So...whats for dinner?
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Carole, those "funeral" potatoes (so named for their presence at potluck hotdish repasts?) sound a lot like steakhouse au gratins.
Lacey, I always make my BLTs with guacamole (when I have it) instead of mayo--if I use fresh mashed avocado, a tiny bit of mayo makes it spread more easily. I really like the low-carb multigrain bread we get at WF, Mariano's or Jewel (Today's Temptations or Z Best Kosher--I think it's the same bakery, different labels) for BLT or tuna sandwiches, cinnamon-cottage cheese toast, panini and eggs-in-the-hole. Challah is better for French toast & Benedicts (I haven't bought English muffins in years), rye or pumpernickel for deli meat sandwiches, and rosemary-olive oil sourdough for bruschetta and authentic panini. But I use the multigrain most often because it's only 4 net gm of carb per slice, and doesn't seem to play as much havoc with my weight as does stuff made with white flour.
Speaking of white flour, a couple of hrs. after I made "dunch" (corned beef hash with chopped onion, scallion, poblano pepper and leftover yellow tomato, topped with a fried egg), Bob called that he was bringing home linguine alla vongole. This time it turned out to be made with actual whole in-shell Manila clams, not canned or frozen chopped clam meat. One portion fed us both, with enough left over for supper tonight. I might try to make some zoodles (I have half a giant homegrown zucchini from one of Bob's patients) to mix in and up the fiber content. And I have half a monster cuke (same patient), so I think I'll make salads (Swedish dill and Thai sweet-hot) from it this afternoon.
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I do love a BLAT, but love BLT as well!
Tonight was black bean tostadas - not exciting but saved me from having to make a grocery store run to get something. Tomorrow will be a regular shopping as I’m low on everyrhing
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Here's a healthy dinner we are having tonight (leftovers from the other night): Brown Rice & Black Lentil Salad. The reason for using BLACK lentils as opposed to the usual brown is that the black really hold their shape and firmness. (Browns are nice for soups and stews because they get so soft.)
A note for anyone who has already-cooked rice and lentils on hand: Adjust the rest of the ingredients accordingly. Don't do what I did when I used 1 cup of COOKED rice and 1/2 cup of COOKED lentils (instead of uncooked)...boy, were my proportions off on that batch! Way too much dressing and seasoning. So I threw in extra rice and lentils (had plenty) and all worked out fine.
Oh, and I had a bunch of roasted butternut squash on hand so I used that instead of sweet potato.
And, a final food note: I skipped the maple syrup altogether. No need for sweetener and besides, I don't even use maple syrup or any other sweeteners (honey, agave, coconut sugar/nectar, or any of that); I use only stevia, erythritol and sugar-free products (prediabetes).
This is somewhat spicy, so go easy on all the seasons and adjust to taste closer to serving time.
Serving this over some dark leafy greens or something peppery like arugula was great especially with some fresh lime wedges on the side.
Oh, and some Beanitos for crunch (grain-free tortilla chips made from beans - they're delicious!)
Those of you on the plant-based/vegan discussion, this will look familiar because I'll post it there as well.
Bon appétit!
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home now. Surgery went well. But I cannot see to read my bills, the phone display, etc. I am sitting about 4 feet back from the computer with the keyboard in my lap. My friend Alice who was "driving Ms Sandy" this weekend for the surgery decided we could avoid construction after we crossed out of Iowa by taking 80 to 39. We got to talking about places I had not eaten at and there are two Italian places in Touluca IL called Mona's and Capponi's. Alice said that would be like 30 minutes or 30 miles off the road, and I said I didn't care (I'm thinking leftovers for the next day) so we went. And that's when I discovered what it is liketo have the person across the table read very patiently the entire menu to you. I ended up with meat filled tortellini with 2 Italian sausage links and garlic bread and a side salad and she had a baked mostacholli . One came with reg. bread and the other came with garlic bread so we shared the bread. It was really good. Then we just like 17 miles from the place we stopped at on the way down, that has killer pie and we thought we would swing by and get cream pie to take home. Well, we got lost cause the carnival was in town, and some guy told us to follow him to the country club and then we would see the curve in the road. ERll I saw the sign and we turned and never found it. Well we got back on 39 and just came home. The funny thing is my other friend Melodie gets us lost everytime we go there by tring to take country roads instead of staying on the main ones. I told her about I t and she said the three of us are going and she is driving and we will go on 150. Somehow I think it might be another 2 hour adventure to go to some place 30 minutes from home.....
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Patsy - welcome. I printed out the recipe for vegan Singapore Noodles and will try soon.
Dinner was another salad with the last of the asparagus, served with Boursin Cheese (shallot & chives) and wheat thins crackers.
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Home today from SLC, now have to make my own dinner instead of going out. Decided to make these chicken sandwiches that I had seen in Real Simple September 2018, while getting my hair done last week. They were very easy to make, especially with help from DH. You cook a chicken cutlet with Panko, make a sauce with relish, mustard, and mayo, a bit of grated cheddar cheese and lettuce on a nice roll. Quite good. You can find the recipe online in Real Simple. Oh another plus of being in SLC was that I found Zatarans cilantro- lime rice, so I bought six packages, can’t get it here. I’m going to make chicken Tikal masala with the rice to take on trip to OR coast next week. Feels good to be home
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There was enough linguine (and 4 clams) left over that I didn't need to supplement with zoodles tonight. I did add some fresh parsley, basil and cherry tomatoes. (Will probably slice some of the zucchini, marinate and grill it on Monday). Didn't get around to making cucumber salads today--spent too much time rummaging around in various tote bags for strings, accessories, cables, etc. and throwing out obsolete technology stuff (i.e. the rescue CD-ROM for a PowerBook G4...how many generations ago was that?) and cables the cats had chewed through. Had to consolidate and rearrange a lot, including to make strings & accessories more accessible when I need them.
By then I felt I needed a nap, and as soon as I got into bed in my preferred position (L side, 2 pillows), Heidi jumped on to the bed and started meowing for me--so I had to add a third pillow in order to sleep on my back so she could knead on my chest and face-rub me. I drifted off with my sinuses and L arm hardware throbbing--so I figured there was a storm coming through soon. When I got up, I began to catch up on stuff I recorded (the cooking & travel shows are back on PBS, no more "pledge monster") and then started dinner.
Once again, lightning, rumbles of thunder, pouring rain...and satellite outage. At least the cable (and internet) works.
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Made a meal kit that had Parmesan crusted chicken, snap peas and risotto in it. First time I had ever made risotto and it came out excellent. Save the directions for another time if I want to make the same thing on my own another time.
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Mommy - I'd love to see your risotto recipe since it turned out well.
Dunch was shrimp scampi over angel hair pasta. Side - which I ended up mixing together w/the shrimp - was zucchini sauteed with onions, red pepper flakes and white wine. There's enough left for tomorrow's meal.
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For grilling tomorrow I got three large NY strip steaks--should easily feed the 7 of us; 6 ears of elotes (I can't eat corn on the cob) that need only be nuked to melt the cheese on them; a bag of shishito peppers, and a yellow and a Brandywine tomato to make a caprese. One friend is bringing potato salad & slaw, another dessert. (There's ice cream in the freezer & berries in the fridge too). Might take on part of that cuke tonight and make a salad out of it with dill, stevia & vinegar.
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Tonight is cheeseburgers, 3-bean salad I made this afternoon, and garlic fries. I got some nice ribeyes for tomorrow at the grocery store this morning after DD hopped a flight to Denver (which meant a 5am airport run for me - this has been a lonnggg day, lol!), so it’s just DH and me!
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Well I didn't sous vide the chuck roast - ended up throwing it in the pressure cooker with veggies for pot roast and added some cheddar biscuits to the meal. Which now means I have nothing planned for tomorrow. Fortunately, it's just us so I'll figure something out and DH will be just fine with it. He's so easy lol.
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Minus, I used your idea with the shrimp and pasta and combined it with Chi's parsley, basil and tomato idea.
I made a garlic, butter shrimp mixed with wilted down spinach, cut up tomatoes, parsley, basil and pasta.....The shrimp was from the freezer and everything else, including some corn from a farm stand, was from our camping trip. So, the stuff we bought the couple of days before we got home has all been used up.
Hi to Red...it's been a long time. I'd go noisily crazy if I couldn't read. I bought a bunch of rural area local history books during our trip and I've been busily reading them.
KatyK..good news on being stable. :-) I guess you live near Salt Lake City.
7of9, if you drive south from the Capitol Reef National Park, through the Dixie National Forest...continuing to the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (it's on the way to Bryce), you'll drive over some roads with some amazing views. The road, for many miles, follows the spine of a ridge so there are views (and steep, deep valleys) on either side of the road. Plus there are no guard rails to spoil the view. The secret is to put the car into a low gar so it doesn't gain speed on the downhills and just go slow.. If someone in the car is afraid of heights or gets carsick on twisting roads, then it would be best to avoid that part of the trip. :-)
Chi, I hope the hand work isn't messing up your instrument playing....As for the squirrels, I have been getting even for you. When I bake bread at a campsite (in a dutch oven), the rising bread smell attracts lots of squirrels, but the heavy lid with little to no gap thoroughly frustrates them. Watching a dozen squirrels fight over which one is going to be the next one to be frustrated is a fun way to spend a couple of hours! :-)
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WEll CHI SANDY, WHEN YOUR KITTY IS ON YOUR CHEST KNEADING YOU DOES SHE ACT LIKE SHE IS NURSING? ESMERALDA STARTED THIS CRAZY BEHAVIOR AFTER I WAS GONE MOST OF THE SUMMER OFF AND ON AND A FRIEND WAS CHECKING ON HER FORA FEW HOURS EACH DAY. SHE GETS UP ON ME, PUTS A PAW ON EACH SIDE OF MY THROAT AND TUCKS AND PUSHES HER HEAD UNDER MY CHIN. THEN SHE PURRS LIKE CRAZY AND KNEADS LIKE CRAZY AND GETS THE MOST DOPEY LOOK ON HER FACE. i TOLERATE IT BECAUSE I THINK SHE WAS TRAUMATIZED BY MY LEAVING HER.
This was a junk food junkie food day. I got up, had an eye issue, so had to call Iowa City. Dr. was in with patient, so I waited an hour (they told me wait 45 minutes and call back if he didn't call me) So I called back an hour later ( I drank my coffee and ate 1/2 a muffin) When he did call, he wanted me to send a photo of my eye and he would get back to me. So I did that and he confirmed he had it and would call shortly. Didn't call, so my friend and I were going to run errands so we texted a different number and he called right back and told me to increase one drop back to 4x day and if anything changed to let him know and now vision is back to where it should be I am fine. But lunch was at a local ice-cream place. I had a chili dog and a scoop of peach pie ice cream with red raspberry sauce. Alice had a burger and a Rockie road cone. We ran some errand and she dropped me at the nursing home to see my dad which is walking distance. While visiting dad, my other friend Melodie called and she had a fit that I would walk 5 blocks home and said I'll come get you stay there. So she showed up and said it is 99 degrees outside and I am sweating just coming in from the car. I didn't notice it, but we ended up at Steak and Shake for dinner. so all my goodies in the fridge have not been cooked....and I have another friend wanting to bring me cucumber /tomato salad she made that she can't eat all of from her garden......My good fresh veggies from a few days before surgery are probably not edible now.
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Red, I hope your eye situation can be corrected soon. Heidi does sometimes act like she's nursing when she kneads & purrs--could be that's why she not only face-slams me but also puts the side of her mouth against my nose. My dear departed Mishmosh used to do that too, but he'd actually "bitelessly" gnaw at it. (He also liked to do that to the bathtub spigot). He was a foundling, sole survivor of a litter, whom my friend found in his basement and fed him with a doll bottle. But Heidi purrs & kneads whether or not she's trying to nurse, even when I've been home every day. It's her bedtime ritual. I don't think she ever bore kittens, but sometimes she acts as if she's trying to tuck me in like a mama would.
Bob called and said he wouldn't be home till after 1 am, so I made my own dinner: tossed salad with our homegrown cherry tomatoes; pan-seared Alaskan salmon with mango salsa (the salsa was premade); blistered shishito peppers; and homemade elotes--nuked an ear of corn, cut the kernels off, and mixed them with mayo, lime juice, salt and chipotle powder. I tried my new Microplane corn stripping tool, but it worked even less well than the Kuhn Rikon. So I resorted to a chef's knife.
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Eric, my instrument playing is certainly a challenge now, but I have to push through it. With practice, I've been able to make the contortions & stretches necessary to play most of my guitar & dulcimer parts, albeit not without pain (I practice in front of the mirror now to make sure I don't grimace). Still lack the finger strength to form barre chords, though (at least on acoustic--and our next gig is an unplugged coffeehouse concert; they're not gonna take kindly to my dragging in an amp and a Fender Mustang). So I'm working on playing the root notes of those barres and muting the dissonant strings with my right hand--and doing so in tempo. Chickens coming home to roost for all the formal lessons I never took. (I know what you're thinking: get back to banjo. I just might).
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Minus, I will post the risotto recipe from the meal kit for you soon.
In the start of another heat wave, so I am thinking of making something quick
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Last night was warmed up pork ribs from the Saturday pot luck. Warmed up chili beans from the refrigerator. Leftover coleslaw from the potluck and sliced tomatoes with basil.
This has been the Heavenly Tomatoes late summer. I bought two Better Boys tomato plants in early June. Mary planted and nurtured them through the summer. Now they are loaded with beautiful big tomatoes as is the different variety of large tomato plant that Mary planted. John has ownership of one of the Better Boy plants but we all pick ripened tomatoes to our heart's content.
No thoughts yet about dinner. But it should be healthy and will probably include cauliflower mash. A large cauliflower sits in the refrigerator. I plan an emergency trip to Walmart's today. The jar of Hellman's Light is nearly empty and there is no backup in the cupboard!!!!
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Dashed outside just as the storms struck (so violent they turned the sky dark and scared the cats into insisting I lie down so they could knead on me) and rescued the ripest of the cherry tomatoes. (Will probably put out a small bowl for snacking). Not sure if the storms will come back, but will scrub the grill anyway. Have my 10" and 12" cast-iron skillets ready to rock indoors for the NY strips (bought 3 big ones, which should easily feed 7 of us). Will blister some shishito peppers on the stovetop, nuke 6 ears of precooked elotes corn till the cheese melts, maybe make a Caprese. Friends are bringing sweets, slaw & potato salad. Have mini-croissants, but maybe I'll make some garlic toast right now.
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We keep having threats of storms here, but so far it's just been threats. My tomato plant is in a HUGE pot (3 feet diameter and 3 feet tall) with a wire cage to hold the plant in place, so I don't worry too much about the storms.
Chi, which kind of dulcimer do you play?
As for dinner tonight..we had a late lunch and neither of us felt like eating anything this evening.
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Eric - we've had threatening storms too but only 1/2" of rain so far.
What was your favorite place from the latest trip?
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I really liked Pineville, WY. if it weren't so #_$*&@ cold in the winter, we'd consider moving there. The great people were what made it stand out.
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Took out a pork tenderloin filet for dinner. Thinking of pairing it with mashed sweet potatoes and steamed broccoli
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Nance - is it you who puts apple in coleslaw? Anyway, I'm going to give that a try today along with some cod filets and a green veggie from the freezer.
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I have put apple in coleslaw. Also fresh pineapple. Napa cabbage makes good slaw.
Dinner last night was chicken breast fillets, breaded with panko and browned in olive oil. Delicious cauliflower mash. It came out silky. I made it a few minutes ahead of time and then warmed it in the pot. It contained a chunk of fat free cream cheese and a couple of T. butter. Tossed salad with romaine, tomato, cucumber, avocado, blue cheese and Kalamata olives. Vinaigrette dressing.
I'm in the process of using up everything in the freezer before buying any more meat. Tonight will be cheddar brats with leftover bean hot dish. I may make myself more cauliflower mash with the other half of the cauliflower. There will be sliced tomato for sure.
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I’m on a chicken kick, Sunday was crunchy onion chicken with mashed potatoes and corn, yesterday was Sunday’s leftovers and tonight I have a hankering for a chicken/cheese/red onion/avocado quesadilla.
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ok. Ive really had enough! Cause, Lord, even if you think I can handle it, Im NOT THAT GOOD!!!
My pregnant daughter had bleeding. Which led to her not working for 2 weeks and off her feet. She and her 3 year old moved in with us, cause you know when you are home, you still do the work. Her DH is 3rd shift so not much help there with the kid. So I am cooking and doing laundry for 4 people. Im also not used to every day with a 3 year old. My DH cant help much with his halo he cant bend down, lift, etc. Then add in we just had all that rain that caused a sewer backup! Had to hire a company to strip out the basement, and get a dumpster to toss many things. Including many handmade ornaments. Which included my favorite 30 yearold Mr. Chrisapillar. Cried about that. Couldnt even watch as they carried up box after box of things. Well, enough of why I havent been on here.
Onto good things! Had my DGD1 for 2 weeks, with my DD2. Then DD1 and DGD2 came during the mess. LOL. But it was good to see her since shes li
ving in MI now. Notice all the Busia gifts.... LOL DGD2 ^ just turned 3, DGD1 3&1/2!Sorry for venting!
I hope you all are doing ok and no flooding or hurricanes, or anything near anybody!
Much love to all.
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Totally forgot I had something I had to do tonight, so dinner will be something quick instead. Tomorrow will be the dinner I had planned tonight.
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I'm doing some freezer shopping. A pork roast. I noticed it was frozen last December and I decided I'd roast it before it turned into "dinosaur meat". Also, I'm pressure cooking some chick peas, cooking rice in turkey broth and I'll probably cook some white tepary beans. Sharon said she's going to make some guacamole. Between all of this, I think we will have enough for several late lunches and early dinners.
During the three weeks of traveling, we each lost 5 pounds and Sharon says we should go traveling again. Unfortunately it may be a few months.....
I'm on call in September and November. For a week in mid October, I'm going to be taking care of test daughter's 22 year old pot belly pig. Her mom and dad are going to Ireland for the month of October and for a week, she, her husband and 2 sons will be joining them. "da pig" (his name) charges, bumps, steps on, whacks, etc. everyone outside of test daughter and her immediate family.....except for me....he sees me and rolls over on his side so I can scratch his belly.... I guess I have a way with pigs. :-)
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Carole - do you have a target date to head back to LA? Thanks for the coleslaw hints.
Oh Moon - you are absolutely right. YOU NEED A BREAK. Hopefully at least everyone sleeps all night so you can get a chunk of rest. Sending you positive thoughts that the 'rest' will stop your DD's bleeding. When will you have an update on DH? Sorry about the caterpillar & friends. I remember his picture from previous years.
Eric - congrats to you both on the weight loss. Yes a vacation would be a fun way to accomplish that. I was wondering how you missed call up for the fires. Interesting that you have assigned 'months'. Are you still driving the bus or did that go away with retirement? And a pig??? Will it come to live with you or will you go to care for it daily?
Illimae - quesadillas sound delicious. Hope your scans go well this week. Please let us know.
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