So...whats for dinner?
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I was home right at noon, even with a stop at IKEA along the way. As you may recall, I stopped using my "wedding" everyday china and moved to IKEA cheap dishes a few years ago since white photographs better. Well, they have completely changed the line, so replacing pieces is not an option. So, I will wait for the rest of these dishes to chip and just replace the whole set.
We had a great time! The woman I was meeting is a friend from the stage IV threads and her wife. We had a really nice lunch and then went to the RISD museum. What a gem of a museum!!! I don't know why I have never been there before, but it was worth the afternoon. Dinner was at Gracie's, one of the "best" restaurants in the city. I had a potato gnocchi with sausage and a garlic sauce with some greens that should have been cut a bit more. The entree was a cod with tomato marmalade, a summer squash mish-mosh, and more of those stringy greens. It was really delicious, and perfectly cooked. I had no room for dessert, but since my dinner came with one it was eaten by someone else. I had planned to get the cheese plate instead, but I just couldn't eat anything more. In fact I didn't even finish the other two courses.
We have a turkey breast smoking over cherry wood outside. I have made some potato gratin which is still baking in the oven. As the turkey comes off the grill, the asparagus will go on. I do love roasted over wood vegetables. I suspect I will slice up one of the last tomatoes, and that is dinner!
*susan*
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Minus, D'oh! Island Creek Oyster Bar or Eastern Standard in Kenmore Square for your first dinner in Boston. Fresh, Wellfleet oysters, delicious entrees with both things from the sea and not. Both have great cocktail programs, are lively without being deafening, and the food is pretty darn good too.
http://islandcreekoysterbar.com
http://easternstandardboston.com
Both require a reservation. October 1 is a hospital day for me, so I can't whisk you off that night.
*susan*
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Glad you had a great time in Providence Susan.
Exhausted from trip yesterday to DD's and too much shopping and traffic. Last night one of her cats got out, she thought he was just hiding. Luckily she found him this am up the next walkway soaked and scared. Started the morning off wrong but she got to her plane in plenty of time. All I know is she arrived safely though a somewhat "steep" landing. You gals may know if that is standard for Boston. Love Field in Dallas has tall building on several sides. They do the lift off, straight up kind of take offs. Neat airport for plane watching you can get so close on non-airport property though just smaller stuff. Virgin American and Southwest I think the only ones going there.
I had to help repack her carryon last night. She doesn't like handbags of any kind but I told her yesterday was the day she needed the big old granny bag (could have loaned her one for sure) to put some of her stuff in since purse was allowed with 1 carryon. She did finally get out a smallish backpack to use. I managed to get all the clothes in she wanted to take better than she had them in. The weather looks to be lovely up there. We are definitely back in summer mode here. Have had several large grass fires.
Too much junk food last 2 days. DH fixed the ham steak tonight I've had forever and corn on the cob. Back to 16 cents a stalk at WallyWorld last week. I bought some French lentils at World Market. Never had lentils. No idea what DH will say. Also some packaged vegetable dress ups. I think I see a stir fry tomorrow. I have a small piece of flank steak somewhere.
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Luv - French Green Lentils are one of my favorites now. Glad your girl got off OK. I know she'll have fun.
Susan - thanks for the two new links.
Moon glad to see you back on several of the threads.
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Susan- You should go to Newport. It's got the summer mansions of the rich from the Gilded Age
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I only got to see the mansions of Newport from the Army Corps boat (big sucker) we took out to somewhere between Block Island and the mainland. I worked for a year contract thru University of Texas/Dallas (UTD) on environmental science research via Army Corps contract. We surveyed current/past waterway dredge dump sites. Collected bottom soil samples/water and returned them to Dallas for various analyses. Way before I went back to nursing school, using my chemistry background. I remember the narrow streets of Newport, I think the rented car we had was a monstrous station wagon (1975). Had to have to haul all of our stuff in. This is way b4 much thought was given to hazardous cargo. We had huge polypropylene jugs of ocean water and one dropped and broke at DFW. Splashed the worker and said it burned his eyes. Darned tootin - it was seawater. I wish I could remember where we had to drive to one day (?Warwick maybe). Our dredge was not catching/scooping and we were running out of time. Had to visit some research place and borrow a huge one. Triggered when it hit the seafloor. Thank goodness they had me on the bridge writing coordinates from the sample site taken.
MySunshine - if you still are on here I have more info on the cat I took to the shelter. She was spayed and is now part of the barn cat program thru one of the local cat rescues. She is no longer in shelter database (I bookmarked her info) so I assume she was released to them. They use large crates in person's barn to acclimatize cats to area for a couple of weeks, then release them to feed on vermin while owner also instructed to supplement. At least I know she was not euthanized. I must get down to the shelter next week to deliver the litter/kitten chow I promised when I took her there.
Little bit rainy coolish morning. Missed significant rain by less than 20 miles. Ham from last night very salty. Turning leftovers into macaroni ham salad.
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Just caught up with pages of posts but will not attempt to reply to everyone.
The weather here is northern MN is gorgeous fall weather. Cold at night. Sunny today with high in 60's or maybe up to 70 in the sun. I made my last (I think) trip to the farmers' mkt. in Park Rapids this morning. Bought a loaf of wheat bread and pint jar of rhubarb jam from the Amish booth. Gorgeous tomatoes and pickle cukes from another vender.
Yesterday I cooked Louisiana food to share with two other couples. Chicken and sausage gumbo and jambalaya with shrimp. Also some plain brown jasmine rice and a red cabbage dish made with apples, vinegar and brown sugar. Katie brought a loaf of "French" bread that, of course, wasn't really French bread but tasted good anyway. She also had made a dark chocolate brittle for dessert. It was delicious and much too tempting to stop reaching for pieces. Mary put out lettuce, tomatoes, green pepper and onion for a make your own salad. I sampled Western dressing which tastes like Russian bottled dressing. Apparently Western dressing is big in this part of the world.
Today Mary made potato klub over on her deck, following the procedure her family uses. Grated raw potatoes, boiled salt meat and I guess some s & p. I don't know if she added any flour. She had sewed white cotton sacks. They stuffed the raw potato mixture into these sacks and tied them with string. They looked like big fat cotton sausages. She had a big pot of boiling water (she had added the water from boiling the salt pork) and placed the sacks into the water to cook.
Apparently you can eat the klub when it's cooked with butter on it. Or the next day when It has been refrigerated, you can slice and fry. Mary's family pour cream on the fried slices. Lyman, her Norwegian dh, likes the fried slices with eggs. I'm looking forward to tasting the klub. Mary calls it krub or some similar word. Definitely carb city.
If all goes to plan, we will be departing next weekend.
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luvmygoats, Yes, I am still lurking on this thread, as well as several others. Happy to hear the news of the kitty. I belong to Best Friends animal rescue. Their main operation is in Utah with over 1800 animals, cats, dogs, goats, horses, pigs, rabbits and others. It is a sanctuary for animals from many kills shelters and others come there by other means. Many Hurricane Katrina animals ended up there. They have smaller operations in cities around the country. It is a wonderful organization. I would love to go there and volunteer for a month one day.
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I've been around a lot of barn /semi-stray cats and for the most part they would come over for ear rubs and back scratches. A very few were "fraidy cats".
I smile when I think how Pest (a stray that adopted me) would act when Mickey would show up---run between her feet, zoom around the house, fly over the couch, skid across the table, until she would sit down in a chair and then Pest would jump up in her lap and fall asleep. Jessie (probably a Main Coon, just like Pest) is reminding me more and more of Pest.... Jessie doesn't run so much anymore, he's 16 years old, but he sure gets excited when we get home.
My brother and I are starting the process to take over for mom as the trustees of her living trust. It's something I've been trying to put off as long as possible, but it's finally time. :-( Mom is going to be 98 and in my heart, I want her to be like she was when I was five.
Dinner tonight is going to be a plumb salsa chicken dish. Someone gave me a newspaper clipping with the recipe and I want to try it.
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Didn't have to make dinner tonight. Went to an ordination at my church for one of the younger congregation members. They had a nice spread of food at the reception, so that was dinner
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I have been to Newport numerous times over the years. These days, the number of tourists is just too overwhelming. In fact, my friends who went on Friday confronted a boat show with the accompanying hordes and then a cruise ship dumped 2400 people off in the middle of town at late morning! Ugh.
Tonight, I reheated the gratin potatoes, made a onion, tomato and zucchini dish, grilled some lamb chops served with homemade French bread rolls. This is a baguette recipe that I just made into rolls. Oh, so good. I am determined to get back to making bread regularly, and I don't mean the sandwich type loaves. The boy returned home from a four-day business trip and arrived home starving. So glad that we made him his own chop! He ate his, and then my second half.
*susan*
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Yep, that's Newport for ya! I lived there from 1980 to 2003. Always dreaded when the summer was coming because of the hordes of tourists that would descend on the island. Those that live on the island tend to try and avoid going to downtown places such as Brick Marketplace unless they really have to go.
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Visited Newport years ago and loved seeing the mansions.
Leftovers for dinner.
Sitting in laundromat. Final MN laundry. Gorgeous day. We took the boat out on the lake this morning. Windy but fun.
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Have a safe trip home. I have enjoyed hearing about Mn. I would live to go there one day. What a great place to get out of the heat in the south. My friend in Mandeville has been running by the lake and said the weather has been great.
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On our way to the gulf coast. Carole, when are you returning?
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That walk along the Mansion route in Newport is pretty stunning (and a bit scary), but I never get too excited about making my way down there anymore...and lots of young couples think it is a perfect spot for a wedding, making it pretty expensive for attendees. Feels like a partial "destination" wedding with just a couple hour trip but lots of associated expenses, especially when most couples would have their weddings ...during high season.
We are still enjoying warm, sunny weather here, although we roasted in the sun at a football game yesterday. We joined DS2 and his college friends and I have to say how impressed I was at how the guys (only two of the young wives attended...about ten guys) pull together their tailgate food. One guy even made a great pulled pork. In my next life......;) We contributed barbecue marinated turkey tips from Volantes, and I made oatmeal raisin cookies. I used coconut oil instead of butter in the cookies and everyone liked them better than I. But I was so happy that I could let people know that there was no dairy...I think I am getting crazy about this food content label business!! I would probably make them that way again when out of butter!
Am contemplating making some zucchini/corn fritters tonight to go with a salad and some lamejan that I picked up on Friday from the Middle Eastern Market.
Am busy fretting about my packing challenge for the long weekend and am talking myself down. If the weather is similar to here, I should be fine....
Your plumb salsa chicken sounds interesting, Eric. Let us know .....:)
On Friday, we attended a lecture about invasive plants and brought a sample of a vine we have that is taking over our property beds. Of course it ends up being an invasive variety that is very difficult to eliminate...black swallow wort. So DH, as I write, is on a mad tear trying to pull up the stuff rather than use round up. Oy! It is everywhere!! This will be a very long process...he warned us.
Minus, I am PMing you with some more ideas....please feel free to ignore if you are already on overload.
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Oh gosh Lacey I never run out of butter. Freezer is my friend.
Macaroni salad was good, plain like DH likes it. Repeat tonight. I grocery shopped after church today. Calzone from deli and watermelon for lunch. Tomorrow I guess is shake 'n bake chicken. Tuesday my Bible study group is going to see a movie after study time so I bet no cooking that day. Haven't heard from DD since she landed.
Been a nice day here, rain in Oklahoma gave us cool air most of the afternoon - 70s!!. Bit of rain now. Back to the 90s tomorrow.
I bought an overload of cookbooks, mostly clearance ones, at 3 Half Price bookstores on Thur/Fri including the flagship store in N Dallas. Wishing for a cold winter to snuggle and read.
Eric - I hope between you and your brother you can get mom's trust issues ironed out without difficulty. You are all blessed that still have living parents.
Haven't heard from Red in a while. Is she still on her Amish pie eating vacation?
And Bedo come out come out where ever you are.
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Luv - We match. Friends laugh when they see that I always have 6-8 lbs of butter lined up on my freezer door. Sometimes I even have bread w/my butter.
Lacey - got it, thanks. Never on over load. When do you leave?
Nance - where are you going on the coast? Somehow I'm thinking louisiana & points east.
Eric - how is the school year treating you so far? How about DD? Can't remember what grade she's in but based on the car stories, probably at least a junior?
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It's been a bad week for me. Still with the flu thing. Living off popsicles and chicken soup. Fever is finally down below 99 today. Could use prayers for a friend I met on these boards and in real life and my SIL, both in final stages of hospice.
I felt like a baked potato today. So I ate it. I know it's not a usual flu food but it sounded good and better yet, stayed down. So tonight was a baked potato with some soy sauce. LOL
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Nance, we will probably head south on Sun. What are the dates of your trip to the Gulf Coast?
Moon, your flu sounds dreadful. Hope you get over it quickly.
Not sure what dinner will be. Maybe fish from the freezer.
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Carole, we arrive in a little bit and will be back home Saturday. The offer still stands if you come our way on your return.
Monica, I'm so sorry you're having such a bad time. At the very least I hope you start feeling better soon.
Looking forward to some broiled oysters today! Lookout bivalves, mollusks and crustaceans, here I come!
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Moon - so sorry you have been ill. I've heard flu is out very early this year. I need to get DH and I down to get our shots. Don't think that will happen until after his oral surgery next week. If the baked potato tasted good and stayed down, pay no attention to what you "should" eat. So long as you're getting sufficient fluid intake, food is food. Vitamin C in some form could not hurt though I think potato does have some.
No bivalve stands a chance with Nancy around lol. Enjoy some for me - shrimps, lobster, not the oysters though. Hmm maybe I need some of that salmon from the freezer. Maybe tomorrow. Trip to movie (War Room) postponed. Actually good, I need to (horrors) clean house.
Eric - stay safe. I keep getting tweets about the heavy rain coming to the desert.
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Moon, also thinking of you and hoping that you feel better very soon. Such a difficult time...((((Moon)))).
Nance, have a helluva shellfishapalooza! Sounds wonderful!
Carole, enjoy your last northern week and have a safe trip home.
Luv, I bet your DD has been having a great time...and in perfect weather!
Happy Monday all!
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Leaving on my vaca tomorrow a.m. busy trying to get things ready here before I leave.....
Still am not packed, etc.... When did I become such a procrastinator????
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Got a nice dinner of spaghetti planned out for tonight as hubby is having a tooth pulled this afternoon.
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Roast chicken with baby carrots, parsnips, onions and brussels sprouts. It's an absolutely beautiful day in Tennessee and finally cool enough to run the oven for an extended period of time-long enough to roast a chicken anyway.
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Moon - so sorry you are still sick. Luv is right - eat what tastes good. Can you take extra Vit C? I had my flu shot last week in preparation for vacation. Don't want to get sick then.
Went to a lovely 20th anniversary concert yesterday by the Houston Chamber Choir. Excellent voices. Afterwards my SIL and I ate at the Black Lab, which is what is sounds like. British pub atmosphere & food. I haven't been in several years and often have fish & chips, but decided to try Sole in a Coffin. Waitress was nice enough to tell me to wait for another night on that, so had delicious Crepes Elise with chicken & broccoli and wild rice. My SIL had Scotch Collops. Hard to pass up the Bangers & Mash, Shepherd's Pie and Bubble & Squeak.
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Mac 'n cheese
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Tonight was something that's rapidly becoming a favorite. Large flour tortilla lightly buttered, 1/2 an avocado thinly sliced, shredded Mexican 4 cheese, green chili salsa - roll & nuke. Yum!!
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Minus, I was with you until the nuke part. :-)
I was alone tonight. The rest of the family went to Fenway Park to watch the Red Sox. This is the last game that we have tickets for this year, and a good thing. It is chilly out there! So I was left alone to come up with my own dinner. Since food is still difficult, I didn't get some take out. Instead I pulled out a bit of ground beef and ground pork. Sauteed up with some Italian oregano and then a bit of garlic. Added just enough Rao's sauce to make it a sauce. Served this over a bit of angel hair pasta. I made some French bread this weekend, so I took a one of the rolls and turned it into garlic bread. Of the two ounces of pasta, I was only able to eat 1 oz. But the sauce was lovely and there is tons leftover.
*susan*
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