So...whats for dinner?
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Joyeck- would you mind sharing your meatloaf recipe. Weather is perfect for one and low cal would be great!
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Joyce - brilliant, oats instead of bread. Thanks.
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Not a happy night for Cubs fans. So far, anyway. 9-1 Dodgers.
Dh and I have both been sick with hay fever/sinus miseries. I am taking a steroid pak that is working wonders for restoring me to health. DH had a steroid shot but isn't bouncing back as fast.
Tonight's dinner was supposed to be pork tenderloin in some delicious preparation but instead it rests in the refrigerator waiting for tomorrow night. We had warmed up beef, veggie, noodle soup that dh cooked before the rag weed pollen brought him down. With the soup, grilled cheese sandwiches.
We have had a few days of pleasant weather with lower humidity. It will be nice to welcome some temperatures that bring to mind chili and oven dishes. Maybe by the end of October.
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Joyce, ah ha....so now I see how FL would be a better place for you to enjoy cooking time! Hope you are having less humid weather now. Our weather has been a string of those perfect Fall days....sunny, dry, and 70ish all week. Not sure when we will see any rain yet.
Sorry about the Cubbies...DDIL2 will be sad about that, too. I sometimes see folks complain (yet some must love) about the idea of a Yankees/Dodger world series. At least Houston/Dodgers would not have such long distance travel and time change factors.
Also, Carole, sorry to hear that you and DH are struggling with allergy/sinus miseries. Do you get frosts there? That’s when folks here experience relief from hay fever.
On the basketball front, (I know you are eager for this!;) after we enjoyed our season opener celebratory dinner of clam chowder and warm lobster rolls with lemon butter (CT style) on brioche rolls and a salad, we sadly witnessed the leg fracture and gruesome ankle dislocation of Gordon Hayward (a star player just acquired by the Celtics) early in the game. So, the celebrating was over...but we finished a sparkly wine and then ate some Boston Cream Pie to drown our sorrows. He is basically out for the season....poor guy.
Yesterday I joined some former colleagues for lunch at Cheesecake Factory and had their chopped salad...and of course too much of their brown bread.
For dinner we used up the remaining lobster meat in a Maine (think mayo) lobster roll, and had a caprese salad on the side, to which I decided to add some pea tendrils. It was good.
Tonight we saw a musical, Fun Home, at the Boston Opera House. We ate at a place near the theatre, Back Deck, that is efficient and has a varied menu of choices, appealing to many tastes these days. We both had a saffron grilled chicken kebob and basic greens salad. DH also had a nice bowl of butternut squash soup. Before the show, we had a tour of the Opera House which has an interesting history of owners and rather recent restoration. I liked hearing about that since a father of one of the kids I worked with did a lot of the decorative plastering there which is so beautiful.
Tomorrow I am attending a social wk conference so will have a baked chicken lunch with salad and rice pilaf. Have had that same menu for years! Carole, I hate to admit, I am living up to being a restaurant queen.
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Thinking of cooking up more chicken and making burritos with it for tonight
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I am exploring a site a friend recommended, it is called www.seriouseats.com. Today we had leftovers of Chicken Scarpariella (Shoemaker’s chicken) with a mash of rutabaga, potatoes, parsnip and onions that slowly cooked in the milk and water with beet root salad as a side. Turned out good. Next week I will try Chicken Paprikash. Tomorrow it will be rostbeef with some kind of potatoes. Have a nice weekend everybody
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Cherry, Serious Eats is one of my favorites! Many of the things I cook regularly come from there. Kenji is my idol lol.
Oh Lacey, lobster rolls and Boston cream pie - be still my heart!
Finally got the results from my endoscopy. Chronic inflammation of the lower stomach.- two biopsied tiny spots were negative for pylori and e coli. Off of the omeprozole and now on protonix. (Maybe I'll be able to drink coffee again one day. ) The stomach is actually much better already and my appetite is returning. Hopefully not so much as to regain the 15 pounds I lost.
Carole, I too am suffering from severe allergy issues. I'm allergic to mold and in this rural area, it's harvest season. Mold spores from the corn and beans are rampant and I'm miserable, especially my eyes. This in spite of 3 different allergy meds. My mo just prescribed singulair, so we'll see how this does. So far, I can breathe but I'm still teary. I too am on a steroid pack to clear up an itchy rash on my eyelids. Don't know what that's about, but it's been driving me to distraction. I think the steroids are stimulating my appetite too. I've been sitting here dreaming about cake.
Had a nice visit with dad last weekend. He is doing so well in the nursing home and he is actually content there. He told us more than once that they are taking good care of him and that it was a first rate operation. (He has not complained to me once since he's been there.) This is so comforting to me. When I visit the staff seem to dote on him and always tell me what a sweetheart he is. Dad has put on weight that he had lost and is healthier than he's been in some time. What a relief not to worry about him so much.
Tonight is going to be burgers on the grill and onion rings. I haven't made onion rings in quite some time and have not really had a taste for fried food at all. I may put together some cole slaw to try to add some healthy aspect to this meal.
Now about that cake . . .
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auntinance, I really like when a recipe comes with a story and is well-composed, chicken with cabbage and bacon was another one I will tr
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Tonight is an individual pizza, made on naan, with organic portabellas, organic chicken w/spinach sausage, chopped organic tomatoes and mozzarella, prepared by and being baked by DH as I write. Just a few minutes until dinner!
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pizza for dinner here, too. Pizza itself isn't special (frozen) but cooking method is.
I bought hubby a pizza oven that goes in the new gas grill we bought in March before my dx. He has wanted to try I out but there was always a reason we couldn't.
I start rads on Monday. So we made a point to make time for the pizza oven test tonight.
The oven heats up in the grill to 700-800 degrees. The pizzas cooked in about 7 mins. The crust is crunchy, just like I like. So tonight we are enjoying pizza and will be watching the Astros/Yankees game to see who we play in the World Series. Gotta enjoy the good moments that appear during this cancer regime
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I had to google Boston cream pie, yam, I love everything with custard. It is not sold where I live but I found a recipe online and will try to bake it with my younger daughter. Not today though, she is going to a birthday party that is taking place at some children kitchen class where they will bake cupcakes and then eat those.
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Neither of us wanted to cook last night, so dinner was store bought precooked rotisserie chicken.
Today is laundry (my uniforms NEEDED it) and repacking my gear for the next time. People that have been home a couple of weeks are getting orders to go back out again, so soon may "soon".
I woke up my sourdough starter from a very cold refrigerator so I could feed it and it's now bubbling away. Maybe tomorrow I'll make some bread with it.
We need to go to REI to get a couple of parts for a ski car roof rack that we bought right before I left.
On the way home, we'll stop at the grocery store and get something to cook. Like me, Sharon doesn't have much desire to cook for one and we are both anxious to get back to cooking. We have been asking each other what we would like to cook tonight and neither of us has had any ideas, so it will be something unplanned. :-)
October 31 is my retirement day at Verizon. It's amazing how that worked out. I had planned a different day, but then I got deployed to Puerto Rico and moved the date to the next allowable date, which was October 31. October 31, 1983 was the day Mickey's doctor brought us into his office, gave us "the talk" and recommended hospice. Like the deployment giving me a better memory of infusion centers, retiring on that day will give me a better memory of Halloween.
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Eric, glad you have another more positive reframe for your cancer related experiences. Retirement congrats! And hope you have a chance to rest a bit before being deployed again.
Nance, I am so happy to hear that your dad is content in his care setting. You have been through so much with his health and related transitions this past year. And I hope you continue to feel relief from that stomach pain. I guess the weight loss is a nice secondary gain, but no fun for sure. I am actually not a Boston Cream Pie fan, but bought this becasue it was a mini one for just the two of us. It was totally delish....I think because the cake part was extremely light. I may have to try one again....tho probably not since I am determined to focus on losing between 7 and 10lbs. Need to get myself back to my previous gym routine. It really does work! 😉 I’ve gotten lazy and paid the price.
Yesterday, as I expected, My lunch was chicken piccata (mediocre college kitchen variety since that was the venue) and salad at the conference, but they also had an interesting addition to the buffet table....a huge roasted winter squash, from which diners scooped out their own servings. I think it had some butter melted into it. Really delicious! Last night, I was too tired to start planning to cook, so DH offered to make guacamole, which we had with tortilla chips and a caprese salad I made.
Tonight, DH grilled a pork tenderloin that he had bought and marinated in my absence yesterday (thinking we might have it for dinner...oops!). So, by tonight it was well marinated. I made some mashed butternut squash that had been hanging around here for a few weeks. I always add a bit of maple syrup to that...and made one of my big salads dressed with balsamic and a bit of olive oil. It felt like one of our typical winter meals, despite the fact that winter seems quite far away with these warm temps.
Posting dinner since I love everyone else’s pix....so am encouraging more! DH loves to eat his pork a bit pink, (the joke here is, that growing up he swam in the Hackensack River....read: gross pollution level...so he tolerates any bacteria), but I stick to the well done pieces for my tender system.
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I like my roasted pork a bit pink, too, after growing up on over-cooked pork. Last night's pork tenderloin was sliced into medallions and cooked in a lemony sauce and served with delish mashed potatoes. I realized as I watched a New Orleans cooking show chef make grits and grillards that the pork medallion dish I call pork piccata is a version of grillards.
Tonight was meat loaf and pasta with cheese sauce casserole. Or hot dish! Dh had better get well soon or these comfort foods will do us in.
My, does lobster roll sound wonderful. Also Boston cream pie.
I will probably make chicken and sausage gumbo tomorrow. And bake a batch of wheat buns. I have all the ingredients for the gumbo except the okra. I may omit it and make chicken and sausage stew instead. By Monday the weather is supposed to be a bit cooler. Eventually we will have chili weather!
Glad your dad is content with his situation, Nance. My mother is doing well, too. We had no luck at bingo again today.
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I agree about liking pork slightly pink, but I have a hard time changing all the years of conditioning & my Mother saying we would get trichinosis. (yup - I had to look up the spelling). The page for pork roast in my old Better Homes cook book has at least 10 yellow stick notes about varying time & temperature. Case in point - tonight I roasted a 2lb pork loin - 6+" in diameter & 8+" long (yes some of my notes have cooking time by the physical size). Why haven't I kept better "final results" instead of just what I tried? Anyway, I took it out at what I thought was the perfect doneness (24 min/lb at 350), sliced into the middle, and it looked a bit too pink. I put it back in the oven for 10 more minutes. Shame on me. It would have been perfect at my original time when left to sit for 5 minutes on the cupboard. Oh well, it was not horribly dry and will be great for pork sandwiches & to add to a brandy cream sauce over noodles later this week. Guess I'll stick to tenderloins in the future. I so miss pork roasts with all that wonderful fat. Funny since when I was a kid we hated it & cut off succulent meat with the fat.
Lacey - have you heard anything from Susan? I sent an email awhile ago but haven't heard back. I want your lobster rolls - either with butter or mayo. Nance - I too am glad to hear your Dad has adjusted & is content. Hope your gut problems are soon over. Carole - we actually had a "spell of winter" last week. Down to 75 degrees, LOL. Glad to hear your Mom is still doing OK. I'm sure Special & Joyce are still waiting for cooler weather too. Eric - chuckling that you didn't take the uniforms to the laundromat so they wouldn't stop up the system. Hard to believe you're going to retire. Sharon will still be teaching, right? How's the DD doing in her 2nd year of college?
Thanks everyone else for the food notes.
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Wow, checking in again and still healthy! A record this year! LOL. And considering both my DD2 and DGD1 have strep and I spent 2 days with them, really good. LOL
After a day at Bookworm Gardens with them both, we ate Thai for lunch. I had a Massusman chicken curry, daughter had Pad Thai. DGD had a bit if Pad Thai , Spring roll, Rice soup and Chicken Satay, both lunches with eggroll and soup. All for $6.99 each. LOL After I went home, I so wanted to nap. So I put my feet up and closed my eyes. Just then the doorbell rang. My out of town sister popped in and wanted to meet my other sister at work. So off I went again. 45 min later we were waiting for her in the parking lot looking for a restaurant. Guess what they wanted? LOL. Chinese. LOL. So off we go to Harvey Moys. I had a chicken with pineapple, peppers and onions in a coconut sauce. Delish. DS1 had sesame chicken, DS3 (Id be DS2, the middle sis) had another chicken dish. Everything was wonderful. And Mr.Moy came out to introduce himself. No wonder this restaurant is rated so highly. And, though I dont have pictures of any of the food, I have some of the gardens.
Oh, and one of the weddings I went to was on Friday the 13th with the same theme. Ill post the wedding cake. So here goes.
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One of the exhibits
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Winnie the Pooh, note the bees and hive all lit up for the nite
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Little House of the Prairie setting. Over 70 books represented.
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My sisters and I. (Not yesterday though)
Or perhaps you'd prefer this one I took yesterday
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Moonflwr912, beautiful pictures, one can definitely tell that there are three sisters, you look alike.
Lacey12, my grandfather had a smaller farm, he always grew several pumpkins, very large, not orange or yellow in color but mostly green with some yellow stripes and patches. They were the last to be harvested and moved to an underground storage. I remember me being small sitting on one of those huge pumpkins, my feet could not reach the ground, watching him gathering scrap and rubbish in the garden preparing for winter. Once a week he would cut a big part of one of those pumpkins, they could be stored until the middle of the winter. How he managed to get them up and down from this underground I have no idea, but he roasted the seeds first and then put the pumpkin into the oven with nothing on it for some time and then just sprinkle it with sugar. Once done he would put it on the table and everybody would just scope from it into a smaller bowl and eat it. For him it was a dessert, he grew up during difficult times civil war and WWII, anything naturally sweet, because sugar was not available, was considered a treat. I still can bake some squash in oven once in awhile and it reminds me of my childhood.
About this raw pork meat. Where I grew up people did not eat beef or veal, like almost nothing, the meat was considered pork. My brother since he was a teenager could walk into the kitchen, take some of the slices my mom was about to sear in the pan, put some salt on it and just eat it. The same with the meat marinated for barbeque, he can just eat it raw, not much, just one piece. I have never done it, not with the pork, I respect science to much to do such thing.
Yesterday I baked Oatmeal Banana Chocolate Chips Peanut-Butter Breakfast Cookies, this is the name of the recipe, I am not joking. I never heard of those before, I read about them on another thread and googled the recipe. This was my second time, I added raisins, dried cranberries and crushed walnuts, turned out really good. There is no sugar in this recipe just 1/4 cup of honey and if you exclude the chocolate chips it would be as healthy as a dessert can be. I should have taken a picture but I did not and today there were only two left. They look good too, something you can place on the table and everybody would just exclaim Ooh! These look delicious!
Rostbeef and veggie mush today, we did not make it yesterday. I bought Béarnaise sauce to it. Have a nice Sunday everybody.
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we had steaks for dinner last night. I bought DH Sous Vide immersion circulator stick for his birthday this month and he fixed sirloins last night.
Had sirloins in the freezer so took out two. Into the water bath they went for 1 hr 45 mins at 130 degrees. This water bath cooks the steaks to the desired temp without over cooking. Once they were cooked they were placed on hot cast iron grill pan to seat the outside.
They were so tender that we literally could cut them with a fork.
Had simple salad a green beans with the steaks
Yummy.
Hope to do steaks again really soon
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Looking good there Monica!
Count me in the pink pork club. I have actually come to the conclusion that I love almost all parts of the pig except the loin. It's just too lean and lacking in flavor. I much prefer the shoulder, butt or tenderloin. I fixed a very nice dish yesterday with inch thick loin chops that included apples, onions and fresh sage, and a cider/cider vinegar sauce, all cooked in a cast iron skillet. While the sauce was really delicious and the chops very tender and juicy, they just left me underwhelmed. So I think that I'll throw in the towel and stick to the fattier cuts or tenderloin.
Sous vide is on my wish list. It would be on my Christmas list, but since we're going to New Orleans for Christmas, we'll forgo gifts to each other this year. We haven't picked our Reveillion yet but it looks like it may be the Court of Two Sisters. Oddly enough, in all of my visits to NOLA, I've never eaten there. The non seafood eater, DH can order off the menu there if he wants.
Road trip to the city today. We are in need of the Jamaican blend coffee beans that we love from Fresh Thyme and some items from Lowe's. We are also in need of some room darkening curtains for a living room side window where a tree used to block the late afternoon sun so Bed Bath and Beyond is on the list too. If I can find some decent corn at Fresh Thyme, dinner may be corn chowder in the pressure cooker. (another Serous Eats gem.)
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Liar, liar, pants on fire. I didn't cook the chicken gumbo today and I didn't make wheat buns. Dinner will be leftovers.
Nance, I totally agree that the fattier pork is tastier. My favorite is pork butt roast. But the pork tenderloins can be made enjoyable by not overcooking them. DH really likes the pork steaks and so do I but we eat them during our "unhealthy" summer eating phase along with brats and hard salami and bologna. I've been brainwashed to avoid eating too much fatty meat but the brainwashing seems to fade out in MN during the summer.
We ate at Court of Two Sisters with dh's parents many years ago. The patio is a beautiful setting for dining on those rare days when the New Orleans weather is perfect for it.
Minus, we had several days of pleasant 70's temperatures, too. Today a front blew through and tomorrow is supposed to be cooler.
Moon, what a treat to have you check in again! And healthy, to boot!
I hope Susan is doing well, enjoying Olivia and welcoming pleasant boarders.
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Last night was an early Thanksgiving dinner since DH won't be home for it next month but I was too excited to eat and forgot the pic. Tonight was the after thanksgiving sandwich consisting of toasted white bread, mashed potatoes, turkey, gravy, stuffing and green bean casserole 😋
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Moon, you look great and so do your sisters! Happy you're doing fine.
Another pink pork aficionado here. We never kept Kosher--we had bacon, ham, Genoa salami, lamb loin chops & leg, bratwurst, shellfish and my Mom made a killer veal Parm--but Mom was terrified of trichinosis. The one time she tried to make pork chops they were like shoe leather. Decades later she worked up the courage to order thick-cut grilled pork chops and loved them...but still never tried her hand at cooking them. I recently ordered a Korobuta pork shoulder from Snake River Farms and am waiting for an opportunity to roast it if we have enough dinner guests (or at least the 3 of us are home at dinner time).
Carole, Court of the Two Sisters is fun. My first visit to NOLA was for the American College of Cardiology convention. A drug company took a whole bunch of us to dinner there. Our waiter was entertaining--even made the Caesar salad from scratch (including the garlic, egg yolks & anchovies) right before our eyes. Came time for dessert, which was Bananas Foster (of course). To flambé it, he dipped his finger in rum, then "flicked his Bic," set the banana mixture aflame, and blew out the flame on his finger before sticking it in his mouth. (Yeah, alcohol burns at a low temperature, but it was still an impressive trick...which I won't try at home). My favorite restaurants there are Brennan's, Commander's Palace, Arnaud's, Emeril's, Compère Lapin and (speaking of pork) Cochon. No dress code, delightfully informal (slightly hipster) and insanely delish. Sit at the counter if you can and watch the chefs at work.
Got back last night from the Folk Alliance Region Midwest (FARM) conference at the Sheraton Iowa City. Unlike at FARM conferences held in other cities, the food was first-rate--Iowa City is committed to "farm-to-table" dining, and our group buffets were at the Sheraton's sister hotel Vetro. Among other dishes were fresh salads (including Caprese), sauteed veggies, salmon with Chardonnay sauce, roast Berkshire pork loin, shrimp scampi, butternut squash soup, various pastas, herbed "airline" chicken breast (not at all dry), bagels & lox, cheese blintzes with cherry compote and insanely wonderful mini-Danish (the pecan-pie croissant-dough ones were the best). There was also the aforementioned sushi bar, Java House (slow service but great coffees), a panoply of other restaurants and even a gourmet market with wine, gelato & coffee bars--and sandwiches & hot foods to eat out on the terrace or carry out. It was FARM's third & last year in Iowa City--next year it moves to Grand Rapids. Gonna be a tough act to follow.
Last night Bob & I went to the Palm for his belated birthday dinner. Split a "Gigi" salad (shrimp, eggs, bacon, green beans over lettuce & tomatoes). He had a 14-oz filet mignon, I had the 12-oz. Wagyu rib-eye (more marbled than prime, but its fat is mostly Omega-3s) that was very, very tender. Also Brussels sprouts, au gratin potatoes (I took a spoonful) and wild mushrooms. No dessert--neither the desire nor the room. Yes--of course we took home leftovers, and I just had mine for dinner.
The rest of tonight & tomorrow will be crazy-busy: practicing some of my Bar Show parts (including songs with which I'm unfamiliar), packing, doling out 5 days' worth of meds again (the worst part of packing, IMHO), mani-pedi, and rehearsal in the Loop from 5-9:30. Raw, cold & rainy--gonna splurge on Uber or Lyft both ways. But Vegas will have 5 days of warm (but not hot) sunshine. Haven't made any dinner reservations--will go with the flow. After the obligatory HGV upsell presentation, the guys want to spend time in the sports book. I don't gamble and there's no point in shopping--nothing I can buy there that I can't get here, and it doesn't make sense to overstuff our luggage with purchases. So I will swim & exercise, get spa treatments, and woodshed some music for the show. No point in renting a car--hate the traffic on the Strip, hate parking, hate endless waits for valets. Cabs are no pricier than in Chicago, anyway. Bummer that we're at the north end of the Strip, with nothing w/in reasonable walking distance, but that's what taxis are for. (We wanted the mid-Strip Elara, where we stayed the last time, but it wasn't available; we could have stayed at the Trump, of which HGV owns half and is very nice--we stayed there in 2014--but no way I'm setting foot inside any Trump property again, despite the 2-Michelin-star restaurant Sixteen being located inside the Chicago you-know-who tower).
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ChiSandy, always enjoy your posts, I just want to go to all these places inspite of being 10 hours flight away. Pecan-pies croissant-dough are the bes, believe it or not it is not called Danish in Denmark or Sweden for that matter, in Scandinavia it is called wienerbröd, the bread from Wien because the baker who started to bake those in Copehagen was from Austria. Bagels fennel seed with lox and cream cheese, and I stuff in it some leafy greens, whatever I have like rocket or basil, scallions if I have it. Love it. We have a great bakery downtown that bakes great bagels, surprisingly even great eclairs, another favourite but no place that makes cannoli.
Dinner today was a cauliflower bisque, a been-sausage-chicken breast casserole with spinage. I found this recipe posted in the beginning of this thread years ago. Turned out good, reminded of cassoulet plus tomato sauce, I should have used more sage. I also added two different chilies I grown myself. And fried four burgers for the girls, no way the youngest will eat the casserole, kids.
Cherry
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Oh cherry - chocolate eclairs. Be still my heart!!
I'm eating dunch (late lunch/early dinner) as I write. It is a large salad w/lettuce, kale, cabbage, carrots, etc, and a good sesame/ginger dressing. Since it's 4pm, I'm sure to be hungry again before midnight. Maybe leftover pork loin sliced very thin & piled on Hawaiian rolls. Maybe add some very thin slivers of tart apple & some Havarti or Gouda cheese. Hmmm.
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The New Orleans tv news has been full of reports about Chef John Besh stepping down from his restaurant group company because of harassment charges made against him by a large number of women employees. Apparently an investigation was in process well before the recent Hollywood scandal erupted. DH thinks Besh's chef programs on PBS will be pulled.
Dinner tonight was leftover chicken sausage gumbo with brown rice. Side was mashed potato salad, a big dollop on the edge of the bowl of gumbo. I don't know what is going on with my lack of interest in tossed salad for at least a week.
I guess I will root for the Astros. DH will root for the Dodgers because they are National League. He is against the American League not having the pitcher bat. Ok....
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Carole, I was very distressed to hear about John Besh, I thought he was one of the good guys. I know partners and sponsors are deserting him left and right.
Spent yesterday preparing plants to come inside ahead of the impending freeze this week. This involves checking them thoroughly for hitchhiking tree frogs that like to come in with them. Harvested an armful of basil and bunches of oregano. I dried the oregano in the microwave today. While I will make some pesto, most of the basil will sit around in water pitchers until they peter out. It will last quite a while. By the time it's unusable my indoor herb garden will be flourishing. I'm hoping the Thai basil does better indoors this year.
Tonight I made orange chicken for DH and kung pao for me, brown rice and (frozen) spring rolls.
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