So...whats for dinner?
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I was on the way to the grocery store in the dark at 6:45am. Eerie. They're on limited hours & opened at 7am. Parking lot was 3/4 full when they opened.
Shelves are pretty empty. I wasn't looking for TP or water. They did have some pallets of those and were rationing.
No meat, no eggs. Very few frozen foods. Almost no fresh vegetables. Got a small sack of purple baby potatoes & the very last onion. No baking potatoes or sweet potatoes. Got one bag of Dole salad & one bag of spinach. Each of those is two full meals for me. No other salad stuff in stock except the bags - no radishes, cukes, mushrooms, carrots, etc. A bunch of avocados but all too ripe for anything but immediate guacamole. Got one pkg of raspberries - lots of those but no apples, pears, bananas, etc. Milk was just coming in and a nice guy handed me some from the back before they could shelve it. They're rationing the milk to two cartons per person. Oh - and I scored the last package of hot dogs. Haven't had those in a long time & they did have fresh buns. Plenty of bread but not extensive selections. Managed to get all the canned foods I wanted - if more expensive brands than I usually buy. I had let my stock run down as I usually do this time of year pre-hurricane season to only one of each on lots of essentials like black beans & peaches & smoked oysters.Treated myself to a chicken biscuit at ChickFilA on the way home. I haven't have one of those in a year.
Dinner tonight will be a riff on Laurie's Mexican chicken.
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I was able to order Wholefoods Online by putting everything i need in the cart and if delivery times are not available, checking the delivery time again very early in the morning. When I got up to go to the bathroom at 3am, I checked and delivery was available so i ordered it and went back to sleep. It’s taking a few days to deliver, but I’ll take it.
Flour and carb items are not available so I am being creative with the flours I have. I made blue corn tortillas for breakfast with the blue corn Maseca flour I had. I am making pizza for dinner with the bread flour. Packed Lunch for DH was tuna salad sandwich using 2 frozen Take and Bake dinner rolls. Lunch for the kids will be Ramen & Rice Balls.
Cooking dry chickpeas for Hummus, Cauliflower gratin, green beans with toasted almonds, and various topping for the pizza for dinner.
Stay safe everyone.
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I decided to make a grocery store run today even though I went the other day because I was so distracted by the bare shelves I forgot to get dish soap and cat food!! I ended up going later than I wanted because I was on the phone with DD for quite a while this morning - she was upset as last night was the first night in the outdoor (but fully enclosed) coop for her baby chickens - they are not quite teenagers. Word went out among the neighborhood raccoons, as well as several cats, and she spent the night watching the outdoor camera and running outside to chase away the marauding raccoons. They managed to undo several of the gate locks - there are four locks on each hatch that even I had trouble with, and were reaching through the wire to grab at the poor chicken’s legs - they are locked upstairs in the nesting box for several days so they develop the homing instinct and can be put up easily for the night. She needs to line the box with hay so going forward their legs won’t be exposed. The coop is trenched and there is chicken wire in the trench so nothing can tunnel in. But, sheesh!!!!
The grocery store was different today, there was more meat, but limits on how much each shopper could buy. I did get some thin pork chops, and bought some boxed hamburger patties. They are not grinding any beef - to minimize processing. I figured the patties can be crumbled and I have ground beef! There were no eggs but I have enough and wasn’t looking for more. I did buy some coffee and creamer though - a daily necessity for me! There was water, didn’t buy any though, I have filtered water through my fridge. No paper products at all. My husband works on an Air Force bass and told me last night that shoppers at the military commissary were going to the back where the trucks are unloaded and trying to take the products before they were even unloaded and stocked on shelves! Pretty shocking - usually military folks are rule followers...
DS is flying from CO to VA tomorrow evening - he got a refund on his remaining lift tickets and his Airbnb and is returning home while his flight is still available. I’m worried about him, but that’s what moms do I guess. I feel bad for him, he needed a vacation and it didn’t work out with the bad toming
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I braved Wal-Mart today (the only real grocery store in town) seeking primarily fresh fruits and veggies and laundry detergent. I was pleasantly surprised that I was able to get everything I needed. Fortunately I didn't need paper products or frozen pizza! Those shelves were bare. People were behaving normally although apparently that wasn't the case this weekend. I even managed to get two six packs of bottled water, which is all I wanted as we have filtered water too. We also managed to get haircuts and ate breakfast at our local diner. I'm so afraid that if these little places of ours are forced to close they'll never open back up again.
Tonight is a rerun of last night's corned beef and cabbage and shepherd's pie.
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I've been making fettuccine with jarred spaghetti sauce and frozen tofu "meat balls." I'm still lazy. It's freezing here and I'm shutting the doors and letting my gas fire place warm the whole living area. Have lots of dried peas for split pea soup, black beans, brown rice, shredded cheese and corn in the freezer, so that's what I'll be eating with salsa. Kitty Cat is happy that her Chewy order will arrive with kitty litter, litter genie refills, and food in (5-8) ! days. So glad to see that everyone is still cooking up a storm. Grandson getting big with another on the way, still working here and there, and had to cancel a white water rafting trip in the Grand Canyon due to the whole situation.
I like the avocado toast idea.) -
I'm working the night shift (7pm-7am) at the front desk of a hotel that is housing folks from the cruise ship.
I've been sleeping 8am to about 3-4pm so my meals are.....
My post shift shower meal at 7:30am is the free hot breakfast at the hotel where I'm sleeping... this is a different hotel from where I'm working.
My 5pm meal is cooked by me and is pasta, rice, canned beans, fruit, etc (simple stuff) in my hotel room.
My 10pm meal is whatever is brought in to where I'm working.
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bedo - sooooo glad to hear from you. I can't believe how fast time goes. I remember when you were looking forward to your first grandchild. Sorry about the rafting trip. I too still eat crazy. I made the mistake of posting a meal on the 'drinking' thread earlier this week & they thought I was nuts or a vegetarian. Something like a boiled egg & steamed bok choy.
Eric - Glad you're OK so far. Do you expect the duty to be just the 14 day quarantine? Or will new people come in for another shift? Mimi - I would go nuts with all the different food requirements for each person at each meal. Special - sorry about your DD's chickens. I was just wishing today I lived closer to my niece - who always have more eggs than she can even sell at work. Thanks for the explanation why there's not ground beef. Makes sense. Nance - I'm not a WalMart shopper, but I may try one of the 'outer' stores for produce & eggs later this week. Their supply chain is certainly big enough. A neighbor told me HEB has plenty of meat - including ground beef.
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Eric - As many others have stated, thank you for your service!
Smashed an avocado, added spices, shredded chicken & shredded cheese and ate along with pita crackers. Our remaining 5 avocs are getting pretty mushy, so sounds like this could be dinner again this week. Not sure if/when we will be able to find fresh avocs again.
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I'm not sure....
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Hello Bedo, good to hear from you!
Eric, be safe!
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Forgot that I have some low-carb tortillas (white, spinach)--will freeze them. I have more avocados than I can use, and now they're ripening rapidly. (Down to one lime, on its last legs at that). Not sure when Bob'll be home (planning shrimp stir-fry over cauliflower fried rice), so I just ate one avocado with lime, chipotle and sea salt. Not bad.
Last night Whole Foods had no eggs (exc. for a couple of prepacked hard-boiled), almost no bread or dairy (except sliced cheeses and that lonely pint of whipping cream). But plenty of produce and a decent amount of fish & meat behind the counters (though self-serve was picked clean), and still mostly stocked with packaged cold cuts and pre-made sushi as well. Bulk bins were full because they were shunned, as were the hot food & salad bars. People were loath to order at the deli. Frozen shelves picked clean except for a very few bags of riced cauliflower (a one-per-customer limit was imposed) and lots of fish & seafoods, including dim sum. (Normally, I'd have pounced on those but for the carbs in the wrappers--and Bob has admitted he's considering going lower-carb himself. In the doctors' lounge at Advocate Christ Hosp., only pre-wrapped sandwiches and yogurts are available).
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Joycek - I hope you can get home. Safe travels.
I ordered my tamoxifen 1 week early as I only get 30 days per prescription and I didn’t want to wait until the last minute. Picked it up 7am this morning. Feel a little better.
DH is staying home, now. DD has on line school. DS has a break until next week. He goes to the park to long toss with 1 friend and then goes to the friend’s house to hit in the batting cage in the back yard. I think that is still safe.
Breakfast - butter toasted steel cut oatmeal with fruit; sweet potato bread pudding; fresh squeezed OJ from our tree. Lunch - lefterover Calzone pizza from last night; Buccatini pasta with pesto & cherry tomatoes; some kind of vegetable. Dinner - Paella 2 versions - 1. Chicken and Seafood, 2. Only Chicken; some kind of salad. The Farm to Tableproduce delivery service is running late from overwhelming demand. I hope they come through...
Stay safe everyone
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Joyce, I think I'd prefer to drive. About 1/2 the time I fly...I get a cold. A cold is annoying, unlike Covid-19.
For this deployment we are a "setup, get it working smoothly, train the folks coming in to take it over and then we move on to do it again" team.
We're now on an 8 hour drive and when we get to the next place, we'll do it again.
Semper Gumby..."always flexible"..that's us and something everyone, everywhere should be.
Oh, yes,
https://m.facebook.com/phegov/
Is where the public information folks post stuff we send them from the field.
BTW, I've worked with the bagpiper. :-)
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One of my friends at the farewell party Friday night is a part-time professional bagpiper--his gigs, mostly at senior centers, have dried up. Here in IL, we have our first nursing home outbreak: 42 cases, 30 patients & 12 staff, in the DuPage County suburb of Willowbrook. And one town north of us, Evanston, just reported its first five cases: three in the community, two in the skilled-nursing wing of a seniors complex on the NW side of town. (Other side of town from where a couple of BCO-ers live).
Will be making that shrimp stir-fry tonight, over cilantro-lime cauliflower rice. Suddenly, peeling & deveining a dozen of them doesn't seem as much of a PITA as before. Prepping veggies for it, too.
Brunch was a single Benedict: fried egg (rationing one per person per day), lomo Iberico ham, nuked packet of Hollandaise on half a Mikey's keto muffin. Had a snack of the other half with the cream that had clotted around the spot of the container we'd drained to whip last night, along with stevia -sweetened apricot jam.
Whole Foods came through with a couple dozen eggs (cage-free, not pasture-raised) and Jewel delivered my low-carb/hi-fiber whole wheat bread, so the only thing we're rationing for now is TP, which nobody has. (# of squares: "3 to pee, 4 for more" ).
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Last night was the pot roast I began cooking the day before. I used the multi-cooker since I could brown the roast on the saute function and then switch to slow cooker. Yesterday I finished cooking the sliced beef with the au jus and the veggies, hunks of onion, large dice carrots and peeled potatoes. The result was very tasty. The meat had some chew, wasn't shredding apart like overcooked pot roast, and the veggies were perfect. DH made good use of his ketchup!
I'll be looking to incorporate leftover large dice roast chicken into a recipe for tonight's dinner.
I'm nervous about going to my hair dresser today for a cut. I'm worried about her as well as for myself. She had chemo a couple of months ago for lymphoma and I don't think she should be working and exposing herself to whatever customers could be bringing into her little home salon. I may start wearing plastic gloves when I go out on necessary trips. I have a whole box of them that have sat in a closet for years. I can't remember why I bought them.
Louisiana is now a "hot spot" for the virus.
Good to "see" you, Bedo.
Most of the food stores are announcing shopping hours for seniors.
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Rainy and cold here today. Looks like it's a chili day tonight
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Our county in KY's 1st case occurred yesterday, but where it occurred is 20 mins away from us. I have sheltered in place since Sat. 3/14. DH went out on 3/15 to the store & today to do drive-through banking. Rainy here today, but in the low 60s. Dinner will be the remainder of curry mix made earlier this week (mostly veggies) + 1 small naan round. We are trying to use up avocs & both had chopped cucumber, chopped avoc & sauteed shroom salads for lunch - I added shredded chicken to mine & DH had some fish. Doing well with supplies on hand, for now.
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Here's my brunch, shakshuka:
Mix 1/3 c. ea. Rao's marinara and Mina mild Harissa sauce in an 8" nonstick pan. Add a couple dashes each Aleppo pepper (fresh ground black will do) and (optional) Za'atar seasoning. Slice 5 kalamata olives and scatter. Bring to a simmer over medium heat. Make two "wells" and drop an egg into each. Simmer covered (I use a glass lid) till yolks are just barely set. Remove, pour into a pasta bowl, large soup bowl or rimmed dinner plate; sprinkle crumbled feta cheese to taste.
Gonna sous-vide & cast-iron-finish a steak tonight, steam asparagus and air-fry an artichoke Roman-Jewish style. Enough for the two of us w/o leftovers--we'll order out from Cellars tomorrow night when they roll out their curb service/delivery menu.
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Breakfast for kids was Crepes and apple/pear sauce. Lunch was homemade pasta & eggplant Lasagna, Tunisian meatballs. Dinner - I am thinking left over Lasagna & meatballs, Cauliflower gratin that I didn’t finish making the other day, Fried rice from leftover Paella from last night, and salad of some sort.
DH and I are having a hard time eating healthy with the 2 hungry teenagers at home. Even my DS who is eating a lot of food to gain weight for baseball is saying we are eating too much carbs. My strategy now is to make a big lunch and giving the kids the leftovers for dinner, and adding more vegetables and salad for DH and myself. I don’t have the stamina to put in a lot of time for dinner. I get so tired after lunch.
The Wholefood delivery that I ordered at 3am came through. They were just out of Chickpeas.
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Nono, you are saintly. If it were me lol, those teens would be learning how to cook 😉
Tonight is brats on the grill, baked beans and salad or cole slaw.
Hope everyone is coping with the new surreality (new word)
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Not me! I am climbing the walls!
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Auntie - you are absolutely right. My family is spoiled. But I also have an ulterior motive to become a better cook to audition for Masterchef when I am empty nested in couple of years. I feel like I was given a second chance at life so I should do something crazy. Anyway, I don’t know if it’s my age or the Tamoxifen, but I just can’t memorize recipes. So I watch Pasta Grannies on YouTube to watch how these 90 year old nonna’s in Italy cook. I’m getting better at making pasta & gnocchi dough by touch. Unfortunately, I am sure to be eliminated at the first cake baking challenge.
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Nono, good for you. More power to you!
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Wow, Chi. How I wish I could do/eat that!! I'm in a new hotel with only a refrigerator and a microwave oven, so cooking options are limited and the only eating places open are the ones that do drive through or takeout.... :-(
We have "relax a bit day" today..after working a 12 hour shift, followed by driving 9 hours...I slept 8 hours, attended a meeting and went back to sleep for another 5 hours..and will probably sleep a full 8 hours tonight. Making up for the lack of the kitchen are the heavy "blackout drapes" on the window, so daytime sleeping is pretty easy.
Tomorrow, I'm sure we'll make up for today's rest time!
Be safe and well, everyone.
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I put the cast-iron pan away, as the grill is okay (igniter is shot but the BIC torch worked just fine). Gonna saute shiitakes in butter & marsala with parsley; will let the charred steaks "rest" tented and topped with butter and truffle slices while I set the table. Will use the other half of a packet of hollandaise (opened it yesterday for a Benedict) over steamed asparagus. No starch for either of us: Bob had an Italian "strudel" for lunch from the Pompeii drive-through.
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Greetings from San Francisco, where we've been "sheltering in place" for the past five days. We are healthy and hope all of you are as well.
Since I hate running out of things, we buy toilet paper in bulk and have a well-stocked freezer and pantry. So no panic shopping here.
I made chile verde in my Instant Pot on Sunday, spaghetti with anchovies and breadcrumbs on Monday, and braised lamb neck with Israeli couscous and a salad of bitter greens on Tuesday at my husband's request. (He had lamb neck at chef Chris Cosentino's original restaurant several years ago and it became a favorite.)
I hard boiled some eggs this morning and made egg salad for lunch today. We'll have leftover lamb tonight. And support one of our favorite neighborhood restaurants by ordering takeout tomorrow.
Neither my office nor my husband's were prepared for us to work from home. So I am currently on paid furlough, and after a couple of days of extremely frustrating attempts to get his technology to work, his company is figuring out a Plan B to be put into place next week. My oncologist's office called me yesterday to tell me it was time to book my 2-year DEXA scan. I'm not sure whether the appointment will stay on the books, but I made it for early May, so we shall see.
Jazz shows we had tickets for in March-April-May have been cancelled. It seems fairly certain that the trip to NYC we have booked for mid-April will also have to be cancelled. But since there is no upside to my doing it now and it's impossible to tell when to reschedule it for at the moment, I'm going to wait a couple of weeks before making the call on that. As an inveterate planner, the uncertainty of the current situation is difficult, but I'm sure I'm not alone in that.
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Chi, if your gtill's igniter is one of those that (used to) repeatedly clicks as long as you held the button depressed...then there is a battery hidden somewhere.
Mine was like that and the AA battery was in the button itself.
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Thanks, Eric! When the weather gets better I'll look for a battery pack (or check the online user guide). It's a Broilmaster P400 natural-gas grill--about 15 yrs old, replacing one that we had for 17 yrs. We had it reconditioned last spring--new thermometer, butterfly burner, venturis, grates, lava bricks. Considering what a new one would have cost, it was a good investment. Sure, we could have bought a bigger shinier stainless steel one more cheaply, but those don't seem to last that long.
Anyway, couldn't get a good crisp char on it because about 3 min. in it began drizzling again. But at least I got some nice cross-hatch grill marks. (Didn't want to fire up the cast iron skillet on the stove and set off the smoke detector).
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Carole - I was sorry to read on another thread that your SIL has died and you all can't make the trip. Glad you got to say good bye on your last visit. I'm holding you & your DH in my thoughts.
Mommy - how old are your 2 kiddos? Are you having to home school? Or are they eating you out of house & home like Mimi's are. Eric - hooray for black out blinds. And catching up on your rest. Magari - sounds like construction workers are exempt from the lock down in SF? Weird. I too hate running out of things & haven't had a grocery store close by me in a long time - so I have plenty of food & supplies. And yes, all the shows & concerts I had tickets for have cancelled - most places closed until summer. Joyce - I too was REALLY glad to see you.
OK - so where is Lacey??? They've had so many respiratory issues earlier this year I worry about them.
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Carole I'm so sorry about the loss of your SIL.
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