So...whats for dinner?
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I'm still safe & dry. This afternoon we've had quite a wind start up & branches are falling off of trees. No big limbs, but enough to block the path of the water down the street if not moved. Obviously I still have power but I understand many people have lost their phones & internet. Dinosaur that I am, I still have a "land line". The strangest thing for August in Houston is the temperature. It's only 70 degrees. Before the storm it was normal at 98-100. At least those w/o power will not be sweltering w/o air conditioning.
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Just heard my family friend whom I have known of almost 40 years and lives in the Houston area is fine. He and his wife went to the Dallas area ahead of Harvey hitting. Have been very worried for them since getting the news that they were living in the storms path.
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minus and illimae - hang in there!
Having chili and corn muffins with honey butter (Earth Balance, lol!), it has been raining all day - enough to overflow my pool - of course, nothing like Houston, but it seemed like chili weather and it is already made from Saturday - bonus!
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My niece in Missouri city is under a mandatory evacuation order as the levee protecting their (large) subdivision is not expected to hold. Unfortunately there is no where for them to go. All roads out are questionable. Very worried about them. They do have a two story house and are planning for the contingency that they will be forced to stay. Very concerned for their welfare.
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Nance - and anyone else who is trying to follow this mess - hope your niece is OK. Below is a link you can use to put in an actual address and get rain totals. I've found my address shows 1-2" less then my actual rain gauge, but it's close. Also you can change the parameters on the top left and see the height of the bayous. I've been trying to follow my friends through this since some are now w/o power.
https://www.harriscountyfws.org/
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My last day for solid food till Friday morning, at the least. Bob brought home tamales made by one of his RNs, so I had one each pork and chicken adobo for breakfast (and if there are any remaining, for dinner as well, supplemented by a tomato—what else?).
Minus, your neighborhood still okay? I heard one of the reservoirs overflowed overnight despite yesterday’s preventive releases of water.
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Still waiting to hear if my family friend's house is okay or has started to flood.
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Still OK in Houston????
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Missed you all during my food thread hiatus, and hoping things are going well here.
Am posting with concern about Minus, Nancys relatives I just saw mentioned on this page....the only one I read.....and anyone else in the Houston area who is being impacted by this flooding. In addition to sending thoughts and prayers, am wondering if Minus, if,you afe still dry and safe, or anyone else, has suggestions for where to direct 💰 donations that will be directed most efficiently to those who need help. Clearly this is a huge undertaking by so many agencies....some more efficient than others. DH does remind me that bureaucracy isnt necessarily bad...but I am a bit wary. Then, after giving to the Houston Food Bank, saw that their warehouse is also flooded. Oy! So, any help with this info from people in the area is appreciated! Hoping for your safety!
Hi to all.....miss being here, hoping my Fall schedule will lighten up and I can read and post again. Tho already my Ipad is fussing with this site. Darn
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lacey, lacey, lacey!!!! How great to see you.
I'm still safe & dry and still have power. But I haven't left my house since so many roads are flooded. Unfortunately I have no clue the best way to help right now. Our airports won't even be open until later this week - and of course we've had no mail or newspapers since Friday. Even the Burlington Northern and the Santa Fe trains have stopped since they are unable to survey the track conditions. I'm guessing as big as the devastation is the Red Cross will be involved. I haven't heard much about them here yet, nor do I know their ratio of money going to the needy vs. the administrative costs. And there was a scathing article in the Washington Post about not donating to them. We have a fairly active Salvation Army group. That's the only place I donate in normal times, but that may not help with immediate food needs. I'll ask some folks who are more active than I am and let you know.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp...
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By the way Lacey - you look as gorgeous as always!!!
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Lacey, missed your smiling face so!
My niece evacuated to my other niece's in San Antonio so they are safe. So far the levee is holding so their subdivision is ok for the moment. Hoping their house doesn't flood while they're gone.
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To donate $10 to the Red Cross, text HARVEY to 90999. (It's not the most efficient, per CharityNavigator, but it's a start). You can also donate to Catholic Charities (relief is non-sectarian), Americares (gets meds & supplies to patients in the area), or the Sally Ann: online, calling 1-800-SAL-ARMY, or text STORM to 51555. If you are more than 10 years after ending active treatment and are healthy, donate blood. Other charities accepting storm relief donations are GlobalGiving.org (funding first responders), TexasDiaperBank.networkforgood.com (self-explanatory), FeedingTexas.org, The Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund set up by Houston's Mayor Turner, the food banks of Houston & San Antonio (they'll need the money to remediate, restore and restock once the waters recede), and the Humane Societies of both those cities for pet rescue and relocation. Meanwhile, start gathering up clean clothes & shoes in good condition that no longer fit, as well as any extra canned goods, cookware & utensils you may have. Houses of worship all over the country will doubtless be holding drives, and the Sally Ann will likely be scheduling more pickups.
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Last anyone has heard from them was over the weekend and at that time from what they knew the water hadn't gotten to their house yet. Might be a different story by now.
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I'm so relieved to hear that you are safe and still have some life amenities, Minus. It must be so awful to have so many struggling in your area. I did read about the Red Cross concerns, and thus resisted donating there. That's when I got the mini-lecture from DH about all bureaucracies not necessarily being "bad" until I directed him to the article!
And Nance, you must be so relieved to learn that your relatives are safe and were able to evacuate to be with family. I, too, hope and pray that the levee holds. I just can't imagine what living in those huge shelters must be like for so many people with children, elderly, etc. And this is going to be a long haul....
Someone named Dodgersgirl (coincidentally, I was a huge dodgers fan growing up!) just mentioned on a PM to me that there is a local org that is collecting and servicing folks directly in Houston.I will check it out and get back here unless she has also already listed that on this thread. I have lost touch for so long that I do not know the thread's new member's "names".
Take care, all....am heading out to do some late errands and stop at a local diner for either a BLT or veggie omelet, in which they specialize. We are at the lake thru Labor Day, where it is very cool and about to rain...but no complaints here!
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So far but I'm close enough to the reservoir releasing overflow to be concerned. Wait and see. I have power, food, water and a 2nd story, if needed.
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Lacey - my nephew with the gov't said of course there is a surge of fraud after disasters. However enforcement efforts are usually directed at fraud of federal relief funds and not the non-profits.
Sandy - I like your thought about the Houston Food Bank needing funds to re-stock. I think that's what I'll do.
Dinner was a bag of spinach, steamed and topped with two poached eggs. English muffins on the side.
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Lacey - I checked DodgersGirl & she posts on chemo & taxol threads. Sorry we don't know her.
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hello... I first started reading this thread this summer as I thought I would get ideas on dinners to fix even when I had no energy from chemo sessions but, if being honest, was amazed at the meals everyone posted as I didn't have the energy to even think of prepping such amazing sounding meals. So I read this thread more from the hopefulness of one day I may be able stand in kitchen and cook a real meal.
As was recently posted, I post mostly in chemo threads. I was diagnosed in March. Finished neo-adjuvant chemo Aug 16th. Hubby had heart attack 8/5 and bypass surgery 8/15 and is finally back home trying to get strong enough to be ready to help me when I have mastectomy on 9/11/17....then rads....then hysterectomy. So it will be a while before I return to the kitchen to do more than heat something frozen.
About the only home cooked dinner I fix right now is a brats/onions/peppers one sheet pan dinner as all I need to do is buy pre-cut onions and peppers and spread out on jelly roll pan. Lightly oil. Sprinkle Italian seasoning, salt, and pepper. Top with 4 brats (which I puncture first with a fork) bake at 400 degrees for 40 mins. Turn brats over. Cook another 15-20 mins.
I did get a couple of cookbooks today with more one sheet pan meals. Will keep trying to fix real dinners again
Hope to one day be able to contribute on this thread with dinners cooked. And thank you to all who share your dinners. You guys rock.
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Had a small slice of sourdough toast (my low-carb’s been banished for a week because it has seeds) with whipped cream cheese, leftover lox/red onion/pickled cuke/capers (from Bob’s brunch Sunday) and half a homegrown Roma tomato for an early dinner. Four tamales remain, and Gordy’s got dibs. Might wander over to the frozen custard joint on the corner for a kids’ size dish as my adieu to solid food till at least Thurs. night.
Welcome back, DodgersGirl! Sorry about your hubby’s heart attack & CABG surgery—but he’ll probably bounce back in time to be there for you for your mastectomy. Are your Dodgers L.A. or Brooklyn? I was practically born a Brooklyn Dodgers fan (my parents took me, not yet a year old, to the Polo Grounds for that fateful season-ending game against the Giants) and after I cried when Bobby Thompson hit that homer off Ralph Branca, my parents knew I’d be true to “dem Bums.” I had my own little Dodger uniform and a Gil Hodges toy mitt (yeah, even though he played first base but I’m a righty). When they moved to L.A. I was despondent. I grudgingly accepted the Yankees as the only team in town (and the Mantle-Maris rivalry was fun). When the Mets debuted in ’62, despite (or perhaps because of) their spectacular ineptitude I was hooked. In 1969, the fall of my jr. year at Brooklyn College, I got to go to the last game of the World Series at Shea Stadium. Gil Hodges was the manager by then. Along with other joyous fans, I took home a little piece of turf and planted it in a flowerpot. My mom took care of it after I married and moved to Seattle a year and a half later. It died the same week as Hodges.
I never forgave the Dodgers for deserting Brooklyn…despite the fact that I eventually did, too. Some grudges are irrational.
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ChiSandy- Dodgers moved to LA while I was living in Los Angeles. Grew up listening to Vin Scully on the transistor radio. Moved to the Midwest when I was older but never stopped being a Dodgers fan. Last year we made a trip to LA to be part of the Vin Scully weekend as he called his last home games. What a great weekend. Got to be at the game when LA clinched the division. So magical.
Watching the Dodgers playing so well this year has been the bright light of the summer. MLB.com allows me to watch most of their games so a couple of hours a day, we find a distraction to real life !
Have to tell you that when I typed bypass surgery, I was going to type CABG but wasn't sure if everyone would know what that is but I thought of you and said to myself, "well, ChiSandy would know"
Back to dinners-- hubby has lost a lot of weight since his surgery so keep trying different meals to see what he might eat. Right now both our taste buds are not working so well
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Hi Dodgers....My DD bleeds blue. :-)
Even before she was 14, she would ride her bike to the Dodgers spring training stadium and watch the games. We went to one spring game and when couldn't find her, we called her on her cell phone. She stepped out from the dugout with Tommy Lasorda!
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Eric-- that is so cool. Loved Vero Beach. Was lucky enough to make 3 spring trips over the years. My DD's favorite player at one point was Brett Butler. She was walking back to the stadium just before a spring training game and just behind her was B Butler but I couldn't get her attention to tell her to TURN AROUND.
Your DD has good taste!!
Dinner tonight was pineapple chicken by Healthy Choice followed by a popsicle.
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Here is my contribution to the Dodgers convo - I was born in Los Angeles and grew up there, and also bleed Dodger blue - a lifelong fan. Have attended many games at Chavez Ravine - and introduced my children to the Dodgers when they were little and we would go visit my parents in California. I was born during the 1956 World Series between the NY Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers. I also remember listening on the transistor! Right after college I worked in a hospital on the California Central Coast and Sandy Koufax was a patient during the time I was there.
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Well - not to break the chain, but I was raised in Northern CA and was a devoted Giants fan. Oh the San Francisco/Los Angeles rivalries - on the field and off. That will never change.
DodgersGirl - glad to have you, lurking or posting. Let us know if you need our founder's famous Mexican Chicken dish. It takes maybe all of 5 minutes to prep.
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so enjoyed the "six degrees of Dodgers baseball " a.k.a. "six degrees of Kevin Bacon" on this thread kast night. Thanks everyone
MinusTwo- would love to have the founder's famous Mexican chicken recipe. Thanks for the offer. Hope you are still doing ok in Texas.
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Minus, illimae and all in threat areas, hoping you are still safe and dry. Sandy, I remember Kingspoint in Delray Beach. Your mom was more than like there during what is called the back to back season of 2004 and 2005. You described it exactly, a war zone. Harvey reminds me of Andrew when it hit south of Miami. Harvey is much worse imho. The devastation afterwards lasts so long. I am so worried about all of those in harms way, for this storm has already had 2 landfalls. Now the failsafes, the levees, damns etc are being either released or over run. My sil (dh baby sis) was initially safe, but the streets are now flooded. Like you minus she is now trapped in her house. The outer roads are impassable and she says just a few streets over folks are in boats. I think she will leave, along with her brood.
Welcome dodgersgirl. So nice to see you back lacey. as for food. I"m stressed, so in the past week, I"ve made sweet potato pies, a peach cobbler. Lasagna and turkey and cornbread dressing. My 3 kids that are near, have been in heaven. I call them while I'm cooking. Whoever gets here first, gets first pickings.
My farming neighbor dropped off some wonderful tomatoes and peppers. Along with mutsu apples. . is a cross between the 'Golden Delicious and the 'Indo' apple. He grows apples for a large commercial cannery. He gave me 3 bushels. Not sure what I'll do with them. Any ideas?
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Got a wild hare today and decided to make from scratch lasagna - sauce, noodles, ricotta - the whole nine yards. Will have a garlicky cole slaw for a side and maybe half a baguette depending on how carb heavy I want to get.
Saw dad yesterday. He's hanging in there and seems content. 91st birthday next week. Wow.
Hope you Houston ladies are still high and dry. Niece is still waiting to hear about their house. As of yesterday it was ok but the Brazos hasn't crested yet.
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val - since the apples seem to be a bit spicy I bet they would make good pies, or applesauce. I like to cook apples with onions in a little olive oil and put on top of pork chops or pork loin roast. Maybe they would also be good in an apple cake or quick bread.
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Val - can I please come to dinner? Everyone's meals sound great. I have to decide if dinner will be pick-me-ups (whatever is in the fridge - what was the term from this thread??) or if I'll cook.
The sun is out here and no rain at my house since yesterday. Streets are dry. I have been very fortunate. I never lost power and water did not come into my house. But I don't plan to leave the neighborhood yet. Too many infrastructure problems and people needing rescue.
Carole - are you still in the North country? I hate to think of you going home to the storm but know you'll worry about your Mother.
Nance - Happy B-day to your Dad. So glad he's settled in.
DodgersGirl. Here you go. Laurie had two young children & said when she made this her husband would come home & think she had been cooking all day. Her recipe for "Mexican Chicken"
Put 2-4 chicken breasts in a pyrex dish. Dump a jar of your favorite salsa over it. Open & drain a can of black beans & dump that on top. Cover & bake for 350 degrees for 1-1/2 hours. Five minutes before serving, cover with shredded cheese to melt - like a Mexican blend. Serve over rice, scoop sauce on top & then dab of sour cream.
This works like a slow cooker & the chicken just shreds apart. I usually serve the 'whole' breasts one night and shred the leftovers for wraps or enchiladas the next day. I have also adapted to use leftover rotisserie chicken with less salsa. I like the extra beans. Dinner for one from the microwave. I think Carole adapted the recipe for a crock pot. And I've also used the same recipe with pork chops.
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