So...whats for dinner?
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Ahhhh, chocolate long johns. Oh so delicious, but talk about heartburn . . . . . .
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This is our last night in Paris. We had a wonderful day, and once again, I pushed my mother to walk far too much. _le sigh_ I can't quite seem to get that right.
Let's see what I can get up tonight. First off.... for Eric.... dessert. We split two desserts so that we could each have a taste but I gave my Mother more than half of each one. Une tarte fraises et une eclair chocolate.
Palais Garnier
And just cause the Palais is so brilliant, another:
A bientôt,
*susan*
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susan - awesome and love the French version of Eric's mom's chocolate donut!
auntie - I had reflux surgery back in '95, so I am usually careful, but took Aleve just this once - never again. Feels like something is stuck there. And is on fire. This has been going on for several days, so I am cranky, lol!
red - yes, those are the size, but I had to add water too. I added it as the peas cooked - if things reached that resistant point when I stirred I just kept adding water but the consistency of this recipe is pretty thick. The saltiness of the ham and the flavor of the other vegs is strong enough I think you can add a fair amount of water to get it where you want it.
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Dessert.....ahh....thank you... :-)
Eric
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Tommorrow I'm planning on making chili. I figure I'll have enough left over to cook up some pasta and throw it in so we have dinner for either Thurs. or Fri. in case I'm still not up to cooking after the surgery on Wed. Got a frozen pizza for Wed. night
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mommyof2 - good luck and take it easy!
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Planning on it. Just got a few things housework wise to do before Wed. and then I'll take it as it comes. Good thing hubby is willing to help me with things post-surgery
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Hubby is *supposed* to do that! ::-)
Eric
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Mommy good luck on your surgery----download all the takeout menu's you can find!!!!
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Got chili made for tonight, tommorrow I'll cook some pasta up and add the leftover chili to it. That's at least one dinner for later this week. Tommorrow will most likely be chicken. I'll make enough for another night this week.
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Cold and windy day here (what happened to spring?!!) good day for soup. Been kind of out of the soup mold for a while so I scoured the pantry and came up with a package of 15 beans. I'll put these together with a frozen ham bone and a baguette. It's been forever since I made 15 bean soup. DH will be happy because one of the 15 varieties is lima beans. He can have those.
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Nance, I was just thinking the same thing about it being a soup day....cold and rainy....and yes, we wimped out of viewing the brave and hardy Marathon runners outside. To make myself feel like less of a slouch, I did head to the basement, did a half hour of rigorous treadmilling and then some stretching and weight bearing exercises.
Am thinking that I might make a cabbage based soup since I have had one in the fridge awaiting use!
Will also make lamb burgers with the usual greek style dressups. I'm sure that DH will brave the cold and rain to grill them...he's so intrepud when it comes to food.
Mommy, good luck with your procedure.
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Lacey - I made a dish the other night with cabbage that was yummy. I cooked some sliced fully cooked turkey kielbasa until it got some color - in a bit of olive oil. Removed it and cooked cut up cabbage and onion until tender, with salt, a generous amount of pepper and a bit of sugar, added the kielbasa back in with a couple of tablespoons each apple cider vinegar and grainy mustard. Stirred for a few minutes and served with brown rice. You could use any sausage or even chicken or pork
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Mommyof2, I'll be thinking of you on Wednesday. I hope it's easy, pain free and has a quick recovery. It's good that your husband is stepping up for you. I know I try to take care of things for Sharon, even if it's just because she's had a really long day and is tired.
Last night, we had my mom over for a birthday dinner. Sharon talked me out of the chocolate long john doughnuts and we got a cake from the bakery...along with the 9 and 7 digit candles...thanks for that suggestion. I did up a roast pork and the chicken-jasmine rice that everyone love so much. Twice baked potatoes, green beans and some store bought rolls rounded out the remainder of the stuff. Normally I'll make up a salad, but mom is taking cumadin and they're still trying to get the dose stabilized, so I avoided all the dark green stuff with lots of vitamin K.
This morning I awoke at 4am to drive the bus, then took care of some dripping faucets and then met "test daughter #1" (she turned 40 on tax day) and her dad at the junk yard. She found a door and some switches for her car while her dad and I spent about 4 hours carefully removing welded together inner body panels. Tonight DD spent time learning how to cut welds. I brought home quite a bit more than was needed and the excess provided her some practice material.
It was full sun the whole time in the junk yard and if it wasn't 100F it was very close. I'm pretty dusty/dirty/sweaty and I probably smell so bad that I'd make a fly gag.
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I am in Malaga. Will get husband at the airport in about 3 hrs. What a charming city in the dark, at least. The cathedral is lit at night is show-stopping gorgeous. Still haven't downloaded any pictures so that will have to wait. At 11pm, I sat down to dinner! Just like they say in every book, Spaniards are still feasting late into the evening. Chose a local wine, red, Spanish tortilla, omelette, a sausage tartar, and smoked sardines. This should have been 6 bites of food according to their menu, but was a full meal.
Time to find some coffee!!
*susan*
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Thanks everyone for the concern over my surgery. I am ready to get this over with and get on with life!
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Eric, the birthday party dinner sounds delicious. I'll have to make your chicken rice dish again. I liked it a lot.
Tonight's dinner will be oven fried boneless chicken thighs and leftover linguine with butter lemon sauce. Also leftover cauliflower in cheese sauce if it's not too soggy. The chicken thighs are marinating in buttermilk with a T. of hot sauce. The breading will probably be panko. I keep reading recipes that call for whole wheat panko but I have not found it.
Susan, I'm loving your pictures and travel messages. Keep enjoying yourself.
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So last evening's soup was a fun surprise to make and eat.....sweet and sour (and hot) red cabbage soup. Topped it with a dollup of sour cream and chives. We then had our doctored up lamburgers and cuke salad.
Tonight we finished up the rotisserie chicken along with baked butternut squash, and arugula/pear red onion salad with balsamic dressing. No bread in the house led DH to drag out some matza, which was good with KerryGold Irish butter.... a bit of blended ethnicity.
Tomorrow DH is out with his men friends for dinner.I'm a bit envious that he gets to try Juniper (a newer restaurant in Wellesley, opened by the owner/chef of our local Sweet Basil, which we've been wanting to try), but he assured me he'll share his review. Ha! The good news is that I get to make my favorite kale/veggie sauté with egg, for which I am due!
Eric, I'm glad your DM got a real cake after that special sounding dinner!
Susan your late dinner sounds lovely!
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Susan I guess the only way I could leave Paris is if Spain were next! ENJOY
Mommy good luck.
Eric it's really great that you are teaching your DD to do the metal work on the car. And wish your Mother Happy Birthday from us!
The only real cooking I did was using up the ham bone in the freezer in bean soup. Unlike most of you I use canned bean 3 or 4 different kinds. Added potatoes carrots celery and onions. Tossed in the bone and cooked til the potatoes were soft. Ta da. My DD2 and her DH loved it. So I'm not forced to eat 6 quarts of it myself. LOL.
Much love to all.
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ps. Finding it incredibly hard to keep putting on the reading glasses. Finally bought the glass hangers all the old people wore when I was a kid. Hanging around my neck so I can read while I watch TV . Strange.....
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Last night's dinner was KFC. Got enough for another night!
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Tonight's dinner is stuffed shells out of the freezer. And a salad.
I had a delicious turkey burger with sweet potato fries for lunch. Or half a turkey burger. I brought the other half home. I played golf so poorly that I stayed for lunch and pampered myself. Any excuse! If I'd played well, I would have had to reward myself. Then on the way home, I stopped at my favorite NO coffee shop, P. J.'s, and got a large latte.
It sure is quiet on here. I guess Nance is out working in her garden. My new non-foodie pursuit will involve sewing. I'm having my ancient mini Kenmore serviced and have bought fabric to make some patchwork placemats. Goodness knows what they will end up costing. I doubt I'll be saving any $$ but I haven't been able to find placemats to buy for a number of years. I'll take some pictures when I have some finished products. I guess placemats do figure into foodie interests.
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Ha - I SHOULD be out working in my garden but the weather didn't t quite cooperate. It's a lovely sunny day but with a 20 mile an hour frigid wind. Brrrr. Tomorrow promises to be better so we put off garden work until then. I spent the morning giving my kitchen a much needed cleaning and have frittered away the afternoon. We have a frost warning out for tonight so we moved all of the soon to be planted vegetable and flower plants that had been on the front porch back into the garage. I fear for my beautiful lilacs and apple trees, which are in full bloom.They can take a light frost, but certainly not a freeze. I'm reminded of 2006 when we had a late freeze in April. That year we visited the Biltmore Estate in May and the rose garden, which should have been in full bloom, was completely bereft of flowers due to that same freeze. Kind of a letdown.
It's funny you should mention sewing Carole. I've been trying to make kitchen hand towels (the kind with the button and loop that you hook onto a handle of some kind). I would have bought them but I wanted solid black ones which are impossible to find. They're quite easy to make (thank you Youtube) but not on my ancient Singer machine. The first one took 15 minutes, the second over an hour. I broke 4 needles trying to get it done. The tension is permanently screwed up, the presser foot won't stay tight and I'm too blind to thread the thing easily. I would like to get a new one with an automatic threader. I hate to sew actually, but really can't do without a sewing machine just for the many little sewing, alterations and mending jobs that I do. It seems like there's always something to spend $100 on . . . Do post pictures of your efforts Carole! I love the pictures!
DH requested grilled burgers tonight. He wants (oven baked) fries with that, but I think I'll have a baked potato. I thought about making some onion rings instead but then remembered I'm out of buttermilk. So potatoes two ways it is. I'll cut up some cucumbers and tomatoes as a side.
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A roasted chicken...rubbed with dried thyme, dried rosemary, dried cilantro, curry powder, dried sage, a minced clove of garlic and enough olive oil to make a paste.
It's in the oven right now and I'm using a dutch oven as a roaster. I added an onion that was getting old, and a couple of carrots. I decided an hour at 350F degrees covered and then continue uncovered until it's done.
We still have some green beans and store bought rolls...so those will be the side dishes.
Two dogs and a cat are currently guarding the oven. :-)
Thinking of Mommyof2.
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Things went well yesterday. As for tongiht, we are having KFC that was left over from the other night
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mommyof2 - glad to hear things went well.
This has been a busy week, DD came home Monday night. I have been going to PT for my hip - which is going well and improving things. I made a bunch of artichoke/bacon/Monterey jack crust-less mini quiches, fruit salad, and two kinds of muffins for DH to take yesterday for Administrative Professionals Day. Got up this morning at 4:45 to pack DD off to go back to Georgia - made her some lunch and ham & melted provolone on English muffin breakfast sandwiches for the road - she is headed straight back to work - has to be there by 9. Her boat is now occupying my spot in the garage as she has begun the process of moving back. Dinner last night was Greek salads with grilled chicken, but it has been hit or miss this week with too much running around! Tonight is pork chops, oven roasted potatoes and sautéed yellow squash and red peppers.
moon - I love those glasses hanger things - mine are always on my head or hanging off the front of my shirt. Have you finished both eyes?
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Nance, hope it didn't freeze last night. The azaleas didn't produce their usual glorious bloom this March because of our winter freezes.
Mommy, good to hear that your surgery went well.
Special, I missed the news that DD is moving back. Glad your PT is helping. You continue to compete with the Energizer Bunny!
Hope Susan is enjoying Spain.
You're putting some of us to shame, Eric, cooking your own whole chicken instead of buying a rotisserie already-cooked.
Off to exercise this morning. Worked up the nerve to step on the scale this morning and the read-out wasn't as bad as I feared.
Not sure about dinner. Maybe lamb shanks. I need to cook more lamb and use up the supply.
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Well, there was ice in the bird bath this morning, so apparently it hit 32 last night. It's now 35, so don't know how long it lasted or what kind of damage it did. Probably won't be able to tell till later.
Sk, I missed that about DD too. Is her internship over?
This morning I'm fixing a breakfast sandwich of sorts with eggs, peppers, onions, bacon and cheese rolled up in a piece of puff pastry. Sort of like a breakfast burrito in a puff pastry dough.
I'm thinking tonight will be pork piccata and a side of angel hair with parmesan and asparagus.
I need to get this garden work done so I can get back to the gym too. My joints are feeling it!
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31 here at 5:15 a.m. when the alarm went off. Actually dug my parka out to run to donut shop for coffee, etc. Leaving for Springfield at 8;30 I have a apt with the PA in a ENT's office still trying to investigate this funky feeling in m yright ear. Been going on ever since I finished rads and started Arimidex, but the MO and I have ruled that out by going off it first for 10 days then for 1.5. months.....ticked I'm not seeing the doc like my neurologist
recommended, but I guess I get a foot in the door this way. If they can't solve it, I am just going to forget about it and learn to deal with it.
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Special - I agree, we missed a chapter of DD. Thought she was still on the East Coast.
Can't believe you all had another freeze. Well, this year anything is possible. Sunday evening we had hail from 1/2 to 1" and enough that driveways & lawns were totally covered.
My lazy "burrito" lunch yesterday was flour tortillas sprinkled w/Mexican Cheese, microwave & roll. Dinner was popcorn. I'm thinking beef bourguignon tonight - or maybe just beef tips on noodles.
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