So...whats for dinner?

auntienance

auntienance

Don't know why this is so gigantic!

M0mmyof3

Minus, it was a friend's wedding.

Moonflwr912

Hello all. Supper today was meatballs in gravy and rice. Again. LOL.

Stan had the 1st apt after the 2nd CT. Definite signs of healing. Dr is still pushing sx. Of course, hes a surgeon... LOL. Will seek 2nd opinion next week. But hopeful.

Basement smells good, so the job was done right.

Daughter was dx. Placeta abruption-partial. Not good. Prayers please. Ill be watching DGD2 gor a couple of days and nights so she can stay off her feet. Gonna be a long 4 months...

Praying for NC, hoping everyone stays safe and all furbabies left behjnd get reunited.

Much love to all.

Moonflwr912

Saw these guys on my way home after dinner at Twisted Willow, right in downtown Port. For my Bday dinner we ordered an app of Brucchetta with pumpkin cream cheese and plum chutney. Yum. Dinner was glazed salmon, steamed green beans, and carrot rice. Delicious. And beautiful. DH had the meatliaf and mashed, he still cant eat hard things. LOL. Got a free Grasshopper for desert. Realized its a 50s drink, so its as old as I am. To funny. LOL. Otger 2 choices were Brandy Alexander or ice cream sundae. Mint was better. Then we saw the deer. So we just sat and watched them till they went away.

Much love

carolehalston

Moon, a grasshopper makes a great dessert. We used to make them for friends from Wisconsin when they came over for dinner. They have since moved.

Dinner last night was a perfectly grilled ribeye steak, small baked white potatoes with butter and sour cream, and a tossed romaine salad with our favorite additions. Dinner doesn't get any better!

Tonight will probably be pasta with home-made tomato sauce from the freezer.

I am not feeling my best thanks to sinus drip and sore throat. Every season brings its torments.

illimae

Tonight is Haddock fish tacos.

Magari

Hi, all! Sounds like you've all been eating well over the past few weeks while I've been MIA.

Had a celebratory date night with my husband on Sat at a restaurant here called The Progress. We had "chip & dip" (housemade potato chips with trout roe and horseradish creme fraiche), smoked ricotta with fresh figs, and roasted & grilled half rabbit with chanterelles, polenta & basil pistou with a lovely bottle of Pinot Noir.

Last night we grilled fresh Monterey Bay anchovies and shishito peppers and made a tomato/corn panzanella salad to go with it.

Tonight I'm making penne in tomato sauce with spicy sausage.

MinusTwo

Wow Magari - the Progress. I heard it was really hard to get a reservation. Sounds like fun. Good to hear from you. Seems like years since we met for drinks in San Francisco. How are you doing? I always like to hear about your meals. Can you believe Gumps is closing??? That's an icon from my childhood - in business since 1861. We used to throw pennies in the Buddha's lap for luck.

ChiSandy

Friend's BBQ yesterday (I was the only guest who was neither an ophthalmologist nor related to one) featured stuff from Romanian Kosher: herb & BBQ wings, Polish sausages (beef, the size of what we back east called "specials" or "knackwurst," only slightly more coarsely ground), hot dogs and burgers. Later in the evening at home, I made myself a gloriously fatty hot corned beef-on-rye sandwich on seeded rye with Ba-Tamp-Te brown mustard (courtesy of the kosher deli/pharmacy where I get my letrozole). This a.m., a pepper, mushroom & gruyere omelet; for dinner, about to pan sear a filet of sea bass, nuke leftover brown basmati rice, & saute sugar snap peas.

Took one of my dulcimers in to Hogeye Music after hand therapy to get an extra fret installed to expand the range of possible chords & notes. Next door was Old Town Oil, which sells olive & nut oils & balsamic vinegars in bulk (with little taster cups). My walnut oil has started to "turn," so I got a new (and smaller) bottle. Settled on a refill of blood orange olive oil (by now, I was down to about a tablespoon of the last bottle), as well as Meyer lemon and Arbequina olive oils. (They use the same supplier for the latter as California Olive Ranch, which was top-rated by ATK). Almost popped for a bottle of peach white balsamic--might go back for it because it makes a great marinade for grilled veggies and a fruity note for wet-mop BBQ sauce that won't clog the squeeze-bottle nozzle or have too much sugar.

Lacey12

Last night we attended a panel discussion at the Ford Hall Forum, in Boston, a lecture series on various topics that I have not attended in forty years!
I was made aware of this particular event because I follow several local sports journalists as well as MA Senator, Joe Kennedy, on Twitter, so was notified about the panel discussion on Mental and Health and Professional Sports via their tweets. I was particularly interested to attend since the Celltics’ coach, Brad Stevens was on the panel. It was a pretty good start for this important conversation, and as a bonus afterwards, I got to take a pic with Brad Stevens! I just started to type more about it and in it’s typical way, my screen erased several sentences. I’ll take that as a strong suggestion to stop this irrelevant prattle and get to food!!

We ate afterwards at a trendy casual spot near the forum, where we often eat when we go to plays in Boston. Last night’s dinner was fairly boring, but we were starved after this early event, so we wolfed down the app, a baba ganoush plate with toasted pita chips, tomatoes and olives, and then I enjoyed a teriyaki salmon with basmati rice and asparagus, and DH had a salad with many veggies, topped with grilled chicken (and augmented by almost all of my basmati rice). We shared a piece of carrot/pineapple cake for dessert.

Tonight I have no idea what I am cooking, but it will probably involve a lot of veggies given what lives in our refrigerator, and my lack of motivation to head out into the rain to pick up any protein.
I will be making some choc chip cookies for dessert for a dinner I am making tomorrow evening for my next door neighbors who just had a death in their family. Their main dinner will be a faux paella (the husband is allergic to mollusks) with just chicken and shrimp, a large salad, and perhaps another vegetable dish....like sauteed squash with onions and mushrooms.
Obviously, we will be eating the same meal tomorrow night. Since I have still not opened up my “instant pot” 😔, maybe this paella dish can be made in that? I will research that and decide.....

ChiSandy

Nothing--it's Yom Kippur and I began fasting before leaving for temple. (Had a little chopped liver on the heel of a seeded rye and half a homegrown tomato that I had cut earlier for eggs Benedict).

I will take my pills with water--and probably just a little milk or a cracker with the ibuprofen because it needs to be taken with food. Black coffee in the a.m. to keep my lungs open. Once the last Shofar blast is sounded tomorrow early evening, I will probably devour the first thing in my path.

carolehalston

I had no interest in cooking the thawed chicken breast for dinner last night. Instead we had hot dogs on toasted buns (one for me and two for dh) and our much-liked usual salad with romaine and additions. We never get tired of this salad. The dressing was a sprinkle of white balsamic and a little bottled Caesar.

Tonight we're having Happy Hour at a nearby home. There will be heavy snacks that will serve as dinner. I'm making a pan of cheesy potatoes or funeral potatoes. Not actually a snack but a dinner food.

auntienance

Happy belated birthday Monica!

Nothing but liquids today. Colonoscopy tomorrow. Ugh.

KatyK

So dinner wasn’t great for a couple of nights - freeze dried because DH and I did a lovely two night backpack. But the views were incredible!

MinusTwo

KatyK - Gorgeous picture. Oh I think the views were worth the MREs. Where were you hiking & camping?

Went to a 'senior expo' today presented by a local paper & one of the hospitals at the SPJST hall. Lots of 'booths' handing out info that we might need & stuff like pens & koozies & hand lotion & pill boxes. (the funeral homes stuck to giving out pens) We did get in to one class about chair yoga. Lunch was to be free from one of our better Italian restaurants (which is really why we went), however there were way too many old people. Yeah, I know that's me, but I just don't feel as old as all these people looked. Lunch was supposed to start at 11:45. At 10:45 these people were already lining up with their walkers & canes & yes, even oxygen tubes. My girl friend and I checked out and went to a lovely bakery cafe. I had the special - roast beef on fresh ciabatta. She had a salad. Their homemade soups & quiche are delicious if I can just remember to go back in the winter.

illimae

I had leftover spaghetti, tomorrow I’m thinking stir fry.

Katyk, great pics! DH and I are planning a “survival” weekend near our west Texas cabin this winter. We’ll be testing our gear and general preparedness.

Minus, wanna meet up next week for lunch at Hughies?

MinusTwo

illimae - I'll send you a PM with possible days.

eric95us

Katyk, where did you go?

I'm heading home tomorrow. North Carolina's disaster response capability seems to be very good...we do stuff a state is unable to handle on their own...and we had little to do.

auntienance

Good job Eric!

ChiSandy

The temple actually catered some tapas from Cafe Ba-Ba-Ree-Ba as the break-the-fast tray (besides the challah bread, red wine & grape juice): grape & Manchego skewers, tortilla español bites, and crostini with fig jam and goat cheese. No need to pop in for a slice of pizza on the way home--got caught in the rain and drenched to the skin despite using an umbrella. Bob had moules frites at Hopleaf and brought home half the frites plus aioli (he ate all the mussels and broth). I pan-seared a coldwater mini lobster tail and had it with the frites & aioli.

Lacey12

Been wondering how it was going Eric. Glad to hear you can head home!

Minus, I tend to feel the same way about identifying with “being old”. I think I’ll continue to be that way until I’m walker- laden, then might be in that free luncheon line. LOL Glad the funeral home just gave out pens.

Tonight we brought the modified paella, salad with horseradish/maple syrup vinaigrette dressing (my fave), crusty bread, and choc chip cookies with malt vanilla ice cream to our next door neighbors. They had asked us to join them, so we had a good few hours to catch up since they are often away, and recently have been clearing out his just deceased mother’s house. Wondering how Special’s MIL’s house fared through the storm.

Tomorrow seeing Hamilton (finally...have had the tickets for way over a year), so will eat at a restaurant near the theater.

Cool pic, Katyk

ChiSandy

Lacey, you will LOVE Hamilton! (Even if you don't like hip-hop).

carolehalston

Not sure about dinner. Probably will warm up the left over pasta in red sauce and make a salad. My interest in cooking is almost nonexistent. This is a risky (in terms of weight management) time as we near the day to head home to Louisiana. I lose interest in making meals and am tempted to opt for eating out. It will be nice to get back to my home kitchen.

ChiSandy

Cut into the ripest, biggest tomato from my garden (about 4" in diameter). Was a bit nervous about what looked like hornworm trails in the top, but no evidence inside. Cut a couple of slices for lunch's avocado toast--really delicious, not overripe, great texture. Had a fried egg atop the toast. Tonight will be a couple more slices with basil and mozzarella, with a sockeye fillet I'm defrosting. Will wilt some baby spinach as the fish's "bed." (Haven't decided if the starch will be the dregs of the brown basmati or the rest of the frites--tilting toward the former, as the frites were pretty salty).

SpecialK

lacey - my MIL's house did fine - just some wind and rain since the storm moved north at the last minute - we were so fortunate. However, as is "lowcountry" style, the realtor could not get anyone on the phone to do the closing last Monday as previously planned - argghhh! Compounding that, the buyer, who is divorced and remarried, apparently needs something from the court that oversaw his divorce saying that he can stop paying his first wife alimony if she remarries - which she has, so it triggered a 10 day closing delay. That means earliest closing is middle of next week. The good news - no new named storms are approaching so his insurance company should be able to write a policy. Can't wait for this to be over. Glad I didn't have to dispatch Eric, and also that he didn't end up seeing my SILs in NC either!

Dinner tonight will involve some of the roasted chicken breast I cooked today, I am just not sure in what form. Have spent the day planning a trip to Hawaii for next Jan with my BFF from CA and DH and myself - much of the airline reservations had to be done separately - total of 6 legs for each of us since I am using a combination of points/miles on different airlines, and DH had vouchers. I am over it at this point, lol! Still have to do lodging in CA, Oahu, Kauai, plus rental cars - I shouldn't be complaining though, it's Hawaii!

illimae

I did end up making a beef stir fry with cauliflower “rice”. Turned out well but probably too bland for most, as I’m not a big salt user.

MinusTwo

Illimae - looks delicious. Right up my alley. Did you use fresh sprouts & snow peas? Or frozen? Maybe purple cabbage but do I see Bok Choy hiding or is it green cabbage?

Special - so glad the house is OK. Hope this new closing date comes off. I'm jealous of your HI trip. Are you doing hotels or VRBOs? I haven't been since 2016 and that was only to Oahu. Haven't been to Kauai since 2008. Sigh. So many neat things to do & see. I was amazed by the changes/growth on the North Shore of Oahu.

Dunch was left over cod with left over 3 bean salad. I bought a Costco rotisserie chicken yesterday, ate the wings, and froze everything but the legs. Tomorrow I'll eat the legs. I have two packages of smaller pieces that I'll use for stir fry or for chicken Cacciatore and the two large breasts frozen separately.

SpecialK

illimae - your stir fry looks good to me! I seem to do a lot of dishes that way - combine what I have over rice, ramen, quinoa, or riced cauliflower.

minus - I’m excited about the trip - I haven’t been to Oahu since 1986, lol! I have never been to any other islands. We are planning a non-touristy trip, with hiking, waterfalls, beach walks (with a lot of sunscreen and sun proof clothes for me - early morning and evening, not direct daytime sun and soaking up local culture - no planned tours or Waikiki luau action. We will prob book out of the way places through VRBO or Airbnb. DH and I will be in Los Angeles for a couple of days to break the trip on the way and will do a hotel there, then just overnight on the way back, so will stay near the airport.

illimae

The stir fry was red & green cabbage, broccoli, chopped leeks, garlic, beef (London broil) and fresh snow peas and bean sprouts (from food town).