So...whats for dinner?
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I had a croissant for breakfast this morning, a rare treat to be sure! The Musée Carnalavet, which outlines the history of Paris, had a wonderful gallery of old Parisian merchant signs. Here is my favorite one which used to hang outside a cabaret.
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I love that sign!
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Oh Susan, thanks to you----I LoVE PARIS IN THE SPRINGTIME......0 -
Susan, I like that picture. Most anything "cat" is pretty cool.
It will be an interesting day. DD's school is off today, so I took a vacation day too. We'll be looking in the junkyards for car parts and then later we'll be taking her prom dress to the seamstress so it will fit better. I guess size 3 is a big clingy and size 5 is "tent like".
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love the pictures Susan!
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The l'arc de Triomphe with the Eiffel Tower in the background. Return from the opera late and all the monuments are lit.very beautiful.
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Eric - quite a juxtaposition - auto junkyards to prom dresses!! Hope the day went well for both errands.
Starters tonight - the rest of the cold boiled shrimp from my Costco trip. Probably 25 or 30 - yup I'm a glutton for these. Later I'll have raw cauliflower, carrots & radishes with some kind of dip for 'mains'. Desert will probably be popcorn. Hey Bedo, you're eating many more 'regular' meals than I am. How's the job now you're back? Or if I forgot and you're still gone, my excuse is chemo brain and how's that?
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Add traffic school to her list of things for today. She got a traffic citation for the car crash. This removes the citation points from her record.
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Susan--will you get to the big white church maybe on the Left Bank? There are lots of steps with old fashioned street lamps coming down from where it is in Paris??
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I'm getting a longing to go to Paris!
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Will you light a candle for us In Notre Dame?
If no time I know that our thoughts will carry us through.
It looks like you are having a fabulous time and I am so glad!
Alright I've figured out the posting kitchen pics thing Is there another person who would PM me and I can post if I send them to your email?
No way I am bothering Susan on her awesome trip!
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One of the two lions guarding the Musée Jacquemart Andre.
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I may not have Paris, but I have beautiful French lilacs
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I have French Lilacs too and and I am 3 hours north of you and they just have green leaves!
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My lilacs and azaleas are starting to bud. Figure we are about three weeks behind in seeing flowers and warmer weather
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Red, mine have just cranked on this week due to the warm weather. I hope you have buds at least.
Worked in the yard all day. Oh my aching back! I forget how much work gardening is. It's especially laborious this year because we're reconstructing and moving all of the raised vegetable beds. My hope is that this will make the whole thing more manageable. They're being moved to what was a very large perennial bed. Between the deer and the weeds, the flower bed has been a losing proposition for the past few years that I just can't keep up with, so last year I moved most of the perennials to the fenced back yard. Now by moving the beds into that area, there will much less space for the weeds and dh won't have to mow around the individual beds. We're also adding new topsoil to the beds, so it's a job. I did get potatoes and onions planted today. Yay!
Tonight is Laurie's salsa chicken with yellow rice and some pineapple slaw. I'm happy to have an easy meal tonight.
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Wow Nance, what a lot of work! Not sure I have the energy for that anymore...but it will be wonderful to have the raised beds and fenced in gardens. I did buy some pansies today to plant in pots on kur deck since we have no more snow at all. For the past three days it has truly felt like SPring!
We just returned from a little neighborhood gathering at the home of a woman who lives alone and loves to sing in groups...so we had a sort of hootenanny (sp?). Definitely not ready for prime time!
Today we ventured out to the new Market Basket grocery store (this is the store that was tied up in a family legal battle for a very long time and is now run by the relative who is loved and respected by the employees). It does seem to be a well run store, with low prices, tho I saw very little organic produce there. We got one of those $5 chickens there and just finished having some of it for dinner.
So Big Night has come and gone, and I think it will most likely be the last time we attend. Seems every year they cut back on things that have made it special in the past....unnamed wine in carafes this year, presentation only so so. For example, the chef brought out a large timpano we expected to be cut into slices, but instead we were served little individual pasta encrusted ones that did not measure up. I will grandiosly say that it did not come even close to tasting as good as the one my neighbor and I made two months ago. The dessert was tiny cannolis and tiny biscotti...neither memorable. They probably thought no one had space for them....I did! So here are some pics to go along with my unpleasant review....
In fairness to this couple who own the restaurant, they have just purchased a local inn and have been in a frenzy dealing with that transition. That will be their second restaurant, (farm to table, American food instead of authentic Italian)along with a wine and speciality store.
The risotto...actually, all three of these were wonderful: shrimp and mussel; parmesan, and pesto, which was to die for.
Disappointing individual timpano
Chef Josh displaying the fish...maybe sea bass?
Roasted thyme carrots and spinach
The most tasty herb crusted potatoes (and I never usually eat white potatoes...had a lot!) and tender pieces of chicken
The fish course
Our unexciting dessert....can you tell I'm a dessert girl?!
Yay, none of the pix disappeared!
And Bedo, I would be happy to try to post your pix while Susan galavants around Paris!
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Lacey, in spite of the food not quite living up, it looks like a good time. And oh how I love risotto! It's one of the things I like to make when my DDIL is here -- she doesn't mind standing at the stove and stirring forever and I hate it!
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I would kill to try all three of the risottos. I think when I make it, I can almost eat the whole thing myself....0 -
Last night was chaperoning Sharon's school's prom. This morning DD's car emergency was superseded by a plumbing emergency--leaking garbage disposer. $350 for a plumber to come out and fix it sometime tomorrow between 8am and 5pm. $95 and 1 hour, including the trip to the store and it's fixed. It helps when one gets the same model as it "just fits with no issues".
So DD is now cleaning up underneath the kitchen cabinet.
My mom's 97th birthday is today and I'm still thinking about what to make for dinner for her. But first, a junk yard run to get some more parts before someone else gets them.
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dinner is pork chops, salad and baked potato0 -
susan - enjoying the photos!
eric - you are a renaissance man for sure!
Dinner is TBD. Last night was no dinner for me - I had a couple of Aleve the other day for my hip - big mistake, have been in heartburn-like pain ever since. I have tried eating a variety of different things, nothing helps, almost everything makes it worse. Ugh! I made DH a chicken Waldorf salad with dried cranberries after he came home from the gym.
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I think I'm going to take the easy way out and do some old standbys; a pork roast in the usual way and make the chicken rice dish. I don't feel like making a cake, so I may do what my mom did for me when I was three.
According to mom...as I didn't know any of this at the time.
My third birthday was moving day and mom forgot about my birthday. When she did remember, it was 10 minutes before the bakery closed and the only thing left was a chocolate "long john" doughnut...just one....so she bought it, put three candles in it and that was my "cake". She said I loved it.
To this day I like chocolate doughnuts.
I won't be able to put 97 candles on it, so I'll probably just go with one candle.......and I'll get ice cream for all of us.
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Eric - I have started to use those number candles now that my youngest has passed the two dozen candle mark. I'm so bad I even recycle them - I have a bag full of random numbers. I also like them because they are big enough to be seen in pictures so it's easier to identify which birthday it is! The donut story is adorable and she will love getting one! And some ice cream
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As usual, no spare time for you, Eric! I HATE plumbing crises!!
Nance, all of the risottos were wonderful, but the pesto one was out of this world. I bet a pesto risotto with shrimp would be abolutely to die for! Maybe try that when DDIL comes to visit?
I used to make a pesto alfredo sauce with shrimp and scallops over linguini for our Christmas Eve dinner for many years....before I didn't pay attention to calorie and fat intake. Those were the days....;)Probably having leftover five dollar chicken with assorted vegetable saute and salad tonight, before heading to a poetry reading some of our friends are sponsoring. I have never been a knowledgeable poetry fan, but did once write a haiku about a dog that was hanging out of the second floor window of a row house on a stifling weekday morning. I saw him often as I used to walk past the row houses on the way to my summer job at RCA in Camden, NJ. I can still sense the tomato soup smell that filled the muggy still air from the Campbell's Soup company in that neighborhood. Always liked reading that little dog poem...wish I could find it.
Tomorrow is Marathon Monday and we just talked to DS1 whose "building" sits right at the finish line, (this was the one that had its first four floors of windows blown out two years ago) so we might head down on the train and watch the elite runners finish, and hang out with him and DGF a bit. Of course things are heightened here given the trial happening and the sentencing coming up.
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It is a dark stormy afternoon with rain here in Central IL so I am attempting to Make Special's split pea soup. Already worried cause the amount of sautéed veggies looks like too much for the stock and the peas and ham. Waiting on the peas to "thicken the stock" then combine it all. Wish I had thought to b uy a baguette at the market. May have to suit up in my slicker and venture out.p
Substuting a 1/4 inch thick slice of black forrest ham diced 1/4 inch squares since I don't have a hambone....
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red - thin it with water or more stock if it is too thick.
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Special, you said Large containers of stock. My stock was 32 oz each, is that ok?
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Pork chops here too tonight, with applesauce, baked sweet potato and some sauteed yellow squash. Kind of cloudy and rainy here too Red, soup sounds good.
Poor Eric -- you never get a weekend off. It's the price you pay for being too good at too many things ;-) Happy birthday to your mom!
SK -- I feel your pain. Most tried and true heartburn remedies don't work for me either. The only food that comes close are saltines. The thing that works best is drinking tons and tons of water. Thankfully, I no longer have to deal with it nearly as often since daily omeprozole. I know long term use of that causes it's own issues but having heartburn that feels like a knife in your chest is trumping for now. Btw, I don't have any problem with Aleve, but Motrin gives me heartburn BIG time!
We are at the age of cakes having one "representative" candle lol.
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