So...whats for dinner?
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Well - tonight is TX National Night Celebration. Texas decided to buck the rest of the nation, which very sensibly celebrates in August. Something about being too hot for the police. I think maybe Arizona also celebrates in October. But we always had a huge turn out in August on the REAL NNO day - with the pool open, games like horse shoes, live music, a bounce house, a catered BBQ some years and even a dunking booth one year. NO ONE wants to come out on a school night after they get home from work - and I don't blame them. This is especially true of neighbors with kids in school - the very people we need to meet & make welcome. They race home from work & pick up kiddos at day care, then fix dinner, they have band practice or T-ball or tae kwondo, or teacher's meetings at the school, then homework & and getting everyone into bed for school & work again in the morning.
So tonight we've asked everyone to bring finger food snacks only and we will provide cold water. It's pouring rain at 4pm - but maybe it will stop by 7pm??? We don't have a building but we do have a covered pavilion. And we do have donated items from local merchants for 10 drawings. We only have 187 homes in our subdivision. Attendance has gone from 150 families in August down to 15-25 now that we hold it at night in October. Can you tell we miss the standard plan?
I ate my normal dunch. The last of the salmon wrapped in a flour tortilla.
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The stuffed mushrooms I made for the dinner for my women's club meeting tonight was a hit. Have only about a dozen left!
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Tonight was grilled steak with red potatoes and broccoli. No pic, it was 1/2 gone before I thought about it.
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chisandy - as a former barista I say kudos on your latte art!
Tonight was roasted sweet potato wedges with spicy dipping sauce and chicken burgers with chipotle Gouda and bacon topping on kaiser rolls.
minus - bummer on the date change for your function - no way it should be on a school night! That is just silly.
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Dinner tonight was seared Thai ginger-marinated sea bass, stir-fried snap peas with sesame seeds, and jasmine rice.
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Illimae - hope your MRI test results are good news. Thinking of you.
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I really want pasta, but I'm being a good girl & eating a big salad for dunch. Stuff that was in the fridge - romaine, radicchio, broccoli, cauliflower, radishes with small thin pieces of Jarlsberg cheese for protein. But I really want pasta..... Maybe I'll take a nap instead.
Now that our subdivision pool is closed, I'm really missing water aerobics 3x a week. The "winter" pounds are already slowly moving in. Hopefully I can make myself start walking again if it ever cools off. But like Carole's climate, it could be November before it's below mid 80s with 100% humidity. It's either walking or quit eating entirely since I have no plans to quit my glass of wine w/dinner. Calories from wine & no food? There's an idea.
Speaking of wine, I'm having a Kirkland Rioja Reserve wine today. It's from Tempranillo grapes aged 36 months in oak barrels & bottled in Spain. Mostly boring.
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Minus, I feel your wght mgmt pain! And yes, alcohol calories easily find spots to park on our hips! I found this summer at the lake that I gained weight due to the heat and humidity (extreme for us northerners) that was too miserable for walking and outdoor (or indoor since we have no air conditioning) exercise, but really conducive to sitting on the beach where everyone eats and drinks. Oy! My usual summer weight management is helped along with lots of long brisk walks...but not this past one. Since being home, I’ve decided to really limit any liquid calories which seems to be helping...but not as much fun for sure.
I hope that your night celebration was decently attended, Minus. It is tough once school starts for the young families. Last night we went to a pre-season Celtics game and while it started at 8PM, I was amazed at how many young kids were there...many until the bitter end.
Before the game we ate at a restaurant in a suites area we usually don’t have access to, and where they have some more interesting menu selections than the usual arena food. I ordered a dish that sounded delicious. It was. Sea scallops over pumpkin risotto with a variety of spices and garnishes atop (sorry I can’t recall and didn’t even know what some of them were, but will post pic in case you can recognize what they are;). I was delighted with the taste, but underwhelmed by just 2 scallops being on top of the loads of risotto.
Tonight I look forward to having whatever I want in whatever form I want since DH is going to a conference dinner. I might just cook up my kale with onions mushrooms and garlic and call it a day....or maybe eat Oatmeal!
Tomorrow evening we are going to a Celtics “event” where we will eat whatever items they offer...probably nothing very healthful. Then off to the lake on Friday for the long weekend where we will enjoy the annual beach lobsterfest. I feel so fortunate that the men in our association continue to run this event. All I have to do is bring dessert. To keep it easy, I’ll make a big batch of super chocolatey brownies.
Mommy, I would love to know what you stuff your mushrooms with.
And Carole, I hope your trip home and re-integration was easy. It must be nice to see your family and friends at home after several months away.
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Lacey12- I think the dinner looks quite tasty!
Tonight we are having leftover chicken enchiladas ( I put other stuff in too like, spinach, olives, tomatoes, cheese, etc). And I am so happy I don’t have to cook! Did a big mtn. bike ride today and now I’m feeling it! Will be veryhappy to just heat up. Also have some apple crisp, picked apples a while ago, and vanilla ice cream! I’m happy!
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Chicken enchiladas! Sounds so good!
Tonight's dinner will be a pork steak, baked sweet potatoes and a romaine salad. The pork steak traveled home with us.
It has been much too long since I enjoyed lobster. Very envious of the beach lobster fest.
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Reverse seared bone in pork chops with cider pan sauce and sliced apples. Side was some oven fried thinly sliced potatoes.
Ah, lobster - I've missed you so . . .
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Lasey, that looks wonderful.
Busy day today and I area lot to celebrate a great brain MRI (one tiny spot left, nothing new). Lunch was a Spinach/Artichoke quesadilla with black beans and rice from El Tiempo Cantina. Dinner was blackened red Snapper, a squash/zucchini/leek medley and brown rice. I also had two glasses of red wine and a cupcake, I regret nothing, lol
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Yay illimae! Great news!
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I haven’t been checking in on all of you enough lately...and I see I’ve missed a lot of deliciousness!
Tonight the husband had an incredible red chile pork tamale (from a farmers market vendor who makes the best tamales!). I’m a whole food plant based girl so I had leftovers (which I’d frozen): Black Bean Plantain Enchilada Bake from Minimalist Baker, my favorite food website. We had a lot of this and that in the vegetable bin so I made a purple cabbage slaw to go with the above. Yum! The photo is from the website.
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Congrats, Ilona! Lacey, Patsy--lovely food porn!
Hot, hot, HOT today. 90 by midafternoon, still 80 now (midnight). Storms coming in starting in about an hour, cold front behind--high tomorrow of 52. 60s Fri., and 70s for the weekend, with intermittent showers & storms. Natch, I have an outdoor gig to play Sunday.
Feeling sorta crummy right now--had my flu shot late this afternoon (wanted my arm to be ok by Sunday and the flu immunity to kick in while we'll be in the Berkshires in a couple of weeks). Went to the walk-in ortho clinic for my back strain--and from the look of the X-rays it's a wonder it hasn't happened more often than it has since Aug. Scoliosis (they have to do epidurals with a fluoroscope to get the needle into the right space), an old coccyx fracture (fell on an icy parking lot reloading my car after a gig in 2006--I literally busted my butt for my art), and facet joints that are badly spurred and losing cartilage. The ortho was also able to palpate a bunch of excruciating trigger points where the muscles attach. 6 weeks of 2x/wk P.T.; if no improvement after 6-8 wks, then we'll talk bone scan. But the ortho is pretty sure the reason my back muscles keep pulling more frequently is simply that my spine is getting older and my supporting structures are weak. But I've been released from hand therapy, and my hand surgeon is delighted with the progress of my L hand & wrist.
Was running late this a.m. so skipped breakfast. For lunch, the hospital cafeteria had a "Farmer's Fridge" vending machine--I had veggie cauliflower "fried rice." Since it was so warm out tonight (and I was able to light the gas grill), I heated a cast iron skillet in the grill and made a seared grass-fed ribeye. (Ate half; the other half will be steak & eggs for breakfast). Salad of homegrown tomatoes & basil, corn-bean salad, roasted Brussels sprouts on the side.
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Happy news, Illimae! You deserved a food celebration.
Tonight will be pasta with Rao sauce and ground turkey Italian sausage (ground turkey with added seasonings). And a romaine salad. I am so happy to have my salad spinner. I brought home a bag of tomatoes from the bushes at the resort and some are ripening. I also have a nice avocado and a bought cucumber. I will miss the delicious cucumbers from the vine in Mary's garden plot. That vine has probably succumbed to frost by now.
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Beef tips and noodles with baby peas tonight. Also applesauce. I made enough applesauce today to feed the world.
Tomorrow is DH's birthday. He had requested a beef tenderloin filet which I ordered from the local butcher and a twice baked potato. (He's so easy lol.) I baked a three layer dark chocolate cake today which I'll frost tomorrow with a mascarpone frosting. A raspberry filling goes between the layers. This is the cake I usually bake for Christmas eve dinner. It's good enough to eat twice a year lol.
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auntie - I am getting in the car and driving to your house for applesauce. I will get there in time for filet, twice baked potato and a very delicious sounding cake! Not sure how you will explain to your DH why I am there but you'll think of something. Lol!
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No idea about dinner. Today is DH’s birthday and he was thinking Outback but is now feeling ill from some ginseng tea at the local Asian market. I had a hunk of cheddar, some almonds and a snack size bag of popcorn, now I wait and see if he’s up to going out later or not.
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Nance - I can probably make it by tomorrow too. Oh my that dinner sounds delicious. I'll even give up a share of the meat if there will be enough of the twice baked potato and of course the cake. Hope he's appreciative.
Illiemae - sorry your DH is queasy. Maybe you can celebrate tomorrow. BTW - my ex-DH is treating me to Hughies tomorrow. I'm trying to decide whether to try the vermicelli bowl or have a bahn mi. Thanks so much for the introduction.
Dinner was cod sprinkled with Foxpoint seasoning and rolled in Panko - then baked. YUM. The side was yellow squash with onion & garlic and some leftover broccoli that I tossed in with the squash towards the end.
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Minus and Special - you would all be welcome!
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Lacey, my mushrooms were stuffed with green onions, bread crumbs &cheese
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A frozen Frontera Taco al Pastor bowl (Nat'l Taco Day, after all), to which I added some rice, corn kernels and red beans since like most frozen meals there's more sauce than anything else.
Gonna turn in early--Bob's down in Oak Lawn and I have my first back PT session at (ugh) 9:30 am.
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Count me in on your dh's birthday dinner, Nance!
Tonight will be either chicken breast or catfish fillets. Haven't decided. I may just pack for the trip to Nance's house in MO!!!
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I went back to Hughies today for more Vietnamese food (thank you Illimae). This time I tried the Vermicelli bowl with grilled chicken. The chicken breasts were pounded very thin and then grilled with lovely light spices - but I couldn't identify what those were. Even cutting back on the delicious Vietnamese egg rolls, I still have enough leftovers for a full meal.
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minus, great! I was hoping you’d pick the bowl, so I could hear how it was. I take it XDH enjoyed Hughie’s too?
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Illimae Great news! And before a three day weekend!
Lacey and Minus you have been bad and now you have to make it up. I just came back from Martha's Vineyard with DD and Grandson- he is 17 months now. I ate lots for fried things and now have a fit bit!
Carol and Auntie I miss lobster too. My daughter is deathly allergic to it so I feel uncomfortable eating it in front of her. Auntie, I thought you were having beef Lips I thought "eww"
Patsy that looks good
Chi hope your PT goes well.
Had an US yesterday and sat around thinking about it today-I'm scheduled for a bx tuesday. I thought, "Waaiiiiiit a minute...I know what that looks like...." MD said "Could be fibroadenoma" when I called him. I said, "Nope, it had arms and legs" Finally got him to say if it was positive, would likely be no more than another lumpectomy and radiation. I can do that. Still working but only in Ma or RI and 2 days a week. Here's a rare pic of me and the grand. I'll take it down in a bit. DD would kill me.
Enchiladas and beer for dinner-don't get excited, I keep frozen pepper, onions and cheese in the freezer and make them in the microwave.
MOmmy From what I remember, you have outdone yourself!
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Well crap Bedo, that just sucks. Hoping for the very best scenario. ((Hugs)) love love love the picture❤❤
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PT agrees with sportsmedicine ortho and my MO that my backache isn't mets, even though the episodes are getting more frequent: the pain isn't in the bone, can be repeatedly reproduced by stressing certain muscles and tendons; and the fact that I have scoliosis, spinal spurs and squished discs (all visualized on X-rays), bursitis, and weak quads, abs, hip flexors, psoas, leg length/hip height discrepancy, and flat pronated feet all scream "musculoskeletal." I've booked my first 6 sessions, plus getting a podiatrist referral for new orthotics.
Probably will reheat the rest of the steak from Wed. night (unless Bob wants to go to Eataly and the movies), plus broccolini and roasted carrots.
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illimae - yay for good news! So happy!
How fun would it be to be at auntie's DH's birthday dinner!
bedo - what a sweet pic of you and DGD! I am sorry you are having to worry about a biopsy, but know we are all pulling for you and hoping for a benign result!
chisandy - hope PT is good for you - I had extended PT treatment in 2015 - most of the year - for multiple gluteus medius stress tears coupled with fluid and trochanteric bursitis in the left hip, and while it was a slow process, it did wonders for me. My sports medicine PT at USF also used US and both heat and cold, and awesome myofascial release massage. This made all the difference and I hope it can for you too! I also have a history of L4/5 disk issues, but the bi-lateral hip and lumbar MRI that led to the hip diagnosis also showed bone spurs, and degeneration now at L3 and T12, and I have one leg slightly longer than the other as well - so I feel ya on the crumbling/back pain thing. It is truly no fun at all. I have weak everything due to 17 surgeries since 2010, and I really need to get back in the gym and work on the fitness. My new problem, diagnosed on Wed is a rather shocking amount of bone loss under a crown discovered at my regular cleaning last Monday - even the endodontist said wtf? It looks like it will require extraction, then grafting and an implant - if that can even be done. Maxillofacial surgeon appt is next week (on my birthday...) and bringing in my MO to the discussion the following day since I was on Prolia for 6 years. Of course, the prospect of ONJ is ugly, as is bone mets. This did not show up on dental x-ray at all, only on cone beam CT. Ugh.
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