So...whats for dinner?
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MinusTwo - sorry the latest chemo has you so down. Hmm - quite a cure with Tang and oysters. Praying for you sister.
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Hugs to you, Minus.... Isn't it amazing how you and so many of the folks on this thread valiantly manage personal/medical challenges while keeping the kitchen going in wonderful ways for all who rely on that!
Oh, the only high end store I know of beside Whole Foods is Wegmans but have no idea if they are moving beyond the northeast yet. We are just getting a few here. Hope it is a fun store for you...even if it doesn't qualify as a weekly "go to".
Today after the gym, I went directly to a shopping center for which I held lots of old gift cards, and used them (except for the ones that had already evaporated due to company policies for non-use;). But basically, I AM NOT REALLY A SHOPPER, especially at the specialty stores I cruised today. Makes me feel like I do not belong in our current consumer world...but at least I got rid of all those gift cards that had been weighing down my handbag for a year.
Tonight we had steak (DSIL sent us Omaha for our holiday gift). DH opened it yesterday and thought he was taking out filet mignon for tonight. Well, when I returned home today and saw what he was about to grill (bless his heart to shovel even more snow to get to the grill), it was clearly top sirloin. So we had that, brussels sprouts, garden salad, and a baguette from Whole Foods. I was tired and hungry and even ate bread tonight.
Last night I discovered some "solar system" fabric that I had intended to make into a tied quilt for DGS.
Oh dear....more pressure....but I managed to cut it, size it, and cut all the little edge strips that now just need to be knotted.....really easier that making taggies....but still requires time, which I am running out of before they arrive. While working on my creation, I managed to inflict a minor injury on myself, dropping my open rotary cutter on my foot.....it cut right through my thick sneaker, wool sock, and skin. I had no idea why it hurt so badly until I saw the blood coming through the sneaker. It seems better today.
Okay, I think I may try to get some shuteye, so I can be more productive and less accident prone tomorrow.
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OMG Lacey a sewing injury with a rotary cutter. Man-on-man must be a sharp one - don't sew so I must imagine the sharpness.
Bless my soul the 10 o'clock news was a boon. There ARE plans to bring Whole Foods to west Ft. Worth but not the space I wrote about earlier. This would be on the next road to the west of the CM/TJs/Sprouts road. Can you say maybe overdoing the specialty markets in one area. There is a new freeway feeding in from the south due to finish lat next year. This must be the impetus for putting ALL of them in about 5 miles of each other (estimating because I'm terrible at distances).
The frozen biscuits are done. Now to make some bacon and scramble some eggs. DH just called and he's on his way home.
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Luv & Lacey - thanks for the hugs & prayers.
Luv - here's a quote from the new stores opened this year in the ritzy areas in Houston. I haven't been to one yet. Fresh Market is mainly focused on perishables. They go heavy
on produce, meat, seafood, fresh deli and prepared foods, he said, with
minimal dry groceries. And wow - a Whole Foods.Lacey - What a freak accident. Take care of your wound.
Susan - do let us know how the Alaskan wild smoked salmon works out.
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OO Minus Two. Just read your note. Yes, news blurb from August says 2 stores to open in Dallas in 2014/2015. Maybe they got a juicy deal on this new development. You might be on to something. At least we can eat groceries, not so much with books/clothes. LOL. Thanks for the tip. Will keep scouring the newspapers.
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Fresh Market makes Whole Foods seem affordable! When we were in Columbus GA last Spring, we had a choice between Winn Dixie [nasty story], Publix, and Fresh Market. The Publix wasn't all that bad, but we did one trip to the Fresh Market. It is a fairly new store in town, and the selection was actually fairly special. But, we could not afford that as a day-to-day store. We did find some nice olive oil, bread, vinegar, and fresh pasta. Since we still seem to own that house [don't get me started] I may have to make one more trip.
Lacey, I know exactly which kind of rotary cutter you have. Just got one this summer and man are they sharp! Hope that your foot heals quickly, and that you get these projects done before the grands arrive.
Minus, it will get better.... but you have to get to the other side. Sorry that you are having such a hard time with treatments right now.
Client meetings today so I have to actually leave the house. Since I won't get home until about 5:30, Mr. 02143 has requested that this be a pizza night. I didn't argue. If only we could get a great pizza!
*susan*
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Susan, I'm with ya on the "great pizza" issue. The best one I have had in years was imported by DH and DS2 last March from Brooklyn. Yum! Hope your work day scaling slushy mounds of snow is worthwhile.
More house prep going on here...the toddlers and co. arrive tomorrow!
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Oh.....and speaking of NY food, DH decided to send each of our transplanted relatives a whole salami and mustard from the revered Katz's deli in NYC (and famous for the scene in When Harry Met Sally). Well, the orders, which he had sent here for us to wrap and mail, kept getting screwed up, and Katz's kept sending more items, so we now have salami galore! Ha!
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Oh you should make a stromboli! What a festive, high-fat, treat that would be.
*susan*
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Oh well....back to the store to buy more food....seems that everyone that said they could not come to the family party is now coming. At least they let me know ahead of time instead of just showing up.
I'm still fighting off this cold that I caught just before Thanksgiving....I thought I licked it but now it seems to be coming back in the way of sinus infection and sore throat. Last night I thought it was going to be full blown again, but feel better this morning after some nightquil. Don't need this during the holidays with all the little ones around. It's a great testament to falling off my diet and exercise program. When I was religious about my diet and exercise I never got sick for two years...now this. Time for a New Year's resolution!
DGS's birthday is Friday...he wants to go to Outback for dinner...lol! Guess the McDonald days are long gone! He wanted a new ski jacket (Spyder of course) so I found one online that wasn't too over the top expensive.
Wishing everyone a happy season!
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Another attempt at cooking and eating more veggies. I fried a little bit of ham in butter with onion and fresh garlic. First time using fresh garlic! Then I boiled some noodles. I added one half of cabbage shredded to ham and onion and sprinkled with onion and garlic powder, tiny bit sugar, salt and pepper and I let that cook down while noodles cooking. Added about a teaspoon of wine vinegar to mixture and tossed in noodles when they were done. It wasn't bad....I read a bunch of recipes on how to fry cabbage and ran into the adding noodles along the way. I think this is a very old recipe. I have another half of cabbage head if anyone wants to share a recipe for cabbage.
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This is an excellent recipe for cabbage and noodles. I don't have buckwheat noodles (except for soba) and just use pappardelle. You could use wide egg noodles too. I don't expect it's very low cal. It's a company dish for sure.
http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/pizzoccheri-gratin
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So I'm feeling like crap today, as expected, but so I'm so inspired by Laurie that I managed to get a haircut, finish the holiday food shopping, make up two christmas cookie doughs and will fix dinner. Thankfully, the dinner will involve merely heating the costco chicken from yesterday, throwing together some stuffing and sauteeing some green beans with a little shallot. That's all I can manage. Right now I'm drinking a cup of ginger peach tea with some honey and going through a box of tissues. Right after cancer, they really need to find a cure for the common cold.
Boy do I love stromboli.
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thank you auntinance....sounds wonderful. I have always wanted to make something with pappardelle noodles!
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Hurray, Christmas dinner is at BIL's house. I only have to take an appetizer and side dish. I'll make twice baked potatoes for the side and smoked salmon dip with crackets and vegies as the appetizer. Hubby is smoking salmon today (we brined it last night). Distant family will get some for a late Xmas present, too.
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Ran into a lady in grocery today who bought 6 cartons 18 count eggs. Says she's making lots of pies with 6 eggs apiece. Whoo!
Anyone have a good hot chocolate recipe? I bought both heavy cream and 1/2-1/2 to make something special with it. I can get special stuff tomorrow in FW. DB sent 4 deep dish "Taste of Chicago" pizzas. I love him.
Susan - I couldn't afford to do reg. shopping in any of these spec. grocers but I do see many who seem to do just that. Our local is a chain out of East Texas but I really like what they do. Carole has Winn-Dixie in La. which is what we had b4 they left Texas.
The cabbage dish sounds good Nancy.
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Gg, are we related by any chance? I would be happy to qualify as "distant family" ;-)
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Hmm - anyone remember the Bobby Sherman song "Seattle" (Tacoma what the heck)? I'm feelin' a strong affinity, too, Nancy.
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Minus, so sorry that you're going through this misery and loss of quality of life to battle our hated disease. As Susan said, you have to "get to the other side."
Nancy, hope you get over your cold quickly.
I really like Fresh Market. I buy their chicken and meat. They have real butchers working behind the counter. They also have a good selections of veggies that are often not available at the supermarkets. Things like really fresh Swiss chard and different varieties of kale. They run specials every week. The artisan bread selection is always tempting and I walk very fast past the pastry case filled with sumptuous looking calorie laden tarts, and fancy dessert foods. Our store has a nice variety of wines. It's always very busy. A lot of people buy prepared food but I never have. .
Tonight's dinner was a shrimp dish made with mirlitons (a type of squash). Other ingredients were Italian sausage, onion, celery, garlic, seasoned breadcrumbs, grated romano pecarino, cracked red pepper, ground bay leaves. Mirlitons are available everywhere this time of year because so many people use them in seafood casseroles. You boil them whole until they're fork tender and then slip off the thin peeling. Slice in half, remove the seed and chop into pieces. We also had a wonderful green salad with home-made blue cheese vinaigrette.
Last night I made oven barbecued chicken by a very old recipe I learned from my mother's mother. She wasn't a good cook but someone shared this recipe with her and she made the chicken for our family a number of times. You melt a stick of butter in a roasting pan, add the juice of one lemon and empty bottled barbecue sauce into the mixture. Place the raw chicken in the sauce, cover and bake at 350 degrees until very tender. This was my first experience with barbecued chicken because barbecued meat wasn't something my family ate when I was growing up. Every now and then I get hungry for this version of barbecued chicken. DH enjoyed it, too. I cooked four chicken legs and we ate all but one thigh.
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Wishing Moon a speedy recovery. To be honest, I would love it if she let us know how she is doing. She is on my mind.
*susan*
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Susan: Moon has posted on some other threads and is doing well. I'm sure she'll get over here to visit w/us soon. BTW - thinking about you and your first Christmas w/o your Dad.
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Did manage to bake cookies today, rugelach and a cinnamon chocolate chip type called "sweet dreams“. These two are also Christmas "must haves." At least I can see my kitchen counter now that all the cookie stuff is put away.
Dinner tonight is chili. Not Texas chili. Quasi chili with ground beef and black beans chili. Maybe I'll be able to taste it, but I doubt it, although it will likely make my nose run more, if that's possible. Yay for lotion Puffs!
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I wanted to use flaked coconut instead of shredded on my cheesecake but of course I can't find it in my little town. Wish I'd known when I was at trader Joe's. They have a nice one. Anyway, I bought a fresh coconut. Dh will crack it for me and I'll flake it and toast it. I'd like to freeze the milk for a later use. Has anyone done that?
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Nance Laughing....thinking if you and your husband were ever stranded on an island, you could survive with the coconuts. Oh the places my brain goes...?
Had our company /Christmas party at the "Castle" Could not enjoy the luncheon as the smoke alarm went off and they could not get it to stop. Firemen arrived and also could not get it to stop.....2 hrs of this, with the organizers trying to keep the party going, and us not being able to hear anything being said. I did win 3rd place in the ugly sweater contest! LOL
Have not really cooked all week, got a kid coming in tonight and one tomorrow...let the fun begin.....oh my I may need a valium when this is all said and done.
Hope everyone is cooking up a storm and reaping the rewards of eating it all!
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Minus, thanks for the news that Moon is doing well.
Carrie, I'm sure you'll have a great time with your kids at home.
Nancy, you're a trooper to bake cookies when you don't feel well.
No cooking for me tonight. I had a good lunch at a health food store that has a lunch counter. Everything is made right there in a tiny little working space. I especially like their turkey salad and egg salad. I had the turkey salad today. It was delicious. They boil the turkeys.
DH and I are going to a Christmas concert tonight at 7 pm. We'll just eat a little something before we go and skip dinner.
The traffic was so bad today that I decided to stick close to home except for going to the supermarket until Christmas is over.
The temperature got up to 80 degrees and I played golf in summer clothes. We should be cooler for Christmas thanks to a front coming through.
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I made the "long trek" to Karl's Sausage Kitchen today. We used to mail order special bacon for Christmas, but Karl's sausage is EVEN better and almost $4 per lb less expensive. Plus it is a lovely local family. I also picked up some Weisswurst and their frozen pretzels and that was dinner.
Standing in line at Karl's, waiting for my bacon to be meticulously sliced, everyone was chatting with each other- the young woman who brings liverwurst back to her parents in Chicago since it reminds her of the old country, the older woman who was buying a selection of sausages for each of her children, the woman who had driven 4 hours to get her quarterly pork infusion. This sharing started with a simple comment I made to the woman behind the counter "I had to come to Karl's. It isn't Christmas without Karl's bacon." The whole line of people, about 25 turned and in unison all said "Yes!"
Put me in a festive mood.
The phone rang this afternoon, and I have yet another HUGE project with a green light. I am now booked by about 150% until June. I fear my time for cooking is what will be affected.
*susan*
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All was good at the Dr's office, except for the blood pressure...so I'm on lisinopril and will be rechecked in two weeks.
Eric
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Made the trek into FW today. Ortho who discharged me with "call if you need us". MO was his usual charming (not) self. Sent on my way after about 5 minutes with him, orders to get mammo in Jan (BS orders it anyway) and bone density b4 next visit.
I think I went to every grocery in FW. I went to 3 Albertsons but did end up with the buy1/get 1 Honeysuckle breasts then made a last stop closer to home to get ice cream on sale. Could have used it earlier - it felt like April about to storm weather b4 cold front blew thru. Expecting 100% chance of rain tomorrow.
Susan - I had to laugh about the sausage. I had similar encounter though diff in Central Mkt. Shopper asking me is chili sauce and cocktail sauce the same thing since she couldn't find the chili sauce. (Not sure why she was buying these things there and not at reg grocery) Anyway bottle was just turned backwards and she was so grateful. So on I went to bulk spices for makings of chai hot chocolate. Never bought bulk there but there was my new friend to guide me. OMG I bought green cardamom seeds for like $40 something a pound but of course I bought like a couple TBS for I think 75 cents. Also bought some of their house brand applewood bacon. They had multiple tasting spots and lots of staff in costume.
The cold snap *no ice* put most people in festive mood. Glad to be home out of the traffic.
Eric - I think most people don't escape without HB. My DH is tall, thin has job where he is walking, doing all day not a desk job and he is on Lisinopril/HCTZ.
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One of aromasin's great gifts was a move into Lisinopril. My blood pressure has lowered enough that I could probably stop or reduce, but I am reluctant to modify my regimen right now.
The smoked ham arrived via UPS today. Will cook it on Sunday for family dinner. We will be able to make meals from this for weeks, and I can send some home with my mother so she can too. Rye starter is doing its thing. Mom will get a loaf to take home with her as well.
*susan*
p.s. Eric, this is one drug that doesn't seem to have side effects. Pretty low impact. Hope you do well on it.
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The biggest side effect seems to be a cough. I was on enalapril for years and developed a cough out of the blue. I had to switch to a different drug. It's a common side effect of lisinopril too.
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