So...whats for dinner?
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I agree Carole, pre soaking not necessary for this variety. Actually with the pressure cooker, I often don't soak any beans.
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ChiSandy, the old Jewish Getto is where we stayed the last time, it was very quite, near Campo di Fiori and full of small, trendy, delightful coffe shops, next time in Rome I am staying there again. As far as gelato is concerned I never tasted any bad gelato anywhere in Italy, maybe I was lucky, maybe I am easy to please)))) I have started nagging about going to Rome to my husband. He said, well, you wanted to go to Napoli, but when I just imagine being in Rome, I get so happy.
carolehalston, I cooked an all-in-one dish, it looks like a stew, beans, chopped onions, garlic and parsley, small French smoked sausages, some seasoning and later I added cabbage. Here is the picture. May it bring both luck and prosperity to our home, health above all, the latter is very, very needed.
Cherry
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Happy New Year my friends!
Sent from the frigid Midwest - 9 below at present. All I can say is we better not have one damned bug this year.
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Hey there, SpecialK - haven't seen a post anywhere from you in ages! How have you been?
I'm looking forward to the next Tampa Get Together!
Snickersmom/Ann
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Happy New Year to all.
SpecialK and Snickersmom & any other FL sisters in the vicinity of Tampa/Clearwater - Will be flying into Tampa 0n 1/13 & staying at Clearwater Beach over the MLK day holiday. Please PM me if you would like to meet up.
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snickersmom - I'm here! Have been busy doing holiday stuff, and laying floor and painting! Also, went to the Buc's game yesterday, lol!
celia - unfortunately, my MIL's memorial service is in SC on 1/12, so we will be there over the MLK weekend. I will be back late on that Sunday - how long will you be in Clearwater?
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Cherry - Apologies for the delay in responding to "Rome". My remembrances: Trastevere for restaurants (just as ChiSandy said), Piazza Navona (wonderful ambiance and Bernini sculptures - at Tre Scalini, a dessert treat called tartuffo - not sure if it's still there). Because I traveled for business purposes (worked for J&J at the time), was always "entertained" by folks from the Rome office, so never had to research places to eat. Only restaurant I can remember is one called Il Pisciapino. The office was outside Rome and we popped into an espresso place each AM. Also recollect eating "early" fresh strawberries with melted dark chocolate over for dessert. Hotels stayed in were: Hotel Eden and the Hassler Villa Medici at the top of the Spanish Steps (very luxurious, but again, travel was for business). Hiked up I don't know how many steps in St Peter's for the marvelous view. St Peter's (go on a "guided" tour if possible) and Sistine Chapel also a must see, if you have time. That's all I can recollect for now.
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CelicC, 😂😂😂 the steps😂😂😂 I never made to the top but I tried once two years ago when my husband said, let's do it. And we took that elevator and started on the stairs. I am claustraphobic and I thought it was not a good idea, and told my husband about that all way up but we made it almost to the top, but when we were in the cupol, where the walls were following the shape the youngest started to tell us that she did not want to do it and I said, here we go, you see, but he just said, come on, she will manage. Until she started crying and when we reached a bit wider place between the staircases I saw her curving to the ball crying at the corner breathing havily and telling, mom, I want to go downstairs. She was eight at that time. My husband said, how would you climb down, it is one way. I guess, I just reacted, because she was having a panic attack. Do you recall how narrow that passage was? I turned to everybody who were behind me shouting my daughter is not doing well, everybody just please let us go by. Easier said than done, she just bent herself and squeezed herself by where there was any space, on people's knee level. I 😂 could not do it, so I just squeezed myself😂😂 I still remember that I never had been so close to strangers ever. When we came down I just set on the roof because I could hardly bend my knees. It has become quite entertaining story in our family.
I wish I could travel to Rome in business, but nope( I like tartuffo too. One if the best things I ate in Rome was pasta with rague made of beef tails, really delicious, they cook it for hours and serve with either thicker spagetti or some rustique pasta Cherry
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Cherry - Yes, it is narrow on those steps & they wind around and around. If you are at all claustrophic, they could cause issues. Glad I did the steps when I was in my early 30s - not sure I could make it now.
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My fridge is so packed with left overs & gift food that I don't know what to eat first. Had a Royal Riviera Pear from Harry & David for breakfast. I would almost walk from Texas to Oregon to get one of those. Lunch was left over Lobster Bisque and San Francisco sourdough.
I have some spinach that requires use or toss today and I really should make a big salad for dinner since I need the greens. I also have hard boiled eggs that want to be used. But it's COLD and and a salad does not sound warm. Maybe I'll do creamed, curried eggs and serve them over the spinach and on top of some of the leftover Knorr's White Cheddar Broccoli Rice.
And then there's the left-over California Roll. And the Boursin cheese. And the cheesecake. And the pecan 'wedding' cookies. Oh my. Teka posted this on another BCO thread and I thought it was great...My goal was to lose 10 pounds in 2017. I only have 15 pounds to go.
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Minus, lol)))))))) I have 10 kg to go down, well, at least, but I did exercised today and I was my ideal weight before the surgery, so one more EC and then .. I will start radiation(( But I can exercise two weeks after chemo meanwhile a week ago I was just stumbling in the forest, so, these 10 kg just have to go
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It was 72F (22C) today. I went out along a foot path and ran 3 miles (5K) in 31 minutes....It was VERY crowded.
Right now I weigh 210 pounds and am 5-10 tall. That's 95Kg and 178cm tall. According to the (probably not terribly accurate) BMI tables, my healthy weight is somewhere between 130 and 170 pounds (60-77Kg).
I was 170 pounds in college when I was running half marathon distances 5 or 6 days a week.
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it is soooo cold outside. Wind chills 15-30 below tonight. Brrrrr
Dinner was homemade chicken and noodles with pretzel rolls and a side salad. Comfort food that is keeping up warm tonight
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I made beef noodle soup from the standing rib roast bones, it is cold here - for Florida, currently 42 F., which would feel balmy to those of you in cold places! I don't mind the cold at all even though I am from California, but my husband (FL native) hates it.
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Weather, illness and a friend’s mother-in-law issues (don’t ask) reduced our party of 12 to six. Even Bob got stuck at the hospital with admissions from nursing homes—his patients and those of the two docs for whom he’s covering. So we had his dinner packed to go. The restaurant was grateful for that to-go order, because they’d also been decimated by cancellations.
My dinner was a mushroom tartlet amuse-bouche, appetizer of smoked salmon rillettes with mesclun salad, lobster bisque, seared scallops on lightly creamed spinach with Pernod and red potatoes, and creme brulee with berries for dessert. Out of our party of 6, only 4 made it to my place—the two who had to drive home to walk their dogs gave my older friend a lift to my place so she wouldn’t have to walk the 1/4 mile in the single-digit cold. The other three of us hightailed it back on foot in record time. And we all arrived together—just as Bob was coming in the back door. Unfortunately, one guest had to leave before midnight to attend to her DH who was having a panic attack (his docs had discontinued an anti-anxiety med that gave him tremors, which they feared might become permanent). So only four of us toasted the New Year, but we did our part and finished a bottle of champagne.
This morning I awoke late and made a sort of eggs Florentine—low-carb toast instead of English muffins, sauteed kale & chopped tomato instead of spinach, very thin slices of prosciutto & capicolla instead of Canadian bacon, fried egg instead of poached; and nuked a shelf-stable packet of Hollandaise that I garnished with cayenne and a little chopped tarragon.
Dinner tonight, since it’s cold (below Zero again, and none too warm even indoors), which I’m about to start, will likely be either a warmed-over slice of pizza or perhaps pappardelle alla Bolognese—it’s stick-to-the-ribs food kind of weather. At least the ice cream will remain safely in the freezer!
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Cherry, your New Year's Day stew looks tasty. Sure hope you have lots of good health and prosperity in the future.
DH wasn't feeling his best yesterday after being up several times during the night rushing to the bathroom. My spicy white chili may have upset his stomach. So he didn't cook the black-eyed peas. I cut some ham off the meaty hambone and "smothered" some cabbage for myself. It was delicious.
I cooked some chicken noodle soup for him.
It's so cold here we have a ribbon of water running from the kitchen faucet to prevent freezing of water pipes. The sun is out but it's 24 degrees in New Orleans so some degrees colder here on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain. I'm debating whether I will drive to the gym and do my usual Tuesday morning exercise.
No menu for dinner tonight at this point.
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NY Day dinner was peach glazed pork chops (crockpot recipe, very easy, sauce is butter, peach preserves, thyme, salt&pepper), potatoes dauphinoise, roasted carrots w/dill, roasted brussels and some re-heated CM day dressing w/shrooms & leeks. Wine was a Gavi (Italian white wine made from Cortese grapes). Very tasty!
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Sharon got to start the morning and new year with a 2 hour visit at the endodontist...root canal.
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Yike Eric - hope 2018 gets better from there! (Although root canals are not what they used to be. I watched a movie during mine.)
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Oh Eric - please tell her we are thinking of her. Yuck.
Celia - would you be willing to post more detail about the peach pork chops? Quantities & the length of time to cook?
Still overwhelmed w/leftovers. Today had a salad w/the last of the tomatoes & hard boiled eggs & 1/3 of an English Cucumber. Served with a side of sauteed spinach. I took a leftover 1/2 of a cooked pork tenderloin out of the freezer. I'll make tenderloins with brandy sauce tomorrow since I have fresh mushrooms.
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Her mouth was hurting a bit, so she took one hydrocodone/acetaminophen 5/325. She's hoping that that will be the only one she needs.
Tonight we'll finish up the egg plant parmigiana.
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MinusTwo - Here's the recipe. Ingredients: 4-6 boneless pork chops (about 1.5 lbs), 6 TBSP Butter, 3/4 cup peach preserves, 1/2 tsp dried thyme, 1/2 tsp salt, plus pepper to taste. Directions: Melt butter over medium high heat. Whisk occasionally until it starts to bubble and foam. Continue whisking until it just starts to develop little brown flecks. Add seasonings & remove from heat. Continue to whisk & let cool for 1-2 minutes. Whisk in preserves until smooth. Put chops in slow cooker & pour sauce over. Cover and cook on low 6-7 hours or high 3-4 hours. I used a baster to remove some of the "juices", made a roux and then added some more juices, broth & white wine to make a sauce to pour over the chops.
Eric - Hope your wife feels better. What a heck of a way to start the new year, indeed.
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Thanks Celia. That's worth getting my crock pot out of the top cupboard.
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Yep, I had to dig mine out for this one, also - it was ideal for any easy NY Day dinner.
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Happy New Year.
i bought chicken breasts and ground sirloin for News Eve supper. Unfortunately, I got the flu and had to chuck it in the freezer. Still got a headache and fever of 102. Been in bed since Saturday. I thought 2018 would be better healthwise. Sigh.
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Moon - so sorry to hear you're under the weather. Hope it doesn't last too long.
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moon - oh no!
eric - oh no for Sharon!
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Eric, I hope Sharon is better soon. Today I got up and changed clothes. Dont judge.... L0L. Fever went down to 99.9. Still fuzzy. If anyone has the flu, stay far away, its awful and moves through a family like lightening!
Much love. BTW. Today lunch was Mrs Grass. Probably supper too, Something about that just works when sick!
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Thanks Moon. It sounds like you're getting better--that's good.... :-)
Sharon is napping right now. Allergist this morning and another dental appointment this afternoon........I feel like a nap and I didn't do any of that!
Earlier today, we used some of my sourdough bread to make grilled cheese sandwiches. I don't know if we'll eat much tonight. I went for a run and that turns off my appetite and I'm not going to wake her to see if she's hungry. When she wakes up, if she's hungry, I'll put something together for her.
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Tonight's dinner is salmon cooked in a hot oven with a yogurt/mustard/herb topping. Side is cauliflower mash. A romaine salad for dh if he wants it.
I am SO tired of heavy "comfort" food. The black-eyed peas went into the freezer today to keep company with pot roast and a container of red beans.
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