So...whats for dinner?

I didn't make dinner last night - DD had take out that she brought home, DH was not hungry due to eating a very late lunch, and I had my new exercise class and did not get home until 8. I did make some chicken salad from skin-on/bone-in breasts I had roasted earlier in the day for everyone's lunch and cut up a ripe mango for DD. I was looking for something in the fridge and created a disaster on the floor - a full glass bottle of 100% cranberry juice and a full glass bottle of Greek dressing fell and broke on the tile floor - and went under the fridge. And everywhere else. Broken glass, dark red juice that stains, and slippery dressing - eeeeeks! Finally got it cleaned up, but it was a pain in the you know what! The floor is now super clean because I had to bleach the grout, lol! My fridge has cabinetry built around it - it is hard to pull out - had to drag DH out of bed. DD, who is not particularly domestically inclined, was instrumental in helping and even cleaned the top of the fridge while it was out!

auntie - the cannoli tartlets are adorbs!

Here is the real estate person who usurped my address. I will remind you that this is taken from her professional website. What do you think she is selling?

skanky real estate broker- close quickly

And since I want to give you something nicer to view after burning your retinas, Olivia came to hang with her grands today. It was a lovely day with her, though the stress of turning over the upstairs room just about did me in! Morning folks left late, and the afternoon folks showed up 2 1/2 hrs early!

I love BLT's as a lettuce wrap actually. The bread isn't really needed. We use Galese lettuce which I think is far better than either romaine or iceberg. Dinner tonight is the last of the smoked chicken, a cauliflower gratin, and the black bean/corn salsa. Nope. They don't really go together, but that is what we have the energy to manage tonight. We have been Olivia-ized and AirBNB-ized. Start cycle 12 in the morning.

*susan*

Holy crap! What kind of a business woman is that??????? Olivia is so much better on the eyes. She is gorgeous!

Minus, no zoning at all????? That is very odd. CT is so strict with zoning. Wow!

We are having chicken piccata with baked sweet potato and string beans. Easy and quick for a weeknight as chicken breasts cook nice and fast.

Susan I had a neighbor at my house in Atlanta who build a huge back porch overlooking my entire back yard. My yard was very pretty and deep and hers overlooked another neighbor who had plastic toys strewn all over her yard she then proceeded to entertain people facing my yard I had no privacy I planted big trees that ended up being huge over 40 feet tall that blocked her I was also tempted to put on rap music and leave and 2 innocently have SpongeBob kites or worse stuck in the trees permanently or do other passive-aggressive

For dinner cheese sandwiches I need 5 of them for lunch this week and froze them but because I can't keep my hands off cheese I ate them all

Somehow I got unsubscribed from this thread. That hasn't happened for a while.

Susan, the Canolli shells are baked. Sort of a crunchy pie crust texture. The taste was pretty close though.

Ah Olivia, what a little ray of sunshine!

Sandy, best of luck tomorrow. Wait - today!

I mostly agree about lettuce but I'm with Kenji about the blt and there's nothing like a good wedge salad (crunch) with iceberg. Those are about my iceberg limits. Unfortunately, iceberg is DH's fave.

Tomorrow we see dad on his 90th birthday. I'm taking him a raspberry custard pie. He's not a cake guy. Fortunately, I take after my mother.

Raspberry custard mini pie

At the back of the fridge today I found four slices of low-carb bread (2gm net per slice). So I took my last ripe full-size tomato, some butter lettuce, a ripe avocado and a couple of thick slices of bacon and made a wonderful BLT. (I really like a “schmear” of fresh avocado. with a squeeze of lemon, to mayo on a BLT, and it’s probably a lot better for me). Off to pick up a fresh low-carb loaf, a couple of ripe heirloom tomatoes, and something hot for tonight (chicken legs? pulled pork?) for dinner.

Good day at the primary’s office today. The nurse found a vein (albeit on my hand) for the blood draw, and I already have my results back: all utterly normal. (I would be tempted to say “astonishingly excellent,” but not on this thread). BP and O2 sats normal. Good CBC--not anemic. Glucose 93 (semi-fasting). Not sure about my lipids--since a lipid panel wasn’t requested by either my eye or hand surgeon. I will assume my HDLs haven’t gone down much (they were 95), but neither has my total (303), so I will have to be a bit more careful about the carbs (which, believe it or not, raise LDLs & triglycerides as much as they do blood sugar). No anomalies on EKG, no murmurs, lungs clear. Best thing, though, is that my weight has held steady since finishing the three days of Lasix I took for the edema I developed en route home from Italy. My MO was happy two weeks ago, and my PCP is happy today.

The real estate agent picture was weird. I would have to be dead and someone dress me up in either that or the male equivalent "clothes". It wouldn't matter if it were a non-professional site..and even "back in the day" I didn't do that kind of stuff.

Olivia is tops on the list of nice images, sorry Nance, but your custard pie comes in second! :-)

DD seems to be enjoying the college experience (doing the rush thing with a couple of sororities) as well as apparently studying hard. I called today to say hi, and, "Dad, I'm in the middle of homework. I'm on a roll and don't want to lose it." I don't think it's a "that's what he wants to hear thing" as she is pretty driven. I remember enjoying college most of the time. The differing daily schedules, the ability to leave when I was done with a class, and the free time between classes (could get a head start on the evening's homework) were all nice. Anyway, the other day when I talked with her, these were all things she mentioned as liking.

One suite mate (two rooms, each with two girls and a common bathroom) started out a bit crazy, but DD said she calmed down after an unremembered call home to her parents, followed by an all day session with a trash can.

DD also managed to get a parking ticket for parking on a sidewalk. She took a picture of her car with her phone and sent the picture to me. I looked up the ordinance mentioned on the parking ticket and while the ticket was legitimate according to the city ordinance, I think the ordinance is a bit weird. DD had her car tires a couple of inches from the vertical part of the curb, just like I taught her to park and that put her tires in the gutter, which, according to the ordinance, is part of the sidewalk. $44.

Nance so beautiful! I bet it tasted great and your dad loved it

Eric soon you will be getting those send me money!!! Letters then she will arrive home with 8 weeks of laundry I once did laundry non-stop for my daughter and her boyfriend for 48 hours

Lacey you cannot have too much Lobster

I have discovered the obvious. Apparently you really can take hard boiled eggs and put them in leftover pickle juice and make pickled eggs. I saw a lot of people commenting on the same on the internet so I am going to do it

I think that tonight I will have corn on the cob and a tomato sandwich on white bread with mayo salt and pepper I know that I am the worst cook here I guess I wouldn't call it cooking but I like reading all your recipes

Oh Bedo, happy day! Congratulations!

Congrats Bedo!

Made chicken-schnitzel for dinner with some plain, buttered popcorn. For me, I made a three tomato gazpacho and for him, a large green salad. Usually I made my schnitzel with panko as my final dredge, but the damn pantry moths were having a party in that glass container! So, I was reduced to progresso bread crumbs. Smart moths. They had no interest in this mediocre and tasteless product. I spritzed the chicken as it came out of the pan, and that did help tremendously.

My current guests are amazons. They are Arayan with a capital A. Incredible blue eyes, statuesque bodies, all at least 6'4", and fit. They are from the Brandenburg area of Germany. We got started on an uncomfortable foot, but we have warmed up to each other a lot, and I have decided that I really like them. They call me their American Fairy Godmother! Next up? A couple from Groningen, Netherlands. Then a three generation group from Florida. And then a blissful night off.

*susan*

EDITED: Pasta not popcorn. Can you tell what I have been craving?

thank you everyone

Susan it sounds wonderful to be a host even though I know that there is hard work

For dinner sauteed carrots (cut on the diagonal !) with zucchini

Ya, I know you're jealous

bedo - yay for the grand baby! So excited for you!

I had a late afternoon appt at the MOnfor a port flush and Prolia injection. Received a call this morning asking if I could come early because they were trying to get everyone out early due to the hurricane. We have been rained on for two days, but not much wind at our house - we are a bit inland, but there is flooding and damage here. DH was released early as MacDill AFB is low lying and the tide was coming up early this afternoon, he got home at about 4 pm. We had patty melts and sweet potato fries from a good neighborhood place - I figured if they were staying open the least we could do is patronize, right? The storm seems to be past us for the most part - everyone north of me who will be affected stay safe!

So happy for you, Bedo!

Stay safe southeasterners! We are back in NH where the weather now is cool and dry, and possibly the only place that is not forecasted to be affected by Hermine. We'll see as weekend goes on.

We have grand dog Winston with us as DS2 and DGF are scheduled to head to Gainesville tomorrow. I wonder if their flight plans will pan out given the hurricane. DGF is eager to have DS2 meet her college roommates and friends there at the football game. I hope it all works out for them. If not, they can always come here and dance to tunes played by DH, the DJ, at the 'end of summer' beach party!

We had an "all you can eat" lobster dinner at their place last evening. DH actually ate a very large AND a regular sized lobster. One regular for me was plenty along with corn souffle, corn bread and a mixed greens salad. DGF made a chocolate chip pie for DH's birthday "cake". There were several lobsters leftover, so DS2 "extracted" the meat and sent it home with us. That helped me decide what I will make for the beachpotluck...lobster linguine with a red sauce.Some pix... DGD checking out new cars

Surf and turf

I really appreciate these two making a special meal for DH (and me)! They work well together in the kitchen which is nice to see, especially given DGF's non-orientation to things culinary! She really works hard at it for us. DS2 does well in kitchen as he worked for several summers at some country club kitchens...good experience.

Meanwhile, the house going up across the street from us at home looks like an office building! It dwarfs every elegant home in the neighborhood. Can't help but wonder if this guy has an over (or under) inflated ego to need something so scale discrepant to the area.

Eric, it sounds like on par, DD is doing just fine....with a few lessons learned as we all do the first time we are away from home...especially with a car. I'm sure you both must miss her a lot... but proud as ever

Again, be safe Southeasterners!

Tonight was “Zinfest” 20 wines/$20 tasting at B’way Cellars. Mostly Zins (including a Primitivo--Zin's ancestor--from Puglia and a meritage from South Africa). Some whites, a prosecco, a couple of Cabernets and Syrahs in there too. Food was grilled corn salad, sour cream potato salad, cheeses, watermelon-mango salsa with housemade chips, assorted cheeses, bacon mac & cheese, pickle-brined chicken wings, Thai crabcake sliders, Texas brisket, baby back ribs, key lime and peach pies. I plead the 5th as to what I ate & drank.