So...whats for dinner?
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Dinner last night was meat sauce (red) out of the freezer and whole wheat linguine. I'm enjoying the wheat pasta. WW doesn't give me any break on the points but I think it's better for me as a pre-diabetic to eat the wheat if it's slower digesting Any thoughts on that, Nance? What makes the pasta and sauce good is a generous amt. of fresh-grated romano cheese. I'm a cheese-oholic and wish I could eat as much as I would enjoy eating.
We also had a good veggie salad with pear-infused white balsamic and lemon flavored EVOO. I like the taste of white balsamic and I don't like the brown balsamic on my pretty salad even though we have an aged variety that is really tasty. DH sprinkles extra brown balsamic on his salad because he really likes it. We order it from the Vinegar Museum in Roselyn (sp?) SD! No, it's not antique vinegar! The Vinegar Museum has an interesting back story. If you have time to waste, google it. They have a website.
I've never heard of timpani either.
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Carole, if you like the wheat pastas I would say eat them by all means. Whole grain choices will always be a better choice for diabetics. For me, pasta fanatic that I am, the only wheat pasta I can stand is trader Joe's. As far as glucose levels, I don't notice a significant difference in mine between them. I don't even have good luck with Dreamfields, although I often use it. I just have to limit my portion size and adjust my insulin accordingly.I wish I liked them better, and I do like tj's, it's just not a good substitute for me in my favorite recipes.
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Lacey, I'm with Carole, consider trying another AI before you decide. Tamoxifen is very different from the other AI's. I have lots of aches and pains, some from letrozole, some from being 66 years old, but exercise helps tremendously and Venlafaxene controls the hot flashes. I have arthritic hands, which I'm sure is aggravated by the drug, but I don't find it incapacitating. No brain fog that is not age related lol! All in all, it's all tolerable. That said, I too am looking forward to being done with it.
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Carole, those vinegars sound fantastic. Pear infused? Wow!
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Good morning all, I hope this post finds you all well.
I am beyond stuffed from the past 4 days of eating and eating...lefttovers all gone. I have gained...I am sure. Today will be lots of liquid and salads, to make more room. Yup, one more BD this week. Tomorrow kids are suprising me, but am not sure where, was just told I have to be ready by 5... I will be good all day until breakfast.
Starting Monday ...salads will be my middle name.
V
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lacey - have you checked any of the threads devoted to natural estrogen suppression on BCO. I think there are at least a couple. Since your risk/reward is so low maybe a natural supplement will satisfy the need and be a compromise with your MO.
On the pasta comments, I love pasta and didn't want to give it up but my diet only allows brown rice pasta. I have tried several brands and I really don't mind eating it.
There is an oil and vinegar store here in Tampa, I will link below. I sent a oil/vinegar set to my MIL for Christmas. They have all kinds of flavors and this is a family business locally so I like supporting it. They definitely ship and the product is great.
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Wow, Nance, you're a "real" diabetic taking insulin. I take one metformin a day. Diabetes is such a scary disease. So far I am the only female among my siblings who has the adult onset diabetes. Two brothers also have it. Two sisters and the youngest brother so far have normal sugar levels. My father passed this on.
The pear-infused white balsamic is the Alessi brand and I bought it at Walmart. I was looking for the white balsamic by the same brand and bought what was available. But I like the taste. Vinaigrette is a favorite salad dressing but I also like Caesar a lot.
I cooked a big pot of chicken and sausage gumbo today for tomorrow's noon dinner at my mother's house. I had thawed out two chickens. I cut the legs off and will cook them tonight following a recipe for Creamy Baked Chicken with Artichokes and Mushrooms in Diabetic Cooking, a little publication with recipes. I don't have any mushrooms but I do have canned artichoke hearts and fresh asparagus. Fortunately, it turned a little cooler so I can use my oven without competing with the a/c.
Nance, I thought about you today when Martha Stewart was making individual chicken pot pies on her cooking show on PBS. They sure looked yummy when she took them out of the oven. I wonder if she still cooks and bakes. I find her an excellent teacher and she seems to enjoy both cooking and baking.
Does anyone have a good recipe for wheat pancakes? I've just about used up a box of Hungry Jack mix. I was thinking that I could make my own mix of dry ingredients. I would probably have to keep the container in the freezer.
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1.25 cups whole wheat flour (or buckwheat, which is better glycemically speaking), 0.25 cup rolled oats, 3 teaspoons baking powder, cinnamon to taste, pinch salt, mix well. Separately beat together 1.5 cups milk or buttermilk or kefir with 3 eggs. Stir into dry ingredients.
You can also add chopped nuts to this and/or berries etc.
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Carole, I got mine from my dad and his side of the family too. DH's dad was as are two of his sisters.
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Another crazy dinner for one. Raw broccoli, mushrooms, carrots & leftover roasted, sliced chicken breast - served cold to dip in Ranch dressing. Oh and a large glass of Malbec from Australia. Dessert will be fresh strawberries dipped in sour cream and then brown sugar after I log off.
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Nance and Carole I got it from my Dad too. But out of 7 of my siblings I'm the only one. Of Course I'm also the only one to get bc. Lucky me .... LOL
Minus sounds like a good meal not too strange!
Momine that sounds great.
Dinner was at My daughters bachelor party. After a crafting session decorating silk scarves we went to a restaurant I had a chicken.cranberry arugula and blue cheese wrap. Yum. Could only eat half cause of the snacks at the art studio. Then they went off to the bar to watch the Badger's play in the final four. But his Mom and I ducked out to come home.
Much love.
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Nance,
Made the batter tonight
It is rising
I chose the rosemary, and cheese recipe and will share it with my neighbor.
Thank you so much!
We'll see how it turns out
I'm sure it will be yummy
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Bedo, it will be wonderful. It's pretty foolproof.
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Oooooooh, that bread sounds so yummy, Bedo.....especially since I am holding the visuals in my head from the link you sent, Nance. I'm so torn about wanting to make that bread, and yet not wanting to have it around tempting me to seriously blow my diet.....let us know how it worked for you, Bedo.
Carole and Nance, thanks for your thoughtful responses to my meds dilemma/vent. Not sure how I had my dx and rx data disappear. Dx in late August, 2011. Right side IDC; 2.2cm tumor (combined with satellite micro cells?); stage 2 ; grade 2. Had lumpectomy with sentinel node dissection, and then a second margin clearing surgery. There were micro mets in one lymph node, but the surgeon explained that they do not count in statistics for my dx and rx. Never understood that....maybe because the radiation boosts zap them? Who knows? As I mentioned, oncotype was a 4, so no chemo.....just rads and rads boost, then started tamoxifen a month after rads in Jan, 2012.
I am encouraged by both of your responses to your AI treatment. Guess I mostly worry about the cognitive impact (I don't want to give up my alertness and productivity again!) and the inevitable hand pain increase for me. I already have plenty. Ugh! Sadly, I seem very reactive to "hormonal manipulation". I am currently avoiding dealing with this by not getting back to my MO yet........
So in the spirit of avoidance, let's cook! Yesterday I came across xanthan gum and bought it solely because I remember Carole using it......unchartered territory for me!
Also bought some oat flour which I may incorporate in banana bread. Other ideas welcome!Last night we had lamejun I picked up from a Middle Eastern store (love how all the men there do the cooking!), brussells sprouts, and cuke salad with feta.
Tonight we'll have a turkey breast, asparagus, and salad. Boy wouldn't a slice of Bedo's loaf go great to round out the meal.......;)
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Lacey, don't forget the homemade butter lol!
I have xanthan gum too and don't know how much to use for anything. The one time I tried it, the sauce got real thick real fast! Carole, give us pointers!
Meatloaf tonight simply because a) I have six pounds of ground beef that hasn't made it to the freezer yet, and 2) I have been wasting the day setting up the new computer and don't have time to be creative. DH of course is thrilled.
I'm baking bread too. A different no knead recipe that you make up in a large batch and bake as you need it. It works very well for us because I can make small loaves.
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Hahahaha Nance!
I am about to google how I can use the "gum" in place of the corn starch called for in an asparagus soup I am making for tomorrow. As a spice girl, I'm a bit horrified that the only spice used in this recipe is bay leaf....may have to look at some other recipes while this one is in process. ;/
So in my avoidant mode, I have made and applied a spice rub for the turkey breast, let it refrigerate for a few hours (should have done it last night!), just now browned it and placed it in the oven. DH needs to give a report at a search committee meeting at 7 PM. No way will we be finished dinner by then, so a very late dinner it will be.
Meanwhile, I roasted a halved butternut squash and removed the pulp, and marinated some asparagus spears which will join the turkey breast in the oven closer to finish time. Garden salad seems like it will be good for this combo.
And the black bananas are staring at me, so I need to get a fast recipe for banana bread to make for my neighbor who is busy dealing with parental loss and arranging her surviving parent assisted living placement. Always so hard.
It is beautiful here today, and I went out and cleared the "debris" from my chives who are peeking out of the herb planter. It felt great until I started to feel horribly itchy, so had to hole myself back up in the house again. Unable to take any allergy meds until I undergo allergy tests on Tuesday, so I guess I'll be indoors until then, complaining about my bad joints since for some reason they don't even allow celebrex (or practically anything else!)for 48 hours prior to testing. Today is day one w/o it.
At least it is pretty to look outside. 
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It takes only a small amt of the zanthum gum to thicken a sauce. I just sprinkle a bit onto the sauce and stir. It works very well. Has no taste much like corn starch. To be honest I had forgotten about it.
I would like to make my own hot chocolate dry mix. The idea occurred tonight when I was using a bought mix, Swiss Miss, and got out my cocoa powder to make my drink more "chocolatey." I would guess that cocoa, dry milk powder and a sweetener would do the trick. Maybe a nondairy creamer powder, too. I'm looking for taste and low calories. Does anyone have a recipe?
The chicken and sausage gumbo came out really good. We also had jambalaya dinners that the church was serving (and selling for take home) as part of a fund-raiser for covering the expense of children's camp this summer. The jambalaya was tasty and also a little helping of navy beans and another little helping of coleslaw. AND a brownie. Temptation from the church!
No actual dinner for me tonight. I had some delicious cantaloupe this afternoon and later some popcorn and a couple of cups of hot chocolate.
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Arrgg I just erased my whole post.
Naiviv, Happy Birthday! I think? Is that what BD means?
Special, so glad that you are doing better
Debbie nice rant. Mean people s^*%k. Meanie. I am sorry for your loss and the way you had to find out.
Minus Nice dinner. I especially like the chicken dipped in salad dressing part. I sounds yummy, even though I don't eat chicken. And the raw broccoli is a nice touch
Nance, speaking of yummy, I discovered that the gruyere was particularly yummy while making your bread recipe, so I ate 1/2 of it then realized I didn't have enough for two loaves, or any salt. So I plowed ahead, as I told my neighbor I was making her one. I didn't know how to adjust the heat to the one loaf which I split into two small loaves, so I burned the bottom, but did not discover it until I got back from proudly giving my neighbor her tiny loaf I think they needed salt and cheese, but they were so beautiful!
Then I went to eat mussles and veggie platter with a friend and she MADE me split a pitcher of white sangria and it was only 4 o'clock so I came home and fell asleep until 9pm and now I'm wide awake.
I have a date on Tuesday
My plot in the community garden opens soon.
I am going back to my violin group on Weds, but now I really stink.
I gained 10 pounds in Alaska. Everyone's Bad Cholesterol is about 80 from all the omega 3 they get in the fish.
It's amazing
I am trying to decide between 2 jobs, each 3 days a week.
I am sorry for anyone I missed.
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Bedo - good luck on your job decision. Can you win an appeal on the insurance?
Carole - this is the chocolate mix I used to make years ago.
SWISS MISS Makes 55
cupsMix & store in air tight containers
1 - pkg (8 qt size) non-fat powered milk
1 - 6 oz jar coffee mate
1 – box Nestles Quick – 1 lb
1 – jar chocolate malted milk – 1 lb
1 – cup powdered sugar
To serve – mix 1/3 cup powdered mix with 1 cup boiling water
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Oh Bedo - forgot I wanted to share this delicious quote from Louise Penny's book The Beautiful Mystery set in a monastery in remote Quebec around the Gregorian Chant -
The difference between a violin and a fiddle: A violin sings and a fiddle dances.
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Lovely quote, Minus!
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Carole, I used to make my own hot chocolate mix but can't find the recipe. If you don't find a recipe why not just make your own? I know I used dry milk, creamer, sugar and cocoa. That's what I did.
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carole - here is one I used for holiday office gifts for DH a few years ago, but I didn't use the chips. Mix 3-4 generous tablespoons with hot water.
2 cups nonfat dry milk powder3/4 cup sugar1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa1/2 cup mini semisweet chocolate chips1/2 cup powdered nondairy creamer1/8 teaspoon salt
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I remember making that recipe with my girl scouts! Well, that and Russian Tea! LOL
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Thanks for the hot chocolate mix recipes! Today I bought nonfat dry milk, which wasn't cheap. A large box was almost $8. I looked at the nondairy creamer but it features partially hydrogenated fats so I bypassed it. I'll experiment and see if I can come up with a combination that tastes good.
DH and I enjoyed a bowl of the left-over gumbo for lunch. It was dee-lish! Dinner tonight will be leftover linguine with meat sauce.
Bedo, I enjoyed your post. Sounds like your winter in AK did you a world of good.
SpecialK, I hope you are healing well.
The 5th wheel camper is parked outside. We're going on a 5-day rv trip to Gulf Shores, AL, departing on Wed. So I'll be trekking back and forth between the house and the camper, carrying clothing and some food. We're meeting rv friends who live in FL. They're embarking on a bucket list trip. The situation is sad. My friend whom I'll call M was in remission from ovarian cancer that appeared in the linings of her organs. I forget the name. She underwent horrendous surgery and heavy-duty chemo and is feeling good enough to make this long rv trip. But a tiny new tumor has been detected and she and her drs. agreed for her to take some time to enjoy life and decide later whether to undergo further chemo. Her drs. pretty much told her to do anything she really wanted to do while she felt good.
Good advice for all of us? Thanks for letting me share.
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Carole, I'm sorry about your frIend. I'm glad you get to take this trip with them. We love Gulf shores. A good place to rest and recuperate.
I know what you mean about the powdered milk. I must say I was a bit shocked at the price. I have several bread recipes that call for it. I hadn't bought it for a long time prior to that.
Tonight is dried lima beans (meh) and ham. I'll throw some spicy smoked sausage in it to improve the flavor. The highlight of this meal for me will be the cornbread :-) Not so for my dh, the lima bean lover.
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....probably the omentum......... I, too, am sorry for your friend.
Eric
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Carol, I am sorry about your friend. I am glad that she has this time to enjoy. I hope for the best of days for her
Minus. I definitely don't sing any more. Only dance. And badly. It is one of my main disappointments in myself that I can't force myself to practice.
I just saw a commercial with an "older" couple and a silver stream enjoying life and eating an arugula salad at the Grand Canyon :O I thought Oh my goodness, my dream has become a stereotype!
Don't care. Will do it anyway.
Tonight I'm making this.
The Salmon Capital of the world got me over the fish thing.
I will use veggie broth can't tell the difference anyway. They both taste like salt
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The salmon chowder sounds great. I'm always looking for new things to do w/salmon. Thanks.
Carole - sorry to hear about your friend but so glad you'll get to spend this time w/her.
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Carole sorry about your friend. I'm glad you get to spend some time together.
Bedo that's a good site for recipes. I also like a good salmon chowder. But i use leftover salmon in my chowders. I always have leftovers. And I think veg stock works well. So does claim juice!
Much love
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