So...whats for dinner?
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Minus, I see that your tumor was hormone-receptor-negative. So you can safely have that daily glass of red. But those of us who had ER/PR+ tumors have to limit our intake to 3 drinks (12 oz. beer, 5 oz. wine or champagne, 1 oz. spirits or fortified wine) per week--apparently alcohol interferes with the liver's ability to clear estrogen from the bloodstream. (Although for those of us on aromatase inhibitors, the liver secretes aromatase, which is the catalyst in the conversion of androgens to estrogen, so who knows--might be a wash)?
Wish I'd put buttermilk on my Peapod list for tomorrow--too late now. Too cold & snowy to go out to the grocery tomorrow too. (I love Bob, my DH, but for safety's sake I hope he doesn't try to drive home from the SW Side on those slick roads tonight). I don't have stone-ground cornmeal, just plain ol' Quaker yellow. Had looked at Bob's Red Mill mix, but it's gluten-free--way too high-glycemic for me. My a1c is down from 6.1 six months ago to 5.9 now, and I'm hoping to keep that downward trend going.
Dromedary? What a blast from the past! When I was little I didn't know a dromedary was a kind of camel--I actually thought it was a cake mix! Haven't seen that brand in decades--wonder if it'll show up in the Boneyard of Brands Past: the Vermont Country Store catalog. Jiffy is the cheapest cornbread (actually corn muffin) mix out there, but it's got too much in the way of processed stuff in it. Krusteaz has a bit less. Thought about doing "hot water cornbread," until I found it's just basically johnnycake--griddled corn "cakes" that aren't quite fritters because there's not as much oil. I dug out my old cast-iron corn-stick plaque pan, and it's so rusty I'm going to have to take it to a machine shop to have it restored to the point where I can re-season it. Good thing I never let my skillets get to that point.
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I don't like sweet cornbread, either. DH does. He's happy with Jiffy. It's so cheap it's almost giveaway. We usually have Jiffy on hand.
Waiting for the Menu Genie to whisper in my ear about dinner tonight. DH picks up his brother at the airport mid morning. The two of them will have lunch while I go about my usual Tuesday and visit my mother at the nursing home. We'll go to bingo in the dining room at 2 pm.
Last night was corn meal breaded catfish fillets oven "fried." Lima beans and spinach salad. The catfish fillets were just the right size, not too big, not too small. Crispy and delicious.
Off to the gym with a go cup of coffee.
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All your talk about cornbread and I went to the grocery store after my rads to see whether they even sell any corn flour here. Got home with a full bag and completely forgot the reason I went there in the first place. Well, it must be my chemo brain, still.
Lasey, these potato skins did sound as a lot of work, you are right, but they look very appealing.
Minus, buttered bread with sugar and cinnamon on it then dipped into whisked egg and fried in the pan is very popular in Sweden and is called ”fattiga riddare” that literally means ”poor knights”.
carolehalston, that pizza delivery tracking program is amazing never heard of anything like this here but on the other hand we are ordering our pizzas from a small local place.
ChiSandy, we have a support group on FB where our BCO August chemo group moved eventually. We just had a discussion about how much alcohol one should and should not drink so I posted your comment there. Very appreciated btw considering that we all are relatively new to all these bc stuff.
Dinner today is fried breaded cod file for the family and nothing for me, I already ate my boiled beet root and will only drink water. I am desperate to lose my weight and since I now can control my hunger I am prepared to eat very little because it is not only that I look awful, I have never been so heavy and I am uncomfortable to even move. On top of everything my feet pain is plantar fascitis rhat is worse on my left foot and my PT told me to stop running, the threadmill should be ok though, so, no food for me, but I always love to read about others’ dinners)
I know I have been talking about my coffee service like few times too many, but... I promise this one will be the last. A lady on the local site posted a picture where she was selling these two for something like over 10 Euro and I could not resist. Turned out she only had these two and did not know what to do with them. There is no way she did not know that they costed way more than that, she just wanted to sell them quickly.
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Cherry, I have had plantar fasciitis a number of times. It is very painful. I guess your dr. showed you the exercises to stretch your hamstring? The runner's stretch. Before you get out of bed in the morning, you should flex your foot upward and downward. The exercises really do work and you have to continue doing them. There are also insets you can place inside your shoes to raise your heel slightly. I once had special "sports othotics" made to wear inside my tennis shoes and exercise shoes. I actually played tennis with plantar fasciitis years ago when tennis was my sport. Now I play golf with "play" in quotes!
I'm sure your local pizza place is very good. We have a Dominoes Pizza about 3 min. from our house and a Pizza Hut about the same distance on another highway. There's also an Italian restaurant about 5 minutes away and it makes good pizza. We find that when we pick up the pizza order, the pizza is hot out of the oven and the service is quick. If we order for delivery, it usually takes 45 min. or an hour and an extra fee is added on, plus the tip. Being cheapskates, we pick up.
Now I can imagine all the grimaces at the mention of Dominoes and Pizza Hut, but they both have thin crust options now and pizza is a treat for us. We seldom indulge because it's so salty and "fattening." We quite enjoyed the last two pizzas we've ordered and picked up at Dominoes. Maybe one plus is that we order simple toppings. I don't like a lot of "stuff" piled on my pizza.
I am ER positive and I have a cocktail every night. Sometimes I have a glass of wine, too. Consuming alcohol regularly was one of my risk factors. Also, no children. I was never overweight until post bc and I always exercised and kept myself fit. That didn't do squat to keep me from having bc, but maybe it helped me make a recovery and pick up with my life. Personally, I think it's all a mystery taking place in our bodies. Luck of the draw like whether we avoid disaster every day and return home intact.
Enough--or too much? philosophy!!
Dinner will be...meat loaf. Maybe a diner's special with mashed potatoe and peas! That wouldn't break my dh's heart, Midwesterner that he is.
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Sandy, I use Hodgkins Mill. It's gluten free but I have no idea about the gi count because I never look at such things. Which is why your A1c is 5.9 and mine is 6.5 lol! (Congratulations on that achievement btw.) Your dietary diligence is inspiring and obviously pays off. I count carbs and am fairly successful in practicing moderation in my food choices but confess that I am prone to whims. I can never ever pass up a cupcake.
Cornbread cornbread. Now I must have it. Ham and beans tonight to go with it.
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Hello Everyone
I've been on a hiatus from the boards. I've been cooking up a storm (whatever that means). Today is oven broiled burgers on toast, spicy cole slaw.
Sunday I made a scratch blueberry cobbler. The old fashioned type where you make a 'dough' cook some in the blueberries, and make a lattice top for the rest. DD3 is pregnant. 14 weeks. She is a tiny thing, but has been hitting up all our left overs. DD4 is in the country from France so I've not had much sleep. We have a lot to catch up on (Lifetime movies etc) . Plus all the kids dropping in to eat and visit, has helped me to feel normal again.
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Val - great to hear from you. Yum for the Blueberry Cobbler.
Cherry - over here, bread dipped in whisked egg & fried is called 'French Toast'. Sometimes it's topped with powdered sugar and usually served with syrup. In some areas of the country it's just 'fried bread' w/o the egg or syrup.
I'm with Carole. Hormone positive or not, I didn't ask for BC and I'm not going to live the rest of my life w/o things that make me happy. I do practice moderation in my in my diet - for example I rarely eat red meat more than twice a month. But moderation still means I have one cocktail most nights & sometimes wine with dinner too & lots of chocolate. BTW Carole, I eat Pizza Hut occasionally but I like the cinnamon rolls on their lunch buffet better than the pizza. Haven't had Domino's in a long time because a) that's too much pizza for one person and b) I like thick crust.
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Minus, I've never had French toast made with only beaten eggs--always had a bit of milk or cream in there. We Jews have a version, originally conceived during Passover but often served all year long called "matzo brei." The matzos are briefly soaked in hot water, just enough to soften them so they'll soak up the batter. There are two ways to fry it, each with their own passionate adherents (sorta like regular vs. sweet gefilte fish): either as a whole sheet or broken in two, or torn into small pieces, "glued" back together in the pan with batter, and fried. There is also a rivalry between those who sprinkle it with table sugar and those who prefer syrup. We're a syrup family whether for French toast or matzo brei--but it's gotta be the real thing. The only Log Cabin in our house is the sugar-free kind from my South Atkins Beach days--and it's headed for the garbage because I'd rather have a few drops of real maple than a tablespoon of fake sweet chemicals. I have a friend in rural northwestern OH who has his own maple grove and until 2015 made his own syrup under the "White Kitty Farm" label (named after his late beloved white cat--he has ten cats, all indoor/outdoor, at any given time). We have one precious quart left. There's a maple syrup producer SW of Joliet called "Funk's Grove," that sells its syrup to visitors. There needs to be cold enough temps for a long enough time for the sap to set and then run sufficiently to be boiled. Some years they didn't produce any syrup.
Bob came home last night despite the snow, because he stays in Oak Lawn only if his first stop the next day is Christ Hospital (where he can walk--he usually parks overnight in the doctors' garage and walks down 95th St. to the hotel)--if it's Holy Cross, he'd still have a half-hour commute, 2/3 as long as from here. We're expecting 2-3" of snow overnight, and Christ is indeed his first stop in the morning, so it looks like he'll probably be staying at the hotel tonight.
Was going to fry oysters, but the salmon I ordered from Peapod turned out to be fresh, not frozen. So tonight will be pan-seared salmon with sauteed snap & snow peas...and cornbread (assuming there's any left). I think Gordy's staying put. As to pizza, I don't understand why there are even any Pizza Huts, Dominos, or Papa John's here in Chicago. (Little Caesar's--which I think in Canada is called "Pizza Pizza"--while cheaper, is better than those). Every neighborhood has several independent "made-from-scratch" pizzerias of almost every style, and most of them deliver.
Cherry, please try to eat something! If you fast more than a day, you run the risk of your metabolism slowing ("the starvation effect"). Fasting is no way to lose weight. And on chemo, you need to keep up your strength to repair healthy cells that were "collateral damage."
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Tonight was a cheeseburger wrapped in a lettuce bun and oven roasted potato wedges.
Tomorrow DH is making cornbread and beans, all this talk, I couldn’t help myself
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OK, folks, here we go:
Pan-seared Chilean salmon (Verlasso--sustainably farmed in Pacific Ocean pens) with mixed sugar-snap and snow peas, and my homemade cornbread. Wish I could take credit for the tartar sauce, but at least it didn't come from a jar: it's Broadway Cellars' housemade (lemon aioli mixed with chopped dill pickle and capers), left over from the fish & chips I brought home Friday night. Even though the salmon filets were skinless, I followed America's Test Kitchen's recipe, first brining for 15 min., then applying a thin coating of grapeseed oil to the skinned side; in a cold nonstick pan sprinkled with kosher salt and a couple of grinds of black pepper, place the fish skinned side down, sprinkle a little more s&p on the top, and turn the burner on to medium. Once a bit of white begins to show on the bottom, gently flip and cook 1-2 min. (briefly searing the vertical sides for a few seconds. The snap & snow peas were done in another skillet on medium, with sesame seeds & garlic-ginger oil heated till shimmering. As soon as the veg hit the pan, I turned off the heat, stirrerd, and let it sit for 1 min.
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ChiSandy, it looks delicious, thanks God, I have already eaten my brunch before leaving for rads, otherwise I could have just go to the fridge right away after seeing this salmon. Yesterday I still had three apples and a few plumes after my boiled beet root but I also did 20 min on my threadmill. I am determined to lose this weight because it is making me uncomfortable in all possible ways. Today I made a large bowl of salad with massaged kale, still tastes like paper, and all possible leafy greens, tomatoes, onions, bell pepper, cucumbers, parsley, spinage and had a smaller bowl of it with some canned tuna, avocado and dry pan fried egg, just couldn't resist it. I also believe I am retaining some fluid but according to my clinic deuretics won't help after chemo, I need to give it some time. I have relatively large breasts, but quite neat frame, if I gain weight it usually starts around the waist and down but now I got this huge fat frame, we are talking calluses where ribs used to show before. It has to go.
Carole, I got my left foot taped yesterday by my PT and I found this foot rotation exercises you have mentioned online and was doing them for a couple of mornings, it does help, you are absolutely right. I also have high arch in my feet so my PT was talking about a device that keeps the foot in 90 degree position during the night. And I bought the inserts too, I hope it will help. I honestly like running and my PT is so great, she is full of suggestions about alternative exercise options like going to the gym at the center for free under her supervision and for very reduced price alone, or swimming, but I am still bald and get so stressed and upset imagining how people will look at me so I will continue with my power walks and threadmill for now.
Minus, how interesting, in France this sort of toast is called pain grille or pan perdu, and of what I can remember it was a kind of a homemade comfy food. In case you wanted to eat a grilled sandwich there were croque monseiur and croque madame, the former with cheese and ham, and the latter had even fried egg added to it. Last time we went to Paris in May 2016 I saw them selling these "fattiga riddare" as a street food in the middle of the city.
Valstim52, four daughters?! Congratulations) Your broiler burgers are still on my list, I might as well do it this Friday I got both organic grounded meat and whole wheat buns ready. My DD2 wants some confy food on Fridays and DD1 will hopefully get here home after staying with her BF for almost a month. I only have two DD and a stepson from my first marriage.
I came to the conclusion that I cannot drink to often because I tend to drink too much, seriously I cannot get any kick from just one glass of wine, I am that tough))) I cannot say I drunk too much before but I did and now I decided, well, one bottle of red on weekend where DH gets one glass and I am the rest and in this way I will not drink more than three glasses a week))) But now while doing rads I will try not to drink at all, especially when this weight has to go.
I have thought so many times why I got this bc that sometimes I just get angry about my doctors not being able to tell me the reason why. I mean all these money pouring into the research, I wish I knew from the beginning that I had 4-5 times higher risk just because I had very dense breasts. No one has ever told me that.
Dinner today will be leftovers and I have thawed Rebecka Katz magic broth I had cooked a couple of months ago and froze half of it. I will cook a veggie soup of it
Off I go to my rads.
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Tonight was air-fried oysters and sweet potato fries (a bit of a science experiment). This is the second time I've tried to air-fry fresh sweet potato fries, first in basket-type air fryer and now in the mesh tray and on the "air fry" setting in my Breville Smart Oven Air. I coated them with a little grapeseed oil, but they still turned out burned at the tips and mushy otherwise. Still tasty, though. Wonder if I should have floured them, let them cool, and done a second fry, the way regular French fries are made. The oysters were a little bizarre. The recipe calls for panko crumbs, which I was sure I'd ordered from Peapod--but not only weren't they delivered, but didn't show up in my order history. Maybe I'd clicked on a couple of brands to compare but not on "add to cart." So the closest I could come was to lightly toast a couple of slices of sourdough bread, tear them up and pulse them in the Cuisinart. Not too bad. But my mistake was doing the fries first while I dredged the oysters (seasoned flour, egg, crumbs)--by the time it was time to add the oysters to the air-fry tray, they hadn't been in the fridge long enough to firm up (turns out they need 30 min. chill time), and I forgot to spray them with grapeseed oil before cooking them. The bottoms did drip a bit into the crumb tray and stuck a bit when I flipped them, but they cooked through and were nicely crunchy, as well as tasty.
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I ran 3-1/2 miles today at a kind of slow pace (10-1/2 minutes per mile) and going uphill the whole way back.
Sharon and I finished off the last of the stuffed peppers.
Tomorrow I'm going to do a lemon-garlic-butter chicken recipe.
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With a snowstorm coming, I went out to the grocery & stocked up. Got home just before the snow began. Gordy & I had the deli counter's prime rib + 2 sides meal (Brussels sprouts & butternut squash), which got overcooked when I wrapped it in foil & warmed it up--no way to keep it medium-rare unless it stays cold--at 200F for 10 minutes. Gordy then went to his GF's for the weekend. Tomorrow, my solo dinner will be a smoked chicken quarter and the leftover sides from tonight. Bob's staying down in Oak Lawn tonight & Sat. at a hotel near his hospital. (He likes to park in the hospital's covered garage and walk the half-mile to & from the hotel). But Sat. morning he will be making rounds at another hospital, 25 min. from Oak Lawn in a poor neighborhood where the streets never get their potholes fixed, much less salted & plowed. (He cancelled his Sat. office hours and should have had someone else cover this hospital, considering it's his "weekend off"--yeah, right). Of course, I will be awakened every hour or so all night by phone calls from nurses & house staff who don't know he's not home (you'd think he'd notify the wards or at least the page office). And people want to know why I sleep in till noon.....
Complicating matters is that early Sat. evening we have a huge Indian banquet out in Downers Grove (35 mi. away from here and at least 40 min--even w/o snow--from the hotel in Oak Lawn) and Sun. evening a birthday party (for the widower of my friend who passed away last June) at the hotel back in Oak Lawn. And I have the AWD car--he insists on driving his Fusion Hybrid even though it's terrible in snow (low clearance, front-wheel drive) because of the fuel economy.
And I have been in telephone/fax hell all day and evening. When the answering machine portion of my phone/answering system (which along with my fax line is connected to my cable company's VOIP modem) broke last month, it took all my voice phone service down with it. The only thing Panasonic's tech support (and my cable company's) could suggest was that I de-activate the answering machine function and get phone company (the cable company) voice mail. So I called the cable company and told them I would like voice mail. Nobody thought to ask me if I wanted it on the fax line as well (and why would I). Just about that time, I stopped getting faxes. I can send them, print or copy, and the fax machine's line rings....and goes to voicemail!
Now, you may ask, why in this day and age would I need a fax machine? Well, ever since two MacOS upgrades ago, one can no longer use a Mac to fax without buying a separate program from third-party vendors. And even though I can tell people to send me e-mail attachments to print out, Bob gets EKGs faxed to him in the middle of the night. I could always run downstairs, print them out and bring them back up....but ERs can't send EKGs as e-mail attachments.
I spent literally hours today dealing with the cable company, which had never heard of such a problem before. Was handed off to tech after tech (and tortured with the world's most annyoing music-on-hold), each of whom assured me that there was no longer voicemail on the fax line--I just needed a couple of hours for it to take effect. Five hours later, I called the fax machine....which rang and went to voicemail! I called the cable company back, but the tech assured me there was no voicemail on the fax line. I picked up my cell, dialed the fax machine, put it on speaker, and got the generic voicemail greeting and request to leave a message. "NOW do you believe me?" I asked the tech. She was nonplussed, spent 20 min. trying to look stuff up and then said the "switching dept." was gone for the day and would have to call me in the morning. (So much for sleeping in). How much do you wanna bet I'm going to have to either get a second account & modem just for the fax line, or revert to Ma Bell? (no doubt, incurring a whopping fee for a service call).
Does anyone here have the telecom/IT expertise to figure this $#i+ out? (I just consoled myself with a lemon pački, the only remaining one at the bakery counter).
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I have zero computaer, car or any elaborated technically expertise, sorry, I repell technology it seems.
But I need your advice regarding cacao beans that I have at home, bought them during our trip to Dominican Republic last year. I have both beans and called cacao tea, the peels from the beans that you brew like you do you with regular tea. i did not consume anything I was not sure about while on chemo but now when I am four weeks PFC I wonder whether I can drink the tea or snack on the beans or if there are any contradictions. Anything you heard of?
The eldest DD is coming home today and I think I will make corn chiken wok with either hoisin sauce, her favourite, or lemon grass and chili. Tomorrow will be broiled burgers.
Off I go to my rads.
And here comes the picture of the tea and the beans.
Cherry
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Last night was pork chops (the cheap, flavorful ones that have some fat and a bone In the middle) seasoned and cooked in a hot oven. They were actually pork steaks. Sides were sweet potato dish (mashed and mixed with butter and brown sugar) and tossed romaine salad with cucumber, grape tomatoes and avocado.
I bought some locally caught wild catfish fillets for tonight but we may end up eating out after seeing a movie late this afternoon. There's an Italian restaurant that's known for its muffaletta sandwiches, which I love but seldom eat because they're very salty. They're made on a special round bread loaf. The meat is Italian ham and salami, piles of it. And the dressing is a chopped olive mixture. One whole muffaletta serves four people or two very piggish people. Central Grocery in the French Quarter in New Orleans claims to be the originator of the sandwich.
This local restaurant is Di Martino and I like their muffaletta better than Central Grocery's. DI Martino puts cheese on theirs and toasts the sandwich if desired. The original Di Martino is on the west bank of New Orleans.
I have resisted buying a king cake this mardi gras season but succumbed yesterday. I bought a small one with cream cheese filling. We had a slice for dessert last night and dh and his brother had a slice for their breakfast before going off to play golf.
The rain has poured down on the mardi gras crowds gathered to watch parades but these crowds are undeterred. It's amazing.
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carolehalston, I had to google Mardi Gras, I mean I heard the name so many times but did not know what it was. And even king cake, it looked yammy. But I do know what muffaletta is, or how Jamie Oliver called them muffuletta, and according to him it did originated in New Orleans)) In his recipe he used focaccia. He says that it used to be workers’ meal when they had this gigantic sandwich and if there were any leftovers they brought it home and warmed it in the oven until provolone melted. He had an article about muffulettas) When I lose my weight I am going to make one. Both gumbo and muffulettas were on my list. I already know how to cook a gumbo, and I will make one next time the eldests’ BF is here, she told him all about it already. And I believe the muffuletta is going to be very much appreciated in our family
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No idea what to do with the cacao beans; maybe if they've been de-hulled you can grind them into cocoa "nibs" to chew or even powder. To turn them into chocolate is a long process that is probably near-impossible for a home cook, but if anyone can do it, it's you, Cherry! The tea from the hulls is perfectly safe--in fact, there are chocolate-flavored teas that use crushed cacao hulls.
The fax line is finally devoid of voicemail--after two more tech support rounds this morning.
Monday I'm putting in my order for a small king cake and pački from Bennison's bakery in Evanston, for Tues. pickup in order to avoid the lines around the block. (They get their king cakes from LA). I could ask Bob to bring pački on Tues. if he'll be in his office, near several Polish bakeries and "family" restaurants with in-house takeout bakeries. Tough around here to find the round flat sesame Italian loaves for muffuletta (prounounced "muffu-LA-ta," a NOLA friend tells me); and I'm not about to bake one. But the olive relish is plentiful--as are the salumi & provolone. One year, when we took the WXRT-FM "Rock & Blues Excursion" to Jazz & Heritage, our last stop before getting on the airport-bound bus was Central Grocery. Bought 10 of them, had five cut into wedges. Passed them out on the plane, which was a "soda-and-peanuts" budget flight. Kept one for us, one for our housekeeper (we brought her because the rooms were doubles and several of her favorite New Age jazz bands were playing), and Bob brought three to his office for lunch for the staff.
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changed post because I see that the voicemail is now gone from the FAX line. Does it work OK now?
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DH and his brother ordered a sandwich meal with half a muffaletta (two quarters), a cup of seafood gumbo, and a scoop of potato salad. I just ordered the muffaletta which was four quarters. Hate to admit that I ATE THE WHOLE THING. The bun wasn't as big as those at Central Grocery and the sandwich probably wasn't as good as I remembered but it was good. It was a little skimpy on the deli meat and the olive dressing, which is probably a good thing! Still a week's worth of salt.
Sandy, my sister-in-law, Deanna, who is Italian, makes the muffaletta bread for their muffaletta sandwiches. I'll ask her for her recipe and pass it along. The Central Grocery bread is, as you know, dense.
I love browsing in Central Grocery. Lots of imported food items on their shelves and in big bins.
Not sure about tonight's dinner. I'll think it over at the gym.
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Fax line is back to normal but can’t send a test fax from Bob’s laptop...it seems to have frozen at a gray screen. (7-yr-old Sony VAIO, which, counted in dog years, might as well be 25). And a colleague called to warn him not to open any e-mails from her because she’s been hacked. At least he has the office computer so he can read echocardiograms.
We blew off the Indian banquet tonight—I’m fighting an incipient cold, Bob reports patches of black ice even on plowed roads, and with many dozens of guests we won’t be missed. It’s a buffet, so who knows how many flu-carriers might be touching the serving utensils; and these banquets usually last over 4 hrs. And if I am to brave the roads for anything this weekend, it’ll be our friend Jim’s birthday party in Oak Lawn tomorrow night—don’t want to get sicker before then. Been knocking back huge mugs of chicken bouillon.
So dinner tonight is tagliatelle alla Bolognese with sautéed broccolini. Less work than it sounds, because the noodles get nuked in a “Fasta Pasta” and I have a jar of imported sauce. I can do the broccolini in my sleep. Opening a nice Umbrian red blend to go with it.
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ChiSandy, lol, you cracked me up)) On the other hand it cannot be that difficult, since the beans are already dry you can only grind them and voilà you can cook warm chocolate adding some sugar. I intend to eat them as is until someone cries out that being ER+ we shouldn't. It seems we cannot eat much anything after all, which is ok for me until I lose this weight, but in the long run, if one should exclude meat, diary and carbs, and start eating as a rabbit, the only things that are left are veggies, fruits and beans.
My husband bought one of my favorite Italian pinot noirs on Friday so I already blew my weekly three glasses limit.
Chicken wok with hoisin sauce turned out very well, the youngest had been eating it several times stating that it may as well be her new favorite dish. She likes these small canned corns and the chicken gets all this sweet and sticky. I still did not do any broiled burgers yet because we had leftovers yesterday. We skated on the evening and I did8800m, skating is much better for my plantar fascitis but there is no way I burn as much energy I do while powerwalking so 10 km walk is on my to-do-list for today. Then I will make the burgers and maybe cranberry orange cake again. The eldest visited her father yesterday and stayed ivern night there, so will be coming today and she will appreciate the cake for sure.
Carol, I would also like the muffuletta bread recipe. When my KitcheAid arrives I plan to dive into the art of bread baking. I also want to try Indian pakora recipe I found in my new favorite cooking book from the greenhouse here in Stockholm that even serves vegetarian buffé. And I will try to make Jamie Oliver's muffuletta at home with foccaccia, cured meats, olive relish and provolone. The DD's BF will be here on Valentine's day and I am sure he will like it a lot. 10 km powerwalk coming right up
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It's another experiment with chicken that I started tonight. This is from the little black recipe book that was passed from my great-great-grandmother, to my great-grandmother, to my grandmother, to my mom and then to me. As usual, there were no measurements or cooking times and the writing was difficult to read, so I had to make some guesses. The page said chicken broth, but I used turkey broth as that's what I had canned up a few months ago.
Bake an entire head (a whole collection of cloves) of garlic until it's soft. "Squish" (that's what I think it said) the garlic into a bowl, add turkey broth, lemon juice, salt and pepper and stir until the garlic "paste" is all broken up in the liquid. I used one of my small jars of turkey broth (8 fluid ounces) and added the lemon juice until I liked how it tasted. The salt and pepper were added the same way. I used 2 tablespoons of lemon juice, 1/2 a teaspoon of salt and 3/4 teaspoon of pepper.
Coat chicken in flour, cook over medium-high heat on each side until the nice golden color appears, add in the liquid made above and simmer the chicken in it until it's done. I used my Dutch oven and after I added the liquid, I used the oven's cover to keep the liquid from evaporating.
I used boneless-skinless chicken breasts and I sliced the breasts so they were only half as thick as normal. When I try to cook full thickness chicken breasts, I have a hard time getting the chicken cooked without being dry. Making things half as thick has fixed that for me quite nicely.
Once the chicken was done, remove the chicken, stir in butter and enough flour to make a "very slightly thick" (whatever that means) gravy. Again, no mention of amount was mentioned, so I went with a tablespoon of butter and a similar amount of flour. The "gravy" is thin by gravy standards, but noticeably thicker than before I did this. Just in case I want to change something, I'm keeping notes (just like when I was in college).
Tomorrow I'll reheat this, put the chicken atop a bed of noodles and spoon the liquid over the chicken and noodles.
I wasn't sure what to do with the garlic, so I looked it up in a cookbook and did what they suggested...wrap the garlic head in aluminum foil and bake at 350F degrees until the garlic is very soft when squeezed. This took about 45 minutes. To get the garlic "paste" out, cut the top off of the head and squeeze....removing any garlic peel/skins.
The reason I didn't finish it tonight, was that DD came over and we all ended up at the shopping mall (actually they shopped and I paid). :-) By the time we got back, Sharon sat down and fell asleep. We had 17 hour days Friday and Saturday. Sharon is the robotics team coach (I also help) and yesterday was the last competition of the season.
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Hubby made spaghetti and meatballs last night. So it looks like tonight is meatball grinders
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Last night was salmon baked at 425 degrees for 10 minutes. A mixture of yogurt, dill and mustard spread on the top. Side was canned artichoke hearts drizzled with EVOO and sprinkled with romano and heated in the oven with the salmon. Also a salad of cucumber, grape tomatoes, avocado and Kalamata olives.
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Eric, your chicken recipe is similar to a dish my mother cooked, "smothered" chicken. She salted and peppered the chicken pieces, bone in and skin on, dredged them in flour, fried in hot oil in a big deep iron skillet. Poured off the excess grease. Added water and simmered until the browned flour formed a gravy and the chicken was tender. We ate the chicken and gravy over white rice. It was quite good.
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eric- saw this online this morning, made me think of you and your abundant crop of oranges!
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The broiled burgers were a success, I may as well start to serve them as street food since no one has heard of this idea here and I have not seen it in any cooking book or magazine either. I saw DH literally sucking up three of them. I myself could not resist and ate one, and even a tortillas bread stuffed with ground meat filling, it was so good but since I have not been eating much meat or carbs for several days I got so tired, went to bed and was not able to get up until it was time to sleep. The DD's BF is coming tomorrow and it looks like he wants to try these burgers since DD told him all about them.
Marinated chicken drumsticks backed with potato, sweet potato, carrots wedges with shallots, garlic, rosemary and olive oil today. To it I made carrot salad and Italian bean salad. I tried not to eat anything but this is so hard, so one drumstick, some salad and several sweet potato and carrot wedges I am sitting here hating myself. No rads today and no running, my machine had service today and I wish someone could come and mend my left foot in the same way i.e. some technical service and problem solved. But will try my thread-mill and see what happens, yesterday after my power-walk I could hardly walk at all.
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Tuna Subway sandwiches for dinner. DH and I decided to replace the hood over the stove. He went shopping and bought a new hood. It turned into quite a lengthy project. I was too tired to cook so went to the nearest Subway, about 3 minutes away. We'll eat after we finish our Old-fashioned cocktails made with rye whiskey.
Cherry, I sympathize with you as you try to resist eating good food you prepare for your family.
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Hubby suprised me while I was finishing up at PT today, he took me to Texas Roadhouse for dinner
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