So...whats for dinner?
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Went out for tapas & paella tonight, brought home leftovers. The older we get, the faster we fill up (but the cheaper the tab).
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If we don't get the predicted yucky precip this evening, we'll walk to Mango Pickle for Indian-Italian fusion; otherwise we'll go to Fireside for so-so comfort food (we have a $40 gift card for it). Bob went to Mas Alla Del Sol for carne asada & huevos rancheros (couldn't even get in the door at Cellars for brunch), and I made use of last night's tapas leftovers: garlic sausage, cabrito al horno (goat cheese in tomato sauce) on garlic toast; and an olive-oli fried egg. (Had a voice lesson at 2 so I couldn't go out for brunch).
Mango Pickle is Michelin Bib Gourmand-recommended, and this month Chicago Magazine named it the city's best new restaurant.
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Leftover Chicken Pot Pie
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Last night I made Fortnum & Mason's Welsh Rarebit on Acre levain bread, which was delicious. Who doesn't love fancy grilled cheese?
Tonight will be pasta with sweet Italian sausage, goat cheese and first of the season asparagus from the farmer's market.
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Had a nice Grenache-Syrah at Mango Pickle last night, along with house-made ginger/lime soda that was sort of like a spicy virgin Margarita. We had lentil beignets, a giant samosa to share, clay pot chicken with root veggies, palak paneer (housemade paneer cheese, light as air), crispy turmeric basmati rice and naan. Dessert was a coconut milk rice pudding made with cashews, jackfruit, sweet spices and jaggery (palm sugar). Ate Sat. night's leftover seafood paella from Cafe Ba Ba Ree Ba tonight, fleshed out with leftover sardines and some more chopped peppers (red, poblano). I cooked it over med-high heat to dry out the bottom and form that crunchy soccarat it didn't have Sat. night.
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This past weekend I caught up reading here, started to post, and then woosh, my volunteer life interrupted, once again. So today I am parked at the car dealership with DH while both of our cars get serviced, and I remembered to bring my iPad so I could fulfill my overdue intention...and brought the notes I’d made so I could remember/comment on the last few pages.
First, thanks Carole for the eggplant/airfryer feedback. And your crabcakes sound wonderful! I love crabcakes, but always have to check in restaurants if they have celery (my annoying allergy) in them, and some do, sadly, forcing me to move on to my next favorite seafood choice. Also, Carole, whenever I have a bit of leftover pork or chicken, I find it easy to make a veggie toss (with, say, some teriyaki sauce) and add that meat in slivers at the end of cooking process.
Minus and Joyce, I saw the trailer for Leisure Seekers and just couldn’t quite bring myself to see it, despite my admiration for those actors. I could probably see it with a group who would have a discussion of the aging process afterwards, but as “entertainment” it isn’t something I would seek out right now. Aside from the issues related to aging, I am not even a leisure seeker, so probably won’t see it at all.
Eric, got a kick out of your bow tying “motor memory” success. I always remember hearing about that phenomenon from my sons’ piano teacher who seemed to know when the kids were playing their pieces if their fingers were doing all the work from their “motor memory” or if they were thinking about the piece. I liked your cauliflower pasta recipe!
I had never heard of Sees candies until my step-mother started sending us lollipops and now chocolates at Christmas. I bring the lollipops to my grands whenever we visit since they come in a huge box which we would never finish.
Given our home menues this week, DH and I should be clucking! We have been having many varieties of chicken, cooked in large portions so that we have leftovers for one or two nights! Good thing that DH doesn’t mind “jump ups” (did we ever learn the origin of that term?) to which I always add a fresh salad and a cooked vegetable. So, basically we have been eating chicken marsala with vermicelli, a chicken, tomato, onion and artichoke concoction with farro, all week......and a chicken teriyaki stir fry one night. We are now out of leftovers, DH has a conference dinner tonight, so I will have a creative Minus meal (my fave thing to do) and we have a Celtics’ game tomorrow night, so it will be salmon over veggies then for me at The Harp. I had a survey from TD Garden this week which included a question about food options in the arena. Once again, I registered my concern about the unhealthful food options there, and would love for that to change. Do all sports fans want to eat fried or greasy meat foods?? What decent foods are offered in other parts of the country at your sports venues?
Joyce, don’t rush back! Your DH is still right. We seem to be having a very delayed winter with just an occasional warmish sunny day. Snow showers abound! The only upside is that I don't yet have to squeeze into spring/summer clothes!
Well, my car is ready and my giant post done, so mission accomplished.
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Lacey - I agree with you decision to pass on the movie. Maybe did the term "jump ups" come from Debbie in Oregon? I know it was a LONG time ago - before Michelle died. If you ever "talk" to Susan, will you ask if you can post an update for us?
Bought a rump roast today to make Special's French dips. Stupid store did not carry any cans of French Onion soup by any manufacturer - so I bought Lipton's dry. If I find a can elsewhere before I start, I have other uses for the Lipton's.
I've been eating fruit salad all week and today I made deviled eggs. Tonight will be a raw veggie relish platter. Canteloupe was $0.98 so that's in the future.
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Didn't "jump ups" come from Luvmygoats?
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Hmmmm.....maybe, Nance. It would be great if we could have a google style thread in which we could enter ‘jump ups’ and the page where it was entered would pop up. 😉
Have to share my purchase coup for today....
DH and I have want to give DS2 and DDIL a really nice 1st Anniversary gift, (cannot believe that their wedding was almost a year ago!)and since they haven’t broken the bank yet to buy a Vita Mix, we decided to look into that. They are so ridiculously expensive, but I remembered that a few years ago, I was able to buy a low end model for the NH lake house at a BB and Beyond with a coupon....so no NH sales tax and 20% off, and it worked out to be almost the price of another brand’s highest end model. So, I thought I’d go online to buy the low end model with my trusty coupon (of which I have many!). Lo and behold, Vita Mix no longer allows those B, B, and B coupons! Darn! So on our way home from car repairs today, we stopped at Best Buy to check their VM models and prices. They had the low end model for the same price we saw on Amazon, and I was obsessing over spending so much, while DH was obsessing over the size of each model’s motor.
I just hated to pay full price for it, and asked an associate there if they ever have coupons (I did not have one, and rarely shop there)and, if so, does VM accept them. Well, she gets on her computer and returns to say that VM does accept coupons and she will give me the coupon price, which was 20% off. So basically we ended up saving $74! And that is what I could make peace with for buying this magic machine! Who knew that just asking would result in a nice savings! I sure hope they enjoy it! I know that DS2 makes his bride smoothies each morning, so this blender will liquify all that kale nicely.
Speaking of the blender, I rarely use mine for much at dinner time these days, (laziness and less for DH to clean up) but made a really nice fresh raspberry vinaigrette in it this past week....when I was trying to add variety to our all chicken all the time dinners. It was really delish (!) on a salad of varied greens, apple, cranberries and walnuts.
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Lacey, I love a challenge. I used the search feature and entered “jump up dinner” in the keyword box. It wasn’t too long before I found this.
Our dinner was spaghetti squash with leftover sauce, steam broccoli and cauliflower and a side salad.
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illimae - before I got to your post I did the same search, lol! Great minds... we should form a detective agency.
lacey - I had a similar ask and ye shall receive experience today at the Nike outlet store - I had a $5 coupon from my Verizon wireless phone account but their cell service in the store was not good, so I made sure I could pull it up on my phone while I was in the back trying on shoes, but by the time I got to the front I couldn't get it to load again - I explained and the lovely person at the register just gave me $5 off on my already ridiculously cheap new sneaks! Score for you and me today! P.S. - totally jealous of the VM gift!
Dinner tonight was chicken pot pie with puff pastry crust and a glass of Shine reisling at one of our local restaurants - I also had lunch out with DH's former admin - a delish salad with chicken and julienned apples and orange segments over field greens, who retired after 24 years in the Army. So I cooked NOTHING all day - it was excellent! Also, appears to be a totally chicken day - I'm looking at you lacey...
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Well, thank you, Illimae!!! Tech challenges are not my thing, so I really appreciate your taking it on. This brings me down Dinner Thread Memory Lane, when we were carrying on about terms for leftovers. My mtoher learned to call then “for darn sures”from a Southern friend of hers. I’d totally forgotten this passage, but it was worth rereading. Haha! And now we know what “jump ups” are.....
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Tonight I made a chicken-ginger-garlic vegetable stir fry. Lots of onion, bok choy, ginger, carrots, celery and so on, with just with a little bit of chicken and brown rice.. It came from a "heart healthy" recipe magazine
The only thing with the recipe is that it claims to feed 4-6. The vegetables barely fit into a 15 inch skillet and then there is the rice and chicken. So, maybe they're assuming it's 4-6 high school kids in the middle of swim practice....certainly it's not 4-6 "regular adults". :
I'm getting over a "man cold"...There were a couple of days I didn't feel like doing much, but did anyway. :-) My energy is coming back.
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Thanks, Special, too! I should not be such a lazy searcher!
And hooray for your coupon coup, too! Such victories we possess!
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Got a mani-pedi coming up Thurs. so I cracked open a bag of frozen Buffalo wings and had three. Still hungry, so made a single portion (measured out on the lid of the Fasta Pasta) of spaghetti with Rao's marinara, chopped basil, and freshly grated pecorino Romano. Have some potted herb plants on the windowsill: basil, cilantro, rosemary, thyme, parsley & oregano. The basil is finicky--getting some leaf-drop; the cilantro is probably a lost cause--never had any luck growing it. And getting little no-see-ums in the house; we've had fruit flies all winter thanks to fresh produce.
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lacey - it's the little things, right? For me shopping is half about the hunt for the thing and half about the bargain - funny, when DD was little she called the coupons "poucons", which of course, has stuck! So yay for your poucon score!
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SpecialK, Poucons is too cute! My son couldn’t say ‘armpits’ and pronounced it ‘armpints’..we still call them by that name
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Illimae - thanks for the memories!!!
So I had jump up fruit salad for dunch and a long Civic Assoc meeting tonight. Afters was jump ups from the meeting - a lunch size bag of PT chips and 2 oatmeal-raisin cookies. Tomorrow I will meet a friend at PF Changs.
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Egads007 - my godmother said “egads" often - I think of her when I see your screen name! She was a great presence in my life, so thanks! Armpints is a great one! I might start using it too! Another funny one in our family - my kids would get very excited when the package delivery man - the one in the brown truck - would come, they would jump up and down yelling - yay, the “present man" is here! So for a long time he was the present man, until I explained he was really called the UPS man. Next time he came by they starting yelling about the U-PMS man! We went back to present man, lol!
I’ll throw one more in - since this is food related - my son referred to soy sauce as soil sauce. Out of the mouth of babes... and yes, we still call it that
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Now Jump Ups makes sense again. Jump Up and get your own!
Lucky son and dil, Lacey! Aren't we related somehow? LOL. I looked long and hard at VM. One reason, besides price and questions about how much use it would get, that I resisted was the height factor. They're very tall and wouldn't fit under my counter. I bought a cheaper appliance for making smoothies and now it sits in a cabinet. I have been "off" smoothies for a couple of years.
Monday night dinner was small limas (dry) cooked with a ham bone that dh had bought from a ham store. The limas were good but I could see the sheen of fat on the surface of the pot and, since it was Monday night and my WW weigh in was that morning, I fished out fatty pieces of ham. It's in my dna to like fatty meat. I burned the bottom of the pot in which the brown rice was cooked but there was enough unburned rice for dinner. Side was romaine salad with lots of good additions like avocado and blue cheese.
Last night was a hot dish with turkey Italian sausage, half a jar of leftover Rao's and bow tie pasta. At serving time I mixed in some mozzarella and romano cheese and heated in microwave. Side was romaine salad, ditto from last night.
Great weigh in at WW on Monday morning. Down 4.4 lbs. I bought a small WW spiralizer that was on sale and will finally try zucchini noodles. Maybe tonight.
Beautiful weather the last few days thanks to cool fronts. Today I will play golf.
Already departure date for Going North approaches. May 21.
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SpecialK - LOL@ soil sauce, think I'll adopt that one! Speaking of food, we refer to Kraft Parmesan cheese in a jar as "shaky cheese".....every time my son asked for the shaky cheese I wondered if the bottle had a nerve disorder!
I also LOVED the U-PMS man....ours is quite cranky so I'll be borrowing that one too!
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Carole - congratulations!!!! 4.4 lbs is an accomplishment. I love the spiralizer veggies. I'll often use them for stir fry mix ups or salads or saute w/butter & garlic, or whatever. I frequently mix zucchini & yellow squash. I'm gearing up to try beets since I like shoestring beets in salads. I had never heard of the name 'hot dish' for a casserole until Moonflower explained it.
Moon - how are you doing?
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FYI
My breast cancer surgeon, Dr. Kristi Funk (who is amazing) has written a book called BREASTS: THE OWNER'S MANUAL which is a guide to reducing cancer risk, making treatment choices and optimizing outcomes. IT HAS LOADS OF NUTRITION-FOOD INFO (Dr. Funk thinks food is one of the most effective things we can do to lower BC risk). There is nothing like it out there. I've read a pre-release copy and it's brilliant-- so straightforward and practical-- I wish I had read this years ago and maybe I wouldn't need to be on this board! :0
She offers a free download of one chapter on her website so you can see for yourself...I highly recommend for those of us going through this BC journey as well as cancer-free women to increase odds of staying that way. It's a great mom's day gift for women in your life.
More info and pre-order here https://pinklotus.com/elements/breasts-the-owners-...
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Carole, awesome, congrats!
DH came down with flu like symptoms yesterday so dragged him to the doc this a.m. He tested negative but because of his severe fatigue and body aches plus temp of 101, started him on tamiflu. Canceled weekend visit with kids and grand-dog. Food is an unknown since right now it's canned soup, fruit cocktail and pudding. Of course it's 70 degrees today and beautiful for the first time since I can't remember when. It figures. It's been that kind of winter.
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Sorry, but I just don't believe any diet is the guaranteed prevention of bc or recurrence.
Today was such a gorgeous day. I enjoyed being out on the golf course despite a lot of sneezing and a drippy nose, thanks to all the pollen. My allergy med just wasn't up to the challenge.
Tonight's dinner will feature spiralized zucchini, shrimp, andouille sausage, and corn. All on the WW "free" list except the sausage and any olive oil or butter. The recipe is Shrimp, Chorizo and Corn Saffron Zucchini Pasta. I'm substituting andouille for chorizo. Side will be a romaine or spinach salad.
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Tonight I'm making spicy sesame chicken with the remainder of the asparagus and Chinese broccoli that are in the fridge. Maybe some onion and other veggies as well, and rice to go with it.
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Carole - I agree that diet doesn't prevent or heal BC. I reported the posting about this book because the member posted the exact message on on 8 or 10 sites that she has never visited before. I think that is inappropriate.
PF Changs was really disappointing. They have changed their lunch menu so my old favorites are gone. I had a "tempura shrimp bowl". Unfortunately all the veggies were fried too. I ate about half before the grease totally coated my mouth.
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"For most of us, family history and genetics do not determine who gets breast cancer—we do! You have power over this disease."
Oh, good grief--yet another "blame-the-victim" manifesto. Bad enough those of us who had early menarche/late menopause must also beat ourselves up over having been on The Pill too long, having had too few children too late (or not at all) or not having nursed them long enough (if at all)--now we have to rue the dietary choices we made over a lifetime? And now if we get a recurrence or mets we brought that on ourselves as well?
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Like I said - I turned this in as a rule violation.
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Thanks Minus. I got turned off by that one. As my surgeon said when I asked her what could have caused me to get BC, her answer was that it was hard to find a cause.
Anywho, dinner was spaghetti. Been cutting back on eating pasta a lot.
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