So...whats for dinner?

Cherry-sw

ChiSandy, yes, I wrote wrong))) the boyfriend is 1,94 m, 194 cm) and my tumor is 1,5 cm) absolutely, I see the difference

ChiSandy

Autocorrect was probably the culprit. It is my worst enema.

GeekSquad coming late this afternoon to set up my new wi-fi network--might take till early evening. After he leaves and I am comfy with the new setup, I will probably do a choucroute garnie. For lunch I had chicken matzo ball soup from the kosher deli in my neighborhood pharmacy (where I got my letrozole--now only $3, so I'm out of the Part D "donut hole"...for the next 2-1/2 weeks). And because tonight is Hanukkah, I got sufganyot (jelly donuts) there as well. Too lazy to make latkes from scratch, so I'l make frozen ones in my air fryer.

eric95us

When using an app with autocorrect, police agencies with "Department of Public Safety" as part of their name have to be careful to ensure autocorrect doesn't drop the "L" in public. .

I had just finished raking leaves, mowing the lawn and trimming bushes when DD drove up into the driveway to wish me happy birthday. I cooked the rice-chicken salad tonight. Tomorrow afternoon I'm at Sharon's school as a robotics team mentor and when I do that, I get home kind of late to cook much, so I hope DD left us enough leftovers for tomorrow night. :-)

ChiSandy

In the Chicago Bar Assn. annual musical ("The Bar Show," in which cast I've been for 15 years), there's a sketch in which Shakespeare, congratulated for his quote "First we kill all the lawyers," is chagrined. "No, I wrote 'kiss all the lawyers.' Let me check." He pulls a feather out of his pocket, looks at it and goes, "Curses--it's that da**ed auto-correcting quill again!"

I ditched the idea of choucroute, cacciatore or anything substantial--just had some latkes and will follow them up with either Greek or Israeli salad. Already had a sufganyot...which is plural--what's the singular in Hebrew, "sufganya?" For those of you trying to picture what one looks like, fast-forward to Mardi Gras: they're basically pački.

HappyHammer

Been gone awhile but picked back up with Minus and the family dinner(sorry it was so hard) ....totally agree with Eric and Sandy....sounds like you have a little foodie on your hands....how awesome!

Cherry= your cookies sounds great and much healthier- I do not want to go into a business with them as that would take way too much energy and time....but, would love to get your recipe for my own use if you'd share....baking is not my thing so I have to use a real recipe. How do you cook your haricots-verte?  Have just recently been able to get them at our local market and I've been roasting them in the oven with a bit of olive oil and salt and pepper...they are SO good!

DH is working out of state- so I've been eating out or making and eating sou.  Trying to use extra time to put some things in the freezer as we lost everything in ours in October after a storm and long hours without power.  So far, I've made a big batch of soup each of the past 3 nights...Beef Taco Soup, Broccoli with cheese soup and Vegetable Beef soup...have made enough to share with my mom and to put 3 quarts of each in the freezer.  That just makes me so happy! 

Eric- what is rice-chicken salad?  IF I missed something...sorry but is that a recipe?  I'm all about rice, chicken and salad!!

Dinner tonight was a bowl of Veg beef with crackers....perfect for an evening in the 30's.  Love soup!!

Happy Hanukkah to those celebrating! 

auntienance

A very happy birthday to you Eric!

eric95us

Happy, I think this link will work.

Jasmine Rice-Chicken

I was looking at the old post and I had a typo in there. 'boil and simmer covered until some"...."some" should be "soft".

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MinusTwo

Eric - yes Happy Birthday. Hope you have come celebrating planned this weekend.

Hammer - welcome back. Your soup sounds delicious. 37 degrees here this morning.

Lacey12

Hope you had a very Happy Birthday, Eric! Sweet that DD was able to pop home to share it with you.

HH, I totally appreciate that feeling of accomplishment and satisfaction after making pots of soup! Enjoy all those....especially with this cold (maybe “cool” for you?) weather.

Also want to wish those who celebrate, a Happy Hanukkah!

Last night I made a variation of ”Laurie’s salsa chicken” which we had with an arugula salad and my “faux french bread” right out of the oven. Yum!

Tonight we head into yet another C’s game so I will have my favorite bourbon glazed salmon with sauteed veggies, no rice. Love that meal! And it feels virtuous....but then we share a big ol soft pretzel at the game. ;/

I have done zero holiday baking and today need to get my pizzelle cookie dough made. I traditionally bring a tray of them to a party we are attending this Saturday....so need to meet that deadline. Next week the pressure is on to get things completed for Xmas before DS1 and family arrive next Saturday. Yikes!

I am thrilled that my elf DH set up and decorated our cute little tree and decorated the inside and outside with lovely lights, while I was cooking a dinner for the family of our neighbor who just underwent surgery. It was perfect! I was out of his way, not micromanaging, and got to focus on my tasks, later appreciating his hard work and the beautiful holiday decor! He’s really getting good at this!

It is seriously cold here now.

Better get back to tasks.....

Cherry-sw

First of all, Happy Birthday, Eric!

ChiSandy, "First we kill all the lawyers" made me laugh, while in university we studied that 70% of all layers on the planet live in US). Not that I do not like US, it was the first thought that popped in my mind when I red it. Happy Hanukkah! I also like latkes we have exactly similar dish with another name.

HappyHammer, my recipe is from Foodnetwork, here comes the link:

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/oatmeal-chocolate-chip-peanut-butter-banana-breakfast-cookies-3415871

As I said I take a block of dark chocolate and cut it into pieces instead of chips and I tried different nuts, walnuts was the best batch.

I usually cook my haricots verts and then either eat them with salt as a side dish or with any vinaigrette I make. I actually used them this week in a Persian dish called lobie polo, here comes the picture. It got a bit messy on the serving plate but everybody got so hungryI know it looks like fried rice and it is how my DD described it to her boyfriend, my Russian-Persian Swedish-born daughter explained to her Swedish boyfriend using an English expression, too much Master Chef TV I guess. It is just there is no actual frying in this recipe at all, it is all cooked, meat and verts separately from rice that gets pre-cooked and then you just have them layer on layer in a non-stick pot and then let it steam for some time. I bought organic basmati rice, it was so bad that it required a lot of skill not to overcook it and on the bottom of the pot it still got overcooked and messy, but it was good, the boyfriend liked it. They will stay with us on Christmas Eve until afternoon, in Sweden the Christmas and festivities begin on Christmas Eve, then go to his family and come back here on Christmas Day. I will be in the middle of my second EC treatment so I have already started to instruct my DD how to make meatballs, have a recipe from Michelin star restaurant owner-chef and I will let her to take care of turkey hopefully under my supervision, I will make a spicy butter to get under the turkey skin in advance this week. We will see if she is up to the task. I have also mentioned that I am thinking go with lobsters for NY and we will order some beluga from Russia that hopefully will arrive in time and both said, "Really, we have no plans so far", but they are discussing some plans with their friends so it has not been confirmed yet.

Today it was leftovers and I am cooking a Chinese chicken soup, a recipe I got from some ladies on our August chemo thread, chicken breasts that simmer for three hours with ginger, goji, jujube and I added sliced uniclove solo garlic. Interesting that the name of this garlic in Persian translated into shalot the latter technically being an onion, just reflecting.

ChiSandy

Cherry, that looks and sounds like a Persian paella (except that the latter's ingredients are cooked in the same pan, added in stages).

Lacy, are you and DH Celtics season ticket holders or just really, really faithful fans? When Bob was a med student and I a law student and then a fledgling lawyer in Seattle, we were able to get half-price student tickets to both the Mariners and the Sonics--now OKC Thunder--games, albeit up in the nosebleed sections of, respectively, the Kingdome and Seattle Center (later renamed Key Arena). We could just hop in the car at the spur of the moment and head downtown--was less than a 15-min. trip and parking was plentiful & cheap, even free if we were willing to park on the street and walk a few blocks. We'd just eat stadium food and cheer on the teams. I must admit, though, that during Mariners games in the Kingdome when during the 7th inning stretch the Jumbotron displayed the weather report as "57 degrees, rain," it felt very, very weird. I grew up in NYC where stadiums were exposed to the elements, so to me rain meant delays or cancellations.

Tappermom383

Lacey, I love pizzelle! Thanks for reminding me about them. I’ll have to get my pizzelle iron out and make some.

MJ

auntienance

Thought of you this week lacey. During my (second) trip to the Italian market, saw many many flavors of pizzelle.

eric95us

Thank you for the birthday wishes...It doesn't seem possible that I'm 57. I wonder where the time went.

I repaired a power window in one of the cars. Once the door trim panel is removed, there are hand sized holes in the inside metal piece of the door through which I can reach in with tools. All the work is by feel as there no way to see in the door, so it's not possible to use gloves. Unfortunately, there are a large number sharp spots inside the door and my hands and fingers have a lot of small to medium sized cuts.

I have two more windows to fix but I'm going to wait until my hands and fingers quit stinging. :-|

Dinner tonight was leftovers.

HappyHammer

Happy, happy birthday, Eric.  The time really DOEs fly, right?  Thanks for the rice chicken salad link- that is in my near future!

Cherry- that dish looks delicious!  Wow!

Have never tried Pizzelle but have seen it....guessing you gals recommend it?

SpecialK

eric- happy happy birthday, you young’un!!!

Dinner tonight was stuffed shells with meatballs, topped with shredded provolone and parm, and a field greens and spinach salad with julienned yellow pepper and scallion. Taking the easy road as appetites have not been great - we lost my MIL last Thurs

MinusTwo

Oh Special - so sorry to hear about the loss of your MIL. It's never easy but this time of year is particularly hard. Will there be a service? Or just a memorial later?

auntienance

Happy, oh my yes! Especially Lacey's ;-)

auntienance

Special, I'm so sorry about your MIL. (((Hugs))) to you and your family.

eric95us

Hugs to you and your family, Special

Cherry-sw

SpecialK, so sorry to hear about your MIL,

carolehalston

More hugs for SpecialK on the loss of your MIL.

Belated Happy Birthday to young Eric!

We had a snow day, too, last Friday. DH cooked split pea soup with a meaty hambone that day. The next day he cooked navy bean soup. Our weather has been beautiful, sunny and cold with some warming during the days. I played 9 holes of golf yesterday before the Christmas luncheon for the women's golf association.

Last night was rib eye steak and baked potatoes.

I'm busy crocheting hats to donate to a church that makes up bags to give to bc patients.

ChiSandy

(((Special K))). May your MIL's memory be for a blessing.

Happy belated birthday, and many happy returns, Eric--you young whippersnapper, you! (I remember 57...I think...)

Wine tasting tonight w/a holiday buffet, including two carving stations (turkey & prime rib). Will also be a good girl and hit the salads, avoiding the desserts. (I usually taste so thoroughly, taking careful notes, that the best desserts are gone by the time I'm ready for them). Had three potato latkes (hey, it's Hanukkah) and a couple eggs as late breakfast. Gonna skip lunch & opt for a nap instead. Big day tomorrow--drive up to Madison, WI to do a Christmas show, then drive home.

MinusTwo

Sandy - i love "whippersnapper". It's a term my Mother used to use.

Cherry-sw

I was very tired tonight but tradition is tradition and the youngest DD and I baked special buns everybody in Sweden eats on Dec 13th that here is called Lucia. This is when girls and boys dressed in white go in processions with candles singing carols and Santa Lucia song. Yesterday the youngest had late skating class and we baked them tonight instead. They have special form and I am usually going with some adult art touch, here comes the picture, this year I hesitated thinking what if she gets it, I have to do it when she goes to sleep, but she still doesn’t so according to the family tradition DH will take some at work to feed and entertain his female co-workers, they get it)

Salmon and sole mineure baked with parsley and garlic butter with potatoes, kale sallad and a sallad with tomatoes, avocado, onions and mozzarella with sherry vinaigaer

Cherry

ChiSandy

Cherry, back when the Andersonville neighborhood a mile south of me (where we lived for 7 years) had a sizable Swedish population, there used to be a Lucia procession down Clark St. every Dec. 13. The older Swedes either died off, or moved to suburbs, the Sun Belt, or in with their kids; the neighborhood is now all trendy shops, restaurants, and insanely high rents. The Swedish-American Museum is still there, as are Svea Restaurant and the Swedish-flag water tower; but House of Sweden, Erikson's Deli, and the Swedish Bake Shop are gone (after 82 years, it closed last March),Wikstrom's Deli is online-only, and Tre Kronor and Ann Sather have moved.

HappyHammer

Oh, Special...hugs to you and prayers for you and your family.  SO very sorry about the loss of you MIL.

SpecialK

Thank you all for the kind thoughts and hugs - I really appreciate it. DH is coming to terms with the loss of both parents in a year, and with experiencing the world for the first time as a parent-less person. My dad passed away first in 2001, then four years later my mom in 2005, and I realized I was no longer in the "sandwich" between my parents and my children - I was truly the grown-up. It is an adjustment.

cherry - those buns are so pretty - the photo is making me hungry! Are those raisins or currants?

Cherry-sw

ChiSandy, I did not know there was a considerate population of Swedes in Chicago, in school they often mention Minnesota but now I googled and found there were Swedish cities in Illinois. Lucia tradition is so vast here that nearby schools arrange processions singing at nursing homes, hospitals and company offices and everywhere people eat Lucia buns aka "lussekatter". The usual shape is an S-shape but different areas in the country did their own traditional variations. So, in home we bake all possible. I also forget to mention that Nobel prize laureates get woken up by the procession at their hotel rooms at like 4-5 AM, it is a tradition too.

SpecialK, these are raisins, you cannot find black currants berries or products here at the stores. Well, there are black currant jelly that is used to make stews sweeter and a black currant syrup that you mix with water and get a drink, this is it. There are some bushes of black currant near where I live, only us and people from Russian embassy residence located nearby pick those, there are also two smaller trees of sour cherries. Before we use to wait and see who gets to them first. Those summers I picked everything the Russians complained to my husband that they wanted those for themselves but someone picked those up even though they always pick those and this is unfair. To them it is always unfair when they did not get anything and when they do they never complain) I told my husband to tell them that the cherries by a children playground are exclusively for the tax-payers. This summer I was not out much, so no cherries for me.

Interesting that the kids in school are telling my youngest that the Lucia buns shall not contain raisins. Lately I see the tendency of raisins disappearing from these sold at the stores. I personally like raisins in pastry but younger people do not. I told my youngest to tell her friends that in the recipe from Swedish cooking book we have at home, the one that contains traditional recipies, Lucia buns both have raisins in their dough and are decorated with those. The buns are also yellow because of saffron you add to the dough, the stores are selling those that have turmeric instead. Our homemade are delicious, I ate them directly from the oven last night, dough being so hot you choke. My husband has already texted me that everybody at his work place went head ove heels with laughter.

Dinner today will be pasta and this type of thick large sausage we have in Sweden that comes from a town called Falun, you can either slice it and sizzle it in the pan or bake it in the oven with the slices of tomatoes and bell pepper stuck in it. I usually have an organic one at home in case I cannot cook and my family have to fix their own dinner, but today I decided I will use the one I already have andbuy a new fresher one before my chemo, besides my youngest loves it as any other type of junk.

Cherry

illimae

Hi all, sorry, been too busy to catch up but thought I’d drop in real quick. Tonight I’m using various leftovers for a pretty darn good plate of shredded chicken nachos.