So...whats for dinner?
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The ham is almost finished. I sent my mother home with a bunch. We have been very good about making sandwiches. On Friday, I cut the meat off the bone, vacuum sealed some of the meat, tucked the bone into a bag and headed North for a Tech Support visit with my mother. Friday night we met some folks for pizza at the new Mountain Fire pizza kitchen. They have built a wood-fired oven in the middle of the store, and you know, the results were not bad! Saturday my mother created a split pea soup with that bone which was delicious. Last night Mr. 02143 really wanted Mexican so we headed to Medford, of all places, for a satisfying meal.
Tonight I am feeding the kids would have been away on vacation for a few days. I have absolutely NO idea what we will eat. And then Monday we are headed to the Cape for three nights. I am responsible for cooking each night, and creating the menu for one. My friend L really wants leg of lamb for my night, so I am gathering all the needed spices for a lamb shawarma. Plus I have to carry a scale, food processor, knives, etc since her kitchen has minimal tools available. My little car will be very full!
Happy Birthday Bedo. Hope you enjoy your day.....
*susan*
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Happy birthday bedo! Hope you have gotten your beauty sleep.
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Holy Moly Susan! Your schedule is , um, FULL! WOW. Hope it all goes as planned.
Happy Birthday Bedo! Enjoy your day.
I had our neighborhood Round Robin yesterday. 26 people. Had pulled pork, roast beef slices And turkey slices. With a cheese tray. And rolls. Spinach salad with raspberry and mushrooms. Along with horseradish sauce and onion jam. Not too mention corn and potato casserole. Could not have done it without my DH. The weather made my knees so painful last nite he had to help out a lot. Oh. We only had to hide one box of misc. Stuff! So for the first time in 3 years my house had a real cleaning. LOL.
Much love to all.
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Moon.....one box! I'm impressed with that, we had probably four before DS2 and crew arrived. Now the challenge is finding things that the grands transported to new resting places, as well as purging from those four boxes rather than just putting stuff back! Glad your gathering went well, and that you got help. I know what you mean about this cold damp weather being brutal on the joints!
HB Bedo! Hope your daughter can find her way to ALaska so you can be together next month.
Just finished having tea with one of my favorite work colleagues. I made meyer lemon muffins which were really tasty. Now I need to find someone to eat the last fourteen of them!
Susan, have a wonderful trip to the Cape. Your friends are wise with their selection of house guests!
About to head out for a walk before the rains start. It is really cold (yesterday was almost like Spring in comparison), but I find that my outdoor walks are more rigorous (and interesting) than my treadmilling.
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lacy I had to laugh when you said spring like! LOL. Same here. It got all the way up to 30 degrees. We were seeing people getting the carts back to the store wearing short sleeves, no hats, open jackets. LOL its supposed to get below 0 tonight. What a swing in temps. But we enjoy when its warm. You know like 25-30..... LOL And, yes, that box is not coming in til I go through and trash stuff. Just didn't have the time to do it before the dinner. Much love to all.
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Thank you all for the Birthday Wishes!
I will "try" to take a picture of me in the rain today and put it on here to commemorate the day!
It's time to go to Tie Your Yarn into Big Knots Class.
Susan,avert your eyes....
Last night I threw everything in pot without a recipe. Cut up cabbage, potatoes, onion, garlic carrot, vegetable broth, and then... don't look Susan, I decided it needed more flavor, so I dumped in a big can of drained salmon and added salt and pepper. I ate two bowls and am saving the rest. I was hungry. I am beginning to understand the frontier woman mentality
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Bedo,
Not averting my eyes.... that sounds pretty good to me! A bunch of nice raw ingredients turned into a soup. What could be wrong with that? Enjoy your day.
*susan*
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Bedo - Belated happy birthday. I just love reading your posts. Any chance you are ever coming to Texas?
I think tonight is sub sandwiches on the loaf of frozen French bread I did not use for French toast. That should be easy. I have the homemade (kinda) ingred. for Italian dressing a la Good Seasons. I think a bit of olive oil and it should be good on them. Bought ham in the deli and have tons of cheese left from Christmas.
Grocery shopping today after church. Got my obligatory black eyed peas for New Years Day.
Monica - I know about the bags not coming back in. We cleaned out 3 black trash bags of Goodwill stuff out of DD's room and that is just a start.
Well, I talked DH out of car shopping. DD's Mazda 3 was OK but really too low for me to see out of well. Taking my Equinox in next week to get one of the glitches worked on (HeeHee dealer sent us a Christmas card with a coupon). I figure I can put some money in it and get some more miles. Sooner or later we will have to buy something new but maybe not for another year or 2. It is reliable; no prob. with that.
Soup sounds good too. Cold front blew through this am. Now 33 where it was 60 yesterday. Misty.
I discovered that I had King Arthur flour's newsletter sent to one of DH's email accounts. Had fun clearing them off, that is the ones he had not trashed already.
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Bedo - hope you're having a great B-day today.
Lacey - a neighbor brought me bunch of Meyer lemons. Would you mind posting the Lemon Muffin recipe?
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http://gastronomyblog.com/2012/01/20/meyer-lemon-m...
Minus, I just googled meyer lemon muffins and above is the blog that had the easiest recipe. There was another interesting looking one that included ricotta cheese, but last night I was not up for heading to the store for that or for whole milk to make that! Also, I used skim milk for the required cup of milk and they came out just fine.
Really tasty little muffins....Thanks Gastronomer....and enjoy, Minus!
We have been trying to use up (too) many of the foods in our freezer (just from our side by side, not a real stand alone freezer), so DH found a pork tenderloin, which he noticed had been in there since 2009!
I really thought that it would start looking like cardboard while being thawed...and he would realize we shouldn't eat it......but not a all....and I got a kick out of DH taking ownership of this litte piece of meat offering to marinate it while I was busy in another part of the house. Go DH!! Then as the Pats finished their game, he stood in the pouring rain grilling it. I was still suspect. But it turned out to be just fine....not even a bit of freezer burn! So we rounded out the meal with brussells sprouts and a romaine salad with a bit of blue cheese and vinagrette, and a really good baggette from a bakery on the Cape named Pain D'Avignon, (Hyannis, Susan)which I'd picked up in a local shop. Am eager to get it out of the house so I can go back to not eating bread with dinner...but boy it was tasty with a great texture.
So after all that, we now have a little bit of space in our freezer!
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Me, the ferry, my yellow rain slicker a dark 4:40pm and a Happy New Years to all! Sorry about the size, it took my freaking forever to get this off my phone. Snacks for dinner with my knitting/crocheting group. Oink! Oink! So glad everyone had happy Holidays! Be back next weekend. Work is "wicked" busy,for all you new Englanders.
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Eric and Bedo love the pictures. It is nice to put a face to who we are talking with.
We are also all fooded out! DD and I went to the movies last evening and indulged in the popcorn (the only reason for going to the movies) so later last night did a chef salad, still using up the leftover ham. Need to go through the refridge and calculate what is useful in there and try to pull into a meal.
I agree that the holidays are exhausting..... one more week with the daughter home, then I can get things back to normal and try to start a process of packing things to go to the Carolina home.
I will now head to the kitchen and create a soup, using everything I can find in that fridge.
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I have packed up my entire [or so it seems] pantry. All the food goes into boxes, and then I can start on the hardware, such as a food processor, sheet pans, knives, cutting boards, microplane, the essentials of life! I am already totally exhausted. We have decided to head to the Cape in the larger car. Not as much fun to drive, gas mileage isn't as good, but it will have the room for all our bedding and food stuffs. Since I won't be driving, maybe I can catch a nap. Our trip agenda includes discussing WHERE we want to go on a holiday. I am talking over an ocean kind of trip to somewhere new. So maybe the nap will have to be delayed.
*susan*
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Hello all - I have missed you and just spent some time catching up on the posts! I have yet another friend who is newly diagnosed - 35, she is single, and TN - I hate this disease. I have been accompanying her to appts. - mammo/US/MRI, biopsy, 2 surgical consults, an onc consult, and a bone scan and CT scan. Add in the normal holiday stuff and son visit, and I feel like I am spinning my wheels - but I am finally making some progress getting caught up on things. My friend's treatment plan is coming into place so that is good. I also have to go up to Washington, D.C. for the day next week to have my vaccine trial blood work done. In the middle of all this my DH and I have decided to try the Virgin Diet - not to become virgins again - that ship has definitely sailed, lol! But to try to identify any food sensitivities - have any of you heard of it, or tried it? It is an elimination diet, but it is pretty spartan, so this should be interesting. I have been trying to eat all of the fresh stuff so we can start on 1/1/14. I thought I would post my trees, a little late but that seems to be the theme this year for us - yes, trees - 4 of them! The first one is outside on the lanai, and is a new one this year, all metallic and with palm trees, starfish, and turtles. The second one is a military/Americana tree with ornaments from military bases, and White House ornaments, and is all red, white and blue. The third one is the kid's tree with all of the ornaments they made as kids or received as package toppers from their grandparents, and the last one is the big tree in the living room.
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Sk, nice!
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auntie - thanks! I had to laugh when DH suggested a new 4th tree for outside - he supports my tree obsession!
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SK neat! I love the kid on the most though. I am sorry about your friend. Cancer really does suck!
LOL We used to have 4 trees too. One in each bedroom and the big one in the living room. The kids decorated them as they wished. The big one is the one in my previous pics. I just donated the small trees earlier this year to get them out of the house. No one wanted them here. LOL.
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So....this cold had a second round to it. I now have no voice but am starting to feel better today, not dragging as much. Imagine dealing with 2 children with no voice? I have started clapping to get their attention. Today I was upstairs folding laundry and they were calling for me- DS1 got panicked and said I left them. I started clapping my hands and they found me. Funny stuff. Also, because I am whispering they are too when they talk to me.
Last night was a fend for yourself night- I had the last of the left over turkey and some cheese and rice. Tonight I will make Debbie's Belgian Chicken.
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SK, love all your trees! Don't love that your friend was diagnosed with this damn disease! Do love that you could support her through all those initial appts., tests, etc.
Laurie, I hope you get your voice back soon! Isn't it just so interesting how kids adapt to their environment and follow their role models for communication! That response whispering is so sweet. Maybe some day in the future if the kids are super loud and you need some peace and quiet, you could initiate a whisper day! LOL....
This morning I had a follow up appt with the foot doc to make sure my new orthotic was working well....so, since I was up and out decided to head to the Mall to make an exchange, spent 30 minutes trying to find a parking space (ugh!) then three hours trying on clothes that were on sale for very good prices....so I bought a few smaller sized slacks (yay!). By the way, does anyone actually prefer the newer outdoor "lifestyle shopping centers" over the mall? I have to say, walking in a toasty mall is definitely my preference.
After my shopping excursion, DH and I headed to the gym to attend a stretching class we went to last week. I also did most of my work out regimen (having been motivated after trying on clothes!), which I really have needed after all the holiday food. Felt good to get moving....it seems more serious when I do it at the gym, even tho I've made it into our basement exercise area daily to prevent the balloon factor these past weeks.
On the drive home, we stopped to pick up some fish and the only thing that appealed in the local market's fish case was shrimp. So I made up a shrimp stir fry with lots of veggies and added some brown rice pasta to it to make it qualify as a meal for DH. Accompanied by my easy cuke salad. By the time I sat down to eat, I was ready to fall asleep. I had forgotten that my shopping stamina was definitely impacted by my treatment....or maybe just my advancing age. I may actually hit the bed at a decent hour tonight.
Susan, I am picturing an image my DH often invokes when I pack (almost;) to that degree.....just get a trailor hitch and connect it to the house! Have a great time! I'm interested in what you come up with for your holiday trip.....
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I think it was Moon that mentioned spring. It's almost that way here (probably much different than where Bedo is working)...I was in a T-shirt, long pants and barefoot all day while working in the back yard.
Sharon and DD were skiing yesterday. It's a weird place. In 2 hours driving time, one can go from 70F to ski area. I cooked a chuck roast in the dutch oven (the one in my avatar). It was the usual process, except I used the dutch oven in the oven at 200F degrees and used some ale (1/2 pint for the roast, 1/2 pint for the cook!) for the braising liquid.
Laurie, I hope you get your voice back...although the whispering and clapping seems to be working. That is kind of neat that your boys are whispering back. It probably is nice having a quiet house.
Special K, I like the theme trees. I've always only had one tree, but it has it's share of ornaments that Sharon, DD and I all made in our "little kid days". Growing up, mom and dad would have some stuff on the tree that had been from various (usually) Marine bases from around the world.
Susan, sounds like you're loaded for bear...as the old expression goes... :-)
Bedo, You said the latest picture was taken at 4:30pm.....the totem pole picture taken during the daylight.......what time was that one taken?
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laurie - DH has also lost his voice and has some kind of cold-like thing going on. I know it has to be frustrating not to be able to speak when you have such little ones, but so cute that they are whispering back to you!
Thanks for the concern for my friend - I am just so sad that she is facing this at such a young age. She lost her mom to bi-lateral (two primaries) breast cancers and ovarian at a pretty young age - early 50's - we are assuming that she is at least BRCA1+ since it would explain a lot - her results are not back yet. The good news is that she is spending some time with her dad, brother (who are coming to her dx with their own emotional baggage) and step-mom in the Florida Keys, right on the water, so she is having fun and relaxing.
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SpecialK - so sorry for your friend. I hope she & her docs can develop a good treatment plan. I like the lanai tree best - but then I'm a sucker for anything to do with oceans & saltwater.
Hooray. MO agreed today so we've cancelled the last chemo in this batch that was scheduled this week. Just too many SEs. Now I will get 4 weeks off before starting back on Herceptin every 3 weeks and radiation. Or at least 4 weeks with no invasive procedures just 4 or 5 tests & scans. I might even get some taste buds back for awhile!! To celebrate I had a Kentucky Fried Chicken breast greasy Original recipe & coleslaw. For dessert I'm going to have egg nog with Jack Daniels. WooHoo!!
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Happy for you, Minus!
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Wow... busy thread
Just wanted to pop in and say here's to 2014 - may it be healthier and happier.
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A toast to friends and family...both present and absent.....
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and memories of those gone ahead and blessings to all. May 2014 bring in the best and only enough pain to recognize good times! Much love!
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Minus- Your post made me SMILE!!!!! Woo Hooo!!!!
Eric- I too raise my glass. To all of you and those who we love that have passed.
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Minus, a good way to start the year! Happy for you!
Just returned from a long frigid walk (20ish degrees with a breeze) towards the end of which we stopped into a local church which was hosting a jazz band, part of our town's New Year's entertainment activities.
Later we head to a newer farm-to-table style restaurant in our town, which has very nice dishes (obviously the farms are NOT from around these parts). Meeting our neighbors there, then possibly more concert venues after dinner since there are several musical shows until midnight.
New Year's best to all!
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I'm outside in my bare feet, cleaning the back yard. It's almost 70F..
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To my friends, a toast to a happy and healthy new year!
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