So...whats for dinner?
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Minus, I'm impressed with all the work you got done in your garden. It's not surprising greens for dinner were not appealing.
Eric, Microwave cooking leaves something to be desired but I often find it preferable to bad fast food joints that are close by.
Nance, I have a crockpot but don't use it often enough, probably because every morning I was rushing to leave the house on time and prepping dinner wasn't a priority. I don't have to worry about that now but old habits die hard.
Wally, It's good that you didn't have to drive a long way for your DH's treatment.
Carole, The seafood restaurant with an oyster special sounds much better than leftovers. Enjoy!
Dinner tonight was meatballs in Rao’s on spaghetti.
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Maggie, I wish….still the hour to the ferry (and the concern about the bridge holding up traffic), the 1/2 hour on the ferry (plus any wait time to load onto the ferry) and the 1/2 hour to the hospital…but no bus, no walking (for DH) and less traffic (edmonds vs seattle). The edmonds facility is less crowded and more attentive.
Not sure if we'll have more leftovers tomorrow or if I will try the vegan ragu that was posted here (thank you).
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Nut crusted red drum fish, mashed potatoes and collards tonight. We went out for dinner - a real southern meal and I believe the fish was local.
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Buster's restaurant was crowded and noisy even though we went early but we were lucky to find a table for two immediately. DH ordered a dozen raw oysters and a dozen charbroiled. I had only one raw and it was delicious. I ate most of the charbroiled. All the oysters were a nice size. We both had a cup of crab and corn bisque and were full. Service was fast. It was nice to break the usual routine.
From my seat I could see a man shucking oysters and admired his expertise.
Our waitress mentioned that there's a free concert in Covington on Thursday night so many of their patrons eat and then go to the concert.
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Nance - Sorry to see the pudding news. I guess this makes me sound old, but why do the best things always go away???
I did put in another full yard day. Still didn't get the plumarias planted, but I'm taking a break to let the sore muscles heal!! I was glad to have the green salad last night that I'd prepped for Wednesday. Tonight will be sushi - California Roll from Kroger so not gourmet.
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Reader, The nut crusted fish sounds delicious.
Wally, Ferries and drawbridges are fun when you are on vacation but it must be terribly stressful trying to get the timing right when you have an appointment time to make.
Carole, Shucking oysters is an art I never mastered. My father was very good at it since he had worked at a seafood market on the beach during the summers when he was a teenager.
Dinner tonight was leftover spaghetti and meatballs.
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Maggie, LOL, not even fun on vacation. Sitting and waiting for a drawbridge upwards of an hour and no bathrooms around…stressful, LOL.
I ended up cooking off the tofu so I can make the vegan bolognese tomorrow and I made a spinach/ham/cheese omelet (DH's request).
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The asparagus was especially tasty last night. Tossed with olive oil and s & p and cooked in 400 degree toaster oven, then sprinkled with Italian blend cheese. DH and I shared the breaded and browned small pork steak/chop and we each had a salad we made for ourselves.
I'm experiencing anxiety about the embarrassment of going to Europe. The Ugly American. I'm thinking of making a placard clearing myself of responsibility.
I have to go to Sam's Club pharmacy today for prescriptions. I plan to buy 6 more large bags of Community Coffee. I always buy a lot to take to MN for the summer and I'm expecting the price to increase substantially. Coffee is one of our necessities. I make a large pot daily.
Tonight's dinner will probably be Raos and cooked pasta out of the freezer.
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Oh Wally - I've done that ferry & bridge route when I visited friends in Sequim and then Port Angeles. Can't imagine it as part of a regular commute. Your dinner sounds great. I have some Cure 81 pre-cut ham in the freezer & I have Swiss & spinach. Maybe I'll plan on an omelet tomorrow?
Made do last night with cucumber sticks & wheat things and the last of the guacamole so tonight it will be the California Roll.
Carole - I'm planning a Costco run next week for TP and paper goods. I want to try their "normandy vegetables", but it's such a huge bag…..
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Minus - of all those giant bags of vegetables, I like the stir fry medley the best.
It's been raining here for five days straight. I'm feeling mildewed and missing the sun.
It's a gumbo kind of night. Served with brown rice.0 -
Carole, Having lived in and traveled in Europe blame is generally not cast on tourists since there is a range of political opinions within every country and groups of citizens who have to keep their opinions to themselves depending on which party is in power. Your post reminds me of a bumper sticker that appeared in my home state in 1972, "Don't blame me, I'm from Massachusetts."
Buying coffee now makes sense as the price was increasing anyway due to drought in several producing regions. I stocked up on Italian pasta since the Roundup used to desiccate wheat before harvesting in the US upsets DH's stomach.
Dinner tonight was tilapia Veracruz and mashed potatoes.
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Nance - thanks for the recommend. I hope to get to Costco this week, but…..
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Due to an unexpected snow storm, dinner was previously frozen leftover chicken and dumplings. Dessert was a slice of cheesecake and hit chocolate.
Mountain life has been interesting but snow, in April, in Texas?!
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Wow on the snow in Texas in April!!! I can imagine Wally's envy. LOL.
Thanks for the reassurance on foreign travel.
The main dish last night was a combination of out of the freezer Italian sausage and linguini and out of the jar Raos. Much enjoyed with liberal sprinkling of fresh grated parm reg. I had a large salad, which I also savored, and dh had a slice of fresh baked whole grain bread spread with butter.
I took a pork roast out of the freezer yesterday to cook today. It should have been cooked during colder weather. I may use the crock pot even though the oven is better. Either way, too much meat at a time when we're eating less and emptying the freezers in preparation for months away from home.
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Not much going on here….the weekend, so far, has been "no need to work", but with all the flooding, it's possible that could change.
Sharon told me it snowed last week at home (Snowflake, AZ)
Dinner has been simple…..for one person, not getting excess (and having to put leftovers into the garbage) is more important than variety. Hamburger, baked (microwave oven) potatoes, corn on the cob, fruit, and sandwiches for lunch, has been "it". Breakfasts are provided by the hotel, and are equally similar—scrambled eggs, breakfast egg-cheese muffins, bacon or sausage, and waffles.
Yesterday several of us went first to the National Museum of Civil War Medicine and then to Gettysburg. This was the first time at the museum but my 4th or 5th trip to Gettysburg's battlefield. We ate at a local restaurant and it was nice getting different food for a change. I had crab cakes… :-) The museum was fascinating and I could have spent the entire day there.
Gettysburg is always interesting, but also always depressing to me. 50,000, or more, casualties were "spent" over the three days of combat. Upwards of 20,000 soldiers were needing medical treatment, many involving amputations of limbs due to the trauma (destruction) of a miniball impact.
The director of medicine of the Army of the Potomac was Major Jonathon Letterman. He developed a system for treating large numbers of wounded soldiers and that early July, his ideas were put to the ultimate test. They worked. His methods are at the core of how such things are handled today and while he would be awestruck at the current capabilities, I'm quite certain he would recognize it as "his system".
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Illimae, Yikes! It’s currently snowing in NH but that’s way further north than Texas. Stay warm!
Eric, Glad that you got to have crabcakes as a delicious change from your routine diet. When I was working I always ate the same breakfast and made the same lunch to save time in the morning. The information on Jonathan Letterman is very interesting. I didn’t know about his evacuation system even though I've been to Gettysburg several times and was familiar with his name.
Carole, It looks like cleaning out the freezer is going to determine your meals for the next while. You don't have to shop as much but you’ll have to be creative to use up everything.
Dinner tonight was creamy artichoke chicken on capricci.
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Mae - just unbelievable snow. However the weather front brought our temps down from 89 to 60 - so thank you.
Eric - again & again…. thank you for your service!!! Even if it's been 'slow' so far. Not surprised you had snow at home.
Carole - I'm with you about the oven & outside temperatures - so I'll probably pull a roast out of the freezer for tomorrow
Dinner tonight was 3 hard boiled eggs that needed to be used. I considered making egg salad, but ended up just cutting them in half and eating cold like Easter Eggs. (with salt of course)
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I stuffed the pork roast with a mixture of garlic, green onion, s & p and cayenne. Cooked it in the slow cooker all day. Meanwhile it cooled off outside. Late afternoon I transferred the pale unappetizing roast into a 350 degree oven. It turned out good, browned and tender. I made gravy with the drippings. Side was small boiled red potatoes with butter. Lots of leftover roast and gravy.
It's in the 50's this morning and overcast. We're getting a respite from the heat.
Minus, no mayo on the boiled eggs?
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Nah, I just ate the eggs plain - like when we were kids and found the dyed hard boiled eggs at Easter and just peeled & ate. Too late & too lazy to chop them up & mix with mayo & mustard. Your pork sounds delicious.
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Subs and salad for dinner
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Dinner was a trial. I was raised in the SF Bay Area so I've known about Rice-A-Roni since it came out in 1958. Somehow I never had Noodle Roni (now called Pasta Roni). My grocery store sent a coupon for a free box: Angel Hair Pasta with Herbs. It has more sodium than I'd usually purchase but I love pasta so why not try it. I added small pieces of rotisserie chicken and served over broccoli cuts. It was OK, (especially since it was free) but I'm not likely to buy it again. Sauce was too "heavy".
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Carole, Your pork sounds very good. It's great that a short trip to the oven improved the quality of the roast so much.
Minus, I had never heard of Pasta Roni. I liked the Rice-A-Roni TV ad with the cable car.
m0mmy, Do you still have snow? What fell here for the past two days was melted by rain but more is coming tonight.
Dinner tonight was salmon and veggies in creamy dill sauce on tagliatelle.
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Yesterday we went to brunch and had crab cake Benedict and then a shrimp kebab over fava bean rice for dinner. Felt like i was going overboard with sea food, So made a green juice smoothie and carrot juice for lunch today, and a cream of zucchini soup using rolled oats instead of dairy for dinner. It was an old recipe from the Natural Gourmet cookery school original recipe book, served with a side salad and hummus on matzoh ( couldn’t resist opening the box in advance of Passover) lol.
There is lots of rain here, but so nice to see the trees starting to bud green and the magnolias are blooming. Daffodils are popping up ,everywhere along with the crocuses. NYC / Hoboken springtime though cold in the upper 40s.Maggie - I love tagliatelle, sounds delicious.
minus - sounds like you made some good additions to the pasta roni to make it tasty.
mommyof3 - sometime subs and salad hits the spot!0 -
All the snow we had is gone. Started melting the next day. It's been getting near 40 lately if not warmer.
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We had chicken and sausage gumbo out of the freezer last night with freshly cooked brown rice. Tasted good since the weather has cooled off. It was a last-minute decision so I put the frozen block in a big pot over a simmer burner and let it slowly melt.
Lunch yesterday with my sister and cousin turned out to be a search for a restaurant open on Monday, when many restaurants are closed. We ended up at Don's Seafood. I had a shrimp salad with remoulade sauce. A good choice but large enough for two people. I brought home the leftovers but we don't have a good record on eating restaurants leftovers.
Tonight's dinner will probably be leftover pasta meal and a salad for me.
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I'm back…DH's treatment took caregiving to a new level…he forgets how awful he feels; our friend who calls weekly was NOT helpful. I asked for no calls till we could be in the same room and what does she do…calls that Saturday. UGH. I know, I could have simply not answered the phone. Shame on me. Well, we can be close again and I don't have to think of him as nuclear-waste, LOL…and he's feeling a bit better, so those are all positive. Now we wait for labs.
I used Roa's arrabiata sauce for the vegan bolognese. It was good. I added some chopped spinach and diced onions to the mix. Had that for 3 days and tonight, I have zero idea.
Eye doc for me tomorrow. I hope my DH is strong enough to go with me to Sequim. My eye pressures have been higher than normal but everything is healthy, so I hope that continues. I read that antihistamines can increase IOP, so I stopped taking those to see if that could be the issue.
And YES…drool on that snow. We hit 64 one of the days last week and I was starting to count how many months I have till October. Sigh.
Carole, I think tourism is being looked at less favorably than being an American. My only advice, if anyone cares, is, if you need to speak with someone, try to speak in their native language. MOST places in the world speak English; they'll figure it out and appreciate your efforts. It goes a very long way. I hope you have a fabulous time. Can't wait to hear about it.
Eric, loved your post and the emotions you feel about the place you are at. It is very moving.
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Rhonda, I don’t think you can have too much seafood. I always stock up on matzoh during Passover since it is a change from Wasa crispbread.
Carole, It's annoying when you decide to go out to eat and all the restaurants are closed.
Wally, Glad your DH is past the toxic stage and feeling a bit better. Hopefully your eye appointment will go well. I've never tried Rao's arrabbiata since it's not one of the types Aldi's sells. I'll have to spring for some at the other grocery store.
Dinner tonight was baked chicken breast, mashed potatoes and sautéed yellow squash.
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Dinner tonight was more weird than usual since I had a long zoom meeting right around the dinner hour. Bob Evans Mashed Potatoes, fresh Radishes and a large piece of toasted sourdough french bread.
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Dinner tonight will be leftover pork and gravy. And cauliflower mash.
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Minus, I think it’s great that you eat what you feel like. It’s much better than eating what you think you should and then adding what you really want.
Dinner tonight was angus strip steak with cauliflower and sautéed purple potatoes.
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