So...whats for dinner?
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The nearby Capitol Reef National Park is the "rock place". :-)
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Adding it to my to do list along with taking son and husband to Vegas/Utah loop I'd planned. Thank you.
Dinner tonight - handful of this and that.
Came home from work, had to go pick up my pick up from the dealer (bad starter - thankfully still under warranty), run to the drug store, mass and first PSR class for my son, then...HANDLE'S ICE CREAM! Yum!0 -
7of9 - welcome. We'll look forward to sharing meals & food with you.
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Tonight was seasoned and broiled Haddock, Brussels sprouts and zoodles using yellow squash with Alfredo. It was good, not great but for dessert I made a crepes! I used a couple peaches that needed to be eaten, a little cinnamon and walnuts. It was inspired by a traditional Hungarian treat with apricots and walnuts and boy, it was tasty 😋
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illimae - looks yummy!
Tonight DH had dinner and I did not, taking an antibiotic that seems to be killing my appetite - not necessarily a bad thing... I made some pulled BBQ chicken on flat bread, a green salad with julienned red pepper and Gorgonzola with vinaigrette and some deviled eggs.
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Taco Tuesday plus a tamale and a fruit salad.
As much as I love cake (or muffins, or danish, etc.) for breakfast, I can't eat it because of the blood sugar spike. (It would help to have bacon with it lol). I can hardly even eat a small amount of cereal for breakfast without extra insulin, much to my disappointment. Breakfast is often a chore because I get quite tired of eggs. Sometimes I wish I didn't have to eat at all and I could just take a pill.
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Thinking boneless pork chops, rice dish and salad
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These oven baked fries are great! Got the recipe from a sister. Made them the other night when grandkids were over and they love them! Was in the kitchen for hours yesterday making meals for the upcoming camping trip. And then thought maybe I will do some extra cooking on a monthly basis to have meals in the freezer. Sounds goo, we’ll see if it happens......
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Dunch was a cheese omelette. This was served with asparagus sauteed in Red Hook Lemon Herb Asparagus skillet sauce w/roasted garlic & olive oil. This is in a 4 oz liquid sauce 'envelope'. I saute 10 minutes with the lid on since I'm not a fan of al dente vegetables. Really quite good. I used a full bunch of asparagus and there's enough sauce leftover for a different meal. Not to mention enough asparagus for two more meals - but I'll love to snack on that cold from the fridge & add to salads. The skillet sauce is also recommended for thinly sliced zucchini, yellow summer squash or blanched green beans. I think it would make a credible meat marinade too.
Katy - thanks for the oven fries recipe. I'll try that in the winter when I turn my oven back on. It's times like this that I really envy Eric his outdoor oven.
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The lemon sauce and asparagus sound delightful Minus - yum!
I'm off my feed today, but making chicken and dumplings (slicks). My stomach will tolerate the broth and vegetables if not the dumplings.
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Hubby brought home subs for dinner seeing it was over 90 here.
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I have not posted in ages, but I have been super busy. On April 24th, I received a new cornea in my right eye at the University of Iowa Hospitals. I am happy to say that I am seeing 20/20 in this eye but have no reading vision in it. My wonderful dr. (Kenneth Goins) has now relocated to Kansas City, so on Friday, Dr. Mark Greiner will be doing a cataract extraction in the left eye and then Oct 4th he will be doing a cornea transplant in that eye. I have been functioning with mono-vision since april and once the cataract is done, I probably won't have reading vision in either eye till October. I have readers but they only work with one side and because I have some vision in the left eye, it is not comf0rtable......
Food wise---I have been dipping my toes into the food of India and the middle east. I made a killer "Butter chicken" using a jarred sauce by Pasco. Found it in Champaign Urbana, cannot find it anywhere in Bloomington Normal. Next time I make it, I will leave out the chicken and just do veggies. I added green pepper, onion, and cauliflower to it and served it with a pre-made Tandoori Rice and I could have eaten the whole pan in one sitting. And I purchased some Naan Bread at Aldi's that I popped in the toaster and brushed with olive oil...…
Also the new Lean Cuisine International dinners are pretty good. Helps me watch my calories and my nutrition. Been having some blood pressure issues, but I think it is all stress. related. Doc wants me to watch the sodium and weight and try to find something that will relax me. Meantime, a Xanax every day is doing wonders.....Glad to see the familiar names here along with the ones that are new to me.
Also I remember you all talking about preserved lemons---well I bought a jar but I don't know now what to do with them>>>>>. Nance/????
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Red! So good to hear from you!
I think Carole and I both make a version of this dish:
https://www.closetcooking.com/moroccan-chicken-tagine-with-olives-and/?
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Thanks--I will try it...when I can lift a pot...LOL>
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Breakfast (I actually got home from hand therapy at 9:30 am) was an egg Benedict: challah, tomato slices, basil, jamon Serrano, a poached egg and half a packet of Christian Poitier hollandaise, nuked and dusted with cayenne pepper.
No lunch--too busy (catching up on e-mail, bills, mani-pedi with long bus ride home, changing my guitar strings). Dinner was a shelf-stable package of palak paneer (Tasty Bite, nuked; the frozen Tandoor Chef is too big a portion, higher-calorie and not as fast to prepare). Had it over leftover basmati rice & scraps of Ethiopian injera.
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Red - welcome back. Sorry to hear about your eyes but that you're getting everything taken care of. I looked up the Butter Chicken. Sounds good. We'll be thinking about you as you get ready for your next surgery.
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Since hubby brought home subs last night, tonight's dinner is what I planned to make last night
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Welcome back, Red. Hope you end up with great reading vision as well as distance. Hard to imagine not reading. The preserved lemon is easy to make and very good in chicken dishes like Nance mentioned.
DH and I had lunch in Baxter, MN, where we drove on resort business. About a two hour drive. We spotted a restaurant called Grizzly's that has wood-fire barbecued chicken. I had a chicken lunch that was ok. The veggies were blanched, not cooked. Too raw for my taste and the chicken was tasty but salty from the dry rub. DH had burger and fries which he also thought were just ok. So we left feeling full enough but weren't impressed with Grizzly's, except for our gungho waiter. He earned a good tip.
Dinner last night was salad and the eggplant dish out of the freezer that dh didn't eat for his solitary dinner on Tuesday night.
Tonight may be meatloaf. Or chili. Something using ground beef in the refrigerator.
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red - hey! Good to have you back! Sorry to hear about the vision issues, that’s a pain!
Tonight will be dinner at the Buc’s/Jag’s game - I’m on a roll losing weight for the last two weeks by watching what I’m eating - no sugar, no dairy, no gluten and 5 lbs off, so need to find the least bad option for dinner. I will eat an apple with almond butter just before I leave for the stadium so I don’t arrive hungry. Have spent the day sorting DH’s family childhood photos from my in-laws house to divide amongst his 4 sibs - I have never seen most of these photos so it has been fun! I made a big pile with ones that have people I don’t recognize for DH to consult on
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Meatloaf lost out to chili beans. I had a big bag of home-cooked kidney and pinto beans in the freezer. About the time I turned off the burner under the pot of chili, my neighbor Mary came over with a bag of fish fillets. Not sure whether I will cook the fish tonight or tomorrow night. She had thawed out too much.
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Big lunch today with some former coworkers, so dinner was minimal and easy but deliciously high fat. This grilled cheese includes Swiss, Cheddar and Mozzarella with butter and a few shakes of course ground garlic/salt on the outside. No sides but I am enjoying a local brew Karbach “Love Street” Kolsch style blonde.
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Enjoyed a lovely Italian dinner out in SLC. Don’t have dinner out very often so really enjoyed someone else doing all the cooking and cleaning, The cave had a wonderful outdoor patio and my DH and I enjoyed a nice Chianti Classico. Appointment at the Huntsman tomorrow morning.
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Our godson's bon voyage party was a BBQ--had a mid-rare cheddar burger with onion & tomato, plus the usual slaw & potato salad. Sometimes you just have to give in & go for the comfort food. (Easier on the teeth than a bratwurst).
The little green heirloom cherry tomatoes I rescued take a while to ripen on the sill, but then ripen quickly. Our first full-size tomato will be ripe enough to slice tomorrow, and another one is coming along nicely on the sill. One big one protected by screening can ripen on the vine, as it's invisible to squirrels. (Famous last words).
Everyone on my block has had their gardens fall victim to weather, squirrels & rabbits (a plague of the latter, despite their being so cute).
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Oh yum illimae. I never remember about grilled cheese sangys even when I have good bread. Maybe this weekend with some San Francisco sourdough.
Dinner was a big salad with avocados, asparagus & English cucumbers with Asian dressing. Going the the "A" theme, I should have added apples. Dessert was a bowl of popcorn a couple of hours later.
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Dinner was panfried "pan" fish fillets, cooked crisp. They were thin fillets. Side was microwaved corn on the cob with butter.
Tonight's dinner is the Labor day pot luck. The meat will be pork ribs provided by the resort and cooked by Mary, my neighbor and social director. I am making funeral potatoes, otherwise known as cheesy potatoes. Very high cal and high fat and popular with all folks from MN and ND. Very easy to assemble. Frozen hash browns, sour cream, cream of chicken soup (of course!), and lots of grated cheese. I have a big block of Tillamook cheese on hand so grated a big bag of that. The recipe calls for 2 cups of cheese. Baked in the oven for 1 hr. to 2 hrs. depending on the cook.
Mary is making a popular bean hot dish with various canned beans, ground beef, bacon and onions. Not sure what other people are bringing. Oh, just remembered that Mae is bringing a wild rice hot dish.
The entertainment following the pot luck is karaoke, which is always a hoot. Especially as the evening wears on and more adult beverage is consumed.
After the Labor Day weekend, resort summer is over. Fewer people will come for the weekends. Our thoughts will turn to the trek south at the end of Sept.
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Carole, I also think the addition of avocado to a BLT makes it even better tho purists would not agree.
Red, wow! Hope your eyes are back to reading soon enough. You’ve been through and are still going through quite a lot. Best wishes for continued success with these procedures, and clear vision ahead!
We had our trip to VT, (beautiful 3 hour drive)and since my sister was tired from spending these last weeks refinishing her home/barn floors in our extreme heat, we suggested we’d eat out for every meal. Doing that kept us in our high fat eating mode since most of the nearby restaurants have comfort food ......so, quiche for lunch, turkey club and chips for dinner, etc. etc. Only veggies in sight were in her garden! Oh, an event that should not have surprised us was that her dog managed to ignore her sore aging hips and counter surfed to the carrot cake we’d brought there to have for dessert. SHE ATE THE WHOLE THING! And half of a loaf of bread I’d picked up at a nearby bakery that included maple syrup. Fortunately, the pooch did not get sick, and she saved us some calories!
My siater sent us home with some squash and super sweet tiny cherry tomatoes which have been the bane of her existence since they have taken over much of her garden. DH and I would not be complaining since they are the best little guys ever!!! On our way home, we stopped and picked up some roadside corn. So below is our dinner Thursday evening after our drive back. I made one large omelet using some scapes that I’ve been ignoring since June....silly me! They are lovely in an omelet. Also included the sweet cherry tomatoes, feta, onion, mushrooms.
Tonight is our association beach potluck and party. My sister also sent us home with a big blueberry pie she’d made (she’s a great baker) which I will add to the dessert table, and I will now get going on making a farfalle and veggie/cheese casserole for the main dish table.
DH is tonight’s DJ. He loves doing this, and since lots of neighbors are in our generation they enjoy dancing to the oldies, which he features.
By the way, I learned that my stomach does not appreciate cake for breakfast! But the morning boat ride was lovely. The skies here, however have had a constant haze, and some very interesting sunsets, which apparently is the smoke residue from the fires out west. We are all connected, and these skies remind us of others going through so much even after they are gone from the news cycle.
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Gosh Carole, it seems like you just arrived in MN and now it's time to think of leaving. I hate how fast the summer goes. Again, I envy you your crappie dinners! My dad was a huge crappie fisherman and while my mom was a mediocre cook, she could fry the most delicious fish. The only dishes she was known for were her fried crappie and her mashed potato salad lol.
No entertaining this weekend and unlike others, my neighborhood has gone away for the weekend. Blissfully quiet here!
I think tonight's menu is pork burgers and corn on the cob. I'm gong to sous vide a chuck roast then smoke it Monday a la a Serous Eats recipe. I'll probably make baked beans and cole slaw to go with that. Sunday's menu is anybody's guess. What I do know is that I'm making a cherry pie today for the weekend's enjoyment.
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Lacey, that plate looks delish!
Red, how is your dad doing?
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Had one more night in Salt Lake City and went to a great seafood restaurant. Had a seafood Cobb salad which was excellent! Dessert was called hummingbird cake - a spice type cake with a mango buttercream and roasted pineapple. It was delicious! Appointment at Huntsman was good. I like the MO a lot. I’m stable and will continue with current treatment but got info about a clinical trial and possible other meds out there for folks with stage IV. There is hope! I’m glad I went. Will check in at least annually there. Going home today and I’ll have to make dinner tonight. Something simple!
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Lacey, yum! I had corn on the cob last night too, it was soooo good.
Katyk, dinner sounds great and congrats on remaining stable 😀
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