So...whats for dinner?

MinusTwo

HH - this pork sauce sounds good in any case. Thanks for the recipe.

I had a HUGE Heartland salad for lunch - and several pieces of hot garlic bread (OK - I admit, probably four large pieces). Breaded chicken sliced in very small pieces on lettuce of 3 kinds, tomatoes, carrots, onions, black olives, cucumber, hard boiled egg, bacon. I forgot what else, but a very nice salad. This was at 1:30pm and I'm still to full to even contemplate dinner at 8:30pm.

SpecialK

minus - salad sounds yum! I enjoyed your reminiscence about Bay Area days, and appreciate the tips on lodging/dining. During the time we lived in Merced my dad (parents lived in L.A. at the time) got season tickets for Cal football. He was class of 1949. My folks would drive up to our house, then DH and my dad would drive over for the games - it was some nice dad/son-in-law time. I went to Carmel on my first honeymoon (starter husband - college sweetheart) and we stayed at the Tickle Pink Inn - oddly named, but actually a very nice hotel, spectacular location.

ChiSandy

Gordy ate the rest of the chap chae, so I steamed some dim sum (pork/leek bao and crystal shrimp dumplings). Gonna make a salad from one of my tomatoes & 2 kinds of lettuce, maybe a scoop of tuna. Unfortunately, the big beautiful beefsteak tomato I was saving for either a beautiful Caprese or impressive sandwich is no more. Bob got hungry in the middle of the night and ate it as if it were an apple. (I saw the evidence--tomato seeds on the tablecloth).

MinusTwo

Special - funny - I went to Carmel on my first honeymoon with a 'starter husband' also. Went for broke & stayed at the Pine Inn. It's still there but I've stayed at the Green Lantern the last few times I've been in town..

Read an interesting snippet by the 20th gourmand Curnonsky: "Cooking! That's when things taste like what they are."

eric95us

Chicken potato rice soup last night.

Oatmeal and hard boiled eggs for breakfast this morning.

Lunch was chicken, pork, rice and beans.

Tonight, dinner was rice, beans and baked pork chops.

It is a brand new hospital that was not supposed to be open for at least another month or two and the staff has come in to run it....and from what I have heard, the staff is helping to pay for it. It's simple, but very tasty and very touching. We have set up a tip jar for them.

The spices they use are interesting.. I can tell some spice "heat" and cinnamon...and *MAYBE* clove?

ChiSandy

Tonight will be either roast beef or turkey on low-carb whole wheat with lettuce, tomato & avocado--gotta be big enough to get me through the Yom Kippur fast (till dusk tomorrow) but not so big that I get an upset stomach during services (no red onion, because it wouldn't be fair to nearby congregants). Just took my iron so have to wait an hour--may have a snack before getting dressed and eating my pre-YK supper. Not sure how to break the fast tomorrow night, but I do have some bagels, lox & cream cheese.

Will cheat a bit--need water for meds, and a morning cup of coffee (or espresso shot) to keep my lungs open and headache at bay. Had always been told that senior citizens and people who have a medical excuse need not fast (or actually must not fast). But an e-mail newsletter from Chabad (on whose mail list I landed when they found me a Passover seder to attend in Madrid in 2015) was unsettling: if you are well enough to attend services you are well enough to fast, and the mitzvah of fasting outranks the mitzvah of communal prayer if you can't get to the synagogue and can fast in bed. Pregnant and nursing women, exempt from other fasts throughout the year (the Orthodox have fasts beyond Yom Kippur), are not exempt on YK. If one is too ill to fast and is commanded to eat, they must remain bedridden, eat an ounce-and-a-quarter (!) of food and drink a cheekful of water every nine minutes until they are not hungry. Children not yet old enough to be Bar or Bat Mitzvah must also eat, but modestly.

Wonder what the rules are for us Reform Jews--many attend services (at least Kol Nidre on YK eve and the memorial & concluding services the following day) but don't fast, especially the seniors.

illimae

After a large breakfast and a late lunch, I'm just going to have leftover salad for dinner followed by a bowl of grapes, pineapple and watermelon I prepared earlier.

Max_otto

We are leaving Ottawa, Canada by train , so tonight's supper will be our leftovers from lunch , wild salmon sandwiches and salad., much plainer fare than last nights dinner.

We also went to a very modern dance performance, The first dance was a mystery to us and I overheard someway say, "it grows on you", my response was "hmm", the next dance was lovely and made up for the first piece. We are going back to Toronto for the zoo, they have pandas and then north to Algonquin Provincial Park for the colors.

Dinner there will be simple fare fortunately for our waist lines.

Max_otto

We are leaving Ottawa, Canada by train , so tonight's supper will be our leftovers from lunch , wild salmon sandwiches and salad., much plainer fare than last nights dinner.


We also went to a very modern dance performance, The first dance was a mystery to us and I overheard someway say, "it grows on you", my response was "hmm", the next dance was lovely and made up for the first piece. We are going back to Toronto for the zoo, they have pandas and then north to Algonquin Provincial Park for the colors.

Dinner there will be simple fare fortunately for our waist lines.

ChiSandy

Our temple had a simple break-the-fast spread after Yom Kippur services: challah bread, wine (not the usual sweet stuff but a Côtes du Rhône), cookies, cheese, Danish, strudel, olives, grapes, stuffed grape leaves and hummus with pita and baby carrots. Then was invited to a fellow congregant's house for another fast-breaker meal of hard boiled eggs, raisin challah, bagels & cream cheese, gefilte fish, pasta salad and noodle kugel (a sweet baked pudding of wide egg noodles, farmer cheese, raisins, butter and cinnamon). I am home and definitely carbed-out and veggie-deprived. Think I'll grab a slice of roast beef and a tomato.

MinusTwo

Special - I can't tell you how much I appreciate you sharing your tips for peeling hard boiled eggs. How did i manage for 50 years w/o knowing this? How did my Mom manage for 50 years? Thanks!!!!

Dinner was a large green salad again tonight. I have to get rid of the pounds I put on during vacation eating all those good rolls & bread.

auntienance

My oh my I love pie

Lacey12

Of course you love pies, Nance! You make great ones! i do hope you and Carole can rendezvous in NO over the holidays.

Minus, you make me laugh! And I'm realizing after your post that I forgot the egg peeling tip. I should have printed it! Loved reading abt your wheat thins and dip dinner! A gal after my own heart!

Eric, I've been thinking about you in PR, and glad to learn that you are getting some “real local food" in addition to MREs. Please share what you can about the work you are doing, or the interesting folks you are helping. And thank you so much for your service!

Been busy here, having our house painted and lots of needed carpentry work done....some of it was leftover wear and tear from that awful winter of 2015. Nice to have it done, but boy, watching these painters, and the ones next door who are painting my neighbors' addition, was breathtaking as they scaled very high ladders and walked on very high roofs! Our guys did a great job, and I am happy to be able to get dressed without first checking to see which windows have faces outside them.

Meals here have mostly been grilled chicken, salad and veggies...and often crusty bread. But we are on an eating out tear this weekend. Last night we met friends in Providence for dinner at Gracie's a really lovely New American restaurant, where the service was great and the Fixe Prix pre-play (we saw Les Mis, again wonderfully performed, but disturbing given the divisions in our nation) dinner was great. I had an heirloom tomato salad, a fabulous duck entree with farro, mushrooms and some oretty little flowers which I promptly scooted off to the side of my plate since I'm allergic! The staff were so attentive to any allergy concerns and I totally didn’t mention flowers/pollen! And some restaurants love to use those tiny nasturtium like flowers as garnish. Dessert was a delightful mascapone cheese tart with a dark choc crust, with an egg shaped portion of hazelnut gelato next to it.

Today, after attending a friend's memorial service, we headed into the North End (Italian section) with another couple, where we were signed up to have a food tour. This tour has twice before been cancelled....today the guide just never showed (!) even tho we rec'd a confirmation by text as we were driving in. So we just walked around a bit, checked out an old favorite bakery, and had a mid afternoon meal at Artu's. Standard calamari, fabulous fresh greens salad with pear and a rather light, but nicely flavored dressing (a salad queen, I always appreciate a good one), and I had the most tender chicken marsala. DH had an arugula salad then a fusilli entree with Italian sausage and broccoli rabe. For desserts we ate bought cookies at home. Then our bonus was that the Haymarket outdoor fruit/veggie/fish vendors were at the end of their Saturday workday, and were practically giving their produce away! I bought an entire case of strawberries for $2, and two quarts of blueberries for $1, as well as tomatoes, peppers grapes, etc. for under $6. So much fun! DH and I used to shop there when we lived in Back Bay, but have not been back for ages. So it was a fun day...despite frequentshowers.

Tomorrow afternoon we have a Celtics pre-season event, after which we are headed to DS2 and DDIL's for Chinese Food (and probably pix from their honeymoon travels). Am bringing Nirth End eclairs and cannolis for dessert.

I will stop there as this is waaaay too long and it is now the middle of the night! I need to carve out time to catch up posting so this can be shorter.....

MinusTwo

Lacey - you certainly are up in the middle of the night! I calculate 3am? Great to hear from you. Sounds like a some wonderful meals. Wish I had one of the eclairs. And now it's 3am here. No telling why I woke up, but I'm wide awake. Certainly don't want to pay bills at this hour.

I finally got around to putting 90 day fraud alerts on my credit files and pulled one of my credit reports today. I'll probably put a credit freeze before the 90 day alerts expire.

Boiled Eggs from Special K
Put the eggs in a cold water & bring to a boil. Turn down to simmer for 15 minutes.
Pour off the hot water. Run cold water over the eggs for a couple of minutes
Then fill the pan w/cold water. Let sit around 10 minutes before pouring water off.
Put the lid on the pan and shake vigorously. Shells slide off.

Someone else said to boil 11 minutes. I've been splitting the difference & simmering for 13. The shells truly do just slide off.

eric95us

eric95us

I ended up eating one of those last night. I got busy and missed dinner at the cafeteria. I like seeing the pictures and descriptions of real food so don't stop on my account! :-)

I'm working at a hospital. My boss and I are part of a medical team (like the TV show MASH) and we setup and maintain radio and internet communications. Our stuff sets up quickly so we, plus the IT and radio folks from a couple of other teams, have been helping the hospital staff get their systems up and running....so we can tie into the hospital systems to make things easier for everyone...including us.

M0mmyof3

Making a beef roast for dinner

SpecialK

minus - so happy I could share the HB egg trick! That was from the starter husband's mom, lol!

auntie - your pie looks fab! I'm a pie girl - I like it better than cake.

Dinner tonight will be stadium food at the Buc's game. Sadly, the forecast is for rain... hoping the weather peeps are wrong, otherwise my fries are going to get wet.

MinusTwo

I'm in charge of getting cookies & snacks for National Night Out so I hit Costco early this morning. As a result dunch was a prepared roast chicken sandwich on a croissant with a romaine salad. Each half of the sandwich was two meals for me, so I took the other half to a neighbor who is a shut-in. I'll eat the salad part tomorrow. This neighbor is in her late 70s but has never been an adventurous eater. It's been fun sharing things with her that she never heard of; Lo Mein, Quiche, Udon noodles. She can not eat any sweets or salad & not much dairy but is supposed to gain weight - so it's an interesting challenge. And she doesn't really want home cooked food, although she's perfectly happy with something from a restaurant.

Eric - do they have separate MREs for gluten free or allergy diets? I'm fairly sure they did not in WWII. Interesting that you're involved with a hospital.

eric95us

I have seen reduced sodium meals being eaten. I think those were "civilian MREs".

I haven't seen anything else.

auntienance

Beef stew in the pressure cooker tonight along with a couple of buttermilk biscuits. Even though I made 2 large batches of applesauce for the freezer (frozen in 4 cup containers) today, we had none for dinner. Maybe tomorrow. But of course there is still apple pie to be had.

Lacey12

Minus, Last night was about my latest night “owling” and tonight I’m trying to get to sleep before 2! Thanks to you for the eggs shelling repost and to Special for the original! Always nice to see secondary gains from starter spouses! LOL

After rinsing and setting out to dry tons of blueberries and strawberries, we went to a Celtics intro event today...felt odd to not know the team (11 new players...only 4 from last year’s team returning) and all my faves traded away. 😢 I need to work through that! Fans were thrilled to see the new big stars...I felt differently....more bereft, if even a little curious.

Afterwards, we went to DS2’s where we enjoyed mostly Thai food, (pad thai; lettuce wraps: calamari: crab rangoon), our granddog, and stories and video of their honeymoon trip to Napa and Hawaii. It was good to reconnect....

Later tonight learned from my SIL (I did not forget the D) that my brother had been misdiagnosed with Alzheimers recently, and supposedly has something rarer called Lewy Body Dementia which can ultimately result in hallucinations and violent episodes. Well, that is horrific! I may ask her to look for a third consult to clarify this frightening and unfortunate fate for my always formerly fit, active, competent brother. He has an MBA, was a former Marine Lieutenant, careerFBI agent, lived globally, took on a retirement position as security head at a major hospital....and now this. One never knows.....

Minus, your neighbor is fortunate to have you nurturing her. 😇

And Eric, PR is fortunate to have you working on/fixing communications in an essential setting.....or anywhere! How long do you remain there?

Oops! Past my lights out time.......

auntienance

Oh Lacey how awful about your brother. I believe this is what afflicted Robin Williams. Hoping some effective treatment can be found for him. Hugs for you and your family.

ChiSandy

Lacey, so sorry about your brother--Williams had clinical depression even before his LBD diagnosis.

Tonight I had a bowl of Cantonese shrimp chips. Considering the events of the day (Las Vegas, Tom Petty), I don't have much of an appetite right now.

illimae

Hope everyone is well

Eric, you wanted the pics to keep coming so.....

Tonight is a grilled pork loin chop with quinoa and roasted rainbow carrots and Brussels sprouts.

ChiSandy

Grass-fed NY Strip cooked in cast iron and finished with an herb truffle butter (a la America's Test Kitchen), steamed corn on the cob, and tomato-basil salad (almost the last of our homegrown). Forgot to photograph it--I was too hungry. Realized I hadn't had beef in over 2 weeks.

SpecialK

I had yet another vascular procedure on Monday, left leg, so was wrapped and had to elevate from Monday morning to Tuesday morning. I never sleep well doing this, so agreed to take my good friend to the airport - picked her up at 4:30am, home again by 6am. Removed the bulky wrap and switched to compression tights yesterday after return from the airport, but still not comfortable so didn't nap. By dinner time last night I was tired, so DH picked up takeout Chinese. BBQ pork with cucumber salad, chicken with garlic sauce, and fried rice - yay! Finally slept last night - yay! Will make kale and citrus salad with chicken tonight - made the citrus vinaigrette yesterday, but that is as far as I got.

HappyHammer

Special- glad you were able to sleep last night- hope the healing continues going well.

eric95us

Special. I, too, am glad you got some sleep.

Dinner tonight is Beef Ravioli in meat and textured soy protein sauce...reduced sodium.

This is not a normal DoD MRE, but a "civilian" MRE....but it does have a large Tootsie Roll.

SpecialK

happy & eric - thanks! Sleep is always elusive for me, and I have become somewhat of a Goldilocks - the pajamas, sheets, room temp, blankets, etc., all have to be "just right" or I struggle, lol! I was actually soundly asleep early this morning and the phone rang with a wrong number. Ugh. However, there are others in this world with much bigger problems - as eric is seeing firsthand. Glad you have a Tootsie Roll to help provide fortitude!