So...whats for dinner?
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One of my closest friends is a HUGE fisher person. Generally she heads out onto the ocean in a kayak, but if she knew a Captain in Florida, she could be very interested. She and her husband spend about 3-4 months during the winter in Florida. Please let me know when she can take people out. And yes, I can see why she was included in a commercial. Nice form, and a very attractive young lady.
Dinner tonight was some of the leftover chicken, reheated, a cheese tortellini salad, and the requisite three tomatoes. We have fallen way behind again. There must be 45 of those suckers in the bowl in the kitchen. Our roommates are not eating any where near enough.
*susan*
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susan - thanks! She is a continual wonder to me - very adventurous! I am risk averse, but her dad is not, so I know where she got the trait from! When we went to Austria last summer she went paragliding off an Alp, and I went shopping, lol! She should be moving back by October 1st at the latest, and should be done with her license then - not sure when she starts the alligator job yet. She is quite familiar with the waters of Tampa Bay and surrounding areas, and also a variety of locations in the Keys. She has a 17' flats boat, and a very good friend with a larger offshore boat, who is also a working captain with years of experience, and can take people out anytime. The commercial was shot in Key West, she had a blast. They gave her the Bote paddleboard she is on in the Berkeley commercial, and they also shot a separate Bote commercial that she is in, but it has not been released yet.
Dinner tonight was a pork loin roast, red potato salad and steamed green beans. Nothing very exciting but it was yummy just the same. DH was craving something dessert-like, which we have none of - so he is using a free drink coupon at Starbucks for a mocha Frappuccino. I caved and am getting a coffee flavored one.
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Bedo, these are for you. The first are pregnant mares and three second is Alex, one of the stars in the "puppy love" commercial.
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Special. That was a great video. Thanks for posting the link.
Tonight I made a tarragon, curry powder, thyme, pepper, salt, lemon juice rub, put it onto and inside a salmon and cooked it, wrapped in aluminum foil, in the oven.
The sauce (not sure what to call it) for it was a gravey like affair...butter, flour, tarragon, curry powder, thyme, chicken broth....cooked until thick and then a bit of white wine added at the end. Steamed green beans, bread and a salad was "the rest of the story".
I'm driving the school bus tomorrow, so it's a 4am wakeup for me tomorrow.
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Eric - our kids start school tomorrow too. Wow - 4am!! I so admire all the various things you do.
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eric - glad you enjoyed the video. When the Bote commercial goes up I will post the link to that one too. Much of it was filmed with a drone, so it looks pretty cool. That is an early morning for you! Hope all your bus-riding kiddos behave! Your salmon sounds delish - made the DH some mahi mahi the other night (I am not much of a fish eater) - I roasted it and topped it with pre-roasted combo of peppers, onions and chili sauce.
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SpecialK, I enjoyed seeing your daughter in the commercial. She sounds like a "special" daughter!
Eric, the kids here in northern MN are starting school today. The kids at home in Louisiana started school a couple of weeks ago. Did you create your own salmon recipe?
Last night's dinner ended up being taco salad, minus the tortillas. The avocados were very ripe but not spoiled. The leftover prime rib was delicious cut in thin slices.
Tonight's dinner is an unknown at this point.
I would happily participate in an effort at fly fishing. I had the opportunity in Bull Shoals, Arkansas, to watch fly fishermen in the White River. Our rv site was on a high shoreline overlooking the White. The fishermen would arrive in their vehicles and then go through the process of donning their waders, etc. It requires a lot of "stuff" to fly fish! On one occasion all the fishermen were alerted to leave the river because water was about to be released through the dam upriver.
Lacey, my ideal summer weather is exactly like our cool weather this summer. I do not like weather that requires a/c cooling. This morning we awoke to 62 degrees outside and inside the camper. But we have mild winters at home with some occasional freezing. We probably dread summer discomfort the way some northerners can dread winter.
Missing Apple and Michelle. Hope Deb and Debbie and others not posting are doing well. Moon, are you ok?
Our plan was to go out on the lake and do some fishing this morning but it looks quite windy. Maybe the wind will lie in a bit.
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Special, thanks for sharing that fly fishing info....and the cool video with DD in it. In the brief face shot, I thought I saw a distinct mom resemblance....very cool!
Eric, have fun on your first drive of the new school year. I don't think anyone would want me driving their kids to school at 4AM. We still have fond memories of "Bill the bus driver" who drove my kids for many years. I'm sure parents feel the same way about you!
Our Parisien friend's daughter came for dinner and to chat about her life direction last evening. She is a very accomplished 23 year old, with a responsible job, who is leaving a several year relationship, and trying to decide where to live. She has not had the easiest life, and lost her mother just prior to starting college. Her dad and stepdad are both currently not physically thriving. The boyfriend and she have been together since mid college, so now she is about to fly solo which is understandably really scary. She presents in a very mature way, but clearly is very worried about whether she will successfully grab the next ring as she lets go of this one. Given the history we know, it was hard not to recommend that she connect with a nurturing therapist to help her sort out her inner and outer life issues, and maximize her strengths. But this was a first conversation, so I needed to hold back my eagerness for her to start such a journey. To be continued....
For dinner on our deck (yay warmer temps!) we enjoyed a nice cheese tray (we're stateside, afterall) with grapes and walnuts, and melon wrapped with prosciutto to start. Then, as planned, had citrus marinated grilled chicken breasts, balsamic marinated veggies (tons!), local corn on cob, (broken into thirds for ease of handling;), arugula/baby spinach salad with watermelon and feta, french bread, and purchased eclairs and fresh raspberries for dessert. Now if I were Susan, I would have made my own eclairs, but we were definitely better off that I didn't! LOL
Tonight....after gym and stretching class (so needed), we have dinner at a local restaurant with DS2.
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Carole, we crossed posts. I, too, think of Apple and Michelle with great nostalgia.
. They both possessed and shared such wisdom and beauty. I often think of Michelle's sayings, and never watch The Chew without thinking of her. 0 -
carole - thanks! She is a special daughter - I have missed her a lot since she moved away in January - I have been enjoying seeing her more these last few weeks with the job related trips home. She comes home tonight for an orientation tomorrow, then again for a friend's wedding in mid-Sept, but I will be at my HS reunion in California, so will miss her. Then she will be back to start the job a couple of weeks later.
lacey - your dinner sounds fabulous and glad you had some milder weather so you could eat on the deck. Sounds like your young friend has some decisions to make - she is young enough that even if she stumbles a bit, she has time to recover. I think that cutting loose the college boyfriend and leaving that time behind is not always a bad thing - I think it helps you figure out who you are, one's 20's are such a time of change it is hard sometimes to stay with the one you met at 19 or 20. Neither of the two my DD dated - both long term, about 3 years each - were right for her. The first one was too compliant so she steamrolled him, the second not compliant at all, so they butted heads over EVERYTHING. She is 25 and not dating anyone, and seems unconcerned, but I think she will be glad to be back in Tampa, which has a much larger population than the Keys!
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Lacey, I think you and your dh both are good people for this young woman to talk to. You have a way of putting things into perspective. You meal on the deck sounds like a lovely occasion.
I'm feeling pleased with myself because I trimmed my hair this afternoon and it looks pretty good after I blowdried it and used a round brush. The young stylist I went to last year was booked up and I figured I was better off being botched by myself than risk being a walk-in.
Dh suggested a veggie medley for dinner. Corn off the cob, diced carrot, and sugar snap peas. The man loves veggies. I took some kraut brats out of the freezer and will cook a couple for him. I'm thinking I'll have leftover chicken noodle soup. I might add some of the veggie medley to my bowl of soup! It has been such a fall-like day here, similar to our weather in late Oct.
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Carole, how brave of you! I'm so impressed that your self-cut worked out well. These days, I usually only dare to cut my bangs, especially since my hair is stick straight, thus unable to absorb my cut mistakes!
Love that your DH is so fond of veggies!
So we had a good old summer temp day here today with another expected tomorrow. DH is dying to get back to the lake so we can boat out to the middle of it and jump off the boat into the cool 200 feet deep water. If we get to do that, I'll feel like we experienced summer! Yay! Actually unlike many, I don't dread winter here at all. There is such a crisp beauty to it. Last winter DH and I enjoyed some great walks in single digit temps with snow abounding. Not sure I could live without the four seasons.
After our gym workout and stretching class, we had dinner at a local French style restaurant with DS2. I had a lovely leek/spinach cream soup and then duck breast with asparagus and (horrors!) mashed potatoes. DH had hake provencal, and DS2 had coquille St. Jacques. They both also had mussels menuire (sp?) and smoked salmon for apps. The sauvignon blanc flowed freely, which I'm not used to these days. Back on the food and wine wagon tomorrow.... Tho meeting a friend for lunch, and I know the BLT will be tempting. Susan, I have not forgotten about your sweet offer, so I hope your tomato bounty holds up until I am in town for a bit, and your work schedule calms down.
So we got precious little info from DS2 about his relationship status, other than learning that Chicago girl is coming here for this long weekend. He did fill us in on their trip down the coast to visit our relatives. Patience, parents!!
I laughed about the fact that when DH ran into one of DS2's best friends yesterday he offered his wife to be our informant since she is also watching this relationship closely. Yikes! Poor guy....fish bowl romance!Special, I also do think that late college, early adulthood relationships often serve as a sort of transitional object, and that is what our friend's daughter truly needed during these past few years to support her ability to leave the structured support of college life. It was a pretty nurturing relationship that she needed to get through that time. Now she is sorting out in which direction she wants to spread her wings. I'm hoping the best for her.
Yes, your DD sounds like she will benefit from the expanded social opportunities in Tampa. Will she definitely take a job and settle there?
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lacey - not sure if DD will stay in Tampa or not. This afternoon, while she was driving back here for her alligator job orientation, she received an email asking for a phone interview for tomorrow afternoon for a marine mammal training job just north of Jacksonville - so about a 3 hour drive form us. She has the perfect combo of training and experience for this job - it is a contracted job to the Navy with sea lions and dolphins, and she would have to dive extensively and drive boats - right up her alley. One of the trainers at her current internship also had this same job, and feels like they will hire her, but she is trying not to get too excited yet. I think she would like the challenge and certainly would enjoy assisting the military - she is an Air Force brat, so it is in her blood. As is often the case with marine mammal training, one goes where the jobs are. We are used to that as a military family, but I struggle with missing them but knowing they have to pursue their own destiny!
Tonight was a chicken/romaine/napa cabbage salad with an Asian style dressing, topped with sliced almonds, scallions and black sesame seeds.
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Leek/spinach cream soup, duck breast, coquilles St. Jacques, mussels meuneure... I'm drooling all over the keyboard! Lacey, please tell me you have gained weight! It would only be fair to those of us more food deprived.
Here am I craving southern biscuits and wacking a can of Grand biscuits on the corner of the counter. I had two biscuits for breakfast, with butter and a bit of rhubarb/cranberry jam purchased at the Farmers' Mkt. Then for lunch I had two more (ok, I confess, I had three!) warmed up with my bowl of soup for lunch. So I'll probably be the weight gainer eating canned biscuits while Lacey dines at the best restaurants and remains svelte.
It was 52 degrees when we got up this morning and is 60 degrees outside now, at 2:45pm. DH and I played our last round of golf for the summer at the pretty little course down the highway, Eagle View GC. Next Tues. we plan to depart.
Tonight I'll cook the rest of the pkg of kraut brats and some more veggies. Probably broccoli. And a green salad. The brats are delicious, the best I've ever tasted. They're the ones we bought at Thielen Meats.
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Carole - what are "kraut brats"? Your meals sound yummy too. Much more adventurous cooking in an RV than I could be. You just need to pack some Pioneer biscuit mix and maketh your own. Even the indiv. pkgs couldn't take up much room.
Lacey - I've never had anything near what you have for an ordinary meal. Celebration meals around here usually mean going out for Mexican food.
The old slow cooker is back in business today. 102 degrees per back porch thermometer. Making a hamburger/bacon/baked bean dish from "Make If and Forget It". Hopefully will be some leftovers to freeze. Had hamburgers from the other portion of the meat package. Cooked the meat/bacon last night then the burgers so only one pan to wash. Will make garlic bread from the remaining buns since I forgot to buy anything else. See if I can talk DH into some salad but he did just walk by with a nectarine so all is not lost.
Local TV website had story about Fresh Market adding so many new jobs in Dallas. Not sure when the FW store is opening. Only on FM website as "leased". I had a good peak at the website. Yummy. Now to just haul myself to Ft. Worth. Enjoying the doctor break since it is really the only excuse I have to go there but do miss my shopping. Well not so much in this weather. Surely fall is around the corner.
Special - I cracked up at "alligator job orientation". Not every Mama that can say that about their DD. Loved the Berkley commercial. Those paddleboards look like fun but geesh if your balance is not great - whoopee. Training marine mammals for the Navy - gosh what an interesting thing. Again not your average job. Can't wait to hear what happens. Sounds like she has some quick tough decisions to make.
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luvmygoats - she went to the alligator job thing this morning - came home with adorable safari outfits and some tall rubber boots! She no sooner got home than did the phone interview with the Navy marine mammal job - it appears as though they have at least narrowed the field to include her for the next level of scrutiny.. It is double the pay and a permanent full-time deal, so I think she will take it, if they offer it.. If she gets it she will live in N. Jacksonville, so only a 3 hour drive. Where she is now is 6, so that is an improvement. She is pretty excited.
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Luv, here in brat country, there is a wide selection of brats in the meat case. There are wild rice brats and brats made with sauerkraut and... trying to think of some of the others. Usually 5 or 6 different kinds. I assume the main meat ingredient is ground pork and then seasonings. All the supermarkets up here make their own brats. The way I learned to cook them is to put them in a skillet and steam them in beer. I pour in a whole bottle, usually dark beer which dh happens to prefer. You can brown them in the skillet after the beer has steamed away or you can put them on a hot grill and brown them. Serve with mustard.
Some friends from Wisconsin reverse that procedure. They brown the raw brats on the grill and then steam them in beer to finish cooking them.
My kitchen in the 5th wheel camper is quite nice. I have a 4-burner stove and a convection/microwave oven that has multiple cooking settings, some of which combine the convection and microwave cooking. You can even bake cookies and cakes if so inclined but we buy cookies from the Bread and Pie Lady. My diet doesn't include eating biscuits often because I avoid white flour but every now and then I HAVE to have a biscuit dripping with butter!
Midwesterners can make great pancakes but not good biscuits. Maybe because biscuits aren't popular in the Midwest. Or maybe they aren't popular because Midwesterners haven't grown up eating good biscuits! When I was a kid, my mother mixed up biscuits for breakfast most mornings. My dad called them cat heads! They weren't small, dainty biscuits.
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Hello all,
Been reading, but still need to catch up. Hope you all are well.
Congrats to your daughter...Special K
Chinese food for us tonight, not cooking.
Take care,
Vivian
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Special - routing for your DD. I hope the Navy job comes through.
Carole - interesting biscuit theory. I was raised in northern CA and my Mother made yeast rolls & cinnamon rolls & bread but not biscuits. I too cheat with the Grands. I buy the 'can' with only 5 so I can't eat too many.
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Special, best of luck to DD. She sounds like a great contender for this position....and a very adorable gutsy gal! Last night, DS2 was telling us about his visit to his brothers and his adventures with their busy kids. There was an incident during which little DGD ran into the pool w/o her floaties and she sunk! Of course, DS2 rescued her and loved that she just came up saying, "I went underwater!" and hardly cried or whined. He goes for her being a little resilient girl. She is quite the gutsy one!
Also, several have asked about Laurie, who is busy getting her kids school prepped....and Debbie, who fell up the steps of her new camper/RV and has been sidelined with what sounds from her Facebook posts like a pretty serious leg injury from that. I bet she'd love to hear from folks in a PM, and I'm sure will fill all in soon.
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Try Mary B brand frozen buttermilk biscuits for a pretty decent one that's much better than canned. In the south I've fid them at Kroger. Carole, I've made those cat head biscuits! My family is from the south and biscuits were a staple. Love 'em.
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Whispered confession: I ate the last biscuit with my dinner last night. Made a little biscuit sandwich with half of my brat.
The Grands are actually quite good for canned biscuits. My mother buys them regularly. She hasn't made a biscuit in years.
Lacey, sorry to hear that Debbie had an accident on their new rv. I think it's a motorhome. Glad to hear that Laurie's busy with the kids and doing ok. For a young woman she has a lot of illness.
Took a large chicken (that dh bought) out of the freezer to cook for dinner. I had told him to look for a chicken without the antibiotics but he took some woman's advice and bought this chicken that said Natural on the label. It was marked down and she told him it was a bargain! He also bought some chicken breasts because of the same woman's advice. They were also marked Natural! I used them to make the chicken soup.
Will look up Ina's recipe for ideal baked chicken. Thank you, Nance, for reminding me. Since I recently discovered the instructions/recipe manual for the Sharp combo oven, I know the right setting to use.
The plan is to take the little pontoon boat out on the lake today and use our fishing rods one last time before we pack them up. This weekend the resort will be overflowing with the owners' relatives and both pontoon boats will probably be in use by them. This week has been wonderful having the whole place to ourselves.
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Thanks all for the good thoughts on the job for the DD! She is stressed at the moment - her paid internship ends mid-Sept., the Navy job requires a background check and clearance so would be a few months before starting, she is ok with that - she can come home for a couple of months and work a variety of odd jobs and make money, but she found out that the alligator job wants her to start next week! She told the interviewers there that she was committed at the internship, but they failed to pass that on to HR, so now she feels bad! They agreed to let her wait until 9/8 to start but if she gets the Navy job she will have to tell the alligator job - eeeks! So complicated! On the plus side here is a video of what she would be doing with the Navy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzGA84i6qlw
carole - are you referring to Ina's engagement chicken recipe?
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Special, who knew??? Looks like a fun, interesting and important job. Hope DD is able to successfully navigate the complex job offer situation she finds herself in. Fingers crossed for her....
Obviously a regional thing, I never got into biscuits, tho on occasion in years past, have used the "canned pastry items" for certain recipes that called for them...and I have no memory of what....just recall the banging of the cardboard can, hoping it wouldn't explode too terribly. ;/
Carole, you may be relieved to know that as of this AM, I am still up the two lbs I brought home from last week's lake dinners....obviously no way to shed them given our heavy social weekend at home. Clearly paying the piper! And now that we are back in NH, it is quite likely that I could add to that number.
So tonight, though I was tired after the packing up and driving back here, and would have loved to order take-out for dinner, I decided to keep my "wagon resolve" and foraged in the vegetable bin. Made us a veggie frittata accompanied by my old stand-by cuke and red onion salad, and a corn on cob for each that was a couple days old but really tasty.
Hope the chicken was great. I was always amazed at restaurants that had roast chicken as their special dish.....and finally tried it at one, and special it was! That is true of a well known place in Boston's South End, Hammersley's Bistro, which is closing soon, after 27 years. Those patrons might need to learn to roast their own chicken!
Luv, good Mexican restaurants are few and far between in these parts....
This Saturday is our Labor Day weekend potluck beach party. I have a bunch of tomatoes I bought at our town Farmer's Market, and am thinking about making a roasted tomato pasta dish for that. After the potluck, DH serves as DJ, and it turns into a beach dance party. Hoping we escape rain.....
I'm resisting having a biscotti with my evening peppermint tea.....
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wow! Everyone is really cooking on all burners!
Specialk I hope your DD gets the permanent job a bit closer. Fingers crossed.
LOL I haven't been doing much. Did my last PT for my knee today. Started back up at the Y last week when they let me in the pool. Funny but I still can't swim much. LOL gotta work up to it. Signed up for the arthritis swim clasd. Signed up for my jewelry class too. Back to my normal for a but. I made biscuits once. Yeah. Definitely from the midwest. LOL but I love biscuits and gravy. There's a diner here that does them wonderfully. I ate then thoughout chemo it was one of the few things I could eat. My DH would pick them up for me every weekend.
Ok. Gotta admit my dinner was McDonald's today. I got the Cheddar Melt. I love those as bad as they are for you. Haven't had one in at least 2 years because last year they had another version that was pitifully bad. You can taste the cheese, onions, and even the rye roll. So i was happy. Didn't need the fries and just had unsweetened ice tea so not to horribly wrong. LOL
Much love.
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Moon - I can sympathize w/your craving. One of my favorite vices was always a Denny's Patty Melt. I tried it once last year during treatment but my taste buds betrayed me. I'll have to go soon to see if it's good again.
Lacey - thanks for the news of Laurie & Debbie.
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That salmon that I cooked.....7 pounds worth....
I had cut it into 9 pieces. Sharon and I each got a piece and it's all gone..... DD said it was good. :-)
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eric - lol! She's a growing girl. Who likes salmon a lot!
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My weight is up, too. So I'll get out the Nutribullet and make a smoothie for breakfast. The weather is dreary with some drizzle raindrops. Feel sorry for the families here for the weekend with kids. The forecast isn't good. If it clears off this afternoon, I'll definitely go for a 3-mile walk.
Moon, dh loves patty melts. It's one of the sandwiches he will have for lunch when we're at a restaurant.
The chicken wasn't a big success on the first go-round. It was a huge chicken, 5.6 lbs. I don't think it was completely cooked. We ate the legs for dinner and then I put the rest of the carcass into a pot with water and a can of rotel tomatoes and seasonings. Also thawed out a pkg of Andouille sausage. Yesterday I turned the pot contents into chicken sausage gumbo. It was delicious. I brought along some powder form roué. The absence of okra wasn't a big thing.
If you notice, most of the rotisserie chickens in the supermarkets aren't huge chickens.
The Labor Day pot luck is late Saturday afternoon. I'm planning to make a slaw with napa cabbage, red cabbage, yellow and orange bell pepper and maybe cucumber. Haven't decided about the cucumber. Thinking I will mix up a vinaigrette dressing instead of the mayo mixture commonly used. I don't want to weigh down the veggies with a heavy dressing. I want it to be crisp. The owner bought a whole pig to cook.
Dinner will be either leftover gumbo or a steak. Time to decide.
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Sorry to learn about your rain, Carole...tho I will also be narcississtically sorry when it hits us in a couple of days! It is really cool here at the lake (63 degrees) but today's sun makes it quite nice. Hoping it stays clear until after the beach pot luck and dance party tomorrow or DH will have brought all his tons of equipment for nothing....that happened last year. The heavens opened right after he set up....and after the food was set out. What a mess! Fingers crossed here.
I was going to make a roasted tomato pasta casserole for the pot luck, but my yield of tomatoes is too small....so I'm thinking a layered greek salad. Considered mac and cheese with bacon, which would be interesting, but since I would not really want any of those possible leftovers in my house, I will go with the layered salad. Oh, decisions, decisions......your slaw sounds good, Carole.
Last night we again(!!) ate out purely due to my cooking laziness, and the fact that DH wanted to try an Italian restaurant we always pass by but never try. The food was good...we didn't go for Italian afterall. I had lumb crabmeat and double steamed broccoli...no potato at my request. I'm pretty much out of the habit of eating potatoes. DH had baked haddock with rice and broccoli. We shared a greek salad. We got a kick out of the menu which had different prices for exactly the same items on different pages. We ordered the less expensive (exactly same!) crab cakes. LOL! I was especially happy that they also made their crabcakes with no celery so I could have them. I think I have had my fill of crabmeat now. I also think our bodily mercury content has to be elevated given our consumption of fish this summer!
DH just went to the beach to start cleaning off the boat, which has been still in the water for several weeks. Think I'll head to the beach to possibly help....and celebrate the sun...who knows how long it will stay!
Have a fun and safe Labor Day weekend everyone!
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