So...whats for dinner?
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Extremely cool, Susan!! So happy for all of you! Off the top of my head, I recall having a nice "large party" (12 or so)celebration dinner with our Parisien friend for his daughter's graduation at La Voile on Newbury St. last year. Not one of the most expensive French bistros, but it was lovely. Will put on my thinking cap for other ideas.....
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Susan, that is awsome. Sounds like it will be a special day.
Specialk you too! Family is special.
Carole Heartland table is great show. A lot of the food is similar to Wisconsin. Well maybe NOT lutefisk! LOL And I grew up eating ring bologna. It was a cheap sausage for my family of 10. We also fried regular bologna with onions for sandwiches. Again filling and cheap. And actually probably better for us as a lot of the fat rendered out in cooking. LOL
Supper tonight was a burgandy beef kabob from Sendiks. Yum.
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moon - I actually love a fried bologna sandwich with red onion, Monterey Jack and yellow mustard. I don't remember who introduced me to it but I thank them. I don't eat them anymore, but would be hard pressed to walk away if one appeared in front of me.
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Wonderful news, Susan! I'm happy for you.
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Way cool Susan!!!!!
Eric
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Eric, is that the Southwest version of "wicked cool"?
Just finished having an interview with some administrators at a local elementary school to figure out if and how they can use me as a counseling volunteer. I am hoping that I can implement some of the social and emotional skill building programs I developed over the past twenty years with the elementary students in my own community. We'll see how this works out. I can use a little structure in my life during the winter! They were receptive....free service afterall.
Off to the gym on a torrentially rainy day.....
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Susan - fantastic news about your DD.
Hi everyone else. Debbie - how are you? Laurie - when does school start back up for your kiddos? Bedo - thinking of you.0 -
OH Susan---I LOVE Weddings-----cake, cream cheese mints, spiced nuts in little cups, and Punch------WOOHOO. I even like getting the registry and seeing what they pick out. And wrapping the present, and the quirky games you play at showers....
the only wedding I was ever in was on Oct 4th. What a great time of the year.
Here's a toast to a long happy lifetime together.
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Hello all and early good morning,
Need to catch up with reading. Congrats on the anniversaries and weddings to come.
I am healing well from last surgery. Made it to conference, fell asleep after last class yesterday til now. Back home Sunday need to get everything ready as school starts Monday. Still need to get them backpacks. Supplies and uniforms are already purchased.
LUAU planned for tonight.
Happy eating
Vivian
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Hi Viv
I hope you feel better. Here is a song to sing at your dinner. We were marched out as children and forced to perform this for the adult's entertainment at parties as children. I'm sure you can make up some movements to go along like swimming and sea Have fun!
THE HUKILAU SONG © 1948
Lyrics & Music: Jack Owens
Sheet Music:
Recordings:
CD: Hukilau Hulas (GNP Crescendo GNPD 35)
Oh, we're going to a hukilau
A huki, huki, huki, huki, hukilau
Ev'rybody loves a hukilau
Where the laulau is the kau kau at the big luau
We'll throw our nets out into the sea And all the ama ama come-a swimming to me Oh, we're going to a hukilau
A huki, huki, huki, huki, hukilau
Ev'rybody loves a hukilau
Where the laulau is the kau kau at the hukilau
What a beautiful day for fishing
In the old Hawaiian way
All the hukilau nets are swishing
Down in old Laie Bay
Oh, we're going to a hukilau
A huki, huki, huki, huki, hukilau
Ev'rybody loves a hukilau
Where the laulau is the kau kau at the big luauDinner was black bean burgers. Mash up beans mix with bread crumbs, an egg and sautéed onion. put in pan with olive oil Put on a roll with ketchup and eat. I will never catch up. Hello to all I work-sleep-work-sleep
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viv - yay! I have been wondering how you are doing with all of my driving back and forth to the east coast.
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Grrrrrrr.......lost post while DH was doing something to our router.....so you get spared my long post!
Viv, happy to hear you are doing well. Too bad your little chefs have to return to school!!
Bedo, interesting black bean burger.
At lake,.....need to make nectar to fill hummingbird feeders....doing little else.
. Very, very cool....good walking weather. Dinner tonight with friends from home at Pasquaney Inn across the lake. Planning to have Sunday brunch at Church Landing, a newer inn on Lake Winnipesaukee, popular wedding spot....they do a great brunch buffet.Used our tasty Jersey tomatoes in caprese salads over arugula the last two nights. Had that with skillet chicken with veggies and balsamic. Better leftovers of the chicken last night....
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OMG Lacey I just googled pics of both of those places. They look divine. Cool and green. Enjoy.
Bedo - where in the heck did you learn The Hukilau Song? I learned to hula to that in Hawaii I guess at school. How is your DD?
I made a lovely stir fry with skirt steak, snow peas, onions and Udon noodles. I bought a balsamic vinegar at local grocery that is lovely. Added just the right touch - I'd read about adding "Chinese black vinegar" but never heard of that and sugg. sub was balsamic. I have a turkey breast carcass out thawing. Think it's chicken/dumplings night.
That will last us a couple of days. Going into Ft Worth for Mexican food tomorrow night.Congratulations Susan on your DD's engagement. I love small weddings.
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Specialk
In Orlando til Sunday, where in east coast are you driving to?
V
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viv - our friend in Boynton Beach passed away toward the end of July, so we were there off and on in mid to late July, then the funeral in Miami Shores at the end of the month, then back a couple of times to get the condo ready for sale. DH is there now doing last touches to the condo for the listing, selling the car, and meeting with the lawyer in Palm Beach. We are pretty much done for the moment, I go to California for my high school reunion in a couple of weeks, then down to the Keys to move DD back to Tampa for her new job with alligators! I will have a new expander placed in early Oct. most likely, so will be quiet again for a bit! Are you feeling good?
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Bedo & Luv - I learned the Hukilau with appropriate dance steps when I was a kid in Northern CA. I think I can even remember a few of the hand movements. Plastic leis!!
Olathe sweet corn hit the stores two weeks ago and was gone in 2 days. I was luck to snag 4. A new shipment came in this morning. I'll be eating nothing but corn & watermelon for the next week. Oh and maybe some Hatch chili stuff since it's the festival month. Central Market makes the most delicious Hatch chili scones.
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Minus.....hatch chili?? A pepper?
Love the sound of good corn on cob and watermelon for meals...DH loves both, but seems to need other nutritional fillers (like protein!;) Maybe some evening when is out at a business dinner, I can indulge.
Special, I feel like a sloth when reading your recent schedule. Wow! I hope you can slow down before your next procedure, so your body will feel rested.
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Just saw the first corn stand up by us. I'll have to try it. And freeze the requisite Thanksgiving and Christmas corn. LOL. I don't freeze a lot but make sure I gave enough "real" corn for those dinners. My Mom and my DH Mom used to freeze tons of it and I never needed to do it myself. Since they passed I just do a bare minimum. But i love a meal of just corn. Well, corn and butter. Oh. And salt. LOL. Of course gotta make sure I'm near a bathroom the next day.... LOL
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Probably hospital food tonight.
DD was running in a trash can race in a school assembly and crashed into the other runner.
..possible concussion.... They did a CT scan to check her out.
Her humor is coming back, so I think she's getting better.
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A minor one...got her "bell rung". CT shows nothing unusual.
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Eric - oh no!! Glad the CT is ok. She may have some headaches going forward for a few weeks.
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Eric, glad to hear that DD isn't seriously injured. How was the hospital food?
Viv, hope you're feeling ok.
For dinner tonight we had corn cut off the cob with diced yellow and orange bell pepper sautéed in liberal amt. of butter. Delicious. Pan-seared crappie filets in olive oil and butter with tartar sauce made of Hellman's light mayo, sweet relish and horseradish. Out of dill relish.
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Eric - so glad the CT scan came out OK for your DD.
Lacey - as far as I know, Hatch Chilis only come from Hatch, New Mexico and this is the only month of the year they are available. There are bottled salsas & sauces and canned chilis available occasionally in some stores but maybe only in the "west". Central Market roasts them in front of the store for sale & adds them to everything from scones to hamburger patties to omelets. Wonderful flavor.
Moon - can you freeze corn on the cob? Or do you need to cut off the kernels?
Dinner tonight was a huge handful of radishes, black olives, 1/2 of a long English cucumber, two ears of corn on the cob and a glass of Cote du Rhone red wine. Lunch was BowTie pastry that one of the players brought to our domino game with a can of Root Beer and some cocktail peanuts for protein.
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Eric, so scary! Glad that the CT just showed brain and no damage.
Dinner tonight was some fajita flank steak, pico de gallo and black beans, with some homemade corn chips. The tomatoes are coming faster than we can eat them these days. I believe that i have eaten 6 tomatoes today. Gazpacho for lunch and the pico for dinner.
Lacey, perhaps you would enjoy a trip in town to eat a really decent BLT? PM if you are interested. I certainly have plenty of the tomatoes, and for you, I would make some bread.
*susan*
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eric, glad your DD didn't Get hurt worse. It's scary when they get hurt. Specialk is right my DD1 got a bad headache after she knocked herself out with her knee when she was dancing. LOL not sure a trash can race is much better though! LOL : )
Viv, good to hear from you.
Minus I freeze corn off the cob. I usually cook it with the cob - it tastes better. Then I have a nail through a clean board that fits over my sink. In the clean sink is a clean dishpan. Place the board over the dishpan in the sink, put the cob of corn on the nail and use the cutter on the cob. The corn falls into the pan with less sticky juice over the kitchen. Then I freeze the corn. The nail holds up the cob so the cutter I have strips off most of the kernels in one stroke. Then I can use a knife to trim up what it missed.
Carole that corn sounds drlish. The simpler the better!
Dinner was a quick fried rice to use up the fish from dinner yesterday.
Much love to all.
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Viv, I'm sorry, I couldn't help it. I hope that it is not too late to learn this for tonight. Ha ha!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJusP2u35Dk
I had a really easy dinner tonight.
Take some really ripe tomatoes and chop them up with some garlic, as much as you like and some basil, also to your taste.
Mix with some good olive oil and let sit for a 1/2 hour or so
Then cook some pasta, I like spaghetti and mix without cooking the tomato mixture.
Add parmesan on top if you like
Lazy woman's dinner
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Minus you crack me up. can you be my personal chef?
Eric I hope everything is OK
I will try to catch up and apologize for anyone that I have missed
I am so tired after work lately and am having a hard time catching up
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She's going to be fine once her headache subsides.
For whatever reason I don't like, "This is Mrs. _______, the principal at __________ high school. Your daughter was involved in a minor mishap at today's school assembly." The nurse feels that you or your wife should take her to the hospital to be evaluated for the possibility of a concussion."
We did manage to avoid the hospital cafeteria food and instead got some takeout.
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It turns out that even a small, quick wedding requires some planning and a bunch of "appointments" to meet with people about flowers and photos. One of my greatest resentments when I was an active player was how much those two vendors made at a wedding, compared to the pittance that us musicians make. Talking with one photographer, I mentioned this, and she started to talk about the cost of her equipment. I reminded her that she was talking to a violinist, and she was smart enough to stop whining about camera prices.
We have hired a guitarist to play. The kid and I went to his wedding in the outskirts of Paris and she LOVED his wedding. The event was in a huge barn, plunked in the middle of a field. There was dancing and food and happiness, all in French of course. We pooped out early. The party continued until dawn without us.
Redheaded, what is a cream cheese mint? Sorry to disappoint, but there will be no cake, or mints, or punch. No registry, no showers, and no party games. There will be no gifts, in fact.
The two "kids" have picked rings, are still looking for a suit for him, and are otherwise doing what the can to plan. She starts her placement at Lesley University next week, so not much time to get these pieces in place.
My mental budget has gone kaflooey, so I doubt I can hire someone to clean the house. Rats!
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susan - I think these are the mints, def an item from weddings back in the day:
http://www.nuts.com/chocolatessweets/mints/dessert-mints.html
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