So...whats for dinner?
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Quinn - yay!
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Lacey One of my magazines did an article on unusual s'mores, and one was made with mini pizzelles. OH MY!
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Oh what a cool idea, Carrie! Thanks!I have made ice cream sandwiches with them before, but 'smores would be neat to do at the lake this summer. And I have another pizzelle iron that makes really small pizzelles, which would be perfect.
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This arrived in my email today. Sounds rather good, and another savory use of Meyer lemons:
Meyer Lemon Vinaigrette Ingredients:
2 Meyer Lemons (zest from one) juice from both
1- 1.5 tablespoon of honey
2 tablespoons of champagne vinegar
1/2 cup of good olive oil
Pinch of salt
Ground pepper
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susan - I was just looking for my recipe a minute ago for a green apple, celery and walnut salad and that is the same vinaigrette but my recipe adds a little Dijon mustard. I am making it right now!
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Susan, beautiful kitchen!
For dinner garlic roasted hummus and crackers. Such a shame to buy as hummus is so easy to make, but I'm lazy tonight.
I figured I would make this for "ladies night" tomorrow, but I'm not sure as the allspice sounds weird. What do you think SUSAN and anyone else who knows more that me EVERYONE
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-ki...
I don't really like cinnamon and prefer savory things, can I leave it out????
Changed my mind I'm going to make salt cod with little neck clams and corn
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Minus! I'm sorry you broke yourself! Hope it heals for you with surgery. So don't push it and give it a chance.
Bedo, i hope your job works out just as you want and plan for.
Lacey, you enjoyed the movie , not just Maggie Smith right? I want to see it!
Luvmygoats, fig tree? That sounds wonderful.
Susan what a lovely bright kitchen! I'm so happy for you that they could match and blend the marble!. I hope day 16 and onward get better for you.
Specialk, i think I'd be p*ssed if i didn't need the 5 years too! But I suspect that they really mean to say " No FURTHER benefits" as in, the first 5 years show improvement but not enough benefit later to be worth the AI.
Quinoform, I'm sorry you are injured as well. Hope you heal fast too.
Carrie, glad your DH liked the cauliflower. Maybe if my roasted ones had softened I might have liked it. LOL
Supper last night was a pork chop and potato and carrot dinner that i cooked in my new pressure cooker. Yes. I still remembered how. I was wondering enough to actually look at the book again just to make sure. LOL but perhaps just a tad over cooked. But really delicious. I cooked it 10 minutes and everything held together but a minute more and it would have been stew. LOL the only thing I would have liked is a better up to pressure gauge that you didn't have to look so hard for. This one is hard to see unless you are right there but for $14.00 who cares. LOL
I received another box today. Cous Cous and feta stuffed peppers for one meal and Korean pork tenderloin with cabbage slaw. Looking forward to doing the tenderloin on Sunday. Gotta finish the pork chop meal first. But i think the tenderloin will not hold as long as the feta cheese and pepper dish. And the pork chops were from last week that I didn't get to and decided to cook instead if freeze because i had enough of the ingredients to make it. I don't usually eat pork 3 times in a a week.
Much love.
PS: Bedo. It's just a pinch. You could leave it out. But i like cinnamon in my chili and other savory foods. It is only in the background.
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moon - since they are looking at a genetic assay performed on my original tumor specimen, I am suspecting that the answer is really that it was not providing me benefit all along. I don't see how the information provided by the test can say the first five years would provide benefit but not after that. This test is looking at a particular pathway so, I think it is either black or white - no gray. That said, I seem to have made it through the first five years NED, as far as I know, so... hoping MO can provide some answers about what to do now - high risk of recurrence with low benefit from continuing on AI is a bit nervous making.
Last night dinner was the apple and celery salad, I used lemon olive oil and grainy Dijon - it was yummy, and also another salad with julienned red pepper, thinly sliced steak, red onion, herbed goat cheese, a bit of plain vinaigrette and also some creamy sriracha dressing. This was about all that was left in the fridge - need to grocery shop today - but, of course, it is now raining.
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Last night, we pulled out some ribs and I made some mayonnaise so I could make some potato salad, and then also made the Carolina slaw with a vinegar dressing. Tonight, I am hosting family dinner including my Mother and sister, for a total of six. I will be making both eggplant and chicken parmesan to accommodate the varying tastes. I will serve with a simple, but large green salad and some pasta. No, I am not going to make fresh pasta. Just doesn't belong with parmesan dishes, and energy levels are a bit low.
I have the kids' kitchen stuff just about packed up. I hear packing tape being ripped upstairs, so they are hard at work upstairs with their other possessions as well. We will go by the house tomorrow to see what the floors look like. The actual move date does keep moving. Hard target to pin down.
*susan*
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Dinner was a big success, though I underestimated the amount of time needed to prepare so we ate quite late. No one complained and instead sat in the living room chatting. We have enough left that my sister took home some eggplant parmesan to cook in her oven for dinner today, plus enough additional to feed all four of us tonight. My Mom is at the airport. Her car is safely tucked at the end of our driveway. She returns April 14th. Long trip!
Today is filled with coding and packing. I have the kitchen almost done, but there are always those last bits that don't have a natural home.
*susan*
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Am I the only person who is eating? Dinner tonight was some of the parmesans that I didn't broil last night. Pasta was zapped with a bit more butter since I didn't have anymore tomato sauce. A freshly made salad completed the meal. Simple, but did the job.
We went to the house today so the kids could see their new countertops and to check the floors. The floors are really well done. Yes, you can see where the wood is older and younger, but I knew that. Only way to "hide" that would have been staining the floor a dark color. Nope. We want to see that red oak. We are so close to being done we can all taste it! Saturday we are moving the kitchen boxes. The girl and I will unpack that room and have it ready to go. Then they are paying some movers to do the rest on Monday [we hope!] since there just were no friends willing to help this weekend. We really also hope that one of the post-construction cleaning companies will be available on Friday to do a true cleaning-- the expensive kind with HEPA filters and eco-friendly cleaning supplies. Tuesday, give or take, they should be in their new home!
My mother's plane should have left at 9am. They canceled the flight at 2:30pm, and she won't fly out until 10:30 pm tonight. For some reason, she is still at the airport! I sure wish she hadn't rejected the cell phone I bought and paid for! This has been a nightmare, but thank goodness I have SKYPE and was able to call London to alert my cousin not to pick her up. Please send good thoughts that she can find the train to Paddington when she arrives after no sleep for over 36 hrs.
*susan*
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susan - eeesh - I hate flight cancellations! Hope all goes well for your mom. We are eating here - the naughty meatloaf, some rice baked in the oven with French onion soup, some clarified butter, and some beef stock, and a green salad with herbed goat cheese and vinaigrette. So excited for the move-in by the kids!
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Food here too of sorts. Long day with dad (still progressing!) So dh volunteered to fix breakfast for dinner -- cheesy eggs, bacon and rye toast. I'll take it!
A AACK on the plane situation Susan. Wishing her smooth and safe travels from here on. Exciting news about the house though!
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I made this last night for my friend who doesn't like fish
http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/ten-minute-salt...
It is one of my favorite recipes and I made it again tonight for myself!
Susan do you think that the delay is due to the alleged storm coming tonight?
Spent the day with friends planning on how to spend the summer at a seasonal camping site one of us rented,. not me, Still deciding on RV trailer or tent. There is lots to do there, kayaking pool weekly cheesy events antique stores and campfire cooking! We are going to gussy it up whatever she buys.Fun!
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No. The delay/cancelation had to do with hydraulics. I am worried about her state of mind when landing after so little sleep. She has ADHD, I am pretty sure, and sometimes has problems focusing.
*susan*
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Yes Susan we are eating here too. Went to friends' house last night for "farewell to the house" party. Had lots of yummy snacks oriented to Mexican Food. Then sent out for Rosa's chicken enchiladas and tacos. It's a Texas chain.
Today I put a 3# boneless butt pork roast in the slow cooker with a packaged sauce. With carrots, lots of onions, celery and potatoes. It was very good but a splurge for us on price. It did make 3 meals so not so bad and WooHoo I don't have to cook tomorrow night.
I hope your mother gets some sleep on the plane Susan. Yikes whata delay. Sounds like the house is coming together nicely.
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No eating here. Not hungry w/the pain pills and cooking is too much to deal with. The good news is I'm shedding all those extra pounds I gained on the last two trips. Had 1/2 an English muffin with peanut butter yesterday. Today had a serving of Stauffer's mac & cheese. Tomorrow my friend Pat is coming in to town for a haircut and will make me eat a late lunch. Don't know if that will be Asian or Italian. BTW - I forwarded the greetings from Susan & Lacey and she said 'hi' back to you both.
Hope the winter storm warnings in Boston won't be as bad as projected.
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Susan, I am sending "focused" travel wishes for you mother. Yikes! I sure don't envy her this glitch, and you, the worry! But so nice that the house is coming together! I hope moving day goes smoothly! At least it is close-by so if some things need to be moved after the official "move-in date" it can be done!
Last night we attended an "annual bourbon tasting" at our next door neighbors. So, since I do not drink bourbon, I totally made the most of her wonderful food offerings. Just about every Middle Eastern appetizer one could imagine...and so expertly made. Then, for dessert, in addition to my meyer lemon glazed madeleines, and fudgy walnut brownies, she made a custardy pie with a bird's nest crusted topping, all of which was like a rich helping of the Greek dessert I love and can never pronounce let alone spell...starts with a "G" (apologies for not checking on that before posting). It was sooo delicious!
Tonight we saw a wonderful one man performance about the life and social class experiences of poet and playwrite, August Wilson. Truly an amazing and poignant play. Since it was an early show, DH and I ordered Chinese food once we returned home. I practically NEVER eat local old style Chinese food, but I did enjoy what DH ordered tonight, a "delights of three" (chicken, beef, and shrimp) dish with veggies in a brown sauce with a side of brown rice. Shades of our years ago family take out orders.
I have a busy week coming up... Tomorrow finishing up readying for my friend's visit. She arrives from FL on Tuesday and we have a very full two days before she heads back home. It is unfortunate indeed that we have a snowstorm tomorrow and colder temps than we've had for quite some time. Needless to say, her FL friends think she is nuts for coming here now. And the Celts have most recently had several strong player injuries and subsequent losses, so her 'dream getaway junket' is looking less than totally exciting. But we will enjoy the visit no matter what!
Given these recent circumstances, and that of Susan's mother, I am beginning to think that Mercury is retrograde!! But I don't actually want to know, so will ignore any ways to learn of that possibility. I always figure that when people know things are expected to go wrong they unconsciously help make it happen.... We'll go with 'ignorance is bliss' this week, thank you!
By the way, I like my madeleine tins, and the glazed cookies/cakes are nice...the plain ones, not too exciting. But then, I am not really a baker. I think it would be fun to make corn bread in these tins.
I hope you get some rest from 'Dad duty' tomorrow, Nance. I'm glad that today DH was able to contribute in the meal prep department! Hugs to you....
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Okay, so the Greek dessert is galaktoboureko, and instead of making it with phyllo dough, she topped it with the straw-like crunchy bird's nest things. It was a totally delicious pie!
Minus, I hope you can get an appetite back, tho always nice to experience a little "reduction" after 'food splurging' on a trip. Glad you will have some nice company in Pat! Enjoy your time together
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Thurs. night I went to B’way Cellars for St. Patrick’s Day dinner--silky and tender seared and then slow-braised corned beef with mustard sauce, grilled steamed cabbage wedges and sauteed green beans (instead of the included spuds). Wine wouldn’t have felt right, so I had an O’Doul’s instead. (Wish they’d had Kaliber). Picked up some Clausthaler Amber at WF--best non-alcoholic beer I’ve ever tasted--but why is it that the non-alcoholic beers are higher-carb than the 3.6% standard “light” beers?
Fri. night Bob & I went out late for seafood at an oyster bar one neighborhood south. Three Virginia and one NB oysters; big salad with avocado & radishes; and mussels in a spicy tomato-chorizo broth with a glass of Gruet Brut Sauvage from NM.
Last night, I was a couch potato. Made Dreamfields angel hair with some leftover tomato, garlic, olive oil, basil & Parm-Regg. Washed it down with seltzer.
Tonight, I was craving duck, so I ordered from a Cantonese place I’d never tried before. I’ve gotten tired of the pan-Asian joint around the corner because everything comes drowned in a gloppy brown sauce and the veggies are overcooked and pedestrian (no real Asian veggies other than peapods and baby corn, the latter probably frozen or canned). Had BBQ pork, sauteed choi sum, Chinese broccoli in oyster sauce, shrimp & peapods, wonton soup and Cantonese roast duck (hacked, on the bone, but still juicy--especially the skin). The choi sum wasn’t seasoned but the Chinese broccoli had a bit too much oyster sauce....so I combined them. Everything else was subtly and lightly seasoned. No beer or wine tonight either, though I did make myself an egg cream for dessert. Downside is that I now have a TON of white rice--which I never eat. I could make rice pudding, fried rice or Creole rice calas, none of which I ought to be eating either. No room in the freezer, alas.
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Minus,
It had not occurred to me that you were still in such pain and on pain medications! This is going to be a long haul for you. No words to tell you how unfair this seems to me. Are the doctors giving you any idea when you might not be in such pain?
*susan*
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Lacey - I would have loved the bourbon tasting. Susan - assuming your Mother finally got off? I know you're waiting to hear that she's arrived safely.
I see the doc after another week for another set of X-rays to see if this "immobilization" is working. I was trying to back off on pain meds, but that was a mistake. Now I'll just have lunch w/Pat instead of spending a longer part of the day.
Nance, Carrie, Eric - hope your parental units are getting settled.
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My friend Maria and I went to the HILL again this weekend. I showed great restraint, purchasing only two kinds of frozen pasta, and 2 kinds of sausage and of course a couple cannoli's and another desert item.
Maria, of course, spent over 85.00 at Volpi, and then I lost track at the other two groceries. She however, purchased nothing sweet.
So, I cooked one of the frozen pasta's---Grana Padano Sacchetini from Volpi which I topped with Rao Artichoke sauce, OMG--not sure if it was the combination of the two, but it made me want to get in the car and go back to stock the freezer. I do believe this is my favorite of the Rao spaghetti sauces.
Our Mennonite Relief sale was on Friday and I managed to get into the food market shortly after it opened and scored a Pineapple Pie This is the best pie---it is a two crust pie with a cooked pineapple filling.....
My dad is settling in at assisted living--not leaving his apartment except for meals, but perhaps it will improve over time. I meanwhile am overwhelmed trying to manage his affairs and my own.
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Redhead - sorry I didn't mention you also with parent issues. Glad to hear you dad is sort of settled and at least eating meals. Hmmm a new Raos to look for.
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Red- I think that's what I would do if I moved into a space with other people. I would have to make my space feel like home first. So for me that would be good. I hope that it is for your Dad too.
Our contract with our current company that everyone works for runs out anticipated May 21st. I have not offered to apply to the company that we contract for and don't think I will. I don't want to work 5 days a week. We'll see,but I doubt it. I sent out resumes Friday and got two call backs today. This is the fun part!
For dinner left over polenta,with greens sun dried tomatoes and mushrooms on top
Oh, and I'm having my meniscus repaired next Thursday and will be out a week. more or less. I want to be able to bicycle, garden and hike when warmer weather comes.
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Bedo, healing thoughts about your knee.
I think I cracked a tooth Saturday. I have an appointment tomorrow with the dentist tomorrow afternoon. I looked at it with some tiny mirrors and the engineer in me says the tooth is likely not fixable.......crack goes down to the gum and all the way through the tooth.
Grrrrr.
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Oh Eric - I'll keep my fingers crossed for you. i really don't like dentists. I have 2 crowns coming up. Did you get all your Mom's paperwork straightened out? It was actually much easier once i was on my dad's accounts & paying all bills & could balance his check books.
Bedo - Good luck w/the meniscus. Surely that's not outpatient surgery now??
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The two doctors have written the letters, so now it's in the attorney's court (pardon the pun).
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Went up to Milwaukee to see the Who tonight, so was stuck with a bratwurst (hold the fries & bun, extra kraut & peppers) and a beer (New Glarus Spotted Cow, since they were out of non-alc.) at the tavern across from the arena. Just water during the show. But en route to the garage afterward, I tripped on a brick ring on the sidewalk and fell on my elbow, knee & shoulder....my surgical side, LE arm. I was able to drive us back home to Chicago with no trouble, and I do have full ROM of my arm--so no torn rotator cuff or dislocation. But I did skin my elbow (despite not even a scuff on my leather jacket)--peeled-back skin with a penny-sized red, scabbing-over area. Cleaned it and slapped on a band-aid with bacitracin. But because I was feeling sorry for myself, once I got home I had a couple scoops of gelato, 2 cookies and a bowl of cereal. (For me, that’s a flat-out binge). It was good, though. (And hadn’t had much to eat all day--late breakfast was an Atkins bar & black coffee, and no lunch).
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ChiSandy - sorry about your fall. Glad that you know to take the LE precautions & it wasn't something worse.
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