So...whats for dinner?
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The wind turned in off the lake tonight, dropping the temps by twenty degrees. But it was still clear and I hadn’t had dinner before my training session, so when I came up the deck from the garage, I fired up the gas grill before going inside. Gordy & I had grass-fed hanger steaks (just the right size), balsamic-grilled asparagus, sauteed ramps with mushrooms and we shared an ear of corn (I had 3” off the pointy top end and he had the rest). Dessert was strawberries, raspberries & blackberries with a little real balsamico.
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Thinking about having hubby get the grill out today and do some grilling.
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Tonight Steak and sweet potatoes on the grill along with a nice salad tossed in home made balsamic dressing. I am feeling better and I am HUNGRY...LOL Looking forward to the beef especially! Happy Friday!!
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Last night was smoked brisket, grilled corn, BBQ beans and a grilled potato at "Hard 8 BBQ" in Dallas.
Tonight is likely fast food hamburgers.
I ran 3 miles in Irving, TX, outside of Dallas...I looked like I did when I run in a heavy rain. :-)
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Tonight is whatever we can grab at or near the Civic Opera House before or during intermission of My Fair Lady, plus probably a shared smoked fish platter at Russian Tea Time afterward.
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My very first Broadway Play was My Fair Lady. I was 7 and Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison were doing one of their last performances before leaving. My uncle was a writer/critic in NYC and used to take me to see lots of plays and other wonderful events. When he asked me what the play was about after we left the theater, I said " They found a girl with a dirty face and when they cleaned her up, they found out she could sing!" LOL!
Remains my most favorite score of any. "On the street where you live" will bring instant joy to my heart every time I hear it.
Just you wait Henry Higgins, just you wait...
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I loved My Fair Lady, too. The movie. I haven't seen the play.
Susan, that's an appetizing plate of food. The potatoes really caught my eye. I'm still hoping for that Greek potatoes recipe when you have the time and energy.
Steak for dinner here as well. I am thawing two ribeyes so there will be leftovers for sandwiches the next couple of days There are both sweet potatoes and small white potatoes that need to be cooked.
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The Lyric Opera’s production stars a guy who was in Downton Abbey (which, sad to say, I never watched) and a soprano named Lisa O’Hare who played Eliza both in the last B’way revival and in London. Reviews are mixed—uniformly glowing for her, okay for him, and positive for the guys who play Freddy & Alfred. But the production itself has been slammed for having monochromatic sets that are too big for the cast (and the house itself is too big for a show like this—somehow, Carousel and The King & I were better “fits.” I saw the movie when I was a teenager—why they didn’t use Julie Andrews I’ll never know (at least for the dubbing, instead of Marni Nixon, who dubbed everybody in Hollywood but didn’t really “act” when she sang); when I was much younger, I saw staged excerpts re-enacted on the Ed Sullivan show with the original cast. (Didn’t see my first B’way show on B’way itself until I was in my teens and saw the fourth or fifth replacement cast of Oliver with my day camp—before that, it was just summer stock with my parents at Westbury Music Fair. Though we lived in Brooklyn, we rarely went into Manhattan).
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My parents took us into San Francisco for a musical every year, in addition to some plays. I think The King & I was the first musical I saw, but it might have been South Pacific We were fortunate to also see many productions that came to Stanford when I was growing up. The last show I saw actually 'on Broadway' was in the early 1960s (thank you BC for causing the cancellation of a NYC trip in 2013 that included tickets for 3 shows). I do remember taking my son to Little Shop of Horrors original off Broadway run in the late 80s. I can tell you my staid parents did NOT take me to see Hair or Jesus Christ Superstar, but I made it to those also.
Sorry for the diversion. Fun memories. Lunch was fried rice and 3 small "cuties" tangerines. I'm headed up to the subdivision pool to start registration for this season. It was 93 this afternoon so expect I will be too hot to eat anything by the time I get home. Or maybe a bowl of popcorn for the salt.
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Hubby said since it's much cooler he is in the mood for my Chicken Broccoli Alfredo dinner. I save loads of cooking time by cooking the broccoli with the pasta.
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Dinner at 9:30pm turned out to be two large slices of banana bread that a friend brought me. She makes it with crushed pineapple added. Yummy. Off to do more pool registrations this morning.
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Bifurcated dinner last night—we managed to score walk-in seats at the bar of the 3rd floor Florian Opera Bistro pre-show (Bob already had an octopus salad near where he'd parked, close to Russian Tea Time and cabbed it over to have a martini). I had “spring tart" (kale-spinach-gruyere quiche) with a small salad and a glass of rosé cava. Show ran long, so we broke etiquette and left at the start of curtain calls to get into the cab line early and make it to Russian Tea Time only 10 min. late. (They had plenty of room, and we were neither the last to arrive nor the last to remain). With champagne, I had caviar & blini with the trimmings—Bob said this was my substitute Mothers' Day dinner. Should have gotten a clue from the low-ish price of an ounce that this was not their old caviar service, which featured choice of sevruga, osetra or beluga and had cost at least twice as much for even the sevruga. It was paddlefish, a relative of sturgeon. Delicious, but without the “pop" that you get from sevruga eggs or the complex taste of osetra. It came with loads of mini-blini and all the trimmings—since Bob polished off his borscht pretty quickly, we shared the caviar. Main course was a cold seafood platter: salmon roe (actually, my favorite “caviar"), crepes, lox, smoked salmon “pastrami," whitefish, herring, sturgeon, cucumbers, capers, red onions, carrot & potato salads, boiled red potatoes and chopped eggs. We ended taking most of it home—Gordy ate some of it late last night, and for brunch I had a couple slices of the salmon pastrami with a couple of slow-scrambled eggs that I finished off with a sprinkle of Sicilian caper sea salt (I bought it and orange flavor in Taormina on our cruise in Dec. 2015).
Not sure about tonight—will depend on when Bob gets home and how much of the smoked fish Gordy polishes off for his lunch. We do have some wine to pick up at Cellars tonight so might go for their lobster tail/chickpea salad.
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Singapore noodles with pork and vegetables tonight. Might make a salad with a ginger soy dressing. On a whim I made some giant chocolate cupcakes to satisfy a chocolate craving I've been fighting all week.
Four more inches of rain last night that beat the hell out of the beautiful irises and peonies but really stirred up the hummingbirds.
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Singapore noodles with pork and vegetables tonight. Might make a salad with a ginger soy dressing. On a whim I made some giant chocolate cupcakes to satisfy a chocolate craving I've been fighting all week.
Four more inches of rain last night that beat the hell out of the beautiful irises and peonies but really stirred up the hummingbirds.
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The man wants some meat. [I do believe that he is a bit horrified by my current meat avoidance mode.] So, he will grill up some burgers. I have made some vinegar cole slaw, his favorite, and also made a "light" pasta salad since all that appeals right now is "creamy" stuff. Before dinner, I may make less light by adding more creamy stuff.
This hummingbirds are amazing Nancy. My parents used to have feeders, but then the wildlife [especially bears] found them, and that was the end of that. Bears do love sugar.
Banana bread. Again, Mr. SMT loves this stuff. And now that I have this AirBNB where I offer bananas, there are always some that are too ripe. He divides the loaf into solid chunks and freezes them for Olivia and hospital mornings. I don't think he would enjoy the addition of pineapple, which must be similar to the recipes that use applesauce to reduce the amount of butter.
Time to make more bread, and now that the temperature has dropped 25º I can imagine firing up the oven once again.
*susan*
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Gotta say I love banana bread too but I can't be trusted around it. I can easily eat the whole loaf. If I have it around it must be kept in the freezer (although I'm not above eating a frozen hunk.)
Not a great pic of the hummingbirds. There were so many in a feeding frenzy and it was getting dark (plus I was shooting through the window.) I'll try for a better one.
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Actually I'd rather have date bread than banana bread. My mother made it with a recipe from a long time neighbor - who would be 137 if she were still living. But I agree - I rarely make either since I too can't be trusted not to grab a slice each time I pass through the kitchen.
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When it comes to banana bread, I only used my paternal grandmother's recipe. Her banan bread was the best!!!!!
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Dinner at 1pm. Poached salmon with dill. I opened a white wine to poach, and it happened to be a lovely Gewurztraminer from Mendacino County - so of course I had a large glass w/my meal. I cooked up some of the "Ancient Grains" package I got at Costco. A blend of Rice, Bulgar, Barley, Wheat Berries, Red Rice, Oats & Quinoa. Really good dry mix with no sodium if you don't add it. I simmered in chicken bouillon & added garlic, chopped onion & butter as recommended on the package. Excellent. I meant to serve a veg, but with the timing of the salmon & the grains I forgot. Guess I'll have my veg tomorrow.
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Went to Costco this morning to stock up on Chobani yogurt for this week's AirBNB guests. Grabbed one of those 2-chicken packs, and I may regret this. One half of the single bird has a breast size of about FFFF while the other one is an A. So, obviously caged in too small an area. I mean the whole organic and antibiotic free business is fine, but so is normal development! We have spatchcocked the sucker, and then decided to divide totally. We will baste tonight's side with Inner Beauty Sauce and the other one for later in the week will get some Worcestershire Sauce. Both sides are being dry-brined.
I also got a big bag of sweet potatoes [potassium is not coming back up properly.] Tonight I will roast some after a sous vide bath. Tomorrow, I will make a Thai Massaman curry with chicken and sweet potatoes.
Tomorrow we have Olivia for 13 hours! Wish me luck. I will be totally exhausted by 7:30 when they pick her up.
Susan
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Thirteen hours with a toddler? Oh my goodness Susan. I will be sending helpful vibes. We will certainly understand if you don't post tomorrow.
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Pre-seasoned pork tenderloin, steamed veggie mix and mashed potatoes
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I’m impressed, Susan—I’m such a klutz with poultry shears that whenever I try, my chicken ends up spatchcocked-up.
Brunch at the Signature Room started with the buffet: E. coast oysters (looked like Wellfleets), shrimp, snow crab legs, lox, shu mai, kale caesar and grilled broccoli salads. Entree (both of us opted for it) was pan-seared steelhead trout over grilled asparagus and farro with a tomato-saffron coulis. For the dessert buffet, I had melon, berries, pineapple, and petit fours: pecan tartlet, fudge brownie (I took half), and a little square of triple-chocolate-mousse cake. They were out of creme brulee by then, and I didn’t feel like lemon tartlet, cheesecake, raspberry-crumble bars or make-your-own sundaes.
Dinner was 6 hrs. later (we were too stuffed till then). Bob went to Flaco’s Tacos and brought home vegetarian chilaquiles verdes. Pretty good.
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leftovers from Saturday with a salad
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Sandy - wow. I can't imagine eating again for a week.
It's rainy & grey out today. Even though it will be at least 80 degrees, I'm thinking I'll turn on the oven and make Laurie's Mexican Chicken.
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Good luck today Susan!
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We did it. She was wonderful until about 4PM and then, as all children do, the melt-down began. Her Mom actually came at 7PM since the child she was working with also lost their energy. I then made my curry, though I did discover that my recipe is missing. Where did it go? I have no idea. However, all the prep had been done, so I moved forward using an online recipe that seemed "close" along with my intuition. Anyhow, the results were not bad at all. There is enough leftover for dinner tomorrow. Cycle 3, infusion 2 tomorrow morning.
Yea. This was pretty good.
Tonight's guests have arrived. Well, two of the three arrived. I made them a Apres Flight Snack given their 16 hr day and late arrival. Some cheese, fruit , and then almond-orange cakes. It just seemed like the right thing to do. Mom was particularly happy about the cakes.
*susan*
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In Boston many days lately with Charlie, 17 days old. Learned about the new Starbucks "order first on cell phone then walk in to pick up", which is very helpful. Will be "working" this week at a wilderness camp for 3 days so won't be able to help with new grandson for those days this week. Microwaved frozen fish sandwiches (2) with no bread, but ketchup, for breakfast this morning, had to get out the door.
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That looks amazing, Susan.
From Thursday to today I was doing job 3--the government one. It was a day of flying, a day of loading trucks, 1-1/2 days of driving in a small convoy, 1/2 a day unloading stuff and a day flying home. We were hauling a portable hospital to a training event.
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Susan, you’re making me want to go to Boston just to stay at your B&B!
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