So...whats for dinner?

Beaverntx

Minus, No, Eric is not alone. I do make bread, although not as often as I used to since I am limiting my gluten intake. We make our own pizza crusts and now use a bread machine to get it started. We have neighbors who have an annual St Patrick's day party and I supply the Irish soda bread for that (3 different kinds, with and without fruit or seeds).

Eric, sorry to hear you are under the weather. Any chance it is a reaction to painting your house? Our pollen counts have been ridiculous all year and being outside for any extended period leads to sneezing and a drippy nose. Chicken soup even helps that!

eric95us

I have a MAN cold! That's what I have!!!! :-)

auntienance

Eric, lol you're entitled - feel better soon!

eric95us

Thanks Nance... In the past few hours I've gone from "just shoot me" to "I think I'm going to live", so "soon" seems to be now. Yesterday was one of those hated lay in bed and do nothing days.

Beaverntx

eric, glad soon is now! Keep on getting better.

eric95us

Chi, I did "cheat" a bit (DD talked Sharon into trying a vegan diet and I'm going along for the ride) when Sharon was at her mom's house and I made some chicken soup.

1/4 cup of rice in a small pot, add 3 jars of the broth, simmer for 30 minutes and eat directly from the pot (when on a recliner chair, it's too easy to spill soup from a bowl).....

As for the allergies...I doubt it. Usually allergies cause me to have a nose that runs more than an open fire hydrant and I sneeze a lot. This wasn't like that.

MinusTwo

OH NO Eric. The dreaded MAN cold. Hope it doesn't last too long. I had one earlier this year that hung on for 3 full weeks - most of it at the 'just shoot me' stage.

Lunch was an egg salad sandwich from a local meat market on my way to Yoga. Supper was a couple pieces of cold pizza - pepperoni & mushroom. By the time I could stop to eat it was 10pm and no way was I going get involved with even heating.

april485

Dinner tonight is a Roast chicken with baked rice and asparagus. I might make a salad too. The baked rice is so good and reminds me of my grandmother. It is made with the juices from roasting the chicken along with chicken broth and some butter (everything is better with butter, no?) Then it just bakes in the oven for 20 minutes until most of the liquid is absorbed then while remaining covered with foil, sits for 10 more minutes to absorb the rest.

You just need to use 2.5 to one instead of 2 to one on the broth when making it this way and need to heat the pan on top of the stove until the liquid is boiling before adding the rice and butter and baking.

One pan, no mess. Meanwhile the chicken is resting while the rice bakes. I roast the asparagus in the oven too since it is on anyway. It has been so raw and wet around these parts lately.

ChiSandy

Eric, your "man cold" sounds just like the "tourist cold" I had in Tel Aviv.

Throat felt scratchy on the bus from Jerusalem, then scratchier as we walked through the Carmel Market. By the time I got back to my room, I realized that I didn't want to go out to dinner and infect my friends, so I had the hotel casual restaurant's Shabbat dinner (at the tail end of the time window so as to minimize contaminating anything on the buffet) at a table for one. Next morning, I slept in. It was the "just shoot me" stage, and everything I wanted to see was closed for Shabbat anyway, so I ate an Atkins bar, made tea, stayed in bed and channel-surfed till I felt well enough to cab it to the one 24/7 pharmacy downtown for some basic cold remedies. Felt well enough to go out to dinner afterward. Next day--my last of the trip--I was well enough to go down to breakfast and take a short bus tour. By the time I boarded my flight, all I needed was water & the occasional Ricola.

Quite a change from the usual "3 days coming, 3 days with ya, 3 days going" colds.

ChiSandy

Last night's dinner was leftover ribeye & roast potatoes, plus some sugar snap peas I sauteed. Brunch was a small tuna salad sandwich on low-carb whole-wheat bread with lettuce, red onion & tomato. Was going to reheat the last of the steak tonight, but Gordy's here on his day off and I'll give it to him with some rice & veg. Think I'll put together another "mezze" plate of falafel, pita, hummus, and all the other various spreads & salads. Not hungry yet.

MinusTwo

April - how nice to see you. I don't remember if you ever told us about your new job - which is probably a year old now. Thanks for the baked rice tips. I'm assuming that's long grain? I'll put this away for winter when I turn the oven on again. We're already around 90 degrees most days.

Supper was a repeat. Flour tortillas, scrambled eggs (with Dill this time), shredded Mexican cheese and green chili hot sauce. Heated in the micro to melt cheese then rolled & eaten by hand.

eric95us

It's back.... :-( And Sharon's got it too.......

Since standing seems to lessen the muscle cramps, I stood and made a double batch of veggie burgers. So that (nothing else) was dinner last night and tonight.

Beaverntx

yuck, Eric, not sure this is one of those things that is best shared!

Tonight was homemade pizzas with five individual pizzas and no two alike. They were being gobbled down before I thought of taking a picture!

MinusTwo

I had leftover Rosa sauce (lots of cream) and added mushrooms before putting over pasta. I ate way too much. Even though it was 5pm, I still stuffed 5 hours later. Hope I can sleep.

Eric - so sorry to hear the illness is recycling. That's the same darn thing that happened to me for more than a month earlier this year,.

ChiSandy

Eric, I remember one summer I kept getting colds every two weeks, one after the other like railroad cars. Actually, there are over 100,000 strains of rhinoviruses, so it's not the same cold you just got over.

carolehalston

Dinner last night was a bologna sandwich.  My sister and I had the sad duty yesterday of cleaning out my mother's room at the nursing home.  She died during the early hours yesterday morning.  Her passing was peaceful and quick.  My sister Michelle and I, who visited her on alternate days at the nursing home for the past three years, have been expecting her death but it's still a sad time and we will miss her.  She was such a considerate person and was considerate again, in passing.  

I was with my mother on Wednesday evening at the Spring Fling at the nursing home.  And then again on Thursday when we went to bingo and she won two games.  Going into her room yesterday to pack up her few possessions was quite an ordeal.  I know Nance and Eric can appreciate my emotions.

Some years ago my mother made her own arrangements and paid for her funeral service.  Now I won't be needing the airline reservations for a return in July to visit my mother and give Michelle a break.

MinusTwo

Carole: I'm sorry to hear about your mother but glad her passing was peaceful. Yes, it will leave a hole in your life. You have been a wonderful daughter. You will be in my thoughts.

auntienance

Oh Carole, I'm so sorry. I know how much you will miss her. My dad died a year ago last week and I think about him every day. I'm glad her passing was peaceful. (((Hugs)))

SpecialK

carole - returned last night from my trip and clicked on this thread just now only to read your sad news. I'm so sorry to hear of the loss of our mom, your love for her shone through in your posts, sending you strength to carry you through.

eric95us

(((hugs)))

Beaverntx

Carole, sending hugs and sympathy your way in the passing of your mother, who was considerate even in that. How heart wrenching your clean out/ pack up task must have been; so glad your sister could share that with you. Now that that is done, hope you can move through your loss to focusing on happy memories. ((((hugs))))

eric95us

My sympathy to you Carole, and your sister. Penning the final entries in "Mom's Book of Life" is never easy.

ChiSandy

Carole, so sorry about your mom. Losing a parent is wrenching, losing a link to the past and adjusting the future. May her memory be for a blessing.

Dinner tonight (courtesy of a heating pad, CBD, topical rubs and lots of OTC pain meds) was pan-seared Chilean salmon, sauteed snap peas in garlic & ginger oil with sesame seeds, fresh tomato slices & basil, and nuked Thai basil-lime rice.Dessert was 2 oz. ea. salted caramel gelato and Jeni's "deepest darkest chocolate" ice cream. Bob (who had a steak for lunch) had my leftover eggplant parm & linguine and some of those snap peas. (My brunch was 2 scrambled eggs, a slice of bacon and a buttered crumpet with a tsp of cherry jam, plus a black coffee. Midday snack was a chocolate jelly ring and a cappuccino).

Not much time for bkfst tomorrow, as we have to feed the cats, shower, dress and get to the Lyric Opera House (in severe storms--thanks in advance, Lyft) for a 1pm matinee of West Side Story. (Larger cast than the orig, B'way production). So will probably nuke us each a mini sausage biscuit. Dinner will be at 5 in the opera house restaurant. Hope I wake up much less stiff in the morning than I did today. Can't afford to be hobbled much longer.

Feeding the cats is like feeding recalcitrant toddlers, except cats won't stay in high chairs till they're done. Heidi hates her prescription wet food, will nibble a few licks of it (sprinkled with her fave catnip) before paw-marking the floor around it & walking away--have to keep Happy from wolfing it down after his own wet food (asstd. Friskies patés he loves, but so does Heidi whom I've caught stealing it), and Heidi's food doesn't agree with him so he pukes it up all over the living room. I have to keep covering her dish up and re-offering it to her when she deigns to come into the kitchen, until she's eaten at least a tablespoon of it, and then I can safely discard it. Then Heidi tries to steal Happy's kibble instead of eating her own. (She actually whomps hin in the head with her paw). The vet thinks they're both obese at 12.5 lbs--she wants Happy down below 12 and Heidi as close to 10 lbs as we can manage. She ought to see all my friends' indoor cats. I figure even though Heidi had a kidney stone in 2017, at 14 she ought to be able to eat what she wants. If they both ate the same stuff (like before her kidney stone surgery), they'd stop trying to poach each other's food, and I could just practice portion control and play vigorously with them.

MinusTwo

Joyce - good to hear from you and know you're back safe in the North - even with the delayed summer weather.

I was going to make beef stroganoff but I was too hungry when I finally got home from the store. Late lunch was two handfuls of Spanish Peanuts left in the can, a piece of watermelon from the personal size melon I was cutting up for the fridge and some hunks of a French baguette. The watermelon is only just OK, but I'm not surprised this time of year and it was only $0.99. So supper will likely be California Roll.

Beaverntx

Evening meal was sloppy joes on homemade burger buns, corn( not on the cob!), green salad with a selection of specialty oils and vinegars for dressing. ( auto correct is so interesting, it wanted to replace vinegars with congrats???)

illimae

Tonight was a crockpot pot roast, tomorrow will be French dips with the leftovers.

Lacey12

Carole, I’m also sending you hugs and caring thoughts as you cope with the loss of your mom who was so central to your life. She sure had a wonderful, devoted daughter in you as you cared for her in so many ways. I hope you find peace in this process of grief. And how touching that she was considerate in her death as in her life.

Life has been pretty busy here, with some boring meals at home and some interesting restaurant meals while visiting my stepmother in CT this weekend. I will post a pic of my unusual Friday night dinner choice that was quite delicious albeit not low in calories...shrimp with a pineapple cream sauce.

For the past three months I’ve been serving as the family point person to communicate with and support my SIL as she slowly comes to terms with my brother’s last days. I then deliver selected news about him to my relatives and close family friends who are concerned yet feeling helpless given the 3000 mile distance. It’s been complicated and challenging for a variety of reasons, and at this point I am feeling better that hospice is involved, so he is getting the comfort care he needs. Lewy Body Dementia is such a very cruel disease. He is unable to digest food now or drink water. We will be heading back to CA for a memorial service for him in June, as it looks now. I’m so glad we visited him in Feb when he was much more cogent and physically more able to ambulate.

Meanwhile, here...DS2 and pregnant DDIL2 have been dealing with her persistent strong contractions and medical interventions as felt needed by the OB. Fortunately, she has maintained the pregnancy and will be induced probably next week if their sweet pea doesn’t arrive independently before that. She is a perfectly complete and “weighted” baby now, so our earlier worries have abated. We look forward to meeting this longed for baby!

Meanwhile, DDIL1 just had neck surgery to replace two cervical herniated discs. We were shocked to learn about this, but it came up rather quickly after PT was doing nothing to relieve her neuro symptoms that impacted her own surgical work. I am hoping she rests a bit after this, but they live a fast lane life, so our advice is irrelevant! Oy!

We haven’t been down to visit my step-mother for many months so we were determined to see her this weekend when we were all free. She is such an amazing almost 92 year old, whose cogency and active lifestyle puts my tired self to shame. We had a wonderful visit, had some fun dinners out, a trip to her nephew’s tree farm, and a long ride to the town where our grands attend school, which she was interested to see. We stopped at Tarrytown to have dinner at a restaurant we recalled enjoying on our way to NJ last year.

On Friday evening we ate at one of her neighborhood Italian restaurants where I had a really unusual shrimp dish with a pineapple, sun dried tomatoes and rosemary cream sauce over spinach linguini. Really tasty!

When we arrived home tonight, (after a 3 1/2 hour drive that is usually 2 1/4 hours) DH announced he really wanted pizza for dinner, which I thought was perfect! The pizza from a restaurant that makes great Italian food otherwise, wasn’t great, with way too much corn meal on bottom of crust...but then, I also did not have to cook it!!!

Before heading to CT, I made some Two Ingredient bagels for my step-mother, which were amazingly delicious. Has anyone else made this recipe with self-rising flour and plain Greek yogurt? Also made some banana muffins that included “roasted bananas” and several add ins. Fortunately, neither of those returned home with us!

auntienance

Cataract surgery today, waffle house big breakfast afterwards. A friend is bringing meat loaf for dinner. Yay!

MinusTwo

Nance - we'll be sending you good vibes. Hooray for someone else bringing dinner!!

eric95us

My mom was diagnosed (post mortem) with "Non Lewy Body Dementia". Hopefully her 30+ year participation in a brain-dementia study will hopefully be of use.......

Dinner here, too, has been kind of boring. We are finally starting to feel better from whatever was "going around"....even though it took almost 2 weeks.

I've been slowly painting, but with the dizzy part, I've kept both feet on the ground while doing prep work.