So...whats for dinner?
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Hello all!
Sandy, glad you chose not to go through with the sx. Sometimes it's good we think things over. Specialk, glad your friends biopsy came out good. What a blessing. Eric, hope your daughter is on the mend.
On the trigger fingers side. I've had one injection on my right hand over a year ago. No pain and it doesn't lockup yet. So far so good. Still haven't gotten one on my left, although they lock up, there isn't any pain so not doing it yet.
Speaking of the fried chicken, my Mom made it once in a while. Two big chickens worth. Couple of hours frying it all for 10 of us. I have never in my married life of 40 some years ever fried a whole chicken's worth of fried chicken. Most i've ever done is fried a chicken breast or rwo.
Im still not feeling well. Everything is in my head. Fever broke only 2 days ago. 2 weeks is too long. I feel like a wet rag that got wrung out. On the other hand, i keep Kleenex in business. Starting to be clearheaded enough to watch TV, and even change the channel. LOL
Haven't cooked a lot. Thank goodness I had used up all but 1 dinner from my box. I finally used that Friday. Pork tenerloin with fig sauce. Served with brussel sprouts and carrots. That was delicious. 2 meals out of it of course. The only other cooking I did was use butternut squash and potato from 2 different meals and turkey stock i had in my freezer to make a soup that i pureed. I ate that for 4 meals. LOL. The protiens I had frozen when I got the box so i didn't waste anything. I just didn't make the meals according to plan so I have 2 beautiful pork chops and steaks waiting for me when i feel good enough to cook for real.
My DH saw a nuerologist for his arm. After sx on his shoulder, and elbow, he still has pain. The neurologist says theres nothing more too do. Hell have to live with it. What joy.
Much love.
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Monica, sorry about your DH running up against the end of the treatment road for his arm pain. What did the neuro say about what’s causing it? Might it be c-spine nerve impingement, and they’re a bit leery of mucking about in there lest they cause more damage than they’d have repaired? Don’t know about the Port Wash-M’kee area, but it’s been a horrendous allergy season—especially molds—down here in Chicago.
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Moon - so sorry to hear you've been sick but glad you're on the mend. Also sorry about your DH's arm. I'm about ready to give up on my shoulder and just 'live with it'. Frustration & continual low grade pain speaking!!! I continue to be interested in your boxed meals. somehow it never occurred to me that you could separate and freeze meats & veggies in different packages.
Sandy - in spite of the medium grade food, the dinner boat trip sounds great. Sandals and it's almost October!!
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sandy - glad you enjoyed the Vino Robles dinner - I went to college in SLO at Cal Poly. That was back in the day - mid 70's - and area vineyards were in their infancy.
Now I want fried chicken - a lot of it. I make it occasionally, but hate cleaning up the mess. I have a decent oven fried tenderloin recipe, dip in yogurt and roll in panko. Gives a tangy crunch factor.
Going home to FL tomorrow morning, stopping in Phoenix (hi eric!!) but not changing planes. Next weekend will be home, but the following week we start a long-awaited vacation and celebrate my 60th birthday on 10/9. Also celebrating 6 years from diagnosis this week - yay
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We’re going to B’way Cellars for dinner tonight—Bob wants to sit at the bar facing the TVs and watch the Bears. Sunday nights are usually slow there—the weekend brunches tend to get crazy-busy, as that’s for what the place has become best-known (makes all the “Top 10 Brunch Spot” lists). The chef is a passionate Chicago sports fan—he even has team-logo chef jackets for the Cubs, Bears, Bulls, & Blackhawks (no White Sox—this is da Nort’ Side, after all)—and will be watching along with Bob (they can talk sports endlessly late into the evening while the waitstaff puts the chairs up on the tables all around them). The letrozole seems to be taking its toll so it’s gonna be just a salad, maybe mussels, for me. Maybe even just an iced tea instead of a flute of cava. No more of those infamous Whole Foods house-made tortilla chips, which seem to be like crack.
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Monica, good to see you check in, tho I'm sorry to learn that you are not feeling great and that DH has that persistent pain. Sounds like you have been creative with your Blue Apron components!
We took a walk with our next door neighbor to the Farmers' Market this afternoon, and got lots of "end of season" veggies and tomatoes. Seems like ratatouille will be on this week's menu!
Tonight DH grilled a porterhouse steak, which we had with sides of a large garden salad with parmesan dressing, as well as a sauté of kale, portobello mushrooms, onions, and garlic. I can tell the temps are down since that is when I start using kale a lot. It may make it into soup if the temps stay lowish this week
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Lacey - we actually got down to 89 today so I turned on the oven. Mistake - still too hot, but... Dinner was wild caught cod fillets (flash frozen) dipped in melted butter & lemon, rolled in Panko and baked just 12 minutes. Delicious. Served with boiled new potatoes and a combo from my spiralizer - yellow squash & zucchini steamed w/butter & garlic.
Last night's dinner was what I can almost call a 'winter' salad. Cauliflower, radishes, zucchini chunks, black olives, shoestring beets, carrots - with just the smallest portion of red leaf lettuce that remained in the fridge - adorned with a minimal toss of HEB 'hatch chili ranch' dressing. Then I ruined the low-cal, healthy intent by eating a bunch of white corn chips at bed time. Needed the salt I guess.
Susan - hope your trip was wonderful and you're easing back into "real" life. Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
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Minus, the first thing I do with my box is freeze the protien. Because i never when ill be home sometimes and that gives me time. Then i look over the packages to see what veggie will go bad first. Green beans and lettuce usually. So i make up those first..and occasionally will swap protiens if im not feeling steak. Ill use the chicken. Its kind of like a mini shopping trip. But i do choose the meals according to the menu so i try not to change too much.
If you or anyone else is intetested, i have at least one freebie box. You have to sign up and tben cancel if you dont want any more, but i find i buy at least once a month. Sometimes 2. Shipping is free if you order 2 serving @9.99 each x 2 meals plus a smoothie or fruit. So it adds up to about 50.$ for 4 meal servings for me. If i dont get the fruit or smoothie, its 10$ shipping. Id rather get something for my money. Im strange that wsy. LOL.
Susan, hope you enjoyed not washing sheets.
Much love to all.
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Grandbabies and DH on DGD2 1st Bday.
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Nice photo, Moon!
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Cute grand babies Moon. Thanks for sharing. Need to attack the fridge for something exciting in the left over category.
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Had a tuna salad sandwich on low-carb whole-grain with lettuce, Vidalia onion and homegrown tomato (it was getting overripe and needed to be used). Ordered out for NY-style sausage pizza for the debate tonight. My basil plants were blown over by the wind this afternoon, so I harvested the stems that broke off after I put the planter back on the stand and put back as much of the topsoil as I could scoop up. I will use that basil rather than paying for it as a topping, maybe add some leftover tomato too, to boost the veg & fiber content of the pizza. If I lose my appetite I can always freeze it (the pizza, not the appetite).
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One page to read but I will leave it until another time! You ladies are busy cooking and eating.
Bad news. Plain, unexciting eating is NOT slenderizing! I am disgustingly obese. Yesterday I started packing up in preparation for returning home. Far back in a lower cabinet I found healthy stuff like quinoa that sat in that cabinet all summer while we grilled burgers and brats and pork steaks and ribeyes and bone in skin on chicken thighs.
Lima beans. Like the green frozen or canned ones and love the dried white ones, small or large, cooked with ham or pickled pork. Served over brown rice and some dashes of Louisiana hot sauce.
Eggplants. Love them the way I grew up eating them, breaded and fried a crispy brown, but I don't cook them that way. Except maybe once every couple of years for my mother. I have learned to make delicious eggplant parm and eggplant lasagna without the breading and frying. Enjoy the taste and do not find preliminary salting necessary if the eggplant are young and fresh.
Fried chicken. Love it but no longer cook it at home because of the mess and the calories.
To be finished later.
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Carole !!! Hooray. I saw on another thread that you're headed home soon. We have missed you at the kitchen table & look forward to having you back. Have a safe trip.
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Happened to pop in here for a minute and am thrilled to see that Carole is back!
More kater....running off to a town meeting about some street construction that is slated for our street....it never ends
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I almost had to put on long sleeves to go out and pick up my paper this morning. it was down to 69 degrees. Fish tacos (really burritos) for dinner last night with the remaining cod. I heated the fish, hot sauce and cheese on a flour tortilla then added coleslaw & wrapped it up. Quite good for leftovers.
Off to see the eye doc this morning. With cancer treatments, I haven't had new glasses since 2008 and there are lots of changes. I have had my eyes checked regularly. I just didn't want to purchase glasses until everything had settled.
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i agree about your glasses strategy, Minus. I am delaying cataract procedures and keep wearing my six year old glasses until I bite the bullet. Fortunately, only my very far distance is slightly compromised.
Last night we had one if my fave healthy meals....baked haddock with a topping of sauteed onion, garlic, mushroom and chopped spinach, all topped with crumbled feta. Sides were orzo (with some of that leftover spinach saute muxed in) and a red lettuce garden salad. Of course, it was so healthful that when we returned from the annoying Siting Board meeting (a hearing about plans for new electric lines to be installed underground on our street to provide energy to another area) we were again hungry and ate an apple, then pepper cheese and crackers with some Port. Ha!
Carole, summer was an "expanding experience" for me too. Wardrobe issues prevail!! I need to get back to my former eating habits and regular gym work! Unfortunately, I keep being bothered with sciatica down my left leg, making exercise difficult. Am hoping to wait it out over the next week or so along with some stretching for that. Next, PT if necessary.
I hope your return home goes smoothly, Carole.
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Carole, so glad you're back!
Lacey, when I was suffering from sciatica pain, the recumbent bike was very therapeutic. Amazingly, it didn't hurt at all while I was exercising and it helped me get over it quickly. My mo is the one who told me how much exercising helps sciatica pain. I was skeptical, but he was right.
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Thanks so much, Nance! I actually have a recumbent bike, but was not trying it for this. Will definitely be on it today! These things generally resolve, but helping it move along faster would be great for my mood! As would some exercise. Being a slug doesn't feel very good.
Tonight we'll probably grill a pork tenderloin and have my typical salad side. I also bought radishes this week and might roast, then sauté them with some balsamic and honey (and the top greens if they still look good). They turn out like little sweet gems! And I would never otherwise eat a radish! We have definitely moved into cold enough temps for oven use.
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Last night I pulled frozen Hawaiian meatballs out (had prepared them prior to the trip to Cali, but DH never ate them!) and we had them over brown rice with steamed broccoli. DH is sick, spent the last two days in bed - he was running a fever after work on Mon when he picked me up at the airport. He went to work this morning to do a few things that were pressing time-wise, but will be home early. Everyone in his office will be at a conference so he felt better about not making people sick - this is an upper resp thing. He is never sick - threw him for a loop!
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Making crock pot chicken cacciatore today. Put everything in last night and put in the refrigerator and then pulled it out this morning before I left for work and turned it on. It is a really easy and delicious dish that I make when the weather starts to change. Making pasta with it - probably linguini. I love my crock pot in the fall and winter and even in the summer.
This weekend will make crockpot turkey chili.
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Gotta make something quick for dinner tonight. Have another wake to go to for a relative of a neighbor
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So we went to see the Celtics Open Practice tonight and meet three of the new rookies (a perk for 'rookie' season ticket holders) It was early, and raining, so no effort to go to dinner first. Sooo, I had a diet coke and warm soft pretzel with mustard for dinner there. DH had his fave sausage and onions and peppers sandwich. Once home, it was about 9:30 and we decided to finish our leftover pizza from earlier this week. Some red wine and that was it....except that afterwards I ended up having pretzel sticks and pistachio Talenti. We should have gone to dinner!
Tomorrow, we are going to an engagement party from 3-6 which I expect will have enough food to call it dinner. I was actually working on better eating habits earlier this week!
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Susan - we miss you. Hope you are OK. Looking forward to hearing about your vacation when you get a minute.
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Last night for dinner I ate an entire large delivery anchovies pizza by myself
I love my new job.
It will be a hard decision whether to move to Boston at the end of the year or stay here. But I have a month off between semesters in the summer when I can watch my new grandbaby who will be 3 months old then
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Had to go to Office Depot for a new printer cartridge, and Jewel-Osco was right next door. Since it was near a heavily Jewish neighborhood (border of Evanston/Skokie/Lincolnwood/West Rogers Park) I knew that (unlike Whole Foods, or the fresh-kosher section of Mariano’s which shuts down Friday night and doesn’t reopen till Sun. morning) it would have some culinary Rosh Hashonah supplies. Bought a round raisin challah and organic Gala apples (already have the honey), plus “taiglach,” a holiday dessert treat I always had as a kid in Brooklyn but haven’t encountered in years. It looks like a gâteau-St. Honoré, except the “building blocks” are smaller and made of a kind of cookie dough rather than choux pastry, dairy-free (pareve), “glued” together with honey and studded with nuts and candied cherries.
So while I was there, I went to the kosher takeout display case where, during Shabbat, stuff pre-packed on Friday is displayed for self-service sale until the counter reopens. Got a low carb/low-calorie spinach soufflé, baba ghannouj, hummus, chopped liver, Moroccan ratatouille, and Jerusalem salad. Then went to the takeout chicken counter and discovered they were selling not just fried but also broiled chicken by the piece—so I got 4 each legs & thighs (breasts are too dry for my taste) and had a reasonably healthy dinner (also picked up half a rack of St. Louis BBQ ribs to freeze until after the holidays; and some fresh apple fritters, which I haven’t had in 20 years). Tomorrow night I’ll probably see what Whole Foods has at the fish counter, or ready-to-eat (not pizza or pork, of course) for pre-temple dinner. We’ll walk off the calories, since temple’s less than half a mile away, the parking lot’s reserved for HC parking, and the “satellite” lots are nearly as far away as our house (and the wait for the shuttles is interminable).
The healthy meal—sans the fritters--went some distance towards my sins of the previous day: after my ophtho appt., I went to the Polish diner my doc recommended and had cherry crepes with sweet cheese sauce for brunch; for dinner, I indulged my semiannual Popeye’s craving. I go to Popeye’s so seldom (and White Castle even less often) that I keep forgetting one of the reasons why: the service, whether drive-through or counter, is slooooooowww. Unlike Culver’s—which makes everything to order—I can’t fathom why Popeye’s & White Castle are so maddeningly inefficient. Invariably, I spend twice as much time waiting as I do getting there & back. (Maybe White Castle’s slowness is to make up for how fast those “sliders” are, uh, assimilated)?
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I finally got the turkey broth put up. Today I'm hoping I can get the turkey pot pies made and frozen. We'll see.. :-)
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Mmmmm, send one or two of those pot pies my way! LOL
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Tonight was a burger and fries at the Buccaneer's game - then a lightning delay, then a dash to the car in the rain - very exciting! The dash, not the burger, lol
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1/4 c. chopped liver before I left for temple; leftover collard greens (vegan) when I got back; followed by the traditional apples & honey (raw from Bob’s patient’s apiary) and raisin challah. A sweet year to all!
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