broth in the leftovers!



Hope this helps!