So...whats for dinner?

Thanks so much, Nance!! You've convinced me. I'm definitely getting it. And yes, people really like the stainless pot. ))

how is it that not one of my Wish List items on amazon is on special today? *susan*

:-)

You are probably right. I am not doing my part to keep our economy booming!

*susan*

Tonight I'm doing turkey kielbasa, Cuban black beans and the zucchini fritters

Bedo - I'm sorry the nasty flu has you down. Hope the staff is keeping you comfy and well supplied with magazines and books to go with the ginger ale. Hoping you have graduated to chicken noodle soup. (((HUGS)))

Minus, I'm so happy to read about your successful meals, hotel upgrade, and surgery with just the right amt of anesthesia! And a long snooze afterwards....perfect!

Bedo, I hope you recover quickly! Not a fun place to be so sick....

I was not impressed with most of the stuff on sale at Amazon Prime today either. The pressure cooker was a serendipity! There are some things I regularly order from them, and of course none qualified. And, also, nothing from my wish list either.

We had a very trafficky drive to the lake this afternoon, and I was drinking coffee most of the way to keep mtself awake and not bored while driving.Ended up feeling dehydrated when we arrived, so I didn't have the energy to prep a meal. Local veggie pizza was the solution with a spinach salad. Tomorrow (today, avtually!) should be pretty hot, so hopefully boating and swimming will be on the day's agenda.

Who was it that used the term "jump ups" in the past?

Supper was things in the fridge that needed to be eaten: pick up appetizers - celery stuffed w/pimento, black olives, radishes, avocado slices lightly drizzled w/dressing. The main course was a small bowl of boiled potatoes w/butter. I don't reach for the salt shaker much anymore, but I sure do w/boiled potatoes.

Not sure, Minus, but a number of us had fun adopting the term!

Getting pretty steamy here in North country. And we read a town notice that the proliferation of ducks and geese on a few beaches has resulted in unsafe levels of bacteria in the shallow water. This is (reportedly) the third cleanest lake in the US! Thus we never went to the beach, instead spending time doing house related tasks. DH did all the porch and deck cleaning and set up....a lot of work in any weather, and it is usually cooler when we set up. We are really late this year. But it is done....thanks to him cleaning and hauling furniture to their assigned spots. We got to have our first porch summer meal!

For dinner, DH grilled a flat iron steak that I'd seasoned with a dry mix I'd made at home and brought up here. We grilled some sliced portobello mushrooms that I'd marinated in a balsamic mix with an orange flavored olive oil....turned out to be too orangey in my opinion. Made a nice garden salad and decided to make a farro mixture for a grain, using some of the last scapes, chopped kale, and, of all things, dried cranberries since they were in the pantry. It could have used some more flavor, but I'd try it again, maybe adding walnuts or pecans, since I love farro.

Tomorrow we're meeting some friends at Lago (on Lake Winnipesaukee) before going to a play at The Winnipesaukee Playhouse. After our oral binging last week, I'm not crazy about going to a restaurant, but wanted to see these friends and catch up after the winter, and the wife of the couple can only eat at a few placesdue to her needing to adhere to a very restricted medical diet.

One of my tasks today was to clean, fill, and set up all the hummingbird feeders. A new one is sort of artsy and attaches to our large LR window, so I really hope the hummers like it!

No need for envy today Susan...never got near the lake....maybe tomorrow if the boat battery isn't dead. I won't be sitting at the beach, with the mention of duck poop bacteria, but a jump into the cool 200 foot middle would refresh. We'll see.

I figured it was brutal at home today with the high humidity. No wonder your feet are so pained....hot humid weather is not a friend to that condition! I'm glad you surrendered to your Indian shop for dinner food! And yes to tasty leftovers...or as we learned, "jump ups". Do pace yourself, if you can......we are not so hot weather hardy, as we are for winter freezes!

Susan - I am still in awe that you can work & run a B&B and take treatments. Hope you've raised the price for August.

Everyone sounds like summer is in full swing.

Minus, you make it sound so easy. comps for surgery , way to go!!!

Susan, would you ever consider retiring your "real" job and going B+B full time?:)

I announced that I could go back to work for a few hours tonight, but the health department came and said to stay in my hovel until Monday when I will be declared fit to walk among the campers. It's a bit boring, but quiet, in this little place in the camp, with my books, cat, TV and you guys. Still taking Tamiflu and beginning to feel better

Susan - what a wonderful article. Thanks for sharing. Growing up on the West coast, I didn't know anyone who went away to camp - except for maybe a week of church camp w/all the same people you already knew. Most of my friends from the East Coast did go to camps. Still, I love the woods & the water & yes, the campfires. I had one glorious summer 6-8 weeks at a music camp at University of the Pacific when I was 16, We lived in the college dorms & engaged in music all day every day.

For dinner I cooked 2 T-Bone steaks. I only ate 1/4 of the meat so have lots of leftovers, but I had a great time gnawing on the bones. My side was macaroni with butter - something my Mother occasionally served w/steak if my Dad was out of town (otherwise we had to have "meat & potatoes" of course).

I never went to sleep-away camp--we couldn’t afford it. But I went to day camp every summer (held for the younger kids at the JHS--which lacked a pool, so the little tykes ran around under outdoor showers and in inflatable wading pools, and across the street at the HS for the older ones). From age 8-13 I was a camper; at 14 & 15 a jr. counselor; and at 16-20 an asst. lifeguard at the HS’ pool. We offered Gordy the chance to go to sleep-away camp (which we could afford), but he loved the summer program at his school so much that he insisted on being with his classmates all summer, every summer through its Lower & Middle School divisions. Upper School didn’t offer a program, so as a teen he went to daytime theater camp and then was selected for the first-ever teen program at i.O. (formerly known as Improv Olympic--at the program’s end, he was the only teen invited to study with the adults). He also did a session at the Ombudsman learning clinic in order to finish his math requirement before his senior year.

This morning was the fifth day of tri-tip leftovers (with my eggs). Tonight I arrived late to a wine dinner (theme was northern France) because I played a show in Evanston that didn’t finish until nearly 8 pm. I arrived during the entree. So I missed the hors d’oeuvres (but they did give me a flute of Cremant d’Alsace) and the sea scallops (I didn’t get the Sancerre either). I did get to eat the smoked duck breast and spinach salad (with a Brouilly) and then the main course of Cornish hen coq au vin with lardons, carrot puree, spring onions and mushrooms (along with a Bourgogne Rouge blend). Dessert was berry creme bruleé with a delightful off-dry Vouvray. (No, I didn’t finish even half of any of the glasses). I got a lift home, and waited for Bob to arrive. He had to miss the entire dinner: his car broke down on Lake Shore Drive and he had to wait till after 9:30 for a tow to the closest Ford dealership (which is, mercifully, now here on the north side instead of way up in Niles where we had to buy the car originally). The tow-truck driver brought him home, so I didn’t have to come and get him. (Wish I’d known he was going to do that before I had that double espresso to help me stay alert--looks like another late Netflix night). We have to get to the dealership by 9 tomorrow morning if Bob is going to be able to make his rounds at his hospitals and get home before midnight. He’s working all this coming weekend (as he did last weekend) because he’ll need to take off the next two weekends in a row while we’re in Italy. I suspect the problem is a bad throttle linkage--my ’02 Taurus did precisely the same thing (abruptly stopped accelerating) in 2010, a year before it had the exact opposite problem, fierce and dangerous spontaneous acceleration that necessitated my riding the brakes the entire nerve-wracking mile home. (Some idiots online suggested I’d gotten the pedals mixed up--there’s still resistance to the idea that spontaneous unintended acceleration is a “thing.” But it turned out to be a stuck throttle linkage....only it would have cost me $2000 in labor to tear down the dash to confirm that, so we traded it in. We’d dropped >$3K in repairs only a few months prior).

Ohhh, how I miss gumbo! (the roux is the diet-breaker for me, and I refuse to even try to make a gumbo or etouffé without one). My tomato plants are bearing like crazy, but only one of a cluster of small ones has ripened (it was yummy and I saved the seeds). We had fierce winds late yesterday afternoon, and one large branch was blown off my basil plants. I’ll try to get it to root indoors; if not, well, I have a couple of store-bought heirlooms on the sill and a container of mozzarella di bufala in the fridge and I’m not afraid to use them (though I am getting sorta tired of insalata Caprese). And Lacey’s post reminded me I have some garlic scapes in the crisper and need to figure out how & where to use them. They do keep far better than scallions or ramps. Maybe I will make pasta (shiratake) primavera.

Shows I'm 2 days behind but not that many posts. I guess everyone is busy summering or sweating lol.

Minus - Yay for a lovely deporting experience and some lovely food also. Sometimes we make a "tidbit tray" here I think that was what my MIL called it. My DM called it a "pu pu platter" Hawaiian term for appetizer plate.

I tracked down thru the search who shared the "jump ups" story. It was Seaside Memories.

Copy/paste from 4/16/13. "I went back to college to earn a 2nd degree a few years ago and had young kids at home as did some of my fellow students. One day we were sitting around toward the end of our very long class day and talking about what the heck we were going to make for dinner that night and one of my classmates said, 'We're going to be having jump-ups'.... So I'm thinking it's maybe like a Sloppy Joe or something like that and I ask what is a jump-up? She responded with 'It's when I'm too tired to cook and I say jump up and fix your own dang meal'. Aka... A left over night.... Still makes me smile to think of her today... She was such a riot!"

***** that is for 5 star Susan. I just don't know how you do it but do absolutely understand the wanting to be with Olivia - BTW lovely name. I told DD about your Pokemon problem. She sent me a link to get it fixed if it is a bother. She explained much better why this happened - the "base - my word nor hers" Pokemon Go is built on is historical sites. She gave me the name starts with an "L" but misplaced it both on paper and in my memory. Here's the link. I think you said it was in the park so might not really be "personal property". Read today about another person finding a body while playing.

From DD - This is the page where people can put in requests to have Pokemon Go locations removed from their property:

https://support.pokemongo.nianticlabs.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=319928

Under reason select "Report a Pokestop on my personal property." She'll have to get someone to tell her what the stop is called in the game, or download the app just to quickly find out (if she wants it removed, that is).

Howdy Happy Hammer. Glad to see you. Hot here in North Texas too though a freakish storm from OK way blew thru this am, black skies, wind but alas no rain. If I ever get any more peaches those sound good. Peaches here this year good but small. My tree is old, not well cared for. I think a present to myself is going to be new fruit trees this fall. The drought years did them in. But the fig tree is going great, hoping for a nice crop. Then I will be looking for fig recipes. The $1.99/lb apricots here in the local grocery are darned good. Need to get more b4 they change suppliers.

Yesterday I baked a pie from the graham cracker crust label. Apple cranberry crunch (canned apple pie filling, whole berry cranberry sauce) with a crunch topping for church meeting. Brought home one piece which is good. Made Shake 'N Bake, roasted potatoes and a jello salad for my friend who had nerve block done yesterday. She only can eat chicken, no beef, no rice. We had some of the jello salad and DH had leftover pasta salad. Tonight we get chicken and potatoes, the oven was full with their meal and I'd had enough of it being on. I wanted plenty for them for leftovers tonight and possibly tomorrow.

Bedo - so glad to hear you're improving and will soon be "clean" lol. Did you scream bloody murder when the camper poked you? I know I would have or soiled my pants.

I went to Bluebird daycamp (Camp Fire girls juniors) in Hawaii and week long church camp several times. Had the good fortune to go to camp in Cloudcroft NM but the bad fortune to get the stomach bug the 2nd day there. I was probably 7-8th grade so not a youngster but surely wanted my mama. I have a friend who went for years as camp nurse to Camp Kanakuk outside Branson MO where she went to camp and her kids followed.