So...whats for dinner?
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Monica, hope you're not feeling too stiff & sore today, and that your daughter's hyperemesis doesn't impact her pregnancy.
This weekend, food, food & more food. Last night was the Advocate Christ Med. Ctr. holiday party at the Blackstone Hotel. OK passed apps (veggie egg rolls, bacon-wrapped dates, mushroom vol-au-vents and mini beef Wellingtons). Dinner was tomato bisque, short ribs over truffled grits with baby zucchini & romesco cauliflower, and petis fours (dark chocolate, carrot cake, and lemon-pistachio meringue tartlets). We stayed over at the hotel--the hospital picked up our room and valet parking. Then this afternoon, drove to Burr Ridge for the Holy Cross party, which was a buffet. So-so, although the roast & omelets were excellent. Tonight, ordered out from a new restaurant, Bar Roma. Cacio e pepe (housemade tonnarelli), carciofi alla Giudia (Roman Jewish-style deep-fried artichokes), suppli (rice balls in marinara) and a mixed salad with grilled shrimp. The artichokes weren't well-trimmed, and the outer leaves were like chewing cud. I guess if you want an authentic Roman Jewish dish, you need to go to a restaurant in Rome's Ghetto (which I have, three times--maybe I'm just spoiled).
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Moon, what a nightmarish night! Your description was so vivid I kept wanting to help you up! Glad that everything seems to be ok in the aftermath.
Minus, your dinner out with nephew and his wife made me want to join you. The food and situation sound most enjoyable.
Sandy, I definitely could not handle being offered all that food. I would probably end up needing medical expertise for overeating.
I was happy with our meal at home last night. I turned the two leftover oven-fried chicken thighs into "sorta chicken parm" by heating them in the oven with diced tomatoes on top and then melting grated cheese on top of the tomatoes. Our salad was really good. Cold steamed asparagus over leaf lettuce with avocado and blue cheese chunks on top and mayo for dressing. Another side was a small baked potato with butter. Dessert was two dark chocolate kisses from the bowl on the coffee table. Then two more.
I may cook some variety of beans for tonight. I have an assortment of Camellia dry beans in the pantry and also frozen ham steaks in the freezer for seasoning. I want to try out the pressure cooker for beans. If I mention beans for dinner, dh will want to cook them on the stove top. Not a bad alternative.
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I used the instant pot yesterday to make a roast for my daughter’s birthday dinner. It came out quite good using it in slow cooker mode but took much longer than I expected. Also made delmonico potatoes and green beans. Don’t often get good green beans this time of year but these looked and were delicious. Got them at our local co-op, think I need to go get more! I’m a big green bean fan. Always have them in my garden but this year the deer really got after them and I was not motivated enough to do much about it. today is our daughter’s official birthday and we will take her out to lunch. This restaurant has good pizza and sushi ( funny combination). I’ll get pizza and salad but my daughter loves sushi. I used to like sushi bu ever since I’ve been on these meds it just doesn’t sound good.
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Thanks for the kind condolences on the loss of my friend. Her sudden death has really hit hard in contrast to the goodbye we had just said to our other good friend in our neighborhood. He truly had a “good death” after terminating his difficult cancer treatments, which were ravaging his body. He was at peace when he died after having had so many people who loved him visit over his last two months, and a loving wife who created a peaceful, accepting space for that to happen. My college friend had a more complicated life and sudden, traumatic death but had recently found her biofather’s family, which apparently resulted in a meaningful meeting with those relatives. I can’t help but wonder if she was ready to leave the earth now since she had been searching for her birth parents for her entire adult life. Who knows....I feel so badly for her adult sons and boyfriend who I’m sure felt helpless on the boat as this was happening.
On to happier topics...
I am impressed with your holiday cooking and baking, Nance! I did spend Friday and Saturday getting a lot of pizzelles made. I had the deadline of having a tray of them prepared for a neighborhood holiday party we attend each year. This year I made some smaller ones with no anise seeds (just anise extract) and “baked” them in an iron I rarely use that makes four at a time. Now I remember why I rarely use that iron....using my “two cookie iron” is a much easier process. I used that one for my “with seed” dough, and prefer the look and taste of them. I’ll probably make choc chip/walnut cookies, Italian iced cookues and some fudge and call it a day (or season!).
Moon, I hope you are healing and that your DD is feeling much better. What a scary event.
Last night I baked turkey cutlets and made some of them into a quick turkey cutlet parmesan meal. We had that with little ear pasta and a green salad. Carole I loved reading how you count your Hershey’s Kisses! Such a loyal WW grad! Wish I had your discipline!
The Instant Pot talk gave me an idea for a Christmas gift for me.....an Instant Pot cookbook! Do most of you have or know of good ones? Getting the cookbook would certainly compel me to get the IP to my kitchen counter.
So many interesting meals out folks are enjoying....especially that marathon one for you, Minus. Yum!
I may make turkey meatballs for tonight, or use the leftover baked cutlets for some dish other than parm. Last week, our local store had all sorts of cuts of turkey....must be from the turkeys that never made it to Thanksgiving tables.
Katy, a pizza and sushi offering restaurant would work well for DH and me. He loves sushi and I would go for the pizza
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thx all. I am feeling bruised but better. Im still holding onto my foob when i need a deep breath though. Going to my daughters to help tonight. Ill be able to be home in bed tonight. Supper will be leftover salmon with teriaki sauce, potatos and greenbeen side dish, whenever i get hone. Unless i eat what ever at my daughters house. Oh well. We will see! LOL. She just texted me to come over, so of course i said ok. LOL.
LCey, I missed your friends passing. Im sorry. Its hard to loose a friend suddenly. Hugs!
Chi, what a wonderful dinner that sounds like. Yumo.
Carole, there sure are a lot of instantpot cookbooks. Hope you get a good one.
Minus, sounds like your enjoying being with family. Yay.
Katy, pizza and sushi does sound like a weird combo, but whatever works! LOL
Much love to all
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Ouch Moon.
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DH cooked the beans yesterday, large limas seasoned with ham. I cooked brown rice and made a side dish with thin-sliced brussel sprouts sauteed in olive oil and small amount of ghee, then flavored with balsamic vinegar. My goal with the brussel sprouts was to cook them in a way dh would like. He did like them more than I did.
A new day and the daily question: So...what's for dinner?
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Tonight is a curry with full fat coconut milk, chicken, julienned carrot, yellow pepper, red onion - over brown rice, with chopped cashews
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Tonight will be lasagna again. I made two pans of lasagna a week or so ago and froze them. I gave one pan to friends for a Christmas gift and kept one. Figured if I was making lasagna I may as well make two! And I’m glad I did, nice to have dinner made. I’ll make a little green salad to go on the side. Better go check what wine I have
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This evening - absolutely delicious left over crab fried rice served on steamed spinach that needed to be eaten. I'm full as a tick and still have one more meal of the fried rice left. Not to mention a large piece of Quiche Florentine from a La Madelaine's holiday get together yesterday.
Another seasonal lunch tomorrow at a "down home comfort cooking" restaurant/cafe that's been in business for 46 years. I'm deciding between fried shrimp & chicken fried steak. Hoping they will trade the French Fries for coleslaw.
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Tonight was a chicken breast in a peanut sauce.
The curry recipe I made earlier came from DD in the form of a text message. It's more of a list of ingredients than a recipe as spices are all "to taste".
1 can chickpeas (1 pound can)
1 can coconut cream (13 fl ounce can)
1 cup red lentils
3/4 cup of vegetable broth
Sriracha sauce to taste
salt to taste
pepper to taste
garlic powder to taste
onion powder to taste
pinch turmericBring the broth to a boil. Add the chickpeas, coconut cream, spices and lentils. Reduce heat to simmer and cook for 20 minutes. Stir and serve.
The sriracha..."a little bit goes a long way"...be careful.... :-)
The other spices...I used about 1/2 teaspoon of salt, about 1/2 teaspoon of pepper and about 3/4 teaspoon of the garlic and onion powders. The turmeric is really just a pinch. All of these measurements were made using the highly accurate "dump some in the palm of my hand, decide that it looks about right and dump it in to the liquid" method.
DD said she adds spinach to the curry and lets it cook for a couple of minutes before serving. I didn't have spinach, so I left it out and I think it turned out well.
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Oh gosh Moonflower what a terrible experience. Hope the pain and bruising settles soon.
There's been lots of mouth watering dinner ideas over the last few days here.
Nothing too exciting here. I made a large pot of butternut squash soup 🍲 on Monday as well as a quiche with broccoli mushroom and pork. Yesterday was left over pumpkin soup with parmesan.
Today toying with idea of veal, mushroom 🍄 and creamy mash. But depends on how the day turns out.
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Last night's dinner was air fried shrimp lightly breaded in Louisiana fish fry, scalloped potatoes and salad with lettuce, cucumber, avocado and blue cheese. Very tasty.
Tonight is a Christmas dinner party with golfing friends. I'm bringing an appetizer that's a version of a cheese ball but won't be shaped in a ball! More like a mound.
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Leftover pork chops and baked potatoes
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Potato soup, courtesy of my mother in law. I was over fixing a few things at her house...leaky faucet, replacing a toilet seat and fixing a shower door that had slipped off of its track.
I've had a pizza stone for awhile and I just got myself a nice ironwood pizza peel (birthday present to myself..I turned 58 last week). So, tomorrow I think I'm going to try to make a homemade pizza crust and pizza. I've found some ideas for sourdough pizza crusts listed in the King Arthur Flour baking books and I have sourdough starter. Sharon has already given me some requests for the pizza itself....anchovies, pepperoni, LOTS of cheese, onion, bell pepper and some garlic sauce. I also like anchovies, but I'll probably not put too many of them on the pizza, otherwise I'll be drinking water all night.
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Had a large holiday lunch with former coworkers, dinner ended up being a croissant with cheese.
Condolences to you minus
Glad you’re ok moon
Happy belated birthday Eric
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Iliemae - have a wonderful time in New Orleans. Looking forward to hearing about all your food & drink experiences.
Eric - adding my belated B-day wishes.
Carole - if you think it's appropriate, I'd love to hear what meds the podiatrist gave you. I'm back using the 47% urea gel with everything else that is actually in plain old Vicks Vapor Rub. Only from the podiatrist it costs $47.00
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Minus, I will be happy to share, maybe later today. The purchases from the podiatrist are still in a small paper bag in another room.
The food at last night's Christmas party was very good, particularly a beef cubes with brown gravy dish and a shrimp, wild rice and artichoke heart baked dish. The home-made desserts were awesome, especially a coconut cake and a lemon souffle cake. I ate too much. This morning I bypassed the scale.
A number of people liked my cheese log with crackers appetizer but only half of it was eaten. And I couldn't manage to give the rest of it away. One golf friend asked for the recipe. It's not a large group and all of us are older folks. I should have halved the recipe.
DH really enjoyed the soup, a creamy crab and crawfish concoction. Our hostess always puts out the soup in a large tureen with little paper cups for people to serve themselves before dinner is served. One reason the appetizers weren't eaten.
Tonight may be another turkey, bean, corn chili. I have the ingredients on hand and the weather is right for chili.
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Ilona, see the drinking thread for my NOLA recommendations. A Creole Christmas sounds marvelous.
Tues. night I went to a pop-up dinner held at a local CBD/vape shop by Table Four Twenty, a caterer which specializes in CDB-infused cooking. Was disappointed by the portion sizes (appetizers, served at a buffet because of insufficient room for formal plated service) because the price was steep; but there was no limit on how many to take and they were delicious. There were deviled eggs (infused mayo), infused hummus with crudités, mini-Caprese skewers with balsamic infused with CBD simple syrup, grilled shrimp dusted with smoked paprika over diced mango in a CBD vinaigrette, CBD-syrup-marinated dates wrapped in bacon. Dessert, which I ate the next morning, was a "cannabun:" Ghirardelli dark chocolate chips mixed with Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal (!) held together with marshmallow Fluff and topped with a CBD-infused icing (better than it sounds). Unlimited wine and cocktails too. There was a DJ (good, though I'm not into hip-hop) and a septuagenarian male singer-guitarist who was on the shady side of mediocre, but he was fun. (I will be entertaining at the next one). It was a pleasant, relaxed, sociable and enlightening evening, with samples to try and a goody-bag of products (easily the price of the dinner) to take home. The shop was dedicated almost exclusively to CBD (no kratom), with a little bit of nicotine vape stuff for tobacco smokers. But for the nicotine, clear storefront windows and taking credit cards, it was as clean and modern as my dispensary, with helpful and knowledgeable staff.
When I got home i was greeted by Filipino food made by Bob's medical partner: marinated grilled chicken skewers, lumpia (tiny deep-fried spring rolls), and pansit (clear noodles with veggies and chicken). That was lunch yesterday too. For dinner, I made pan-seared sockeye salmon and sauteed snap peas with sesame seeds. No tartar sauce or pickle relish in the house, so I faked it with a little Whole Foods remoulade, mayo and chopped capers. But my first course celebrated the return of romaine to the grocery store: a Caesar salad with homemade croutons, heirloom yellow tomato and a creamy bottled (365) dressing to which I added olive oil and anchovy paste.
Made French toast this morning with raisin challah. Tonight, not sure. Have to pick up the wines I ordered at last week's Cellars tasting, so I might have their seared ahi app for dinner.
Lacey, have you heard from Susan (01234, I think?) lately? Hope she's okay and her absence is due to being too busy running her AirBnB, and not suffering from treatments.
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Boring roast chicken and "bachelor chow" (pot roast, potatoes, carrots in the slow cooker) here, but I do have a straight up question: how is air frying different from roasting?
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Queenmomcat, the air fryer is a small convection oven with strong fan circulation and cooks faster than a conventional oven. It's advantage during hot weather is that it does not heat up the kitchen like an oven would do. It's handy for someone like my younger sister who is busy all day and doesn't care to spend much time planning a meal or cooking it. She loves her air fryer because it delivers a healthier version of fried food. Fried chicken, pork chops, French fries. Then there are people like me who buy whatever kitchen stuff comes along!
I did make the fast and easy Turkey, Black Bean, Corn Chili yesterday afternoon and we had it for dinner last night along with warmed up corn bread.
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Ah, not heating up the kitchen makes sense. And the healthier version of frying as well.
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I received two packages today from Amazon. More presents to myself. A set of Joseph Joseph plastic cutting boards, the ones that fold for easy tranfer of diced material to pot. A few years ago I bought one for myself and my sister at a nearby upscale kitchen store but it stopped carrying them. I bought the set of three in graduated sizes from Amazon for about the same price as the one large version from the store. Still I would have given the store my business if the products I wanted were available there.
The other package was a set of small silicone brushes.
Tonight's dinner will be jump ups from the refrigerator along with a lettuce salad with additions.
I was in the middle of calling restaurants to see if I could get a reservation for four for New Year's Eve when dh intervened to say he thought we should have the dinner at our house. This morning I told him I would agree as long he took 50 percent of the responsibility for the meal. The planning the menu and the preparation. He plans to order a prime standing rib roast from a supermarket that actually has a butcher.
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Wow, getting hungry reading the last posts - sounds like some really good food! The CBD dinner sounded very intriguing. Won’t happen in Idaho any time soon. My husband and I like to celebrate a little private Christmas before Christmas, so we are doing that tonight. I make dinner ahead of time so we can really relax. I made a beef stew in the Dutc Oven - it’s a recipe that uses some cider and apples along with other veggies. It is served over a potato/parsnip mash. Got a nice Cotes du Rhône to go with it. Happy Solstice! Check out the full moon - it was spectacular here this morning!
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We're losing 4 of our party of 12 for NYE--my godson & his wife won't be coming from Seattle after all, and one of our friends who just had a prostatectomy will be spending the evening at his GF's (aka Bob's medical partner's) house a few blocks from his own, along with his son who's in from L.A. to help care for him.
I have a fridge full of leftovers. Bob brought home half his trout dinner (with roast spuds & sprouts) plus mac & cheese last night after gift-shopping in Oak Brook en route from his hospitals (I went to Old Orchard, which is closer to home). FInished off the FIlipino leftovers for breakfast. Still have half the mac & cheese, and Bob's leftover linguine primavera from lunch (enough for two dinners). At this rate, no actual from-scratch food till at least Sunday. (Bob hinted he got me the smaller InstantPot for Christmas).
"Christmas Eve Eve Eve" tomorrow night after we get back from a party and Gordy gets back from the holiday comedy show he's been directing--we'll exchange presents and Gordy will sleep over (to avoid having to wrestle his suitcase into his building's mini-elevator) and then fly to Austin Sun. morning. (Leslie already left via car last night--we'll give her her present, a paella kit from Williams-Sonoma, NYE). We got Gordy an Apple Store gift card so he can replace his dying 2014 MacBookPro with the 'puter of his choice, configured the way he wants it. The salesperson at the Old Orchard Apple Store suggested he use the card while in TX, whose sales tax is half ours, and either bring the new laptop home or have it overnighted so he can transfer the data himself or have a local AppleStore do it.
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Carole - I have the Joseph Joseph "Stretch expandable heat resistant pot stand" and I love it.
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Carole, I like the Joseph Joseph silicone spatulas that have the little ridge on the side to prop it up off the surface.
Eric, how did we miss your birthday? Hope it was fabulous!
Guests have come and gone. A successful visit with lots of good food - brisket cooked to perfection in the pc, the cacciatore not so much. Cooked a little too long so meat was falling off the bone and sauce didn't cook down enough for my taste. I'll probably go back to the Dutch oven stovetop method for that dish. Sides for the brisket were roasted asparagus and fennel with orange vinaigrette and roasted smashed baby potatoes.
DSIL and I devoured a pound of delicious red shrimp that I picked up Friday and poached. Lucky us, neither DH is a shrimp fan. A friend gifted us a delicious Finnish coffee bread, delicately flavored with cardamom and orange (thought of you Minus) that we had for breakfast with bacon cheddar scones and harvest bread. Desserts were assorted cookies and sour cherry slab pie.
For you folks looking for instant pot recipes and cookbooks, Bob Warden puts out some popular ones. I have one of his. I've previously posted my favorites. Serious Eats has a nice collection on their web site.
Tonight is more casual Friday night fare - pioneer woman's sloppy Joes and oven fries.
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Homemade chicken quesadilla and pinto beans for me tonight, not sure what DH is having. It’s fend for yourself Friday.
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Illimae - Happy Anniversary. I think you need to do some of the tourist stuff your first time to NOLA. Drink a Hurricane for me. Or maybe just a sip. Have a wonderful mini holiday.
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Thanks minus! I’m going for it, no sipping, all in! Warning: Obnoxious food pics ahead 😀
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