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  • carolehalston
    carolehalston Member Posts: 6,887
    edited February 2018

    I remember The Color Purple movie with Oprah. It was excellent.

    I like polenta a lot and we hardly ever have it. It's like grits, just a coarser grind. There are so many good foods that I avoid because of the carbs and calories. I'm sitting here feeling deprived!

    Listened to Louisiana Eats with Poppy Tooker on NPR on the way home this afternoon. She was interviewing a couple of authors, one who wrote a book about Presidents' African American cooks, titled The Presidents' Kitchen Cabinets. One bit of information I learned was that Franklin Roosevelt like pigs' feet. He shared this food with Winston Churchill during a three-week visit. Churchill reportedly declined a second helping! I have to admit that I like pickled pigs' feet, one of the few foods that my dh definitely will NOT eat. Roosevelt's cook broiled the split pigs' feet and put butter on them. That doesn't make me salivate.

  • ChiSandy
    ChiSandy Member Posts: 12,133
    edited February 2018

    Leftovers again tonight. Thought my new Smart Oven would be the trick for frozen cauliflower mini-pizza to work, but despite following box directions to a T, it still was soggy-mushy and stuck to the pan while the cheese was starting to brown too much. I give up. Low-carb or vegetarian be damned, I've given up on making veggies pretend to be what they're not. Tonight I will eat roasted cauliflower that was billed as such on the menu--not as "steaks,' "rice," "mashed spuds" or "pizza crust." And I will like it. Will also bake some cornbread in an 8" enameled cast iron skillet I dug out of the closet (the 10" plain cast iron batch came out okay, but got stale)--probably need to grease the heck out of it and use parchment to boot. Don't want to risk my beloved little 6-incher that is so perfect for fried eggs.

  • carolehalston
    carolehalston Member Posts: 6,887
    edited February 2018

    LOL on eating veggies pretending to be something else!

  • Valstim52
    Valstim52 Member Posts: 1,324
    edited February 2018

    Today is sunny in NC. We are in a roller-coaster of temperatures. These affect my desire to cook. It's mild today, was in the 80's Friday. Meh.

    Tonight is beef stew. I figure while there is still a crispness in the air to make this comfort food. DH has been down with the flu. I'm doing all to avoid it.

    Val

  • DownNotOut
    DownNotOut Member Posts: 99
    edited February 2018

    The Color Purple was magnificent. It was a slightly different version than the one I saw previously, but I cried through the second act and didn't even try to hide it. Their voices! The brokenness then strength in the characters! Even the amazing actress who played Celie was so moved that she was also in tears for her bows and last song before a roaring audience. Ahh, I can still feel it...

    The polenta was terrific (and just so easy) last night, and I found some truffle oil and pearl onions to add to the mushrooms, so it was a hit for comfort food on a rainy night. Tonight DH and I are meeting another couple at PF Changs for a rare double date, so it is grilled sandwiches for lunch after church and the kids will probably have popcorn for dinner!



  • BringOn2017
    BringOn2017 Member Posts: 101
    edited February 2018

    Hi all! Been trying to catch up with all the posts, and realised I've been away from more than 2 weeks! Not much in terms of cooking over the last couple of weeks... it's been a lot of fast food or things out of the freezer.

    This weekend we went away for a weekend break - we includes the DH and the DD age 10. The weekend celebrates the end of my exchange and the DD's mid yearly exams. We stayed in a lovely hotel where we took a family room, with two nice bedrooms and the main bedroom overlooking the harbour and the open sea. The DD spent a lot of time swimming in the indoor pool. We also went out walking in the hills on Saturday afternoon and enjoyed feeling at one with nature. The peace, the silence and the views were lovely. Saturday evening we ate at the hotel. The DD had pasta with seafood al bianco; the DH had smokey barbeque ribs with fries and salad, whilst  I had a beef fillet steak with fries and salad. The DD had a cherry cheesecake for dessert, and I took a carrot cake which was delicious and the DH had a papaya and mango smoothie.

    Today we bought a local bread stuffed with local cheese, sausage and potatoes, and it was divine. We also bought small pies with local cheese and raisins... More divineness! 

    Now I'm back home. Tomorrow back to work, and I have a long stretch with 12 days of work without a day off. So you might find me disappear for a while again!

    Minus Two you asked for the frozen pasta recipe... here goes!

    Baked Macaroni.

    Boil pasta such as penne, macaroni, cellentani (curly worlies) in salted water till it is al dente.

    Prepare a large Bolognese sauce. - Fry minced beef.  If you like you can add fresh sliced mushrooms and frozen peas when frying the beef. Add a tin of tomato pulp. Salt and pepper to season and allow to simmer. You can add a bayleaf or oregano to the sauce if you like.

    In a large oven dish mix the cooked pasta, the sauce, beaten eggs and grated hard cheese such as parmeggiano or grano padano.

    Bake in the oven for around 45minutes and the top pasta layer becomes crisp. 

    Eat your portion and freeze all left overs in separate portion. Then just take the portion you want from the freezer and heat for about 4-5 minutes in the microwave.

    Quantities I use are in the following ratios:

    250g of pasta (raw weight)

    250g minced beef

    400g tomato pulp

    2 beaten eggs

    2 spoons grated cheese.

    And yes Minus 2 I totally agree with your nutrition stance! I might go vegetarian once or twice a week but nothing more often than that! And yes carole, I did have 1 kid, though admittedly later in life - I was 36- and I breastfed her for almost 3 years. I rarely take alcohol. I think in our house we throw away more bottles than we consume! And I still got bc. Admittedly my Family History was against me. But there goes.

    Auntienance sounds like you are having a great time. Enjoy!

    Chi... glad you're feeling better. The DH, myself and finally the DD all succumbed to one of the many viruses there was around this week. Was terrible to have the bugs come with us to our weekend break too!


  • ChiSandy
    ChiSandy Member Posts: 12,133
    edited February 2018

    I have more than an octave and can breathe just fine now (though my face hurts--dang sinuses). No fever--so I figured it might be a combo of the virally-clogged sinuses, mild dehydration, and inadequate caffeine (that's my story and I'm sticking with it). Had a slice of low-carb toast with a smidge of truffle honey and a soft-cooked egg for breakfast; a half-slice of serrano ham and some taramosalata on low-carb toast for lunch (amazing how much ethnic stuff one can easily find in my neighborhood) and a couple cups ea. of coffee and ginger-peach green tea (plain). Knocking back my second glass of seltzer (gotta make more). Tonight I will attempt liver & onions, which I haven't eaten in years nor cooked in over a decade. Got a couple of small slices of calves' liver I'm defrosting, will season some flour for dredging, saute a yellow onion, and pan sear a couple slices of polenta. Maybe use up the rest of my snow peas too, or perhaps a few Brussels sprouts for "greenage:" I can't honestly count onions as a veggie. On the fence about adding a slice of bacon--might be red-meat overkill.

    Tried to do a voice lesson today, but Skype and FaceTime were having none of it. My teacher's camera and mic kept stuttering, freezing and breaking up. Tomorrow after my Peapod delivery we'll try it again upstairs, sitting next to my router. If it still doesn't work then I'll know the weak signal is on his end. So just doing my lip trills and "hum/siren" exercises on my own. Wrist still very sore, so can't practice guitar or dulcimer. (Knew there was a reason I told the nail tech not to trim my L hand nails--when I have playing to do, they need to be down to the quick). My calluses are nearly gone. Perhaps I will have to go to Immediate Care or my hand surgeon at the Skokie walk-in ortho clinic for imaging, because I'm not sure what kind of brace (if any) I need to buy.

  • eric95us
    eric95us Member Posts: 2,845
    edited February 2018

    One of Sharon's high school classmates was at an RV park/Hotel on the shore of the Colorado River between Parker, AZ and Lake Havasu City, AZ and we went out Friday to visit them. They were staying in an RV and we stayed in one of the hotel rooms.

    I felt like I had gone into a time warp. Had there been a sign, "COLOR TV" in the different colors and another sign, "Refrigerated Air Conditioning", the illusion would have been complete. :-)

    We were planning on leaving the house around 2pm to make the 4 hour drive., but it was not to be.

    Problem 1 was Sharon's teacher in-service training supposedly ending at noon. Instead she didn't get to leave until 1:30pm.

    The second issue was me noticing, around 10am, that the refrigerator and freezer was not working. I did some checking for about an hour and then noticed the compressor was leaking oil (a sure sign of a problem not worth fixing), so I switched to "buy a new refrigerator".

    Test daughters' dad came over to help me unload the new refrigerator from the truck, remove the refrigerator doors so we could get it through the front door and then getting everything set back up to the point where we wouldn't have spoiled food.

    Sharon and I didn't leave until around 5:30pm.

    Friday night dinner was potato chips, soda and ice cream bars..

    Saturday we drove up to Lake Havasu City and saw the London Bridge. Yes, it's the real London Bridge. The London Bridge was bought by someone and moved to Lake Havasu City in the late 1960s and put back together--opening in 1971.


    Lunch was at a brew pub where I bought a 1/2 gallon growler of a nice beer that is sitting in the new refrigerator.

    That night we went to the Western Pyrotechnic Association "Winter Blast". This is a fireworks training, fireworks advertising, fireworks demonstration and fireworks "look what I did" event that is also a charity fund raising event. For $5 person donation we got to watch over 2-1/2 hours of continuous fireworks being shot off at a "grand finale" rate. It was a lot of fun. Dinner was essentially "county fair food".

    Today, when we got home, I spent about 1/2 hour getting the old refrigerator moved out of the kitchen and hooking up the water supply to the ice maker in the new refrigerator. Tomorrow or Tuesday I'll get the old refrigerator to a recycling center.

    Dinner tonight will probably a glass of the "triple berry wheat beer" as we ate a very late lunch on the road.


    In other news, our 1995 model year Isuzu Trooper is being sold (for what a junk yard would pay me--$200) to the younger test daughter and her husband. They have 40 acres about 3 hours from here and they want a "bounce around the back roads" vehicle. This Trooper is perfect as it's 4-wheel drive and has been driven almost 300,000 miles. I'll miss the thing though. It was 3 years old when put the infant car seat in it to bring DD home from the birthing center and it helped to teach her how to drive. I would keep it, but it would need an engine and transmission overhaul to make it worth keeping. It would be easy enough for me to do the work, but I don't need another project, nor do I need 7 cars. Getting rid of that one will get us to owning "just" six cars. :-)

    .

  • SpecialK
    SpecialK Member Posts: 16,486
    edited February 2018

    Ran up to SC to help clear out the MIL/FIL home Wed/Thurs/Fri - took BBQ and mac’ncheese, and mushroom ravioli, marinara, broccoli for the two dinners, cereal and English muffins for breakfast, sandwich fixings for lunches. Got three bathrooms cleared out and cleaned, a bunch of kitchen cabinets, the laundry/mud room done, and the biggest challenge was FIL’s study. Eeesh! DH came home and started throwing stuff away here, lol! Tonight was chef salads - it’s already hot here

  • carolehalston
    carolehalston Member Posts: 6,887
    edited February 2018

    Last night was linguine and the last of the homemade pasta sauce out of the freezer. Side was romaine salad with additions. I bought the linguine at the recently opened Whole Foods. It occupies the space in a strip shopping center where an Albertson opened and closed. Not a convenient place for me to shop, but I was in the area yesterday on a shopping trip to other stores.

    SpecialK, when dh and I and dh's sister cleaned out their parents' house, we filled a large dumpster and a smaller dumpster with "stuff" that had accumulated over many years in a house with an attic and a basement. They didn't throw away much during their lifetimes. FIL had all the check stubs during his years of employment.

  • SpecialK
    SpecialK Member Posts: 16,486
    edited February 2018

    carole - exactly! It's so interesting what people save! We handled the estate for an elderly friend of ours - he never married or had children, he was a teacher and coach of DH, he had asked him to handle his affairs. He liked bulk shopping and had many, many boxes of cereal and canned food, napkins from fast food establishments, and tons of boxes of aluminum foil. We made many trips to local food pantries and food banks. My in-laws had a lot of empty containers - Talenti gelato containers, Body Shop body butter containers, and the square ones that have the moist wipes in them. Also, lots and lots of cleaning supplies. Plus, my FIL was a scavenger - their house is on an island that has had a lot of development so he was always gathering random leftover building supplies, scraps of wood, a few bricks or tiles They seem to be pretty good at keeping the paper stuff under control, bank statements, medical papers, etc - my parents were not! We did a ton of shredding at their house!

  • auntienance
    auntienance Member Posts: 4,216
    edited February 2018

    When cleaning out my dad's apartment I discovered he never ever threw away a piece of paper. We are still going through the huge stash of paper towels and toilet paper he accumulated. He too had lots and lots of cleaning supplies, which I'm still using a year later.

  • Valstim52
    Valstim52 Member Posts: 1,324
    edited February 2018

    SpecialK, Auntinance, what is it with the cleaning supplies? Cleared out mom's condo when she moved in with us. It's been 5 years. She had cleaning supplies and paper goods to last years. Same with canned vegetables and tuna. My mom was a social worker. She retired too early in my opinion (60). She is 88 now. I still check her rooms and find receipts from 5 years ago. When she first came to live with me, she still drove. She would spend hours in the dollar stores, buying cleaning supplies and paper goods. Yikes.

    DD4 reminds me when she goes through our 'junk' kitchen drawers about the receipts.

    I'm making pizza dough to freeze. Will use for mini pizzettes, calzones and breakfast hot pockets.

  • auntienance
    auntienance Member Posts: 4,216
    edited February 2018

    Val, lol I don't know! Dad didn't even do his own cleaning - he had a cleaning lady. Every time he went to the dollar store he bought cleaning supplies. He said he didn't want her to run out. I brought home 5 cans of furniture polish (Pledge.)

  • SpecialK
    SpecialK Member Posts: 16,486
    edited February 2018

    auntie/val - OMG totally forgot about the toilet paper!!! They had to have 50 rolls! Just got a call from DH's bro - he tackled the attic over the weekend, the poor man. The reason being is that it is convertible space to build another bedroom and he wanted it to be viewable by prospective buyers. There were empty cartons, bags, shredded paper, sticks, someone's window mullions (not theirs, lol!), buckets, the toaster from when DH was a kid - more than 50 years ago, and a whole lotta of other crap! 6 trips to the dump, and 3 to the Franciscan center with donations. DH is thrilled that he doesn't have to do it - he was dreading it. BIL is a little worried he now has the hantavirus, lol!

  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited February 2018

    Special - love your new avatar. You look like a movie star.

    Dinner tonight the last of the left over Laurie's Mexican Chicken.

    Went to an interesting play yesterday about the initial mapping of the Grand Canyon called Men On Boats. John Wesley Powell really did have one arm. The theater did a wonderful job of displays in the lobby explaining what else was happening in the same year - like War & Peace was published and the transcontinental railroad was finished. What made it more fun was the 10 men on the trek were all played by women. It was a "little" theater so you could "see" what they saw by the expressions on the actor's faces. And they used row boat shaped hula hoops with the adventurers standing inside to portray moving down the river through the rocks & the waterfalls & etc. Glad I had seen the Grand Canyon last year.

    Dinner after was at the Raven - my favorite place for Rainbow trout with French green lentils & sauteed spinach with pecan. Fantastic Rosemary bread. My friend had Sweet Potato & Spinach Enchiladas. Oh - and we both drank Hahn Meritage.


  • SpecialK
    SpecialK Member Posts: 16,486
    edited February 2018

    minus - thanks, you are too kind - DD and I were on our way out to a holiday party, so I was dressed up, lol! I decided that since this pic was a true hair length representation, I should update the avatar.Your play and dinner both sound great!

  • Lacey12
    Lacey12 Member Posts: 2,951
    edited February 2018

    Eric, some folks collect toilet paper rolls and cleaning supplies, and some collect cars! ;) Do you have them all registered? Yikes! I just learned what a growler was last summer when DH bought one at a new brewery in our lake town. Not being a beer drinker, I'd never heard that term before. Once again you impress with your quick change out to a new refigerator!

    Special, your new avatar is really lovely!

    I am chuckling (a but guiltily) about all the parent sub-clinical hoarding habits mentioned, since we saw DS2 and his wife last night to celebrate her birthday, and every time we are together he asks us about our future plans...and how we are doing with clearing out our home. I know he would love us to be someplace where we could not worry about the outdoor maintenance, snow removal, etc., which DH still does. But I also think he worries that we might “expire" suddenly and leave him with this big house to be cleared out. He and DDIL2 manage to keep a pretty spartan environment, so our 39 year “filled" house must drive them bonkers! His words do motivate me to get back to eliminating unnecessary clutter.

    Minus, your fave trout/lentil/spinach dish reminds me of my enjoyment of the salmon over sauteed veggies dish on our Celtics' evenings' dinners out.....tho yours is certainly more interesting. The rosemary bread sounds wonderful. DH often buys a round loaf of that at our local market/bakery and I find it hard to resist. That play sounded really interesting and educational.

    It was fun reading about the getaways a couple of you had...and, seeing a play that is loved is such a treat when done well. We have certain favorite plays and musicals that we always see whenever they are performed in our area. One can especially appreciate the set designs and unique qualities of each troupe's performance. The Color Purple is so poignant.

    We are going to see Waitress this Thursday, the day after my cataract procedure. Not sure how I will coordinate my vision...but will enjoy the score.

    Our weather continues to be crazy with 6 inches of snow Sat night and 50 degrees today....with a forecast of 70 degrees as the week progresses.

    For dinner tonight I roasted lots of cut up veggies and potatoes (red bliss and sweet) after a toss in a garlic balsamic marinade, and served them with a small roasted turkey loin with a dijon mustard coating. Of course my obligatory salad was also on the table, and the remnants of an Italuan bread DH picked up at Eately when he was in town last week.

    Carole, I empathize with your need to resist the pasta carbs. I think during those two years when I lost and kept off 35 lbs, I had practically NO pasta. :/

    Today, our local food store had Rao's tomato pasta sauces on sale for half price so I bought a couple of the puttanesca variety to have on hand for my favorite cod and veggie recipe. I also found a box of mini farfalle (bow tie) pasta which will be perfect to serve with that cod dish....when I feel like I can afford to eat pasta. Tiny bow ties probably count for very little calories and carbs, right?! LO

  • ChiSandy
    ChiSandy Member Posts: 12,133
    edited February 2018

    Love the new avatar, Special!

    What is it with elders and stockpiling stuff? When my mom died, she had a 2-BR condo but it still took 3 of us to clear out and box up for donation everything we couldn't use ourselves. Clothes, shoes, T.P., paper towels, cleaning supplies, paperbacks, decades-old spices, documents; she left a case of blank videotapes (plus years of tapes of Oprah & Jeopardy), and clippings, notes & scraps of paper she couldn't bear to throw out. Oh--and office supplies too. My in-laws kept a basement full of stuff they bought on sale with coupons (all the more amazing because neither of them drove): canned food, toothpaste, cleaning supplies, tinfoil, etc--all carefully dated. To my horror, when my FIL decided to move in with us (which I didn't know at the time--Bob was supposed to bring him here from NYC to look at assisted living facilities, but he convinced Bob to let him move in with us) he and a friend from church packed up everything in the house--and I mean everything (and this is just a sampling): half-used bottles of olive oil, ketchup, WD-40 & mouthwash; 30 threadbare nearly-identical white shirts, 10 rolls of tinfoil, 20 cans of tuna (dating back >10 yrs), and--get this--not only every pharmacy receipt/patient instructions sheet stapled to prescription bags, but the bags themselves....going back almost 50 years! (Of course, I had better get cracking on winnowing out stuff so I don't inflict the same ordeal on Gordy).

    Dinner tonight was seared salmon (the Verlasso Patagonian farmed stuff is so silky & buttery!), grilled polenta and sugar-snap peas. Bob brought home Thai squid salad last night that was insanely spicy; tonight he brought leftover grilled baby octopus.

  • Cherry-sw
    Cherry-sw Member Posts: 997
    edited February 2018

    Hi everybody, I have been reading all the posts, at least I thought I did, but today when I was waiting in the hospital in-between my Herceptin and rads it took 45 min for me to read everything you posted recently, and, boy, I have enjoyed my reading) Had to go back and see when was the last time I posted and it was only five days ago.

    Lacey, this story about your granddaughter playing cops and shooter was by far the saddest thing I red that day, and this is coming from the kid who used to play Germans vs Red Army in kindergarten, we all did. I always used to say that I couldn't understand US weapon legislation but now even Europe got its fair share of terrorist attacks.

    MinusTwo, all, I will second everything you say about the food. I always ate healthy and I believe I posted enough of posts whining about it and about how unfair all this bc thing that happened to me is. It did happen and apparently my food choices did not prevent it from happening. After the diagnosis I stopped eating basically everything, lost 7 kg in a month and I was miserable and I thought this shock of getting bc was entirely responsible for my state of mind. But when I ten days before my chemo finely ate a shrimp sandwich cake (very Swedish, I believe I posted a picture before) and then a slice of French chocolate cake I realized how deprived I was, deprived of all my favorite foods. Ok, I later ate myself up and gained all this weight but I promise that I also will keep exercising to be able to eat what I want. I will eat mostly organic products, I am following Dirty Dosen and Fifteen Clean rule, but I will eat a little of everything when I am back to my pre-chemo weight. Speaking of which, it is not going as quick as I want it to but I finely see some progress on the scale but this road is long.

    auntinance, sounds as a great trip, I cannot wait be over with my rads so we also can get away from the cold weather, last years we always used to travel to warm places this time of the year, I miss it, but well, there are a lot of things I miss. I cannot believe I was running along the shores of Atlantics a year ago and apparently I had bc, now when I supposedly do not have it I am wobbling like an old lady every morning because of the treatments, Tamoxifen, weight gain, you name it(

    ChiSandy, I am with whoever has mentioned it that you can sell your leftovers to anyone. I mean I like leftovers, veggie dishes taste better on the second day so I am usually making big batches, but your leftovers in particular always sound very delicious.

    Eric, seven cars and just one fridge? No comments))). My grandparents had two respectively three fridges, the old habit from old times when food was scarced and they always bulked it up.

    SpecialK, great picture, I already saw it on TP-thread, and looking at all your post bc pictures from every year you only look younger and younger. After all your stories about going through your parents and in-laws houses I decided I will try to get rid of as much as I can so I will make it easier for my children. Honestly, a year ago this thought would have amused me because I was absolutely sure I had at least thirty years ahead of me but now if I feel as an old lady so I may as well think as one too. But seriously, all of you who are on Tamoxifen, is it how it is supposedto be, the stiffness, aching in all the joints when you are getting out from the car or just getting up after a twenty minutes behind the computer? Is it Tamoxifen and I will have to leave like this from now on, or is it residue/aftermath from chemo and will eventually subside

    Will post more today, have to go home now. Cherry

  • Cherry-sw
    Cherry-sw Member Posts: 997
    edited February 2018

    I have gathered up my courage and loaded up my avatar picture, this is me in my wig on Jan 28th. Considering that we have been trying to keep it a secret I wanted to be as anonymous as possible but once someone told me on these boards that it is always easier to talk to a person knowing whom you are talking to, and I agreed. Besides, the possibility that anyone I know will visit BCO is slight.

    ChiSandy, very funny about letting the veggies be just veggie, I actually wanted to try this cauliflower pizza crust but after reading so many posts about how it gets soggy I decided not to. I love cauliflower just sauteed in the pan or dipped in a tempura similar mixture and fried, served with garlic mayo. Or in a soup, it makes a great soup. And I consider onion as a veggie, well, as well as a sort of spice. Any ground meat taste so much better if you add minced onion to it. Actually, DDBF said the other day when I was making lasagne, whether there was any dish we cooked in this family without using onions, and I said, yes, but why? And he explained that DD while staying at his place was cooking almost all the time and she used onions in all her dishes. Well, I tried to explain how sauteed onions add this umami taste to the food, but the boy grew up on half-fabricates, his mom has always been working said DD, and I was like.. eeh? )))

    Lacey, lol about people collecting cars vs those who collect toilet paper. I do neither. I actually can see that I am not that bad at bulking stuff, mostly due to limited storage options.

    carolehalston, I had beans in my chili too, but also fried sweet potato cubes, they get all sweet and mashy. And I agree with you on bc being unpredictable, only 15 per cent of women who have genetic mutations get bc. I had two children and five pregnancies, breastfed both of my children, was exercising, eating healthy, all these combucha and turmeric and all for nothing, one aggressive bc at the age of 45, go figure. I am from an area close to Chernobyl though but know a lot of people who have been living there all their lives and never get any bc, not even anything that can have direct connection to the exposure of radioactive jod like thyroid diseases. Go figure.

    I am trying to stick to vegetarian, non-fat, no meat, diary or cabs diet, because I want this weight off me asap. I only have one pair of pense that I still can wear but last time at my PT office when I was trying to button it up I was wispering president Obama's election campagne slogan Yes We Can, I am not kidding(( My PT told me, come on, buy a new pair and I just looked at her, all that thin and tall, and thought to myself, you buy a new pair, I will make it eventually, I intend to wear my old penses. So, what I am basically eating nowadays are borsch and ash, Russian and Persian vegetarian soups, sometimes a salad. And sometimes I cave in and eat a bit of bread and it tastes terrific. I also eat fruits and dates. But I cook for the family. The other day I made a huge lasagne and they finished it up today, DD&BF had meatballs with pasta for lunch today and are now heading to his parents house. The BF was carrying two plates to the kitchen and I was taking them from him, asking was it not good? It was the first time the BF tried my lasagne, btw) And he just handed me plate with the rests telling, this is not mine, it is hers, she did not eat it up, I have cleaned mine, it was so good! And I realizing that it was DD’s rests just grabbed a fork and ate it up)) Because I am tired of salads but I cannot justify servimg myself a portion of lasagne, so I am cheating eating up after my kids))) I am not doing it because of bc but because of the weight, my lasagne had organic minced beef, whole wheat pasta sheets and organic tomato sauce I still did not make any moussaka but the eggplants are still firm and I will make it when I am done with my leftovers. I will try a veggie variant and will use veggie chili I have in my freezer, we will see how it will turn out.

    I was unpacking my grocery the other day and dropped the pack of egg, six of them cracked so I had to make an apple pie, dusted the apples with both cinnamon and grinded cardamom even though I prefer the apples being just apples, but the kids grew up here and apple/cinnamon combo for them is sacred. The BF run to the store to get vanilla sauce and was all over it. The funny thing, yesterday I heard them arguing in her room, he sounded irritated and she was telling him off, and I thought, what the whaaat? I started to listen and it showed that while they were playing online (both are gamers and DD is always playing defence parts in her teams, she did it before they met) and she did not watch his back properly. I just thought, nerds!! At her age I was already expecting her.

    I still did not use my KitchenAid but will probably bake either some bread or pierogs this weekend. Hope you all have a great day, although here it is already an evening.

  • SpecialK
    SpecialK Member Posts: 16,486
    edited February 2018

    cherry - oh! There you are!!! You look so cute, no older than my daughter! I’m so glad you put an avatar on

  • Cherry-sw
    Cherry-sw Member Posts: 997
    edited February 2018

    Oh, SpecialK, thank you! But based on your looks you cannot have a 45-year-old daughter)

  • SpecialK
    SpecialK Member Posts: 16,486
    edited February 2018

    cherry - if I had been a teenage mom, I actually could! Instead, I got a late start - I have a 30 year old son, but I was 32 when he was born

  • Cherry-sw
    Cherry-sw Member Posts: 997
    edited February 2018

    SpecialK, my DH’s mother was 16 when she had him, he was not exactly planned, his dad went to the countryside for summer vacation.. He was 18 when DH was born, they later divorced. I met DH when he was 25 and his mom a bit over 40. All she wanted to do was partying and he said it was like this as long as he could remember. Being teenager mother is so unfair both for the mom and the kids but of course you never regret having a child no matter what age you got it. But a little planning is always great. So, I belive 25-30 actually is the optimaltime to start having kids. How many do you have? Two sons and a daughter? This is what I think I remember from the previous posts, am I right?

  • eric95us
    eric95us Member Posts: 2,845
    edited February 2018

    I have the new refrigerator-freezer combination, a large freezer and a tiny refrigerator.

    Three of the cars are new; 1998 Volvo, 2016 Nissan Versa and a 2016 Jeep Cherokee.

    The older ones are a 1950 Willys CJ3A, a 1964 Kaiser CJ5, and a 1957 Willys FC-170.

    The only one that doesn't look like a normal vehicle is the FC-170. I've had police officers stop me so they could get a better look at it. :-)

    I do all the work myself. it's my "not high tech" hobby.

  • Cherry-sw
    Cherry-sw Member Posts: 997
    edited February 2018

    eric, I have only one refrigerator and one freezer, I also have a food storage in my appartment building, it is an old building, back in 50-ies people probably made their own jams and pickes snd probably bought potatoes for the whole winter, but nowadays we just use it to store some other most certainly useless stuff.

    I had to google FC-170, you are right, it looks so funny))

  • eric95us
    eric95us Member Posts: 2,845
    edited February 2018

    DD used the tiny (about 2/3 of a meter on each side) refrigerator in her college dorm room.

    I use it now to hold my sourdough, cans of soda and a few bottles of beer.

    The new refrigerator is bigger than the old one, so I may be able to get rid of the tiny one.

  • carolehalston
    carolehalston Member Posts: 6,887
    edited February 2018

    Cherry, you are so cute! And young. Only 45. What rotten bad luck to have bc at your age.

    We had lamb burgers (no buns) for dinner. I put a lump of goat cheese inside each one. Butternut squash flavored with butter and brown sugar and topped with chopped toasted walnuts. A delicious romaine salad that dh put together. Additions were blue cheese, grape tomatoes and avocado. Dressing was white balsamic vinegar and olive oil. A very enjoyable meal even though the burgers were slightly overcooked. I cooked them in the cast iron grill skillet.

  • SpecialK
    SpecialK Member Posts: 16,486
    edited February 2018

    cherry - I have one son, who just turned 30, and one daughter, turning 29 this summer. They both had a long period of not dating anyone, but DD just started dating a nice guy who happens to be 5 years younger than her. Neither of my children seems interested in having children of their own, they seem to be focused on doing the things they enjoy and their jobs. I know that could change but I would be surprised if it did.

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