So...whats for dinner?
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Beautiful baby Olivia! It's wonderful that Olivia gets to go home wearing the same hat, how special!
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It always amazes me that people keep clothing and toys and such for years. We had a small house with a big family and things were passed on. Olivia filled out nicely before she was born! She looks older than she is and very sweet and huggable.
I'm waiting to start watching the Players golf after it has recorded long enough to skip the commercials. I looked through the cookbook on casseroles and baked sides. It's a lovely little publication with a photo for every calorie laden recipe. The first recipe is Carbonara Gnocci Bake which delivers a whopping 840 calories per serving! And 59 gms of fat. The ingredients include 1 1/2 cups of cream.
Hummus & More was written by the two young men who are owners of restaurants in London called Hummus Bros. They were college friends and aren't brothers. This book gives me a whole different view of hummus, which I always considered a dip or snack food. The authors/restaurant owners present hummus as the basis for a meal. They serve it on a plate with many different toppings. The book is also a nice publication but the print isn't older-person friendly.
The lamb burgers were very good last night. We ate two of the four so we'll have the other two tonight with some sides not decided at this time.
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Olivia is such a doll baby and very pretty girl! The hat looks to be in pretty good shape for it's 30 years.
Tonight is thick cut pork chops fixed some way or another with a side of asparagus and something else. How's that for decisiveness? Yesterday, we went to visit my niece in Columbia, MO and had lunch at a Mongolian grill. It was a fun time with lots of good things to pick for your bowl, including 3 kinds of noodles (alas, no soba.) The best part was all the different sauces, ranging from mild to WOWZA! The cooks were fun to watch while they cooked your food and flipped their spatulas and whole eggs around. A delicious and fun meal.
Monica -- bummer about the snow. That would send me over the edge I'm afraid. Lacey - your unwanted poundage is no doubt a result of not having to shovel mountains of snow this year lol!
Gotta go -- there is a bug crawling on me somewhere (brought in no doubt after today's yard work) that must be stopped!
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We are having pork loin roast with a mixed vegetable casserole of mushrooms, zucchini, carrots and tomatoes... I hope it tastes as good as it smells 😀
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Dinner was the garlic/pepper pork roast cooked in the crockpot, mashed potatoes and sliced carrots
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As planned, dinner was Chana Masala, Gobhi kari (Cauliflower and scalions with black mustard seeds), basmati rice, an onion chutney, yogurt with walnuts and cilantro and some Bombay wings from our new favorite Indian restaurant. Tomorrow, I will make the kids dinner. Otherwise, I have to get back to my real life of coding. Have to catch up on some hours that I missed during the whole labor and birthing distraction.
I am fairly sure that snow would drive me crazy at this point in the season! Can't imagine, well, when we lived in Montana it was often the case. Our first year there, the first snow occurred on August 15th! Like a wild woman, I was out in the snow, harvesting our tomatoes. What a mess that was!
Carole, can't wait until you can report on some of the Hummus book recipes.
*susan*
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Oh my goodness. Look away SpecialK......
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*susan*
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I heard the forecast for frost--and the warning to cover tender annuals like vegetable and herb plants--when I was already well en route to Iowa City, with nobody home to cover (or figure out how to cover) my newly planted tomatoes, basil and strawberries. Fortunately, there was no frost at the lakefront and it didn’t snow in the city. Iowa City was also a good ten degrees warmer, and the skies cleared just west of Aurora; so except for fierce crosswinds, the weather didn’t affect my drive. Had a good show, but was starving afterward--so my singing partner, a couple of fans & I headed to Perkins for a late dinner. I am ashamed to admit I zeroed in on the “55 Plus” menu and--knowing Perkins usually cooks the life out of pork chops, chicken breasts and especially tilapia--ordered the country-fried steak. (I was jonesing for either it or wienerschnitzel, which I knew I wasn’t gonna find in a chain diner in Coralville, IA). I tried to mitigate the damage by choosing green beans and spinach as my sides and not having bread. But it arrived literally smothered in cream gravy--I barely made any inroads trying to scrape it off. And sad to say, that fresh strawberry pie looked sooo good (and it was). But my phantom gall bladder made its absence acutely known, so dinner made its way through me faster than a sack of “sliders.”
Olivia is a cutie, Susan--and I can commiserate about breastfeeding startup woes. Even though Gordy latched on so aggressively we nicknamed him “Jaws,” it took days for my milk to come in, and I could never produce or pump enough. (Back then, my HMO wouldn’t pay to rent a decent electric pump--I had to rely on a little battery-operated pump or even a manual one that resembles an Aeropress coffee press). The La Leche League volunteer lactation counselor (aka Boob Nazi) accused me of not wanting to try hard enough. Only once was Gordy able to get enough out of me to sleep three hours before the next feeding. I had to supplement with formula--and I think that besides the biochemical changes caused by testosterone withdrawal after birthing a son, my inability to adequately nurse may have contributed to my postpartum depression....and it didn’t help that the treatment for it necessitated stopping breastfeeding. Yes, “breast is best” (not just for the baby but ultimately for the mom) but not everyone can nurse their babies. To this day I resent present-day teat-tyrants who impugn the parenting skills or maternal love of the significant minority who need to resort to formula so their babies can thrive. Odds are overwhelming your daughter will be able to breastfeed Olivia--but do not let anyone bully her into doing so or criticize her for having difficulties.
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Well said Sandy.
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People looked at us "kind of weird" when we were out somewhere and I would feed DD when she got hungry. For whatever reason, the odd looks didn't annoy me that much. What *DID* annoy me was diaper changing tables being ONLY in the women's restrooms.
Today, at mom's house, I took care of making a new door frame and rehanging the door.
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I was holding back from commenting about the potential for meeting up with a "teat tyrant" (great name) since I also found the LaLeche consultants overbearing and judgemental even when I was doing just fine with nursing! I just did not plan to continue the process until my child was three! I recall a new neighbor here stopping by and seeing her almost four year old climbing up her blouse to have a drink. I may be a psych snob, but always found such behavior more a need of mom's than child's. Susan, I will say that your mention of pain brought mine right back. Those first nursing days can be brutal, but it does pass. I remember my sister visiting and seeing me wince and leap off my chair a bit every time DS2 latched on. But, women are tough and it resolves. Nice to hear that there is a cream to help now.
DH and I ate out tonight, after a community meeting, at Not Your Avg. Joe's. I was wondering if they have restaurants in areas other than here. Decent food....very decent prices, and everything from scratch, so they are flexible, and will alter anything you want. I must remember that the next time the NJ crew comes here. I had a mixed greens salad with berries and goat cheese, then lettuce wraps with chicken and citrus dressing, sliced red peppers and crushed peanuts. Those things certainly fit into my diet plan....the delicious bread and olive oil/garlic/parmesan/red pepper flaked dip did not. DH got same salad and then a mushroom "bolognese" over various vegetables. We were planning to share but I did not have more than a tiny taste of his dish once I discovered that there was clearly celery in it. Anyway, we enjoyed our meal...but the walk back to our car was brutal. What is with a freezing day after such beautiful warm late springlike weather yesterday?! At least it did not snow today.
Olivia certainly did need that little hat today! Cuteness...and pinking up so nicely. My second son was quite orange, and I ultimately was worried once out of the hospital, since he'd made the cut off to avoid "the lights", but I then saw him getting more orange. When I called the pediatrician, he said, "We'll bring him back for some lights treatment if he gets to be the color of a pumpkin. Just keep the liquids constant, including water". Can you imagine the look on a nursing consultant's face were she to hear such advice?! Over the following week, he did pink up. But oh, they do feel like such fragile little beings, even at a good weight, like my 8 plus pounders. Wishing your family the best on their maiden "baby at home"voyage! They are so lucky to have your support close by.
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And Eric, am I correct to assume that changing tables now exist in men's rooms For shame, if not!
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Shes beautiful! And I hope breastfeefing goes better soon. Sometimes its hard. But football hold sometimes helps latch. Or lying on bed and use the far breast to nurse. Looks weird but sometimes works. And if nothing works , thats what formula is for. Babies do well on That too. Hugs for all
Taco salad. The sun was out and even tbough it was 40 degrees, it was still light out at 7:30. LOL
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Hey. Haven't posted in a few weeks, because cooking is quite honestly stressful for me. My father and eating is a crap shoot. Some days are better than others. Salmon and halibut are pretty safe choices. I pan seared a beautiful center cut piece of fresh wild king salmon the other night. I made a sauce of whipped cream, heavy cream with a little Dijon, whipped it for a minute until it was a little thick, and folded in chopped dill. Mashed potatoes are always the standard side. Tonight I'm making turkey sloppy joes in a home made sauce with store bought brioche buns.
Susan, congratulations on the birth of your granddaughter. She is beautiful! Olivia is a lovely name. This is such an exciting time for you and your family.
Special K, I am so, so sorry about your father in law. My prayers are with you and your family. My dad practiced internal medicine for over 40 years. Doctors are notoriously bad patients and hypochondriacs. But what I've realized about my father when he's been stubborn about certain medically related issues is he comes from a place of knowledge. Your FIL at 91 most likely knows how the system works better than anyone.
Lacey, OMG! Gorgeous pizzas! I initially thought you posted pics from your favorite Italian restaurant. Your pizzas look delicious and professional!
Lori, I have a turkey meatloaf recipe, which is delicious and freezes beautifully. Please let me know if you're interested, and I'll post it. Would you mind sharing your recipe for veggie casserole? That sounds yummy!
Wishing everyone a happy Monday!
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Well said ChiSandy! My daughters first baby (Jayce) wouldn't latch on so she pumped breast milk religiously to make sure he got his breast milk for the first 6 months of his life. Her second (Olivia) latched right on and wouldn't let go! She had a hard time weaning her :-)
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What a beautiful baby Susan
Hello to all others. Your lives are so busy.
I took a friend's grandkids on a bike ride yesterday knee all better.
4 weeks till camp.
After camp maybe student health for a year, maybe ??? I lined up a personal certified financial counselor today. He's 12, I think.
This week my oncologist told me it had been 5 years. Since I took a couple vacations from arimidex, I'll take it until Dec.
For dinner spaghetti puttanesca
Sugar snap peas, red cabbage, purple carrots, lettuce and beets and cucumbers are all in
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Tonight will be grilled pork steak with a salad from the garden. Simple but simply delicious
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susan - Olivia is a beauty, I want to just hug her! How sweet that she went home in her mom's hat! I still have the ones from my kids too - and everything else they wore, touched, created, etc. I clicked on the link for the deviled egg tray - now I want one! I made "twice baked" style eggs for the party today - yolks mashed with mayo and sour cream, bacon and chives. Topped with more bacon and chives. There were none left.
Just got home from the base with a carload of dirty platters but I was pleased to do the lunch for my DH's retiring secretary. Her official retirement luncheon is 5/31, but with surgery tomorrow morning I am not sure how I will be. This will be a long surgery - 4-5 hours and bi-lat, but I am so hopeful this is the last one. We had a bit of a wrench, I had a PET scan last Sat., and didn't hear anything about it until Thurs. I had activity bi-lat across the chest. MO called PS, PS called BS - I had a short notice appt. with the BS - he thinks surgical inflammation and scar tissue, but said to go ahead with the surgery and have the PS look around extensively when she has the implant and TE out.
chisandy - my firstborn was a big boy and very, very hungry - I breastfed every 90 minutes, around the clock, and had to supplement with formula almost from day one. Fortunately, there were no lactation bosses in military hospitals back then - I would have bopped anyone who looked at me cross-eyed or implied I was doing something wrong! I had 42 hours of labor, 17 hours of Pitocin, no epidural, and then a C-section, and I was right on the edge as it was. He gained in the hospital and was a pound heavier by his two week appointment - there was no way I could produce enough milk, or keep up, so he had formula from the get go. He is now 6'4" and about 210 lbs. I am 5'2" and usually weigh about 120 or less. I still can't figure out how I had/have such a big kid!
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Ah, Special K -- best of luck with the surgery. You've been through this a lot. I too, hope it's the last one for you. Are they replacing anything?
The weather has been cold for May. It seems like we're having April weather, when in April, it was more like March. Unlike the grass, the vegetables aren't loving the 40 degree cold nights and damp days, especially the tomatoes. I'm not loving it much either. Here's a bright spot though -- more irises:
That's about all that's blooming right now except the peonies, which are just opening.
Yesterday and today, I painted my white front door slate gray. I love it. Grays are my new favorite colors. I have a new light for porch, which DH must install and now I need a new doormat. Looks like a new house from the outside! Amazing how one little thing can change a look.
I think dinner is a grilled ham steak, baked corn and some asparagus. I'm still not terribly inspired about cooking. I have a piece of fromager d'affinois in the fridge which will be my appetizer on some rye crackers. It's so rich, I may not want anything else. Kind of like eating a stick of butter.
There you are Bedo -- good to hear from you!
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Nance I love that picture. During our bike ride in the woods I picked some buttercups to see if everyone liked butter, then had the kids smell "skunk cabbage" and taste honeysuckle and told them how to tell north from south by the moss on the tree. Joshy said "Wow You know alot!" Everything is relative.
Special I hope that your arm is mended and that this surgery does the trick.
So hard to catch up. You are all such busy ladies!
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All this talk about cold temperatures has me wondering about what to pack for our 3-day trip to MN. It has been spring/summer weather here long enough that I'm used to wearing shorts and summer tops and sandals. It won't break my heart to wear jeans for a change.
Bedo, good to hear from you. You always make me smile.
SpecialK, hoping everything goes perfectly with your surgery.
DH cooked some frozen speckled butterbeans with a hambone from the freezer. The brown rice is cooking now. I'll make a salad or slaw. And that will be dinner!
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Special K, best of luck with your surgery tomorrow
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Special - I'll be in your pocket tomorrow. Seems like yesterday you were talking about waiting for this "last" go round, but I know it's been forever for you. I still owe you a wonderful debt for all the advice you gave me before chemo those years ago. You were such amazing support. Hope everything works perfectly this time.
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Special, may everything go just the way it should for your surgery.
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Good thoughts & vibes for you tomorrow, SpK!
To my amazement, I have just learned that the weather in NE and central NC this week will be mostly rainy. In fact, it'll be warmer & drier in Chicago than at the folk music conference in Montreat (e. of Asheville). So now I'm sweating out whether my big suitcase will be back from the repair shop early enough for me to pack it so I can leave early Wed. morning (for a 2pm flight--the TSA lines at Midway are several hours long. Wish I could spare enough time away from home to hole up at a hotel near Midway tomorrow night). I will need every inch of suitcase room to pack layers (rather than the usual jeans, t-shirts, a peasant top or two for performing, t-shirt dress & sandals I used to pack for the conference). At least I don't have to pack a lot of business-friendly clothes like I did for Europe. I get to check two bags free, so I will check the biggest ultralight spinner I own (currently in the shop for a busted handle) and my padded double dulcimer bag. Into one half will go my standard 4-string dulcimer inside its own padded bag. Into the other will go a second pair of shoes if my loafers get muddy, a couple of boxes of chocolates as thank-you gifts for whichever showcase room hosts don't drink (my singing partner is bringing the four bottles of red wine with which I'd normally drive--I handed them off to him after our IA gig Sat. night), and probably socks & underwear. The front pocket gets my harmonicas and rubber shmatta (piece of carpet liner) to keep it from moving around when I play it. Unlike a guitar, I'm not worried about checking it--it looks exactly like a golf bag, and baggage handlers always respect golf clubs more than they do musical instruments. I get one carryon for the overhead and one personal item for under the seat. The carryon will be my folding Voyage-Air guitar which fits into a backpack case about the size of a French Horn case and has a zip-off compartment to hold my little MacBook Air, strap, capo, tuner and cable (I'm “plugging in" at the benefit in Hickory). The “personal item" will be the lightest weight large tote that'll hold my jewelry, pillbox, iPad, adapters, puzzle book, note pad, compression set (and donning aid & glove) and--when it's time to board--my purse. My cane doesn't count.
You've probably seen videos of the horrifically long (multi-hour) TSA lines at Midway. (They weren't even 1/10 as long last month when we flew to & from San Antonio). Even though I almost always get TSA Pre-Check, their lines' wait times are also listed ambiguously as “31+ minutes." (Use your imagination as to what “+" means). With what letrozole has done to my joints and carrying stuff (even as a backpack) will do to my lymphedema, there's no way I can stand in line that long. So I reserved a wheelchair for all ground points at Midway & Charlotte (to be safe, I actually spoke to a Southwest rep via phone). It may not get me through security any faster (it used to)--so I'll have to leave home by 10 am or even 9 for a 2pm flight--but at least I get to sit through it all!
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Thanks all for the good wishes for tomorrow!
chisandy - travel safely, sounds like you have a plan!
minus - that was so sweet - we all help each other, in the ways that we can!
auntie - exchanging the left expander for an implant, swapping the right implant for a smaller one to match the new left one, removing the right nip (my original surgery was nip sparing but due to all the surgery on the left I no longer have symmetry and removal allows the PS to tighten the skin around the new smaller implant. I will get a 3D tattoo later), and a bunch of fat grafting to try to smooth out all the damage to the left side. This will be a long surgery so I anticipate feeling less than tomorrow night, but I should be home. I am going to the same hospital as the surgery in December and I found their anesthesiology peeps to be excellent, so I am hoping for a similar experience this time. I am first surgery of the day - have to be there at 6am
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Special, I also send you my best. You have had far too many surgeries!!! Let this one be the last.
Olivia has lost too much weight. My poor daughter is just not creating enough milk yet, and Olivia was starving and crying all night long. She saw the pediatrician today and they have a new plan to combine breast feeding and supplemental formula so that Lauren can continue to encourage milk production and Olivia get what she needs too. My kid is just as pragmatic as I am. She isn't feeling guilty or anything else. She is going to do what it takes to keep Olivia healthy. And, I fear for the person that pulls that tit-Nazi crap on her! I took the kids dinner tonight, and you know, I think they were starving too. By the looks of things, they have been living on peanut butter. I will take dinner again on Wednesday. Dinner for them was a chili without beans. For us, I came home and made a simple vegetable soup. we had our big meal of the day at noon; leftover Indian.
*susan*
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Special, add my well wishes to your list. I also hope this is a last surgery for you!
Bedo, glad your knee is back to bicycling!
Tonight, after I worked out for three (3!) hours at the gym (too tired to tell the "why so long" story, but let it be known that I now have completed my first Zumba class with our new Brazilian trainer!), I made chicken with a spicy maple sauce and scallions, with sides of butternut squash, orzo, and a garden salad with balsamic dressing. It was gobbled up by both of us tired, starving Zumba dancers! Sadly, we are finally running out of the maple syrup we got from the farm in my sister's VT town.
Susan, I'm glad that your daughter is pragmatic when it comes to feeding Olivia. There is no other sensible way! Olivia has to be nurtured, DD has to happilysurvive this stage of new motherhood.
Mammogram tomorrow...with hopes that I do not get called back for three more sets of pix like last year.
Good luck packing, Carole and Sandy. I get chills just thinking about having to pack so much. And Sandy, for sure, being in a wheelchair certainly does not buy you any exemptions....when I went through O'Hare in one, I was not so politely asked to get up at TSA check point and be body searched! I must look really suspicious!
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Just Gordy & me at home tonight, and I don’t want to do much cooking--because that means cutting stuff and scrubbing oans, and my LE and cording are starting to flare. Having to do housework AND run errands & grocery-and-sundries-shop AND get ready for a long solo trip AND gather and carry instruments AND provide easy ways for my (smart and loving but devoid of life skills that don’t involve either their jobs or leisure) family to survive in the absence of both women who make their non-work lives seamless is putting tons of stress on my arm. I will have to do MLD several times today, as well as tomorrow. And now that the nerves in the skin over my SNB and lumpectomy incisions are finally waking up, I’m getting soreness I didn’t have after surgery.
So I bought a roast chicken and since Whole Foods was out of any precooked veggies that were the slightest bit appealing, I went through the crisper for the things that really needed to be cooked & eaten before I leave. First, sauteed ramps: chop the white bulbs and red stems and sweat them in olive oil like they’re onions, then toss in the leaves. Seasoned with sea salt, finished with truffle salt. Then broccolini: nuke 30 sec. to “blanch;” pan-sear in olive oil, crushed garlic, lemon and white wine. Finish with orange Sicilian sea salt and crushed red pepper flakes. Serve with the roast chicken. I proudly presented it to Gordy and he said “leave it in the microwave.” That drives me nuts--I work so hard to get everything ready at the same time (and if I’m cooking fish or steaks, to get it to a perfect degree of doneness; and when he eats it, the veggies will be limp and the protein will be dried out and overdone. At least he didn’t call GrubHub again. That’s costing us as much as dining out.
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Steak, hash brown and veggie
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