So...whats for dinner?
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p.s. Oh look.... I found the eggplant curry recipe online: http://www.food.com/recipe/asiahs-eggplant-curry-457423
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Nance, that is the opposite of our way to cook baby back ribs. I cook them on the stovetop in water with an onion and some garlic and s & p and red pepper until you can easily stick a fork through them. DH finishes them in a short time on a very hot grill with barbecue sauce. The sauce caramelizes and there are small burned areas to add crunch. Delicious. That's ribs our way. Some years ago he followed a recipe by Alton Brown that was very good. Involved enclosing the ribs in a foil packet with lots of seasonings. I didn't pay much attention.
I have been communicating with an owner of a Char Grill brand grill who listed it on Craigslist for $125 including tank and cover. Supposed to be about 3 years old. The location is well over an hour's drive. It looks good in the picture. One of these years I may spring for a Green Egg at home. But then I may not!
I like the sound of charred corn salad. Lots of corn available around here. Farmers selling it from the backs of pickup trucks. Some time this month the tomatoes will finally be ripening.
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Carole - I know, I've always done them that way too (when I don't cook them completely on the grill). I had these at someone's house recently and they were quite delicious, so we'll see.
Costco sells a Green Egg knockoff that's quite a bit cheaper and looks pretty nice.
Susan, girls of any age don't like their faces to break out. I wish I could say those days were behind me. I have more breakouts now than I did as a teenager. Tomatoes are big breakout culprit. Oddly enough, during chemo my face was the best it's every been. No hair, no breakouts. Strange.
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Nance - I like your new glasses.
Susan - I've done ribs in the oven covered tin foil in the winter. I've even done brisket in the oven wrapped in foil - so that tells you for sure I'm not a Texas purist.
Carol - loved the story about your early morning boat ride, even if there were no fish. I'm not a morning person but it's so peaceful when you're the only one on the water as the sun is rising.
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Might as well confess about Saturday's meals. I haven't had a doughnut in more than a year so I bought 6 warm glazed from Shipleys when I was out at Home Depot. Breakfast was 2 donuts. Lunch was 2 donuts. Dinner was a bowl of popcorn. And you guessed it, Sunday I ate the last two donuts for brunch. Made up for it with a huge salad last night and another one tonight. I'll need some protein tomorrow.
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I read all your posts and they were great.
I guess I have nothing interesting to post except that after this Thursday I have Ten Days Off!
Going to spend time with DD, visit a 4th grade friend in Lexington Ma, get together with a sorry bunch of fiddlers from my prior fiddle class, and maybe go to Vermont to visit a 3d grade friend, and Maybe block island or definitely do something with my besties.
And catch up on organizing.
MOmmy why don't you just give everybody Watermelon chopped in cubes with fresh mint? And a box of mac and cheese?
I'm having the Watermelon with mint. with nothing else.
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Thanks Minus - I've actually had them for a while but my previous avatar was almost 3 years old so I thought I should update
Today I purchased my sixth 10 pound bag of sugar for hummingbird food. Things will really pick up soon as the males will be leaving this month. I can't believe it, seems like they just got here but it's been almost 4 months already.
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Minus, you and I could get into a real food rut if we lived close to one another....HAHA
Carole, I love loons. I went to the Gunflint trail on vaca once and it was wonderful. I was there in July, and the Black fly's were bad though.....cool enough to have flannel sheets on the bed and a fire in the cabin.....loved every minute of no tv, no radio, no neighbors, no family.......just the critters on the lake and me.
Susan, your young friend is putting on her face what I put on toast in the a.m. Its supposed to be good combo for all sorts of ailments---cholesterol, heart, arthritis..
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We made a detour. Pizza from Mike's, two different salads that I actually made, and those lovely chocolates that the young French cousin brought as a gift. Will store up enough energy to make the eggplant curry tomorrow night.
*susan*
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Thanks Sula. I'm going to go get the stuff to try that out. I usually plant peppers along the walkway to the front door, but didn't this year because we were gone so long over the summer....so it's store bought time.....
Hi to everyone else.
DD is taking college algebra as a dual enrollment (high school and college credit) class from the local junior college. She got a 93% on the midterm, which is worth about 1/4 of the final class grade. Her current grade is 90%.... :-)
Eric
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Go Eric's KID!!!!!
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Just caught up reading last two days' posts...am getting a kick out of the "true food confessions" entries.
. Minus, your ruffles and clam dip dinner is well known to me...an old fave in my single days. My family always made clam dip back in the day, which got me started on that. I haven't made or indulged in many years....but love the stuff! The Helluvagood company did me a health favor by discontinuing (or at least stopping distribution in my area stores) their version, which was a quick substitute for homemade.Carole, our boat is just an 18 ft. inboard/outboard (maybe 135 hp?) for water sports. Soon it will be the smallest boat on our dock of twenty boats since everyone seems to need 20 ft. boats.....not us! We've had this one for almost 13 years and it still feels like it is new....northern NE usage! We have never fished from this boat but DH is talking about doing that with DGS when they are up later this month. The fish most often caught in our lake is hornpout...quite the ugly guys! So we have never eaten a catch up here.
Our dinners the past few days have been less than exciting. Evening before last we ordered and shared a turkey club sandwich and greek salad take out. And last evening despite horrible weather alerts (amazingly, the awful storm barely touched us, but did damage in areas nearby...and tragically killed two people in a circus tent south of here), we went out to meet friends at a steakhouse that is high on a hill with beautiful overview of the lake. We all had salads and shared appetizers...such as shrimp kabobs, stuffed mushrooms, spinach dip, crab cakes. Very unexciting and fat heavy since cheese blanketed everything but the crabcakes.
Today DH is meeting those same friends for golf and I will start to organize this place a bit and plan for a visit from our next door neighbors from home. They are coming for the day on Thursday and if the temp does not plummet their twin nine year old twins will enjoy some water sports. Then we'll grill dinner back here at the house and I'll make salads to go with the burgers and chicken. Need to decide on an easy dessert.
Eric, nice going for DD!
Susan, you continue to amaze! Your mention of the chocolates reminded me that last Sept., our Parisian friend brought us a huge box of chocolates when he visited us in Tuscany. They were wonderful, but when we left for home, we had no room to pack them, so gave them to the family across the street. Boy, were they good!
Off to make my shopping list for our Thursday entertaining. I must rally up from my slug status! I get very lazy here. Yesterday we enjoyed a lazy day on the boat....it was hot and sunnybefore all the clouds and bad weather rolled in.
Oh, my big accomplishment when not being a slug is that on my daily walk, I've added a bit of jogging (I desperately need the calorie burn!) and my knees and hip are holding up so far. Yay!
Hi to all I didn't get to mention.....
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Going to cook the chicken I was going to make last night and pair it with the leftover spaghetti from last night!
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Lacey,
Your lake is north of Lancaster? That is really far north then! My mother is the journalist for her paper that covers Lancaster, and she is really not looking forward to writing and doing followup on this story.
Blood work done. Now we wait for the results.
*susan*
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Susan - fingers crossed. Positive thoughts beaming your way.
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Eric, as for your dd, good job!
Susan, fingers and toes crossed for you.
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Last night's ribs were very good. So good in fact, I'll do them again that way. There were a couple of things I liked about these compared to the reverse method. 1) They had a nice bark on them from grilling them first and 2) while they came off the bone easily, they still had a slight chew to them. I really don't like them to fall completely off the bone, which they tend to do in the oven and these had just the right amount of tenderness and chewiness. My only complaint is that they were a tiny bit dry in spots. This is my own fault I believe, from having my grill fire too hot at the grilling stage. I actually prefer spareribs prepped St. Louis style to baby backs and I think if I had used them, it wouldn't have been an issue because of the higher fat content. Anyway, they were good and i can recommend the method. The slow cooker worked great too.The only liquid I added was a small amount of barbecue sauce. It could probably have used a little more depending on if you're in the "wet" vs "dry" camp.
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Glad the ribs were a success, Nance.
Your summer home in NH sounds lovely, Lacey. I wish we could all drop in for a visit. Your boat is what we call a ski boat. We looked at one used model at a dealership. The guy was so nice. He questioned us about our plans for using a boat and said, "This isn't the boat for you." We were more interested in less speed and a live well for all those fish we were hoping to catch. Someone hold up the sign that says LAUGHTER!
Eric, your daughter continues to make you proud and to make us admire you as a dad. I enjoy hearing about her.
More fingers and toes crossed in hopes of good blood test results for you, Susan. Please, please, please....
Could I brag on my golf game today? I played very well for someone at my skill level. When I posted my score online for handicap purposes, the computer said, "This score is out of range." I pressed "Post it anyway."
DH had errands in town after golf so we had lunch at Good Life café. I hate the remodel of the interior. Gone are the little tables for four and now there's a line of booths down the middle. We do not like booths and probably won't be going there as much as previous summers. We split a reuben and shared an order of battered fries. Our cute young waitress must have said "awesome" at least 5 or 6 times.
A container of eggplant parm from the freezer is thawing for dinner. Leftover beets and green and yellow "snap" beans from last night will serve nicely as easy sides. I'm all for easy these days. I keep taking stuff out of the freezer and it keeps looking full of stuff.
I bought red fishing lures today. To be continued....
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I have negotiated a lower price ($95) for the gas grill I saw on Craigslist. We're planning to get it tomorrow. Maybe having a grill will spark some interest in cooking.
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Carole, congrats on the golf game! We always had good luck with white or yellow twister tails and jigs, some with spinners on them.
Tonight was just a "bolognese" with an Italian salad. This cold has turned into something really nasty with bronchial overtones and a low grade fever. It's kicking my butt.
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A new grill!!!! That is a reason to have a party! We can all ponder what we would make our first meal on a new-to-use grill.
Tonight our grill produced Chicken Satay. It had marinated for about 24 hrs and was just plain flavorful. The eggplant curry was not perfect, but it was good. The pickles and rice were the same as always. It turns out that my Bango was almost out, but there was just enough to make sauce for three. Obviously, a trip to the Chinese market is on the list. I was worried that young French girl wouldn't enjoy dinner, but she ate a ton of chicken and eggplant. She is getting adventurous, trying hot peppers in her dipping sauce [the smaller side dish] and pouring the spicy curry over her rice.
Today, Mr. 02143 took her to the Museum of Science. She was so excited, she used her long legs and poor Mr. 02143 barely kept up! What a great museum! Moments like this reminds me why I live here. They plan to return tomorrow to see the rest of the museum.
I don't completely understand my blood work, but what I can tell is my red counts are a problem. But, the numbers that determine whether or not I can stay on this drug are fine. Oncologist appointment on Thursday, so I will ask her what she things.
*susan*
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Susan, I love how you are expanding your young guest's food horizons! If anyone could do it you can. I do not envy your mom's task of reporting on that tragically sad incident. And no, I am south of there, but did not look at it on the map, and when a newscaster indicated it was just north of Concord, I had no idea how far north! Newfound Lake is just south of Plymouth. Just saw your post with test results, and am really hoping your MO can shed light on them that is helpful. At the risk of sounding like Carole's waitress, you are "amazing" and do not fit the profile of what you described in those test results.
Yes, Carole, ours is a ski boat. Speed is the key with these male family members! It is also a smooth riding boat for which my back is thankful! Congrats on your golf game! When I joined our friends and DH after their game, they were hysterical laughing as they told me about his first swing (of the year!) which was so mighty (it was the tenth hole on a very narrow course...he was only playing the back nine) that he fell over and did a tuck and roll. Oy! Glad I was at home dealing with thunder and lightning!
Nance those ribs sound great! I do hope you are seeing the doc for that cold turned bronchial nastiness!
Today I spent some time making a menu for our neighbors' visit on Thursday. Tomorrow I will head to the store to get the ingredients, and make the salads and easy desserts. Of course, I was thinking that they could be here (food wise) for beach/boating snacks and grilling dinner. DH informed me he thought they should also come for lunch. Yikes! I decided if they want to do that HE will be in charge of that meal.
Hope you get the grille, Carole!
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Not too bad for a day's harvest.
I feel somewhat better today. Like I was run over by a pickup instead of a Mack truck. Dosing myself with acetamenophen and naproxyn along with antihistamine and decongestants. My teeth even hurt.
At least I feel better enough to fix a real meal today. We're having NOLA bbq'd shrimp, Savannah red rice and green beans braised in tomatoes and onions. I let the green beans get too big, hence the braise. Following the rule of no bivalves, mollusks or crustaceans, DH will have a chicken breast. I will douse it in the shrimp sauce however. I'm going to blanch and freeze the chard. I have quite the bumper crop.
Susan, eating at your house would be such an adventure -- who could resist???
Carole - post a picture of your grill!
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Since you guys have been forced onto my roller coaster, wanted to let you know that my white cells are doing fine. Reds are less happy. But the big number, CA27.29, reversed last month's huge jump up. There is still some hope!
Dinner tonight is veal parmigiana [great sale at the market], pasta, and a salad with some garlic bread. And, as a treat, I bought a cannoli "kit" and will freshly stuff them for dessert.
*susan*
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susan - yay for your labs! Does protein usually work for increasing your red cells, or do you not have enough experience on this new drug to tell yet? A second yay for your dinner - I would love to eat everything on your menu right now!
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What Special said, only double!
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Special, I will post which numbers are where.... you could help me understand them I think. But, I need to work right now.
*susan*
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Susan,
so glad for your good scores, enjoy those cannolli
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SpecialK...those cupcakes look really good. Can't tell you when the last time I had a cupcake!!
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Susan - hooray from me too. We're certainly not forced to share the med journey. On the contrary, I hope you don't think we're too intrusive for asking.
My MO gave me iron when my red blood cells got too low. SloFe or Feosol are supposedly the most gentle on your gut. Some ladies get iron infusions. There was talk of a blood transfusion when it got to 2.8, but I managed to skip that. It did take a long time for all my numbers to get back to the normal range.
The range I was given for normal RBC was 3.8-5.1. And hemoglobin range was 11.5-15.5. My RBC got to 2.5 and my Hemoglobin to 7.4 so you can see why "they" weren't happy. And as long as I have my spread sheet open, I was told normal range for WBC is 4.0-11; Hematocrit normal range 34.0-45.0; Platelet normal range 130-400. I found those numbers useful, but then I am surely OCD.
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