So...whats for dinner?
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We northerners would also be happy recipients of your excess degrees, Eric!
Although today it actually heated up to the mid-thirties....and obviously felt so warm that one of the middle school kids who walks past my house was sporting his basketball shorts and tee shirt on his way home. Tomorrow we expect the snow, sleet, and snow again mess....and fortunately this area is way more prepared than those poor folks in the south. Ice dams are always a concern tho, which can be a real problem for inner walls that are not meant to be waterfalls.Tonight I was in the mood for shrimp and the local store was having a sale on the jumbo ones, so we had a big ol shrimp cocktail for the "fresh" part of our dinner....then had leftover chicken roll ups with some leftover pasta for the clean out the fridge part of the dinner.
When we returned from the store today, the mailman delivered a box from my sister....chock full of boxes of her delicious cookies....tadales...linzer cookies....and almond thumb print cookies. Looks like her new stove is working well in the barn. I hope she decides to start a cookie making business since she is a great baker, and, as an artist, presents her products in lovely packaging. Am hoping she enjoys starting a few businesses out of "barny", where she and the dogs all seem quite happy. Hmmm, I think I'll go enjoy a couple of her cookies.....:)
Stay safe and warm everyone.
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Navajo tacos tonight. Very tasty! DSIL and DBIL came to town yesterday for a few days to stay with us. So happy to have them here.
Temps are finally warming up for us. It was near 30 today and next week promises 50's! I'm not sure I remember what those feel like. My sympathies to those in the path of the storms heading your way.
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Vivian, that sounds great! I don't have a food processer, so should I just mash the vegetables, or leave them plain. Thanks!
Inspired I will have to make those for people at work
Laurie, I'm sorry you're sick
rest upCarol, that sounds like an awesome trip! Food so different but tasty!
Debbie, no, the people who live on the Island are not nekkid, but when it snowed for the first time since I've been here yesterday I worried about them. If they have generators they only use them for about 2 hours a day in the evening for electricity. I guess they have wood burning stoves or something. They are a special kind of nut.
I'm sorry for anyone I missed!
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Bedo ,
I'm worse than my kids. I don't like finding onions, pepper , garlic in cooked foods so I process either before or after cooking it.
My boys will eat it, but then again when hungry they will just about anything, my daughter is a little like me.
If you like them chop them to your taste.
I promise I am working on it, I like some of those things raw on salad. And cooked / grilled red peppers with meats.
Hugggs
Vivian
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Bedo - I've made black beans with Seaside's recipe - very similar I think. I take some out and mash them but I cook them longer so most break down. I'm southern so soupy beans are the norm.
We had leftover chicken with apricots last night with one of WorldMarket's rice mixes. I need to go to Sprouts or Central Mkt and see if I can duplicate the ingred. Tonight is a 2 hour casserole - 1 hour to make sauce, 30 min sauce/hamburger and 30 min in oven. I think I'll make it this afternoon. The one from the DaVinici pkg. I imagine a good pasta sauce would substitute.
Sending warm hugs for everyone in the snow storms.
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Last night I made two dishes that used Greek yogurt as an ingredient. One, oven fried chicken. I removed the skin from 6 chicken thighs, bone in. Marinated them in a mixture of yogurt, Dijon mustard, minced garlic, s & p. Then tossed them in coating of wheat flour, paprika, dry thyme, s & p. Sprayed the coated pieces with olive oil spray. Cooked them on a rack over pan covered in alum. foil at 425 for almost an hour. They came out crispy and brown. Second dish, mashed potatoes. Peeled and diced some russet potatoes that had sprouted in the pantry. Cooked until tender in water, drained water and added some warm chicken broth. Mashed. Added some Greek yogurt and a couple of tablespoons of butter. The potatoes were fluffy and quite good.
Tonight I plan to cut the left-over chicken in pieces and also cut up some leftover pork medallions and make a stirfry with veggies (mushrooms, colored peppers, spinach) and leftover brown rice. I will sauté some onions in a separate skillet for dh. I will remove my portion and add some grated asiago cheese. DH will add the onions to the remainder and doctor his with soy sauce and sesame seed oil. I'll also make a salad with romaine, yellow cherry tomatoes, cucumber and an avocado that is at the perfect stage.
Today is a beautiful sunshiny day, quite cool in the 50's. It was in the 30's this morning when we drove to the gym. You should have heard the people grumbling about the cold weather! We southerners don't like wearing jackets because you have to put them on, take them off inside, and on and on!
Spring will be here before we know it and the pollen will drive everyone crazy with allergies.
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I hope everybody has electricity and is staying warm. Last night's stirfry wasn't wonderful but it was dinner! I gave dh a choice of steak, lamb, or pasta for our Valentine's Day dinner and he chose pasta.
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Happy Heart Day everyone!
We fared better with this latest storm since the temp rose and hours of rain followed the first seven inches of snow. Fortunately, DH had decided to snowblow before the rain, and now we are able to see ground where he cleared.....icy tho. Folks north and west of us got total snow....and more on the way this weekend. What a winter!
On the way home from the gym Wednesday, we stopped to shop for tonight's dinner. Bought lamb chops which we will marinate and probably broil since the grill is iced in. Will make winter squash, an interesting rice, and a greek salad. That should do it! We have my sister's heart linzer cookies for dessert.
Hope everyone is safe and warm.....but not too warm, Eric!
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Last night was stuffed shells. I bought a giant can of San marzano tomatoes at Costco and wow! What a great tomato sauce they made! I have an mo appointment today near Costco so I'm going to pick up a couple more cans. They're gigantic though, so I'm not sure where I'm going to store them. But at $3.99 a can, they're too good to pass up.
I hope I can make it to my appointment today, we're getting snow on top of snow. Winter be gone!
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impromptu visit to doc today....I've got an ear infection. I knew this was just a matter of time since I have been dealing with fluid in my ears for a month now, getting some vertigo off and on...but not an episode like you experienced Nance. She put me on an antibiotic and told me to take Claritin or zyrtec to dry up the fluid.
Drove home in a blizzard last night, very scary, unable see where the road was...no plows out yet. This stuff is really getting old!!
Tried a new recipe from my "chew" cookbook. Sweet potato pancake type things with a fried egg on top. I liked it a lot...hubby was just so-so, thought it needed a sauce on top. A mixture of grated sweet potato, apple, onion with 2 egg whites and 1/4 cup of flour (very simple) and fry like a pancake, add egg on top. I liked the combo of the sweet and savory together.
Today, roasting a turkey breast and will make turkey pot pie...bought an apple pie for desert for my DH. Wanted to get a store bought cheesecake, as that is his favorite, but they wanted an arm and a leg for a very small (maybe 3 serving) piece.
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That sounds very inventive Carrie
This is a three day weekend as it will be
Elizabeth Peratrovich Day in Alaska. I am not awake I'm drinking coffee
This weekend I will be making Vivian's soup. Maybe my neighbor has a blender or something If not I'll mash
Breakfast is hillbilly overnight oatmeal from the hillbilly housewife site
Oh, I'm the valentine. There are more men than women here, but they all seem to be in the bars :O
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Bedo - a good stiff drink does not do that much to keep you warm. Too bad hiking doctor does not have a brother.
Finally make the pasta dish with the one hour tomato sauce. DH thought it was wonderful but he was not the one in the kitchen cooking/washing the dishes from it. It called for cream cheese kinda dribbled on it and darn it it came out like ricotta. That the and the Kraft cheese mix and Parm on it were I think the clinchers. Will make it again but prob. with a very dressed up spaghetti sauce. One hour tomato sauce, 30 min simmer sauce/hamburger, 45 min. bake. I made the sauce mid afternoon. PTL for leftovers from it.
Think I will put chicken or pork roast in crockpot tomorrow. Have a day of chores lined up on the homefront. DH off and finally a decent weekend.
Carrie - hope ABT and Claritin does the trick.
Carole - have not welcomed you back from your adventures. Sounds like a wonderful time. I think you escaped the coldest LA had during your trip - right?
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Oh goodness - how can anybody be too warm? I watch Eric's weather jealously.
Bedo - of course I had to look up Elizabeth Peratrovich. Sounds like an interesting woman.
Had my first rads treatment yesterday and stopped to treat myself to a Denny's Grand Slam. It wasn't the way I remember, but I still don't have all my taste buds working. Today I'm going to have two broiled lobster tails (yes 2 just for me). Well they're only 4 oz and nothing like what you get on the East coast, but I'm going to pretend for Valentines.
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Minus, You go girl! Eat dem lobsters!
Eric, could you TRY not to wave your weather in front of us? LOL
LMG, that sounds like way too much work! LOL.
Bedo guess you'll have yo go to the bars to drag them gutless homw! LOL. Don't they always say you have better luck fishing if you go to where the fish are? LOL
Much love to all. Happy Valentine's day. If no one pampers you, pamper yourself!
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Don't forget that you can make fun of me when my shoes melt into the pavement.. :-)
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Whoa Bedo...sounds like you would be fish "bait" walking into one of those bars full of men. May be fun though soaking up all the attention, and watching them all fluff their feathers.
You know, Eric, the minute we hit a 90 degree day in the summer, we will be complaining about that too. Its the nature of the game.
Moon I like your last line about pampering ourselves, and no need to wait for a special Holiday to do it.
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It only made it to 87F degrees today. Most of the day was spent on cars....DD's car radio antenna installation and then the fried wire Trooper project.
Bedo, for what it's worth, I don't, and never did, like bars....too loud and too much smoke. Even if I had no alcohol at a bar, I'd have a head ache unless I showered before I went to bed.
Minus, how many rads? I like lobster. One of the local store keeps live ones and DD always goes over to them to say "hi". I'm not sure how she would react if one showed up on her plate. :-)
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Eric - thanks for asking. I only have to do 5 weeks (25 treatments) of rads at 50 gry. That's the good news since originally they were talking about 7-8 weeks.
My ex-husband & wife and his brother & sister and spouses & my niece and her DH invited me to join them for dinner tonight since 1/2 the bunch was here from out of town. I hadn't seen the those two couples since the last family wedding in 2009. We ended up at McCormick & Schmicks. Food was only OK, service not worth the price & the noise level was sky high. I have lunch with my ex & wife every couple of months & he pretty much calls every two weeks to make sure I'm doing OK. My SIL and I have season concert tickets together so we see each other every month for dinner & a show. It's great these exes are still friends since my only son lives in CA. I do have one brother but the only time I've seen him in the last 40 years was at the funerals for my Mother & Dad.
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Minus, hoping your rads is gentle for you. I'm happy for you that you have the supportive relationship of your ex and family. That says a lot about not just them, but you!
I made a really delish chicken/kale/farro soup today. I was wanting to make a variation of my mother's chicken veggie pastina soup, and decided to skip the pastina, added a few different spices, a lot of kale, and then the farro. Met my hopeful expectations for a light flavorful healthy soup. Combat to our latest snowstorm! And the snow just keeps coming.....
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lacey, yep. You guys are getting clobbered with snow. Both times this week they told us we had storms coming they went south of us. No snow this week. Which is a good thing. Stay safe and don't hurt yourself shoveling!
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Sharon is the faculty sponsor for her school's National Honor Society. Today the NHS students ran the 23 mile aid station for the IMS Marathon. I helped. All went well.
I don't know what to do for dinner tonight. It may be one of those fend for ourselves nights.... :-)
Minus, Sharon's radiation side effects were minimal...somewhat itchy, dry, tanned looking skin at the treatment site was about it. They were minor enough that she accepted a full time teaching position 3 days after the last of, I think, 33 zaps. I hope your SEs are as minor..or better yet, even less.
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Simple Sunday supper tonight, eye of round roast beef, potatoes with garlic butter and parsley and roasted asparagus.
My ailment of the week is sciatica pain. Completely out of the blue, never experienced by me before. I feel like I'm falling apart! Never had back issues in my life until this winter. Sigh! Ok, I'm done whining, I know we're all dealing with something.
Hope all of you in the path of storms stay safe and warm.
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Oh Nance - I'm so jealous. I tried to buy an eye of the round on Friday and the smallest one was HUGE. I've never seen any so big. With just me, I'll have to look for a smaller one and I'll still freeze half. Sorry about the sciatica. A little whining is OK - sort of like it's OK to cry once in awhile
Eric - thanks for the rads wishes. I hope I can be as strong & brave as Sharon. I REALLY want to plan a trip to some kind of moving water to rejuvenate my soul & senses when this is over the end of April.
Tomorrow a group from my neighborhood is all going out for Prime Rib lunch. Yum.
Laurie - hope you and the boys are OK.
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Minus, definitely take the trip. You deserve it.
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Oh Nance, I do hope your sciatica resolves soon. I too hate this ailment du jour phase of "post cancer" life! I wonder if you used a foam roller on back and leg if it might resolve some of the muscle issues that impact the pain. Caveat....my son is the ortho....not me!
But my PT guy got me using the foam roller for general back tightness and shoulder issues last summer, and my back has been amazingly well for many months. It is easy to use, and almost fun!
Good luck! Healing thoughts with you.....We had leftovers from V-day night's dinner.....the heated up lamb chops were delish, as was the spiced squash. Made a new Greek salad to go with the "jump ups".
Our snow is very deep and pretty today. I give it two more days to get ugly given that our temps are expected to rise this week.
Monica, are you anywhere near those ice caves they featured on tonight's NBC news? Would be great to see!
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Minus, along with my well wishes as you start rads,I will mention that my rads was a relatively easy daily process....I made sure to lube up every evening (I went to rads sessions late every afternoon after work) with Aqua Phor (generic store brand...that stuff is pricey for basically, vaseline!), put on a loose t-shirt, and rested up for the next day. I didn't get to the sunburn level until the last two weeks, and with continued lube care, got back to "new normal" pretty fast. I am hoping that you fare as well..... Pace yourself so you don't get fatigued...tho I know that is easy to say...... I became exhausted at the end because my job was more exhausting than the rads. I also hope you have as caring an RO and group of techs that I had. That really helps!
And yes....plan the trip!
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Nancy, whining is absolutely allowed on this thread!
Minus, please do go on a trip to moving water. You definitely have earned it. I discovered two halves of eye of round beef in the freezer. I bought one at Sam's and cut it in two.
Today was so like a spring day. Sunny and warm, high in low 70's. DH declares that our winter is over. The ground is drying so that I'm hoping to play golf on Wed. I haven't played since Dec.
Yesterday I simmered a small fryer and 10 chicken thighs, all skin on, with onions, carrots and celery to make a chicken stock for chicken and dumplings. I strained the stock and deboned the chicken and refrigerated both in separate containers..
Today I removed the fat from the stock. And made the dumplings. The recipe is 3 cups flour, 3/4 tsp. baking soda, 3/4 tsp. salt, 4 1/2 T. shortening or butter (I used butter), 1 cup milk. Mix the dry ingredients, cut in the butter, add the milk. Mix and knead into a ball. Cover with plastic and let rest at least 30 min. Divide into quarters. Roll out very thin. Cut into strips and then cut strips into squarish shapes. Lay on parchment paper or cotton cloths until all the dumplings are made.
Combine the chicken meat and stock and heat to bubbling stage. Drop in the dumplings one at a time and simmer until the dumplings are cooked. You can make the dish richer with cream or half & half and extra butter.
My dumplings had a lot of creamy white sauce from the flour that cooked off the dumplings, plus I added about half a cup of half & half. My BIL (and a lot of other Louisiana folks) likes his dumplings over white rice so saucy dumplings is good for that. I forgot to say that I took the big pot of chicken and dumplings to my mother's house for noon dinner. Yesterday was my niece Rebecca's birthday so we had an ice cream cake, her favorite, for dessert. I bought the cake at Walmart and it was good.
I think these southern style dumplings are similar to old-fashioned home-made noodles or "slicks."
My mother's MS relatives made a pot of dumplings like these and covered the top with a layer of dough and put the pot into a hot oven to brown the top crust.
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All of that sounds yummy! Wow! . My son and DIL painted our kitchen yesterday. My DH replaced the lights. ( My DIL threw away my old ones! ) LOL. MY DH would not have done out so she left him no choice! Yay! I've been asking for new ones for years. Of course today when DH tried to install them this am, the first one went in well. The second one was missing parts. So he took it back. Got a new one checked to make sure that part was in and brought it home. But when he tried putting it in, he noticed the bar to hold it up was broken. So yet another trip to the store. LOL. So he didn't get to the one above the sink yet. And I still have to put everything back on the cabindts. Sigh. He's gone for the week so I will have live without the light for this week. Whee. One of those "hole in the bucket" things.
Lacey I would take the 2 plus hour drive but there's now a line of cars parked more than aile down the highway before you get to the lakefront. Then it about a mile or two just to walk out there. I barely can walk around a grocery store! LOL. But the pics I have seen are beautiful. First time in many years the lake is frozen enough to get to them.
Much love.
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Carole, I love your detailed recipes! You make stock like I do (minus celery since I am allergic to that)....and then I learned from Ming Tsai (Simply Ming foodie show) yeterday that the best stock is made from just the bones (roasted bones even richer flavor), and that you can get chicken back bones (left from the boneless breasts) for practically nothing from the butcher at grocery store. Never before asked!
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Carole, thanks for the recipe! I'm a big fan of "slicks" like my great grandmother used to make. I've never been able to duplicate so I'm always looking for new recipes to try.
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