So...whats for dinner?
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Love, Auntie and Special, I love my crockpot, but my daughter won't touch anything made in it. I like to make soups-split pea etc in it. I ordered a Neato XV robot vacuum and next is an automatic kitty litter changer-you only have to dumb the bag in the hermetically sealed chamber once a week. It adds litter. I get lazier by the day.
Eric I hope your Mom is feeling better.
Stay warm Lacey, Susan, Mom and veruka and Laurie!
Red- you sound like a wonderful daughter. Thanks for the tip on the lanterns.
We seem to be behind the other states- still travel ban until 10pm, schools closed tomorrow and a 2d snowstorm coming today. I am going to try to make a snowman There is no road in front of my house. I saw some sweet soul try to shovel my sidewalk stumble around in snow up to his knees and give up. I will try to send a pic of the snowman if I can figure out how to do it.
I ate all of the tomato bulgur soup. Time to make mushroom barley.
Snow too dry for packing (
Snow Dog
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Susan -- how does one reboot a stove? Unplug and plug? Of course, mine is gas so not sure that would work or not..
My friend had to go to an Apple Mac class today, so I tagged along and went to Global Market while she was in class. Picked up a brown jasmine and red rice combination that I hope is good, couscous, pomegranate molasses, some za'atar and guess what -- lingonberry jam! Also some lovely rainbow chard, baby bok choy, two fresh meaty lamb shanks and some fresh pitas.
In spite of all those treasures, tonight is chicken cacciatore with a side of pasta.
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Nancy, My stove is a fancy Dacor that I bought off of eBay. It has a gas stovetop and electric oven. The oven is controlled by a computer, so if that goes, the whole bloody thing is useless. And if we loose power, it is also useless. We have never lost power in the 12 years we have lived in this house, but the computer has gone at least once. To reboot the stove, we turned off the breaker [the oven has its own special one] and then turned it back on. The repair company actually called today to schedule an appointment! I was stunned.
Well, I am highly suggestible it seems. Ever since Lacey mentioned lamb burgers that is all I have wanted. So, forget those Chinese leftovers! We had lamb burgers. I made them in a grill pan, first time I have done that. I had some frozen spanikopita from the holiday dinner party. I mixed in the herbs, lemon, onion, and garlic, and yes it was me who brought you this idea, stuffed the middles with some feta. Oh my was this a delicious dinner!
Round 1 of snow removal is completed. Mr. 02143 ran the snow blower, the kids did the shoveling out of cars and stairs. I am sure that this will have to happen again in the morning, but the kids think they have to head to work and school first thing, so perhaps their subarus can dive through the plow smutzge at the end of the drive. And for those of you watching from a distance, we estimate that there was 25" out there, but it is possible that some was blown away in all the wind.
*susan*
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Whatever it was, it was apparently was caught before it could cause a lot of problems. Mom is still in the hospital, both to further monitor her as well as because she brags that "she lives alone". The latter gets everyone understandably concerned and each time I have to explain what is going on behind the scenes to allow mom to remain in her home...LPN and CNA tag teaming for near 24 hour a day coverage, meals on wheels, cleaning folks, elevated toilet seats, shower chairs, grab bars, etc. Once everyone knows the behind the scenes stuff, they are happy.
I'm tired. I got home last night about 2am, got up at 4am, got to work at 6am, worked until 3pm and then went to the hospital to explain how it's possible for mom to live "alone". It's been a long day.
Dinner tonight will be dreaming about cooking! :-)
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Hugs Eric. Hope your Mom gets better fast.
To all the east coasters, hope you are all dug out! Stay safe. Don't overdo. We just got a bit here and I only had to shovel the front sidewalk.
Susan can I go in your suitcase? I'll snore along with your Mom..... LOL
You all sound so adventurous in your recipes! I've used my crockpot for potatoes. You wrap them in foil and cook til they're done. Great for a lot of people. Also if you put carrots on the bottom, then add stuffing, and top with pork chops and apples you can make a whole dinner.
Saw my 6th doctor since around Xmas time. Opthamalogist. I knew I had cataracts but the last time she checked she said they weren't bad. Surprise, she told me this time they were ready for surgery. LOL. Wow that went fast. 11 and 12 operations or so in 4 years. Thought I'd make one year without any. LOL. Not to be. Might as well get them done as all my Dr visits were great. Do it when I'm feeling good. Now has anyone here had the progressive lenses implanted or just had the standard? The progressive ones are 2000 more an eye not covered by insurance.
Here's a pic of my DGD (and yours truly) at 6 weeks. (Last week)
Much love.
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Great pic Monica!
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Sweet pic, Monica. I did not know anything about the progressive lenses option. Interesting!
Eric, you needed a snow day today.
Yes, Susan stuffing those lamburgers makes them heavenly! Thank you for the suggestion!
We had dinner next door ( not really so simple with the snow drifts). My neighbor and I pooled our resources and made the Timpano, salad, crusty bread, and her (Ina's) spicy sausage with grapes. Fun, if artery clogging, meal! Here are some pix:
We had anise pizzelles and oranges with sweetened olive oil for dessert (something my neighbor learned in her Italian cooking course).
It was a fun way to finish out the snow storm, and I'm happy we finally made the Timpano since we've talked about it since last Spring. Weird...keep losing the sliced oranges dessert pic. Well, you can picture them easily enough.
Better submit this before I lose all the pix.
Glad you mom is doingbetter, Eric. Love her independence "bragging"!
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Oh - Swedish meatballs - now I'm hungry. Susan, can't believe you can fix a stove, but that makes sense since you are so clever with computers. Your trip sounds wonderful. Bedo - I love your crock pot soup recipes. Never mind your DD's prejudices. Eric - glad to hear your Mom's OK. Hope you can get some sleep. Moon - great picture. Good luck with the cataract surgery. I just got told that mine aren't "ripe". Lacey - wow what a wonderful cooking feast. Loved the story about NY being out of Kale. OMG. And I don't even eat the stuff!!. Hi to everyone else.
Had the most wonderful basmati rice yesterday when a friend & I ate dinner out after a little theater performance. Stunning & enlightening & exhausting performance - The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. I think the actress is from Boston - Denise Fennell. Absolutely amazing job. 2-1/2 hours on stage as the only performer (multiple characters) and everything was memorized, not ad-libbed. Anyway the rice was served with rainbow trout and mixed julienne vegetables. A memorable evening.
Hope everyone in the path of the snow is OK.
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Lacey -- impressive! How long did it take to bake? Beautiful pizzelles too!
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Chopped steaks tonight with a piperade, some baked corn and a couple of strawberry crepes for dessert. I have a small amount of leftover brown rice that I may reheat, unnecessary though it may be. Or maybe I'll just freeze it and save it for fried rice.
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Tonight I zapped the leftover Chicken stir-fry, made some fresh rice, and steamed a bunch of dumpling and served with a simple dipping sauce. The chicken dish was fine, but in a word, we both think is was "meh." Perhaps it was the soft texture, or maybe the serranos had no heat. Who knows.... I don't ever have to make it again if I don't want to.
I just pulled two more loin pork chops from the freezer. No. I don't crave a pork chop. I crave mashed potatoes. I meant to take a picture of the back yard for you. There is 40" of snow everywhere except around the grill. Mr. 02143 used the snow blower and a shovel to clear this area all the way to the slate tiles so we can continue to use this great cooking heat source. Tomorrow, he will get to use his special spot. It will be 27º; plenty warm enough for grilling. [He even cleared enough space to have his chair nearby.] Gotta love winter in New England!
Paris planning continues. <commence babbling> We land at CDG at 8:30 in the morning following an overnight trip. The apartment is available at 4pm. My calculations are that we will get to Etoile around 11. That is 5 hours that we need to "kill" while supremely fatigued, with bags. We can spend 2 hours having a lovely lunch.... and an hour getting a SIM card and perhaps a phone. We can't really buy our "provisions" since I don't think we could carry food along with the bags. I don't think falling asleep on a park bench is an option; though it might be tempting. This is the problem with being solely responsible for planning. This type of thing makes me anxious.<end babbling>
*susan*
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susan - we did this too when we went to Italy - flew all night, landed and could not check in. Too bad there is not some safe place to leave your bags, it would make adventuring around much easier - and possible provision gathering. We ended up being able to leave our bags at the hotel front desk, and then went and consumed mass quantities of cappuccino - I was all about sitting as I had just broken my pinky toe getting off the subway, but as you are doing the apartment and not a hotel that probably wouldn't work unless there is a manned lobby arrangement. There - that was me babbling in response!
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Special, Yea. No "front desk" since this is a real apartment. I don't want to ask my cousins to watch the bags because then we would need to spend the time with them while totally fatigued. And, I love and adore these cousins, but this doesn't seem like the way we wish to start this visit. I may ask the landlords if we can arrive a bit earlier in the day, without an additional charge, of course.
I have found three possible restaurants with reasonably priced fixed-price lunches. I will have to ask my mother if this plan works for her or if she wants to dive straight into museums.
*susan*
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Mom is home. Acute Bronchitis. They are giving her some antibiotics. Tomorrow and Monday, I've got to take her in to get her INR checked (Warfarin). For whatever reason, the INR readings have not stabilized.
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Eric--antibiotics are hell on warfarin. My dad took Bactrim for a week and it was close to 6 weeks before his INR stabilized....
Years ago when a friend and I arrived in London, we drug our heels in eating a truly disgusting breakfast at the airport to try and kill time, the because it was so horribly cold, we paid a taxi to wait for us while we shot in a couple of shops to purchase woolen sweaters. Then we got to our hotel and had to cool our heels in the lounge until the rooms were ready---we were too exhausted for anything more than a shower and bed.....Surely and the landlord would be sympathetic to your plight..... If all they are doing is cleaning, they may be willing to let you stash your bags. I've done that with the condo I rent in Florida sometimes. It will be such an adventure.....I can't wait to hear all your stories.
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Actually, Susan I was also getting a little anxious reading your arrival plan. Are you and mom able to sleep on the plane....that might help stave off some first day exhaustion. Would it be worthwhile to ask the landlord or broker for ideas about luggage dropping or even add a day on to your "lease" to make life easy? It is a very special trip after all. I have only been to Paris once, and it was to accompany our French scientist friend to the Cancer Society Gala at Chateau Versailles. He kindly arranged for us to have a hotel room ready a day early as we would not have fared well lugging our formal duds around for several hours. You are much more adventurous...and your mother sounds like such a hot ticket!
Back to gym today...and an hour of shoveling upon return, and I am aching tonight. DH drove to NYC for a meeting tomorrow. He should be good and tired since he snowblowed the entire corner before heading to the gym. Somehow the town never got to the sidewalks....we are near a school on a busy street, so usually this little tractor comes by to do the long sidewalks. By later today they showed to fine tune our work.
This afternoon, early dinner to accommodate DH's trip.....leftover kale soup, leftover Timpano, and spinach salad with pear, walnuts and cranberry. Enough with the Timpano already! It's lost its unique luster for me. Oh, Nancy, it took longer than the 1 and a half hours expected to bake it
Heading in to teach the Kindergarteners in the AM....
Eric, glad your mom has some caring eyes on her as she weathers the bronchitis.
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Eric, Do the doctors believe that this is a residual infection from the last one, or a new one? That is a lot of infections for someone of her age to tolerate. Such a hardship on the body, not to mention how nasty antibiotics can make you feel.
The day o' travel is hard, no doubt. If you take an evening flight from the East coast of the USA it is about 20 hours of no sleep, minus whatever you can catch on the plane. I have found, however, that pushing yourself to stay awake once you hit the ground, but allowing yourself to fall into bed around 7 or 8 pm means that you wake the next day fully adjusted to the time zone. Saturday is an important day in France since most stores are closed at 1pm on Sunday and then do not reopen until Tuesday. And finding a restaurant open on a Sunday night is very difficult. We are staying in a non-tourist, residential neighborhood so these "rules" still apply. Sunday morning isn't a great day for shopping since I think we will get on a train to head out to Chartres to attend Sunday services. I wish we could get there for the Gregorian service at 9am, but the train schedule on Sunday is very slim. So there you have it. I want some eggs, cream, cheese, bread, and a few veggies in the fridge so when we return Sunday night, we can eat a light meal before collapsing again.
The first time I went to Paris there was a snafu in Heathrow and we were up for over 43 hrs by the time we landed in Paris. My mother made me stay awake and take the metro to Notre Dame since Saturday night was the only night while we were in the city that it was lit up. Then we ate eclairs and walked along the river in the dark. She wanted to visit Pont Neuf at night. Now that was tired! Thank goodness Notre Dame is now lit every night of the week. And this is how I was taught to travel. Push hard and fast. :-)
*susan*
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Susan, I think you were taught to LIVE by that mantra, not just travel....HA. Most of you gals exhaust me with your cooking escapades......When I was still working, I used to live in fear that some dog would come down the street on trash night, rip open my bag at the curb and everyone in the neighborhood would see how often my dinner came from a box or a take out carton........
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I am so uninspired about menu ideas lately. That usually means quiche, and so it is tonight. I'll use the remains of a kale/spinach/chard mix, the last of a hunk of cheddar, some bacon and onions, with a salad of cucumber and cherry tomatoes. The leftovers will be breakfast or lunch tomorrow, although dh keeps talking about French toast (which he makes) so most likely it will be lunch. And then I need a dinner idea again. Sigh. I really love to cook (and eat) but sometimes it's just too much effort and I wish there was a food pill to take and be done with it.
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I'm in that rut too Nancy. About 1 pm I thought darn it I haven't thawed anything for dinner. Found a frozen Hormel chicken parm. Oh boy. Will make penne and saute some onion, peppers for dress up. I bought shaved Stella parmesan the other day. Don't usually see the shaved here in local grocery. Only made it into next bigger town to shop yesterday, 25 minutes closer than Ft. Worth but also fewer choices, no big grocer. I have to go to Ft. Worth on Mon. to eye doc and then in 2 weeks for mammo. so plenty of shopping ops to come. DH made chili Tuesday so he had the leftover of that last night and I had the one chicken thigh with sugar snap peas.
Wow Susan your plans are coming along.
ETA: Eric so glad your mom is home already and no pneumonia. Keeping you both in my prayers. How is Sharon's mom?
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auntie - the "food pill" comment made me laugh!
eric - glad mom is holding steady, and "living on her own", lol!
Tonight is turkey meatballs and marinara over brown rice pasta, and the kale and berry salad.
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My husband called tonight's dinner "Retro" and then continued with "and this is delicious!" I pulled out two of the last pork chops from this year's pig [almost time to order another half pig] and dry brined them. He grilled them while I made some mashed potatoes with these cute Holland potatoes I have been buying and sautéed up some frozen peas. I also made a sauce! I never make a sauce, but I had a craving for a mustard sauce on the pork chop. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't great either. I was unable to finish my chop, but Mr. 02143 ate every bit, plus gnawed on the bones.
Not much coding today. A bad carpal day starting at 4am.
And since 40" of snow in my hard is not satisfactory, we are getting more snow starting tonight, not stopping until Saturday AM.
*susan*
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Susan - 40 inches? Oh my goodness. I admire all of you who are dealing with the snow.
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Dinner was Boudin's San Francisco Sour Dough & butter. They had a special. Can't remember now if it was the bread that was on sale or the shipping - but I ordered. I don't splurge much, but when you're from the San Francisco Bay Area and it's part of your heritage - who cares once every 10 years. Two long loaves came 2nd day air today. I've already frozen 3 portions, but I've pigged out on the 1/2 loaf that I didn't freeze. YUM
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I don't know if this is a continuation of the old infection, or a new one. I know she hasn't been the same since November.
Unfortunately her had is swollen where they had placed the IV catheter. Since she is on Warfarin, she had her INR checked today. The NP got the doctor to look at her hand. Since she started antibiotics, the doctor said to watch it and if it gets worse, or remains the same after a few days, we need to call the doctor.
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Susan- yes the irony was so not lost on me...DH couldn't live without the sweet so dipped some of the meatballs in a tiny container of smucker's strawberry jam leftover from some diner breakfast we had at some point!
Oh Eric, hoping your mom gets this situation righted soon.
Auntie- I know what you mean about the food pill! With 2 little ones at home, I am constantly trying to think up new things to try- and still find myself amazed- what? You little people need to be fed 3 times a day? Plus snacks? EVERY day????
Today was a long exhausting day. DH had a major surgery that's been on the books for a month and a tremendous source of anxiety for us. But the surgeon is pleased and we are cautiously optimistic. It went so quickly that I got nervous. He's staying for a few nights and now is pleased to be resting and watching golf, being fed strawberry jello and consommé. Meanwhile, i had leftover salmon and quinoa and a chopped veggie salad. Dragging my tired self to bed now
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ps i love all the pics! Babies and delicious tasties- what could be better?
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Veruka,
Best thoughts headed to you and your husband during his recovery. If he is watching golf and asleep at a hospital that must mean you are responsible for the kids solo. So you get best thoughts as well. My daughter's favorite childhood meal was, and I am embarrassed to say this, a 'picnic' meal with saltines, peanut butter and fruit jam. I would put out a blanket in the living room, which was never used since it was the most ugly room I have ever owned, and set up the ingredients on a silver tray. To this day, she thinks this was the most special meal ever. What i know is that this was the meal of last resort. A meal created by an exhausted mother when the husband was off doing something else.
*susan*
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Since my mom is here we are thinking KFC
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Prediction is a possible 4-6 of the wet heavy stuff Sunday.... Yesterday I made my late mom's vegetable soup at my dad's house and we divided the batch. We had run a bunch of "useless" errands" but he needed to get out of the house, so we trekked thru Walmart and it was dreary and the temp dropping, so when we hit the second market, he sat in the car. It was 3pm and I hadn't had lunch and I rushed him home and in the house, thru the short ribs in the soup pot and got that started and rushed to subway for a couple of sandwiches for us. at 6:30 I decided the soup was done, and went to pull the ribs out to remove the bones--and THEY WERE BONELESS....No wonder I thought they were beautiful short ribs when I bought them. My dad had never heard of them being that way and insisted on "excavating" in the soup caldron with a slotted spoon. (It was trash night, so I had already bundled the kitchen trash and put it at the curb or I could have checked the label)...KInda funny. So, we both had vegetable soup about 3 1/2 hours after Subway and called it a night.
I am needing to do a little grocery shopping before storm arrives, but am waiting on UPS to deliver my Bose radio back from repairs....I don't want it sitting on the stoop.
Think it might be a good night for Rotisserie Chicken and potatoes with cranberry sauce.
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