So...whats for dinner?

eric95us

Tonight I'm going to try a pork roast with broccoli, potatoes and a cranberry- port wine sauce. It's a recipe out of a magazine that I found. I'll try it as it is listed and then probably end up changing it a bit to our liking.

Three more days to retirement. I moved it to Wednesday. I was incorrectly told I *had* to retire at the end of the month. Since the health insurance benefits end on the last day of the month worked and it takes a few days to get the loss of insurance coverage letter in our hands, there would have been a few days without health insurance. By waiting the extra day, there will be time for all the paperwork to arrive so that a leisurely transition can be made.

I drove my 1950 Willys Jeep to work on the first day of work at Metro Mobile on November 11, 1991. I was a temporary worker then and was hired on full time on December 16,1991. Metro Mobile was bought by Bell Atlantic, which called it CellularOne, which was sold to Alltel, which was bought by Verizon. I will drive that same Jeep to my last day of work on November 1, 2017.

illimae

Tonight DH made 15 bean soup with ham, it was sooooo good.

M0mmyof3

Hubby told me that since I was so busy in the house today with cleaning, that dinner should be simple.

DodgersGirl

DH made dinner last night. He sous vide 2 fairly large chicken breasts (boneless/skinless) that had a light rub on the outside. This was his first attempt at chicken. When finished in the water bath, they were quick fried in oil and butter (just enough for color and flavor). Served with salad and beans.

Chicken was so tender and moist.

He is already thinking of what marinade to use next.

He also bought 4 oz Mason jars to try to duplicate Starbuck's egg bites.

So tired today. Thinking dinner is coming from something in my freezer. Undergoing rads right now. Think today it kicked my fatigue butt

DodgersGirl

illimae- that soup looks delicious.

ChiSandy

Dinner tonight will be whatever I can keep down. Caught a virus that's going around Chicago like wildfire--was exposed Tues. night at rehearsal when our pianist was sick, and stayed OK until I had packed Sat. night for our return from Vegas. (Knew I didn't catch it in Vegas--our housekeeper came down with it Friday after catching it from me). Stocking up on Tylenol, Sudafed, ginger ale and Pepto for when Bob & Gordy inevitably come down with it.

But while I was still okay Sat. night, dinner was at Katsuya in the SLS Resort, where we saw Dana Carvey & Jon Lovitz. Started with seaweed & cucumber salads, then Wagyu beef skewers, and the omakase (chef's choice) sushi-sashimi dinner. Thought I'd tasted all forms of sushi before. but this one included "otoro" tuna--rich and flavorful, which bears the same resemblance to the usual ahi tuna as a box of Godivas does to a Hershey bar.

DodgersGirl

ChiSandy-- hope you feel better soon.

Loved your comparison of otoro tuna to ahi tuna.

Hmmm Godiva chocolate is now on my mind. Bet no one brings home any Godiva Halloween candy tomorrow night.

Tappermom383

Mommy - does that mean your DH is making that something simple?

MJ

auntienance

Ugh Sandy, viruses - how I hate them. Hope it's a quick hitter and you are better soon.

Dinner is fresh grouper of all things which I lucked upon at a local supermarket in the 'burbs. I will steam a vegetable medley and make some oven fries for dh.

Thanks for your gumbo recipe Carole. Can't wait to try it. The weather has been right for soups and stews and that's what I'm craving. Also bread. Fresh baked bread. With butter. Lots of butter. I know you're hearing me Minus.

carolehalston

Tonight's dinner is walleye fillets, which I brought home from MN, a gift of a neighbor at Pine Hollow. I will season and sear them in a hot skillet on the stovetop. One side is cauliflower mash, seasoned with small amount of butter and cream cheese. Also a romaine salad with avocado, oil and vinegar dressing. DH will undoubtedly make a tartar sauce of mayo, dill relish and horseradish.

I went to Winn Dixie supermarket for an orange and some sandwich meat and cheese. Spent $95. Bought two pork butt roasts, baby back ribs, two packages of lamb loin chops, boneless skinless chicken thighs and ground turkey. Prices were good. Ground turkey will become stuffing for yellow and orange bell peppers that were on sale.

The ham and bean soup looks good.

Hope you recover quickly, Sandy.

Trying to get back on WW and lose some lbs. The sideways view in the mirror makes me look like a 74 yr. old pregnant woman!

M0mmyof3

I made dinner tonight. Hubby made soup and sandwiches last night for dinner.

MinusTwo

Sandy - hope you're feeling better.

Nance - you know it about the butter. Sometimes I even eat bread w/my butter. It's been cold here too, at least for Houston. I've been thinking about making my Mom's no knead whole wheat bread. It's so good toasted with honey.

Carole - how was the cauliflower mash? I guess it's time for me to break down & buy the small, grated cauliflower bags.

Oh oh DodgersGirl. Now you have me thinking about Godiva chocolate. For the first time ever, I will not be participating in trick or treat tomorrow. Jammed my knee two weeks ago. The ortho says it's a "deep bone bruise". It's too hard to get up & down so I'm going to pass.

Mommy - nice to have someone who will actually trade cooking duties.

illimae

lol, Carole, that sounds like most trips I make to the store, 5 items on my list but I get home with 6 bags.

Tonight was long burgers on leftover sub rolls from cheesesteak night and pan fried potato wedges. No pic, I had been craving a burger and tore into it too quick.

ChiSandy

Thanks, everyone. Much better now, because I took it very easy (napped most of the day). Temp normal, appetite returning--but what am I gonna do with 7 more slices of the 20" pizza I ordered? That one slice was delicious, but felt like a whole meal; Bob's working late, Gordy is rehearsing and then spending the night chez girlfriend (whom he spent much of the vacation texting). Oh, well--plenty of week-old food in the fridge to throw out, so I'll just wrap up the leftovers.

Tappermom383

Hadn't made chicken curry in a while - I use Patak's curry paste and add sautéed red and green peppers to the recipe on the jar. So delicious

ChiSandy

Patak's and Tasty Bite are "da bomb," as the millennials say. The health food store I frequent for some of my supplements and low-carb bagels is Indian-owned, and that's where I get my shelf-stable Indian entrees, curry and tandoori pastes. They've recently started making their own samosas, pakoras, channa daal (lentil stew) and naan.

Cherry-sw

Chi Sandy, glad you are doing better, hope you did not lose your voice or that you were not doing the singing part in the first place. If I am having any leftover homemade pizza, the one with the thicker crust, because they usually serve pizza in Europe on the thin crust, Sweden in particular like very thin-crust pizzas. But if I am doing my one dough or buying it, the crust will be more substantious. So I just cut them into smaller square pieces, put together and grill them in the sandwich grill for a lazy breakfast or branch. My eldest girl's boyfriend still remembers those tiny pizza sandwiches that tasted so good. His exact words were: you guys probably do not remember because you probably eat breakfasts like this all the time but I do because at our place we .. and my daughter just cuts in: mom, they eat oatmeal with lingonberry jam every morning. That girl did not eat any oatmeal since she was three. Well probably why they are staying healthy and I got what I got. But good way to utilize the pizza, I can sprinkle extra cheese between the slices.

I have been cooking most part of the weekend, the mentioned boyfriend spent it at our place, he is 1,94 cm tall Swede, because we are not natives, and as soon as I look at him I feel like he must be starving. She does not feed him either, she is small and eats when she is hungry so someone has to take care of him especially when I really believe that this one is a keeper. So I fried some burgers and asked him what he wants on it, the answer was: everything, and he had two. On Sunday I cooked borsch, a beet root soup, and he said that he would absolutely like to try it and he got, liked it too. I also did a Persian stew with very nice bit of organic prime rib, great fatty parts, turned to be very delicious. Meanwhile the daughter was very accurate to cut off the fat on her chunks, he was devouring it telling her that he loves fat because this is where the taste is. Either he has to learn how to cook or she has. They are still very young though.

I bought a lot of prunes, dried mango and apricot to eat as a dessert but saw that they contain between 70-50 gr of sugar per 100. So I have been eating unhealthy and I am in treatment so I do not know exactly what is valid. According to cancer rehab dietitian I can eat a little of everything except for grape but then I red when you, ChiSandy, commented one of the newbie's threads about not eating any anti-oxidants during treatment, which to me completely makes sense, so finding this balance is a tricky thing, meanwhile I am also experiencing cravings to the range I did not have when I was pregnant. Like today I need sugar and tomorrow it can be cured meat or sushi. My taste is not affected so I gained 7 kilo, nice.

carolehalston, I checked for this gumbo file, it is a spice, or grounded okra maybe, there is no way I can find it here so we will have to do without. No andouille sausage here either but I red that it can be replaced with kielbasa or krakowska, that basically also is a sort of kielbasa. I will try to do my gumbo this weekend. Your way of grocery store visit, totally recognize it, interesting that when I send my husband or the daughter they only come with the items on the list, they are not looking for anything else, I will always check for the fruits and veggies on sale, if there are good peaches I will take it instead of apples, but they just won't. To come home with a piece of meat out of the list and say: honey we can freeze it for the weekend roast, never happened here which is a pitty because I consider it as a very nice quality in a man. On the other hand I never wash my car.

So, today we are eating leftovers and I will cook an eggplant stew, it is similar to Sicilian pasta alla Norma but with onions and garlic instead of only garlic. And feta cheese instead of their ricotta that is more firm and salty in Sicilia and cannot be replaced with continental creamier one.

ChiSandy

It's okay during chemo to eat foods that contain antioxidants, just not take antioxidants in the form of supplements.

Cherry-sw

Thank you, Chi Sandy, I stopped all my supplements right after the diagnosis. I hav been using turmeric in my stews for 20 years and continued with it during the first two weeks just mixing it with water and black ground pepper until I found information about turmeric being a phytoestrogen, then I stopped taking it.

ChiSandy

In the quantity used as a seasoning, it's not phytoestrogenic enough to be harmful. And not even an occasional serving of unprocessed (edamame) or minimally processed (soymilk or tofu) soy, nor of hops are estrogenic. Some recent research, acc. to my MO, suggests that phytoestrogens act differently from synthesized or somatic (body-produced) estrogens in the case of breast cancer and might even be protective--it's been posited that the tumors' estrogen receptors are attracted to them but cannot feed on them. As to hops, non-alcoholic beer is fine.

Cherry-sw

Ok, then I will continue using it my stews. I have been introduced to turmeric by my former mother-in-law who claimed it was an anti-cancer spice, and I used it everywhere and still got this bc. I also use another Persian spice that contains clover that also is an phytoestrogen but I guess it is the same and these quantities cannot be harmfull. I am not using so much soy products, just usual soy sauce and white miso paste for miso and some stews. I quitted alcohol after the diagnosis but does non-alcoholic beer contain less phytoestrogens or any other toxic components except for alcohol itself? Not that I will drink it anyhow, already gained a lot of weight, this daily cinnamon bun surely does taste good but I cannot exercise now and I crave sugar as never before. So annoying Cherry

ChiSandy

Non-alcoholic beer contains only water, carbs and enough hops for flavoring. Except for the calories, it's harmless. It has less alcohol than naturally occurs in orange juice. Is that Persian spice sumac or za'atar? It's delicious.

carolehalston

Cherry, send me a personal message with your address and I will send you some gumbo file. It is ground sassafras leaves and very inexpensive here. It should be available through a mail order herb and spice catalog, like Penzey's.

Tonight's dinner is stuffed colored peppers, Brussel sprouts and baked potato. The stuffing for the peppers is ground turkey, finely minced mushrooms, diced green onions, fresh bread crumbs and seasonings. This is the first time that I ran short of stuffing! I steamed the halved Brussel sprouts in chicken broth and will brown them a bit in olive oil and season with grated romano cheese.

auntienance

Ouch Minus! I had a bad bone bruise on my shin that developed cellulitis. Took two rounds of antibiotics and a long time to heal. Hope yours is better.

Had an awesome day on the Hill. Started by taking 8 knives in to Bertarelli's to be sharpened. While that was happening, we went to Di Gregorio's market where I bought Italian bread, garlic butter, Bulgarian feta, some blue cheese with pepperoni bits, some scamorza cheese (awesome on pizza), Sicilian olives, fresh salsizza, frozen house made cannelloni veal and spinach) and manicotti. From there, we went to Missouri Baking Company for cannoli. I was disappointed that they had no cuccidatti. Lunch was an Italian salad and toasted ravioli with marinara at Zia's, then back to pick up my knives. Dinner was the cannelloni for me, manicotti for DH, some of the Italian bread with garlic butter and cannolis for dessert. A good day!

MinusTwo

On Nance - wish I could have joined you at the Italian market.

Dinner was a couple of 2-1/2" portabello mushrooms stuffed with spinach & cheese. Served with a packaged slaw & kale salad with cranberries & sesame seeds. A pomegranate dressing came in the salad, but I used my sesame/Asian dressing instead

Last night I joined some friends at a strip center restaurant run by a Vietnamese couple. I'd had their Lo Mein before, so I tried fried rice this time with grilled shrimp. The Lo Mein was better. One friend had shrimp tempura w/fries, the other had a fish platter w/fried fish,oysters,shrimp,stuffed crab & fries. I don't usually eat fried fish but I do like tempura. It was just so so. Too mushy for me. The corn meal batter on the fish was quite good. So now I have 3 containers of fried rice in the freezer - probably 2 cups each.

ChiSandy

Breakfast: pizza. Lunch: pizza (added homegrown basil, which took a bit of a hit during the frost and is leggy, but still growing out there). Froze my keister out there handing out trick-or-treat candy (which ran out by 7:15 pm--$97 worth), so had a big fat cappuccino and a small piece of Belgian dark chocolate--which held me till about 11 pm. Diced some tomato, green pepper, & scallion into half a can of corned beef hash, then dry-fried an egg to top it.

Cherry-sw

Chi Sandy, za'atar is an Arabic spice common in Egypt if I remember correctly, sumac is used by both cuisines. The one I was mentioning is called gourmeh sabzi, availble even here in Sweden in some general grocery stores,it is a mixture if dried parsley, dill, chervil, sometimes wild leaks, and clover. The one I am using right now was bought in Dubai in Souk Spice where they just mix it for one right away. I asked about adding more clover for the flavour and the salesman just shook his head explaining it would turn bitter. The name gourmeh comes from French, sabzi means green, green delish with other words, it is used for a stew with the same name but I use it in many dishes. I highly recommend Iranian cuisine, it is very spicy but not hot, sour too.

Cherry-sw

carolehalston, oh, no, this was not my intention at all, I was just telling the fact that the wave of famous New Orleans' cuisine has not reach our shores so far) I am sure it is not expensive but the cost of shipping it to Sweden will be, thank you very much for offering very thoughtful, but I will check this catalogue you mentioned instead. It is exciting to discover all these new spices. Recently a friend told me about achiote and it was totally new to me, never heard if it and here we do have Mexican restaurants but it is mainly tacos. I have done some serious studying on gumbo, reading Jamie Oliver's Jamie's America), and did some grocery shopping today, but I am doing your recipe.

Cherry-sw

auntienance, this market sounds awesome, cannoli is the best, I also love their cassata.

carolehalston

Sounds like a fun day, Nance.

Not sure about dinner tonight. Eating is not as much fun when the need to lose weight is dominant. Whine, whine. :-{