So...whats for dinner?
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Red - At least neither team was flummoxed by this weather in DFW.
Susan - I'm kinda in the boat with Eric. I was hoping any progression you had was minor - if that is at all possible. Wanting so much for you to enjoy the coming year and not have to work so hard at things you don't want to. If you want to cook, do so. If not, order in. Bet no one will go hungry. I for one would be honored to eat anything you would make. Cut yourself some slack, enjoy life, enjoy DD and her new DH. Hopefully you can cut back on work commitments. Take that cruise - I'd go tomorrow if possible (just kidding hating this weather). We're here if you want to bitch/moan to us. (((HUGZ)))
Made 3 packaged flatbreads into mini pizzas. They were OK but maybe a little too overdone. I was worried they would be limp. Oh well use it up and that I did tonight.
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Susan, I frequently make sandwich bread in my pullman pan with or without the lid. I like the square sides.
The soup I made tonight was rather interesting. The recipe called for dried cannelini beans (which around here, it would be easier to find hens teeth) which are then brined overnight. I substituted great northern, but the brining gave them a very nice texture. The beans and other ingredients were then ba ked in the oven for a couple of hours. I'll definitely do this one again with a few tweaks.
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ATK chefs brine dry beans. They're big into brining. How was the texture different?
The chocolate angel food cake is good. And was easy. But what to do with a dozen yolks? WW leader would say to discard them. Any suggestions?
What kind of noodles in your sesame noodles, Susan? Looked at some recipes and may give one a try. Dh would like it.
Dh made the chili this morning. That was fine with me. I cooked two pounds of pinto beans yesterday and thawed 2 1/2 pounds ground beef. He ended up with two pots of chili! Leftover chili is not a problem.
Happy Sunday.
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Carole, they were very tender without being mushy and the skins were the same, without that papery texture. I liked it.
Ideas for egg yolks -- lemon curd, custard, creme brulee, key lime pie (my pick.)
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Carole, Nancy has some great sweet ideas. Me? I would make a bunch of fabulous pasta! Imagine having those lovely egg noodles in the freezer. Seems criminal to throw out that much nutrition.
So, the bread experiment didn't prove much except that I need to roll my doughs more carefully. We ate the straight-sided bread today [not all of it of course] because it has some structural integrity issues in the middle of the loaf which turned out to be a big air pocket. Next up is some English muffin bread using KAF's online recipe. Need something to eat all that Meyer lemon marmalade I have made. Not perfect, but delicious.
*susan*
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susan - so pretty, and your house must smell great!
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Susan that is a beautiful picture.
Carol, Lacey, Auntie, we are the Pottery Generation! I used to hitchhike to a class about 1/2 hour away to a tiny town in NY on the Hudson. I fell in love with a potter named Jamie. I was 19 and he was 18 (and still in 10th grade-oh well he wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer) but his hair smelled like hay and he made the Best scrambled eggs. We tried to make pots from the clay cliffs on Martha's Vineyard but it didn't work-too much salt or something. Did you also make macramé hangers by hooking the rope on your big toe?
Well our "whine" party went well with Vermont cheddar, Boursoin-can't spell- , water crackers, triscuits, grapes, black and green marinated olives, cubed watermelon and pineapple and wine. Not much wedding planning done, however. No much cooking either but it was good. Made a fire in the fireplace and put up white Christmas lights.
Kitty brought a live mouse in for the festivities. My daughter was extremely helpful, she ran around screaming and dumped marbles out of a glass pitcher for me to "catch" it in. She also screamed Gonzo has it!! Now Ruby has it!!!!. Ahhh Ahhhh!! Ahhh!!! My landlord came over and we told her it was "her job" to catch it. She refused and had a glass of wine. I Finally cornered it and covered it with a box, then slipped a paper underneath and set it free-outside. We were all traumatized. including the mouse.
I hope you all have a relaxing Sunday. I was inspired by Laurie's original post and think I'll make grilled cheese and tomato soup for dinner.
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Susan if your family objects to the air pocket I know someone who would eat it in any shape or form. Just sayin'. What is the bread in the back left?
Well I began thawing out 4 huge boneless pork chops before I went to church. Not sure what I'll do with them. They look like oven baking material. And then stopped at grocery and bought a BOGO pork loin. Oh my. But I did also buy a stir fry sauce ginger teriyaki. So Tuesday or so we may have pork stir fry. Is there a marinade to tenderize pork? I may just slice off a hunk ' pork, freeze it lightly on Tuesday and slice it really thin.
I go tomorrow for my laser eye surgery. DH has a couple of stops he wants to make on the way home. I may have to go celebrity style and wear my sunglasses. Tomorrow may be something easy/peasy but I do know we are going to breakfast between surg and recheck back with eye doc. Very old fashioned coffee shop "Paris Coffee Shop" very famous in Ft. Worth. Biscuits/gravy here I come.
Bedo sounds like a wonderful party minus the mouse. That's the way I've caught geckos in the house. Technique will come in handy when you move to Peru, Ecuador, the equator?
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Now why didn't I think of pasta? Duh!
It's a lovely loaf Susan, in spite of it's lack of integrity ;-) I constantly had that issue with cinnamon bread until I switched to ATK's that splits the dough and then braids the pieces. If you don't find KAF's bread satisfactory, I will share my English muffin bread recipe with you. I've used it for years. I've started baking it in the pullman pan with the lid for a perfectly square piece of toast.
Luv, is your surgery for cataracts? Good luck with it tomorrow.
Bedo, great party including the floor show lol!
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Susan, do the noodles turn that ghastly gray color the freezer like they do in the refrigerator?
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luv, do a day of dry brining on that pork and it will much, much better. I really hope that your eye surgery goes well. I haven't gone outside without sunglasses since I lived in Texas way back in 1980. Now that I have this blasted Thyroid eye disease, my doctors say I can never go without again. Be glamorous for a day!
Nancy, Let me try this KAF recipe, and then I will ask for your recipe. We need a marmalade delivery system! I have made some delicious English muffins in the past, but I have these new bread pans I need to get acquainted with. Freezing pasta allows it to stay just the same color as the moment you made it. I hate that grey look. Happened to me the first time I made pasta. I thought that one day in the fridge would be fine. Nope. I threw it out. Nasty color, isn't it?
Dinner tonight is a big, warm bowl of chicken soup. If Lacey was just a tad closer to me, I would take her a bowl as well. She could add her own kale. :-) I will use spinach in mine.
*susan*
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Tell me how to dry brine the pork. In a chunk or thinly sliced? Looks like I have one that is 2.5# and the other just a little less. Think I will just 1/2 both of them and freeze 3 of the halves separately. I actually know I have another pork loin in the freezer but I just couldn't pass these up.
I wish the surgery was for my darned cataracts but they're "not that bad" yet. Phooey. I have had glaucoma for 8 years and doc is worried I'm set up for an acute attack. This will make extra drainage pathway to try to prevent that. One eye tomorrow and other eye next Monday if all goes as he plans. DH has taken tomorrow off and his day off is Tuesday so perfect. Next week he only took Monday. Doc says people drive themselves to this even when I asked if he remembered how far out I live which he did. I have not been out of local area since Christmas. Looking forward to a bit of shopping time if I can see what we're buying.
Just looked up your leek/potato soup recipe Susan. Might put that on in a bit too. Unfortunately my stock will be from a box. BooHoo.
Lacey I hope you are being coddled by DH today. Hopefully the nasty cough doesn't worsen. But even after 2 weeks I still have the cough/drippy nose syndrome
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Luv, I would brine in the larger chunks so you don't get them too salted. For 2-3 lbs of pork, I would probably use about a teaspoon of salt, rubbed everywhere. If you know what other flavors you might want in the pork, you can "crush" something like rosemary, thyme, lemon, garlic etc with the salt before rubbing. Then let rest in the fridge on a rack, uncovered, for up to 24 hrs. Even 2 hrs helps. Then prepare your dish as usual, reducing the amount of salt by a bit to account for the fact that you have already seasoned the meat.
*susan*
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Luv, mine aren't bad enough yet either. No fun with the glaucoma so here's hoping this surgery does what it's supposed to do.
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Love, good luck on your surgery!!!
I would love to make orange marmalade and English muffins if someone has the recipe and susan is ready
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Luv, hope all goes well and that you can see products while shopping after.
I am amazed at all the eye surgery advancements with the uses of lasers. When I was a girl, my father needed cataract surgery (he had terrible eye problems, some stemming from being in a brightly lit room when he had the measles as a boy, supposedly), and I will always remember him coming home needing to lie down for what seemed like many days with his head made stationary between sandbags. Seemed awful to me. DH's experience of late was cinchy. I too have been told that my cataracts are not too bad, tho my doc is totally understanding my frustration about night driving becoming a problem. So she says, whenever I want to pull the trigger, she'll do the deed.
Susan, that bread looks amazing, center hole or not! I can just about taste all that yeast and cinnamon goodness. So I am happily drowning in soup karma! Just before I read your sweet thought about soup sharing, my former officemate dropped off a container of Italian Wedding Soup. She knew I was sick since I had to cancel my attendance at their school "holiday" party which was held yesterday at her house. What made me most excited was that I had a basket of pizzelles ready to bring to her last evening, and now we had a happy trade!
DH did go to the store to pick up some protein for tonight's dinner. Our usual, chicken breasts....I get to figure out what to do with them.....and do it. Ugh! Carole, might your DH like to take a vacay to cold Massachusetts for the next few weeks? We could do a "DH swap". Yours comes with great capital with his dinner cooking abilities and efforts! Mine is great at breakfast foods and avocado lunches (which I never have due to my smoothie routine). Hmmmm, now there's an idea. Maybe I should start having smoothies for dinner and DH will, out of desperation, start to cook dinners. Oh dear.....I am being so cranky with this virus!
Ha! DH just walked in and asked what he could do to help me with dinner.....mind reader??......and instead of being a complete miserable crab, I walked him through marinating the chicken with a balsamic rosemary combo. So maybe we are on to something here....hee hee.
Bedo, that social event will be etched in your guests memories forever. Such a riot!
Today I tried my first aronia berries. Very tart, but fine in yogurt and will work well in the smoothies.
Check out the nutritional info (which is why I bought them)....
Off to figure out an easy salad. I think we'll have Italian wedding soup for a first course....DH will grill the chicken, and we'll have salad. Done!
By the way, keyboard jumping around more than ever. Oy!
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Egg noodles. Sounds like the winning suggestion. The others would involve sugar.
Bedo, the mouse drama was funny to read about.
Luv, good luck with the eye surgery.
All my herbs survived the cold snap. Today we were back to mild weather.
The chili was good and there is a lot more to enjoy.
Susan, lovely bread. No free Meyer lemons from my mother's neighbor this year for marmalade. Their tree was damaged in last year's Jan. freezes.
Lacey, hope you're feeling better.
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Hi ladies (and Eric
Haven't been on much - haven't cooked much either to be honest - at least not creatively - just boringly. In the beginning of December they found I have (had) multiple pulmonary embolisms and iron deficient anemia - both of which kind of explain how overall crappy I had been feeling. Anyway, after a month of tests they've discovered that I do not have any metastases (hurray!), they have no earthly clue why I got PE's (again - for the 3rd time), nor any clue as to why I have anemia. It appears that I'll probably be on blood thinners for the rest of my life. I feel SO MUCH BETTER than I did, that I don't even mind. Right now hubby has been giving me shots, but I'll be transitioning to some kind of pill (either warfarin or one of the new ones that you don't have to test your blood all the time - not sure which, yet). I'm also taking iron - and trying to figure out why I became anemic. I'm apparently not bleeding anywhere (which was their first thought), and I'm not a vegetarian (which was their second) and I don't have Celiac disease (third). I have found through my own research (OK - not my own - my husband's...
that tea can interfere with the absorption of iron and I love tea - but I've drunk it for YEARS and have never had a problem with iron before, so I just don't think it could be that (also I don't want it to be that....)I did make some really good onion soup (I would call it French onion, but I don't eat the cheese or bread, so it's just onion...) about a week ago. Hubby made some delightful pork tenderloin Dijon a couple days ago, and tonight we're having rib steak. (He's trying to make sure I eat enough meat....) I've got my energy back so find myself starting projects again - though yesterday and this morning we simply spent the time watching the NFL playoffs. YAY SeaHawks!!!
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Garden - How wonderful that there are no mets. Fanatastic news. And that docs have identified enough of the problem to start treating the issues.
Luv - hope the surgery goes well.
I'd like the recipe for the English Muffin bread too.
Lunch was left over California Roll with Rothchild's Lemon Wasabi sauce. Dinner will be salad & left-over pork loin - and maybe some rice if I'm still hungry.
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Dinner was Almost-Minestrone-Soup. Started by sautéing some onions and carrots, added garlic. When it smelled, deglazed with a bit of Vermouth before adding the tomatoes. Them some chicken stock and a bit of water. I let that simmer for a bit, and totally forgot the parmesan rind. [ZOOT!] Then I added some haricot vert and lima beans [both from frozen bags] and let those cook for a bit. Final push was the addition of spinach and finally, some pasta and a bunch of shredded chicken. This was very good. Not good enough for the karma to make it to Lacey's house, but almost. Made enough so mr. 02143 can have some for lunch tomorrow when I am off at a client office. [This is my new reality. I have to do these types of things for him as his mind can't function as well.]
I made a ton of sesame noodles this afternoon and the kids and I have packed up portions for our lunches tomorrow. Given my audience, I made this with Italian spaghetti. Left to my own devices, I would have used some Soba noodles perhaps. There is enough left for another round of lunches.
<start minor rant> I have had to tell my mother and sisters about my progression. Can I even begin to tell you how much it pains me to make them so sad? They will never be part of my support system, and even so, it was so bloody hard. Well, telling them wasn't so hard. Hearing their responses was. Damn I hate this disease! <end minor rant>
*susan*
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Susan, thanks. I bought lots of vegies to go in the stir fry so that in itself would need a good amount of salt.
The smothered pork chops turned out really well. There were 5 of them in the package. Put them in a jelly roll pan and smothered with a mix of can cream of chicken soup, chopped green onions, some cilantro in a tube, some lime vinaigrette dressing I don't like on salad and some white wine. Baked them tightly covered for nearly 2 hours and made some basmanti rice. Really good with lots of sauce for rice. I feel guilty with no green stuff. Maybe tomorrow. Bagged salads BOGO spinach/baby greens. Maybe salad with some deli chicken.
Thanks for everyone's well wishes. Will let you know how I do.
Susan I wish I knew the right comforting thing to say. I'm just glad you can come here to vent. (((HUGS)))
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Luv---your Pork chops sound yummy---good comfort food..... I am thawing a tenderloin (to put in the crock pot I think.) 1/2 for me 1/2 for my dad. He complained the last time I made it at his house that I didn't cook any vegetables in with it...... I usually don't with pork, but I guess I will add some carrots and onions and maybe celery to this for him..... I just like the loin with mashed taters and grean beans.... The I make barbeque with the leftovers...
Susan---I understand your rant. It was like me telling my 86 year old dad about the Breast cancer. He isn't any support either, but to see the words knock the wind out of his sails hurt me almost as much as hearing the words said to me by my Doctor.....just think of it as another check mark off your to do list... I've never had sesame noodles. They sound interesting. I am a fan of all things pasta----or lets just say all things carb.......
I've been fighting a migraine headache today. Haven't had one in years. they quit making the medication I used when I got one---something called Midrin..... so far, just visual aura and some stiffness in my neck. I hate to call the PCP and ask for a script of something. I'm allergic to so much shit in the pain reliever column I'm afraid the treatment will kill me......... Probably just need a load of caffeine and some Tylenol...
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Aww Susan, that just sucks. ((Hugs))
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Hugs from here too Susan.
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Oh dear, Susan.......yes, sometimes it's the ripples after the rock that can seem so much more to bear, maybe because we're in the pitch of coping with raw news ourselves....and sometimes because it's just so damn hard to have to share such news to those whom we feel we need to deliver it with scaffolding due to their needs. But/And....you did it, so now hopefully you can get back to planning a bit of self-care. Hugs coming your way.....and I do plan to chase this virus asap, so can be useful as needed, aside from anything to do with computers! Seriously.....
The bowl of Italian Wedding Soup has me thinking I might just make my own one of these days. I will enjoy making tiny fine quality meatballs for it. I rarely make meatballs anymore.
Our rosemary balsamic grilled chicken tonight was delicious! And there is enough leftover for tomorrow. Yay!
Garden, sooo happy to see you back.....and so unhappy to hear of that diagnosis. I've thought of you and hoped you'd check in. I'm glad for you that you got your major house move completed before this health issue came up. Sounds like DH is taking good care of your ironful menus! Do you cook a lot in caste iron pans? Might be good to do....
Redheaded, hope you get the migraine relief soon! I think that those visual migraines are possibly the weirdest of experiences. I've had four in my lifetime and am not a headache person at all so had no idea what was going on! Scary!Chevron vision is no fun! Be well.....
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Susan hugs and that bread looks yummy. GG, hugs too.
Had the progressive dinner last night. Our dessert part started at 9pm. Last people left at midnight so they must have been having fun. They all loved the ice cream drinks especially the Ammaretto and cream. But with the entrée at my neighbor being beef tenderloin, I thought the steakhouse drinks would be yummy. Oh yeah. They also emptied a whole Baileys LOL! Used up a pail of ice cream too. And made mini cheesecakes, my wreath and had a kindle my DH ought at a little bakery near his apartment. Long long night. But huge un.
Much love to all.
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(((Apple and her family)))
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Planned a meatloaf, side dish and a veggie for tonight. The meatloaf ought to give me two nights of dinner. Been making lots of meals lately that give us at least two nights
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Mommyof2--that is my style of cooking also. Funny, my mom didn't feed us a lot of leftovers, but being single, there's not much alternative... I did not get the pork loin in the crockpot today, so guess maybe tormorrow. I still have Lentil soup and Mexican chicken to finish up. I should have eat the chicken Saturday night instead of having Chinese carry out. I think the MSG is what started this darn migraine I can't seem to shake..... Now trying to convince my PCP to give me a compounded script for a drug they took off the market that worked. I found a pharmacy 30 miles away that says they can make it if she orders it.....
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Today's software installation went well. Exhausting, but it went well! Came home and fell asleep for 90 whole minutes! Dinner was the leftover Chinese that I made the other night, along with a Hakka Pork and Mustard Green soup. Never had Mustard Greens before; always assumed they would be too bitter for me. Surprise! They aren't bad at all! Another green to put on my list of acceptable greens for soup. You make cute little pork meatballs to float in the soup stock, reminding me of Italian Wedding Soup.
Gotta get some work done tonight....
*susan*
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