So...whats for dinner?
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Hello to everyone! All the food sounds amazing. Today was my Mother's Day. My DD1 and DS2 came from Madison. DS2 got here, talked got half an hour and went upstairs to sleep. ( he works 3rd shift and the came right here after my DD picked him up from work.). Then my DD and i went to Barnes and Nobel as its the knly Bookstore closer than an hour and i cant get there alone as parking is impossible. We spent hours browsing and of course buying the hard copy of my series. It had been over a year since I did something like that. So fun. Then those 2 and my DS1 and my DH took us out to Twisted Willow. A beautiful farm to table restaurant in town. Everyone chose the French onion soup it's a favorite and they do it right. I had pork ribs that were amazing..i almost had the salmon but the pork was so beautiful. With golden potatoes and caramelized onions. My picky DS2 had a homade mac and cheese. LOL My DD had her cheat day so she choose the rib too (she's training for a kickboxing tournament). So did DS1. Only DD2 was missing. I hope to see her tomorrow. For dessert we had the smores for the table. For Mother's day they added the raspberries to the tray. I just ate those plain. I wanted choc on my marshmallow. LOL. But it's so much fun to do that at the table with everyone sitting around talking. All to soon we had to leave so they could head back as my DS2 had to work 3rd again today. So loads of fun. Sure beat the Mothers Day I spent all alone a couple of years ago! LOL.
Much love to all and Happy Mothers Day. Whether you are a mother to humans or furbabies or doing the Mother duties, I hope your day is a great one.
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moon - sounds like a fun time and a great meal! I will not be able to see my kidlets for Mother's Day, they are too far away and have to work tomorrow. Def not going out, so will spend a quiet day with DH relaxing.
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Happy Mothers' Day.
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I decided to have mom and my mother in law over next weekend. It seems I always catch a cold when I fly, and this time is no exception.
No sense giving the moms a cold.
The simple chicken BBQ was good.
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I usually eat odd dinners - all vegetables or a pork loin only or popcorn & apples. Today I fixed a "real" meal for myself - ribeye steak, fresh steamed broccoli and boiled new potatoes. Then I had to eat a bunch of Dark Chocolate covered Goji berries w/raspberry. Yum. I used to find them only at HEB but saw them at WalMart last week.
Special - glad to hear you're still taking it easy.
Happy Mother's Day to everyone.
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Hope everyone enjoyed Mothers Day.
Much love to all!
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I had fried rice noodles (seasoned with plentiful turmeric, black pepper, lime, tomato, garlic + onions) and lettuce!
The colour is beautiful yellow-orange with dots of black pepper! Ready in 10mins, meat free and delicious! Plus I've read black pepper helps the absorption of turmeric (curcumin) which has an anti-cancer effect! Thanks for starting and contributing to this topic.. it's nice having something light and also interesting 'suggestions' to spice up one's meal!
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Yensmiles, sounds like a colorful and flavorful meal. I have no experience with rice noodles. Do you boil and drain them and then "fry" them? Or do you cook them in oil when they're raw?
I've been making good use of my recently purchased Nutribullet and making some tasty smoothies, mainly for breakfast. I've been including kale and don't find that I "taste" it. But I hate the color of the smoothies! A dull ugly greenish color. I tried the raw beet, Lacey, but didn't like including it. So I cooked the rest of the beets and dh and I enjoyed them with a meal.
For tonight's dinner I may cook a Meatless on Monday recipe from Cooking Light that I cooked once and we enjoyed. A lasagna with leeks, asparagus, and artichoke hearts, a creamy béchamel sauce, and combination of mozzarella and parm cheese.
Couldn't figure out how to downsize the photo.
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yen - sounds delish! This is a thread full of fantastic people and, you are correct, it is nice subject matter! This is a supportive group - we gather in the cyber "kitchen" when necessary and share strength.
carole - your pic is great! I have been wanting to try a lasagna type dish that uses long thin slices of zucchini instead of the pasta. After seeing your shot I might try it this week!
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Welcome yensmiles! You reminded me that i should really incorporate tumeric into my meals. It's a spice I have yet to embrace tho I know it is supposed to be a good anti-cancer food.
Carole, that casserole looks so delish.....the bigger, the better!!
For Mother's Day, we met "local" DS2 for an early dinner at one of the newer restaurants in the Seaport Innovation District...it was a very cool and unusual place with a huge open room attached for generating ideas, (the innovation district, afterall;). There were lots of interesting ideas drawn on the walls in interesting designs. I would guess that this room is hoppin' during the week when the "innovators" working in the nearby biotech and other firms are there. We ate on the large patio facing the harbor since it was gorgeous out.....finally!!!
We had what felt like a huge meal, starting with duck tacos, and a hummus and olive tapenade platter with naan and chips. Then I had the filet of salmon with ratatouille and pea shoots. I had just had a pea shoot salad on Friday, which I loved, so could not resist when I saw those on the menu since they will disappear soon! DH had a jambalaya, and DS2 had cod on a puree of something and asparagus.
We took a much needed stroll along the harbor after dinner. It was perfect weather for it. I posted a pic of the three of us on Facebook. Am always appreciative of DS2 asking strangers to take our pic since there were days in years past when he would rather eat dirt! My best Mother's Day gift was DS2 setting up a time for us to meet his Chicago girlfriend. Not until she is here for an extended time in June, but that's fine. Things are moving along on that front.....happy for him!
Hope everyone enjoys their day. I am thinking about starting to get some closets cleared....beginning of a long process of house clearing! Oy!
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Carole, it's too bad the beet option doesn't work well for you since that definitely provides the best color change from the yucky green. I wonder if a lot of raspberries or bing cherries might help change the color? Or....might you be able to tolerate a cooked beet in the smoothie better? Or, horror of horrors, how about red food coloring!?
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My dinner menu has changed to Easy Dinner! I just took a pkg of meat sauce out of the freezer and will cook some wheat linguini tonight and make a tossed salad. Grate some good Italian cheese. Voila! Dinner!
I took my mother (91) to a regular checkup with her PC dr. at 11:30. Afterwards we bought 10 lbs of boiled crawfish and took them home to share with my younger sister (lives near my mother) for lunch. The crawfish were really good. Enough seasoning but not salty.
My mother is living proof of the importance of genetics. She has been considerably overweight for much of her life. As in 5ft. 4 in. and 196 lbs at present, down from as much as 230lbs in the past. She has never met a fried food she didn't like. Buys heavy cream for her coffee. Regular sour cream, cream cheese, etc. Her total cholesterol was 170. Triglycerides below 100. Ratio of hdl/ldl was excellent. Two of my sisters inherited these genes. I take a statin! My mother's main health issue has been osteo arthritis and I don't seem to have inherited those genes, thank goodness.
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yensmiles - welcome
Carole - could you post the recipe for the yummy looking veggie lasagna?
Oh Lacey - the harbor!!! I so would like to live by the water.
Laurie - how are you & kids & DH. Thinking about you.
Oh my goodness, I'm having red meat two nights in a row! I'm trying the Eye of the Round recipe - pre-heat the oven to 500 & end up letting it sit. Sure smells good but I know I can't peek for at least another 39 minutes. Having a gin & tonic while I wait.
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yensmiles, hello!
Dinner tonight is leftovers from dinner Saturday. The ribs heated up very well as did the mashed potatos.
I just had to laugh at a commercial that just came on for Pro Health Care. It shows a kids birthday party. The boy is getting gifts like Molds and Spores, a bow and arrow set, a unicycle. Meanwhile the voice over says you never what life will bring you. It ends with the boy saying oh I always wanted this. Bee keepers set. It comes with live bees and then the box falls open and everyone jumps up swatting. Am I bad for enjoying this crazy commercial? LOL
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Hi Yensmiles. Welcome. I too hang out here *because* it is a low key "kitchen like" environment. I love to talk and catch up on things when I cook.
We (I went with her) just got back from the oncologist....all normal except the slightly low vitamin D. :-)
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I have been lurking and reading your lovely posts for a while, kind of like buying gourmet cooking magazine and never cooking! Needing to lose the weight gained over the past 3 months and get a bit healthier! And you guys have motivated me. Have headed to the meat free Monday web site and hoping to try making a vegetarian lasagne (with zucchini instead of pasta) for dinner tonight. Although maybe a vegetarian cheats quiche (with no pastry) - very quick and easy. Will continue day dreaming...
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Here goes an effort to post a link for the Creamy Artichoke and Asparagus Lasagna in the April 2014 issue of Cooking Light:
http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/creamy-artichoke-asparagus-lasagna-50400000134220/
I hope it works!
DH is having a breaded pork chop for dinner. I will probably just have some of the salad I mix up for him. If he wishes, I'll bake a potato for him. I was starving to the point that I felt light-headed as I drove home today about 2:30 pm. It so happened I "conveniently" drove by Bear's Restaurant, a favorite hole-in-the-wall poboy place. I stopped and had a "dressed" roast beef poboy. A delicious drip-down-your-arms sandwich! With a ton of sliced roast beef cooked from scratch in the Bear's kitchen. So that will be my main meal.
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Carole: It worked. Thanks. Going to send to my vegetarian DIL too.
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Welcome Previvor!
Yumm, Carole, love the object of your starvation-driven impulse stop! I was thinking of you as I made my smoothies today, and thought that the best idea for not having to look at that yuck color of greens in a smoothie w/o using the beet "dye" would be to put everything in your blender, have DH blend it, put an eye mask on and have DH hand it to you once prepared.
Then you can appreciate the taste and not be offended by the color. Of course that does require a two person effort! Last night DH grilled some chicken thighs that I marinated in teriyaki sauce (he picked them up at Trader's and thought they were breasts....hmmm not sure what that says about his visual skills or understanding of anatomy!). We had them with a big garden salad and some leftover "forbidden (black) rice". I liked the flavor of the black rice better with beef than chicken...but interesting nonetheless. It was nice for DH to be able to finally enjoy grilling w/o his winter parka on!
I just saw our little solitary hummingbird again a bit ago. I worry about how he will do in the forty degree weather tonight. Our weather is really having bi-polar swings!
Tonight I was on my own for dinner,...so back to crazy eating. Had a few tortilla chips with some hot red pepper jelly, then a hard boiled egg and some kalamata olives. And I am not preggers!
Was planning to make some ratatouille and also kale soup today but got involved with sewing a taggie, thus ate the crazy food that was handy. Could have used a Poboy! What is the RB "dressed" with? Sounds so good!0 -
Lacey, "dressed" just means with mayo, lettuce, and tomatoes. Maybe pickles.
I ended up eating dinner, too! We didn't eat until after 7 pm and by then I was hungry
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We just tried making popcorn in the microwave au natural, and every time we do this, we put it on "popcorn", it runs for almost the whole time, but stops a bit short with an "error" message...and about half the kernels popped. I get so worried that the bowl or the plate is going to explode, but I suppose that the early stoppage is to prevent that!
We have been trying the store brand popcorn, but wonder if we would have a better result with a good brand name variety. Tonight on second pop, three kernels popped and the error sign showed again. Ultimately we took out an old bag of chemical laden easy pop corn and made that in its own bag. Boy you really taste all the added stuff after tasting a few "pure" popped kernels! Yikes! i just looked at the ingredients of this Newman's Own light butter microwave popcorn, to see what I was eating, and after a long list of not so great (palm oil, butter flavor, annatto extract for color) and some okay stuff (vitamin E) the last ingredient info said "contains milk". What were the chances of that!! I guess there is some natural butter? Oy! As I said before, dairy is around every corner....hope the amount is minimal here.
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Lacey, I use Orville's or White Cat brands only and they pop like a dream. I did notice that the last time I popped, it scorched the silicone mat in my microwave. That sucker gets hot! It's so good though, even DH has started requesting it.
Haven't posted in a while because of the frustration of not being able to post from my phone, but I've been following your posts.
The baking center is moving forward, if not exactly the way I anticipated. I've had some difficulty finding a top for the cabinet. Many countertop places require a minimum, and this project is very small. I tried unsuccessfully to find a marble remnant. It's funny, all the countertop places sell marble but try to talk you out of it because it stains and is porous (even though it's the most expensive stone around here.) I then decided that I could live with quartz and did find a stone cutter that would sell me a remnant. The problem was that it was only 1 cm thick and even the remnant was going to be close to $400. Eventually, we found a kitchen and bath place that does spec homes who had granite remnants. Got a pretty good bargain for a 3 cm thick piece for $100! We're picking it up tomorrow. I really didn't want granite because I didn't want to bother with sealing it, but the time and money constraints got the best of me so I can live with it. I still have my marble slab that I can use for pastry. We put pull out heavy duty drawers in the cabinets so I now have ample storage space for my mixer, food processor, dough buckets and myriad other baking implements. I'm very anxious to have the finished product!
Spent 45 minutes this afternoon trying to get three hummingbirds out of the garage. We have so many that they flew in just as DH opened the door. It's unusual for us to have so many this early in the season but I counted (not easy to do) 20 on two feeders this morning! We have a lot, but we don't usually have this many until August when they get ready to migrate. We finally hung a feeder in the doorway and they left, one at a time. Whew!
Cooking has been hit and miss because of the kitchen goings on. There has been food, but easy stuff like quiche and meatloaf and chili. We're getting a cold snap the next few days with lows in the 40s. Just when my tomato and pepper plants are starting to bloom! They will not be happy and neither will I.
Lacey, the Asian markets where I shop sometimes have forbidden rice. I'll have to try it next time I'm there. Sometime next week, I'm traveling to the Italian neighborhood in St. Louis called "The Hill". There's a shop there that will sharpen your knives while you wait, which mine desperately need. It's a wonderful excuse to visit some of my favorite Italian grocers while I'm there.
Carole, your poboy sounds wonderful!
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Nancy, I'm so happy and relieved that you checked in! I've been noticing your absence and thinking, "Now she has disappeared, too!"
What a bummer that you couldn't get your marble top. Maybe down the road you'll be able to replace the granite. The perfect slab of marble may come available. I would like the quartz countertops for my kitchen. We still have 20 yr. old formica that's in good shape. But when I looked into getting new countertops about 5 years ago, I was put off by the inconvenience. I was also concerned about damaging the wallpaper above the backsplash when the old countertops were removed. So I said to heck with it.
Our house is a modest ranch style house in a neighborhood with larger, much more stylish homes. Just down the street is a subdivision with houses that sold in the $1,000,000 and plus range. We have a 2-acre property that is quite nice so whoever buys our house in the future would quite possibly tear it down and build something finer. It is quite comfortable for us even though the yard will probably eventually become too much to keep up.
Nancy, I hope you eat at one of those great restaurants while you're on the Hill.
I'm planning to cook one of my alltime favorite dishes tonight: Oysters Mosca. It's a specialty at Mosca's Restaurant on the west bank of New Orleans, which reputedly was a favorite hangout of the New Orleans mafia in years past. Maybe years present for all I know! The dish is served in an aluminum pie plate, piping hot. It's fresh oysters topped with seasoned breadcrumbs, green onions and garlic and parsley cooked in some olive oil and butter. You add dry basil and dry oregano and grated parmesan cheese to the bread mixture which goes on top of the raw oysters. The dish is popped into a very hot oven for about 15 minutes until the crumb topping is brown and bubbling. Hot buttered French bread goes with the dish. Yum. Yum.
I'll also make a salad but no other side dish.
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Carole - the oysters sound wonderful. I'm having left over Eye of the Round. It turned out very well w/the 500 degree pre-heat method.
Got in to see MO tomorrow. He wants me to start Aransep shots for anemia every 2 weeks for a couple of months. After researching I'm inclined to refuse. Horrible SEs for cancer patients - including stimulating tumor growth. I'd rather find out what's at the root of the anemia.
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Tonight is beef short ribs, bacon and cheddar mashed potatoes for DH, and some steamed broccoli.
Hope everyone is doing ok - I go tomorrow for my post-op at the PS. I should lose the drain, I have almost no output. I am not looking forward to seeing what is under the bandages, but I guess that will happen too. I can't move on to being fitted for a mastectomy bra and temporary prosthetic until that happens. The PS office is triangulated between the new Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, and Fresh Market, so I will console myself, lol!
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Carole, wish I was at your house dinner!
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After a couple nights of leftovers (spaghetti and chicken breasts/snow peas) have a roast in the crockpot. It smells great. Some sauce packet I picked up at the grocery. I should have put more vegies in it. I really don't like potatoes in the crockpot, too hard to judge timing. I will send some home with DD when she comes next week. Told her I would send her home with the remaining frozen stuffed shells. I think she actually made a yummy noise. Not sure roast is one of her favorite things though. Maybe I will take the saucy stuff and make a minestrone or something or even a beany soup.
Special - I hope your PS visit tomorrow is uneventful and you find tons of good food shopping buys.
Nancy - we're supposed to be mid 40s tonight. Finally had a good decent rain yesterday, the kind we wished would continue for about 48 hours straight. East Texas got way too much rain and some flooding even in the Metroplex. Our local lakes on the westside got nary a drop of runoff. Back so mid 80s again. I have the heat turned on but it didn't come on last night and might not tonight.
MinusTwo - what does MO say about the anemia? Does he have a theory about cause?
Welcome Previvor. We're like old friends chatting in the kitchen. Join in. Stay awhile (isn't that what Granny used to say?).
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Nance, good to hear from you....and that the baking center is coming along, albeit gradually. Today I got some Orville popcorn so we shall try it out!
Carole, I remember salivating the last time you made oysters Mosca. Yummmm!
Special, enjoy your escapist shopping!
And I do hope the appt goes well.Minus, I think you are wise to be wary of yet another med with possible deleterious SEs. Good luck!
Tonight I felt obliged to cook since I've not been at the counter much this week. Made two favorite diet foods....ratatouille, and (you guessed it!) kale veggie soup with Trader's low fat pre-cooked Italian chicken sausage. Saving the ratatouille for later in week, and had the soup along with a very sizable shrimp cocktail (cooked up some large shrimp with bay leaves and peppercorns) with green leaf lettuce and my own seafood cocktail sauce. Somehow, in the process of chopping lots of vegetables and cooking for three hours, I overused my bad right hand, and am in brutal pain....even after icing it. So much for marathon cooking.
Re: house updates, we had an energy audit ( our house is over 100 years old) recently and DH gotall excited about having it better insulated.....but we have some spool style (?) electrical lines so would need them upgraded first. Had the electrician over today to get an estimate and by the time he finished explaining the process of doing the job, we figure the next owners can do it before they move in!
we are still deciding whether to uograde the furnace or not. Carole, in our town, even large houses are being snapped up by contractors and being made larger, or totally demolished and replaced with enormous houses. Not sure how all these millenials are making their fortunes to afford such mansions. And the character of the neighborhoods are being affected in not necessarily good ways.
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Luv & Lacey - thanks for your thoughts. I got in to see the MO tomorrow & will go from there.
Lacey - sorry to hear about the pain in your hand. It's easy to get carried away.
Luv - we got very little rain from the projected 2 day deluge - one storm in the night. Heard the storms were brutal in parts of Dallas. But Yup - drought again!!
Special K - will look forward to tomorrows report about your doc visit. Hugs & prayers.
Nance - glad to see you back.
What's happened to Laurie?
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Ditto to "What's happened to Laurie?" Has anyone seen her on Facebook?
Tonight's dinner is a stovetop dish with ground beef, tomatoes, zucchini, and wheat noodles with a sprinkling of Italian cheese. Also a tossed salad.
Went to the gym this morning with dh and then spent the rest of the day working on making the guest room into the office and the office into the guest room. Living room is full of stuff from the bookcases. The office furniture is all positioned in its new room and the former office is almost empty and ready to be painted.
Delightful weather after a cold front--surely the last one to make it this far south until next fall--came through. The humidity dropped and we turned the a/c off. Yay!!
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