So...whats for dinner?

Carole, Wise to have a lettuce free salad.

We are having constant rain so at least it’s not hot.

Dinner tonight was strip steak, sautéed zucchini and tater tots for DH.

Carole, Congrats to your DH! Ice cream is an appropriate celebration of that rare feat.

Wally, I hope you’re hanging in there as you deal with all the paperwork and tasks that are a PIA at the best of times. I’d help if I weren’t so far away.

Dinner tonight was pan fried tilapia, cauliflower and tater tots for DH.

Thinking spaghetti for dinner tonight. Its been too blasted hot or muggy to do a lot of prolonged cooking.

Carole, I hope your casino excursion is fun. It sounds like a good activity for an overcast day.

m0mmy, Cooking pasta is a good strategy to control the heat in the kitchen.

Wally, Your kielbasa dinner sounds good. I hope you can get a repair person to replace the seal on your fridge. Ours was replaced about 15 years ago and is still working fine.

Dinner tonight was Kung Pao chicken. Nance, I thought of you.

The casino excursion was a pleasant diversion. It's a small casino and there weren't many people gambling. On the way home, we stopped at Lobo's Bar & Grill and had lunch. We have eaten there in the past and enjoyed their pub style food. I had a walleye sandwich and dh had a burger.

We had a mediocre day at the farmers market yesterday, but the weather wasn't as hot as last Saturday. Dinner was a frozen pizza. I have gotten the knack of using the gas grill on the deck to serve as a hot pizza oven. Pat on the back.

Dinner last night was leftover chicken strips that had been sauteed in butter, onion & chicken broth - served over Quinoa & Wild Rice with mushrooms added. Tonight was a hot dot. I split & freeze in parcels of 4 (as I do with the buns) and I still have one more to finish. Never the less, I think I'm going to do Dill Potatoes tomorrow. I miss salads but not ready to eat lettuce yet.

Carole - glad to hear the casino was fun.

Maggie - I like the stir fry shrimp!!

Wally - I too have had a gasket replaced on a fridge. I think of you every day as you forge your way through.

Still 100 degrees. But actually supposed to get down to 79 tonight. (woo hoo - cold spell)

Carole, I haven’t cooked much on an outdoor grill so I admire those who can use them well.

Rhonda, Glad to hear your DH is improving. Letting the CSA provisions direct your meal plans lets you be creative as well as simplify things.

Minus, That chicken dish sounds delicious. With the cyclospora outbreak still active I’m also avoiding salads. This year that’s another benefit of Rhonda’s CSA.

Eric, I like the music from “Victory at Sea.” I would have used the temperature as an excuse to ignore the tumbleweed.

Dinner tonight was chicken in orange sauce, cauliflower and mashed potatoes.

I love the VIctory at Sea series.

Dinner was Dill Potatoes. Melted butter in a closed dutch oven on low with fingerling potatoes so mostly steamed with Dill & Garlic. Yum.

I can't force myself to go out & do the needed weeding. 101 degrees in the shade today on my covered North facing patio.

I'm prepared for my flower beds to be a jungle when I get home in either late September or early October. We have the lawn mowed regularly while we're gone, but the flower beds are on their own.

Last night's dinner was a skillet dish with ground beef, canned tomatoes, corn off the cob and cubed eggplant. I also cooked some brown basmati rice that I bought at Aldi's. I wished I had my little rice cooker, but the rice came out ok. Tonight I'll add something to the leftovers, maybe yellow squash or maybe canned pinto beans. We'll also have another salad with fresh from the farm ingredients.

I'm sure I would enjoy your dill potatoes, Minus.

We're enjoying cool weather today. A front came through last night bringing rain and cooler air.

I need to do some more work in the garden…When it rains, the desert flowers quickly "get going" because their growing season might only be a couple of weeks. In 3 days, some of the stuff went from just emerging from the ground to ankle high.

Today is "Young test daughter's" 48th birthday. She was 6 when I first met her…..getting old, I am… :-)

Carole, That combination of vegetables sounds good. I love looking at beautiful gardens but the only flowers I have are daylillies which grow like weeds.

Nance, Enjoy the good weather while it lasts.

Eric, Time flies when you are having fun. Like fine wine you are improving with age.

Minus, That is a great t-shirt statement.

Wally, I hope you are making progress with all those time consuming tasks. It’s so hard when it’s the last thing you feel like doing.

Dinner tonight was salsa verde chicken enchiladas and Mexican rice, continuing the theme from last night.

That's a good tee shirt slogan, Eric.

Wally, hope you will check in.

I feel like we are suddenly finding ourselves in MN. I put the fleece blanket on the bed last night and plugged in the little electric heater this morning. The high temperature today will be in the 70's. The weather is back to "typical."

I have a longish list for grocery shopping today. When I get home, I'll know what the dinner menu is.

Wally - So glad you're hanging in with us.

I've lived alone for many years now and 80-90% of my meals are like that. I like tuna salad served on avocado. Today was a hot dog for lunch and dinner was green peas. Tomorrow will be leftover Seeds of Change organic brown rice with Quinoa - doctored with canned mushrooms, some leftover bits of Rotissarie chicken from the freezer and the last of the green peas. Friday I'll make a 3 bean cold salad. I sure have no desire to cook in the 101 degree heat.

Wally: When I feel guilty about not eating 'balanced', I buy yogurt to get extra protein. But of course it's been several weeks now since I've had a leafy green salad, and I really miss that. Substituted with tomatoes & cottage cheese - but that's not really a salad. What would you do on a 'volunteer' weekend at the gun club?

I had the opposite problem…..I gained almost 70 pounds in a year….I went from running 90-100 miles a week and eating normally to "depressed eating"and "just sitting there".

The local gun club here is always needing stuff done at the range and I'd guess 90% of the things are only very tangentially related to shooting or firearms. I'm guessing it would be the same there.

This morning I brought in a dozen vine ripened Roma tomatoes from the garden. I rinsed one off and ate it like a peach. It was wonderful and far better than the store bought ones.