So...whats for dinner?
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Met a friend for lunch today after PT. We went to a small strip center Italian place that we both used to frequent 25 years ago, even though we didn't know each other then. We both had linguini with white clam sauce. It was fine but not spectacular. I added a small salad so now I won't have to eat dinner.
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Had an olive-oil-fried egg this morning and a half-sandwich of tuna salad, sliced homegrown tomato, red onion and red-leaf lettuce on low-carb whole grain bread. Full till dinner. I usually walk over to the fro-yo parlor a few doors down from the nail salon while I wait for my ride (they have no-sugar-added plain Greek, and I get sliced almonds on it), but today I was too full from just the egg. A small portion of fro-yo fills me up for at least 3 hrs.
Defrosted a coho salmon filet, which I will have for dinner over rainbow chard, with the rest of that tomato as an appetizer. Will probably have a couple ounces of pinot noir with the salmon.
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Tonight I am making " veggie chicken pasta" as my hubby likes to call it...I call it my one pan wonder because other than the pasta pot, I use one pan for the rest of it. I sauté chicken tenders with olive oil that I have rubbed with garlic and seasoned with salt, pepper and oregano (about a pound) until mostly cooked, take them out and in the same pan, I sauté broccoli, shallots, a few cloves of garlic (2 large) 8 oz of white or (any kind I have on hand such as baby bella)mushrooms, deglaze the pan with a little red wine (maybe half a cup) and then I add a can of San Marzano Tomatoes with the juice after the veggies are tender crisp. I add the chicken back in and warm through allowing the chicken to cook completely and then serve with either extra wide egg noodles or bow tie pasta which I add to the pan to cook the last couple of minutes with the veggie/chicken mixture. I use a huge 14 inch frying pan for this dish. It is so yummy!
There is always a lot leftover so I will have that tomorrow too most likely while I make hubby an omelette or something because for him, one day of "lots of veggies at one time" is enough...LOL.
He is a "Meat and Potatoes" Yankee man. His family ACTUALLY came over on the Mayflower (tracing their roots) and his great, great, great uncle wrote marches with John Phillips Sousa! He is a Yankee for sure and eats like one (or prefers to...LOL)
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DD spent most of the day at the campus student health services...pneumonia and dehydration. An IV of Levoquin and three units of normal saline. She's back in her dorm with an inhaler, antibiotics and instructions to skip tomorrow's classes. She has no classes on Friday, so she can rest up a bit.
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eric - oh no! I hope she feels better ASAP
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Eric, She wants to be just like Hilary Clinton! Next she will wear a pastel pant suit. ;-0 Seriously, hope that she is better really quickly.
Tonight, we grilled the char sui which had been marinating for about 16 hours. I made the proper pickled daikon and carrots. Pulled some of the pate out of the freezer. Made up a Siracha aioli. I just never made the bread, so we pulled out a baguette. These bahn mi were marvelous! Oh my. I am on my own tomorrow night since the kids and Leslie are headed to the Red Sox game. I have a meeting from 2:30-5:30. Will I be watching Olivia? I have no idea. Just gonna wing it.
The odd South Africans have left, and now a young couple from Germany has taken their place. The male arrived ill. Lots of turbulence and seats in the back of the plane, and he was hurting! I offered to make them an omelette or some chicken broth with noodle soup but I think they have simply crawled into bed. First people who have arrived with motion sickness after their cross-Atlantic voyage. Next up, the Glasgow couple who are staying for a full week!!! Yea, no sheet laundering for a whole week!
*susan*
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Oh, Eric...how worrisome to think abt DD dealing with all of that at school. Sending healing mercies her way!
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Oh Eric, I hope DD recovers quickly. It is always hard to be sick away from home. But it sounds like she's had some good care, fortunately.
Tonight we went to a nutrition lecture at the local hospital sponsored by DH's concierge group. Unfortunately, while we planned to stop to eat on the way home, we did not get out until close to 9PM. I was too tired to start cooking then.....so a bunch of grapes, and a plain yogurt with some maple syrup and walnuts for dinner. DH finished off some zucchini bread....so unlike him.
He managed to fall off a piece of equipment today in his exercise class, and sprained his ankle. Has a golf engagement tomorrow, and I will not be amused if he pushes himself to go, since he will likely further injure the ankle, which we will both pay for. Oy!
On a cuter note, DDIL posted this little gem of DGD explaining buoyancy during her bedtime "routine"....next will be displacement, I suspect.
I hope it shows up. I never know how to repost videos from Facebook. Is it even possible? https://www.Facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1015...
The wedding guest list of this "simple" wedding is starting to give me hives! How does one ever figure out how many rooms one needs for an expensive destination spot? How can people know if they will come this far in advance? And if DS2 and DF reserve too many they will be charged for them. Yikes! Yet you have to have enough! Expensive guessing games that I do not enjoy. They are seeming more intrepid than I. And they seem to bind their anxiety in their spread sheets
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Eric - sorry about DD's pneumonia. It's easy to burn the candle at both ends when you are away from home for the first time. Hope she will really take two days in bed.
Lacey - you did much better than I did. I got home from a meeting at 9:30pm and ended up just reheating 1/2 of a baked potato that I'd saved and am sipping a glass of wine. Could be a cookie in my future. (Wackym's Kitchen Salted Carmel).
Luv - if you're still lurking some, check out these cookies at Central Market. They're from Dallas. Chocolate, mandarin orange, etc.
Susan - the updates on your visitors are great. Did you sign up to request only foreign visitors or is it just the luck of the draw?
Carole - we all do miss you. Hope you'll soon be safely back in LA and can join us at the table more often.
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Eric, healing thoughts for your DD and calming thoughts & wishes for you & Sharon. When our kids hurt we hurt twice as much.
Folks, I have a question about grapes. I know about vitis vinifera (most wine grapes of European origin, including CA varietals, and some table grapes like Thompson Seedless and Red Flame), and vitis labrusca (N. American--mainly E. of the Mississippi--table grapes such as Concord, blending grapes for making winter-hardy hybrid wine grapes grown in the East & Midwest, and rootstock for grafting vinifera for resistance to phylloxera). Years ago, we toured the agricultural genetics facilities at UC Davis as part of the World Congress of Genetics when Bob was in grad school; our host in the wine genetics vineyards showed us an Eastern native varietal that was neither vinifera nor labrusca, and he said in the mid-Atlantic it was called “scuppernong" and in the South “muscadine." It was round and sort of dappled dark amber-pinkish, and had sort of spicy overtones to its sweetness. Yesterday, Whole Foods was selling both scuppernongs (dark amber-green) and muscadines (deep purple)--both from an organic grower in W. VA. Can anyone here tell me the difference--or are they the same grape, only bred for different colors? They were being sold in closed plastic containers, so tasting was not possible. (And anyone know where pink Catawbas--mostly from the DelMarVa area--fall on the continuum)?
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Eric, hoping your daughter is feeling better soon!
Tonight ordering a pizza and making a salad. Looking forward to a really easy evening. Have a great day.
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Think meatloaf, mashed potatoes w/ gravy and a veggie. Seems like it's starting to get that time of the year for meals from the oven.
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So out of the freezer came my two pieces of left over rare rib eye. I sauteed mushrooms & garlic in butter & a bit of oil. I sliced my rib eye very thin - like stir fry - and popped it in the pan to warm. Removing the meat & mushrooms I added brandy to the pan to deglaze & cooked it down. Then added heavy cream and cooked that down before replacing the meat & mushrooms. It was delicious on a bed of noodles - and I have enough for a second full meal.
Mommy - Now you've made me hungry for meatloaf.
Sandy - I live in the South and have heard about muscadine & scuppernongs but can't add any information to the puzzle.
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Think I’ll pan-sear some pork chops, nuke a sweet potato, and saute that rainbow chard I was going to make with the salmon but instead nuked some spicy green bean salad.
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Dinner was an almost hasn't thing. Mr. 02143 is off at the Red Sox game. I didn't get home until 6:30 from meetings. Spent 1/2 hr giving my young German couple information about the White Mountains, which I know very well, and hearing about their LOVE for Boston. Stretched and folded the ciabatta bread one more time. And then, and only then, I considered food. I had imagined making a pizza like thing with the ciabatta dough, but it just wasn't ready. So I warmed the 2 cups of chicken stock in some onion and carrot and parmesan rind. Added a few Greek noodles, and ate about half. I thought about making some popcorn as a snack, but when I moved the car [street cleaning in the AM] the guests lights were all out at 8:30, and since I couldn't share, I lost interest.
Xeloda really screws around with my appetite.
Just about time to start baking bread. Which is ridiculous at 9:30 at night when I have to wake up at 5:30.
*susan*
p.s. and I want meatballs, which is only a variant of meatloaf.
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Sharon is doing her Jenny Craig meal and I ate some of my home made chorizo.
DD went to class today and then tried to go to work. The manager at work sent her home. I told DD that if she kept this up, she'd start wanting to wear pants suits like Secretary Clinton. I could almost hear the eye roll as she said, "Dad." :-)
She's not sounding quite so "horrible". I'm guessing the antibiotics and steroid inhaler is helping. But, she did say that she was walking much more slowly than normal.
Right now I can't imagine starting bread at 9:30pm. I have a pork loin that I want to cook, but by the time I get home (7:30pm), it's too late for me to start it. I don't want to be up until 10pm. But, bread does sound good though. Maybe I'll wake up the sourdough starter this weekend.
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11:21 and 8 mini-ciabbata loaves are done. Way too late. But sometimes bread is the master. Sometimes I am. Well rarely am I. The bread always wins.
I think eye rolls are good for kids.
*susan*
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Eric, your DD could do worse than emulate Clinton (the pants suits, she should skip the pneumonia part).
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I was at a conference all day on the Opioid problem, and got out around 5, so was really happy that DH ordered and picked up pizza and salad from Pepe's Pizza. Our maiden voyage there. DH had gotten rave reviews about Pepe's from a colleague with whom he was golfing yesterday. I was not enamored of this pizza that gets such raves, since I am not a fan of charred cardboard-like bottoms on my pizza. Their salad was fine except for the slimy pieces of lettuce, which I selected out before serving it with additional fresh lettuce. I may never be satisfied wth purchased salads since I am a compulsive (and a bit OCD), oretty creative salad maker. And I do NOT use slimy or black edged lettuce. Why do food establishments feel that they can.
Eric, glad to hear that DD is starting to feel better. Would that she could have the intense level of care that Hillary has to get her back up and running! It's hard to take the time it takes to allow the body to heal when you feel the pressure of school (campaigns, etc;).
I recall in grad school that I kept getting what the BC Infirmary thought were strep throats. I took my many repeated scripts of antibiotic, and it kept getting worse. Turns out I had mono and when I saw a real doc in town at BI, he diagnosed me after bloodwork, saying, "How do you get along woth your mother?". He ordered me to go home to my parents for six/eight weeks to recuperate. I was beside myself, but the grad school was very sympathetic, so I flew home....I recall barely being able to walk to the plane. I was one sick puppy with a bad fever, inordinate weakness, and such a bad sore throat I could not eat for more than a week. Gradually I got better, but it sure was good that I saw a real doc. I certainly did not think I would get mono. When DS2 left for his sophomore college year, he contracted it, too, but we knew the symptoms and he came home for a week, took it easy when back at school, and recuperated quickly. As Rosanna Rosanna Dana said, "It's always something!" And it passes, and life goes on..... Good luck to her!
Tomorrow we attend the memorial service of the husband of a good friend of mine. He died suddenly of a heart attack, while doing his morning stretching exercises, a month ago. I am heartbroken for her.
I am also missing Carole on our thread, and hope all is well with her......
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I took another 1/2 day from work, worked out and got home early enough to do the pork roast. It's just about done.
I talked on the phone with DD today and she said she's sitting outside (90F degrees) to warm up and just walking to the elevator is a chore. I suggested she go back to the student health services tomorrow if she still has the chills and short of breath while walking slowly on level ground
It's almost 8pm and it's another wild night here....both Sharon and I are about to fall asleep.
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Eric I hope your daughter gets better soon
Lacey I had good food in Barrow Alaskawhen I was working there at Pepe's north of the Border I don't like chocolate pizza either
Susan do you have a guest book that might be fun for people to leave their names and thoughts and where there are from
For dinner I went out for Indian food and had something and something and something and two glasses of wine I am waiting for the I went to farmers market to open its time for squid
I'm back I got honeycrisp apples kimchi Squid and, I'm sorry Susan, Seven Stars olive loaf
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Wow Lacey, the original Pepe's in New Haven is fabulous so I am thinking the chain is falling short. I know that there is only one better pizza (and I live in pizza heaven in CT) for me and that is my really good friend's mother's home made. I have never had any better anywhere. She even had a pizza oven in her yard. So surprised about Pepe's. I personally love it.
Tonight grilling a beautiful ribeye steak on the grill with sautéed mushrooms in a wine reduction and some beautiful asparagus that I will grill along with some of the last of the summer corn. I will make a "fake risotto" with orzo and grated locatelli romano cheese. It is a great recipe that I haven't made yet (my friend makes this a lot and gave me the recipe) and call it a done deal.
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The original Pepes and the chain locations are simply not the same. Since it is on the other side of town from me, I have not made the pilgrimage. Too many folks have been disappointed.
Dinner last night was an Asian rice bowl with a bit of the char sui, a small green salad with a soy-ginger dressing, the carrot/daikon pickles, dry-fried green beans with hot peppers and onions, and of course, rice. It was a fun dinner actually with lots of different flavors. I should have put a few tomatoes out and we would have eaten the whole rainbow.
Tonight, we are slow smoking a few chicken parts. I have a bit of broccoli to cook up, the leftover green beans, and some lovely corn from today's market.
*susan*
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Bob’s working late and Gordy has a show, so not sure what I’ll do for dinner--maybe non-breaded eggplant Parm?
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I was across town with a friend sorting through old books so we tried a Chinese restaurant that had been highly recommended. The lunch specials were $6.50 to $7.50 with soup, fried rice & an egg roll - so the price was certainly good. Nice venue up on a second floor corner. Sorry to say the meal was probably less than average for a chinese strip center place. She had shrimp with lobster sauce. I had shrimp & chicken with cashew nuts & water chestnuts. Even the egg rolls tasted worse than frozen. Neither of us cleaned our plates. I'm disappointed but now I can check another place I'd been wanting to try off my list and move on.
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Minus, I just hate wasted calories, much less the cost. Always disappointing. I mean, when ever have you used the phrase left-over egg roll? NEVER! But yes, you just move on. In a city the size of Houston, there are always new places to try, I assume. *susan*
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Grass fed beef "burgers" on the grill with all of the "trimmings" except for buns, homemade cole slaw and baked sweet potatoe "fries"...really good!
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Yum, HH!! Do you ever make bison burgers? When we can't get ground lamb in our local market, we use that, and it is quite tasty. For some reason, the local store stopped buying their ground lamb from the previous supplier, saying that the customers complained about it...not us. Not sure why they are taking so long to get a new supplier.
There's another way to fill your time, Susan, since you never stop moving.....grind your next lamb and sell it to Roches! LOL! By the way, I'm now also wondering if you are keeping a guest log. I would hardly be able to keep all those interesting guests in my memory.
I know people love Pepe's pizza, but if their pizza crust is usually "stylishly" charred like the ones we had last night, I'll continue to take a pass. I'd put Santarpio's ahead of them, except that their crust edges were a bit charred with a very hard cracker-like texture. I prefer soft chewable edges....purely one of those personal preferences. April, the friend of DH who recommended that we try Pepe's shared a funny story about his experience in New Haven. He and their friends found themselves in an extremely long line, and they were really hungry. So he cleverly decided to offer tobuy leftover pizza slices (in take home boxes) from people who were leaving the restaurant. He paid enough to make it attractive for the diners to surrender their pizza. So they never went in. Just ate their pizza in line and left.......and loved it!
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I had some fragments of bucatini to use up, so I made bucatini all’ Amatriciana: used slab bacon rather than guanciale, some tomato-basil sauce, extra basil, red pepper flakes, a little Malbec, and both Pecorino Romano & Parmigiano-Reggiano grated over the top. Sometimes a gal just needs her comfort food.
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Lacey, what a great idea! LOL...I love room temp pizza almost as much as burning the roof of my mouth. Bottom of Pepe's is usually a little charred but certainly not burnt. It is a thin crust NY style pizza and that is not for everyone. I have had Santarpios (a few years ago my daughter and I went there as she works in Boston and lives in the area (used to be Sommerville and now Melrose) and remember it being really yummy also. We went to the one in Boston. But, for me it was not as good as Pepe's or even Modern (another New Haven landmark) but pizza is a VERY personal choice for everyone.
Tonight, after hubby begged me all week, I am making buttermilk fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy and broccoli with cherry tomatoes. It has been in the buttermilk since last night in the fridge and soon will come out for dredge and then back in the fridge and then out for 20 mins to get the chill off and then into the grease. I love this meal almost as much as he does but it is definitely only a few times a year deal. He wanted corn again but I told him something GREEN had to be on the plate and he had better eat it...LOL. He is like a child with food.
I also baked brownies from scratch and they are cooling now and he is eyeing them big time but football is holding his attention well enough so I think I can hide them before he makes the trek to try to steal one. HA!
Have a great day all.
Oh and I agree with Susan. Leftover egg roll is NOT normal. Ugh..sorry it sucked Minus.
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