So...whats for dinner?
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Just jumping on quickly. Carole I hope y'all are safe today. Louisiana sounds like it's getting pounded today.
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Seconding Luvs wish that you are safe and dry Carole.
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Luv, I send them Invoices-got a form off the web. Put in my hourly rate x time spent on the phone for "review and correction of billing errors" and send it along. I've never heard back but it makes me feel better. When I have time I may just go to small claim's court, Lord knows they won't show and I'll be awarded the amount.
Red and Nance, I'm thinking about opening a business when I retire, I will offer to look at insurance claims for free, but claim $30% of what I reclaim. For older people, sick who can't understand, it will be for free. P##ses me off
Y'all eat too much brisket lol
Last night went to the ER, signed myself out against medical advise when they wanted to admit me will see my PCP tomorrow. I am the worst patient.
I'm ok.
Not sure about dinner.
Maybe salmon and lima beans with butter and pepper.
Hey Paxton take it easy. Any bit is good
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Eric, I think they call it age, and maybe, breast cancer. Back in the days ( 2+ months ago), I use to run a 10-15 miler every Saturday, now I am glad I can walk a couple of miles a day , mostly from just not moving much since dx ( my fault really). I did not feel any fatigue with chemo, keeping fingers crossed, and in fact, started back on running a little since.
Anyways, I got through 1st chemo great, few SEs and now I am all anxious about the 2nd infusion on Friday again. I managed to eat everything ( except peanuts!) this first round and am hoping it will be the same the next few rounds. I think someone mentioned that eating iron rich foods will help prevent low rbcs, so I am taking the opportunity to indulge. Working so far
.Thanks everyone for helping me keep my mind off this darn cancer.
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Bedo, hope you are telling the truth that you are ok!
Meatless tonight -- pressure cooker minestrone and a baguette. Not feeling great today with bouncing blood sugars for some unknown reason. Probably stress. Anyway, soup is always the answer.
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Last two days have been a bit rough. Hands and feet are suffering, but the good news is, one more cycle is done! The house is taking tons of time. Had one of those hard discussions with the contractor yesterday, pointing out all the errors that the carpenters made while installing the cabinets. We can fix them, but it won't be as designed. And so it goes. Today we chose where on our marble slabs we will get the pieces from. Then to the paint store to try out even more colors. Then dealing with the HOA insurance. Lunch at a Shwarma spot and then home. I won't give you the whole run down.
So, I did the samosa meat with lentils and rice on Sunday night. Last night, the kid and I went to the house to test paint colors and headed for an Indian dinner. When we arrived, the restaurant was closed for Monday. So we ended up at Pasha!!! Pasha twice in a month. BONUS! We shared a hummus appetizer and she got the friend calamari appetizer for her entree, while I had the lentil soup. She finished with a baklava [half came home for her husband who didn't want it so Mr. 02143 was happy!] and I had a Turkish tea. Tonight I made some saffron bulghar which I served with the 2/3 sandwich I was unable to finish at lunch. I was so hungry, and just ate a tiny bit. Good thing! I have put on two pounds this month.
Did I mention that Lacey brought three hand helpers to our lunch? I was most ungrateful, not accepting any of them. This woman is a special person.
Hope the Dads are doing well. And anyone in the way of a storm is doing the same.
*susan*
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Red and Nance, How are your dads?
Susan, I'm so sorry about the awful side effectsfrom your meds. Is it Xeloda?
Tonight for dinner was salmon marinated in white miso paste, fresh ginger, rice vinegar, soy sauce and toasted sesame oil. I wanted to do this with black cod, but my fish department didn't have any. I sautéed bok Choy, and made forbidden (black) rice
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Oh... here are the marble pictures. One of the first slab; and one with the island slab:
*susan*
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Kiks, for me it's just age....I showed up here while Sharon was undergoing treatment and was welcomed.
Sharon did well through the chemo; Dose AC and Taxol, followed by rads. We would walk a couple of miles many nights and I think it helped her. I know it helped me. I saw chemo side effects in the early 1980s and when I found out Sharon needed it, I was scared to death. I was quite surprised to find out how much effort is now put into side effect management.
Bedo, you would make a mint at that. :-)
You are amazing Susan...punch lists, contractor management, project management and chemo...wow.....
I'm anxiously awaiting word from Carole. That doesn't sound like any fun. So far my phone has been quiet..which is a good thing.
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eric, your phone is a bellwether..... not sure I am amazing. Just doing what has to be done. Also hoping that Carole is okay. This winter has been so very odd!
*susan*
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Sounds like Carole's area was spared. More damage to western side of Lake Pontchartrain. But late word sounds very bad from Pensacola with same storms continuing up into southern Alabama.
We had the oldish frozen steak last night. I had browned it and simmered it the night b4 but never finished. It cut into my Downton Abbey viewing time so I just refrigerated it. Finished it last night with frozen peppers and onions and some leftover little green peas over basmanti rice. It was OK not really what I was looking for in taste. We had it again tonight with more seasonings and some Parmesan cheese on top. Better that way. I would have stirred in some sour cream but DH didn't want any and I hesitated to open a new carton just for a spoonful or two. Not sure what tomorrow will be. Appointment for pedicure so I'll make a quick grocery run. Out of milk for sure
Bedo - hope your PCP visit goes well tomorrow. Sorry you're under the weather.
Susan - you continue to amaze me with your schedule. Hope you get some down time in there someplace.
Went to town with DH today to his dentist appt. Cold and raining. We've been spoiled with 70 degree weather. Fun purchase (not) - new vacuum at Lowes.
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I'm on call until the end of the month...
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Basic salad for dinner - lettuce, carrots, shredded red cabbage, radishes, tomatoes. Accompanied by two slices of toasted Rosemary bread. It got too late to fix anything more substantial.
Yesterday I met my SIL for Asian/Fusion before a movie. She wanted fried calamari. It didn't meet up to my expectations. Too much breading. I had house special LoMein - shrimp, pork & chicken. It came with a lovely bowl of egg drop soup. We went to see 45 Years. Definitely an Art movie & left you with nothing resolved. Lots of good food for thought. Each of us had a different opinion of what would happen next. Charlotte Rampling was amazing.
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Bedo - what did the PCP say? Hope you are really OK.
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Glad to hear that Carole’s town was not in the path of the twisters & deluge. That storm system is moving north--will hit us as rain by 9 am, turning to wet snow by noon and ending as drier snow by midnight tomorrow, at least on the n. side of the city. We’re expected to get about 3”. But down near Midway (where Bob’s main office is), they’re expecting 7”; and in Oak Lawn, where my husband’s hospital & other office is located, could get as much as 9”. Indiana, Kankakee/Bourbonnais & eastern MI are facing perhaps a foot or more, with blizzard conditions. Bob’s staying down at the Oak Lawn Hilton tomorrow night, and has a drug co. dinner at Cooper’s Hawk Winery restaurant about 3 mi. s. of the hotel--he’s not sure Cicero Ave. will be driveable. Our housekeeper isn’t coming in tomorrow--she lives due west of the Loop, which is probably going to get more snow than we will, and her house only has a parking slab instead of a garage.Looks like Gordy & I will be on salting and snow-broom-and-shovel duty, at least for our deck, porch, stairs and the path to our garage. Our neighbor will snow-blow our sidewalk so we don’t get ticketed.
Today was a marathon of therapy & vanity. First LE PT, then getting my hair de-rooted, trimmed and straightened (I’d let the straightening slip-- it’s supposed to be 3-4x a year, but I think I last had it done in July, with my last trim and root touch-up in Oct.). It was nearly 8pm by the time I was done, so I just hit the hot bar at Whole Foods and brought back some chicken thighs Vesuvio and collard greens for dinner. Had an ounce of Williams-Selyem Pinot Noir.
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Thanks for the concern. I'm grateful to wake up this morning with our house intact and my mother's and my sister's, too. There were some anxious moments when the tv weather people announced that a powerful tornado was headed toward Madisonville. Today the morning news is full of pictures of devastation and interviews with people who survived scary storms.
Dinner last night was linguine with olive oil and pecorino romano (my current favorite) and meat sauce out of the freezer. DH had a salad with his meal. I could actually have done without the meat sauce but I added a spoonful to my serving. Ok, two servings.
The visitors left early yesterday morning. They had planned to go to Oak Alley Plantation but after all the alarming weather forecasts, they decided to get out of Dodge. After beignets in the French Quarter and other food and drink indulgences, it's back "on the wagon" for me today. The scale was most unkind this morning. I had meant to go to a WW meeting Monday morning, but we took the MN visitors to NO for a little sightseeing.
Dinner will be grilled meat, steak or lamb chops, steamed veggies and salad. Boo Hoo, no martini or old-fashioned but maybe a glass of chardonnay. Maybe not.
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Minus, Mmm....I'm craving lo mein. LOVE Charlotte Rampling.
Susan, your counter tops are beautiful! What kind of marble are you using?
Specialk, I get my brioche buns from Whole Foods. Unfortunately, they were out, so I settled for potato buns.
I'm picking up an organic roasted chicken from Whole Foods for dinner, with mashed potatoes I made a few days ago. I'm not in the mood to cook this evening
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Carole, so glad you and yours are ok. I was worried about you.
Hsant, thanks for reminding me that I'm need to make brioche buns.
Love the counter tops Susan. So envious. Only of the materials, not all the work you're having to do.
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So Glad everyone is ok. Bedo, thinking everything probably isn't ok or you wouldn't have gone to the ER in the first place, hope it is not serious and someone can straighten it out for you (without a hospital admit)
Pouring rain here since 5 a.m. still better than snow but praying it doesn't turn to ice. My sister and I are taking the parents to lunch, trying to get a grasp of my Dad's thoughts on what path he wants to take with his lung cancer. Last drug he was taking made him so sick, he stopped taking it. Now the onc is offering him a new drug. CAT scan shows his tumor grew from 4cm to 9cm is the short 3 months he stopped the other drug. Hoping this one doesn't have the severe SE's or he will stop that too. Mom on the other hand is still not eating well and looks like death...cannot make her...and we know that all the meals we were making for them just got thrown out. Not sure how I will ever move south and leave my sister to handle them alone.
Last night we did salmon also with basmati rice n peas. tonight will be some pork spareribs (barbecued) and maybe roasted red potatoes and a vege.
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Oh Carrie, I'm so sorry about your dad. At least he can still make his own treatment decisions. Going through this with my dad, all I could think about was having poa for him sucks. He can make decisions, but his decision is always no.
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Carole, glad that you are out of harm's way.
Nance and Carrie, sorry to hear about both your Dad's. Unfortunately when my Dad pass I was too young and naive to be involved. Don't know which is better.
Susan, hope you are doing better with the meds. Love the marble. Don't know how you do it all. Amazing.
For all of you ladies caught in the storms please keep safe. We are enjoying beautiful weather here in CO. Seems like we miss the brunt on this front.
Decided to bake today to keep my mind off chemo. Mango mint cupcakes. Taking some to a friend.
Have a great week everyone.
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Kiks, how pretty!
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Kiks, Beautiful cupcakes!Very professional!
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Carole you're safe. Chisandy that storm is missing us. Yes!
Bedo, i hope you're ok.
Susan keeping insanely busy as usual.
Eric on call agajn? Hope it's a smooth oncall for you.
Specialk glad the problem wasn't that bad.
To everyone else, hope all is well. My new computer is sent in for work already. So still poking along on the phone.
Saw my PCP he upped one of my diabetes meds, said he'd leave the other alone for now. I was doing real good til the dang kidney stones. Still have to contact the PS. Don't want too. LOL. That will make 5 Dr visits in 2 weeks if i don't count the dentist. LOL. Ach!!!
Supper tonight will be sweet potato and white potato scallop. Might serve meat with it. I think i have a ham slice in the fridge. Maybe, maybe not. Been trying to start a small crochet project for myself. Wanted to do it before but felt kind of bad and wiped. There's no excuse now. LOL. Except of course the book I want to read. LOL
Much love to all.
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Ditto to the other compliments on the cupcakes! They're so tempting.
Warm muggy air is gone and it's crisp and cool. Good jeans weather.
Tomorrow is an annual potluck lunch reunion of cardiac rehab graduates. Since dh is one of those, we always go. I will make chicken salad by chopping up a rotisserie chicken. Other ingredients will be grated carrot, diced celery and apple, chopped toasted walnuts, mayo, yogurt and curry powder.
Carrie, I am so sorry about and for your dad. Nance, it's good to hear that your dad is improving in some respects.
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Eric: My brother gave me a subscription to Arizona Highways for Christmas. Thought this fact was amazing... "On March 14, 1930, the Planning & Zoning Commission in Phoenix laid out plans for the city to accommodate 226,000. Current population is more than 1.5 million today." I know several people who's parents moved there in the 30s through the 50s when the dessert climate was what doctors prescribed for lung problems. Now I think you have major humidity. Not to mention all the changes in medical treatments.
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ach. Forgot to say those cupcakes are amazing. Love mango.
Carrie and Nance, my DH Dad was stubborn as I've said on here before. My Dad moved himself out of assisted living 3 times. And the social workers reminded us that they have the right to do as they wish. But it was hard to watch DH Dad not get pain meds because he was worried they'd take him to the hospital if he let the doc in. But Hospice helped tremendously to find things that worked for him. Even if it took so long to convince him of that. You ladies be strong, do what you can and try not to worry too much. Hugs
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Gorgeous cupcakes--might take some mango chunks out of the freezer and blend them with almond milk & Greek yogurt for a dessert smoothie. That way I get the taste of mango without the starch and with far less sugar.
Storm largely missed us too--we got a dusting that melted and now another dusting. Not even worth putting out ice melter. Oak Lawn got less than 3", so Bob'll come home tonight--even though his Cooper's Hawk dinner was cancelled by the drug company out of fears of snow. Maybe we'll go out tonight, maybe i'll just do Buffalo wings & celery sticks, or perhaps cacio e pepe using zoodles rather than noodles. (I still like the al dente texture of the real thing, though--zucchini can be made to look real but it'll never taste or chew right).
UPDATE: Bob brought home linguine frutta di mare and salad from Calo. Had some salad (ate the tomato and cuke, since Gordy--who is off working lights & sound for a standup open mic--is a salad purist and wants leafy stuff only) and a small piece of the tomato foccaccia. Portions were huge, and Bob brought two. Knowing that scallops and mollusks don’t reheat well, I ate mostly scallops, mussels, clams and a little calamari and we both left our jumbo shrimp for Gordy. I had about half a cup of linguine aglio e olio (garlic & oil sauce)--and it was mushier than zoodles would have been! Good thing I left the vast majority of the pasta over. It might work crisped up as part of a brunch frittata tomorrow. Bob wanted to open the Etna Rosso wine we brought back from Sicily, but it would’ve been a gross mismatch for the seafood linguine. So I chilled a bottle of CA rose bubbly (Mumm Napa) instead. That Etna Rosso is more appropriate for steak, lasagne, or spaghetti in meaty, a long-simmered "Sunday gravy" (Pappardelle alla Bolognese would be an easier and acceptable substitute--and I could give Bob & Gordy the pappardelle with the sauce while I put it over sauteed thinly-shaved wide ribbons of zucchini for myself).
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Primavera tonight with fresh pasta and garlic knots.
The storm bypassed us for a change. Not a flake, but 30mph winds that took down a lot of power lines in the city. Ours are buried, thankfully.
Dad seemed better today. Baby steps.
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Carole, and others who have dodged this dastardly storm, I'm glad to hear that you are all safe. I think that we are not slated for the twisters, this far north, just heavy rain and wind all night....the front is hopefully pulling off shore by tomorrow morning. Such bizarre strong weather with high temps here.....for February!
Nance, I'm hoping that your "personal tornado" calms down. Yikes! No wonder you aren't feeling well. I wish there were an easy way to de-stress during this challenge.
And Carrie, I am so sorry for you to be dealing with your parents' medical decline....am including your mother in that since she obviously is losing her ability to enjoy being nurtured as she faces your dad's illness, so is also failing. Oh dear......(((HUGS))) to all of you.
Bedo, I do hope that you had your doc appt., and addressed whatever brought you to the ER.
Hi to everyone else. If I go back a page for specifics, I'll be tempting "erasure" fate....and will most likely need to start over.
The chicken with Meyer lemons dinner was wasted work....not a fan. If I make it again I would zest the lemons but not use whole pieces.
Last evening, I made a wheat penne, sausage, chicken, and broccoli rabe toss with a balsamic finish. Tasty! We'll have it for leftovers tomorrow evening before heading to see "1984" in Cambridge. Again glad it won't be raining. I won't have time to cook or eat out beforehand since I have to see the foot doc, in the late afternoon after my teaching. My collapsed arch seems to be acting up (or down!) and I think I need at least a new orthotic fitting....hopefully, not, at most, the foot brace I wore for 6months several years ago.
Susan, that marble is lovely!
So there are more "turning" bananas calling to me, thus I will make more of those Hawaiian muffins. I gave the last little loaf to my housekeeper whose visit here after two months required ourpre-visit scramble to make surfaces available to clean. We need that more than her cleaning help....but it is nice to have a shiny kitchen floor after two months of sloppy melting snow being tracked in, especially by our little granddog the week we cared for him.
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