So...whats for dinner?

Bedo, I hear you, but I'm sorry to see you go. I love your posts and wish I could meet each and every one of  you. But, follow your dream, girl.  (((Bedo)))

Carole, you reminded me, I must find some more asparagus!  Oh, and I wasn't criticizing the couple going to Costco at all. Was, in fact relieved knowing they would be helping greatly with the volume needed....and we did well! They are also really very knowledgeable in the church kitchen, so it was great sharing the duties with them. . 

Bedo, good luck with your next pursuits! You know you'll always have a place here to share a fun, interesting or concerning story, if that fits into your evolving plan.

I appreciate you posting pain, Eric! And will sign off now before I do the same thing! Hope Sharon gets better soon....

I have been avoiding grocery shopping - tomorrow for sure. Had to make white bread for DH. Used one of those Fleischmann's no knead mixes. DH requires a loaf which came out short squatty. Spread wider than higher. Tastes OK - prob a little sweeter than store bought. He will have to have pimiento cheese or peanut butter/jelly. Too narrow to put deli meat on it. Look kinda like biscotti. It was hard to get a "loaf" without touching the top which instruc. said not to - no doubt why it spread rather than rose.

Nancy I went back and found your no knead bread recipe. Do you make loaves or casserole shaped? I was so shocked at how quickly the yeast foamed. I don't think I've ever made bread with quick rise yeast b4.

No clue what dinner will be. Might be chicken breasts again but gosh meatloaf sounds wonderful. It will prob. be the chicken because it's on top and the remains can go out in trash tomorrow.

Turned out boneless breasts were buried in freezer. Easier than the reg. ones. Ask DH what he wants for dinner and the answer is usually something that doesn't make a mess. HaHa funny. So my go to is chicken on the stovetop. I found some frozen biscuits so that and froz. vegies and I'm done. Not so much of an inventive cook these days. I did find some Annie's noodles so I might make chicken/dumplings on Wed.; also small bit of turkey stock. I have a ladies day out lunch tomorrow where I went last month. Will have doggie bag for sure so will need to find DH something else at store or maybe get him something small to take home with my doggie bag and share.

Luv, rosemary and garlic most often, but also roasted tomatoes and/or olives. Parm is also good.

Bedo - hugs for your journeys.  We'll miss you.  And I'm with Luv - if you get anywhere close to Texas, I'd love to come an meet you. 

I hope you are out of the "weather woods", Carole, with no untoward events. So scary!  As you probably have heard, if you add kale to your smoothies with your already tasty ingredients, it will do absolutely nothing to the taste, and everything for your nutrition. I still put beets in mine however, since I prefer to drink a reddish smoothie over a green one. I also add frozen cranberries for health and color, as well as blueberries, a banana, walnuts, chia, orange, etc. etc. Remember I get four or five glasses out of mine. Can't wait to hear what you try.

Just had some kale soup with chicken and bits of ham in it....a perfect warming meal (along with tuscan wheat bread and kalamata hummus for some bulk) for our very cold damp feeling evening. DH and I were starving after just returning from a social action committee meeting at church with the ministerial candidate (what a wild meeting schedule she has for the week....and on top of that the adult son of a long time member died in a sudden and lonely way and he asked for her to do a funeral for him this Saturday, so she had to rearrange all that day's meetings and develop a funeral service for a person she has never met and the family she has just met). A baptism by fire, I'd say....if we did baptism! Anyway, this minister gal's parents did an unbelievable job to raise such a mature person with wonderful relational and leadership skills, who clearly will do just fine as a new minister at age 29. Hope the vote goes well!

At the meeting there was pizza, fruit, and cookies. The pizza looked so good, but I turned my mind off to it. In solidarity, DH chose not to have any either, (very sweet and amazing of him) so that's one reason we were so hungry upon return home. I topped off dinner with a wicked dessert....chocolate covered cookies with marshmallow and gram cookie....used to be called mallowbars (I think) in the sixties....anyone recall them? My father used to love them. Now I see why!

Had further allergy testing today and first self injection....weird, but I hope it ends up working. I was up itching thru last night.

Also learned a new allergy fact. There are "cross reacting foods" that need to be eliminated from one's diet during blooming season of grasses, weeds, or trees that one is allergic to. Another reason I am reactive to celery....it's related to mugwort....my highest reactive weed (my arm is still blown up from today's test!). For anyone interested, I'm sure this info can be found on the internet under "food-inhalant cross-reactivity". End of lesson....;)

Laurie, glad you are getting settled back in. Ahhhh, spring projects! Funny tale to teacher! I always remember some teachers telling parents on open house night,  "I promise to believe only half of what your kids come and tell me about home, and hope you will do the same about things they say happened in school."

Oh, Special, I really feel for you. Please don't be offended that I am trying very hard to avoid inhabiting that bubble....and I hope you can escape it! I can see why you are willing to stick so closely to your diet, separate from the good weight results. The rainbarrel theory would suggest that you are doing a good job of keeping your body in better balance....so no barrel overflow (major symptoms).

Hope everyone is weather safe tonight!

lacey - never offended - I would like to stay out of the bubble, but it is proving challenging!

moon - the only thing I have added back in is eggs but I eat them sparingly, mostly because they are a naturally hormonal product since they are an ovum, which makes me a little nervous.  I tried to add dairy back in right after the surgery in March because I was on an antibiotic and didn't want the GI distress, so I ate Greek yogurt - my skin broke out like I was a teenager.  So, apparently dairy is sensitive for me.  I will not be adding soy, gluten, and sugar back in, and I love almond butter so I see no need to add peanuts back in.  I have only eaten organic sprouted corn tortillas and they were just ok, but not really any other corn or corn product other than a bit of organic corn starch.  Don't really miss it, but I might when all the nice fresh corn is in the grocery store! One thing I can say is that even on Femara I do not have the joint pain that I had previously, but it took at least three months for it to dissipate.

Moon, sounds like you've mastered the solo dinner routine. Tonight's selection sounds great! You are correct in thinking that the cheese elimination is the hardest thing, and maybe for me, the greek yogurt deletion.I used  to love that (peppered with chia and walnuts) as my go to breakfast when I ran out of smoothies and was in a rush in the AM. 

Sendicks sounds like a good shopping option for you.....so many stores, so little time........;)

Congrats, Carole!

Interesting idea to freeze the kale that will be used in smoothies, (never tried that and have no idea about the Aztec diet...will google it) especially when you get a large bunch that will take a while to use up. I'm laughing to myself, tho, at how DH will respond to have more things stuffed in our freezer when we are supposed to be clearing it out! . I do peel the beets....and have to say that people make a much bigger deal about stained hands than is necessary. Mine get the red stain off immediately upon washing. I also just use red beets in my smoothies since the yellow and striped ones do not generate an appealing enough color for the final product. But if you are not concerned about that, try some variety.

Tonight I made a pretty quick and really yummy dinner. I had picked up a fig balsamic glaze (as well as a raspberry  balsamic, and chili pepper balsamic glaze) at my favorite junk store that sells a lot of speciality food products (lord knows where they get them, but they are cool!). So, I used the glaze with a tenderloin of turkey breast I picked up at TJs.

First dredged the two pieces of tenderloin lightly in flour, garlic powder and pepper, browned them in a caste iron skillet with some olive oil, shallots, and button mushrooms, added the glaze and made sure all was covered, then put the whole thing in the oven at 375 degrees for about twenty minutes to finish cooking. Meanwhile, made asparagus, and also a baby spinach salad with pear, mushrooms, red onion and a dijon vinaigrette. It was a great little fast meal! Rice pilaf would also go well with this.

We're all done with "the issues" from whatever was making the rounds.  Several folks at work got it about the same time as I did...so it was not food poisoning as they did not eat where I did.

Dinner was a quick "heat some frozen turkey and 'nuke' some potatoes" so I could get out and work some more on DD's car before it got dark.  The seat belt would not latch into the buckle.  It's fixed now.

Laurie, I like that law....works for me... :-)

Lacey, my mom would make chicken with a very similar recipe and would serve the chicken on a bed of rice.  Great minds think alike! :-)   You will soon prefer doing your own shots.  The now retired allergist I had would mix up the allergy stuff up for each patient and have the patient do their own shots.  He and his wife (a NP) felt it led to better outcomes as the folks tended to stick (bad pun, sorry) with the program through to the end instead of quitting part way through because of the annoyance of coming to the office each week.

Special, I think you and Sharon sound about the same for pollen allergies.  Sharon did allergy shots for 5 or so years and then ended up with nose surgery and it has helped a huge amount.  Still, when things are really bad, like right now, she still feels "not so great"....like now.  It makes it hard for her to sleep, so after a few days, she's REALLY tired.

Congrats Carole.  That's a good way to spend the gift certificate....although I probably wouldn't buy kale.  I'd probably buy stuff to bake something decadent!!!!!

Moon, hats off to your cooking for one.  When it's just me, it's not "cooking and eating", rather it's heating stuff so it's safe to stick in my mouth so I can stop the rumbling stomach.  To me, cooking something nice is more for the social interactions. 

I'm sure I've missed a few things.  My apologies.  I do read things on my phone during breaks or when I'm waiting on a computer to finish something for me.  And hopefully I don't lose the post (again).  Windows 8 is still annoying me...but I guess it's getting somewhat less annoying that before

Eric

eric - I too did the allergy shots, starting in high school and continuing for about ten years.  I married my military husband when I was 27 and started moving a lot and the problem with allergy shots is that they are location specific.  So, I would build immunity to something and then move and that tree/weed/grass would not be at the new location, but a bunch of new things that I was not desensitized to were!  I never stayed anywhere long enough to get in enough shots to build immunity, so I gave up and treated symptoms.  As I have aged (ugh - hate that word!) I am less sensitive to pollen, so my allergy symptoms are easier to medicate, but I have developed new things that I am allergic too - mostly drugs, cosmetics and topical and oral antibiotics. The one thing I struggle with is allergic rhinitis related asthma.  It has been bad for several months, can't seem to get it under control, so it may be time to be more aggressive with it.  I am also allergic to mold, so living in FL is a challenge!

Those power carts are a blessing.  No way I could go for groceries alone without them.  DH brings stuff in and puts it away.  His health is such he couldn't do the whole job himself so we divide the job, each according to our ability.