So...whats for dinner?
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Auntie,
Www, I can do that. Is it too late/early to plant them this year? I'm in California
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Lacey,
I have a lot of non Indian dishes also, I wasn't doing a whole lot of cooking (or eating) during chemo as everything tasted terrible. My tastebuds seem to be back now but the herceptin gives me off and on nausea do the appetite is not what it should be .
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Sula, unless it's very hot where you are, I doubt that it's too late. They're usually planted early here but I've planted them as late as may. Lacey, the plants flower and then they die. You can harvest anytime after that. (Actually, if you want small ones you can harvest before they die. If you're careful, the plant will keep growing.) It's rather fun if you don't mind getting your hands dirty. Kind of like an Easter egg hunt.
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And Nance, do your critters not dig them up while you are waiting for the opportune harvest time? Before your newly installed protective fencing, that is. You really do have quite the nature preserve there! Admire your persistence with your vegetable gardening....I gave up this year after that groundhog ate everything I planted last year. DH saw a lean one walk across our yard in NH over Mem Day weekend. So, I'll try a doggie gate by the deck stairs for anything I grow in containers there...and see what happens.
Sula, glad your taste buds are back, but sorry for that intermittent nausea....must be so frustrating for someone who is creatively involved in food prep and writing about it. Susan and I have planned a lunch for later this week, so I am hoping that nausea takes a vacay from her that day.
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Photo op! Photo op! I'm referring to the lunch with you and Susan, Lacey.
I'm meeting some of my golf friends at the club today for lunch after they finish playing. So the time isn't definite but probably not before 1 pm. The menu has some good salads and a turkey burger with blue cheese that I like. Finding food that I can enjoy eating is never the challenge.
Nance, hope you enjoy your trip to St. Louis. Why don't you eat at a restaurant on the Hill. For me!
Dinner will probably be leftover meatloaf. And salad or another easy side. The meatloaf, green beans and new potatoes last night were much enjoyed by Midwesterner and southerner alike. I don't put ketchup on my meatloaf, though. Yuk.
Sula, I checked out the website but it seemed to end rather suddenly. Is there more?
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Lamb shank update----they were scrumptious. The prep and mess about did me in (did I tell you I have a tiny galley kitchen?) I think I've scrubbed dishes more times than ever before and the floor needs to be mopped good, but they were worth the effort.
Leftovers--just tear the meat from the bone and put the sauce over it and I'm good?
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Redheaded, I'm glad the lamb shanks and white beans turned out to your liking. It sounds good.
For lunch I had a shrimp remoulade salad, which I enjoyed.
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Oh drat!! Just lost my post......grrrrrr!
Nance, have a great time....looking forward to your meal posts!
Carole, if Susan's a willing subject of this iphone camera happy lady, we will get a pic. Really exciting is that I will get to take more of a virtual tour of her travels while enjoying lunch at Mario Batali's new Boston restaurant, Babbo Pizzeria.
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So fun to read what everyone's doing. Working tomorrow then three day weekend Wooo Hooo! I always have Fridays off.
I will be doing errands, catching up on Dr. appointments and maybe putting beet seeds in the garden, plus practicing for playing "fiddle" at the Solstice Festival on the 17th. ( I promised my teacher who is in the band The Gnomes, that I wouldn't let her down) We don't get paid, we are the "advanced" class Susan knows how bad I am, but they trot us out like kindergarteners, before they play. We stink. We are tone deaf. We get in free and get comp tickets and all the cheezits and orange soda we want in the Green room!
Tonight I have a lot of cod and cans of tomatoes. I'm thinking some kind of stew or something.
Going out for dinner tomorrow, a bike ride Saturday and then a food truck festival on Sunday. I'm Hangry!
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Carole,
just go to the home page via that link, there's 5 yrs worth of recipes of all sorts like this fast vegan ice cream for summerFast vegan ice cream without a machine
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Nice Blog!
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Stomach is still unhappy, so I changed our dinner from a composed salad with the leftover steak to onion soup for both of us, and the leftover steak and potatoes for Mr. 02143. He declined a salad making my life even easier.
Bedo, perhaps you all need orange t-shirts that say "I perform for orange food." BTW folks, they aren't as bad as Bedo says.
Red, sadly, good food sometimes involves messes, but this seems a bit extreme! The floor too?
As to photos, I hate how I look with the Graves Disease eyes. I'll ponder the possibility. :-) Haven't told Mr. 02143 that I am going to Babbo for the first time without him just yet. He might be a tad jealous.
If I had a slightly bigger yard, I would grow garlic, but not sure about potatoes. I would have to have excess space. We get such great new potatoes from Maine in August, not sure it would be worth the effort.
*susan*
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Susan,
we put in 7 big raised beds and this year is my first crop at the new house. I just hope I get some edibles out of it. I know the radishes and beets are coming up for sure, I've got black eyed peas, bitter melon., three varieties of eggplant butternut squash, tomatoes, three sorts of chiles, carrots, okra, cucumbers, and now thanks to auntienance, I'll see if I can add potatoes! The goal is to grow a lot of what I like to use in my cooking. Fortunately living in Sonoma there are tons of local farms and farmers markets etc. Well, I've got to go see what to do about dinner, at least now I have some taste buds coming back.
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I would have to remove a part of the house from the lot to get seven raised beds! I have an urban garden, and I do love it. So tomatoes, raspberries and lots of herbs suffice. Massachusetts grows some of the most delicious vegetables on the earth, and as they come in, we feast on just picked foods from local farms. Our growing season is very short, so we have to take advantage during those short months.
*susan*
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I don't like being photographed, either, so a verbal description from both of you, Susan and Lacey, will be great. Why not include the husbands?
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Carole, that was my thought when I just read Susan's concern about restaurant "cheating" on DH.
If your DH can make it, let's have them join us. My DH has a mid-day window so it would work for him. Your call.....:)0 -
No no no. I want to spend time with Lacey..... time with husbands in tow is different, and what I need right now is Lacey time. Is that okay?
*susan*
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Of course it is! Looking forward to it, Susan.....and no pix necessary either.
BLTs with chips and sweet potato soup was good tonight. Tomorrow evening I go to a retirement dinner for my former office mate. There will be cheap Italian food there, and a decent salad I hope. I will eat light in anticipation of Mario's Babbo
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I worked out tonight and "just went and went and went". Sharon gave up on me and went out to Subway to eat. DD decided to wait for me and we ate hash brown potatoes and a ham-onion-egg-green pepper omelet. . It was sort of breakfast for dinner thing.
I had one cast iron skillet that had been giving me problems with its seasoning. I finally gave up, stripped it down in a lye bath and started over. This time it's perfect. Using a "no oil added to it" skillet, all I had to do to get the omelet onto the plate was to tip the skillet sideways.
Hi Suladog.....I'm the resident guy on here. I showed up a couple of years ago when Sharon (wife) was going through "the process" (BMX, chemo, rads) and stayed.... Cooking and baking is my time to relax.
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Hi Eric,
My husbands been through this twice once I his 30' now 25 yrs later. He does all my food photography and we've also been a writing team for 30 yrs and when I was doing chemo, earlier this yearhe did my cold capping for me. He now "owns" my hair now after 12 wks 5 1/2 hours once a week for 12 weeks. He's great but he just says will work for food
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I bookmarked your blog page. Thank you to both you and your husband.
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Carole - I don't put ketchup on my meatloaf either. My mother would turn over in her grave if I did.
Bedo & Susan - an orange food update - did anybody see the "limited time" jello pudding special in the refrigerated area? It's called 'orange cream pop' and I just had to try it since I loved Dreamcicles when I was a kid. Not as good as the original ice cream bars, but OK for pre-processed food.
Had a good overnight to Conroe Wednesday. It's a small town by a lake 1-1/2 hours to the north. My BFF's husband died 6 months ago and yesterday would have been their 49th anniversary. I didn't want her to spend it alone. She took me to a very good small, family owned Italian place last night. Excellent veal w/brandy cream sauce and chicken with artichokes & lemon/wine sauce. The bread was disappointing but the entrees were wonderful & the atmosphere was delightful. Sort of like an old house. We stayed up late and drank Espelt, a lovely Garnacha wine from Spain, and watched the DVD of WILD. This morning she cut up strawberries & pineapple, added fresh cherries, baked a french loaf, brought out several nice cheeses & brewed coffee. Fun to just kick back & pick out tidbits & visit.
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Minus Ha ha that orange looks like fun!
I have been craving succotash with fresh ingredients but am too lazy to go out after finishing 4 days of work so will be making this tomorrow (with the frozen and canned ingredients)
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/okra-corn-and-tomatoes-recipe.html#!
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Ohhhhhh, I love succotash, but New England style, not the kind with okra. I always mean to make it and somehow the ingredients are never in season at the same time. Clearly, things have changed since the Native Americans were in charge of the planting schedule.
Tonight's dinner was planned around having the leftover Turkish Red Lentil soup. Since Mr. 02143 wanted some meat, he got a Shwarma sandwich from our local shop and I got a cucumber salad. Perfect solution for both of us. Clearly, we were going through Turkish food withdrawal. Still waiting on my approval update..... but as a great distraction, we are going to Babbo tomorrow!!!
*susan*
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Succotash was one of my Dad's favorites, but he wanted only corn & lima beans in the dish - and of course butter.
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This is a really nice succotash that I usually serve at thanksgiving. Makes good use of late summer veggies and herbs.
http://www.marthastewart.com/312726/autumn-vegetable-succotash
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Have been cooking nothing - DH and DD were out of town simultaneously. DH returned home tonight (he was in Washington, D.C. and had dinner with our DS last night - yay!) and had a milkshake for dinner, lol! I didn't even cook it - he did!
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blech. don't make my succotash recipe. I have a whole pot if you want me to ship it to you. The others sound much better
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I've never seen or heard of succotash with okra. It's corn and lima beans in our part of the south, maybe with some bacon. Okra is breaded and deep-fried, stewed with tomatoes, boiled and lightly pickled in vinegar, cooked in gumbo, or pickled with chili peppers and garlic, and boiled on the top of a pot of cooked brown peas (crowder or field). We love the stewed (smothered) okra with tomatoes and lots of garlic. Okra has become very expensive and it grows so easily. Once it begins to produce, you have to pick it every day and the bush eventually grows so tall you almost need a ladder. So that's the story on okra!
Last night's dinner was an arranged dinner salad that turned out to be outstanding. Base of romaine with quartered cherry tomatoes and home-grown cucumber. Steamed and chilled asparagus, sliced boiled new potatoes at room temperature, perfectly ripened avocado, big crumbles of blue cheese and big plump shrimp sautéed in EVOO. My dressing was white balsamic and a CA olive oil that is very good. A little drizzle of a bottled low-cal blue cheese dressing. Big grind of black pepper. DH and I both commented that every mouthful was full of flavor.
It's very hot now and heavy hot food is not appealing. The high temperatures this week are high 80's and low 90's. I'm taking my mother to a hair appointment at 11 am, then taking her to lunch at a seafood place where we haven't eaten before. Adjoining the restaurant is a seafood market (same owners) and I hope to buy some lump crab meat to make crab cakes.
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Succotash is lima beans, corn and bacon where I come from also. Love the lima beans and bacon, but not a big corn fan. Unless it is on the cob and rolled in butter....
Still eating lamb shanks and beans, it is so good. but almost gone. Need to weed like crazy and get rid the lily of the valley that are taking over. (Thin them, as you can't eliminate them) Tree Surgeons was here yesterday and tackled two of the four Pin Oaks that needed attention. I guess the worker who was sick on Tues (they were a no show) must have relapsed as no one showed up today. No phone call to let me know either... But the yard was immaculate when I came home last night where they had been working. Really wanting them to finish since it should produce more sunshine in the rear of the house gardens.
I wish I had some outstanding "local" place to take my visitors to for dinner....My cousin and his wife are passing through in 2 weeks and wanted to get together for dinner. He is over 60 and I have seen him once. His family were in the air force where he was growing up and they lived all over the world. I was really blue at Christmas and put a sad note in his card, and I guess now they want to connect.
I have all these cousins I've never known as a child and it doesn't seem like family when you were never around them. At least not to me.
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