So...whats for dinner?
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My sister made beef stroganoff, but now I want a gyro
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Bedo, where in Kentucky did your mom grow up?. My dad grew up outside of Williamsburg, KY.
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Carole, interesting point about misusage of "healthy". Would healthful even fit? Wonder if it has to do with the author having Farsi as a first language, and the book being "printed and manufactured in Korea". So much for the King's English!
Dinner tonight
Not nearly as bad as I recall the taste of it last time. Very effective! Also bought no dye grape flavor, but couldn't twist off the cap and DH (my other hands) was out doing an errand for me, so I'll have that as a wake me up at 6AM. Don't know about Suprep. Just know that the docs here don't use "pill"preps or ones with phosphate basesdue to increasing reports of chronic kidney problems reported with those preps. I know nothing else about it.
I never worry about results of these procedures....but remembered today that I was always cavalier about mammos, too, until Aug 2011 ! Best that I sink back into my former state of gross denial....and enjoy the temporary weight loss.
Bedo, nice to see you check in! You'll be happy with your intrepid decision once you are in Costa Rica!
Gotta run......
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Bedo -great to hear from you. I am awed that you are so brave and are taking time to do what you want. We don't get the time back & it's important not to miss chances along the way. How fun to meet a friend to play with. Will you take your fiddle to Costa Rica?
Nance & Lacey - I'm scheduled for a colonoscopy in Dec and just picked up my Rx. It's "MoviPrep". One liter between 4-7pm. A second liter in the morning 3 hours before heading to the appointment. Since I'm scheduled for 7:30 arrival, I'll be setting my clock to drink that morning liter at 4:30am.
Our Civic Association "thank you" dinner was tonight at Olive Garden for all the residents who actually contribute their time during the year. It's hard to find a place with a private room anymore that can set up a "T" table for 25-30 volunteers that meets our small budget. We pay for the entree and if they want alcohol or dessert, they pay that part. Our neighborhood only has 180 homes and w/o volunteers we would be sunk. In addition to the bottomless salad bowl, I had grilled salmon and steamed broccoli. Guess i have to admit I had 3 bread sticks. We honored 3 veterans who told about their service and another 10 women who had husbands or children who had served.
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Eric
My Grandparents are buried in Marion, in Crittenden County Ky, I guess Appalachia is not a well defined area. My Mom grew up there in a shack. She had only one dress and got sick of it so cut the hem off thinking she'd get a new one. Grandma sewed a red hem on and made her keep wearing it. Grand Pa was a fiddler and a moonshiner. Later they moved to Flint Michigan and my Mom, married and we grew up in Westchester. I want to volunteer down there to honor them. There is a service that provides medical care to underserved
I had frozen mussels zapped in the microwave tonight. I drank the juice/sauce out of the bowl. I am a pig.
Susan love red lentils, experimenting with soups and stew with them and fall squashes.
Think of you all often but no time to answer tonight, I just woke up from a 2 hour nap and have to go to a lesson.
I am a slug.
I am also looking at my 2 beautiful acorn squashes and trying to find a non-sweet way to stuff them. maybe a savory one.
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Eric and Lacey, I found your cookbooks on a Thrift book site and will probably buy Eric's. Lacey, you didn't really recommend yours.
Bedo, it's fun to have you check in. As always, your life and diet are interesting!
I bought two little packets of saffron at Fresh Market for $8 each and all you can see is a foil packet inside the plastic envelope. I'm wondering how one knows how much to use in a recipe. I also bought organic red lentils. And dried porcini mushrooms. Now if I just don't put everything away and forget about them! I still haven't cooked farro after having it on hand at least a month.
Another heavy lunch today following a very chilly round of golf so, again, very little food intake for me tonight. I had fried chicken for lunch and it was SO good. And a delicious little roll with butter. I bypassed a seafood lasagna on the buffet. But had a small portion of soft serve ice cream with a squirt of chocolate sauce. I actually prefer soft serve ice cream to the hard-frozen. After my shopping at Fresh Market, I zipped over to Café du Monde (nearby, not on the south shore in NO!) and got a large café au lait to drink on the way home.
Winter has arrived. It was in the 60's today but a gusty, cold wind kept me in three layers of clothes. Tomorrow night we're due for a freeze here on the north shore and Friday will be too windy and cold for my Friday golf game. Instead I'm planning to make artisan bread. Tomorrow I'll make the biga (starter). I may make pasta on Friday, too! I have never used the pasta extruder attachment to the Kitchen Aid that I just had to have. I read all the instructions, then put everything away.
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The bean soup turned out very good. I put beef stock in it and was very afraid I had ruined it since I usually use chicken. But the leftover taco meat and the pork loin cubed went in and it was great. DH said it could have used a little more seasoning but I thought it was perfect. It was great on a cold night and will be good tonight when it's even colder. 5:45 and it's 34 degrees. Just a little early for us to have this cold weather but I have known it to snow on Thanksgiving. Years ago we always went to my GM's house for Thanksgiving and holy smokes someone went outside and it was snowing. Needless to say party broke up shortly after that. I did buy flatbread to go with soup tonight. The pitas looked pitiful but the flatbread looked yummy.
Bedo - you have such interesting adventures. Costa Rica now. What happened to - was it Bolivia? I also have an acorn squash sitting there. I must find something to do with it over the weekend.
Time to lock the goaties up and reheat my hot tea.
Edited to add - Lacey I hope your colonoscopy is uneventful. I remember going shopping somewhere with DH afterward at least for just a bit. Prob. Lowes.
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lacey - cute pirates, good luck on your procedure.
Bedo - halve and pre-cook your acorn squash a bit in the oven. Cook some spicy sausage with onion, carrot, celery - or what you have on hand. Mix in a torn up a piece of bread and some stock or wine until moistened. Add some shredded cheese of choice, stuff the squash and bake until the squash is cooked through.
Yay! DD will be home for Thanksgiving!
Everyone's meals sound delish, except for Lacey's prep, lol!
Will not be cooking much over the next few days as I am having surgery tomorrow - a fat graft to try to prep my left side to accept another expander - the recon saga continues! Sent my BFF off back home tonight to California - we had a fun few days - thus my recent MIA status!
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Good luck with your surgery tomorrow, SpecialK.
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Good luck tomorrow, Special.
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Special - we'll be thinking of you tomorrow & waiting to hear. Assume it's outpatient? Prayers & Hugs.
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Bedo, this is a truly delicious recipe that I make at thanksgiving sometimes:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/mario-batali/ac...
Sk, best wishes tomorrow. Heal fast!
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Bought two turkeys today for the "after thanksgiving" feast. Decent prices on both. The day itself will be spent at dh's sister's house as usual. My food contribution will be dinner rolls and a salad of some sort. The rolls are a thanksgiving tradition and are very rich in butter and crescent shaped. They're wonderful with leftover turkey for sandwiches (my favorite part of the whole thing).
I'm very distraught today. My primary doc, with whom I've been for the last 14 years, is leaving her practice to be a stay at home mom. I'm happy for her, but this has really thrown me for a loop. She feels more like a friend and I'm just sick about the whole thing. The thought of having to start over with someone is unpleasant. I only hope she recommends someone as good as she is.
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Nance - my OB/Gyn of 20 years is retiring next year & I know just how you feel. She really has been more like an old family doc that you can just call & everything is taken care of. She did say once she retires we can have lunch & talk about books w/o discussing medical issues, but she's at least 5 years younger w/grandchildren back East so I doubt that will ever come about. To top it off, my MO is effectively retired this month. I am happy for him but I feel abandoned - even though it's not rational. I'm not looking forward to meeting the two new candidates to meet in December, or the transition.
Dinner was a cold boiled shrimp appetizer and left over lemon grilled salmon & broccoli with a Hawaiian roll.
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Yes, the c-scopy was fortunately pretty uneventful, except then afterwards I ended up sleeping the afternoon and early evening away on the couch after being driven home. And my IV hand is hugely black and blue which will be a focal point for the K kids tomorrow since that age group is always focused on any bodily injuries. Better get a big band aid and have a "bumping accident" story ready. Luv, I'm impressed that you went shopping afterwards!
Relevant info for this thread (and I didn't even initiate it...must look like I need to talk about food....or maybe the clinicians just realize that people coming there after prep are starving!).... I had a sweet young IV nurse who told me she spontaneously drives to Queens, NY (!) to have lunch at Philippino restaurants, since both her mother and DH only cook healthy food now. I am unfamiluar with Phillipino food. Then, as the procedure nurse and I were waiting for the doc, she started to talk about restaurants in my town, then about favorite pizzas, then soups. She told me she puts tortellini in her kale soups. As I was suggesting the benefit of adding a parmesan rind to her soup, the surgeon appeared and whole heartedly agreed sharing that he puts parm rind in his water when cooking spaghetti. Who ever knew?! As I began to contemplate that, I awoke in recovery!
Big ol cuppa chicken bouillion for dinner and leftover jello and a piece of peanut brittle for dessert....really not too hungry yet.....will probably eat anything not moving tomorrow.
Carole, I didn't mean not to recommend that Persian cookbook. I like it and the food photos are great, but if I want Persian food, I can visit with my son's family.
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Oh Nancy and Minus, I am so sorry to learn about your doc losses. Not sure if I ever mentioned on this thread that my primary care took a loa for six months this year and when she returned to work, she also showed up on the treadmill next to me at our gym (the fitness center is connected to our hospital), and I knew from her baseball cap that she had joined our undesirable club. She has mused with me about following an easier path. I can't blame her if she decides that....she has two kids still at home. I think that women docs deal with quite the challenge having a demanding practice while raising kids. I don't envy them. I hope you both have good new doc relationships....fortunately there are many good ones "in the wings" for us. But yes, there is grieving to be done over these losses. Hugs to you both....
Special glad you had a great visit with BFF, and best of luck tomorrow
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probably something quick like Hamburger Helper
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Special I hope everything goes smoothly and you are home comfortable and well.
Auntie and Minus I love my primary doc. I went to see him yesterday. He doesn't know that if he told me to run 10 miles after work each day I would. I complained about gaining weight and he said, "Well, when we get older, we would have to train like an athlete to stay the same weight and who wants to do that?" :O ! Maybe pick someone in his practice? good docs usually stick together
Thanks for the recipe!
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Comfort food weather has arrived. It's nasty looking out there today. Light rain, windy, cold. Temp. in the 40's today. I got out The Italian Baker cookbook last night and refreshed my memory about making the biga. I'll make it today and bake some rustic wheat bread tomorrow. I don't want to make the traditional shape, though, which is round. I will form the dough into a long loaf like French bread. Actually two long loaves. That means the cooking time will probably be a little shorter.
Not sure what dinner will be but lunch will be lintel soup!
Will be thinking about SK today.
Lucky you, Lacey, to be a visit away from Persian food! Could you describe your process for making your kale soup?
I must be in the mood for reading about food. I also ordered an Indian Classics cookbook.
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Bedo, that sounds like a great doc. Mine is rather like that -- very non judgmental. Love her. Minus, that's exactly how I feel -- abandoned. (Cancer has so not made me a better person, I'm the same self centered, selfish being i.e. "why is she leaving me???!!!") But I know how she has struggled with her job and family. Her husband is a doc too. Truthfully, I knew it was inevitable but was doing fine with my head in the sand.
Anyway, I'm sitting here drowning my sorrows in countless cups of coffee watching the snowflakes outside my window (seriously, before thanksgiving!!??) and thinking comfort food all the way -- pot roast and vegetables and a cherry slab pie. Dh has requested more cinnamon bagels so I think I'll drown my sorrows in flour.
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You are not going to believe this -- in the mail today I got a letter from my mo saying he's not seeing patients any more after December first. I'm trying not to take this personally, but really??!!
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Nance, you're right. I DON'T believe it!
We're having Chicken and White Bean Chili (my own recipe) for dinner. There is quite a potful simmering away on the stove. I started out with 3 boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut them into cubes and browned them in 1 T. olive oil. Removed chicken and browned 6 oz of smoked turkey sausage cut into large dice. Added back chicken with 3 cups of organic low sodium fat-free chicken broth from a box, 1 small can of mild green chilis, 1 can of Ro-tel tomatoes with chilis, 2 tsp cumin, salt, onion powder, garlic powder, 4 cups of drained rinsed white kidney beans. I will add some baby spinach that is taking up a lot of room in the refrigerator in its plastic box. May need to mash some of the beans to thicken the broth.
Side will be salad. Corn bread would go well but there would be leftovers and I'm baking bread tomorrow. Could freeze the leftover cornbread for dressing. Hmmm...
No snow but a very nasty, cold day. Off to make a cup of coffee.
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Carole - WTH - we live in the South for goodness sakes. Last night was 37. Tonight they are predicting 31. Can't believe I had to drag in all my plants and it's only the middle of November. That doesn't usually happen until January. I KNOW we're on the same page!!!
Nance - Yup - abandoned for sure. Bedo - I will go with an OB/Gyn in the same practice since that's where my doc is going. But the PCP she is going to doesn't accept new patients. I would guess my OB is getting in only because they've traded referrals over the years. I'm scheduled to meet a new MO in December that my doc recommended because his major interest is HER2+. We'll see...
Did I mention that i'm freezing? When I got home from PT I spent an hour on the phone with my BFF who's husband died two week ago. And two glasses of Hahn GSM red wine. Managed to cook up a pot of Stove Top stuffing, and I was clever enough yesterday to have removed 1/2 a pork loin that was already roasted from the freezer. Yummy. Dessert was a spinach salad from Costco w/onions, bacon, cranberries, hard boiled eggs, etc. Now I'm off to bed with my heated throw.
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That stinks everyone!
It's going to be a 3 dog, make that... cat night and I only have two.
Hope everyone stays warm.
Night
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Yikes, Nance...how could anyone NOT feel abandoned given two doc departures! Unfortunately we are more dependent on them for ongoing care given the bc treatment and follow up, to say nothing of advancing age and all that comes with that.....not that anyone on this thread has to be concerned about that.
it would just be my worry......Glad you have that baking center to help drown your sorrow. More huggggggs!Carole, will send kale soup recipe over weekend. Need some shuteye so I can be alert enuf to drive out to Worcester to a conference in the early morning snow.
Yes, it seems early even for us to havesnow!Tonight we had kale soup with grilled cheese....DH decided we should have some oregano and tomato in the sandwiches. They were very tasty made with some sliced artisanal (sp?) bread from Trader's and low fat jarlsberg cheese.
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It must be too cold for cooking and eating dinner! LOL! Very quiet on this forum.
We had fresh-baked wheat bread with olive oil and cracked pepper instead of butter. Warmed over chicken and white bean chili and a crisp salad with romaine and veggies.
Hope everyone is keeping warm and safe in this arctic weather. It will warm up to a high of 70 by Sun. but another cold front is headed our way. Tomorrow I might get out the pasta extruder and play around with using it.
Nance, this might be a cold Christmas in NO!
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Carole, that would be just my luck lol! The last time we spent a February in gulf shores, it snowed and never got above 50 degrees.
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I, once again, have hit the end of my rope. All it takes is one hysterical client who can't follow directions flailing away for days and days and days to put me way over the edge. Food has been simple, by my standards. Let's see, one night I made a faux ragu with a bottled Marina sauce, Italian sausage and ground beef. That kept us going for two dinners. One night I made fish tacos, and then we did a night of hamburgers with cole slaw and, if I may say, the perfect french fries. Tonight, I steamed some hot smoked salmon served over pasta and a green salad. There have been lots of greens salads since the veggies in the market just don't look that good.
Our lamb is sitting in a freezer and I need to find some time to head North to gather it up. To make room in our freezer, I have a picnic ham defrosting. This is the last big cut from last year's pig. I am thinking I will do a cuban braised pork. Just have to figure out what the rest of the menu might look like. Black beans for sure... what else?
*susan*
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Susan, it sounds like you got one of those "I know what I'm doing. Where's the any key? I can't find it!" types. I hate when that happens.
There hasn't been much cooking going on the past week.
Monday through Thursday I got up at 4am, drove the bus, went to my other job, got home around 8pm, went to bed.
And, DD is sick with some nasty cough thing...the dog has had several opportunities to help clean up..
Next Tuesday Sharon has an oncologist checkup...hopefully it will be as uneventful as before.
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Eric I hope things get better
I will be making huge quantities of bulgur tomato soup. It seems that one of my friends and I have been trading services. My terrariums in a bottle and soup and stews for her financial advice.
I will also be making a big white lasagna for my daughter this weekend.
Speaking of retiring I am thinking of doing this after the first of the year. I guess one never knows what the future brings. I will probably work 2 months out of the year only. I find that not working brings the "kid" out in me and makes me feel like I did when I was 8.
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