So...whats for dinner?
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Bob says he’s feeling better, taking respiratory therapy breaks all day. And my housekeeper called to say that she doesn’t have pneumonia and will be in tomorrow—though a tornado passing by the Birmingham airport delayed her flight home by several hours.
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We had late breaking dinner plans with friends coming over - pulled ribeyes cut from the whole roast we had for Christmas dinner out of the freezer, made a spicy mustard red potato salad, a green salad with red bell pepper, black olives and goat cheese, and also whiskey glazed carrots. Made hot artichoke heart dip with crackers for an app, and made some brownies with vanilla bean gelato and strawberries for dessert. The good news is leftovers for DH a small he returns to work this week
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So the DH told me last night that he would buy me any of the tools I need to keep me cooking....OMG he knows how helpless he is in the kitchen...makes me laugh. Daughter, being in a fairly new relationship, has decided that when the boyfriend moved in, he would take some responsibility in the kitchen because she would not fall in the trap that I am in. They now have "Blue Apron" showing up on their doorstep every Sunday and he has learned how to read and follow directions....I also got him a subscription to Food Network magazine for Christmas.
Using the last of the steak tonight sliced in a fajita or quesadilla. Still not getting to NC for the winter, a little bummed, but making the best of it. Signed up for some per diem nursing work and getting the DH motivated to clean out his office and get it organized. Good winter work.
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Tonight I’ll heat up and slice that smoked duck breast, roast some Brussels sprouts, and nuke a sweet potato.
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I have a duck in the freezer....Maybe this weekend.....
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made a little pasta to mixin with the leftover chili.
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I love duck. My husband, the cook, will roast a whole one whenever we run out of duck fat.
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I've never cooked duck before. Are there any things I should do or not do when "cooking" it?
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Save the fat! These are my husband's instructions. Please let me know if anything is unclear. He doesn't follow recipes.
- Trim off extra fat
- Score duck skin front and back
- Dry the duck
- Place in 325 degree oven one hour
- Prick duck skin all over to release fat
- Turn over
- Cook for one hour
- Repeat 6&7
- Turn on convection oven
- Raise temperature 400 degrees
- Cook for 30 minutes
- Apply glaze to duck
- Cook for 20 minutes
After dinner, I pour the fat from the pan through a sieve into a tall jar. Put the jar in the fridge until the fat solidifies. Then I scoop out the white fat into another jar making sure to leave the brown jus at the bottom. Or you could use one of those gravy separator cups, but I don't have one.
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My mom used to stuff whole duck with cut oranges and then cooked them on the rotisserie
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Wow, the duck cooking looks like way too many steps for me, haha! Eric, please let us know what you do with yours and how it turns out.
Started "Whole 30" today so no sugar (main reason to do this), dairy, soy, legumes, alcohol for 30 days to "reset" the body. With all of that- supper was a new recipe- beef and sweet potato stew. It was really very good. Will make it again and DH really liked it! Yay.
I am going make veggie soup and ? to prepare for the upcoming week or so of 30-ish degree days starting on Friday. They are forecasting...I kid you not...1" to 16 or more inches of snow for us on Saturday. While I know it depends on how the low develops, yada yada yada...seriously 1-16 inches???
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Thanks Serenity. I will try that, hopefully this weekend.
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Welcome, Serenity. You are creating major envy with the talk about your dh's cooking. He sounds more like a chef than a cook.
I stepped on the scales this morning. Said, "That CAN'T be right." Moved the scale around the bathroom and couldn't coax it to be more "accurate." So while drinking my morning coffee, I said to dh, "No drink for me tonight." I know myself well enough to expect determination to weaken by 5 pm.
So... I'll get out a package of turkey/spinach meatballs tonight. Sides will be veggie and salad. Veggie to be determined, possibly purchased.
Temptation will present itself at lunch. I am meeting some older golf ladies who no longer play golf for lunch at a very good restaurant.
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carole - my scale seems to go through batteries quickly - that flat type that looks like a nickel. When the battery needs changing it won't register an actual weight, just displays the word "LO" which it did last time I stepped on it. My interpretation at this point (post-holiday in which there was wayyy toooo much fudge!), is that I prefer the word LO to the actual weight, lol! I finished my exercise class that was gratis at the wellness center, but today I am going to start a membership because I know the scale - if it was displaying properly - would show me a number I really don't want to see!
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Special - love the 'lo' scale reading. I need to have that same problem. Haven't been to the gym in 3 weeks.
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Count me among those who haven't seen the inside of the gym for a while. Was planning to go tomorrow but we're supposed to get 3" of snow tonight and tomorrow. Not so much, but enough to keep my non-front-wheel-drive car in the garage.
Yesterday was a long day with dad, so dinner last night was a waffle with smoked ham and applesauce. Yum! Today I'm fixing chicken and dumplings (slicks) and the stock is at this moment simmering away in the pressure cooker. I might try to make a cucumber salad to go with it.
You all are making me want to fix a duck. Can't find it here, but Aldi in the next town over frequently has them. I now must pick one up soon. I'm still craving greens so I need to get some of those as well.
All of these cookies around this house must go today.
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Same here Nance...cookies going in the trash, but in reality I have eaten all the good ones anyways. Now I am down to the peanut butter ones with the kisses on top...well I don't like peanut butter, so I have successfully snapped the kisses off the tops and all that's left is the cookie, DH is baffled as to whats happening with the cookies.
Tonight is chicken Florentine, haven't decided on a side, but maybe just a green salad.
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Eric - Hope you like! Then you can use the duck fat for cooking eggs orpotatoes. I used it recently in making onion soup.
HappyHammer - Up to 16" of snow in SC? Wow! And good luck on Whole 30. That stew sounds good. Guess there are lots of steps in the duck, but it's so yummy.
Carole - I know how lucky I am! My weight is up as well. Too many chocolates!
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Serenity- current forecast is now at 2-4 inches but they will tweak and/or completely change the forecast several times I would imagine before Saturday.
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Grilled chicken, tossed salad and green beans for supper... Did make a BIG pot of "hamburger stew" to get ready for the snowy weather we are supposed to have this weekend. Ground chuck, beef broth and LOTS of veggies. Tastes good tonight and am hoping it will be even better after a day or two in the fridge. DH and DS work outside so thought a beefy stew would hit the spot.
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:Heated up the turkey/spinach meatballs last night. They were frozen in small amount of marinara. One side was a romaine salad with avocado and grape tomatoes dressed with sprinkle of white balsamic and splash of EVOO. The other side was a layered eggplant dish with marinara and grated Asiago cheese. I found two nice eggplants at the supermarket, surprising at this time of year. Half of the eggplant dish is left over, enough for another meal. It freezes well, too.
Tonight will be seared catfish fillets, seasoned with s & p, garlic powder, onion powder and cayenne. Side veggie will be one of the several fresh veggies I bought yesterday: turnips, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, sweet potatoes. Not the sweet potatoes. Not a good match with fish.
Carrie, I love your daughter's determination not to get stuck with the cook role. I not only cook most nights but clean up, too. How dumb is that?
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Gotta look in the freezer to see what strikes my fancy to cook tonight.
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Carole - I think the cooking/clean up thing is definitely generational. My brother had to mow the lawn and wash the car, but never cook or wash the dishes. (exception was Christmas cookies w/cookie cutters when we were little).
My husband was the same generation. I may have said this here before, but when we moved to Houston I went to the nearby grocery store to get a check cashing approval card and they asked if I wanted to put my husband on the account. I politely told them to please call the police if they ever saw him in the store because I would be dead. Showing my age here for those who don't remember check cashing cards. No one really had 'credit cards' except some business American Express cards. BankAmericard was in it's infancy. Otherwise there were 'charge cards' for gas stations & some stores like Sears, but they were site specific & were due at the end of every month.
On the other hand, when my son asked for more milk or iced tea, I reminded him that he knew where the fridge was. My Mother would have jumped up before anyone could ask if the glass even looked half empty. My DS usually shares kitchen duties with his DGF, one slices & preps and the other stirs.
Sorry for the digression. I'm sincerely hoping it's generational and younger people are not as rigidly slotted into gender determined tasks.
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carole/minus - I cook, clean up, make coffee for the next morning, pack a lunch for DH and iron his shirt and put it together with his slacks and sportcoat/tie/socks for the next morning - I am totally crazy! This has evolved since I stopped working after chemo was done, not that there was much of a division of labor prior to that - I still grocery shopped and cooked/cleaned on top of working full time, he did the lawn and pool. DH is totally capable of all of those tasks - he likes to iron and he can definitely cook, but he works a 12 hour day and has a commute, so since I am not working it only seems fair to do those things for him. One thing he loves to do is vacuum - so he does that - yay! I hate vacuuming. Some of the saving grace was that he wore a uniform for 28 years so that was easy, especially after 9/11 when they switched to combat uniforms, either a flightsuit or BDUs - so not a lot of ironing. My mom was not terribly domestic, but she was a good cook - my MIL did it all and then some, she is still the type to jump up and get you a drink or a spoon - whatever you need. It makes me laugh that DD is hopeless in the kitchen - unless you can microwave it, and due to spending so much time in the firehouse, DS is an excellent cook. All it took for him was having to make breakfast for 20 people and having it go all kinds of wrong, he learned how to handle himself in the kitchen pronto!
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I cook, dh does pots and pans. Lately DH has taken on breakfast making, which suits me fine, in which case, I clean up. The reality is that I do a lot of the cooking cleanup too. But dh does his share, he does his own laundry and ironing, as well as changing the bed linens and laundering sheets. He also does all of the mowing and string trimming and car maintenance. He is very much a handyman which is good because I am not good on ladders. He is also the trash guy. Either one of us will make lunch. Oh yeah, he likes the vacuum too -- yay!
DS is not a tidy guy, so it's good that he married a similar personality. She is a trained chef, but he has learned to cook because she works long hours. I don't know who cleans up because neither one does it here. They will help if asked, but no one offers. Don't know what's up with that. Neither one was raised that way.
Three inches of powdery snow this morning. The birds are going crazy. I have some leftover pizza dough that must be used, so calzones and salad for dinner.
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Special & Nance - right on. I forgot, my Dad (born in 1911) was the one who cooked pancakes. That was it unless it was BBQ. Consequently the "rule" in our house was, Men Made Pancakes, Women Did Not, Women Made Waffles. We didn't have pancakes often so they were a treat. And, oh yes, I still don't make pancakes. I get them at Denny's or IHOP.
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Minus--so funny---Pancakes was my dad's specialty, along with frying fish. or cooking game. Otherwise he steered clear of the kitchen till my Mom said "come and get it."/
We had a dusting of maybe 2 inches of powdery snow. But bitter cold yesterday. Only stuck my head out to go to NH in evening and it was way below zero with the 25 mph winds. Colder today but not so much wind, and tomorrow supposed to be the coldest.. But I can't complain. I haven't had to pay for snow removal yet this year.....course we have 3 more months, right. Suppose I have just jinxed myself. Friend Melodie and I went to local sports bar and had the best burgers 2 nights ago---I hadn't been there since I retired and the prices had really gone up. We were the only ones eating--everyone else was at bar. I had a Buffalo Burger--beef but with Buffalo wing sauce on it along with cheese and onion. and a side of ranch dressing. Melodie had a Duke burger that came with 2 kinds of cheese and bacon,......Now I want to go back......it's like a craving that is set on a thermostat that wants to kick on now.....evey day....
And I haven't seen the gym in well---I'd have to go buy a membership...let's leave it at that....
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Sharon and I both lived on our own almost a decade before we met and got married, so we both had to do our own household chores. So, instead of a "treaty" dividing responsibilities, we just do what we see needs to be done. Sometimes I'll do more if Sharon is busy and sometimes she does more if I'm busy...but it all works out.
I have to laugh about the pancakes. That is something I've never seen Sharon do. :-)
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When Bob & I got married, the only credit cards we could get were store charge cards for the Bon Marche & Penney’s, and a Shell gas card. Didn’t get a credit card till I started working as a lawyer! Back then when we lived in Seattle, Safeway & QFC let us write checks by presenting a driver’s license….and Bob didn’t drive yet! So guess who did all the grocery shopping till our bank finally brought in an ATM? Here in Chicago, we got check-writing cards from Jewel & Dominick’s, but we used them also for discounts. Dominick’s is gone, but I use the Whole Foods app and Mariano’s keychain tag for discounts, and the debit or rewards-points cards for most purchases too big for cash. And ApplePay at WF. Most people who do personal services for us prefer PayPal anyway.
Jan. 3 I ended up getting a whole rack of spareribs for $12 and some baked beans with BBQ burnt ends at the BBQ dept. at Mariano’s. Got 3 meals out of it and still have leftovers. Also pan-roasted Brussels sprouts two nights in a row. Sick of BBQ by now. So I used up the little bit of Bolognese sauce in the fridge and had it over whole-wheat spaghetti sprinkled with Parmigiano-Reggiano. The smoked duck breast will last…it’s smoked and still Cryovac’ed. But I might thaw some frozen duck confit legs and make cassoulet tomorrow if Bob wants to stay in for dinner.
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Spaghetti and homemade meatballs. Will make enough meatballs to use for grinders another night.
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