So...whats for dinner?
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Snow? Is that the cold white stuff? :-)
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Minus...I was thinking of you with the snow reports in Texas. That’s a blessing tho compared to the Cali fires. Spoke with my brother and SIL in Thousand Oaks last night. She seems to think that they are immune to having their house catch fire since they are in a neighborhood, not on a brush laden hill. I hope she's right, but it sure seems like neighborhoods have gone up in flames, too. Not very experienced with such fires, so what do I know!
Eric, will you be deployed for this latest natural disaster, or are you retired from all of your former duties?
I must try pesto on my salmon...sounds delicious.
Tonight we just had cheese and crackers after our walk and then big bowls of kale soup. It was quite enough.
Carole, I got a kick out of your second slice of beef “act out”. LOL
This afternoon during our walk through town we stopped at the Masons’ Christmas Tree sale and selected a small tree along with a wreath. DH returned after our walk with the car to pick up both....if we were to own a wagon, we could have been very up country-like and wheeled our purchases home those few miles! So tomorrow we will decorate a bit, and I will edit our holiday letter, and will then make a meal for my next door neighbor who will be returning home from surgery on Sunday. I decided to make kale soup, crusty bread, mac and cheese (mainly for their ten year old sons), salad, and brownies for dessert. Nothing special...but good for a wintery day meal.
Bedo, nice to hear from you....I am guesssing that you are enjoying grandparenting now
Mommy of two, glad to hear that your chemo is being gentle on you.
Have a nice weekend everyone!
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I’m doing crockpot shredded chicken tacos for tonight, last night was Chinese delivery because I didn’t want to cook. The snow was awesome! This is a pic of the playground in my neighborhood yesterday, it was beautiful.
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I'm on call this month, so it's possible. But I think it unlikely that I would be sent to California.
I'm hope I just didn't jinx things. :-)
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Illimae - thanks for posting the great picture. Much better that what I shot in my back yard.
Dinner tonight with my SIL at the Raven Grill before a Mercury Baroque concert featuring the Corelli Christmas Concerto and several selections from Bach & Mozart. My favorite meal at this restaurant is the rainbow trout, but with this cold weather I may order their delicious pot roast - heavy on the wine and served in a deep bowl. Many downtown venues are still closed after Hurricane Harvey including the home of Houston Grand Opera and the Houston Ballet. This concert hall won't open again until next fall. Tonight's concert has been moved to Rice University - always a lovely place to visit with the winding pathways and pervasive oak trees.
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Sandy: read a restaurant review in "The Week" for Nico Osteria in Chicago about all the things that have changed in the 4 years they've been open. I'm enamoured with the description of the halibut: "Among the mains, the veal breast and langoustine might be the most intriguing dish, pulling off an unlikely protein paring with the help of seared apples. But the halibut entree is even better - 'a masterpiece of subtle flavors' produced by poaching a great piece of fish in the equivalent of a white Negroni cocktail." That's surely an old fashioned drink!!
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I've seen snow at the house I was living....twice in my lifetime. Age 7 and 18. The first time was 8 or so inches and the 2nd time was about 2 inches (according to my grandmother's diary). Our dog, Gus, a Norwegian Elkhound, was about 4 years old when I was 7. I remember him excitedly running, jumping and rolling around in the snow.
I fixed the Volvo today. The problem was a failing pulley that is supposed to keep the engine timing belt tight. We were lucky. Had the pulley completely failed, the engine would have been damaged beyond repair. All is good now and I shouldn't have to worry for another 70,000 miles/110,000km. By then I would likely need to overhaul the engine. The weather was pleasant--68F/20C--and it is actually a pretty easy thing to complete.
I made my dutch oven and a grill-pan into a panini press. The combination looks strange on the stove, but it worked quite nicely. I had to fill the dutch oven about 1/4 full of water to get it to press enough. I used thousand-lsland salad dressing, thin slices of Swiss cheese, thin slices of turkey and some spinach (it's what I had) with my sourdough bread. Best of all, it only took about 15 minutes to make, cook and serve.
Lacey, I'm just retired from Verizon....I'm still doing the other 2 jobs, but they are intermittent jobs. With the savings we have, the financial advisor said we could have retired five years ago....after hearing that, I could not justify spending 3 hours a day in the car. Had they allowed telecommuting, I would likely still be there because the job was interesting. They had layoffs on November 17 and after just getting back from military leave, I likely would not have been laid off, so if nothing else, I probably saved someone else from getting "the axe".
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Awoke to 1/2" of snow--what's amazing is that thus far in 2017, Chicago has seen less snow than Houston, Mobile, San Antonio, Birmingham or Jackson, MS.
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I made enough sourdough today to make 4 loaves of bread. One goes in the cabinet and is for Sharon's lunch sandwiches, one goes in the freezer for use later in the week and two are going over to a friend.
Gyspy, the yellow lab dog is doing her very best to to try to lick the white stuff off of my blue-jeans. :-)
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Leftover takeout Chinese last night, a panino (Serrano ham, provolone, tricolor peppers and fresh rosemary on ciabatta) for brunch. Probably have hot & sour soup again tonight, since it's really good for a scratchy throat. (A college friend who's a professional choral singer--her choir has won Grammies and Dove gospel awards--taught me that). I have some char siu & veggies left over, plus half a rotisserie chicken and some snow peas in the fridge. Might also make fried rice.
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Eric - wish I lived in your neighborhood.
Sandy - sorry about your throat & cold.
Dinner last night was such major confusion that I forgot I wanted the Pot Roast & automatically ordered the Rainbow Trout. Too many people at the table in a crowded restaurant all trying to talk at once and no one was listening to anyone, if they could hear in the first place. The baby was crying. My SIL was in a foul mood & blaming all of us for everything. So I think the trout was delicious, but it was such a contentious & confused evening that I really don't remember eating - except the 5 or 6 or 9 pieces of the delicious homemade Rosemary Garlic bread. The good news was the trout came with French Green Lentils, and that turned out to be the only thing the 2 year old would eat. She picked them up one at a time, so was too busy to keep crying.
My young neighbor is going to Boston for Christmas. That made me miss Boston & Lacey & Susan even more. He is just in his 30s and plans to go snowboarding w/friends. He showed me his board this afternoon. I prefer warm weather & would rather surf - that is if I still indulged in such activities.
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A 2-yr-old who likes French lentils? Sounds like a budding foodie--I'd encourage that.
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I agree with ChiSandy. :-)
Wow
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Vegetarian borsch on Saturday, the best result when I cook it in a 5l pot, I do not know why. This time I used Jerusalem artichoke instead of potatoes and it has this taste of sunflower oil. Yesterday the eldest did chili con carne, which here is basically groundedmeat, fried onions, canned tomatoes and canned beans. She did used Chili con carne spice I ordered online when I ordered my gumbo file but she did not added much because she did not wanted it to get too hot, then the youngest wouldn't eat it. Today we were going to have leftovers and DH was preparing a chili con carne lunch box to have it at work tomorrow. He works downtown and would go and happily eat lunches out but all his co-workers are women who complain about how pricy it is to eat out and they all are coming with their lunch boxes and he therefore brings his own too because otherwise he would have go and eat alone. So he did prepared his box when the eldest DD came home with her boyfriend, went through the fridge, cooked pelmeni for herself and fed DH's box to the boyfriend who was munching banana chocolate-chip peanut-butter cookies while waiting for his food. As I believe I have already mentioned he is 1,94 cm tall and I constantly feel we have to feed him because of his size. So DH will take borsch for lunch with him instead, even better, much healthier option.
The cookies are da bomb though, I add crushed walnuts and instead of chocolate chips I take a 200 gr dark block for baking that I cut into pieces with a knife so when you eat it later this chocolate just melts in your mouth. Seriously it might be a good business idea for someone who is interested because they do not sell this cookie type here and they contain no butter, no sugar, well, chocolate and honey, but if you instead of chocolate add raisins, more nuts and dried cranberries you will have an oatmeal in a baked form.
I bought harricote verts today and intend to cook Persian dish called loubie polo that can be quite tricky if you do not have Persian rice that is so different, much better, from regular basmati you get at grocery store. I will give it a try though.
Cherry
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My daughter, when she was on her high school's swimming team.....any leftovers in the refrigerator were gone within 30 minutes of her getting home.. :-)
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Eric, so far I remember myself my dad’s dinners were all about leftovers. When parents got home from work and dinner was ready he always insisted on the anything that was left from the day before was warmed up and put on the table so he could eat it up and then later he ate a little of what we all were having. At that time he was not taking any lunches with him, he ate at the factory’s cantine with all other managers and he always complained that their way of cooking caused him stomach problems but still continued eating there.
Cherry
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Cherry, did you mean 1,94 meters tall instead? From your profile, your tumor was over 1 cm.
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ChiSandy, yes, I wrote wrong))) the boyfriend is 1,94 m, 194 cm) and my tumor is 1,5 cm) absolutely, I see the difference
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Autocorrect was probably the culprit. It is my worst enema.
GeekSquad coming late this afternoon to set up my new wi-fi network--might take till early evening. After he leaves and I am comfy with the new setup, I will probably do a choucroute garnie. For lunch I had chicken matzo ball soup from the kosher deli in my neighborhood pharmacy (where I got my letrozole--now only $3, so I'm out of the Part D "donut hole"...for the next 2-1/2 weeks). And because tonight is Hanukkah, I got sufganyot (jelly donuts) there as well. Too lazy to make latkes from scratch, so I'l make frozen ones in my air fryer.
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When using an app with autocorrect, police agencies with "Department of Public Safety" as part of their name have to be careful to ensure autocorrect doesn't drop the "L" in public. .
I had just finished raking leaves, mowing the lawn and trimming bushes when DD drove up into the driveway to wish me happy birthday. I cooked the rice-chicken salad tonight. Tomorrow afternoon I'm at Sharon's school as a robotics team mentor and when I do that, I get home kind of late to cook much, so I hope DD left us enough leftovers for tomorrow night. :-)
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In the Chicago Bar Assn. annual musical ("The Bar Show," in which cast I've been for 15 years), there's a sketch in which Shakespeare, congratulated for his quote "First we kill all the lawyers," is chagrined. "No, I wrote 'kiss all the lawyers.' Let me check." He pulls a feather out of his pocket, looks at it and goes, "Curses--it's that da**ed auto-correcting quill again!"
I ditched the idea of choucroute, cacciatore or anything substantial--just had some latkes and will follow them up with either Greek or Israeli salad. Already had a sufganyot...which is plural--what's the singular in Hebrew, "sufganya?" For those of you trying to picture what one looks like, fast-forward to Mardi Gras: they're basically pački.
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Been gone awhile but picked back up with Minus and the family dinner(sorry it was so hard) ....totally agree with Eric and Sandy....sounds like you have a little foodie on your hands....how awesome!
Cherry= your cookies sounds great and much healthier- I do not want to go into a business with them as that would take way too much energy and time....but, would love to get your recipe for my own use if you'd share....baking is not my thing so I have to use a real recipe. How do you cook your haricots-verte? Have just recently been able to get them at our local market and I've been roasting them in the oven with a bit of olive oil and salt and pepper...they are SO good!
DH is working out of state- so I've been eating out or making and eating sou. Trying to use extra time to put some things in the freezer as we lost everything in ours in October after a storm and long hours without power. So far, I've made a big batch of soup each of the past 3 nights...Beef Taco Soup, Broccoli with cheese soup and Vegetable Beef soup...have made enough to share with my mom and to put 3 quarts of each in the freezer. That just makes me so happy!
Eric- what is rice-chicken salad? IF I missed something...sorry but is that a recipe? I'm all about rice, chicken and salad!!
Dinner tonight was a bowl of Veg beef with crackers....perfect for an evening in the 30's. Love soup!!
Happy Hanukkah to those celebrating!
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A very happy birthday to you Eric!
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Happy, I think this link will work.
I was looking at the old post and I had a typo in there. 'boil and simmer covered until some"...."some" should be "soft".
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Eric - yes Happy Birthday. Hope you have come celebrating planned this weekend.
Hammer - welcome back. Your soup sounds delicious. 37 degrees here this morning.
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Hope you had a very Happy Birthday, Eric! Sweet that DD was able to pop home to share it with you.
HH, I totally appreciate that feeling of accomplishment and satisfaction after making pots of soup! Enjoy all those....especially with this cold (maybe “cool” for you?) weather.
Also want to wish those who celebrate, a Happy Hanukkah!
Last night I made a variation of ”Laurie’s salsa chicken” which we had with an arugula salad and my “faux french bread” right out of the oven. Yum!
Tonight we head into yet another C’s game so I will have my favorite bourbon glazed salmon with sauteed veggies, no rice. Love that meal! And it feels virtuous....but then we share a big ol soft pretzel at the game. ;/
I have done zero holiday baking and today need to get my pizzelle cookie dough made. I traditionally bring a tray of them to a party we are attending this Saturday....so need to meet that deadline. Next week the pressure is on to get things completed for Xmas before DS1 and family arrive next Saturday. Yikes!
I am thrilled that my elf DH set up and decorated our cute little tree and decorated the inside and outside with lovely lights, while I was cooking a dinner for the family of our neighbor who just underwent surgery. It was perfect! I was out of his way, not micromanaging, and got to focus on my tasks, later appreciating his hard work and the beautiful holiday decor! He’s really getting good at this!
It is seriously cold here now.
Better get back to tasks.....
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First of all, Happy Birthday, Eric!
ChiSandy, "First we kill all the lawyers" made me laugh, while in university we studied that 70% of all layers on the planet live in US). Not that I do not like US, it was the first thought that popped in my mind when I red it. Happy Hanukkah! I also like latkes we have exactly similar dish with another name.
HappyHammer, my recipe is from Foodnetwork, here comes the link:
As I said I take a block of dark chocolate and cut it into pieces instead of chips and I tried different nuts, walnuts was the best batch.
I usually cook my haricots verts and then either eat them with salt as a side dish or with any vinaigrette I make. I actually used them this week in a Persian dish called lobie polo, here comes the picture. It got a bit messy on the serving plate but everybody got so hungryI know it looks like fried rice and it is how my DD described it to her boyfriend, my Russian-Persian Swedish-born daughter explained to her Swedish boyfriend using an English expression, too much Master Chef TV I guess. It is just there is no actual frying in this recipe at all, it is all cooked, meat and verts separately from rice that gets pre-cooked and then you just have them layer on layer in a non-stick pot and then let it steam for some time. I bought organic basmati rice, it was so bad that it required a lot of skill not to overcook it and on the bottom of the pot it still got overcooked and messy, but it was good, the boyfriend liked it. They will stay with us on Christmas Eve until afternoon, in Sweden the Christmas and festivities begin on Christmas Eve, then go to his family and come back here on Christmas Day. I will be in the middle of my second EC treatment so I have already started to instruct my DD how to make meatballs, have a recipe from Michelin star restaurant owner-chef and I will let her to take care of turkey hopefully under my supervision, I will make a spicy butter to get under the turkey skin in advance this week. We will see if she is up to the task. I have also mentioned that I am thinking go with lobsters for NY and we will order some beluga from Russia that hopefully will arrive in time and both said, "Really, we have no plans so far", but they are discussing some plans with their friends so it has not been confirmed yet.
Today it was leftovers and I am cooking a Chinese chicken soup, a recipe I got from some ladies on our August chemo thread, chicken breasts that simmer for three hours with ginger, goji, jujube and I added sliced uniclove solo garlic. Interesting that the name of this garlic in Persian translated into shalot the latter technically being an onion, just reflecting.
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Cherry, that looks and sounds like a Persian paella (except that the latter's ingredients are cooked in the same pan, added in stages).
Lacy, are you and DH Celtics season ticket holders or just really, really faithful fans? When Bob was a med student and I a law student and then a fledgling lawyer in Seattle, we were able to get half-price student tickets to both the Mariners and the Sonics--now OKC Thunder--games, albeit up in the nosebleed sections of, respectively, the Kingdome and Seattle Center (later renamed Key Arena). We could just hop in the car at the spur of the moment and head downtown--was less than a 15-min. trip and parking was plentiful & cheap, even free if we were willing to park on the street and walk a few blocks. We'd just eat stadium food and cheer on the teams. I must admit, though, that during Mariners games in the Kingdome when during the 7th inning stretch the Jumbotron displayed the weather report as "57 degrees, rain," it felt very, very weird. I grew up in NYC where stadiums were exposed to the elements, so to me rain meant delays or cancellations.
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Lacey, I love pizzelle! Thanks for reminding me about them. I’ll have to get my pizzelle iron out and make some.
MJ
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Thought of you this week lacey. During my (second) trip to the Italian market, saw many many flavors of pizzelle.
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