So...whats for dinner?
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carberry - hope your mom is hanging in and that you can get some concrete answers soon. It took an extra long time to Dx my brother - I think all that digestive/abdominal stuff is hard to pinpoint.
moon - sorry about the mag and kidney issues - next time choc cake comes your way you know what to do!
auntie - hot cross buns - yay! Childhood memories!
I am doing ok - did not have a good night but its not like I have anything critical to do today. Just had a shower from the waist down, sponge bath from the waist up - feel so much better! I cooked like a wild woman on Thurs night so there is much for everyone to eat - meatloaf, roast chicken, sour cream and dill potato salad, bean salad. Kept me busy and less likely to obsess about the surgery, and I don't have to worry about what everyone is eating!
DD is fishing - hope she is doing well - she could use the prize money!
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SpecialK I hope you are doing well and that your DD gets a prize. But if not you'll have fish! LOL Nothing is better for me than fresh caught salmon on the grill with butter and lemon. Yum. Or I suppose lake or brown trout isn't bad either. But i could do without smelt! LOL. And remember to give yourself permission yo relax. You NEED that time!
Carrie praying for you and your Mom.. and someone ones MIL. Forgive me I'm not sure I thought maybe Laurie or perhaps Lacey But God knows who I was praying for. LOL.
Oh. Brunch was breakfast for me. Biscuits and gravy with eggs. Yum. One of the things that got me thru chemo! My DH would go and get them and bring them to me when he was home on the weekends. I could taste them so that was nice. Nice that they still taste good too! LOL
Much love to all.
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moon - love, love, love biscuits and gravy! The tourney DD is fishing is catch and release, so no fish for dinner! She pretty much only fishes that way. Modern technology reigns in tournaments these days - they are issues a numbered poker chip and a tape measure. They land the fish, lay it on the ruler and put the poker chip next to the fish. They take a picture with a cell phone and throw the fish back. The results are tabulated ( this is a slam tournament - redfish, snook, sea trout) from the photos. Prizes for individual fish and for the slam.
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SpecialK, glad your surgery is over and you're doing ok. Let us know how your daughter fares in the tournament. Sounds like fun to me. I love fishing. DH does not.
I went out to lunch with four golf friends yesterday and had a delicious meal. Black drum (fish) served with rice and sautéed green beans. The meal came with a small Caesar salad and I do mean small! But it was good and all I needed. I wish I could cook fish to taste as delicious as that drum yesterday. It had a lemon butter sauce with a few capers. It had a dark crust so I know it was cooked on a hot grill.
DH and I are going out to dinner tonight at a restaurant I really like on the riverfront in Madisonville. It's located in a pretty old house and is elegant. I'll probably order fish again.
Today I went to Sam's and spent $250. You can spend SO much money saving money!
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Thank you all for the anniversary wishes. We had a nice dinner at Ruth's Chris...great food, great service and at the end of our meal, our waiter brought us a complimentary creme brulee to share and a card that said my dad had called and paid for our dinner! It was such a nice surprise and so thoughtful of him! I know he feels badly that I'm back in treatment. He took me to the hospital infusion center on the Saturdays after chemo and on the way home we always went to McDonald's for a chocolate shake. I'm lucky to have him! He is 76 years old and still works every day at the hospital where I am being treated. He has been there for 30 years and keeps my doctors in line. My surgeon told me she was scared of him! He is a also cancer survivor (lung) of 3 years.
SK - I'm glad you're doing OK after your surgery. It's very cool that your daughter fishes in tournaments!
Monica - hope you're feeling better.
Thinking of everyone who has loved ones with health concerns.
To combat the long & brutal WI winter doldrums, our office is having a chili cook-off and free throw contest this week! I'm making buffalo chili. My husband bought 10 lbs of ground buffalo~~~ummm...there are only 2 of us! Luckily, it is in 1 lb packages so I've been substituting it for ground beef in everything. I'm making 3 buffalo lasagnas tonight, one for my house, one for my dad and one for the freezer.
Hope everyone is having a good weekend! Gina
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Carole - DD did not win the fishing tourney but it was a beautiful day and they had fun. She won a hat and shirt in the raffle.
Gina - wow on the buffalo! Good luck on the cook-off! What a sweet dad you have.
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Gina, your sweet story about your dad warmed my heart.
SK, glad DD enjoyed what sounded like a really fun fishing tournament.
In NJ visiting DS2 and family....the grandkids are so cute and beyond active!! The live-in grandparents are away until tomorrow, so we are getting to spend OUR time with the kids. Took them for a long walk ( trying to keep true to my exercise regimen) in the neighborhood which is full of massive hills.......DGD, who is an eighteen month old force to be reckoned with, decided after a half mile that she wanted to get out of the stroller and WALK!!! She is such a peanut with so much energy she walked, ran and panted all the way down and then up the last hill before we finally made it home. Her 3 year old brother cleverly let me push him all the way.
We were supposed to go out for dinner but were all tired, so ordered Thai. Not the best Thai food, but I was starved, so it did the trick!
Carole, eager to hear how your dinner out was. Sounds like an elegant spot!
Moon, hope you are feeling better. Keeping you in my thoughts...
Nance, HOT CROSS BUNS??!!! Be still my heart.....and taste buds!!!
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Lacey, my birthday dinner turned out NOT to be the quiet elegant occasion I'd envisioned. The restaurant was so noisy that we had to lean forward and talk loud to carry on conversation. There was a large table next to us, 8 to 10 people, who were having a great time. I think they were from two large power yachts tied up on the riverfront. There were two other large groups, too. The food was good. I had a Blue Cheese salad that was delicious and a fish special, grouper, served on sautéed spinach and with lump crabmeat on the grouper. The four of us shared a bread pudding dessert.
I would go back to the restaurant for lunch but not for dinner.
I'm thumbing through my stacks of Cooking Light magazines and removing pages with recipes I might like to try. I have a box of plastic sleeves and a new looseleaf binder. I used to print out the recipes from the CL website but this should be less work.
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carole - that is what I do - with tabs for categories for entree, salad, etc. I also have recipes in it that I typed out and pasted onto cardstock. The whole family knows that if the house is on fire it has to be grabbed and saved, lol!
DD is on her way back to the Keys - miss her already but she had a fun time while she was here.
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We had grilled salmon, with roasted brussels sprouts, lima beans, and spinach-strawberry-walnut salad.
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Carole, I love grouper and that one sounds amazing! I get very irritated at loud groups in restaurants. I know I should be more tolerant but it just seems so rude to me.
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I don't like a place to be tomb quiet...because I like to talk while I'm eating. But I hate it when I have to shout to be heard.
I also have a notebook for recipes. Right now it's a 1 inch binder that is about half full..
We had my mom over for dinner...pork roast (store had boneless pork shoulder roast for $0.99 per pound...got 2 and put 1 in the freezer), green beans, sourdough rolls and a huge light green salad (mom takes Warfarin, so no spinach or other dark greens)... I thought of a banana split for dessert....Sharon thanked me for thinking and not making...:-).
Carrie...thinking of your mom....
Special...good to see you posting so soon.
Minus..that stinks that your taste buds are all messed up. I had to quite a bit of experimenting to find tastes that Sharon liked..
Moon..my mom had to take magnesium for awhile...she hated it...
Edited to add that the food was 'washed down' with a 95 Shilling ale.
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Sorry to hear that you got to be seated ext to the loud party. When we go out for an "important dinner", we often book thru Open Table and request a table where quiet conversation will be possible. So far it has worked pretty nicely. Big groups having lots of drinks just tend to forget there are others nearby. Glad your food was good.
We attended a one year olds' birthday party today. It was an amazingly funny and delightful time...ten adults, six adorable children, a sick birthday boy who nonetheless plowed thru the event impressively, from watching all the other kids racing around outside, to literally (!) attacking an entire half of his BD cake and doing whatever he wanted with it (lots of icing finger painting), to being scooped up and bathed right after....and then on to bed! Then the rest of the kids (age three and under) rode scooters and two wheeler trainer bikes down their hilly driveway and amazingly learned to watch and wait for each other to avoid any crashes. The weather was tolerable (clear and high 30's) and we all had a ball. I appreciate that DDIL and DS2 invited us to be with their close friends for this event. And for me it was especially meaningful since as a very young child, I lived in the town in which their friends now live. Sweet day for a grandparent.
We had planned to go out for dinner but by the time the kids got to bed we were all bushed....ordered pizza, I made a spinach salad, and we called it a night. Good thing I don't have a scale here....
We are really enjoying ourselves....leaving Tuesday AM. I'll be sharing your sentiment then, SpecialK.
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SpecialK keep on improving and not doing to much. I am glad you had fun with your DD.
Lacey sounds like you had fun too.
Eric glad your Mom came over.
Nance it is rude! LOL
Carol I have a binder with the cut out pages too. I wish I had more of my Mom's recipes.
Aunt Paula I envy the grilled salmon..yum.
Today I had an salsa omelet for breakfast. Then after DH left for a couple of weeks ate the leftovers from Friday. LOL He'll not make it home for a couple of weeks. It's refueling time (outage time) at the plant. 12 hours days 6 days a week. He's dreading it. He's feeling old. LOL. But he had done over 59 of them do he knows how bad it can get. I used to pack up the kids and go visit his folks and or mine for a couple of weeks when the kids were little. It was easier than being ignored. Because he would come exhausted. Eat and sleep and go back. So Intellectually I knew that's all he could do but emotionally it was hard. Without being there he could eat and sleep without trying to make other people happy. So his own apt is a blessing. Otherwise I'd have to get out of Dodge! LOL.
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HI everyone! I have been missing you all, tried to read most of post but I was about 20 pages back sorry if I miss anything important and forget someone.
I don't think Joyce would mind me saying that on FB she mentioned her mom had fallen down a flight of stairs and she has a broken neck and other life sustaining injuries, I have not heard anything since then. Joyce, I hope your mom is going to pull through this, Your mom and you are in my prayers. Sending lots of love and hugs your way!
Carrie- Prayers for your mom as well.
Laurie- Sorry that your MIL is not doing well, it must be so hard that you can't all be there for her. Times like that I would want all the love and support I could get. Prayers for your family.
SpecialK- Glad your are doing well since surgery. I love Salmon in fact had some tonight for dinner while out and it was so good.
Monica- Hope you start feeling better soon. My DH was just told he has Diabetes his glucose was 400 so they called in a prescription for him. I guess now I will have to change our eating habits. I might need some advice from you sometime.
Carole- Happy birthday! sorry I missed it. It is rude when people don't take into account there are other people around while dining. Sorry it wasn't a great dinner for you.
Lacey-Sounds like you had a wonderful time with the family, I miss that so much. My daughter lives so far away (Georgia)
tina- Your story also touched my heart. So sweet of your dad to pay for your dinner.
Nancy- I too agree so rude.
Eric- MMM on the banana split, well it is the thought that counts ha!
Minus- Thanks for thinking of me. Your in my thoughts too. I hope your SE are gentle on you and your doing well.
Welcome Aunt Paula your dinner sounds delish.
Bedo- Funny and not so funny thing, Is I saw your post was blocked and then noticed I blocked you! OMG how could I have done that without knowing about it?? CRAP! I must of hit block instead of submit.YIKES! I don't know but it really did upset me. Hope you are doing well I love reading your post and adventures.
Whew! I know I must be missing people and I'm sorry if I did, kind of impressed I remembered what I did. ha!
We went to dinner tonight because of a friends BD ( I hope we were not noisey) ha! DH and I shared a salmon stuffed with crab and shrimp with a hollandaise sauce it was so good and was wishing I had ordered my own so I had more. It has been so rainy and windy here, can't wait for summer!
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Debbie, so nice to hear from you and your responses are impressive lol! I do most of my posting on my phone which is challenging enough (damn you auto correct!) but nearly impossible to go back to see previous posts in order to comment. And no way I can remember, like Susan said, my brain is like a sieve sometimes.
You all are way better than I. I have hundreds of torn out pages and recipe clippings that I have collected for years as well as years worth of Cooks Illustrated, Cuisine and Cooks Country with sticky notes on the pages of recipes I use often. I've tried organizing them in different color accordion files but I can't even get them all in. All of these are stored in a large wicker chest. In the event of fire, it will be toast. In addition I have hundreds in a cookbook program on my computer. That one is backed up on a thumb drive at least. It's a disease with me.
Last night was barbecued ribs, baked beans and avocado salad. So summery. I'm not sure about tonight. It's supposed to be 70 degrees today, so maybe something on the grill again.
(((Joyce)))
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Welcome aunt paula....
Ditto on your impressively inclusive post, Debbie. You are so wonderful at that! So sorry to learn about Chuck's test results..... yet another challenge for you guys. Let us know how we can be helpful with recipes.
My recipe "organization" is closer to Nance's
, and I envy those of you with categorized binders.....now that I'm retired one would think I could get it in shape, but organization is not turning out to be one of my strong suits these days! I'll bet I have some wonderful recipes in that marass! Joyce, I hope things are looking better for your mom. (((Hugs))).
DDIL said she'll pick up fish for dinner, so I will probably make my favorite sautéed spinach/mushroom/onion bed for it and we'll be back to some healthier eating.
Thought of you and your world, Laurie, as DGD (18 mos) awoke last night with a slight fever after hanging out with the sick birthday boy yesterday. Just can't avoid these little kid germs and their yet fragile immune systems! She seems to be recovering well this morning, and now can't be slowed down! I admire my DDIL's mother who keeps up with this little one while DDIL works.
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On the subject of recipe organization - I am one of those crazy people who alphabetically organizes the spices, and has compartments with labels in the "junk" drawer. I could probably make money being a professional organizer and satisfy my OCD-ness as well! You should see my breast cancer binder! Here is a pic of it!
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My spices are alphabetized.....and the kitchen is well organized......if only the rest of the house (and life) were as well organized! :-)
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my spices are alphabetized. But i have to go through them and toss out the old ones. It's been a few years since I cleaned that out. Is one if the few cabinets I haven't cleaned in my kitchen. I promised myself to clean a cabinet or closet once a month till all were done. So i better get on it. Maybe even today. I need to DO something so I can say I did something this week. LOL
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Oh Special, wouldn't you just love to take a trip to Boston to start your organizing business!!
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lacey - yes!
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Special....my garage looks like...."an outhouse in distress". :-)
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Debbie - thanks for checking in. Sorry to hear Chuck's new issue but glad that you seem to be getting out sometimes.
Still missing Bedo. And missing Susan.
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Thank you all for the welcome!
We are having grilled burgers (I'm having mine without the bun), with leftover vegetables as the sides, and probably fruit.
SpecialK, do you make house calls? Because mine needs you! LOL
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Decided on asparagus quiche and a salad for dinner.
My "organization", or rather lack of . . .
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There's a hole in the bucket.....LOL
I did throw away quite a few old spices. If they were whole like star anise I kept them. Now I need a list to replace some of them. But referring to my first sentence. I sat in front of the stove to do the cabinet. And got suckered into cleaning the stove front. I thought it was clean til I saw it close up. Then as I was doing that the oven window was not good so I tried that. Which meant I opened the oven. Cleaned that inside window. Found out the drip is on the inside of the outer glass. So can't figure how to get that out. But noticed the grates of the oven were not good. So scrubbed those. Then common sense finally hit before I scrubbed the oven. I can turn on the self clean for that. But since I was in the corner by my oils, I realized there was the empty oil dispenser that I needed to clean before I could refill it. So spent time scrubbing the dried gummy oil off of that one. Then realized I had to re label them because the olive oil was a larger size than the last one I bought. Arrrggg. There's definitely a hole in my HEAD Never mind the bucket! LOL! !!! But I guess it does look much better. LOL
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Tonight we are having breakfast for dinner, I double this recipe and put it in a 9x13 baking dish. I like this because it is not eggy like a regular quiche can be. You can add green onions and mushrooms too but I leave them out.
SAUSAGE AND CHEESE IN A HASH BROWN CRUST
Ingredients
- 3 cups, shredded frozen hash browns thawed and drained
- 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) butter, melted
- 3 large eggs, beaten
- 1 cup half-and-half
- 1 1/2 pounds of breakfast sausage (crumbled and sauted) drained
- 1 small onion diced
- 2 cups of cheddar and jack cheese
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Directions
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
Gently press the drained hash browns between paper towels to dry them as best as possible. In a 9-inch pie plate
toss the hash browns with the melted butter into the plate. Press them
into the bottom and up the sides to form a crust. Bake for 20 to 25
minutes until golden brown and starting to crisp. saute sausage and onion together till sausage is browned and onion is soft- drain
Meanwhile, in a large mixing bowl, combine the remaining ingredients. When the hash brown crust is ready pour the egg mixture over it and return to the oven.
Lower the oven temperature to 350 degrees F and bake for about 30 minutes until the quiche is light golden brown on top and puffed.0 -
Gosh Nancy mine are strung from 3 different rooms. I need to clean out DD's room (who visits only rarely) and claim it. Only problem is it has no cable outlet or I would have camped in there this winter since it's much warmer than any other room.
I have misplace somewhere in the house my recipe notebook. I just haven't had the urge/urgency to poke in a million piles to find it. Now we have to have part of water line replaced. New water heater started leaking out overflow. Got a part order/labor author. since under warranty. Not the problem. Says our pressure regulator at the meter has blown out and our house pressure is way way too high. So tomorrow DH gets to shepherd plumber on his day off. I may go the city library - free. Haven't been there in years.
i did get glassware put in the new little dining room cabinet I bought over a month ago. Something did get accomplished.
Monica - I've never used my self clean, frankly afraid of it. First I would have to find the instructions or do you just hit the self clean button? It's a 10 year old GE. Maybe something for next (hopefully nearly the last) cold day DH is home. Call me chicken - buck, buck.
Welcome Aunt Paula. This is a very friendly bunch even if their cooking skills are wayyyy beyond mine. Lol.
Debbie - Love breakfast for dinner. We did that last week. Kodiak pancakes and bacon. DH even liked the wheatiness of the Kodiak mix. Tonight is leftovers - yay since I need to get sink cleaned out. Since bill is on us plumber is also going to work on faintly leaky kitchen faucet.
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I missed your post auntpaula..... Welcome!!
Eric
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