So...whats for dinner?
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Bought artichokes on sale at Winn-Dixie so we'll have an artichoke with our beef stroganoff.
Vivian, you are right! Pico de gallo was the name of the tomato and onion mixture. Next time I will ask for it on the side or omitted altogether. Your baked chickens sounds good. I love baked chicken, especially the first meal when the chicken is hot or warm.
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carole - sometimes you will see it as salsa cruda too.
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Experiencing herb garden envy here too!! Our deep snow has finally all melted as of today, (mudville here)and I can see my herb pots, making me all the more envious! Temp in the 50's today but supposedly not done with the cold yet. Today was a great walking day so we did errands on foot, which DH and I love to do.
Tonight our dinner at Not Your Average Joe's was superb! My friend had sea scallops on rosemary skewers which I've had before and is quite good. I was captivated by a special of marinated lamb on a skewer over a bed of fresh baby spinach, farro, spices and golden raisins. My was that tasty! It came with a tzatziki sauce, and a ground hummus-like spread that had ground sesame in it which I avoided since I worry about the sesame/Tamoxifen malconnection. But the rest of it was all good!
The comments (and other evidence I have from friends/neighbors)about the AI joint pain has me quite worried. Not sure if I mentioned here that my MO agreed for me take a few weeks off from Tamox since I just needed a break from the new itching allergies, and feeling like I was constantly in a tired cognitive fog and not the least bit productive, which feels so awful. She has suggested that I try an AI after my break, contending that some of her pts who get lots of SEs on Tamox have fared better on an AI. I can tell you I seriously DOUBT that will be me, especially since I already have joint pain in plenty of joints, especially hands! But as she says....what have I got to lose....I can go right back on the Tamox if necessary. So today is day five of clearing out my system, and I have to say, I feel physically great, and mentally sharper than I have been in a year (when I took a break also). If I continue to feel this way, and perhaps even better, I think it will be very hard for me to want to take anything again! I have a very low oncotype score, a 4, so may try to get my MO to talk "numbers turkey" with me to see how risky this meds avoidance would be, given the two years plus I've completed. Time will tell how I resolve this.... Meanwhile, back on topic...next week, I may walk DH back to NYAJoe's for that delish lamb special!
Talk about apologies for long post.....sorry guys.
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I'll be trying other AI's when I get back from Alaska. Not thrilled about this "Buddha Belly" but other than that no problems. I'm returning home early April, as when I arrived there were only 2 people doing my job and I was here to help out. Now they have hired 3 more, which means 5, which is what they are funded for, so after they are on their feet I will go back to NE.
I have a TON of King Salmon and Halibut that is frozen and ready for overnight delivery which I am sharing with my landlord, a very nice couple in late 60's and early 70's, so I will be looking for recipes. Actually maybe not, as it is too precious to cover the flavor, although I have a great recipe for salmon dip from a co-worker.
I will come back to either the Inside Passage or the Arctic maybe in the Fall
Until then, fun fun fun in the community organic garden with lots of fresh veggies at home and no work.
I hope that everyone is well
Today is International Happiness Day (really) according to the United Nations, so...
I am happy for my lovely daughter! And for this site.
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Bedo, did you have any of the salmon smoked? It's so good. We use a hot smoke here in WI as opposed to the cold smoke of lox. It cooks it. You can use it as is on crackers or in dips or soups. Yum. I hope you have a chance to try it.
Eric you sound busy. Glad you could touch base. Sharon has my sympathies! I do the ape walk too. Sigh.
Lacey enjoy your break from tamox.
SpecialK tell your DH hello from us. Happy hamster ness and all.....
Aunts Paula and Nance. I'm with you on the herb envy. I only have a small basil plant in my house. Doesn't look very happy though. Today was beautiful! 45 degrees and sunshine!
I went out to the Tea shop for lunch again. Tomato basil soup, half turkey with caramelized onions and swiss sandwich with the little side salad. Then tonite I went out with a friend. I had liver and onion. Haven't had that in ages. Don't like to make it at home. But the portion is huge. I have leftovers. I may just see if the cats will eat some! LOL!
LMG, what the heck are flavorlet beans? Never heard of them.
Have to say the TE by us has a tiny lot too. Of course it is next to a parking structure for the mall but with my cane I can't walk very far at one time and usually don't go unless I can get someone to drive just in case I can't find a spot close.
Oh and Carole you never write too much..i love reading yours and everyone's posts no matter the length. There are so many of us here its fun to see all the different areas of the country having different timing with spring! LOL
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Goodness! No one is cooking or eating tonight?
I gave cooking fresh cod another try tonight. I seasoned the pieces of fish with s & p and some cayenne pepper and popped them into a hot skillet with a little butter and grapeseed oil. The fish started coming apart when I turned it. But it tasted good and once again dh seemed to enjoy it. We had another steamed artichoke and dh had a salad.
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Cooking, but not terribly exciting fare -- grilled hamsteak, grilled asparagus and roasted potatoes. Tasty, but fairly unexciting. You all are making me crave fish. Looks like we'll be going to Galveston in April, so I'll get to indulge. My niece is selling her house there so so it may be a while until I get back there :-(
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New computer is on the menu tonight. I finally got one and now I have to set it up......
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That's exciting Eric!
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We had mishmash of stuff. Bit of leftover beans with smoked sausage/cornbread/leftover brownies. I have a pork loin to put in oven tomorrow with onions, carrots, potatoes.
Monica - flageolet beans are tiny to med. greenish/creamy colored beans. Used in French cooking, paired with lamb. I had never had them until I bought this pkg. of dried ones. But cream peas or lady cream peas or zipper peas are green/creamy and very similiar to me. In some place I think cream peas are used for cow feed (a la cowpeas) but Southerners love them. I can buy them frozen at the better markets and sometimes even at the bigger grocers but fresh is best but very short season. The recipe on pkg. called for a cass. with herbs/cream but I just put in some seasonings and some "ham off the bone" from the deli. I think I had the Bob's Red Mill brand. They were even better tonight than yest.
Congrats on the new computer Eric. Looks like we're going to have to invest in new batt. for DH's laptop.
We have a new expanded local burger joint. Might have to investigate it. I thought it had closed but Noooo, it moved across the square to triple or maybe even quadruple the space.
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I do enough computer stuff at work that setting up a computer at home is like the old bus man's holiday.
Sharon went to Subway. I ate a small burrito at lunch and I've been repeatedly eating it since then. I guess I'm getting my money's worth!!!!! :-) So I'm not eating anything tonight. It's not the spice...I love spice. It was kind of greasy and I think I've lost my tolerance for grease.
Whatever it is, I'll be fine by tomorrow morning...
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My DH actually dropped in today and will head back tomorrow as he will work Sunday and start his 12 hours days again. So we went out. There's fish Frys everywhere now that it's Lent! But the baked crab stuffed cod caught my eye. Yum. DH had the perch - fried. We were both happy. Every church has FRYS too. There are 2 Catholic Churches and the each have a fish fry but alternate weeks. LOL They are usually about 10 to 12$ for all you can eat and cod, or perch, or even shrimp.Most is fried, but you can get baked "poor man's Lobster" which is baked Cod with lemon and butter. With coleslaw or salad ( depends on which church! LOL) rye bread and usually dessert. But we didn't want to wait in line so went to a restaurant.
Eric glad you'll be back up to speed soon.
Carol, people must have been busy tonite cause I checked earlier too.
LMG, are those beans tatting anything like black eyed peas? Cause I sure don't like them. I'll have to Google them! I can't even picture them.
To all, Much love.
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Nance - when will you be in Galveston? I'm going for a couple of days to celebrate the end of rads and plan to be there 4/14 & 4/15. Maybe a cup of coffee?
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Hello everyone,
Sesame/Tamoxifen Connection? Tamoxifen look like it will be the drug I am given after some more tests? Didn't know it has issuess with food?? Have to research some more.
Dinner will be Palomilla Steaks, they are thin so basically seared on hot skillet. seasoned with salt and pepper and onions. Side dish is rice with chick peas and a watercress and green tomatoe salad. Made some mini chocolate cupcakes(from mix) using apple sauce instead of oil for dessert and have fresh strawberries.
Enjoy,
Vivian
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Had plans for making Creamy Asparagus and Artichoke Lasagna which is in the current issue of Cooking Light. Even ran it through my WW Recipe Builder to figure the points, then experienced an attack of laziness and walked to the freezer and took out a ribeye. So dinner will be steak, roasted asparagus and salad. Easy and satisfying.
Also toyed with the idea of making a batch of carrot cake cookies featured in same issue of CL. But canned that idea, too! I will make them eventually because I think dh will really like them. He's a carrot cake man. The recipe calls for baking 28 little cookies and making mini sandwiches by putting two cookies together with a cream cheese icing. Too much temptation right now.
I'm looking at three patches of paint on the wall over the fireplace. One will be the new color of our living room. Maybe contemplating all the work has tired me out!
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Naiviv, here is a page from this site that I used to guide me shortly after I was dxd with estrogen positive bc.
http://foodforbreastcancer.com/articles/what-shoul...
I do think there are a lot of opinions regarding foods and drugs that impact the efficacy of the hormonal therapy drugs, but I found this page site helpful as a general guide....and lots of links are connected to it.
Some issues ( and some differences of opinion) seems to exist with soy products, citrus skin/pith in large quantities, yam based products.....and I could go on and on.
The nutritionist I saw at my center said everything in moderation.....
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All these things (especially that lasagna!) sound so good, but I am exceptionally lazy today! I am thinking spinach-broccoli quiche (that we ended up not eating a couple of days ago) and fruit, but honestly I may be too lazy even for that. I wish I had thawed chicken. Grilled chicken with grilled zucchini/squash/red onion and roasted asparagus sounds good (but way too much work lol).
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Carole, you are too funny! I well know the loss of motivation....and, after all, color choice is so taxing! Those carrot cake cookies sound delicious!
It is already six o'clock, DH just left for a search committee candidate dinner (last one for this search!), and I am trying to get up the motivation to sauté some portabello mushrooms to have with my kale soup.
Part of my poor motivation is that I suddenly have a knee acting up...for the first time in many months.
Kinda scares me, especially if I am to go on an AI in a few weeks. Spoke with the man who owns the villa we will be staying in, inTuscany, in September. He is a riot! I was asking him about local places where I could attend a cooking class....and he insisted that the lady across the street would "show me how to cook" , and even offered for his wife to cook for DH and me while we are there. Guess you can't get more authentic than that!
He also seemed to want to help us steer clear of the overpriced wine that people buy at the vineyards there......insisting that you buy good wine at the market for $2 and a ton more at the tourist spots. So maybe our "Danny" will watch out for us.....and I will come home with a few Tuscan recipes under my belt.....different than my Italian mother's. Getting hungry....the portabellas are calling my name....
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Lacey, you will be living my dream! Staying in a villa in Tuscany. You'll have to tell us all about it.
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yesterday we had leg of lamb (hubby cooked it on the Weber), with smashed potatoes and gravy, and asparagus. Today will be leftover lamb and gravy with salad. I was going g to make artichoke soup, but it's getting too late in the day.
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Okay, you all motivated me
, seeing all the things you're having--we are having the quiche, and I made a big salad. The grownups will have that, and the six-year-old will have fettuccine with peas and fruit. 0 -
Okay, I did it and am glad....sautéed the portabellas in olive oil with an onion, fresh garlic, a bit of tarragon and a splash of golden balsamic. I also needed to keep splashing the "rooms" with water since they do absorb all the cooking oil and I did not want to keep adding more oil. Yum!! The soup, two days old, was really very flavorful too!
Paula, your dinner sounds great too!
Garden, sooooo good to see your post! And lamb with asparagus.....yum! Hope things are going well with your retirement.
Carole, pack your bags in Sept.....we have the whole villa, lots of bedrooms and baths!
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Carole, redecorating is exhausting. I just did two bathrooms and it has left me with little motivation to do the bedroom and living room. And there wasn't even any painting involved.
Went to see my dad today and took him to lunch. Had fried shrimp, which was lightly breaded and quite good. I don't eat fried shrimp much, so it was a guilty pleasure for sure. I tried to offset the guilt with a salad.
For dinner we had homemade pizzas on the grill. Love them that way. Also made a cucumber, onion and tomato salad.
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Lacey, I'm not familiar with "golden" balsamic. What's it like?
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I spent most of the day doing work on the car DD drives. I got a lot done on the car, but I didn't come in until it was too late to do a "fancy dinner". I was thinking of grilling some chicken, like aunt_paula mentioned, but DD just got some of the left over chicken-rice-pine nut 'salad' that I made earlier this week. She has a very attentive audience (Main Coon cat, yellow lab and black border collie/lab mix) and they are doing everything in their power to earn a reward.
Garden..you inspired me... I took some ground lamb from the freezer to thaw out and tonight I'll look through my middle eastern cookbook. to see what I can do. Apple's description of the middle eastern recipes she cooked coincided with my finding a middle eastern cookbook at a Goodwill...which I bought. I've made a few things from that cookbook. The spices are so very different from what I'm used to that I can't just guess at it, but the tastes are, I think, wonderful.
Lacey....Tuscany...wow.. I'm jealous.
I love carrot cake. DD loves it too, but it took awhile for her to decide that carrots do not ruin a cake. :-)
It's nice to be typing on a real computer again. :-)
Eric
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Nance, Not sure where I even got it, but found it next to the white balsamic ( Trader's brand) in the back of my fridge.
It is a lovely tasting balsamic, golden (obviously) in color. Imported by Spectrum Naturals (NY), organic, product of Italy. It really has a nice flavor, and less intense than regular Balsamic of Modena. Wish we had techno aroma so you could smell it!0 -
Sorry Minus, didn't see your earlier post. Bummer! I don't think I'll be there until after the 18th, would love to meet!
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Just got home from the hospital, I was in there 5 days. Cellulitis of the left tata AGAIN in less that 2 years. This time is spread to the left side of my back. I was treated with Vancomyicin every 12 hours. Took 3 hours for the IV antibiotic and it kept blowing my veins. But I must say, Lowell General Hospital was fantastic, food and care was excellent. I was so red it almost looked purple and now I am peeling.
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Yay Eric for your new computer! And what a lovely memory of Apple's great Middle Eastern cooking prowess. Neat that you found that cookbook. Love that food...have fun!
Our Italy trip is a gift from DS1 and DDIL for our fortieth anniversary....last November. They are both busy surgeons with currently high income. Sadly, my inability to plan and implement anything with the cognitive fog caused by Tamox, has meant us taking forever to make plans...thus the Sept trip, which DH has been mostly responsible for arranging.
The Tuscan villa was offered in a charity auction in our town a couple of months ago, and we bid on it and won...thus the big villa. That's about the extent of my planning ability these days! Very impulsive purchase with other people's money! ;/ It did come with a high recommendation from our town administrator who stayed there a couple of years ago. The owner is a character of a guy, and very helpful. I hope I feel well enough to really enjoy the trip, and keep it fun for DH. Tamox has left me feeling physically and cognitively limited in recent months....so, traveling for pleasure has not been high on my list. It will probably all work out just fine. It is very generous of our son and DDIL., so I feel very appreciative of that.
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Oh Deb, so sorry for the repeat cellulitis and long stay in the hospital....but glad that you received good care there. Hope it heals quickly. ((((((Deb))))))
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