So...whats for dinner?
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Minus, count me in. I going to be among the retired folk soon, so I’ll be flexible with lunch times too.
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Minus Yay on the scan.
Carol and minus, I lived in Georgia for 11 years. Boiled peanuts are a Southern thing and are sold on the side of the road, mostly in the mountains. Here's the recipe. You'll like them! I've been eating them not boiled lately though, I miss the boiled version.
http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/boiled-peanuts
Not much fiddling, I only get one carry on with my travels and it's way too hard to take a cat and a violin on board, so the cat gets "stowed under the seat in front of me." She just goes to sleep, she's used to it.
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Bedo - Thanks for the recipe for boiled peanuts. I have never tasted them. But oh my goodness, what a LOT of salt. I've been trying to eat 'dry roasted'. They still have some salt but not much oil. If I keep a jar on the cupboard, I can swing by & eat one handful and it satisfies my craving for salt. (most of the time)
I hate that you're not playing your violin but I do understand the space constraints. Maybe next fall.
Dinner was a large salad w/lots of additions. Tomorrow will be the last of the leftover beans. I bought some fresh corn (7 for $1.00). Looks OK but flavor may not satisfy on it's own, so I'll try the Calabasitas on Sunday.
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Well, my current "disabilities" aren't that bad--I can cut stuff standing over the chopping block, using my upper arm as the "prime mover." I have much more ROM in my R arm than I did last week, and hardly ever wear the sling. I just have to remember not to push down on stuff with my hand, nor to pull anything without some leverage. (I found a steel spatula makes a good lever for propping up dishes at the top of the stack, and using a silicone grip mat to pull one out from below. I prefer to use the regular plate as a base for paper plates, to cut down on dishwashing). Did order some assistive devices: doorknob covers, long-handled shoehorn, pill-bottle opener, etc.
Too hot out to cook. Too hot to walk to restaurants, too. (And we both have summer colds--ugh). Bob picked up some stuff to go from the restaurant in the Oak Lawn Hilton: Buffalo wings and deconstructed chicken breast lettuce wraps. Had an iced almond milk latte earlier (the Nespresso capsule machine and the Aeroccino frother work well--I really shouldn't be operating my big espresso rig for the time being, as it takes some force to lock the "portafilter" into the grouphead and work the steam knobs--ask your barista what that means). Treated myself to a mini-Magnum ice cream bar--no scooping necessary. Tried to pull the foil off a pudding cup last night--just don't have the strength to get a grip. I had to cut the foil off with a knife.
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Dinner at the Y Restaurant was not great. The room was nice and not noisy. My bloody mary was outstanding, almost like a liquid salad with all the goodies on toothpicks. Bloody Mary? you're thinking. I was done in by the heat and humidity yesterday and a bloody mary sounded refreshing. It was.
DH had the 10 oz prime rib and so did the other couple at our table. I had the blue cheese burger, wrongly thinking that a burger is always a good choice in MN. It was overcooked and the blue cheese melted to a brownish color. My Caesar salad was not what I expected but I enjoyed its crispness and fresh flavors. The baked potato was not good. How can a restaurant miss on baked potato? The prime rib was cooked past the requested doneness. Robin, one of our dinner companions, complained to the waitress, who apologized and said they had run out of prime rib.
Needless to say, we won't be going back to the Y!
Dinner tonight will be the wedding reception under a white tent out on the lawn. I may have mentioned that our neighbors here in the resort, Mary and Lyman, are getting married (for the 3rd time!) after living together 20 plus years. Earlier in the year they had to present a marriage certificate to apply for a VA house loan (just in case they found a house to buy in the FL panhandle!). Afterwards they had a small religious ceremony. NOW they're having a to-do with a hundred guests. Mary has thought of nothing else and talked of nothing else for a whole year. The theme is Hawaian and we'll all wear artificial leis.
The food will be typical MN, various pasta salads and bean salad, etc. All with...you guessed it! Raw onion. I'll have a sloppy joe or two. The good news is that tomorrow the wedding will be OVER! Mary didn't have a big wedding the first go round when she was married at 17 and she's indulging herself (on a budget) these many years later. I hope everything goes according to what she envisions.
The music and dancing willing be at nearby Clancy's. Originally it was to be here, outdoors. Thank heaven for the change because there will be a lot of drunk folks before the night is over.
Today I will do some chopping and prep for a breakfast casserole I'm making to contribute to breakfast for Mary's guests tomorrow morning. Some family members are here at the resort and others are nearby. Her plan is for them to congregate for breakfast.
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Haven’t been cooking too much this week, DH had a vascular procedure on his right leg on Mon, so was keeping it elevated Mon/Tues. I made some chicken chili at the beginning of the week. He returned to work on Wed and I made a nice salad of butter lettuce, roasted chicken breast, halved strawberries, goat cheese, roasted pumpkin seeds, and poppyseed vinaigrette for dinner. DH ate his lunch very late at work yesterday so he had cheese, crackers, an apple and some almonds while watching the Ray’s and Astros baseball game, I had a salad. Not sure about dinner tonight except that it will not be chicken - I have some red potatoes, so may make a sour cream and dill potato salad and some small sirloin steaks I will reverse sear. May also make a broccoli salad - the one with bacon, slivered almonds, dried cranberries and sweet and sour dressing - you’ve probably all eaten it. It’s hot so cold dinners are appealing.
Chisandy - so sorry about your injury and the need for surgery, but glad you’re finding ways to work around the limitations. Never a dull moment
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Carole, summer must be the only time you won't find hot-dish at a MN dinner party. As for burgers, I've never had much luck with blue or Gorgonzola cheese melted over the top--it cooks unevenly. But as an inside-out "juicy Lucy," St. Paul-style? Now you're talking. About the prime rib--that is always a problem when it's a special, because the restaurant's decision how much to buy and cook is a crapshoot. (Our local restaurant way overbought brisket for corned beef this March, having run out of the St. Pat's corned beef & cabbage special after only 90 minutes; so for a couple of weeks they were pushing Reubens on special and adding it to the chorizo hask as an option for brunch).Very hard, unless they specialize in it like Lawry's, to get an entire roast to medium-rare (much less rare); usually, for more degrees of doneness, they dip a slice briefly in the hot au jus. When it's late in service and the roast has been sitting under the heatlamps for awhile, it overcooks, especially the end pieces. Sometimes I ask for medium rare but if it's late or they're running out, I'll accept medium. Baked potatoes, if done en masse, are also tricky--have to bake them just short of all the way so that when "fired" they'll turn out right.
Until I visited the U.P. for the first time, I'd never really encounterd "supper clubs." (We have in nearby Lincolnwood, as part of the Lettuce Entertain You chain, "L. Woods Pine Lodge & Tap," modeled on one. Portions are too big, taste too often bland). But I found a good one last year in Rice Lake, WI--even had proper-sized crystal wine glasses. Excellent food, too.
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The wedding food was ok. I had coleslaw, hot beans dish (basically canned baked beans with hamburger and possibly some additions), a small piece of pork loin cooked until it was falling apart, and two sloppy joes. The meat was ground beef but tasted good. The wedding cake was the best I've ever had. Mary found the recipe and she and her sisters baked the sheet cakes. The sisters decorated them and each cake looked different. I think the batter contains yogurt but the cake was very moist and a little heavy.
As dh reminded me, the food at most weddings is mediocre. Or at the weddings of ordinary folks. Upper crust catered affairs are probably better.
The good news is that the wedding is IN THE PAST. I hope the effort was worth it for Mary and Lyman. Now I'm looking forward to the departure of all the wedding guests.
Not sure about dinner tonight.
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Next to Popeyes fried chicken, wedding cake is my favorite food. It's what I always want for my birthday cake.
I have some leftover brown rice so will be making jambalaya with andouille and shrimp tonight. Skipping the chicken that I normally include because we've had a lot of it lately. DH's chicken tolerance is low.
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Not sure what got into my brain this morning, but I couldn't sleep so I cooked.
Boiled eggs for both deviled eggs & potato salad. After I assembled the eggs, I put the potatoes on to boil and went to check the sprinkler on the front lawn. It was broken & took some time, so oops, the potatoes got too soft. I went ahead since everything else was already chopped & I have almost 'mashed potato' salad. Oh well, it doesn't feel right in my mouth but it tastes good.
Next my lentil foray. Sauteed diced carrot, onion & garlic until soft. Added organic green lentils & chicken stock instead of water (since I had an open container of Swanson's in the fridge. I'd been warned not to cook them too much to avoid mush, so I set the timer for 15 minutes although most recipes said 20-25. Even that could have been less, but the result is good. When I get ready to eat, I'll saute some spinach & add the lentil mix. (recipe called for Kale but I don't eat that).
And last but not least - the Calabasitas. Zucchini, yellow squash & onions all thin sliced. I'll add fresh corn - I found some 7 for $1.00 on Friday - and a small can of Hatch chilies.
Who I'm cooking for is a mystery. It's just me & I haven't invited any guests. I can take some squash to my shut-in neighbor if I pull it out of the pan before adding the corn or chili. Maybe she'd try the lentils?? Otherwise at least 3 or 4 days of meals & none of them freezable.
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Probably Brats on the grill. Not cooking inside today!
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Going out as little as possible—93, muggy, storms coming. Will order in
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Tonight will be easy, grilled burgers with potato chips and a sugar free cheesecake (diabetic houseguests birthday) for dessert. It’s my first cheesecake, hopefully it turns out ok.
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We were in Seattle for a family wedding for a few days, so I am thrilled to be eating MY FOOD again. I managed to stick to my vegetarian/flexitarian ways when in Seattle but it wasn't always easy given that we were at restaurants, Pike Place Market, a wedding....
Tonight we're having our usual Sunday supper which is always one of my homemade soups plus some kind of vegetable or a dark-leafy-greens salad. DH has his grainy bread toast. I sometimes toast up a slice of Dave's Killer 21 Grain Thin Sliced bread and embellish it with tahini or smashed avocado or sunflower seed butter or almond butter.
Tonight's soup: Carrot Orange Fennel Soup with Cashew Cream and toasted pepitas. (Rebecca Katz's Cancer-Fighting Kitchen cookbook.)
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We had dinner at La Pasta last night with the young owners of Pine Hollow Resort. Not sure of the ownership details but they share ownership with the man's parents, the "older owners"! I had a chicken and pasta dish in a butter sauce. Small chunks of chicken, sun-dried tomatoes, walnuts and pesto over linguine.
DH had his "usual," Italian sausage and sautéed onions and green peppers over linguine. Instead of the olive oil sauce he had tomato sauce. Didn't look as good to me.
Afterwards we visited the ice cream place across the street where I had a hot fudge sundae. MUST get back on track with my WW program.
Tonight will be a steak.
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Last night was marinara with small turkey meatballs and mushrooms over spaghetti squash and a small green salad with balsamic dressing. I think tonight will be sweet and sour with turkey kielbasa, peppers, broccoli, carrot, onion and pineapple over brown rice. Not sure of our plans for the 4th - mine mostly entail sitting with the terrified dog watching a very loud TV. If you've never been in FL for the 4th it is quite the experience - there are fireworks for sale on every street corner - and these folks also like to celebrate with gunfire on top of that! It's pretty crazy!
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I have had to make some accommodations to my cooking technique, seeing as I basically have only a hand-and-a-half through the end of summer. Yesterday I was about to fry an egg. When I cracked it, I couldn't separate it at first, so I delicately dug in. My fingers began trembling so that I actually ended up dropping it into the pan, shattered shell at all. I picked out the near-empty hull (the last bit of white was sticking to the inside) and the larger pieces as best I could. So I had a bit more calcium in my diet. Gonna probably do caprese (have an heirloom tomato and fresh mozz. to use up, plus have to pinch off the basil so it won't go to seed like my cilantro did) and maybe either a little spaghetti aglio e olio or take the path of least resistance and put together one of those already-cooked quinoa salads. But that may be a challenge, as I have trouble peeling foil tops off of things (hurts my R arm too much, and not enough ROM in my braced L hand). I've had to take steak knives to pudding cups, yogurt & ricotta container seals, pill bottle inner seals, etc.
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Big change of dinner plans--still doing the Caprese for my app; but first I saw canned clams on sale at CVS, and thought linguine alla vongole. Then I went to Whole Foods--and they had fresh Resurrection Bay sockeye salmon on sale for $13.99/lb. So, pan-seared sockeye and snap peas for my entree tonight. I automatically bought too much, thinking Gordy'd have it when he comes home from rehearsal...and then I remembered "home" is his new bachelor pad. So I think I will cut up & freeze some fillets and bag some snap peas for him for the next time he comes over (or I can visit him). So weird to be an empty nester--just came across a photo of my BFF & I on the beach, very pregnant with our sons (her son was the groom at last week's wedding, Gordy was his best man). Time flies like a jet plane. (Fruit flies like a banana).
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I see there’s clearly a theme lately. Tonight DH has Lasagna House, he had lasagna and I had the Italian combo (lasagna, cheese ravioli and fettuccine alfredo), both with salad and garlic bread . The food was good and reasonably priced but the portions are huge, too big really. Anyway, I’ve got tomorrow’s lunch now.
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Made zucchini noodles, with marinara, shrooms, shredded chicken breast & various herbs yesterday - Will be noshing on leftovers a couple more dinners this week.
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Celia - that's on my list for later this week. I bought the fresh mushrooms so I'm ready.
Lunch was the last of the potato salad. Yum Yum. Tonight after water aerobics was leftover Calabasitas - even better than the first day, and leftover lentils - also even better than the first day. I have one more serving left of each. Tomorrow I'll tackle the deviled eggs and the last two corns on the cob. And probably a butter lettuce salad.
Signed up for a class at Total Wine with a friend for later this month. Winemakers in the Southern Hemisphere have taken the great grapes of Europe, and created modern and intensely flavorful wines for a new generation. Join us to explore the signature wines of the Southern Hemisphere, including Argentine Malbec, Australian Shiraz, New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc and more. From powerful, cellar-worthy reds to easy-drinking tropical white wines, all are masterfully crafted on the other side of the globe.
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minus - I just looked at events at my local Total Wine prompted by your post and they have the same class on 7/26, sounds like fun! Maybe I will go!
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DH did a great job cooking the ribeye on the grill last night. Side was a repeat of veggie sautee (yellow squash, zucchini, onion) with the addition of corn cut off the cob. Also a tossed salad.
No thought yet on tonight's dinner.
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Salmon was magnificent last night—gonna portion & freeze the rest, and start defrosting skirt or flatiron steak to grill tomorrow.
Meanwhile, I am a bit of a mess. My cold is waning—yielding to a massive allergy attack. I normally go months w/o touching my inhaler, but have had to use it 2-3x/day this week. Chest hurts from coughing, upper back from the sling, R radius from both cracks at either end and the brace I must wear when actively using the arm, and now I am chain-sneezing and hanging on the edge of a sneeze the rest of the time. Local allergy count say only the molds are high (weeds & grasses low), but out in my alley I see ragweed everywhere—at least a month early. I am amazed how one can feel so rotten w/o a fever
Maybe when I see my primary on Thurs for my pre-op clearance I can ask him about switching nasal steroids (going back to Rx-only Nasonex, in case I've built up a tolerance to Nasacort) and restarting allergy shots after 34 years. (I'm afraid to see an allergist, though—who will likely tell me to give away my cats. Not gonna happen—I'm far more symptomatic outdoors).
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I had a lunch only Bedo could appreciate... 1-1/2 deviled eggs, 1/2 of a Ruby grapefruit and 1/2 cup of dry roasted peanuts.
Still not hungry at 5:30pm so I'll probably just have a gin & tonic now & popcorn later.
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Sounds good to me Minus!
Pasta primavera with grilled garlic bread. It's hawt.
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I had sclerotherapy on both legs today, so I am laying down and elevating for 24 hrs. - then compression starting tomorrow for a couple of weeks, so I dispatched DH to bring patty melts and sweet potato fries home with him - yay!
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Made that Caprese tonight with a (storebought) heirloom tomato, buffalo mozz., and homegrown basil from my deck. Basil-flavored EVOO and a tiny drizzle of true aged balsamico. (Yes, I licked the plate). Then linguine alla vongole: sauce made from chopped clams & juice, olive oil, garlic, flat prosecco and chopped parsley & oregano from my deck.
Sitting here waiting for my new allergy spray (developed a tolerance to Nasacort, two days after replenishing my supply) to kick in. Hanging on the edge of a sneeze, then explosively chain-sneezing, lather, rinse repeat. Thank you, ragweed, for showing up over a month early. (Not that the official pollen count will acknowledge that--it's taken every morning from a hospital rooftop 20 miles away in the western suburbs. We really do have our own microclimate here by the lake).
How was the sclerotherapy, SpecialK? Hope it helps!
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Special K - I had to research sclerotherapy. As usual, the Mayo site is very informative & seems to have as much detail as I needed. The compression probably won't be too bad, but I can't imagine you staying out of the sun for a couple of weeks. Maybe your doc is not recommending that. Hopefully your DH will pamper you.
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Chisandy - the sclero burns like a you know what while they are doing the injection, but is pretty much a non-event afterward. It has worked well for me, this is my third session. I had a number of diffuse superficial veins that looked more like bruises - big ones. Those are gone now and if I get a spray tan my legs look decent. That was my goal - I did three endovenous procedures to treat the underlying issue, so this is to fix the visual one Sorry to hear about your rageeed issues - I sympathize - I’m an allergic girl, pollen, adhesives, antibiotics, such a pain, right? Probably literally for you having this on top of the injuries. Ugh.
minus - my compression garment is actually a pair of tights - which is convenient since this was both legs. They are thick enough that sun can't get through - and when wearing them I usually wear athletic leggings so nobody can see them, lol! DH just had his third endovenous procedure 10 days ago and I got him a pair of tights too. Don't tell, lol! His co-workers would get a huge kick out of that! With more than 40 skin cancers now - have a new 3cm scar on my shoulder -I'm really never in the sun longer than it takes to walk to the car and back - especially in summer. The good news about sclero is that once out of the wraps and into compression tomorrow at noon, things will be pretty normal - so, DH is off the pampering hook. I set up the coffee for the morning so he will press the on button and bring me a cup - that's all I really need!
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