So...whats for dinner?
Comments
-
Thanks for the advic Nance.
0 -
Morning bagels:
*susan*
0 -
Susan - wish I could have been there for brunch. That's my favorite.
0 -
And Minus if you had been, I would have sliced some red onion very thinly, added some capers, and even found a ripe tomato. Feeling weak today, so I took those shortcuts.
0 -
Since I'm usually just making this for myself, I don't seem to get around to the onion & capers either. But I have no excuse except laziness. Hope you can take a nap, or at least put your feet up & read this afternoon.
0 -
Bagels look yummy! I generally make my bagels-and-lox (actually, the guys get the real sesame & poppy bagels and I get the lo-carb/hi-fiber bread or a mini whole-wheat bagel) with red onions, sliced tomato, capers and fresh dill. Interestingly, today’s bagels are twice or even three times the size of the bagels I grew up with half a century ago back in Brooklyn. On the original WW plan, on “maintenance" one bagel counted as two servings of bread (and later on, 2 grain exchanges). Today the average bagel would be at least four. The mini bagels they sell at NY Bagel & Bialy would have been considered standard ones back in the day.
Last night we went to Big Jones, a Southern “low country” restaurant in the trendy neighborhood a mile south of us. They’re doing a “salute to crawfish” through the beginning of April. (Unfortunately for my diet, the crawfish boil is offered only on Thursday nights). I had house-made ginger beer instead of wine (acknowledging of course that I was exchanging alcohol for sugar, but it was oh, so tasty). Bob had gumbo, and we shared fried green tomatoes on Bibb lettuce as an app. For our entrees we both had crawfish pie (more crawfish and less sauce than I recall down in NOLA, and hand-pie/empanada rather than pot-pie style) with fresh herb (mostly mint & cilantro) salad—which with the lime dressing tasted like a mojito on a plate. We shared a side of roasted shaved brussels sprouts & pecans. I could get through only half my pie & veg, so I brought it home and had it for a late breakfast today. (Bob is still asleep). I am too stuffed to think of dinner. Tonight, if we can still eat, I will probably defrost a steak and sear it in cast iron, and scrounge up whatever veggies in the crisper are still fresh.
0 -
So many enjoyable posts to read!
Thank you, Susan, for your typical generosity in looking up those recipes. I own both those cookbooks and will open to those pages. Gorgeous bagels. I am not a bagel eater but suspect I could become a convert if I visited you. Please, no sliced onion!
Lacey, cheers for your DIL's successful surgery. I envy your gym stretching class. I really must create my own routine.
I resisted gym exercise for many years. Then a foot ailment ended my walking on the street. I didn't have enough sustained discipline to make use of a well-equipped home gym. Dh started going to the Y following cardiac rehab. I joined, too, and now exercising 3 days a week is part of my life. We usually go together Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday.
BC and estrogen deprivation turned me into a plumper person. It's a body type I don't like for myself.
Minus, enjoy those wonderful crabs. My mouth is watering just thinking about them. I had eggs Benedict with D crab cakes in Alaska, probably the best breakfast of my life.
Dinner will be braised chicken thighs with lemon and olives (NYT recipe), glazed carrots and chopped salad with kale. Some modifications that will not detract greatly from flavor.
0 -
Gorgeous Susan! I can see I'm going to have to make bagels now. I have to make 2 or 2.5 ounce ones because of the heavy carb load. I like red onion and tomato with mine. Don't seem to ever bother with the capers unless the kids are here.
Carole, I admire your dedication to the gym. I continue to pay our membership fee in spite of not having been there since before Christmas. I'm afraid if I don't I'll never go back. Even though I love working with weights. It's the one form of exercise I actually enjoy. Well I enjoy bike riding too but I can do weights more often without getting bored..
Making corned beef and cabbage today for my dad. He has another doctor's appointment tomorrow - one of the many reasons I can't seem to get to the gym.
0 -
Nance - I "solved" that monthly payment/guilt problem in a ridiculous way. I just charged it in advance for a year. I still didn't go back until recently, but the guilt about wasting money wasn't staring me in the face every 30 days. I know - like the ostrich with his head in the hole.
0 -
I charged my training sessions in advance too, though I’m paying $30/mo for the membership via a BCBS Medicare discount. (Used to be $25/mo, for a much wider variety of chains—including JCCs—with interchangeable visits. Had it for only 5 mos. but never used it).
0 -
Pork, Pickled Greens and Mushroom Noodle Soup.
I couldn't finish the bowl but man was it delicious with that chili oil.
*susan*
0 -
KB, you and me both. One glass of wine is all I can manage. And I definitely don't drive. Two and I'm loopy.
MinusTwo, Too bad you aren't coming further east to Spokane - you could visit me! Have fun!
Sandy, paying for parking for the gym would be a non-starter but then I don't live in the inner city like you do. And train tracks with tickets. Just swell.
HUGS!
0 -
Sandy, here's my ancient, well-functioning padlock! It has such a smooth mechanism. About 1957. I did write the combination down and attached it to the lock in case the kids want to use it.
HUGS!
0 -
Peggy - I've already found at least 15 things I want to do that won't happen because of time constraints and the weather. Look like I'll have to come back again.
0 -
Snow is falling—here by the north lakefront, we could have a foot and a half by the time it ends Wed. Ugh. Have to go out tomorrow for more eggs & low-carb bread, so might as well stop in at Kim's Hardware around the corner for a padlock. Mr. Kim is doing the happy dance over the prospect of all the salt & shovels he stocked actually getting sold after all. Glad to have an AWD vehicle. And I just e-mailed our snow guy to get into his queue. My UGGs & Irish sweaters will see some action after all.
Lazy day today (headachy due to impending storm front, still sore all over from Fri.'s training evaluation—I shouldn't have tried to impress the trainer), so food was upside down. Breakfast was leftover crawfish pie and brussels sprouts. Noshed on half a bagel late aft. Dinner was breakfast (sort of): one fried egg, a thin slice each of jamon serrano, proscuitto, chorizo and jamon iberico, and about a tablespoon of gooey ripe brie with a 1/4 tsp. each of habanero jam and truffle honey. Still hungry an hour later, so had plain popcorn (which didn't satisfy my cravings), and then a piece of matzo with tunafish on one half and melted provolone on the other, which did. (I ate the tuna first, then melted the provolone—fish & cheese are not a combo that appeals to me). A few glasses of water; think I will make my nightcap a mug of ayurvedic chai (no pepper, no milk) with a tsp. of plain honey.
0 -
We are going to get pounded in CT with this storm. We are expecting between 15 and 24 inches where I live. Winds up to 60 mph gusts and sustained of 25-30. Blizzard conditions. No work tomorrow for sure. They are having me call all of my appointments and reschedule them for tomorrow as well as Wed. morning as they expect we will open late. Ugh...I want SPRING! Damn groundhog...LOL
Laid in "supplies" for the storm. Will make French Onion soup with gruyere and crouton and Roast Beef sammies to go with. I will buy some nice club rolls for the sandwiches on the way home from work tonight as well as thinly sliced roast beef made fresh at the Italian deli. So good. Also, tonight will be linguini with meatballs and sausage as I made that on Saturday. Is anything we are having lately not fattening? NO! I have to get on the stick. Also making home baked chocolate chip cookies (hubby request for the past few weeks and since he is recovering from knee surgery, I guess I will make them)
Going to be really tough to dig out of the snow with hubby recovering from surgery and me using a cane and the snow blower is too big to handle for me personally (am 4'11" tall...LOL) so hopefully my son can come over to do it. He has 4 wheel drive and lives about half an hour from me. He better do it or he will be grounded! HA!
Have a great day ladies (and Eric). If you are in the path of the storm, stay safe!
0 -
Woke up to 4 inches of snow yesterday. Gone by early afternoon. Dinner was pot roast with potatoes, carrots and peas. Will have leftovers tonight. Ds1 lives just 45 minutes south, (still in the Charlotte area) only got a dusting of snow. Dd2 lives just 15 minutes east and got almost 6 inches. She was angry the news was not accurately reporting her snowfall. Both made it to my house with spouses for pot roast. Thank goodness I made 2. My grandson asked if he could take some 'meat' home. So I guess it was yummy.
0 -
Me too April. Not looking forward to this storm. Had been getting used to the warmer temps we'd been having.
As far as dinner, I am not sure yet
0 -
Valstim,
That is the definition of good cooking! Adult children are willing to drive through the snow in North Carolina to enjoy a meal with you! Only snowed once when I lived in Eastern NC and the world stopped for several days.
*susan*
0 -
Ah yes Susan. They made my day. I just casually mentioned I was cooking. Then when pot roast was mentioned, it was a done deal. DH and I laughed a lot about their
'braving' the snow to get here. Those of us that are used to more snow, have learned it's a different beast here in the Carolina's.
0 -
YIKES!!!!! Dang Grounhog! One week before spring!! I live in the 16-24 part of the state!
0 -
For those of you in a storm's path, stay safe!
0 -
I am in the 16-24 part of that weather map.
Grilled boneless pork chops, noodles and a veggie
0 -
Well, April and M0mmy, aren't you two just the luckiest things ever?! All that snow. Stay hunkered down and safe. Maybe some comfort food and bottles of wine or pretty drinks to help you survive this insult to living!
HUGS!
0 -
Last night I made a batch of 5 scrambled eggs. Still trying to clean the fridge before I go tomorrow. I ate 1/2 last night with a Thomas Bagel. Yuck - never again. I bought a package because their English Muffins are pretty good.
Lunch today was Auntie Chun's Udon soup. Dinner tonight was the rest of the scrambled eggs heated on two flour tortillas with shredded cheese & some salsa.
I'll make 2 PBJ sandwiches with Hawaiian rolls for the plane. No way am I eating breakfast at 5am and it's a five hour flight. All the 'fresh' food that's left is radishes & carrots & celery. I'm half tempted to take them on the plane too for snacks.
Off to finish packing. It's my most hated thing about traveling. I had to open up my cedar chest and dig out wool things that I haven't worn since last year when I met Susan & Lacey in Boston before my cruise to Nova Scotia. Both Seattle & Portland are 37 - 55 degrees with rain forecast every day. We're already at 80 in Houston. Talk to you all in two weeks.
0 -
minus - Bon Voyage!
All experiencing the snow - stay warm and safe and have some soup!
val - I just realized you live pretty near my SILS - one in Kannapolis, the other in China Grove. DD is in NC this past week filming a TV show about fishing world records - if they hold she got 7, crazy right? She was very excited about the snow - she has been in FL too long!
susan - your soup looks fantastic! Can't believe the sophisticated palate Olivia has - oh wait, YOU are cooking for her, of course I can! I couldn't get my kids to eat anything interesting when they were little, lol! Also, your bagels were beautiful - DH would have been all about the "everything" ones - he is an everything guy. Fittingly, DD likes hers plain, lol! I have no info about whether DS even likes bagels - he is a question mark on a number of fronts. How smart to seed the top and bottom so that when you slice it there are seeds on both sides. That is genius.
0 -
Stay safe from the effects of the snow. I won't talk about Phoenix weather.
My brother and SIL flew down Saturday and we packed up the stuff they wanted. I helped him pack the truck yesterday and I knew I wasn't feeling great. When I got home, the fever thermometer told me I was at 103.2F degrees, which certainly explains (to me, anyway) why I wasn't my usual ball of energy.
Whatever it is/was, it's going fast. The fever broke this morning and I had to keep switching sleeping places. I stayed home today, but as of tonight, I'm still tired and still sneezing, but the cough from hell and throat on fire stuff is gone.
0 -
Making chili for tonight
0 -
Trying a new recipe tonight with a chicken breast, asparagus, mushrooms and bow tie pasta. And no dairy - a plus for me. And that means I'm even COOKING from scratch! I find it hard to do for just me.
HUGS!
0 -
I took a couple of jars of the turkey broth I made awhile back, added Jasmine rice, onion, carrots (I didn't have anything else) and made a soup. It tasted pretty good for such a simple thing.
The cold is still hanging in there. My nose is running so much, I'm jokingly saying I have to worry about getting dehydrated.
Sharon now has it too. I took today off too and will try to work from home tomorrow.
I did get the mail toda
0
