So...whats for dinner?
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A funny poem) my sandwiches are pretty dry too, though I will take mayo over butter, spread cheese is ok, but just some salami on the bread is ok for my, never liked any butter inbetween. I like in in semolina or rice porrige when still hot but when cold I can eat it with jam.
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Tonight was Turkey A La King from the leftovers not set aside for sandwiches on top of drop biscuits. Not a pretty dish but so tasty, I nearly licked the bowl clean, lol
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I fry my eggs in butter and put a dab of it on toast (fat helps slow the absorption of carbs and mitigates the insulin spike). I don't like my eggs completely runny but I don't like yolks that are opaque and cooked all the way through. So I heat a cast iron skillet (a 6-incher I use only for eggs) over med-high, throw in a knob of butter & lower the flame to medium. When the foaming starts to subside I add a little olive oil and then the egg. Once the white is set, I cover the pan and take it off the heat--I let it sit covered for the length of time I brew my coffee (K-cup). When I uncover it the yolk is a little bit runny on top while inside it's sort of like a gel. It's less messy (or hazardous) than basting with the fat in the pan, and unlike actually flipping the egg, the yolk doesn't break. So it's essentially the perfect over-easy egg.
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"Hmmm, the great butter debate. I never could stand to fry eggs in butter, but a grilled cheese requires it! I love a nice pat of unsalted Irish butter on a crusty bread, and was so happy when it was undemonized. I mainly use it for baking except when I bake for the doc vegans, for obvious reasons. We are headed down to see them this weekend and I'm thinking about just making and bringing a loaf or muffins from that Trader's Pumpkin Bread mix since it is easy, calls for oil, not butter, and I can load it with walnuts for interest.
Our Thanksgiving turned out to be lovely. . DDIL2really knocked herself out making a turkey (for the first time), a very interesting stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, her favorite sweet potato and marshmallow casserole, and I added my roasted vegetables and a romaine salad. She is quite design oriented, so she had their place decorated so nicely, and even made a cheese ball in the shape of a pumpkin with an authentic looking stem robbed from a pepper! It was cute and very tasty. DS2 prepared shrimp for appetizers, too. For dessert, I thought it was so sweet that DDIL2 remembered that I'm not really a fan of pumpkin pie, so she made a delicious pumpkin cheesecake with a gingersnap crust and a caramel drizzle. It was exceptional...and I was so happy not to have to look at pumpkin pie. We also had a small apple pie that DS2 bought through his pie charity fundraiser at work.
They sent us home with leftovers which we have yet to touch since our next door neighbors invited us over for leftovers dinner, last night, and tonight we ate out after seeing a matinee. Tomorrow we can tackle what is in our fridge. I was happy to hear that DS2 is the soup maker in their home, and he dutifully stripped the carcass in preparation for making his turkey broth soup. Yay son! Those college summers working in the snack shacks at local country clubs helped him feel comfortable and creative enough in the kitchen, something alien to the men in my family of origin. He does a nice job introducing his bride to healthy foods that he cooks and makes her healthy smoothies, etc. I was really impressed and appreciative of the effort she put into preparing a large dinner for us, given that food is not her thing. Very sweet.
I'll post a pic of the centerpiece DDIL2 made for our turkey day table, and the cute pumpkin shaped cheeseball.
Oh, and we watched their downstairs neighbor fry their turkey. I guess they are tasty, and DDIL's family (from northern FL) always cooked them that way, with injected flavors. I have a feeling that may be in my future.
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I do my grilled cheese sandwiches in a grilled cheese maker so they are dry too, but even when we were on vacation with now gadgets available at the hotel we stayed in, I did them in a dry pan, like this
Lacey, beautiful centerpiece and those comfi chairs, reminds me about I need to buy new to our table. We have been looking for new chairsfor over a year now and cannot find anything our cat would not tear apart in six months. Right now we have soft chairs with cover, they are approx six years old and the cushions you sit are not as elastic they used to be but the this the third set of cover on them. I spent the same amount on those taylored covers as I spent for chairs, the cat just goes crazy on scratching those, nothing helps, had sprayed them before with something from the animal store that smelled very lemony, it wouldn't stop her. And do not want to go for wooden or urin chairs though it seems like the only options left.
This cheese pumpkin was very sweet.
I will have my first EC chemo tomorrow and today my DH brought home some freshly baked bread rolls of different kinds and cardamom and cinnamon ansiktet, a long one, one of my favorits. I told him that some people fast before chemo but he said that I can do it when I will lose my tastebuds, so I indulged myself and had a sourdough roll cut into two halves, one with gravlax and another one with mortadella. No butter. I actually was thinking about our discussion when I saw my DH spreading butter on his roll. Our youngest girl loves butter too but the eldest is just like me, dry sandwiches, butter in her rice, thats it.
I posted and realized that I forgot about telling what's for dinner. I set cassoulet in the oven, again. I believe we ate it last weekend but everybody likes it and I had only cooked it twice do today is the third time and I am doing it with chorizos, we will see.Cherry
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I'm all about the butter and use a lot of it (not necessarily at one time). Olive oil, second, regular oil a distant third and margarine never.
My cherry pie was a disaster. The juice leaked under my rolled-too-thin crust, which made it impossible to remove from the pie plate. (This happened to me once before but I apparently didn't learn from the experience.) The inside was still good but it wasn't pretty.
No cooking today. Leftovers galore to use up.
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Lacey - thanks for the lovely detailed post. Nance - who cares about pretty once you add the ice cream?
Time for me to report on my trip to see my BFF in Arlington (TX). Texas is just big folks. It was a 272 miles each way - so over a four hour drive from Houston to Dallas at a steady 82-85 mph. ( Boston to NYC is only 215 miles or NYC to Washington DC at 226 miles.) I'm glad I went. This may be her retirement place - or not - but it's a lovely 2 bed 2 bath house in a gated community of only 88 homes located next to wild preserve with a creek that flows to the river and lots of grassy paths & benches to sit by the ponds. There's a nice pool and a small club house with an exercise room, a library and a room for community pot luck suppers or meetings.
The first night Pat had one of her new friends over to meet me and we had munchies - crackers & cheese, deviled eggs, chicken salad, relish tray, hot bread, etc - served with Prosecco.
Wednesday we went to the Ft. Worth Botanical Garden. My request was to see the Japanese Garden, and it was lovely & SO peaceful. Japanese maples were 1/2 turned to a bright red and other trees were orange. All were mirrored in the wandering streams & ponds from the Moon Bridge. We also went to the Kimball Art Museum and enjoyed their permanent collections. Early dinner was at Tim Love's Woodshed Smokehouse right on the Trinity River. I expect some of you foodies will know Love, but it was quite an experience. Absolutely everything was smoked in hickory, cherry, apple, etc. I was grateful that my wine was not smoked. They make fresh sausage every day with the "animal of the day". That day was rabbit & rattlesnake; neither of us bit. (pun intended) I had Pork Banh Mi cooked in Maker's Mark Bourbon & Coke & served with Gotija cheese, lime & aioli mayo. It was served with tortillas that were made with half corn & half flour - excellent corn flavor but still soft enough to fold my sandwiches. The side was an excellent Broccolini with lemon & LOTS of garlic. Pat had pulled pork tacos and fried/smoked corn on the cob. The next table ordered delicious looking ribs.
Thursday we went to a lovely restaurant set in two rooms of an old house with silver on the sideboards, old masters on the walls, deep carpet & double white table cloths to the floor. So we put on our dress jeans for a 2pm meal. Both rooms had lots of windows so the rooms were filled with light. Restaurant 506 at The Sanford House. The upper floors are B&B rooms and there are separate cottages across a plaza/patio, in addition to a spa across the street. The special menu follows. Appetizer - Warm Harvest Spinach Salad tossed w/walnuts, pears, feta cheese & warm maple bacon vinaigrette. We didn't select option #2 which was a roasted butternut squash bisque topped with Creme Fraiche. Entree was a choice between four 1) Oven roasted turkey w/sage stuffing (that had carrots) & sides; 2) Triple Pork - pan roasted Pork Loin on a bed of creamy bacon & pork belly Risotto topped w/mushroom ragout; 3) Coco dusted Beef tenderloin cutlets which included White chocolate whipped potatoes & espresso demi; 4) Moroccan Spiced Grilled Salmon served on braised red cabbage. Difficult choices but I don't ever cook turkey so I had that and Pat had the Pork. Both were delicious. Dessert - The Chocolate Stack - cocoa biscuit crust, then dark chocolate mousse, then white chocolate mousse and drizzled ganache over the top - all presented in a lovely circle style w/fresh raspberries. The other option was Pumpkin Cheese Torte.
Whew - as you might imagine, I didn't eat again for 24 hours. And as you can also imagine, I gained 4 pounds. We stayed up too late every night visiting until 2am and drank several bottles of good wine. We've been friends now for 44 years even though we haven't lived in the same town for quite some time, so we never ran out of topics. It was a great trip even considering the drive. (And a bonus - my 2003 car did just fine & even got 34 miles to the gallon)
Dinner tonight will be salad. Food will be minimal this week as I start back to Silver Sneakers and the treadmill & try to get rid of the extra weight before Christmas.
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I used to do margarine for everything but cooking. Eventually I got tired of having both margarine and butter in the kitchen, so I gave up on the margarine. It was later that margarine became worse, health wise, than butter.
DD loves butter, especially when it's on bread that is still warm from being baked.
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My housekeeper spent the week down with her family in Birmingham, then they all flew to Dallas for the extended family reunion (good) and the Cowboys game (not so good) on T-Day.
On the way home from my mani-pedi I stopped at Stan's Donuts. Goodness, those suckers are huge! Rich, too. One donut can feed three or four. (Chocolate iced buttercream-filled is my fave, but they also have Biscoff-filled--which I will never taste because the guys finished it and I am giving up sweets after the Bar Show is over...okay, after New Year's). Still, nothing can match a KrispyKreme chocolate iced creme-filled. Just the right size to induce guilt, but not too much of it.
Last night we went to Fireside again, this time for the prime rib to share. Though we ordered it medium-rare, it came medium-well-to-well done. But it was still tender. I wish they hadn't finished it by searing on the grill--part of the "prime rib experience" is tucking into that glistening pinky-red slab of yumminess. (Sometime in Dec. we'll go back to Lawry's). Even though we shared, we brought home leftovers (from the calamari app too).
Had a good rehearsal with the band today--took the L both ways. Slightly chilly in the a.m., but by the time we were done it was 48, without wind. Wore my light brown "pleather" moto jacket over a cardigan & tank. Tomorrow night is dress rehearsal and then a move to the theater. I will have just a small suitcase (which is at the Bar Assn. along with my 3 costumes) and tote, so I think I will take the L down, bum a lift to the theater, and then take the L back home afterward. I was considering driving, but that's two expensive parking sessions (near the Bar Assn. & then the theater). I'm in charge of bringing the wine & champagne for Friday night's cast party--which I must miss because Bob wants us and our guests to go for tapas down the block at Mercat a la Planxa (Iron Chef Jose Garces' original restaurant, before he branched out to Vegas and a cruise ship). So I will have to figure out a way to get the wines to the party hosts on Thurs. (they managed to get their building's party room). So will definitely drive Thurs. night (I will have 2-4 guests) so I can do the handoff-de-vin. We'll be staying Fri. & Sat. night at the Hilton, across from the theater--will try to get the package that includes parking (which is otherwise hideously expensive). That way I can help move stuff out of the theater to the storage locker after we close.
Tonight I had my turkey dinner leftovers: dark meat, stuffing, mashed sweet potatoes. Had to fight my cat Happy for it--he kept climbing on my lap and I kept shoving him off. Eventually let him lick the plate when I was done. Tomorrow night after rehearsal I will have my leftovers from Fri. night & last night (unless Gordy gets them first). We are supposed to get up near 60 both tomorrow & Tues. Maybe some rain Thurs., but no cold weather for the entire run of the show.
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Enjoyed reading the T-giv reports so far. Minus, sounds like you had a wonderful visit with Pat, and great meals. Yes, I managed to gain two lbs also over the long weekend. Ugh! I did get out for a long walk today and we just had a fritata and salad and some leftover spagh squash for dinner. Tomorrow is a Celtics game, so I know I will have my favorite dinner selection at the restaurant where we have dinner next to the arena. My regular meal of salmon with sauteed veggies feels virtuous after this weekend. I think I have had a fatty (delicious) dessert every night since last Wednesday, so enough is enough of that.
Nance, your cherry pie would be wonderful unless the cherries totally escaped from the oven! I bet it tasted great!
So, it seems we are surrounded by everyone who already has Christmas trees bought and decorated and we rarely get ours up until two weeks before the 25th. In fact, DS2 and DDIL2 just sent us a pic of their ‘already prepped for Santa’ home which they pulled together this weekend, too. She loves holiday decorating, so they are totally in the spirit!
I, on the other hand, am putting off the decorating and am busy searching out books from my “Kids’ Life Issues Library” to share with DS1 and DDIL1 as they help my grandchildren deal with the impendng loss of their very beloved grandfather, who has been their steadfast, loving caretaker. Our visit to all of them later this week will be painful enough, but the kids’ sadness (which their grandfather feels so badly about, even in his fragile state) is just so poignant and hard to bear.
On a happier note, I noticed on our town Facebook page that there is a holiday house tour fundraiser in a couple of weeks, and decided to invite DDIL2 to go with me. She is excited to do it, and I am happy for us to find something that we can share together.
Tomorrow, before going into Boston, I am heading over to the school where I help my former colleague implement a new self-regulation program with the elementary students. Unfortunately, DH and I will miss our stretching class due to our need to get into the city around that time. Not good for our post T-giv effort to “shed the stuffing”!
Sandy, Sounds like you have been really busy with practice and planning. I hope the concert goes well!
Eric, how did the Eastern girls do on their visit
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Actually, Lacey, it's a show--a topical parody musical comedy. 47 lawyers all acting, singing & dancing. This is the 94th year the Chicago Bar Assn. has been doing it, and the proceeds go to charity, We do four performances in a "legitimate" (i.e., B'way style) theater, built 1890--in fact, the same stage on which the Barrymores (not Drew) and Lunt & Fontanne performed nearly a century ago. This year, I play Angela Merkel, a rapping "fake Mike Pence" (hard to explain w/o posting all the lyrics) in a parody of "The Room Where it Happens" from Hamilton, and the lead in a quartet of women disgruntled over their husbands' snoring. It's my 15th year in the cast--the only year sine 2002 I missed was 2015, the autumn of my breast cancer diagnosis & treatment. At the time I had to either commit or bow out, I didn't know the extent of my surgical and adjuvant treatment. I didn't want to have to quit halfway through, nor give a half-assed performance, so that year I wrote some jokes instead. Turns out I probably would have done just fine (two weeks after lumpectomy I was back performing all over IL, WI and IA), but better safe than sorry.
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ChiSandy, great story about the show, judging from your avatar picture, you do not look like Angela Merkel at all, but I assume you will be styled and wearing a costume. I could picture your fight with the cat for the leftovers, how funny they can be. I red an article about the cats and their historical domestication and it said that there are often moments when your cat is planning to kill you, it is just that it cannot do it, that's it.
Auntienance, I love cherrypie, my nick comes from my previous one that I have been having years ago in a cooking- related forum, I went as cherrypie) Cherries are almost impossible to buy in Sweden, never i the stores, some open farmer markets maybe, or if you just find a tree at someones garden and mention to the owners do you know these are cherries? They just get this confused look on their faces replying, oh, really, I did not know, maybe, you can pick those if you want, they are so sour.. and I like, OMG, that's the point!
I had my first EC infusion today, so far on cortison, we shared three pizzas for lunch, I was so hungry. One with beef, chèvre cheese, pesto and sun-dried tomatoes, one with see food and one with shrimps, ham and button mashrooms. I was still so hungry that kids and I had brie with bisquits and figue jam, kids kept cutting off the rindsand I ate them. No dinner for me, I had some watermelon though. My mom coocked a nice pan stew with organic chicken, potatoes and brussel sprouts, I will have it tomorrow.Cherry
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Cherry, sour cherries are nearly impossible to find here too unless you know someone who has a tree and then it's a race with the birds to get enough for a pie. I've managed to find good quality frozen ones at Fresh Thyme (a small market chain not unlike Trader Joe's) as well as at an Amish store near where my DSIL lives. Costco also sells a frozen mixture of sweet and sour cherries that is pretty good, although if I use those I like to add more sour cherries to the mix. When I find them, I tend to stock up. Cherry pie is one of our faves!
Tonight is the last of the turkey leftovers then I'm through with turkey for a good while!
We're off to see dad tomorrow. We'll stay in the city overnight and do some Christmas shopping on the way home.
Minus, it sounds like you had a lovely and delicious trip. What fun.
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French toast for lunch from the leftover Tuscan loaf I brought home from Dallas.
I miss our old timers - like Susan & Bedo & April. So glad that Joyce & Lacey are checking in again.
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Tonight I sauteed mushrooms, oregano, onion, a bit of red pepper and garlic...and at the end added Balsamic Vinegar. The mushrooms were served next to skillet cooked pork chops that had been coated in a brown sugar, cumin, coriander, salt, garlic powder and black pepper rub. I also made up a salad.
I think, from start to serve, it took about 30 minutes to do all of this. Fast, but good. I sure do like the new recommended cooking temperatures for pork. Instead of "dry chalk", it's now a nice and tender meat.
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Spent 4 hours working in the yard after my exercise class so dinner was easy. Pork tenderloin rubbed with sage. I love that this roast cooks in 25 minutes. Accompanied by a bag of frozen Brussels sprouts and two glasses of Malbec.
Going to a new Japanese place tomorrow for late lunch/early dinner with a couple of neighbors.
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Last night I was lazy and did cheesebugers on the grill and made a pasta salad and a regular salad.
I'm getting a new air conditioner installed today. I had the oldest air conditioner the job cost estimators had seen. I'd been keeping it running for a very long time, but decided it was time for a new unit.
The dogs are going crazy when they hear all the banging and sawing noises from the rooftop. :-)
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Delicious Japanese lunch. I had Hibachi steak & shrimp served with Miso soup, wonderful sauteed vegetables and fried rice. I brought 1/2 home. One of my neighbors had the shrimp teriyaki bento box. With the "box" you get the 'meat' of your choice plus: soup & fried rice & 3 slices of California Roll, one egg roll and one gyoza AND a pile of sauteed vegetables. The meals were all under $10.00 on the lunch menu. The waitress brought out a good size cheese cake on the house for us to split. What a nice gesture.
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minus, what a delicious deal! Would you mind sharing the name of the restaurant?
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It's fairly new and if I remember correctly, it's much closer to you than to me? I'm at 290 & Beltway 8. The name is Toro Japanese Steak House, but the web site name is different since there is another location with a different menu. Below is a link with the lunch menu on Westheimer. Let me know what you think if you go. We're going to try the one out on 290 & 1960 in the next few weeks if I can find someone else to drive. I absolutely will not drive on 290 until the construction settles down (maybe 2020? - LOL)
Toro on 10694 Westheimer at Beltway 8.
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MinusTwo, I watched Julie&Julia yesterday, it is this intertextual movie based on Julia Child’s French cooking book. I so remembered our butter debate when Julia Child arrives to Paris and they serve her a sole meunière, she smells and says Butter! And then she goes on about how everything that you ever tasted or smelled and it was delicious mast have had some butter in it. Meryl Streep is amazing, this woman can impersonate just anybody. Your Japanese place sounds fantastic.
Not much going on in our place asfar the cooking is concerned, I am on my day four of first EC chemo and it is kicking my butt so my mom cooks and I am trying to get up every day to do just something around the house but get nauseaus as soon as I as much as sit down so I am staying in bed watching movies.
Eric, just burgers and a sallad?! I am praising you to my husband who probably cooked like five times in the past 17 years. I like to do it myself but his first education before he went to university was actually cooking school. You are such a jam and Sharon is so lucky.
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Cherry, I do hope you start to feel better soon, and am happy that you have the nurturance of your mom and DH as you go through these nasty chemo effects. I guess the silver lining, in addition to the chemo beating down those cancer cells, is...how often does one get to stay in bed watching movies?! Yes, Meryl Streep is one amazing actor!!
Eric, your self-description of being “lazy” is pretty funny. Stated like a true energizer bunny! And yes, it is nice not to have to try to chew shoe leather pork chops.
Sandy, that sounds like a fun show!
Pretty tree, Joyce. Did you always put up two?
Earlier this week we had a quick dinner on our way to the Celtics game (which will happen tonight, too). When I ordered a turkey club sandwich, DH wondered how I could eat more turkey. Well....haha....I had a slice of turkey last Thursday at DS2’s and none since then, so it seemed fine to me. I realized that he, as well as probably most people in the restaurant, were probably OD’d on turkey, but the Thanksgiving leftovers we were given by DS2 were being eaten for lunch daily by DH. So that night, he enjoyed his shrimp tacos and I enjoyed my turkey club with pesto mayo. This is all to say....how freeing it has been for me to not have Thanksgiving leftovers dictating our meals for the past week. In fact, on Tuesday, during our walk (which conveniently goes past a local grocery store) I decided to pick up some cod and shrimp and made my favorite fish in puttanesca sauce which I served over orzo, and added a huge side salad with balsamic dressing. Tonight, before the game, I will probably have my standard salmon with a side of sautéed veggies at The Harp, a very loud but efficient pub across from TD Garden.
Meanwhile, today, I will pack for our trip to NJ to see DS1, his family and in-laws. We hope to provide support to DDIL1’s dad who is in his last stages of lung cancer. He is such a sweet man, and so important to our grandson who knows he won’t be around much longer, so he is trying to be with him constantly. So heartbreaking. I’m hoping that I can provide some supportive guidance to DS1 and DDIL1 as they help the kids cope through this anticipated loss. On a happier note, we will also have a pre-celebration of DGS’s 7th birthday which is next week. And it will be fun to see the new antics of our 5 year old DGD, who is a live wire. As far as food, since I don’t have time today to prepare more than a couple of loaves of pumpkin bread (Thank you, Trader Joe’s) we will be partaking of the vegan selections offered there. DH also calls it a “rehab weekend” since they do not drink alcohol. While that may be an inconvenience for us (DH enjoys a nightly beer before dinner), I am always happy for their patients who can count on their surgeons not having hangovers!
Better get to my packing tasks...
Hope everyone has a good weekend, and that we are still on the planet next week.
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I was just at Aldi's to get my Christmas stollen. While there, I noticed glass jars (lots of jars) of sour cherries.
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joysek, never had a white Christmas tree in my life but we have been having a real Caucasian fir almost every year for the last 17 years except for the years when we opted for a usual fir for the sake of their intensive smell.
Lacey, steroids, my last days on those btw, did wonders today, I got up, worked for four hours and cooked Mushroom Bolognese from Seriouse Eats with bean pasta, warmly recommend, and a pizza for my youngest who is not fond of mushrooms. I even opened a bottle of wine because the recipe requires it, did not have anything but Masi Campofiorin so my mom had a glass too. I had none, but I am not even longing for alcohol anymore. It is so funny, I have full sense of smell but no taste. I bet I will spent the upcoming days in day since my wbc shots start tomorrow. But no one can take today away from me and I did a lot of work, my manager is very impressed and me too frankly speaking. The bad thing I cannot taste much, the only remaining taste that is left is for salt but apparently it has to be a lot of it because I wanted to add more to the Bolognese but my mom said, it was fine and she eats way more salt than we do. Sour cabbage still tastes something to me and that was what I ate for lunch with mashed potatoes, slices of fried blood pudding tasted like carboard. Sorry for all this chemo talk. I am aiming at boeuf bourguignon according to Julia Child next week when my sense of taste returns.
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Path of least resistance last night after getting home at 10:30 pm. No leftovers in the house, so I made whole-wheat spaghetti with salsa crudo (one of my last homegrown tomatoes, olive oil, basil, Parm Reg/Pecorino, and red wine). Tonight will be party food--crudites*, wings, pizza, sliders, taquitos--at the first cast party.
*(ever since a security update, my Mac seems to have lost the ability to insert diacritical marks--I used to just hold down the letter key to bring up the menu, but now the letter just repeats).
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Cherry - one of the 'folk wisdom' things I was told was not to eat things you really liked during chemo. Supposedly they might taste yucky and with the taste changes and you will have lost a favorite.
Talk to your docs about the nausea. There are plenty of good meds and you shouldn't have to suffer this. I had Kytril in with my infusion, in addition to steroid pills. I also had a prescription for Zofran and a back up prescription for Emend.
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Minus, we’re pretty close actually, I’m near FM 529/SH 6. I’ll definitively let you know when I go and sorry about 290, lol (I work for txdot)
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I was going to cook some more chicken tonight, but I had a dental checkup today and the dentist was behind schedule due to an emergency patient (they apparently fell off their bike about a block from the office and came in holding several teeth in their hand). I have three fillings that are starting to disintegrate on adjacent teeth, so next week I'll be listening to the drill whir for around 1-1/2 hours.
Anyway, I didn't get to cook tonight. So, I'll do it tomorrow.
Chi, I"m going to guess there's a keyboard setup option regarding "what to do when a key is held down" and the option got reset.
I grew up in the desert in California and only had one white Christmas. In fact, 7am one Christmas morning I remember it being 76F/25C. The only white that Christmas was the tissue paper in the clothes boxes. :-) Now that I'm in Phoenix, AZ...no snow here either. I can drive to snow in a couple of hours, even in July, but it never snows where we live.
Lacey, that's sad about your in-law. I don't think anyone will mind my expressing the sentiment of "F--- cancer".
I remember Mickey complaining about everything tasting bad during her chemo.
Sharon said that during her chemo, everything tasted either metallic or "dull" (needs more flavor/spice/salt).. It's been 5 years now since active treatment, except for the Arimidex and (knocking on wood, crossing fingers, tossing salt over my shoulder, etc.) all is still good.
I can't imagine myself sitting around, doing nothing, while Sharon is still working full time and then expecting her to cook/clean/etc. She's now a physics and chemistry teacher, which has longer hours (and less pay) than her first career as a nuclear engineer.
When driving the bus, I had an 8th grader express surprise that Sharon was a nuclear engineer and he went on to ask how I could stand her being so smart. The question kind of stunned me and it took me awhile to figure out an answer, but I finally came up with one..."I like it that way. It's a big ego boost for me. She stays with me because she wants to, not because she has to."
I don't want to be like my impression of that kid's dad. :-)
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illimae - oh well, I've long been resigned to a 2020 completion, no matter what the news says. And that guess is just between 610 & Beltway 8 - where it will impact me. I had two favorite used book stores out by you - Twice Told Tales and Long Lost Friends. Sorry to say they both closed so I'm just never out that way anymore. There used to be a nice tea/lunch room by the Sears store. Hopefully you don't have to work downtown.
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MinusTwo, I know about the favorite food, they reminded me once again when we went through my chemo schedule last week, do not eat your favourites and still I do. I have this strange craving for one particular dish when I am sick, it is very unpretentious, mashed potatoes and sour cabbage that I mix with olive oil, sliced onions, lots of it, and a little sugar. When I have a flu I always eat it, I remember I liked it a lot when I was small. Normally I do not eat it very often but while sick I have a taste for sour and salt. Now I only have a taste for salt left and it most certainly is a huge mistake but my mom keeps doing mashed potatoes and I am on it with that cabbage. And jamon serrano, I can eat a couple of slices every day, if this chemo will kill jamon for me that will be a pity indeed. Otherwise, I do not know what to eat, if I am not in the mood for anything else I cannot stay hungry and then I am back to my favorites. But we will see. I will get Aloxi medication for the next time, the one I got this time was too weak for me.
Surprisingly we do not have any white Christmases here either because the snow usually comes later in January and can stay until April. Last year we did have a snowfall on the day of US election, I had to dig up my car, the snow being above my knees, everybody made it to work when it was time for lunch. But it all melted anyway.
Leftovers in our place today, mushroom bolognese, bet root sallad, carrot saladand pizza. Cherry
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