So...whats for dinner?
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Maggie, how special that you've eaten goose eggs. I've never seen a goose egg. And great news that your furnace is keeping you and your dh warm.
We had leftover red beans and rice for dinner and also a large romaine tossed salad with additions. Yum on the meal. I could have eaten seconds on the beans and rice but restrained myself.
DH will need to eat an early dinner tonight before leaving to attend a woodworkers' guild meeting. I may thaw some shoulder pork chops and cook them in the air fryer. Side could be sauteed cabbage.
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I've had goose eggs, but not in the sense of eating an egg from a goose. :-)
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Eric, LOL. Guinea hen eggs and quail eggs are my "rare" egg adventure; salmon roe and caviar, if you want to count that :-)
Ham and cheese "grilled cheese" for tonight.
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Leftover quiche plus caprese for my dinner post-rehearsal (Bob will take himself to Calo for seafood pasta).
To Special K, as they say on Chicago Fire : "BCO—call out!"
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Eric, The goose eggs you eat are much better than the ones you get when you bang your head. We could help ourselves to the khaki Campbell duck eggs which had pale green shells and were great for baking.
Sandy, Are you rehearsing for the Bar Show?
Dinner tonight was chicken cordon blue from the hospital cafe. Instead of wrapping the chicken around the ham and Swiss they layered the ingredients. It still tasted good. DH was not up to navigating the T and the cobblestones so I left him shepherd’s pie.
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Dinner was a white chocolate/raspberry bundlette from Nothing Bundt Cakes. I know, I know - but I wasn't hungry at all and could barely finish this.
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Dinner was an overcooked pork shoulder chop for each of us (spread with barbecue sauce and cooked in toaster oven) and delicious steamed broccoli flavored with a squeeze of lemon and a little butter.
I read a NYT article yesterday on full fat dairy versus lower fat. It was inconclusive except for stating that butter has no health benefit. Why did it have to taste so good? LOL. I do use more olive oil than butter.
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I guess the butter tasting so GOOD and having no health benefit is yet another example of "life isn't fair". :-) For me, it's candy bars. I eat one in 30 seconds and then realize it will take 3 miles of running to undo the damage.
We go through a lot of olive oil here.
It's raining, which means mud, which means muddy dog paws, which means a lot of sweeping and mopping. All in time for getting the house ready for 6 guests for Thanksgiving.
The recently replaced electric stove is in the garage and I should get out there and do the wiring so I have a second stove for Thanksgiving. However, what is currently holding my interest is bringing back to "life" a 1970s vintage piece of ham radio equipment that was stuffed full of April 1996 newspaper.
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I'm in Snowflake, Arizona.
My ham radio callsign is WB6TIX. I've had a ham radio license since Sept 1972. Sharon is also a ham with the callsign KJ7ATY.
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Bacon and eggs and slaw for tonight…maybe some leftover rice from the tofu dish.
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Guacamole and wheat thins tonight. As always, the eggs sound so good Wally.
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Dinner tonight was takeout from Whole Foods. The chicken and rice were pretty average but the veggies were really good: green beans stir fried with cherry tomatoes, Kalamata olives and red onions. I’ll copy that at home.
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Salsa chicken last night with what I thought was boneless skinless chicken thighs. They had bones. LOL. I also cooked turnips. They were really sweet. I ate a couple of raw cubes while cutting them. I love the combination of chicken, salsa and black beans.
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Yesterday we visited MIL where she's living, and had dinner with her. She complains about the foot, and the small portion sizes…. The food was good and she ate only about 1/4 of what was served.
MIL had a chef's salad and we had the chicken fried steak.
Dessert was a chocolate pudding.
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Eric, As we age our sense of smell and taste buds don't work as well so it's understandable where your MIL's comment is coming from. My mom said the same thing even though the chef had recently left an award winning restaurant since the nursing home hours were more amenable to his family life. It's good that you and Sharon got to see your MIL and were able to evaluate the situation in person.
Carole, Chicken and salsa are always a great combination; I end up substituting corn for beans.
Dinner tonight was leftover shepherd’s pie.
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Last night was Costco spinach and cheese ravioli in the remainder of the jar of Rao's. A side of sauteed cabbage. Easy dinner and enjoyable. I'm a fan of the ravioli. So handy to have it in the freezer.
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MIL likes lots of salt and sugar on most everything and it's probably as you said, Maggie…taste is diminished.
I would be even worse about complaining if I were living in such a place (and it is a very nice place). All of my favorite hobbies, ham radio, restoring old cars, restoring old radios and target shooting, are all forbidden or impractical, so I'd be reading books from the 50 book library (I made a suggestion that the county library's bookmobile stop there), counting flowers on the wall, playing solitaire til dawn with a deck of 51 and watching Captain Kangaroo. I don't smoke, so no cigarettes. :-)
Last night for dinner we ate some of the spicy vegetable soup that we made and "canned" several months ago. I went out to work on the old radio equipment project, but came back inside when I noticed the coffee in the cup had frozen solid. :-) I need to get that room finished…heating and cooling and insulation are all that is left to do.
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Eric, I’m with you on staying where you can do what you enjoy as long as possible. DH couldn’t manage on his own so I can now foresee how plans might change. LOL at the Statler Brothers reference. You must have been totally absorbed in repairing the radio for your coffee to freeze. The soup sounds delicious and ideal for warming you up.
Carole, I agree that ravioli makes an easy but tasty meal.
Reader, I hope you are doing well.
Dinner tonight was corned beef (approaching its expiration date) and cabbage.
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Salmon, spinach with a sweet potato. I made a compound butter of garlic and miso and braised the salmon over the wilted spinach. DH raved. I forgot to thaw the salmon and this allowed me to still make it without issue.
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Nance & Special K - missing you both. Hope you can check in before the end of the year.
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Last night's main was salmon here, too. Topped with mixture of yogurt, fresh dill and Dijon mustard and cooked in oven to 125 degrees. DH was complimentary despite not being a salmon fan. Always a condiments man, he used the remainder of the topping mixture on his serving. Side was a skillet dish of sauteed zucchini, browned and sprinkled with grated Romano.
I have a box of shitake mushrooms and a box of baby Bella. Tonight will be a stroganoff, with or without beef. I will look at recipes, including one in my files.
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I'm here. My meals have been too plain and boring to post. They have to be since I can't stand too long to do much prep. I love reading about all your meals and often get inspiration.
Last night I did make unstuffed peppers. Tonight I'm planning on Singapore pork and noodles as I have all the ingredients including a piece of pork tenderloin in the freezer. I also have a box of vegetable spring rolls. I'll air fry a couple of those for a side. That will make Dh happy.
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I went out and saw the coffee cup…and decided it was too cold. :-)
I hope we're lucky and it's funeral home workers that are the ones taking us out of the house.
Tonight seems like a chili night and if we make enough, possibly "can" some for later use.
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I bought some Stilton at Costco, so I think I'll use that on a burger (costco, frozen) with caramelized onions. Not sure what the sides will be.
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Nance, I got a stainless steel topped table online for the middle of my kitchen. Originally it was for rolling dough and a place for the kids to do homework but now I can prep sitting down. When I worked in the dining hall kitchen the table height counter was useful for so many things. The cleanup is easy and you can even eat there.
Eric, You know winter has arrived when it feels like a chili night.
Wally, Stilton and caramelized onions make a burger gourmet.
Dinner tonight was corned beef hash.
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DH opted for mushroom stroganoff without the meat. I found recipes that had some similarity. The dish was quite a bit of kitchen labor but it turned out good, served over egg noodles. I had a side of Caesar salad that I enjoyed a lot. DH had two ample servings of the stroganoff and noodles. Enough leftovers for a meal on Monday night.
We'll have a ribeye tonight with a baked sweet potato. Easy meal.
We had a nice weather change bringing lower humidity. I'm hoping it's pleasant enough outside for a walk in the neighborhood.
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This morning I made "veggie hash"…basically sweet potatoes, bell peppers, hot peppers, onion, garlic, tomato, eggs and mushrooms in amounts based on "seems about right" combined with "should use it up soon".
While I was doing that, Sharon was making a "Moroccan carrot salad" using the carrots from the garden.
Then we started another batch of chili. Sharon did the prep work and I sauteed stuff as she got it ready…it is now in the slow cooker.
It's raining and the floor mopping by the door is a twice daily chore. Eight paws and four feet bring in a lot of mud. :-)
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I'm making the socca "pizza" with bbq sauce and canned chicken meat.
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Carole, I hope you were able to get out for a walk. It's snowing here but looks like it will melt. I'm glad I don't have to wipe dog paws and mop floors like Eric but I miss having pets around.
Eric, The Moroccan carrot salad sounds good. Unfortunately DH won't eat carrots and I’m not sure that parsnips (my usual substitute) would work.
Dinner tonight was chicken with mushrooms, spinach and sun dried tomatoes.
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