So...whats for dinner?
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Lacey - I checked DodgersGirl & she posts on chemo & taxol threads. Sorry we don't know her.
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hello... I first started reading this thread this summer as I thought I would get ideas on dinners to fix even when I had no energy from chemo sessions but, if being honest, was amazed at the meals everyone posted as I didn't have the energy to even think of prepping such amazing sounding meals. So I read this thread more from the hopefulness of one day I may be able stand in kitchen and cook a real meal.
As was recently posted, I post mostly in chemo threads. I was diagnosed in March. Finished neo-adjuvant chemo Aug 16th. Hubby had heart attack 8/5 and bypass surgery 8/15 and is finally back home trying to get strong enough to be ready to help me when I have mastectomy on 9/11/17....then rads....then hysterectomy. So it will be a while before I return to the kitchen to do more than heat something frozen.
About the only home cooked dinner I fix right now is a brats/onions/peppers one sheet pan dinner as all I need to do is buy pre-cut onions and peppers and spread out on jelly roll pan. Lightly oil. Sprinkle Italian seasoning, salt, and pepper. Top with 4 brats (which I puncture first with a fork) bake at 400 degrees for 40 mins. Turn brats over. Cook another 15-20 mins.
I did get a couple of cookbooks today with more one sheet pan meals. Will keep trying to fix real dinners again
Hope to one day be able to contribute on this thread with dinners cooked. And thank you to all who share your dinners. You guys rock.
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Had a small slice of sourdough toast (my low-carb’s been banished for a week because it has seeds) with whipped cream cheese, leftover lox/red onion/pickled cuke/capers (from Bob’s brunch Sunday) and half a homegrown Roma tomato for an early dinner. Four tamales remain, and Gordy’s got dibs. Might wander over to the frozen custard joint on the corner for a kids’ size dish as my adieu to solid food till at least Thurs. night.
Welcome back, DodgersGirl! Sorry about your hubby’s heart attack & CABG surgery—but he’ll probably bounce back in time to be there for you for your mastectomy. Are your Dodgers L.A. or Brooklyn? I was practically born a Brooklyn Dodgers fan (my parents took me, not yet a year old, to the Polo Grounds for that fateful season-ending game against the Giants) and after I cried when Bobby Thompson hit that homer off Ralph Branca, my parents knew I’d be true to “dem Bums.” I had my own little Dodger uniform and a Gil Hodges toy mitt (yeah, even though he played first base but I’m a righty). When they moved to L.A. I was despondent. I grudgingly accepted the Yankees as the only team in town (and the Mantle-Maris rivalry was fun). When the Mets debuted in ’62, despite (or perhaps because of) their spectacular ineptitude I was hooked. In 1969, the fall of my jr. year at Brooklyn College, I got to go to the last game of the World Series at Shea Stadium. Gil Hodges was the manager by then. Along with other joyous fans, I took home a little piece of turf and planted it in a flowerpot. My mom took care of it after I married and moved to Seattle a year and a half later. It died the same week as Hodges.
I never forgave the Dodgers for deserting Brooklyn…despite the fact that I eventually did, too. Some grudges are irrational.
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ChiSandy- Dodgers moved to LA while I was living in Los Angeles. Grew up listening to Vin Scully on the transistor radio. Moved to the Midwest when I was older but never stopped being a Dodgers fan. Last year we made a trip to LA to be part of the Vin Scully weekend as he called his last home games. What a great weekend. Got to be at the game when LA clinched the division. So magical.
Watching the Dodgers playing so well this year has been the bright light of the summer. MLB.com allows me to watch most of their games so a couple of hours a day, we find a distraction to real life !
Have to tell you that when I typed bypass surgery, I was going to type CABG but wasn't sure if everyone would know what that is but I thought of you and said to myself, "well, ChiSandy would know"
Back to dinners-- hubby has lost a lot of weight since his surgery so keep trying different meals to see what he might eat. Right now both our taste buds are not working so well
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Hi Dodgers....My DD bleeds blue. :-)
Even before she was 14, she would ride her bike to the Dodgers spring training stadium and watch the games. We went to one spring game and when couldn't find her, we called her on her cell phone. She stepped out from the dugout with Tommy Lasorda!
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Eric-- that is so cool. Loved Vero Beach. Was lucky enough to make 3 spring trips over the years. My DD's favorite player at one point was Brett Butler. She was walking back to the stadium just before a spring training game and just behind her was B Butler but I couldn't get her attention to tell her to TURN AROUND.
Your DD has good taste!!
Dinner tonight was pineapple chicken by Healthy Choice followed by a popsicle.
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Here is my contribution to the Dodgers convo - I was born in Los Angeles and grew up there, and also bleed Dodger blue - a lifelong fan. Have attended many games at Chavez Ravine - and introduced my children to the Dodgers when they were little and we would go visit my parents in California. I was born during the 1956 World Series between the NY Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers. I also remember listening on the transistor! Right after college I worked in a hospital on the California Central Coast and Sandy Koufax was a patient during the time I was there.
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Well - not to break the chain, but I was raised in Northern CA and was a devoted Giants fan. Oh the San Francisco/Los Angeles rivalries - on the field and off. That will never change.
DodgersGirl - glad to have you, lurking or posting. Let us know if you need our founder's famous Mexican Chicken dish. It takes maybe all of 5 minutes to prep.
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so enjoyed the "six degrees of Dodgers baseball " a.k.a. "six degrees of Kevin Bacon" on this thread kast night. Thanks everyone
MinusTwo- would love to have the founder's famous Mexican chicken recipe. Thanks for the offer. Hope you are still doing ok in Texas.
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Minus, illimae and all in threat areas, hoping you are still safe and dry. Sandy, I remember Kingspoint in Delray Beach. Your mom was more than like there during what is called the back to back season of 2004 and 2005. You described it exactly, a war zone. Harvey reminds me of Andrew when it hit south of Miami. Harvey is much worse imho. The devastation afterwards lasts so long. I am so worried about all of those in harms way, for this storm has already had 2 landfalls. Now the failsafes, the levees, damns etc are being either released or over run. My sil (dh baby sis) was initially safe, but the streets are now flooded. Like you minus she is now trapped in her house. The outer roads are impassable and she says just a few streets over folks are in boats. I think she will leave, along with her brood.
Welcome dodgersgirl. So nice to see you back lacey. as for food. I"m stressed, so in the past week, I"ve made sweet potato pies, a peach cobbler. Lasagna and turkey and cornbread dressing. My 3 kids that are near, have been in heaven. I call them while I'm cooking. Whoever gets here first, gets first pickings.
My farming neighbor dropped off some wonderful tomatoes and peppers. Along with mutsu apples. . is a cross between the 'Golden Delicious and the 'Indo' apple. He grows apples for a large commercial cannery. He gave me 3 bushels. Not sure what I'll do with them. Any ideas?
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Got a wild hare today and decided to make from scratch lasagna - sauce, noodles, ricotta - the whole nine yards. Will have a garlicky cole slaw for a side and maybe half a baguette depending on how carb heavy I want to get.
Saw dad yesterday. He's hanging in there and seems content. 91st birthday next week. Wow.
Hope you Houston ladies are still high and dry. Niece is still waiting to hear about their house. As of yesterday it was ok but the Brazos hasn't crested yet.
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val - since the apples seem to be a bit spicy I bet they would make good pies, or applesauce. I like to cook apples with onions in a little olive oil and put on top of pork chops or pork loin roast. Maybe they would also be good in an apple cake or quick bread.
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Val - can I please come to dinner? Everyone's meals sound great. I have to decide if dinner will be pick-me-ups (whatever is in the fridge - what was the term from this thread??) or if I'll cook.
The sun is out here and no rain at my house since yesterday. Streets are dry. I have been very fortunate. I never lost power and water did not come into my house. But I don't plan to leave the neighborhood yet. Too many infrastructure problems and people needing rescue.
Carole - are you still in the North country? I hate to think of you going home to the storm but know you'll worry about your Mother.
Nance - Happy B-day to your Dad. So glad he's settled in.
DodgersGirl. Here you go. Laurie had two young children & said when she made this her husband would come home & think she had been cooking all day. Her recipe for "Mexican Chicken"
Put 2-4 chicken breasts in a pyrex dish. Dump a jar of your favorite salsa over it. Open & drain a can of black beans & dump that on top. Cover & bake for 350 degrees for 1-1/2 hours. Five minutes before serving, cover with shredded cheese to melt - like a Mexican blend. Serve over rice, scoop sauce on top & then dab of sour cream.
This works like a slow cooker & the chicken just shreds apart. I usually serve the 'whole' breasts one night and shred the leftovers for wraps or enchiladas the next day. I have also adapted to use leftover rotisserie chicken with less salsa. I like the extra beans. Dinner for one from the microwave. I think Carole adapted the recipe for a crock pot. And I've also used the same recipe with pork chops.
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Just had my aperitif of 6 oz. Suprep mixed with 10 oz. of water, and then a pint of water as a chaser. Tastes bizarre—sweet, salty & bitter all at once. (Umami would have been a nice touch). It actually tastes much better than Jägermeister, Cynar, Amaro, Malort or Fernet Branca (don't ask me how I know that). But those drinks you knock back by the shot, not the pint. Have to drink another pint of plain water before 6:15. Then dinner will be whatever clear stuff I feel like. Breakfast will be a rerun of the foregoing.
I was chagrined to read just now in the Suprep package insert that I could have had a normal light breakfast before my workout—the instructions in my patient portal said no solid food or dairy at all from this morning till tomorrow night, but those instructions were for Tri-Lyte (the really awful stuff you need to drink by the gallon). Seems my Medicare Part D carrier doesn't cover Suprep, so that's why they sent me the Tri-Lyte instructions. When I found that Suprep cost only $35 out of pocket, I told my GI doc's office to go ahead and call in the script.
Well, it had to happen sometime—en route to the gym this morning I discovered a squirrel had taken a hefty bite out of one of my ripe Roma tomatoes (its vine was closest to the deck railing, magnolia bough and grape arbor). I am really looking forward to ‘maters again starting at dinnertime tomorrow.
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Minus- thank you for the recipe!! Sounds like something my family would like.
Great news that your place is still dry
Wednesday dinner is the brats, onions, peppers cooked on a sheet pan I wrote about yesterday
Right now it's what I fix on Wednesdays as I am off work on Wednesdays and since dinner takes an hour to cook, I like being off work when I prepare this dish so dinner can be finished early enough to let food settle before headed to bed. Plus right now, this meal uses a couple of the many bell peppers that are ready to harvest from the garden.
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Well, didn't it make my heart smile to read all the posts about the Brooklyn, then LA Dodgers on this thread! I was indoctrinated to the bums in 1955 when I used to sit waiting for Lassie to air on the same channel on which my father watched the Dodger double headers (we were in South Jersey and he had rigged a huge rotating antenna to our roof allowing him to access the NY games) Well, often those games went on for quite a while, and I sat...and sat....and eventually embraced Dodger baseball almost as tenaciously as my father did. I knew every player's batting avg, got a subscription to The Sporting News, and was almost as heartbroken as Dad was when they left Flatbush. However...he was the one who sent Walter O'Malley a nasty telegram saying... "The biggest bum of them all got what he deserved....a cow pasture" because they had to start playing there at the LA Coliseum. He received a satisfying response from O'Malley who said, "I received your telegram, but I didn't like it very much". Guess my Dad just needed to register his frustration to the big cheese, for moving his beloved bums. I still spent several years following the team, loving all the players, and their careers. Reading Gil Hodges'name made me smile! Of course, putting down roots in Beantown as a young adult has resulted in my fierce loyalty to the Red Sox, and my fave basketball guys, the Celts. Enough of my sports hijack!
Minus, it warms my heart to see Laurie's salsa chicken recipe being shared with DodgersGirl. It really is a minimal effort max flavor meal...or two! And I hope it helps you as you go through this challenging time, DG. Hugs to you and your DH.
Last night DH and I were in a store where DH noticed a pizza cutter. He had to have it, and it inspired me to make pizza for tonight. Perfect cool day for it. No Kitchenaid mixer here and my old Cuisinart can be annoyingly hard to detach from base for cleaning, but DH was not going to let that ruin my pizza dinner promise. So he muscled it on and off and I made a dough that was really easy, if not as good as some that included 00 flour.
Local red lettuce and Boston lettuce in a garden salad, and that was it! We've been eating out a lot up here, so it felt good to eat a from scratch meal at home...and having the oven on did not hurt since it is already cold here in the evenings! You know how I love to do food porn...so here goes...
Continuing to hold all of you from Texas and Louisiana in my heart....
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Pizza porn! Looks delish!
Good luck with your test tomorrow Sandy!
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Yum for the pizza. I hope Sandy isn't watching.
Dinner - ended up mixing leftover containers I took out of the freezer yesterday. Chicken cacciatore served on a wild rice/quinoa mix.
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I am watching, and enjoying the pizza vicariously—no carbs that way! Dinner was the rest of the maple & coconut waters. I really liked the former, but it’s relatively pricey (as is the bone broth) and does have sugar (albeit not added—it’s not maple-flavored water but rather water tapped from the trees either before the sap runs or finishes running (I forget which, and threw the bottle in the recycle dumpster). 35 cal. for 12 oz. The coconut water is Coco Five—made with young coconut juice, water, flavors and cane sugar—40 cal. for about a pint. Not too sweet, a bit tart.
Bob came home and described his filet mignon at the drug co. dinner he had at Gibson’s. He also brought Russell Stover assortment from a patient—and if I can eat when I get home tomorrow evening, I am sooo there!
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Last night was Chicken Parmesan and a salad
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chisandy - in your pocket
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Sandy,
Sending a warm hug.
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Thanks, gals! Prep was the worst part, but I've had nastier. Results were good—one small hemorrhoid and a couple of very minor diverticuli, nothing that could cause blood loss. So tomorrow it's back to the iron (and a helluva lotta fiber!) for a few weeks, then retest CBC. If still anemic (or no uptick in hgb/ferritin), then we do a capsule endoscopy (no prep required, whew).
Decided it wasn't a great idea to walk to Cellars for the wine tasting BBQ buffet (sans wine, of course) so long as I still have the propofol in my system and am still tired (and “tooting” like a brass band). But I'm so hungry I could eat a horse. Bob is spending the night in Oak Lawn (echo reading early tom'w a.m., and I can't drive till tomorrow). So it's Gordy (at least till he leaves for rehearsal) and me at home tonight. (Already know he's spending the weekend w/his girlfriend again—and because I know, no worries). Nobody around here delivers horsemeat, though (thank goodness) so I ordered out from Big Jones for gumbo ya-ya, cornbread, shrimp & grits, fried chicken & greens. (There will be plenty of leftovers). No dessert, though—wasn't on the takeout menu.
Wanted to drop into Dunkin' or the bakery around the corner en route home today, but my housekeeper needed to get home and catch some zzz's before leaving for B'ham in the wee hours, so I had to settle for a bag of Hostess Donettes (from the CVS where we stopped to pick up my Rx) with a very sorely needed cup of heavily caffeinated coffee. (One Donette was all I needed to remind me how “meh" they are). Might just eat an heirloom tomato whole for dessert instead, or see if one of my peaches is ripe. And a decaf cappuccino.
Tomorrow starts LobsterFest at Navy Pier (runs through Sunday). Might go, with Bob or alone. For lobster, I'll put up with the stupid food-ticket system.
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Welcome back, Lacey! We missed you.
So relieved that our Houston members are safe and dry and in their homes. The young owners of our resort live in Spring, TX, north of Houston and have not flooded. But their flights were cancelled and they won't be coming to MN for Labor Day, which is a big event up here, heralding the end of summer.
Our Louisiana family and neighbors have been rained upon but were spared the horror of Houston flooding and home destruction. My mother is doing well in the nursing home. She tells me, "It's nice and cool here today." That's in her room with the air conditioner humming!
We plan to head home on October 1, a Sunday and a good day to pass through "the Cities," Minneapolis and St. Paul. The summer has whizzed by.
I have been reading and keeping up with posts and we have been eating meals made enjoyable with fresh veggies from a farmer's stand.
I was NOT a Dodgers fan back in the days when the whole family watched baseball games on the black and white tv. We were Yankees fans and idolized Mickie Mantle. We even named a puppy after him. He would have felt so honored!!! I was sorry to learn in recent years that he became an alcoholic.
I, too, am looking for the best way to help Houston folks with a money donation. We are not Red Cross fans.
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DH is a big Cubs fan, having grown up in the suburbs of Chicago. HIs family is split since some are White Sox fans. These days I root for the Cubs.
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This was my mom at the last out of the last inning of the last game of the World Series.
She had been a Cleveland fan since 1924 (age 6).
Her only comment was, "S---".
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Eric - thanks for sharing. Yes, she does look pissed. Fun to have the picture.
Dinner was a pork chop dish that a friend recommended. I used boneless chops. Salt, pepper & flour the chops. (I didn't use flour). Brown on both sides. Add apple juice to cover the chops 3/4 of the way up. Add onion powder or minced onion if desired. I sprinkled with dried tarragon. Slice one apple very thin & put on top of the chops. Cover and cook/simmer until fork tender and liquid reduced to a tasty sauce. I cooked one hour & turned once. Yummy. Served with cauliflower that had to be cooked or tossed. I hate to admit to the other side dish, but at the last minute it sounded good & oh well you all know I'm weird anyway so... Stove Top stuffing. I think next time I'll try pounding the chops to flatten first.
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Ah, eric, now you know how I felt when Steve Bartman made that fatal lunge for a foul ball back in ’03! This year, though, it looks like the Cubs won’t make it past the Dodgers. As we live on the North Side, Bob works on the South Side, and are not native Chicagoans, we root for both the Cubs & Sox because they’re both Chicago teams, except during the Crosstown Classic games—then it’s Cubbies all the way.
Bob called—we’ll walk to Cellars tonight for dinner. The Big Jones leftovers’ll have to wait for breakfast tomorrow, as Gordy’s spending the weekend with his girlfriend.
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Ah, the Cubbies. I was raised in the northern suburbs. My folks were born and raised in Chicago. Cub fans all the way. DH became a fan in the late 70's. We spent our first 10 years of marriage working and living in Chicago. Hubby is a season ticket holder. Though we have not lived near in 20 years he has kept it up. Family uses our season tickets most years. Since DH has no vices, I decided long ago to let him hang onto the loveable losers season tickets. Boy was I glad last year. We drove and stayed with family and he went to all the home playoff games. He flew to Cleveland with 3 of his brothers. (from all over the country, one from Japan) for the World Series.They would fly into Cleveland then drive back to Chicago. Lord have Mercy!!! I was recovering from horrid radiation burns. I sat up and watched with my kids when they won. My kids remember him taking them to games, losing and the hot dogs.
Best thing about his Chicago trips is the Garret popcorn.
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