So...whats for dinner?
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susan - thanks! She is unique, for sure! It is so interesting to me to watch my children in this phase of their lives - part of our parental influence is clearly present in their choices, but they are definitely individuals, and it is fun to watch them figure out what to do and what makes them happy. She just started seeing a new guy - their second date was fishing on her boat. So she hooked up the boat to the back of her truck, brought it to the ramp, launched it, he met her there and jumped on the boat, and then they fished for several hours and chatted. Not your usual date, but that is her style. I am so glad that you will be able to see your husband's cousin more now that she is moving closer - she sounds great! She also sounds busy!!! Like you!
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Carole, I loved reading about your summer travels. Glad you are home, but will miss the stories.
Lacey, can't wait to hear all of yours.
Ladies, did a gal named GiGL post on this page/? We haven't heard from her on Radiation Recovery since Aug 18th and are getting a little concerned.
Made a unusual side dish of Poblano roasted sweet potatoes. Pealed diced sweet potatoes chopped onion, chopped poblano pepper and some garlic with Olive oil and roasted in the oven. Served with ham.
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Dinner tonight will probably be leftovers
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Special, love hearing about your daughter's job adventures and style (love that date!:).....ditto to what Susan said!
Welcome home, Carole! Nice homecoming dinner for you!
I have yet to collect my many thoughts to share our Italian culinary adventures....so many meals.....so little memory and executive function! Apologies....but I will do it....and will type up that bread recipe...just need to get rid of this fatigue.
After we got home late Saturday night, we spent yesterday mired in major laundry efforts, the neighborhood gathering last night which I made a spinach salad for, and today our return to the fitness center. We really needed that....however, I almost did not go since I am experiencing significant jet lag (?). Basically exhausted, and get these waves of fatigue that make me want to head for the mattress all day long. My head said the exercise would be helpful for me...my body, resisted. I followed my head, and am glad for that, but am still really tired.
Today I had to go to the allergy center to get my serum refills, and stopped at Whole Foods on way home to get something easy for dinner since we get home from the stretching class right at dinner time. I knew cooking would be a stretch after stretching class, given the fatigue I feel.
So I picked up cooked shrimp and we had that (as a large shrimp cocktail over shredded romaine), with a caprese salad on the side. I won't even mention the Italian bread from Whole Foods I bought since it was on sale. 
Carole, I came home up three lbs., so I am back on the wagon too.....except for that bread tonight....hee hee.I think I'll head to bed....and it is 8:15! Yikes....hope this weirdness passes and my energy and brain return!
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Dinner tonight was grilled lamb chops cooked perfectly by dh. Okra and tomatoes and a tossed salad.
I finished emptying out the camper today and cleaned it on the inside. Cleaning the outside is dh's job. The humidity was awful and I got wet with perspiration walking back and forth between house and camper. We're supposed to get our first cool spell on Friday.
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Gotta look in the freezer to see what I wanna make
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Last night, I proved that I love my kid. At 6pm, a time I would normally be making dinner, husband and I climbed into the beat-up Subaru and headed to the Burlington Mall. For those of you who don't know Boston, venturing onto I93 north at this hour of day is insanity. As the lit highway sign indicated, 9 miles to I95, 35 minutes. Nuts huh? The traffic was heavy but at least it was moving. We arrived at the mall 55 minutes later.
First I went to Lord & Taylor's. Once upon a time, Lord & Taylor's had salespeople who knew their merchandise and would help you navigate to find the perfect outfit. Evidently, that time has come and gone. [I should tell the story of shopping with my grandmother at Lord & Taylors when I was just entering college.] I approached two salespeople who were moving clothing around. With condensation they told me that they were affiliated with designer boutiques, and their boutiques didn't have any dresses that were tea length but they had no idea if other designer boutiques might. In one blast of helpfulness, clearly against their grain, they did allow that there was a special occasion dress area across the way.
The special occasion area was modest in size, and very, very sparkly. The saleswoman there was much kinder to me. I did my spiel about tea length dresses [bypassing my preference for natural fibres altogether] and she looked me up and down and said "I have two." And then there was a long pause. "I have two. And you won't like either one." The first one [and really I should have taken pictures, was about 40 pounds of stones, glitter and total ugliness. The second one had no straps or sleeves and looked like fabric from a nursing home couch. We both lamented finding something with an age appropriate hemline without stepping into the dowager department. Needless to say, I purchased nothing.
Onto Macy's where special occasion dresses are right next to what they now call Prom Dresses but would look fine on street walkers. My husband had found me, and the two of us meandered around the area with looks of shear horror. Another perfectly normal woman was also there and she too had that look on her face. "These are just awful" I said to her. She laughed and said "I know. There isn't anything I would ever wear."
Every dress that I touched caught my fingernails. Mediocre polyester everywhere! It is the stuff that nightmares are made of.
The bad news is, I don't have a dress. The good news is, even if I had the perfect body, I would still not have a dress. There was, in fact, not one thing in either store that I would ever wear.
A quick stop in a bunch of the smaller stores was not fruitful either, though at least the stuff wasn't hideous.
I treated myself to walking around Sur La Table, trying to remove the visual memory of so many horrific dresses.
And now we wait for my mail order deliveries to arrive, ever hopeful that the right garment is in a box.
*susan*
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LOL Susan, I so feel your pain! That's exactly how I ended up with a dress I really didn't like but was better than the alternatives. And Sur la Table is the perfect therapy for MOB dress shopping!
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susan - you may not have a dress, but your post made me laugh, it was spot on with the visualization - and your sense of humor is intact! I am hopeful that the perfect thing will be coming in the mail, and I have every confidence that you will look beautiful for your daughter's wedding. I am sure this is stressing you out a bit, wish the dress fairy could do a fly-by for you. P.S. - I love Sur La Table - we don't have one locally and whenever I go in one I'm like a kid in a candy store!
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Susan,
I've been in your shoes before. I had a devil of a time finding a nice dress for my 20th class reunion last year. Finally was able to find one that wasn't so horrid at Kohl's. I just hate it when you look all over for something for a special occasion that by the time you find it, it has driven you completely nuts!
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LOL, Susan! I felt guilty enjoying your post so much! I do not own a dress. I occasionally wander into the dress dept. in stores and never see anything I would/could wear. I'll have to google Sur la Table. Fingers crossed that you'll like your purchase from there.
Dinner tonight will be early. The high school boy next door is in Midsummer Night's Dream at his school and dh and I are going. Not with much enthusiasm but we're going nevertheless. He is the last of the four boys next door and the only one left living at home. After he goes off to college, we'll have to find another lawn mower for when we leave for the summer.
Back to dinner, I don't know whether we'll have a breakfast type dinner or eat something at a restaurant. I'm leaning toward the latter idea.
This morning we went to the gym after a 3 1/2 month period of no gym exercise. I felt good AFTERWARD that I had gone!
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Carole,
And you have made me laugh! Sur la Table has NO dresses. Instead, they have overpriced, but generally very nice, kitchenware products. I fondled small condiment containers, pursued the bread pans, considered linens, scoured the clearance racks, and at the end, found that there was nothing that I needed. But just being near that much Emile Henry ceramicware made the horrors of the dress stores recede.
*susan*
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susan - fondled, lol!!!!!! I'm like a kitchenware crack addict in that place! You mentioned liking natural fabrics - are you familiar with J.Jill? They have some nice linen dresses that you could dress up with a cute cardigan and nice jewelry. You would end up with something that you could use again if you wished, and with the change to more fall-like clothes they might even be on sale.
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I have laughed heartily at your posts and comments - thanks for that.
Ankle healing well, but slowly. I can now prop myself up so at least am able to contribute in the kitchen now. I see DH has taken out some chicken breasts of the freezer so before he gets home I am going to chop up some parsnips an carrots and do them in a honey roast in the oven - before he gets the fries out the freezer
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Tonight we're having a lamb meatloaf and roasted acorn squash with butter and nutmeg.Hubby and I just bought my VERY FIRST food processor. I was always too tight to buy one. Since I'd held out for so long, I splurged and bought a Breville. God, I don't know how I got along without it for most of my life!!!
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garden - I want your dinner! Yay for the new food processor!
Tonight was center cut pork chops, pan fried briefly then poached in apple juice, steamed green beans with dill, and mashed potatoes with applewood smoked bacon - I didn't eat though - this was for DH who got home late! I saved the leftovers for his lunch.
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My son is flying in tomorrow to finish the sofit construction that the roofers didn't do. Usually he wants to go out to eat greasy tex-mex every day while he's here. Yeah - I used to make killer enchiladas but not the greasy lard kind. I did make some Toll House cookies which he used to love and bought ingredients to make Laurie's Salsa Chicken. And I have steaks to grill another night. And a center cut pork tenderloin if he stays more than 3 days. His SO is a vegetarian so i tend to go heavy on the meat when he's here since she rarely comes. We'll stop and get his first "fix" of enchiladas on the way home from the airport - early dinner.
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For tonight's dinner, I used the turkey stock from last week's smoked turkey and made a soup stocked with veggies. Oh yea, and I made some biscuits to eat with the soup. This morning I pulled out a piece of beef that has been in the freezer for longer than I care to admit. I decided that it was only good for stock. So off to the market to buy some 7-bone for a braised beef dish for Wednesday night's dinner. So, made the stock to use for the braised beef dish and the beef is AMAZING. So, I 'harvested' the beef. Tonight the kid used this beef for quesadillas, and I will take it to my client office with some leftover rice for lunch tomorrow. So one day, three meals, only one of which we ate today.
No boxes arrived today.
*susan*
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Susan, I hope the boxes come tomorrow with exactly the right dress. It is very hard to find a dress that will work. I lucked out and got mine on sale because my daughter chose brown for the girls dresses so I could get a brown "Winter" dress on clearance for the May wedding.
Carole and Lacey welcome back home.
Dinner was Mickey Ds. LOL
Much love
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Hi everyone.
I've been reading, but not posting. Every time I would sit down to write something, the phone would ring, Sharon would need me, DD would need homework help or........
Tazz, I'm glad your ankle is to the point where you can cook. I remember putting two chairs in the front of the stove, sitting in one and using the other to keep my foot up in the air....cooking.. I had been roller skating and..oops. I was sober too.
Special, your daughter's dates sound like mine. I would never do the "dinner, movie, dancing" date. It's hard to talk a lot while eating, rude to talk during a movie, and almost impossible to talk with the loud music. Hiking, a 4-wheel drive trip, a tour of a mine, a cave trip...stuff like that was what I preferred for first dates.
I don't know much about dress shopping, I don't wear them myself, but I've been irritated when store clerks made "did you really just say that?" comments to Mickey and Sharon. I don't know why they "decide" it's OK to do that.
Lacey, I hope you get some time to post some pictures.
Hi Mo and MOmmyof2
Cooking.
I roasted a chicken at 375F degrees, basting it with grape just as I started and every 10 minutes. At 30 minutes, I basted one more time, lowered the oven temperature to about 300F degrees, covered the leg ends with aluminum foil and continued roasting until it was fully cooked.. The chicken skin was dark and crispy from the caramelized grape juice sugar. The idea came from a note of mine that I had made in the margin of a cookbook, "Next time try grape or apple juice". I used white grape juice because that is what I had in the refrigerator. I would guess that the "purple stuff" would work just as well.
Oh, a pasta joke. A fake noodle.....is an impasta........... Sorry. :-)
Eric
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love the joke Eric!
Last night was little steaks I bought last weekend, rice and green beans
Haven't figured out tonight's yet.
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I have never tried lamb. I am single and live alone---what would be the best way for me to try this meat? I need a recipe.0 -
RH1, Susan is the lamb expert, but for those of us who don't grow our own, Costco has awesome lamb chops at a reasonable price. Grill ed wIth some rosemary butter, they are superb.
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red - I like to make pitas with ground lamb that I cook like ground beef, tomatoes, lettuce, green pepper strips, Kalamata olives and tzatziki sauce - served like a Greek taco. I also recently had Greek lamb meatballs with much of the same toppings in a restaurant locally. They were delish!
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Here is the recipe that I use for gyros that uses ground lamb. It is really good.
HTTP://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2010/06/greek-american-lamb-gyros-recipe.html
When I was shopping yesterday, I came across a couple of rare birds (literally) -- two chickens each under 3 pounds! I snatched those puppies right up! I also snagged some ground lamb and veal slices at Kroger in what we call the "tainted meat" section (near sell by date at greatly reduced price.) So tonight is veal piccata with some angel hair pasta and an Italian salad. Yesterday I also made a first for me, a slab pie. For those of you who haven't tried it, it's basically a pie made in a sheet pan. I used a quarter sheet but a half sheet would certainly feed a crowd. I made apple because that's what I had but by the time the crust was done, the apples had cooked down too much and were on the mushy side. I don't think it will ever take the place of a regular pie for me, but it was an interesting experiment. DH, of course, loved it. I need to find an eighth sheet pan that would be more suited to two people. I'll try it again with cherry next time.
Good to hear from you Eric (funny man) and Gumby!
Today I've been making Greek yogurt and boiling cider. Does anybody know anything about boiling cider? It took forever and never really got syrupy. Wondering if I missed something.
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Hubby decided what dinner was going to be tonight. We are having the last of the chicken pot pie I made earlier this week. Shocked we got three days out of it!
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I will likely have a collection of similar jokes. One of the 4th graders on "my" school bus likes jokes like that.
Eric
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tonight is rack of lamb with either a ragout or smashed turnips (or both)... But probably the ragout as that suits lamb better IMHO. We both love lamb so when we are craving red meat usually go in that direction. Last week I made a mulligatawny soup with some leftover lamb chops. It was really good and has been officially added to my best winter soups list.
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what is this phrase "leftover lamb chops?"
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Susan, I got a chuckle at myself when I looked up Sur la Table. It didn't sound like a clothing store but I'm gullible! There's one in New Orleans. I'll have to find out where it's located. I love kitchen ware stores. There was a nice one in Holland, MI. I found a salt mill there with different settings for the grind size. I thought it was expensive at $38 but I splurged. The brand is Cole & Mason. I plan to look for another one on Amazon. I bought two packages of crystal salt in Australia and recently discovered them in the pantry.
I'm thawing out a package of brats for dh's dinner. I had a large lunch with my golf friends after playing this morning. We bought the brats in MN. One of the ingredients is cranberries. I'll make him a salad and heat up some Bush's baked beans, if he wants them. He's playing golf this afternoon. We're both happy to get back to playing "gender" golf!
GG, congrats on the new food processor. I was keeping my ancient Cuisinart in a cabinet until I decided to leave it out on the counter I have a smaller Cuisinart, too, that I find handy for smaller chopping jobs. I puree my raw onions since I don't like to see chunks of onion in a cooked dish.
Lamb meatloaf sounds really good. I was an adult before I ever tasted lamb. It's not popular in the south. The lamb we ate in Australia and New Zealand was very tasty, but I prefer the American lamb over the NZ lamb that is sold here in the US. Maybe NZ keeps its best lamb for New Zealanders!
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