So...whats for dinner?
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Just lost a darn post. I'll see if I can re-create
Eric - hope Sharon's root canal is a top tooth. I understand they heal easier like extractions.
Carole - I agree & the salmon sounds delicious.
Moon - Glad you're fever is down. Oh NO, we would never judge. Houston has been 24 the last two nights & I've been living in a collection of warm. Exercise tights on the bottom topped with sweat pants. Turtleneck on top, then a wool sweater, then a sweatshirt. When I ventured out to get the paper, I added a down coat. Wearing one of the soft cotton hats from the chemo days on my head day & night. And sometimes gloves in the house. Feet are covered by wool socks and my old astronaut slippers. https://www.acorn.com/p/acorn-slipper-socks-men-an...
Still I'm sitting in my kitchen reading the paper with my Heat Dish blasting warm air at my feet. Maybe tomorrow it will be warm enough for me to consider stripping off the layers for a hot shower.
Dinner was fresh mushrooms & pork medallions in brandy cream sauce served over noodles. Warm comfort food. Tomorrow I MUST do something with the Royal Riviera Pears from Harry & David. Just couldn't deal with cold food today.
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Celia - I forgot to say - thanks for the crock pot Pork Chops in peach marmalade recipe.
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It is a top tooth. She's feeling better now that today's local anesthetic has worn off.
I've run, gone to bed in my running shorts and then the next day run again in the same running shorts.
Tonight I think I'll pull a pork roast or pork chops from the freezer and set that up for tomorrow. The frozen pork chops always seem to turn out kind of dry when I cook them in the oven or skillet, so I'm too am going to try CeliaC's recipe.
Jessiecat is trying very hard to lay down on my laptop, so I guess I'd better move the computer so he can get some Eric time. :-)
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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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Goodness, Minus, don't you have a furnace in your house?
Eric, I have given up on pork chops because the lean ones are always dry. DH and I like the pork steaks which have lots of fat that cooks out when they're grilled, but I only buy them during the MN summers when my good food judgment slips. I have learned to cook pork tenderloin so that it's tender and juicy.
That's what we're having tonight, pork tenderloin marinated for about an hour. The marinade is EVOO, s & p, chopped rosemary and minced garlic. Pork cooks for about 20 min in a hot oven and then rests a few minutes. The side will probably be sweet potatoes.
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Oh yes Carole, and it's set to 72 degrees. Ever since chemo I'm freezing much of the time. They did check thyroid and blood flow to extemities, but both are good.
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Minus, Gordy reported that Houston was just fine for him--24F was 30 degrees warmer than here! I offered to drive out to O'Hare after getting home from my Tues. night gig and sit in the cellphone lot awaiting his call...and bearing his down coat & gloves. But he said he was fine taking an Uber. He arrived home (at 2:30 am--his flight home was delayed too) clad in the sherpa-lined denim jacket Leslie bought him for Christmas, with three layers of clothing underneath and his hands in a pair of stretch knit gloves we keep around for emergencies.
Monica, get well soon--keep drinking fluids and isolating your dishes or using disposables. Eric, glad Sharon's tooth is quieting down.
New Year's Day dinner was pappardelle alla Bolognese. A bit more al dente than I'd have liked--next time I'll give the pasta another minute in the Fasta Pasta or two more in the skillet with the sauce. It was pretty good. Whole Foods had only meatless sauce, and Peapod's only in-stock meat sauce w/o corn syrup was Ragu Classic "Flavored with Meat." (It was also the only one that had beef listed as the second ingredient after tomatoes). To that I added the contents of a breakfast sausage link I'd squeezed out of the casing and browned, ground a little fennel into the sauce, and added some chopped fresh oregano and the remaining ounce of a long-forgotten bottle of Beauj. Nouveau. Grated pecorino and strewn chopped fresh basil over the top. Really hit the spot.
Tues. night I ate at the club where I performed: tempura veggies, plus the avocado slices a friend gave me from atop his chili. Last night I made shrimp & veggie Pad Thai (snow peas, celery, baby bok choy, carrots, shallots & scallions with Pad Thai simmer sauce--don't judge, it was from Whole Foods) over rice noodles). Tonight I was planning to make a Moroccan stew with harissa sauce and bison skirt steak (instead of lamb), to be served over mixed grains (brown, red & wild rices, quinoa and bulghur). But Gordy stayed over at Leslie's last night (met her flight at O'Hare), and Bob brought home leftover spinach & grilled chicken salad; so I just had the other half of the ginormous bagel & lox I made for brunch. Later on I will eat the salad (saving or perhaps freezing the grilled chicken breast strips) and the leftover Pad Thai. Gordy is probably staying over at Leslie's until Monday, when public schools are back in session and she goes back to teaching, The remainder of the beefsteak tomato (at least the part that stays fresh) from my bagel & lox will go into tomorrow's lunchtime BLT.
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Dinner was one of my eclectic blends. Celery sticks w/pimento cheese. Two small broiled lobster tails. Then I heated the rest of the noodles from a previous dinner to use up the left-over melted butter. Dessert before bed will be the last piece of the current loaf of San Francisco sourdough bread. Or maybe that will be breakfast.
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ChiSandy, I assume your son’s deli trip was to Katz’s or possibly Kenny and Ziggys. We don’t do cold too well here, that was probably obvious, lol
DH made a creamy Ham and Bean soup, it was perfect
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Hope all of our east coast friends on here are safe and warm!
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Kenny & Ziggy's it was. He had jokingly warned "if they don't have Dr. Brown's*, I'm gonna burn it to the ground." They did, so he posted a FB selfie holding a can of Dr. Brown's Black Cherry (I prefer Diet Cream, but the oldsters when I was growing up swore by Cel-Ray--celery & tonic flavor. Bleccchh).
*a brand of soda pop ubiquitous in Kosher-style delis,
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Tonight was small sirloins, some sautéed carrot, yellow squash, zucchini and yellow pepper, and wide egg noodles in an alfredo sauce. Tomorrow night we are having some chicken burgers (Aidell's) which are actually really good and very moist on brioche buns - I have the caramelized onion flavor. Not sure what else - maybe some spicy sweet potato wedges - lately have been making a dipping sauce out of sriracha and Just Mayo, and the rest of the zucchini and yellow squash. Not feeling too energetic - had a MOHS surgery on Tuesday which required three excisions and a graft to close the wound, have some lovely blue stitches down the entire side of my nose. The good news is clean margins and I still have a side of my nose to have stitches in - yay!
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Congrats on the benign diagnosis! I use Aidell's chicken "andouille" sausage, and turkey "ham," when I make jambalaya for non-pork-eaters.
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I won't mention the weather here. It's awful to hear about.
Sharon said her root canal tooth is not bothering her at all...rather it'sher jaw. My guess is that when one of the folks was doing their work, her jaw got over extended. Since she says it's getting better, I will try Celia's pork recipe tomorrow.
Special..good news on the clear margins while still having a nose.
That soup looks good Illimae. I make a potato soup and I've been thinking about putting some ham in it.
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Yes, good news on the clean margins, SpecialK. DH has had MOHS on his nose and required plastic surgery to make his nose look semi-normal.
The soup does look rich and comforting, illimae.
Dinner last night was home-made turkey burgers, mine a little smaller than dh's. The side was a WW recipe for German potato salad that was quite good. I modified it by substituting one slice of thick bacon for Canadian bacon and a Tbsp of the bacon fat instead of oil. The crumbled bacon and one chopped boiled egg was added at the end. It was quite delicious, at least to a hungry person! No, seriously, dh liked it, too.
I am planning my menus to avoid hunger, enjoy the food and lose weight! All the while using food on hand as much as possible.
Tonight's menu will be flank steak in a beef and broccoli dish with soba noodles.
Yesterday I received a package of Penzey's seasonings via Amazon. I finally caved and subscribed to Prime.
Now off to the gym. Sun is shining and the temperature is supposed to rise into the 50's. Folks will be playing golf today.
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Eric - Hope you like the recipe. FYI - Chops may not need to cook as long as stated in recipe, so may want to check periodically.
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Hoping to hear from Lacey soon. Hoping they survived the "cyclone" ok.
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Special - good news about your nose. I had basal cells removed from both sides of my nose several years ago with MOHS. They had to go back several times & ended up really deep. I didn't go back for PS because it would have meant a graft - not much skin on noses. As I age the scars are becoming more prominent, when they pretty much had faded out. Carole - is your DH having a similar progression?
Yes Nance, I too am thinking about Susan & Lacey.
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Last night's dinner was courtesy of Bob, who stopped off at Cellars for dinner and brought me home a ribeye with mushroom sauce, steamed green beans and (instead of spuds) braised Brussels sprouts. Could get through only half of it. Slept in very late today, so brunch was actually late lunch: low-carb BLT with guacamole instead of mayo. Dinner tonight was leftovers from last night (Gordy is spending every night with Leslie, and Bob's working late and eating at the hospital, so no point scratch-cooking anything exotic for just me--so the bison skirt steak for the Moroccan stew went into the freezer). Dessert was a couple of mochi balls: black sesame & red bean. (First time it's been warm enough inside the house to consider anything resembling ice cream).
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Checking in from deep freeze land (I'm sure some of you have the same), where today was the first time in several when I actually saw people on walks outside...it was 14 degrees with minimal wind chill. Early this AM it was -2 with a wind chill of -20 and a woman from our church told DH (he went, I stayed under the covers) that her husband (an amazing 80 yo) went out for his early AM walk and after almost an hour she got in the car to look for him. She was met with, “Where are you going?" when she found him briskly still walking, afterwhich he assured her he was fine, and would meet her at home.
This couple are amazing role models, devoted to social justice and local causes, and never stop contributing despite both having had serious surgeries and the wife currently enduring treatment for the same dx as my DDIL's father, Stage 4 lung cancer and pulmonary fibrosis. She is faring much better than our “relative" and still gets out to the gym daily. As I said, amazing role models!
But I digress...
Last I posted (and I just skimmed a lot just now to catch up here...apologies for not responding to current life events) we were heading into Xmas and still uncertain if DS1 and crew were going to be able to keep their plan to come here. Well, DDIL's dad was hanging in....still is, barely, poor guy, very slowly asphyxiating.... so they came here and her brother stayed with their parents for support. We were thankful not only for seeing them and sharing the holiday, but also because we cleared out and organized so much stuff we had stored in empty rooms so they would be comfortable. The visit was great....and the extremely active kids (5 and 7) delighted and exhausted us. I've worked with kids my whole prof life, and these two are some of the most active I've encountered. And we are old!
We were able to get the “doc vegans" their fill of vegan foods, and on Christmas Day (freezing thunder snow and all), we all trekked to a restaurant and then TD Garden to see the Celtics play. I was worried the loud arena would be too much for the kids, but they LOVE LOUD, and were in their element there, being featured on the jumbotron several times, and even on nat'l TV during the game. By the time the crew left, late Tuesday, DH and I collapsed, even before getting the house back to it's usual less occupied state.
Christmas will finish up for us this coming weekend when we exchange some remaining family gifts with DS2 and DDIL2. They have been traveling for work a lot since being with her fam for the holiday, so it will be good to see them.
The week after Xmas we were out every day for errands and events and ate at restaurants waay too much (your words were ringing in my ears, Carole!), so I have been really happy to be back in the kitchen cooking. Before that week's schedule we'd planned a NYE dinner at La Morra who had a fixed price menu, and where we usually have great meals. That night it was less than stellar, but the funniest part was when we received our desserts, DH's “carrot cake" was a deconstructed version (always note quotation marks on a menu!),and it was hysterically ugly and texture/taste deficient. I will try to get the pic up.
During our most recent snow storm, our newer neighbors invited tons of folks over for a spontaneous potluck, so I quickly made a chicken white bean chili with added kale, which was pretty good...and even better as a leftover last night, which I served us as a nacho plate.
One of the other women at the potluck made a lentil type chili, which was a WW recipe. I am almost thinking after listening to and seeing the two neighbors who are doing well on that program I might do well to join (again....lost 30lbs twelve years ago...but “only" need to lose 15 now LOL) if I can't get myself into better eating habits and a gym schedule more regularly.
I will try to get a few food pix on now, and then off to make chicken marsala for dinner, along with my standard big salad.
Xmas crew including DDIL’s cousins. I was shocked at how many families were at game
Oh jeesh, I split my keyboard and taboot, cant find my food pix so am giving up so DH doesn’t starve.
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Tonight was Butterball soup, which is my best friends polish family Christmas dinner. The butterballs are made with breadcrumbs, butter, eggs, 1/2 & 1/2, allspice and salt. I’ve always loved it and have adopted their tradition.
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Trying again to get some food pix up...
Recent baked teriyaki salmon, squash, farro, and spinach pear salad dinner...felt great getting back to my own kitchen food
Scallop entree at LaMorra
The “carrot cake” mistake DH ordered (with my help)....yikes!
NYE dessert I ordered.....an almond something, which was delicious.
. My standard dinner when we go to C’s games. The Harp restaurant and bar accommodates my “no rice” request and cooks up my baked salmon over a large bed of veggies. Recently wait staff who see me know my order...pretty funny.
That’s my photo effort for a while....
I hope everyone is starting the year out well and successfully fighting off winter (and other) maladies.
And hooray! We are having a heat wave of 34 degrees here in Boston
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Looks great Lacey, yum!
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Probably roasted rainbow cauliflower, with an insalata Caprese to start. Either that, or tagliatelle Bolognese. Had oatmeal for breakfast (forgot how filling it is!) and later, a single egg Benedict (2-gm-net-carb toast, thin slice of jamon serrano, fried egg, prefab Hollandaise, and a sprinkling of chopped tarragon & cayenne.
The Moroccan bison-veggie stew turned out great.
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SpecialK, sorry about the stiches and yay on the clean margins. Are you now done painting your bedroom?
Illimae, the soup and the soup look delicious.
Lasey, your grandkids look like my eldest, even though I am dark blonde, she looks just like her dad, it is very hard to beat those genes, she was my little Sheherezad and she was crazy when I she was small, she got so calm when she became a teenager. This salmon looks delicious and I will start adding pears to my sallads, I udually add some melons but the now taste like cucumbers, no sweetness at all.
ChiSandy, that was I thought the other day after having oatmeal for breakfest, how filling it was.
Well, I wish I could have any of it right now, I ended up in ER twelve hours after my last EC. They have removed the piccline and after I sent the pictures of my swollen hand to my clinic they told me to come in and I have now been here for a couple of hours. I am both hungry and nauseas, I was about to go to bed when they called me and I thought that sleep was going to suppress my hunger. Instead I came here and the doctor who just came to examin me has been in the next room answering her calls and calling others for half of an hour. And I am checking for the nearest McDonalds that is opened at night. A Big Mac with pommes, these steroids are just making me feel like I am starving
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I went back to the country cafe today for lunch today to have another glorious "real" patty melt. My friend tried one of the 3 specials of the day with your choice of two veg. She had meatloaf, steamed cabbage & a cauliflower/broccoli mix.
Tonight I am still too full to fix anything. Dinner was 1/2 cup of cashew nuts and almost 1/2 pint of Haagen Dazs Green Tea ice cream. (It's annoying that the pint size of ice cream is no longer 16oz but only 14oz).
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So I made the caprese and then the cauliflower. The heirloom tomato was definitely over the hill and somewhat flavorless & mealy (conventionally grown in Mexico--summer, come back!) but with chopped basil, real balsamico, basil-infused EVOO, Sicilian orange sea salt and buffalo mozzarella (domestic, from bison rather than Italian from water buffalo, but very creamy & tasty with no gaminess) it was a fine appetizer. Surprised how much a pound of rainbow cauliflower florets cooked down, but they were still delicious (tossed with 4 smashed garlic cloves, 3 sprigs of fresh thyme, a pinch of dried herbes de Provence, a sprinkling of salt & pepper and a drizzle of olive oil. Roasted at 425 for 10 min., then 350 for another 20). When done, finished with grated Parmigiano-Reggiano and truffle salt. Much less salt and oil than the recipe called for, but tasty nonetheless.
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Back from the hospital, no traces of blood clot after the fragmin injection I got while on ER which is a good news. The piccline interfered with blood circulation and can either cause blood clot or give the symptoms of blood clot.
I set cassoulet in the oven before going back to the hospital and it turned all that black and crusty. I did it because DD&BF are leaving on Thursday for another city where he studies his last semester at university. I see that cassoulet’s exterior is not impressing him much)) but I was trying to explained that this is how it is suppose to look.
I myself am not hungry at all because everything, tea, coffee, Big Mac last night tastes just salty. And I mean Big Mac always tastes a bit sweet, the sweetest hamburger bread of all chains, at least here, but it tasted the same in US too. So I am bulked with pinapple dices, salty even them, and just ginger tea and water
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Lacey, you're killing me with that "food porn!" (Do I see a smackdown in the works between you & Cherry-sw)?
Cherry, glad to hear the fragmin injection worked. As to cassoulet, crusty is good--like the "soccarat" at the bottom of paella, I love to mix it in with the creamy stuff before digging in.
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Hi!
It's been a long time. Been traveling still and have a gig in Boston starting Feb. for a few months. I'm wondering if anyone has a recipe for vegetarian lasagna that is really really good? I am planning on making it for my daughter, SIL and grandson (who is 8 months old and probably won't be able to eat it.) They are moving into a new house and I thought that I would bring something to sustain them in the week to come and on moving day. Thanks!
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