So...whats for dinner?

auntienance

Hope our eastern friends check in as soon as they can.

Grilled ham steaks, applesauce from the freezer, potato pancakes for dinner. I might add some broccoli for color.

Linda19152

as long as it isnt chicken breast 😃

auntienance

Minus - about kale - what you said.

MinusTwo

Moon - glad to see you & know you're OK. I thought I saw vicious storm in WI & major power outages. I agree with Nance. We're thinking of everyone in the storm's path..

Dinner will be New England Clam Chowder from Fresh Foods Market. I pulled 1/2 a loaf of Boudin San Francisco sour dough bread from the freezer so I won't need anything else.

Cherry - I agree about the bread. I'm going to eat the entire 1/2 loaf myself in the next couple of days. Here come the lbs or kgs.

carolehalston

Nance, could you share your potato pancakes recipe? DH loves potato pancakes. I made one attempt to cook them and it was semi-successful. Cherry, you probably have a recipe, too.

Tonight will be oven "fried" corn meal breaded catfish fillets and cauliflower mash and salad. Maybe a cabbage slaw.

Cherry, I wish I could do something to relieve your misery. You will move on to a "new normal" in due time. I promise. The shock and other reactions to a cancer diagnosis do wear off.

I can't imagine that my body is enjoying any estrogen despite the alcohol I consume. My skin has aged in protest of estrogen deprivation and formed lines and wrinkles. If I hadn't been dx'ed with bc, I would still be taking HRT and feeling years younger than my actual age which will turn over another year next Thursday. 75!!!!! You wouldn't believe how many residents I see in the nursing home who are my age and younger. In wheelchairs and on oxygen and wearing diapers under their clothing.

auntienance

Carole this is my favorite recipe:

http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/killer-potato-latkes

This is not the one I'm using tonight however because I didn't plan well enough. Tonight I'll just throw some shredded potatoes in with some salt and pepper, grated onion, adding a bit of flour and egg to hold them together.

They won't be as good but we'll eat them just the same lol.

auntienance

Carole - I put green onion in them and they were pretty good.

Kind of worried about Lacey - I'm guessing they don't have power. .

illimae

Hi all, it's been a while but I'm back to cooking more often. Tonight was some pan fried balsamic pork chops with corn on the cob and faux fried oven baked zucchini bites. Should have taken a pic but I'm out of practice, oh well, next time.

Hope everyone has been doing well and enjoying dinner

eric95us

I, too, hope everyone "back east" is doing OK. I won't bother to talk about the weather here in the Phoenix, AZ area..... :-)

Hi to Linda19152. Welcome.

Tonight was leftovers and tomorrow we may go out for dinner...it's our 29th anniversary!!!!! I was watching our wedding video and it got me smiling. I had a full head of dark hair. We had a wedding mass, so we sat for a lot of the stuff. The chair Sharon was sitting in was high enough up that when she was sitting she could swing her feet, which she did the entire time we were sitting. :

On Monday I'll be back to cooking.

DD, now 20 years old, is going to Rocky Point, Mexico this Tuesday through Friday for college spring break. She is going with three other girls from school and they are staying in a house owned by the parents of one of the girls. I said I wanted a strong, capable and independent daughter. I'd rather she make me a tiny bit nervous than her being too afraid to venture out there. Besides, GF and I would go there for a week (or more) long campout on the beach and we survived just fine.

Lacey12

Hi all,

You were right, Nance. We lost power...but fortunately just for 24hours. Our house got really cold quickly and honestly I ended up staying under covers until the heat returned late today. Many people we know in other towns have not had power restored...so I feel very fortunate. To be on topic, last night we ate by enforced candlelight...cheese/crackers and hummus... washed down with a bottle of red wine. I knew that would help us get to sleep, and it did. This was the first time we were off grid in many years, so it was humbling to think about others who deal with this not infrequently, and lord, the Puerto Ricans and USVI folks! And how restored is Houston by now, Minus?


Tonight since we had restored power we decided to celebrate with a real dinner. Went shopping and bought some Irish grass fed beef filets and DH grilled them while I made brussells sprouts and a salad. Some french bread rounded out our little celebratory feast. While filets tend to be liver like in texture, I dislike gristle, so I enjoyed mine a lot.


These two weeks I have been going through my cataract surgeries, so this would not have been a choice week to have no light to administer my many eye drops, but it has been getting done with the aid of a flaslight. At the moment one of my eyes seems off kilter, rendering my general vision less than fully functional, which has me worried. Hopefully it will calm down, heal, and restore good vision at least for distance.


Cherry, I recall experiencing fatigue by the end of my 33 rads sessions, (but I was able to work through that rx). However, the Tamoxifen was my nemesis, stealing my ability to sleep, and giving rise to tons of new and old allergies and psoriasis, and ultimately leading to my decision to retire from a job I loved since I was so constantly exhausted. Nothing really changed for me after that, even with a trial of a sleep meds. When I started to feel my memory decline, I became panicked since my mom had had Alzheimer’s, and I decided to end my relationship with T. My MO was not thrilled, but she is pragmatic and kind, and after pitching AIs a bit, (despite having originally avoiding them due to my significant hand arthritis) went along with my decision. I’m sure she would not have agreed to this if I did not have the lowest oncotype score ever seen at the Center. But yes, I am taking a risk for purpose of my current quality of life. I am much older than you, however. I am encouraged to learn that you have a wonderful sounding psych team at your disposal. They should be a significant support as you deal with the twists and turns of your treatment.

Re:sharing info re Dx, I was dxd a week before my school reconvened and I felt that I needed to share my situation with the entire teaching staff, but be clear that I could not otherwise make my condition public (once I knew I would not be having chemo, losing hair, etc) since I was the only clinician on staff and had several kids on my caseload who had either lost a parent to cancer, or were dealing with that at that time. I still cannot believe I addressed the whole staff about this and begged them to keep it confidential, AND THEY DID! I was pretty amazed at that, and thankful.
My school people were quite kind to me through the year and I think they probably appreciated my taking just a total of two, then two more days off the entire year for my two surgeries.
It was very helpful (especially appreciated by DH) that many neighbors who we’d told brought meals since I was tired at night after working eight hours and then heading to daily rads.
Our lake neighbors were a wonderful support. They were actually the first to know. I suspect I was a bit like Carole trying this new info out on everyone there when Imfirst heard about it, and I wrote them group email summaries of my experiences and level of well being through the year, which they appreciated. I think that was also helpful to some of the women there who were later diagnosed similarly.
I think this is such an individual experience for everyone who goes through dx and rx, as we each handle it in our own most comfortable way, at that specific time in our lives. And yes, there will be surprises/disappointments about how people react and how that matches with our expectations/hopes/needs. But as you have learned, we roll with it, and I certainly feel better equipped to support a friend or neighbor who I learn has been diagnosed with cancer. It becomes quite “talkable”.

Carole, as you described the aging face (and other body parts!) factor, I am reminded of Sandy’s comment that her cataract repair allowed her to better see lines in her face. Well, I have now experienced that in spades! So humbling! And I kind of miss my sepia toned vision, now that I see this bright blue white world! My eye doc told me he has a 90year old patient who refuses to have cataract surgery since she loves her sepia vision. Ha! She obviously does not have to drive at night!

It is the middle of the night and I must retire...after staying under xovers most of the chilly day.
I have some food pix I will share another time...they have yet to make it into my ipad photo folder.
I hope all of you have escaped any of the weather related problems plaguing the various states.

MinusTwo

Lacey - glad you are OK and were able to treat the 24 hours as "an adventure".

Cherry - yup... I worked in the yard for 6 hours yesterday so my only meal was one bowl of clam chowder and 3 pieces of french bread. No sweets, no snacks, no nuts, etc. And sure enough - up 2 pounds this morning. Bread is still my favorite. How come i can eat candy or cake w/no immediate weight change & bread jumps right in there?

auntienance

Lacey - glad you are ok and that you got your power back sooner rather than later. DS and DDIL have suffered through power outages of 7 days or more in both winter and summer and it is no fun for sure. For some reason their little corner of the power grid is always the last to be restored in the greater St. Louis metropolitan area.

Although I'm actually in the mood to cook something, DH decided he wanted carryout pizza for dinner. In my little town, that means Pizza Hut. I will have carryout Chinese from the joint next door to Pizza Hut -- Kung Pao something and some dumplings most likely. Although I like their Kung Pao, it's never spicy enough in spite of my telling them to make it HOT. They just don't believe me. I will have to spice it up when I get it home.

We'll enjoy our takeout while watching the Oscars. For the first time, we haven't seen a single one of the nominated pictures.

auntienance

Eric - I too have camped on Puerto Penasco beach many times when I was a young woman. For some reason, we worry that our kids don't have as much sense as we did lol! I'm guessing your daughter has lots of good sense.

Cherry-sw

carole, thank you, I wish I ever can pay forward the kindness I received on these boards. I am trying to land in all this situation telling myself that this is what the life is going to be from now, there is nothing we can change but it does not need to be bad either. I hope this new anti-depressive will help an I definetely hope all these treatments were not underwent for nothing. And for what it worth let us make every day count.

My potato pankakes recipe is, I actually have two. The first one is rösti and takes only potato, salt and pepper and oil, and to achieve the best result some restaurants claim you do not wash the potatoes, in order to keep all the starch, you just peel them, grate them on the coarse size and squeeze all liquid, them lay a layer in the pan and make it as flate as possible.

My Russian recipe takes grated 3-4 potatoes, 1grated onion, 1 beaten egg, 1 cup of wheat flour, s&p. Everything gets mixed and you pour it on the pan and fry from both sides. And with eat it with sour cream. You know, I believe this is a national dish of Belorus)

I did not go for a power-walk today, even though I was fully dressed when I went to the store to pick up my new Asics Gel Nimbus brought them home, and they turned out to be small! I mean, how is it possible that two different manufacturers cannot get one size the same? I know, I know, but still, it shouldn't be this way! I ordered exactly the same size my Nike Air, but they are toosmall and I sent them back. But they were all that I can tell you, the cushioning is amazing, it is literally like walking on clouds. My size was sold out and I really wanted this particular model and I checked another sites until I found them and ordered a new pair. I did not dare to power-walk in my old Nikes, it is below zero outside and the ground in the forest is like stone, not exactly what I can take right now with my plantar fascitis.

DH is very sick and I got to drive the DD2 to the training and DD1 is in charge for dinner, I got them all supplies that the BF helped me to carry home and we will see what we will be eating.

Cherry

Cherry-sw

Came home from the DD2 ballet class, she has a crash on a boy there, how sweet) DD1 made hamburgers. Not for me though, I made chicken broth and will now cook a chicken soup.

Carole, Happy Birthday!

Eric happy anniversary!

Lasey, my pshichiatrical team is great, something up to the level I did not expected it to be. Like people always are complaining here that they cut the budget and we are getting worse and worse healthcare. Well, this specific part of health care still works like a clock and it should be because they are litterally saving lives. I cannot ditch Tamoxifen and I have no intention, MO made it perfectly clear that this is a very important part of my treatment, I just want to find some balance. My psychiatrist said that she always recommends some anti-depressives with Tamoxifen because the studies show it causes depressions, and I was depressed prior taking Tamoxifen, so..

I hope you will not be losing power again, I did not watch the news, I did not even know the East cost had storm, hope it is over now and you do not need to freeze anymore. That sounds so awful, I cannot stand when it is too cold at home

ChiSandy

Going to Cellars for its Oscars party--there will be a buffet of Best Pic-themed dishes. Will report back later!

carolehalston

Thank you to Nance and Cherry for the potato pancake recipes. Cherry, I was surprised at the 1 cup of wheat flour. Nance, your favorite recipe sounds very interesting with the cooked riced potato combined with raw shredded. Did you add green onion in addition to regular onion? I think the green onion sounds like a flavor I would like. I will be shredding potatoes tomorrow night! DH will be tickled. We need to buy apple sauce for him.

We drove to Biloxi, MS, today to meet a couple who spent last summer in Pine Hollow Resort, where we go in MN. They'll be back at Pine Hollow this summer except for a 2 month trip to Alaska. They are wintering in Navarre Beach, FL. We met up at the Hard Rock Casino. Awful place. Noisy. Smoky. We went next to our favorite casino, Beau Rivage. DH and I had a late lunch/early dinner at a café in the casino. The same one where we ate lunch with you and your dh, Nance. We both ordered the bacon cheeseburger, which was delicious but very large. Good bun, burger cooked juicy. Blue cheese on mine. The fries were lightly battered and very good but I couldn't eat many of them. No room in my stomach.

Eric, I always enjoy hearing about your daughter. Happy Anniversary!

auntienance

Carole, the simpler batch I made last night only had green onion. I've never used them before in potato pancakes but we liked it.

Cherry-sw

carole, I am not going by the measurements when I am doing this Russian variation but they do contain flour as I remembered. I checked on the internet, here comes an authentic recipe that is very similr to mine:

https://natashaskitchen.com/2011/02/28/deruny-ukra...деруни/

I have also used both green onions and chopped dill and parsley in the batter and ws pleased with the results. The ideal is though to mix sour cream with dill, parsley, salt and pepper and serve to the pancakes.

I even can make them using grated beet roots, carrots and parsnips, the potato ones are way better though but I saw a recipe with beet roots mixed with potato I want to try, feels like a good combo.

Dinner today will be beef tender loin with fat coat, was looking for the name in English but could not find one exactly. I will rub it with some spices, sear it in the pan from both sides and then let it roast in the oven, with roasted potato wedges and veggies. Or I can let DD1 make it, she enjoys making beef because she wants it so medium rare that it is almost raw. We will send the BF to the store for Bernaise sauce and I will make a green salad. Sounds like a plan, and I will stick to it. My egg sandwich from yesterday. I have not yet had any breakfest before going to my rads and I am thinking about something meaty, like jamon, or any other ham, or a asparagus omellet. Is there any contraindications for asparagus for hormone positive patients? Someone in my chemo group mentioned it and I was, oh, no, I like asparagus so much and I happen to have a bunch in my fridge.

ChiSandy

I've never put flour in potato pancakes. My mom's recipe was to put the grated potatoes into a fine mesh strainer over a bowl, and then pour out the liquid, leaving the potato starch as a thickener, and using that in lieu of flour. If the mixture (after adding onions & eggs) was too wet to hold together, she'd add some boxed potato starch or maybe matzo meal ground even finer. Then a bit of minced parsley, salt & pepper to taste, and shallow-fry in olive or vegetable oil. That's what I do when I'm not feeling lazy enough to use Manischewitz or Streit's mix.

We were up till all hours last night after finding Call Me By Your Name was finally on Amazon. Beautifully shot, but interminably sloooow. By 90 minutes in, Bob & were getting silly and starting to heckle a la Rocky Horror midnight shows or Mystery Science 3000. (One of the perks of watching at home on your couch). It was a touching and wrenching story in the end, and a great adapted script (deserved its Oscar), but took forever to get there. About half the gorgeous scenery and metaphorical nature shots could have been truncated without affecting the story. (E.g., show them driving away down a winding road--but once they disappear over the horizon, we get it. Cut to something else instead of ten more seconds of static empty winding road).

Oscar buffet was a blast. Pre-show, there was popcorn, pretzels, guac., salsa & housemade tortilla chips. For Darkest Hour, bacon-cheddar "bombs" on skewers. For Shape of Water, deviled eggs and key lime tartlets (obvious only if you'd seen the movie). Phantom Thread had English smoked-salmon/cucumber tea sandwiches. Dunkirk? Fish & chips. Lady Bird had "Thanksgiving ravioli" (made with smoked turkey), after a pivotal scene in the movie. Two dishes for Call Me By Your Name: insalata Caprese (obvious) and grilled peach salad (another inside joke). The Post got two Vietnam-themed dishes: Vietnamese meatballs on skewers and summer rolls (plus lemonade, after Bradlee's enterprising daughter's stand). For Get Out, carrot cake (after a line in the film). And Three Billboards' homage to MO was KC-style BBQ'd St. Louis ribs, plus Rice Krispies treats (after the son's cereal food fight)--but studded with dried craisins and dipped in dark chocolate. In the contest, the restaurant owner & I tied for second place--had I gone with my gut and chosen Blade Runner 2049 for cinematography rather than my "safe" choice of Shape of Water, I'd have tied with the couple who came in first. This year, though, first place carried with it just bragging rights and signing the inflatable "Oscar (Mayer) Wiener" (which Bob got to do twice), no bottle of wine. (Last year, Bob also got a bottle of prosecco, a half-bottle of vintage port, and a double magnum of Caymus Conundrum white. Still figuring out what the heck to serve with it--maybe pork tenderloin, "angels on horseback"--bacon-wrapped scallops & marinated water chestnuts--or smothered chicken thighs--we'll Coravin it and try it out with various dishes, and when we hit on a match, pop the cork and throw a dinner party).

Cherry-sw

ChiSandy, this how it goes, one has to see the movies to ”get” the food? Hillarious! Never heard of it even though Oscars is a big thing here too. I have not watched it though, had my rads early and we have bot seen any of the movies( Although I am planning to go and see Call Me by Your Name, it was the only one I knew was nominerad for an Oscar and only because Armie Hammer is in it. I am absolutely not up to date this year. But I will watch all of them and will go back to your post just to see if I would ”get” it)

Dinner today was not as planned at all. DD1 said she would make the steak tomorrow and today they wanted pizza so I had an excuse to use my KitchenAid and to try to make a dough. It went very well, once again DD2 and I was standing there and watching in owe how the machine works. Pizzas were great, I will go and see if I can make it 40 min on my thread-mill today

auntienance

Cold and rainy day here calling for comfort food. It will be boneless short ribs (pressure cooker) with mashed potatoes and a couple of baked campari tomatoes with boursin.

Good idea about the potato starch Sandy, I'll have to try that. I only use flour because I didn't have matzo. It's an item I have to get in the city and didn't plan for.

ChiSandy

We got about an inch of cold slop, but the ground was too warm for it to stick. More of the same through Wed., and then again next Sun. a.m. I can accept that March comes in like a lion, but around here it goes out like a lamb...a rabid lamb...with anger management issues.

That being said, I met with our new landscaper on Sat., and as long as there's no snow on the lawn or in the garden, he's going to get down to power-raking. We cleared away a little of the schmutz that built up since last fall and found that the crocuses, tulips, daffodils, semperivivens (hens-and-chicks), hostas and even some strawberries are struggling to break through. Out front, he's going to seed the grass but the back lawn's a lost cause. We're gonna have to sod.

Pot luck tonight. Leftover fries and Brussels sprouts, coupled with cherry tomato-basil salad and pan-seared pork chop.

Cherry, anyone who came to the restaurant's party and paid the $20 got to eat their fill of the food. It's just that every year, the dishes on the buffet are matched thematically to the Best Picture nominees. (We were among the few guests who actually did see all 9 films).

MinusTwo

I should be slapped for venturing to propose the most exciting thing in my February was a new toilet. Oh no - now it's March.

Had a funny smell in the garage yesterday morning. Determined it was not the car or in the attic or etc, so I went ahead and ran my errands - including the grocery store. It still smelled funny when I got home so I popped the hood on the car again & checked the water heater. Nope. When I started to put the frozen foods away in my garage freezer I discovered that the compressor had blown. Spent most of yesterday afternoon trying to cram food into the tiny top freezer on my kitchen fridge. Took bags to two different neighbors to stick in their freezers. Most everything was OK except the ice cream. Then started cleaning up the mess. Yes, of course it was not a frost free model. Then I started trying to find a replacement.

The stairs to the attic were built with the old freezer in place. New freezers have more insulation & so are wider & taller. I can not get a comparable replacement in w/o cutting out part of the stairs or calling a plumber to figure somewhere else to put the water heater (outside? LOL) After numerous hours on the web and calling stores, I finally had to settle for a model that is only 1/2 as big as my current freezer (which was only 12.1 cu ft). No one in town had a floor model & I am NOT good at envisioning things that I can't physically see & touch. But really no choice.

By the time I finished mopping up melting ice last night it was 10pm & I realized I'd forgotten to eat. Sigh. Just had two glasses of wine and a candy bar. So today I went to have a patty melt with my nephew on his lunch hour. Then I stopped at the store & gave over my credit card & something is supposed to be delivered Friday. Granted - it is something I settled on but I hope I don't hate it too much.

Lacey12

Minus, I do hope that your new freezer finds a handy space to live in your available garage space, and that you end up living a new model! I was exhausted reading your mopping up experience.

Somehow, I missed your Anniversary, Eric, and your birthday, Carol, so belated best wishes to both of you!

Sandy, the Oscars dinner sounded like fun...such a nice variety of food. If there were an abundance of war movies, would they offer C-rations?!

Reading about the potato pancakes reminded me of using the leftover potato innerds that I had left after making the potato skins for the Super Bowl party to make a “fried mashed potato with green onions” and I firget what else, which we gobbled up like latkes. I never fry things, and I won’t need to make them again since the potato skin offering was a “one and done” effort.

This Saturday, DH and I are hosting three couples for the Paella dinner, I may have mentioned. He really loves making paella a few times a year. So this time, we are trying to make it a total Spanish theme meal. I will do lots of non heavy hors d'ouvres, a green salad with olives, Spanish onion, and tomatoes with a light lemon/olive oil dressing, and possible a baguette I will bake. For dessert, I am making a Spanish version of creme brûlée, and some small lime shortbread cookies I made tonight.

Of course we are being hit with another Nor’easter tomorrow and Thursday, so I hope I can get my food shopping done before traveling is a mess....AND....it will not do to be off grid anytime up to and through this event! So keeping my fingers crossed...

I am worried about my cockeyed vision since the last cataract procedure, and hope it will adjust better than what it is currently. Feeling impatient.

A few food pix:

A delightful “winter salad” I had last week at a restaurant called the Back Deck on our way to the Opera House to see “Waitress”.

One of my favorite cod dishes...baked with garlic and topped with sauteed spinach, onion, mushroom medley.

I think I’d better turn this machine off! Best to everyone..

ChiSandy

Love your food porn, Lacey! The restaurant hadn't yet opened when Saving Private Ryan was a nominee, so who knows about the C-rations? Even though Cellars was around in 2009 when The Hurt Locker was a nominee (I think it won), the restaurant's Oscar party tradition hadn't yet started; and if it had, I think Cellars would have drawn the line at serving MREs.

It's been awhile (maybe a decade or more) since I made paella, though I've eaten more than my share of it, on both sides of the pond (including Barcelona and Valencia). I judge an American tapas restaurant largely by the quality of its paella--and if it's too wet, without that crunchy socarrat, I'm not returning even if someone else is footing the bill.

Cherry-sw

Minus, it sounded like a lot of work, I hate when things just broke at home, I go on nagging on DH like crazy telling him that it is his job to secure that everything does functio. I know, I know, but do not forget about my totalitarian regime origins) I think a new toilet is a bug deal and now a new freezer, it can only be better from now on))

Lacey, this cod looks yam but the Nor'Easter sounds really like s lot of trouble. We do not have any hurricaines here, it is usually something we see in the Hollywood movies and having you all reporting from different states every now and then makes it surreal. I love paella, as ChiSandy says, that soccarat (!) It is interesting that you can order it basically at any small beach restaurant in Spain and it always turns out great. But once we were at all-includive hotel in Mallorca where we only had breakfest and dinner, no lunch, their paella was hideous even though DH loved it, so instead we ordered it for lunch at a tiny restaurant on the beach, it was so good.

Dinner yesterday was steak and oven-baked rosemary potatoes with bernaise sause, green salad and carrot slaw. DD1 was supposed to make the steak but she made the potatoes and I did the steak because she did not know how to handle the manual meat termometer. Turned out, me neither. Half way through in the oven we decided the termometer was broken because it did not show any temperature. It is a small thing you stick into the thickest part and then the red pile will slowly climb up, and ours did not. After some time I decided to take the steak out and wait and see. When I cut it it was raw, so nack in the oven, but I decided to give the termometer one more chance and then, after some minutes, it started to show the inner temperature. So the end result got great, I had a tiny bit with fat on it. Still fat but I thought it was ok, I would rather take a little fat than a lot of meat because the fat hasall the taste(

I saw my MO yesterday and asked her specifically about the food and drinking emphasizing that some sources claim that we should cut on carbs, meats, diary, sugar and drinking alcohol to prevent the recurrence. And she said that there is no scientific research that proves that eating all these foods can cause bc and there is certainly no such research that proves that it can prevent bc or recurrence. We should avoid fat food and sugar, not absolutely, but significantly, drinking a glass of wine a day is absolutely ok. There is research that proves that high consumption of alcohol increases risk for bc but no research that proves that it causes it. Her nurse office also recommended strongly to buy the organic products, which I switched to since my dignosis, it has increased, almost doubled our grocery spend but I will try to stick to it. I also mentioned to her that the psychiatrist from cancer rehab told me that up to 2,5 bottles of wine a week was ok for women! MO's Dolly Parton eyes just got even bigger and she asked, did X say so? It does sound too much and I said, you work together, you ask her.

And she gave me a mild deuretic too, so, now I will get out of bed, take a new anti-depressive, a deuretic, a Tamoxifen pill, yay! and will turn into a brand new better version of me) Seriously, only three rads left. New jogging shoes arrived and are amazing but my right foot went numb yesterday while exercising so I only did 30 min, lacing was too tight I think. A new day today though.

Dinner will probably be salmon with pesto or a chicken wok, we will see.

Hope the storm is over soon. Here it got a bit warmer, -1C, still a lot of snow though

carolehalston

Two nights ago I roasted two pork tenderloins. Last night I sliced up about 2/3 of the uneaten one, cooked a package of soba noodles and mixed the pork and noodles with a sauce from a recipe for stir fried chicken. Yum Yum. Love those soba noodles. Would have been good with the addition of stir fried veggies. Stir fry is not my talent and I wasn't in a mood to dally in the kitchen.

The sauce is 3 T brown sugar, 1 T each of fish sauce, rice vinegar, sambal oelek, soy sauce. 1 tsp of dark sesame oil. 1 tsp of corn starch. A tasty combination of flavors.

Lacey, you didn't miss my birthday. I mentioned it in advance. It's actually tomorrow. Good luck with the power staying on. The paella dinner would turn me into a nervous wreck. I don't do dinner parties at home any more. Seems like too much trouble and not enough fun for the hostess. I would rather bite the $$$ bullet and eat out at a nice restaurant and split the check.

Cherry, it sounds like a productive appointment with your bc doctor. Meal time at your house seems like a good time to be there. The recipe you referred me to says that the onion juice prevents the grated potato from turning brown. A side benefit of crying while grating onion!

It rained so much in the early hours yesterday morning that the golf courses are sloppy wet again so I have a golf-free Wednesday. May venture out to some stores. Not sure about dinner menu. Maybe I'll do more than talk about potato pancakes. Haven't made them yet since I began the discussion.

Happy Wednesday to all.

Cherry-sw

I really like this thread!

Carole, once again, Happy Birthday to you tomorrow! Thank you for the recipe, I will try it tomorrow for my wok, I am sure it will work for skinless chicken thigh filets too.

And that recipe about the onion preventing the potatoes from turning brown, it still will though but at a slowlier pace. It tastes really good with grated onions, to me everything tastes good with onions)

And for some time ago I also decided to stop having parties. Especially for the people who then when you get to invited to your place do not even bother to put s decent meal on the table telling you instead that they do not like to cook or having parties at home, they would rather go to the parties and eat at my place because I am such a good cook and truly enjoy cooking food for them))) But this is not because I want to make a point, it is just a lot of stress and work as you said and very little joy for me. I would rather go places now, even on the weekends if I will be able to when I am back to normal.

Dinner tonight was green salad for me and salmon for the family. I also thaw a piece of frozen gravlax and had a thick slice on an organic sour dough rye bread. And some beet root salad on top of that. Now I only have to digest it all a bit and run on my thread-mill. BF went home and DD1 will go to spend next week with him on Friday. Friday is last day of my rads and I intend to taste a mimosa, never did it before

MinusTwo

Sorry for the rant about the freezer. Supposedly a new one will arrive Friday.

In the mean time, I couldn't even begin to find anything stuffed in my little fridge top freezer. So lunch was a big salad. Dinner is California Roll sushi from the grocery store. Tomorrow will be chicken cacciatore with the two Rotisserie breasts I had already defrosted.

Lacey - hope your eye(s) are improving. And yes, the cod looks delicious. '

Cherry - I stopped giving parties at home some time ago after I had my swimming pool filled in. I loved having tons of people over to eat but it was usually casual & outside. Now I meet people out for meals, or take the meals I cook to people who are sick or alone. I'll be thinking of you Friday as you finish your last rads.

Carole - happy B-day tomorrow.

Eric - how was your anniversary celebration?