So...whats for dinner?
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Cherry - second best standard wisdom is eat whatever your system can stand. I lost 60 lbs during chemo and after 20 it was NOT attractive. You're so fortunate that your Mother is whipping up things you are interested in eating.
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Eric - sorry to hear about your dental plans. I'd rather have my arm cut off than sit in the dentist chair. Love the story about the 8th grader and Sharon's 'smarts'. Great answer.
Dinner was leftover quiche Florentine. Lunch with my SIL today. We live on opposite sides of this sprawling metropolis so we try to each drive 30-45 minutes and meet in the middle.
I bought some delicious Boursin cheeses at Costo yesterday for Holiday snacking. In the frozen section, a Japanese lady sort of followed me around and told me which things I should definitely get, so of course I bought more then I intended - Tempura shrimp, Panko shrimp and mini crab cakes. Oh well, I'll have fast things I can pull out for last minute cocktail hours or for domino games.
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Had some vascular work done on both legs - removal of varicosities from both kneecaps - on Wed., so it was takeout Chinese since I had to elevate both legs for 24 hours. Last night was a small pork roast, mashed potatoes and carrots with thyme. DH is traveling tonight to Jacksonville to hang out with DD, who has a trade show for her company all weekend, so I am going to holiday craft markets on both Sat and Sun - yay! And, not cooking - yay!
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Last night was finger food at the first post-show cast party: wings, crudites (really wonderful tomatoes!), pizza, BBQ pork sliders, hummus, & baba ghannouj. (Mozzarella sticks ran out before I got there). Tonight I'll be missing a great cast party at a downtown condo's party room, including fresh tamales from a cast member & her husband's Mexican restaurant, but my 6 bottles of sparkling wine (Champagne, S. African, & Napa) will attend in my stead. DH & I hosting a post-show party of 8 at Mercat a la Planxa, the Iron Chef-helmed tapas restaurant next door to the theater.
Fridge getting emptier & emptier--have a lot of shopping to do after we get home early Sun. evening!
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The dentist is amazing about pain control. He uses a cotton swab soaked in some sort of awful tasting concoction to numb my gums before hitting it with the needle...so I don't even feel the 'sting'. What I do hate is when an upper molar is drilled...the noise sounds like a Boeing 777 airliner sized mosquito and is most annoying.
Special...sounds like the knees are back to normal....I'd go nuts having to stay off my feet.
Cherry, I agree with the "eat what you feel like". Sharon did that and didn't suffer any "I now hate that and it used to be my favorite"
Tonight it was another chicken recipe. Chicken with a peanut sauce made from peanut butter. It was pretty good, but next time, I'll increase the amount of lime juice.
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Tapas (blood sausage, meatballs, charcuterie, white anchovies, green salad, octopus, bacon-wrapped stuffed dates), two paellas--seafood & meat, and a rabbit cazuela. Surprisingly few leftovers for a party of 8. (We're in a hotel with a fridge but no microwave, so we will have the leftovers Sun. night after we check out and the show I'm in is over. Dessert was a triple chocolate terrine with dulce de leche and coffee ice cream.
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SpecialK, hope you will recover soon. I was looking for your kale salad with orange dressing and could not find it, would you mind posting it again, please.
Lacey, and if you just please post your horse radish dressing recipe, so that I will just copy/paste it into my computer, thank you in advance.
ChiSandy, dates wrapped in bacon is soon going to be Swedish favorite Friday night snack, well, at least in Stockholm. It has been a while I made them though, might be a good idea.
Minus, Eric, I decided to eat what I wanted, not ven to mention that my taste seems to be back and I eat like a horse.
My mom made these Russian dumplings with meat, called pelmeni, and froze in a couple of hundreds, just to take a few, boil them and you have a meal. She is going back home soon so she tries to make it easier for us. She cooks them in a veggie broth and serves as a soup, the way they do with hountouns, and I later add a spoon of applecider vinaeger to it. I think she and I are the only people who still eat those this way, most Russians just boil them in water and then eat it either with butter, sour cream or mayonnais. But I had my in a broth at 11AM, and they were delicious. The only problem I felt right after waslike I never ate at all. So now I decided to wait until 5 PM and have another portion. I do not understand what is going on but I have not been so hungry for a long time. Otherwise, I am in pain from my wbc shots but waiting for my husband to come home with zucchini so I can cook a ribollita, got two stale ciabattas, half bottle of Masi Campofiorin and a bunch of cavolo nero. Yesterday I watched Julia Child's video on how to make boeuf burguingnon, on Youtube, in black and white, that was hillarious, where has she been all my life) Cherry
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Cherry - I looked up pelmeni and was fascinated by the history and the wide spread "relatives" from gyoza to ravioli to pierogi. It looks like a true labor of love to make these tiny delights at just over an inch in diameter. Thought this snippet from Wiki was fun comparison.
In modern Russian and Ukrainian culture, and also in the Baltic states, store-bought pelmeni are considered a kind of convenience food and are associated with students' or bachelors' lifestyles, much like instant ramen etc
Special - what an amazing recovery. You're already up & walking around craft fairs!! Good deal.
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Minus, this is so true about pelmeni, but they are pretty easy to make, my mom takes a brandy glass and cuts perfect circles of the dough and then you just fill them and press the sides together. Other fillings are popular as well like cheese, cabbage, potatoes, cherries and raspberries. They have another shape though. And I am sure you can buy these at any Russian store in Houston.
I cooked my all time favourite Italian soup, the ribollita, it was just everything I was expecting here comes the picture. The youngest girl is killing us with her creativity nowadays, she baked a cake from Frozen, I have to admit that despite the popularity I have not seen Frozen but maybe I should
Cherry
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One of our fave restaurants in the Loop is Russian Tea Time, run by a member of our temple who emigrated from Uzbekistan. Pelmeni are part of the huge appetizer plate (along with smoked fish, caviars, salads & blini).
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There is a variation of pirogs, this one coming from the Tatar kitchen, called ichpochmek, transtaled as the triangle, also called Tatar triangls, one of my favouites of all time, it takes time to make those but they are just delicious. In case there is any restaurant that serves Tatar food, I warmly recommend
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I am not feeling very well but it is the first advent in Sweden so I will cook a meal. It will be oven-baked salmon with artichoke pesto, that I just smear on top of the salmon and put it into the oven, Mamofuku brussel sprouts, a recipe I found on Food52, grilled sprouts with fish soy vinaigrette, green sallad, cooked potatoes, Skagen röra, lox roe and I set some shrimps to thaw, it will do
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cherry - I can't seem to paste it here, but it is on page 1032 of this thread, the Aug. 5 post. If you use the search bar on the left of the screen and type kale and orange in the terms box and specialk in the member box you will find it.
minus - once the bulky dressings and ace wraps come off at 24 hours there is little discomfort associated with this procedure. The endovenous laser ablation which I had done separately on each leg is a somewhat different story, but you feel better moving. Not a great idea to be up and walking for hours on end, but I am a savvy and speedy craft shopper due to years of doing it, lol!
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Suddenly, the forums want to automatically convert stuff to a link...so I'll try to go with it.
https://community.breastcancer.org/forum/7/topics/764271?page=1060#idx_31775
If you look at the navigation bar for you web browser, you should see something like the link above. To go to the top of a page within the What's for Dinner thread, erase everything after the = sign and put the page number you want. For SpecialK's page 1032, it would look like this.
https://community.breastcancer.org/forum/7/topics/764271?page=1032
By the way, for links, at the top of the area where your typed text appears, there are a bunch of small symbols. On the left is a B and on the right is a smiley face. The fourth symbol from the right is a symbol that is supposed to look like links in a chain--to me it looks like a pair of glasses. If you move your mouse pointer to that glasses looking symbol and click the left mouse button, you'll get a window where you can put in a link. The link will go wherever your next typed character would appear.
After you add a link, you'll likely find that when you continue typing, the text will continue to be underlined. I usually add two spaces after my last typed text, use the left arrow key (not the backspace key...left arrow key is nearby the page up, page down, up and down arrow keys) to back up a space, add the link, use the right arrow key to move to the right a space and continue typing.
I just mentioned this on the tech glitches thread and hopefully I included enough info to make it easier to figure out.
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Thank you! Found the sallad, I will be doing it on Christmas Eve but will need to prove-taste it) I never know what to do of kale, Swedes are just using it for Christmas dinner decorations it seems but it is something everybody says we should eat so I am trying different recipies.
The dinner today was great, my taste is back, appetite is huge, I eat like I am working with pavementor something even more physical. I baked Oatmeal Banana Chocolate-Chip Peanut-Butter Cookies with walnuts, almonds and hazelnuts.
Eric, I really understand what you mean when you say that you cannot sit still when you havd retired, I also need to do something as soon as I feel better, feeding my family is one of the ways to channel this energy.
Cherry
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I just ordered the parts to replace the timing belt and associated parts in my 1998 Volvo S90. Because the engine would be damaged beyond any reasonable possibility of repair if these parts faill, Volvo recommends replacing this stuff every 70,000 miles. The car odometer indicates 275,000 miles/440,000KM, so it's time for this to be done. The parts should arrive here on Wednesday or Thursday.
It cost US$280 for the parts and I can do the work in 2-3 hours. It's almost $900 for the repair shop to order the parts and do the work. The weather is nice, about 70F/25C degrees and sunny, so I might as well enjoy the weather AND save the money. :-)
Dinner tonight. I'm considering finishing up the chicken in peanut sauce...but...we are going to Costco to get a few items We really go there and get just a few items. We do NOT fill the cart to overflowing "just because it's cheap". I'll probably look at some of the ham while I'm there and do that. We haven't had a ham in a while.
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I'm with you Eric - I usually go to Costco and get just a few items. I circle what I want to look at in the monthly sale mailer and very seldom veer towards anything else. As an exception, I usually come home with some wine since the Kirkland values for the quality are amazing.
But I have to admit that I'm just not a 'shopper' at any kind of store. I go with list or for a specific item and leave if I don't find it. This means I'm not really fun to go shopping with.
In keeping with the food theme, I found bags of Artisan Bread Mix by Soberdough for some Christmas gifts. The bags look like old time flour sacks. It's handcrafted small batch from Nashville. You just add a bottle of beer, stir & bake for 45 minutes. I got Garlic/cheese and Hatch Green Chili Cheddar for my two nephews.
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cherry - I also make another kale salad that involves berries, so a good one for summer. I use curly kale for this but you could use any kind. I make a regular vinaigrette but add crushed strawberries. You could also use a sweet poppyseed dressing. Add additional strawberries and blackberries to the kale, but you could use any sweet berry. Add slivered almonds and sliced avocado, toss gently with the vinaigrette.
Just made sweet and sour turkey kielbasa with green pepper, red onion, and pineapple over basmati rice - for me, DD and her friend Frank - they are out in the driveway attaching a crazy heavy-duty bumper to her truck!
Sadly, DH decided to drive up to N. Carolina to see his mom this morning, since he was already in Jacksonville he was part of the way there - she is at my SIL's house now. They have started on morphine administration as her hips and back have begun to hurt badly from the leukemia. She had started on oxygen at Thanksgiving, and is now 100% non-weightbearing and bed bound. He said tonight that she is totally unresponsive, so I think the time is pretty short. My FIL passed away a year ago last week - Nov. 30, hard to believe.
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Hugs and condolences to you and your husband, Special.
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I did make an impulse buy at Costco. Eight pair of white socks, so it was a three item trip instead of the expected two things.
The hams at Costco were a brand that I've tried before and found to be too salty, even for me. So, I got some salmon. It's very thick, but I have a nice fillet knife that, very nicely, deals with that "problem".
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eric- thanks, I know you know. My MIL is my children's last grandparent, they are prepared for this but it is still very sad for all of us. Just like my FIL, my MIL has had a fabulous, long, mostly healthy life. This has been a relatively short illness, and she has not had pain until this last week, but she has not really thrived since the loss of my FIL.
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Special - I'll be keeping all of your family in my thoughts. It's hard enough to see parents go, but I think even more difficult this time of year. It's lucky that they had such good lives and tjhat your children had them around for so long.
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minus - thanks, yes, the holidays are a hard time to have this happen - my FIL was right after Thanksgiving last year. That they really had a great run does make it a bit easier, and they have always acknowledged how fortunate they were, and how great a love story they had. My kids were in middle school and high school when my parents passed, but they were older than my in-laws. My dad would have turned 100 this past October if he was still alive. My folks lived until they each turned 83 - they passed 4 years apart, dad in 2001, mom in 2005. FIL was 91, and MIL is 86 - funny MIL and FIL sound like names...
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SpecialK, o sorry about your MIL, of what you so far told about your in-laws, they had a great life and your MIL is surrounded by her children and the grandchildren, it is a good way to go. So sad though, I am so sorry. My mom list her mom when she was my age, I remember how I felt sorry for her, because one could see she lost her mom. And even though my grand mom was big and mom was and still is petite, she had been sleeping in my grand mother's night gowns for years, until nothing was left of them. Sounds odd, I know, but it was her way of coping with her loss.
Eric, Volvo, yay, we are a Volvo family too, sold our S90 five years ago and now we have an XS60, I love this car, I even like its old design more than the latest.
I went to the store to buy meat for those Tatar triangles I was talking about. My mom is leaving this week and I asked her to make those. I came home with two full bags of everything possibleand now the kale I bought won't fit into the fridge. But I have kale, we only have curly here, and oranges and I will be making SpecialK's tomorrow. Today we have plenty of leftovers.
Cherry
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cherry - I have two of my mom's robes, and my DD has already mentioned a particular pair of MIL's pajamas that she wants - I totally get that sentimental need to feel close to them. It is funny - she brought this up the other day and even said she doesn't know why she wants them, just that she does. I also drove a Volvo, white 240DL sedan, when my kids were both in car seats at ages 1 and 2 - I loved that it felt like a tank and so safe, but it was awful in the snow due to rear wheel drive when we moved to Washington state.
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SpecialK, I understand your DD, it is exactly as you say, this is the closest you can get t when this person is gone. I myself am over five months past diagnosis and needless to say that I did not expected to realize that I was mortal at my age, but I have been thinking about my own particular pieces of clothe I wanted girls to have, and even talked to my husband about ordering blankets made out of my and his old favourite t-shirts I have been saving. I saw one like this in one of the Twilight movies. My husband does not want to talk about it at all of course.
Volvo is my favorite brand, it has been even before I moved to Sweden. When I met my first husband and we were still dating and he was showing me pictures, he showed me a brand new silver 740 and I asked him what was that and he said, oh, that was my car and I said it seems you are y kind of guy)
I made the kale sallad, I forgot to buy goat cheese so I replaced it with avocado, I had crashed almonds, hazel and walnuts, dried cranberry and segmented oranges, used my fish sauce vinegrette because I had plenty left, will try the original dressing next time. I made my eldest DD eat it too telling her that kale is going to be a way of life in this house, here comes the pic. It was good, I think oranges do the trick here, the kale does not taste much and I dipped it into the boiling water first too. Cherry
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Special, I am also sorry that your family will be coping with the loss of your DMIL and especially around the anniversary of your DFIL and during the holidays. Hopefully, as the family gathers together for services, there will be many happy stories to share about holidays past. She sounds like a mother who would have created those.
Cherry, that salad looks wonderful to me! I’m glad to see that I now have some fellow kale queens on this thread. Yay! Of late, I add slivers of kale to all of our salads daily. To those who are kale shy, adding it this way is almost unnoticeable. Another thing I like about kale is that if I make a huge salad and want to save some, it holds up perfectly for the next day, unlike fragile lettuce. This week, I’ll look for the page where I think I posted the horseradish dressing recipe.
We completed our weekend trip to NJ to see DS1’s family (despite the fact that DDIL1 was tied up presenting at a conference most of the weekend) and visit DDIL’s dad. He was in better shape than when we Facetimed with him a week ago and his condition that day seemed dire. He was able to join with us in his living room as long as he didn’t move much from his chair. His oxygen levels sink with any movement, and it is so sad to see him struggle to breathe given his history of high energy and productivity.
DDIL’s mother made us a lovely lunch of some their typical Persian food....saffron rice with lentils and raisins, a braised beef loin, and also an arugula salad. She had pastries like baklava for dessert....then fresh fruits, nuts, dates, candies, and cookies appearing on the coffee table throughout the afternoon.
When we returned to our son’s home, DDIL1 was back from her conference and she made two meals from The Purple Carrot (the recently introduced, “Tom Brady” diet selection...I was expecting everything to be laced with spirulina!), pictured below. One was a white bean and multi colored carrot dish with obscure greens, another was large broiled artichoke hearts topped with a white sauce with cilantro in it, with green beans. Of course a lentil dish staple completes the picture. These guys are the vegans, who are resolute about this diet.
I need to bone up on my vegan cooking before they come to visit at Christmas. Unfortunately, since I’m allergic to cashews (a staple for them and a way they have “cheese”) and avoid soy, I need to make things with no cheese included....ugh! But I’ll get it done. Interestingly, my grandchildren have just been tested for allergies and are also allergic to cashews, so they will not be enjoying vegan foods the way their parents do. So, I’ll be cooking many varieties of dishes to meet the needs of this crowd.
On our way to NJ on Friday, DH got the idea that we should stop at a pizza place we learned about from one of our lake neighbors. So, just because I felt like driving more (not) but definitely because we were both starving and wanted something substantial for dinner, and because DH could never pass up a food/restaurant recommendation. Kinchley’s Tavern in Rumsey, NJ offers pub style pizza, and it was tasty, but not my favorite. What was hysterical was DH communicating with DDIL1 about pizza preferences for them and the kids. We knew about no cheese for them, but had not expected that Kinchley’s would not have fresh basil for their garlic mushroom basil pie request, nor no spinach for the kids’ cheese with spinach pie...so they got plain cheese. We were quite happy with our cheesy mushroom and onion pie, and did the best we could for the rest of the gang! Also ordered an arugula salad with a warm bacon dressing, and an Italian cuke salad, loaded with red onions....which fortunately we like and everyone had. Carole you would not have wanted to be in conversation with any of us after that salad!
Now that we’re home, we need to get into holiday mode...
But first, tonight another trip into town to a C’s game after dinner there. I could do with less games during this month!
Missed that C’s routine last Thursday when I developed pre-fainting symptoms in the afternoon and my doc directed me to the ER for eval. What a nuisance....five hour stint there. Looks like it may just have been dehydration combined with my typical low bp. I must have nothing serious because I was able to drive both ways to NJ and keep up with my extremely active grands for two days. Slept late today, happily!
Here are the Purple Carrot pix:
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Lacey - I wonder if you could substitute sliced or slivered almonds in some of the dishes instead of cashews? I'm allergic to walnuts so I'm always looking for nut substitutes. Luckily I live in the South and the "nuts" of choice are pecans
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Cherry-SW: (drools) Baked salmon with pesto spread? So when are you inviting me over for dinner? And what do you want me to bring when you do?
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Pan-seared salmon (Icelandic & Pacific) tonight, with garlic green beans & mushrooms and zucchini latkes.
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