So...whats for dinner?
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auntie I hope that your dad is better with the wound care
Susan I am still very impressed
Minus- are you the one that ate that despicable dinner with to gin and tonics and a tortilla in the microwave? Cheese I do not even drink hard alcohol. For shame for shame for shame as Gomer Pyle would say
I have been out of town at a conference today the menu selection was cobb salad without the chicken yesterday it was a bucket of pasta with, I swear canned sauce and vegetables. I may have to go out for dinner. they are not veggie friendly.I apologize for not keeping up it has been enough with my fractured rib which still hurts and working 4 days a week
I hope that everyone is fine
Goats how are your goats how are their coats do you have any quotes? are they eating their oats?
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Count me in with the ones who dislike cilantro---
Dinner was a Ribeye, baked potato w/ sour crème. Cooked at 8-m, just finished the dishes.
Walked today at the lake where I broke my wrist, Lots of coots on the water. (birds)
looks like rain, and some was predicted but so far none.
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Tonight was a kale salad with strawberry vinaigrette, chicken, almonds, avocado and more strawberries. My PT worked me at therapy today - eeesh - it hurt! And I got an illustration of just how out of shape I really am after 5-10 mins on the elliptical - it was pretty sad. Then while doing mini-lunges with an exercise ball the PT and her student (doing the last clinical of his Phd in PT) noticed one side was weaker than the other so lunges were abandoned in favor of some torturous crazy stretching and isometric leg lifting exercises designed to strengthen my inner thighs - yay! They need help, lol!
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Fresh green beans with small potatoes and "smothered" pork chops cooked with onion slices and red bell pepper. I browned the pork chops under the broiler, nestled them in the skillet and poured in a can of Rotel tomatoes.
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That sounds delish Carole. Did you cook on top of the stove or in the oven?
The vegetable beds are done! Dirt gets delivered tomorrow and mulch on Saturday. Tonight should be our last night in the 30s, then a significant warm-up with nights in the 50s. Hope to get everything planted this weekend.
Were having oven baked breaded cod, some mac and cheese I had in the freezer and asparagus. Kind of quiet around here today!
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Tonight must be a pork and potatoes night! I have a 2 lb pork roast in the oven with baked potatoes, which will be topped with Greek yogurt and scallions, and some honey glazed carrots. I was watching a new cooking show the other day and they showed a dessert/coffee thing - 2 scoops chocolate ice cream, 1 c. of coffee over it, with whipped cream on top. I am going to make it tonight and use the no sugar added coconut milk ice cream and the Coco Whip (coconut milk whipped cream - similar consistency to Cool Whip). I will post about how it turns out!
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I cooked the pork chops on the stove top, Nance. That will be great to get your garden planted.
I commented to dh after we had eaten, "We had a healthy dinner tonight." Without pause, he replied, "We can have ice cream then." So we just had ice cream dessert. Mine was Blue Bell strawberry no-sugar-added low fat. It's surprisingly good. I bought it a few months ago and didn't bother to take it back when the company started emptying all the supermarket shelves. So I had a small serving with sugar free chocolate syrup on top and some toasted walnut pieces and a good squirt of whipped cream in a can. DH had a whole fat sugar added ice cream that he bought.
It is quiet around here today and tonight.
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Change of plans...Last night I cooked 2 pounds of the yogurt-cream chicken...DD ate all of it for lunch...and the remaining pork roast as an afternoon snack....
Hamburgers tonight... :-)
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Goodness, Eric. That girl has an appetite!
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Yes, her appetite is amazing! I just hope it doesn't come back to bite her in 15-20 years. :-)
Tonight DD drilled out a bunch of spot welds on her car so the bent beyond repair sections could be removed. We have the replacement pieces and Saturday I'll be borrowing my friend's tiny welder (perfect for car bodies) so we can weld the new pieces in place. She's excited about working on her car and I'm pleased that she's learning how to handle tools.
I'm even more thrilled about the time we're spending time together.
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eric - that is so great about DD and the car welding and hanging out with dad! Mine likes to clean the boat with my DH - they chat and hang out, and since she is 25 they sometimes have a beer. My DD took shop class in school, and when she was in high school built the sets for the school plays. She has dismantled parts of her car to customize - she painted the inside of her headlights and baked them in my oven. Conversely, my strapping firefighter son took two years of Home Ec - smart boy because there were a lot of girls in there! He irons and cooks all the time - is actually a really good cook, which comes in handy at the firehouse. I have a little photo album that he made and a cross-stitched key chain, lol! He also made a gingerbread house! DD is less interested in cooking but has been doing decently on her own - she just decided recently that she needs to eat healthier so she is working on that.
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Reporting back. The trip to Shangri-la Gardens was spectacular. Comfortable bus owned by the County for the 2-1/2 hour trip each way, and the cost for seniors was $5.00. We stopped for lunch at the Old Orange Cafe. I had Portobello Chicken w/a garlic cream sauce w/vegetables & wild rice. Very good. Lunch included Buttermilk Pie. It was good but too sweet for my tastes. The Cuban Chicken dish my friend brought was really tasty. I will post the recipe when she sends it. She also brought home made blueberry muffins to share. Yum.
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minus - sounds like a great trip and yummy food to boot!
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We've been having a lot of leftovers this week....and last evening ordered take- out. DH had a fresh tuna salad and I had balsamic glazed salmon over mashed cauliflower/parmesan with grilled asparagus. It was really good! Unfortunately, so was their bread!
I am slowly trying to clear out unused clothing here....awful, time consuming job for one with hoarding tendencies....you know, "things can always be useful at a later date". Then every time one thing proves useful, the bad habit is reinforced!
Nance, I loved reading about your bird viewing over coffee.
Would like to hear more about the delicacies you put out for them! We recently hung out our hummingbird feeder, hoping some will stop here on their way North. For days, no sighting, except for a chicadee landing there to check out the feeder. Then yesterday, DH let out a loud excited shout to me! Our first hummer had arrived! He stayed for a long time, showing off his gorgeous ruby throat. He also perched on the branch of a nearby, unleafed, butterfly bush and pecked at it. Never saw that hummer behavior before. Maybe the butterfly bush will awaken!! Doesn't take much to excite us!DS2 and DGF have been pre-occupied with having a sick pup. Their little Scotty seemed to have an upset stomach for a few days then stopped eating (his bland diet) and drinking, was hospitalized over the weekend and required surgery due to a (misdiagnosed) blockage. So he is home now recovering. They are happy to have him home and in shell shock at the thousands of dollars this set them back.
Sure hope he recovers fully. I think he probably ingested fabric from those soft dog toys that have become popular.....since he tears at them. Our schnauzers never tore them apart, but I think they are a no-no for this large-jawed little guy. Expensive toys!!! Special, I have to say that my PT sessions a couple of years ago really changed my life for the better. Of course that is because I have continued my exercise regimen. My legs and arms have gotten soooo much stronger. So, while it hurts at first, you will gain a lot of strength by following that path....and soon enough it won't hurt. Good luck!!
Carole, when is your foot surgery? Hope it is gentle and gets you back to enjoying a painless golf game soon enough.
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Minus, we cross posted....what a fun sounding trip with a great price....and tasty sounding meal. Will look forward to the Cuban Chicken recipe!
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Lacey - my DS & DGF have pet insurance for their dog - a greyhuahua (combination of Italian Greyhound & Chihuahua). This is a 'rescue' dog that has turned out to be a 'special needs' dog. For every year that they've had her they've had some major special issue and have been glad to have the insurance. I understand it's expensive and I laughed when he initially told me they were buying it, but it's turned out to be a good deal for them.
BTW - thanks for coming up with DGF. My DS has been w/this girl for 14 years and they don't plan to get married so I've never known how to refer to her. DGF will do a good job.
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Minus, have you ever pried a bit into why your son and his DGF don't plan to be married? My younger sister and her husband, who are Southern Baptists, will be very upset if the Supreme Court decides in favor of nationwide acceptance of gay marriage. I pointed out to my sister that there are other threats to traditional marriage besides this gay marriage issue. Lots of people live together in a committed relationship and do not marry. It seems that marriage is "out of style" for many couples.
Lacey, your take out dinners always sound delicious. It would be tempting not to cook.
I printed out Eric's recipe for Chicken with Cream Sauce and have everything prepped. DH wanted to know who Eric was and I told him Eric was someone he would enjoy knowing. The two of them would have a lot in common with the do-it-yourself mentality.
Today was another beautiful day. If only we had more weather like this
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Lacey, lol, in addition to the numerous hummingbird feeders, we feed the other songbirds as well. Since our dogs died, dh has adopted all of the birds in the county. We feed grape jelly and oranges to the orioles, meal worms to the bluebirds, suet cakes and pellets to the woodpeckers, niger seed to the goldfinches and sunflower seeds to everyone else. We feed winter and summer mainly because in the summer they bring the babies around. They are quite entertaining. We're crazy.
Eric, that is so awesome that your DD is learning so much about repairs and tools. Knowledge that will serve her well!
I agree with Carole Lacey, your takeouts are a thousand times better than our eat in opportunities!
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Carole - yes, I've probed. The "kids" don't feel marriage is necessary since they have chosen not to have any children. They live in a state where health insurance is covered for your domestic partner so that's not an issue. They bought a house together several years ago in this community property state and have a good legal agreement to cover that purchase, since real property can cause some problems w/o marriage. I've chosen to accept what it is after 14 years. There's only so much we can do w/o alienating ourselves from their future, and I love my son, so I've chosen to embrace what's there.
My best friend died of pancreatic cancer in 2005. I sort of inherited her grown son since he doesn't have a dad. He did choose to get married and I was an honored guest, but they too have chosen not to have children.
So I went to the Christening for my niece's first child a couple of weeks ago, and will be an active out-or-town 'aunt'. And will do the same for my nephew's baby when 'it' is born in October.
Speaking of birds - one of the highlights of the ShangriLa Gardens was the "heronry". There must have been 200 birds - all kids of herons, egrets, spoonbills, etc. nesting on dead Cypress trees in a secluded bayou. They had built an ingenious blind and you could actually watch all the mothers interacting with the babies in the nests. Really neat.
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minus - The "heronry" sounds so cool! One of my favorite things about Florida, and particularly where I live on the preserve, is the abundant bird life. We have big cranes that have babies right now across the street in the preserve, and regularly have any number of birds at the pond across the street.
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DH buys 50 lb. bags of black-oil sunflower seeds in the winter and keeps three feeders filled for the finches and other seed-eating birds. But when spring arrives, he figures his "welfare" birds can forage for food that nature provides. The doves and squirrels and the chicken from next door clean up on the ground underneath the feeders. We have bluebirds that feed on bugs they spot in the lawn. There are always cardinals and blue jays and mockingbirds around. Blue herons and white herons are common In the area. Also hawks and owls. During the summer in northern MN, we enjoy seeing eagles flying across the sky and loons on the lake.
Eric, the yogurt cream sauce was very good. It reduced quite a bit as I was making sure the diced shallot cooked and I added some white wine. I also added s & p and cayenne. DH liked it. A good way to dress up boneless skinless chicken breasts which don't have much flavor on their own.
This morning I plan to bite the bullet and venture out into the yard to do mulching with pine straw and more weeding in the front flower beds. There was a time when I enjoyed yard work and considered gardening a hobby. The duration of work will depend on my foot. When it hurts too much to continue standing and walking, I'll call it quits. Usually about 2 1/2 hrs.
This afternoon I plan to make spaghetti sauce for tomorrow's dinner at my mother's house. The meat base will be ground chuck and Italian sausage made with green onions. Tomorrow I will also cook steamed asparagus with butter and lemon for those of us who eat green food. That eliminates my sister's dh, her son and the son's live-in girlfriend. It gets very boring to cook for people with such a limited palate. It's no wonder my sister doesn't enjoy cooking, which for her means cooking meat and potatoes. Their favorite place to eat is Texas Longhorn and they always get the same thing, ribeye steak with two sides of baked potato. They split the dinner and also order one of those deep fried onions. Imagine a shudder here! LOL.
Our dinner tonight will be home-made pizza. The frozen whole wheat dough is thawing. My recipe makes enough for two pizzas so I freeze the extra dough. DH likes a red sauce so I will probably humor him and use a small amt. of the spaghetti sauce. Other toppings will probably be Italian sausage, sautéed cremini mushrooms and sautéed yellow bell pepper, Greek olives and grated cheese. Love pizza!
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Texas Roadhouse?
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Carole - there are both, right? Texas Roadhouse and Longhorn Steakhouse
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Minus, the heronry, as well as the gardens sound wonderful. What a nice deal, and someone else drives!
Eric, I think it's awesome that your dd is getting such great hands on experience with tools. Knowledge that will serve her well!
I know what you mean about gardening, Carole. I bit off more than I could chew when we moved here. I had a small suburban garden that was quite manageable, but when we moved to four acres, all I could imagine was a bounty of vegetables and cut flowers. I forgot about weeds, and in the country they are lots more birds and other critters to spread nasty little weed seeds. I do still enjoy it, but not the weeding and especially not in the heat of summer. One problem that's common with those with diabetes is that we don't sweat as well, so I overheat quite easily.
Tonight will be homemade fettuccini, the last I have in the freezer, with asparagus in an alfredo sauce. I suppose there will have to be salad too. I promised dh a dessert, so I'll make a 5" peach pie for him, the last of last summer's peaches. The mini pies are great, two servings and no leftovers!
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You might as well call them Texas Steakhouse, they're practically identical.
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Minus that trip sounds so wonderful
Carole and Auntie, I will be joining you in the garden today. This is definitely not the fun part-prepping the garden and pulling out old weeds
Made the first Gazpacho of the season yesterday. Yay!
I am having a great deal of anxiety about DD's wedding in less than two weeks. I have NO idea what to wear, as she keeps saying things like "it's just a party, we're getting married at the Justice of Peace the day before " ", DSIL is wearing flip flops, I'm wearing Birkenstocks""Yes I'm wearing a short white lace dress, it's at a historical museum" "I don't know what everyone is wearing-dresses I guess, IDK business casual" Then she pointed out a rather fancy dress on line for the guests. There will be cupcakes and "Nellie's Brew" (her dog) with her dog's picture on the beer bottles-DSIL makes home brewed beer. There will be crochet. (sp?) on the lawn. The future in-laws are very old school Main Line Philly. The "out-laws" will be there whom I haven't seen in decades. 1,000s of them. Well not 1000, but it feels like that. DH #1will be there-he's cool. I'm supposed to do the flowers. She dropped off 30 little antique bottles and said she wanted me to pick "wild flowers" for the reception hall Hahahahaha! I pawned them off to a florist yesterday. My "Date" will be a dear old friend who was also her first babysitter when I went back to work.
I do have a real date. But he's too new.
Good . Grief
Happy Saturday.
My "admirer" is also a nut. We are looking at trailers and RVs on Wednesday.
I think Salmon for breakfast. I want to lose 6 pounds. ACKKKK!
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Bedo, I hope you post some pictures of the wedding party.
Yes, there are two steakhouse restaurants, Texas Roadhouse and Longhorn. We have both of them. Also Outback which never seems to lose its popularity. My favorite steaks are cooked here at home on the grill. DH does a great job.
The spaghetti sauce is made. I even made Ghirardelli brownies for tomorrow. The hardest part was opening the box!
ATK made gluten free pizza dough and cookies today. I wonder how long that food trend will last.
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Whew, the dandelions are bad and so I am substituting weeding for some of my therapy this weekend. I am rotating and pushing, so whats the diff?
Have the fixings for burritos in the fridge, but may do it tomorrow. I also have the stuff to make a rhubarb-pineapple pie, which really is more important!
It's Derby Day! Wish I was there in a big hat with a mint julep looking at little men in tight pants....and the horses, lets not forget them....LOL>
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Carole - I like steaks best at home too, but had an excellent fillet courtesy of my exDH at Ruths Chris last fall. Usually if I eat beef out I prefer something like Prime Rib that's too big for me to cook for one.
This is my "eat out" week I guess. Fuddruckers hamburgers on Wednesday & previously reported bus trip on Thursday. Dominoes group Friday w/lots of munchies. Going to a chamber choir concert downtown tonight and will eat at Cafe Ginger - excellent sushi & Asian food with no MSG. Tomorrow afternoon I have play tickets and not sure where we'll stop for dinner. Everything comes at once and then I have 2 weeks to recover and drop the five pounds I'll gain.
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Minus, I would never turn down a steak at Ruth's Chris. Not to mention the decadent sides like creamed spinach.
Redheaded, the pie is definitely more important than burritos!
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