So...whats for dinner?
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Herding cats was a favorite in my workplace, as well as a number of other acronyms used, which I believe stemmed from the military. Eric, you and any others with a military background may know these.
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...probably best not to articulate "the better ones". :-)
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eric - glad you and Sharon are on a road trip with California strawberries - sounds fun!
celia - I spent 28 years as a military spouse and for the last 10 years my husband has been a Dep Dir at Special Ops Command - many acronyms and military lingo are part and parcel of our daily conversation, lol! My son is a paramedic on an Army base, and my daughter worked for the Navy in their Marine Mammal Program - so they do it too! I use “herding cats” all the time, ha
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It was a "sort of road trip". I started my deployment in Oakland, and ended it in San Diego. Rather than have me fly, Sharon drove over to San Diego to get me. She drove over alone, spent the night and we drove home the next day.
It turned out, probably, to be a good choice. A lot of airline flights were being cancelled due to lack of demand and it was getting a bit "messy" with regard to flight schedules. The other plus to not flying was that after working for two weeks in a quarantine-isolation place and staying healthy, I didn't have to resign myself to sitting next to someone who was continuously coughing.
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Glad you're home, Eric. Happy scene: you and Sharon and DD eating fresh strawberries.
Last night's dinner was in the OK category. The "square meatballs" aka meatloaf cut into squares didn't measure up to round meatballs in a Rao's sauce over long pasta. DH made the romaine salad.
I called our favorite local restaurant hoping they were doing curbside takeout meals but no one answered and there was no info on the website. We seldom eat out but not being able to eat out is making us want to eat out with take out! How's that for a sentence?
I once had a whole collection of Bisquick recipes. May still have them but they were so calorie rich that I haven't made one in years. They were definitely tasty and were popular. Was that 80's?
Tonight's dinner will include zucchini in the veggie drawer.
We've had five straight days of record setting hot temperatures. 90 degrees in March? You must be having the same, Minus.
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Not sure. My mom gave me the recipe when I got married.
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eric - sounds like solid logic to me. DD's roommate is a flight attendant who lives here but is based in Detroit. She has to commute to Detroit to start her workday and is finding it challenging to get there, and she has spent copious hours in the holding pen at the airport waiting for a non-cancelled flight so she can actually work. Then it is a challenge to get home. So glad that DD did not take the job offered to her when she went through the interview process with Delta. She works from home anyway, so has not been particularly impacted. Yet. There is a video teleconference this afternoon - hoping they will be able to keep their jobs.
carole - Impossible Cheeseburger Pie! Yes, definitely the 80's! We have your same weather also - and I totally get that we always want what we can't have.
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I had the Bisquick recipe book too. I made quiche in the blender w/Bisquick - which made it's own crust after you poured it in the pie plate, poked whatever else you wanted onto the top & baked. It was during the "real men don't eat quiche" era, so I made sure my husband & grade school age son had that for dinner at least two or 3 times a month. (I'm hard headed or was determined)
Yup - we're in the 90's also. HOT!!! I too love the mental picture of Eric & family eating strawberries. And agree about wanting what we can't have.
I have to go out to pick up a large check at the the Civic Club PO box today. My bank is only open at the drive thru window but I can still deposit, so Monday I can pay the company who is re-plastering out neighborhood pool. I figured out how to place an on line order for pick up at Total Wine. They have tonic water, which the grocery stores did not, and a sale on a wonderful Carson Ridge Cab from Paso Robles. Sale for $9.99 but because I ordered 6 it's only $8.99. So I'll swing by there with my gloves and a "Buff" around my nose & mouth and see how pick up works.
Edited to say, I AM staying in place. This will be my first trip out except to the grocery store one time at 6:45am for a few things. It will be interesting to see by the cars & parking lots how many people think they are 'essential'.
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minus - the cab you like is from right near where I went to college. The school now has a viticulture major - which makes sense since it is an ag and tech school in a relatively small town surrounded by rolling hills, and it was interesting when I drove through the area last year how many acres are planted in grapes - did you notice that too?. Yay for the score on the price! My DH had to go to work yesterday and stopped at the grocery store near his office to get a couple of things our local branch was out of. He arrived before it opened, a police officer arrived right after him. By the time the doors were unlocked the parking lot was full, and all four cases of the toilet paper they unloaded as the store opened were gone in a flash - with the cop monitoring for crowd control. All that before he could even steer his cart down the aisle. We aren't trying to hoard - I will actually run out if I don't find some soon! I have not been out of the house in a week, and that trip was super short - snag a gallon of milk at the gas statin mini-mart for DD and hand off some paperwork through the car window. I had been home for a week before that. I have plenty of food - just no TP
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Yes, those Bisquick recipes were 80's hot items.
Eric, so glad that Sharon is a roady! Getting a flight out of anywhere these days sounds more than onerous. Your trip home and strawberry celebration dinner “sounded" delightful!
Carole, I enjoyed your sentence, was surprised to see it 😉, and can definitely relate! I'm glad your trusty HVAC guy visited you quickly given those temps!
Today, I'm making turkey meatballs made with oats instead of breadcrumbs, using a recipe that includes a self-made sauce they are cooked in. We'll see... I might resort to Raos if I get too busy starting to make face masks. Our local group is making them for our grocery store workers who were receptive to the idea...and anyone else who can use ones that are not N-95 quality. Seems like making masks is a popular activity during this self-distancing period.Our gov is doing an admirable job through this (what's looking to be a sustained) crisis....I feel for these people managing states now...and appreciate their hard work.
I only wish leaders would strike that singular message about “distancing for elders" since I can't believe that young'ens who vape are not also susceptible to the ravages of Covid-19. I kept thinking about that while watching the beach goers on Spring Break who might not be worrying about old folks, but might understand the risks for their partying peers. And now we are seeing cases of younger people succumbing to the virus. Curious why this message is not being shared given the popularity of vaping among youth. That's my PSA for the day! 🥴
Yesterday my Twitter and Facebook message accts were hacked. So annoying! Too many idle minds and itchy hands out there.
Our NJ grands keep connected with us daily on the computer now that they are out of school. And DS2 sends daily pix and videos of their little motor “machinette". She is not amused by her sudden “incarceration".Sending good wishes to all who are trying to work from home while “homeschooling" their “herd of cats". 😉
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We are having a “Clean Out the Fridge” night
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lacey - she’s getting so big! The pic looking out the window sums up what most of us are feeling.
Thinking of making a BBQ chicken pizza on flatbread crust
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Minus and Special, we lived in San Luis Obispo County and volunteered in the Paso Robles wine industry until we moved to be closer to grandchildren. Yes, the growth of vineyards and wineries there and in adjacent counties has been remarkable. We used to try to visit the newcomers as they opened but found we couldn't keep up!
Lacey, love the pics of your grandaughter!
MOmmy, we have diligently been cleaning out the fridge to the point that there isn't anything there for tonight! DH has requested pizza-- he makes the crusts in the bread machine and prebakes them, I do the toppings, a good division of labor.
Eric, glad you are home safe and sound. When we lived in California we were basically around the corner from a strawberry field and regularly got picked-ripe berries so I could practically taste your berry treat. Having that access basically spoiled me for what is available in the supermarket here.
Carole, yes eating out sounds even better now that it is forbidden! We got "to go" from one of our favorite places once this week. I think we will continue to do so as long as we are under orders to stay at home (going to a restaurant to pick up food to take home is still allowed). At least one of our favs offered delivery as part of their regular business from when they first opened so that should work, too.
This is all certainly a measure of our adaptability, isn't it.
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beaver - yay for a fellow SLO person! I was class of ‘79 at Cal Polyand we used to go to Edna and get wine from their barrels - you had to bring your own container! Things have come a long way!
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Lacey - Love the photo of your beautiful grand with the beautiful Scottie. My dad had a Scottie as a young boy & we had 2 different Scotties while Mom & Dad were still alive.
SpecialK - I am retired from the area airport (CVG). We had a lot of vets from one branch of the military another, especially in our Police & Fire Depts. Gotta love those acronyms!
Eric - Jealous of your strawberries! Enjoy, as you certainly deserve a break from being "on duty". For many years, we had a strawberry field in my parents' back yard. What a great summer dessert!
I also remember those Bisquick crustless quiches. "Quiche" was my dorm nickname, due to 1st (real) name Lorraine & its popularity on the dining hall menu.
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Long ago (like 1974) the World Congress of Genetics was held at UC Berkeley. We'd driven down from UW Seattle, and the highlight of the two weeks (and a welcome respite from the scientific sessions, which as a former virus genetics tech I also attended) was an excursion to UC Davis to observe all their ag genetics programs--including viticulture, which one of Bob's former UW grad school lab partners (who decided to put his recombinant yeast DNA skills to better use, for a discipline--oenology--he loved).
Eric, so glad you & Sharon made it back safe, sound, and (mmmmm) strawberried. "Three-hour tour?" Google "Stairway to Gilligan's Island." You're welcome.
It's getting to be really, really strange to have Bob home in plenty of time for dinner every night (usually heads for home by 4:30 now). Last night none of the Greek restaurants on Halsted St. (Greektown) en route home from Union Health were open yet for takeout, so he had me order from Buffalo Wild Wings. (We have a Wing Stop around the corner, but their wings are scrawny. It took >2 hrs. for our order to be delivered--the drivers have to use the same Waze-based app mandated by the rideshare companies, which hiccups constantly. Poor guy was taken nearly 5 mi. out of the way. Wings were cold (nuked 'em), Bob's onion rings soggy (hooray for the AirFry setting on our SmartOven), but we were grateful to get 'em.
Made avocado toast with an olive-oil-fried egg for brunch. Cellars, our fave neighborhood restaurant, is open for takeout/delivery only weekend evenings now (saving $ on overhead, espec. utilities). Tonight, ordered crab cakes (3 of them this time, so I had a whole one; yeah, kinda carby but yummy, w/remoulade over mesclun); beet/chêvre salad (forgot the walnuts, but I added some from the pantry); and bourbon-glazed grilled salmon with julienne veg. and sauteed green beans (put half away for tomorrow night). Bob had linguine with shrimp & broccoli in a black pepper-saffron cream sauce. (He also put half his away).
Too stormy tomorrow night to grill, so it'll be leftovers again, supplemented with salad.
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Cal Ploy SLO was on my "short list" of engineering schools. The *only* reason I didn't attend there was that the three different times I went there to look around, my allergies were horrible. I went three times because I was hoping that it was just a short seasonal thing, but apparently that wasn't the case. I was in the college class of 1983.
I agree about the grand daughter looking out at the "big huge" outside. :-)
I'm just hanging out at the house scanning film negatives.
There are TLAs (three letter acronyms) and ETLAs. ETLAs are TLAs that have been enhanced by the addition of a 4th letter.
Oh, dinner...a chickpea salad and I have sourdough that is rising in the "only the lamp is on" warm oven. It should be ready to bake in about an hour and even with DD home from college, it should last us a week. I think there's enough flour for five more weeks of bread. Hopefully things will settle down a bit by then. Beans, rice, flour, sugar and salt are as scarce as toilet paper and hand sanitizer.
The governor activated the national guard to help truck supplies to stores and to help stock the shelves. Sharon has a class B commercial driver license and she mentioned checking to see if she could use that to "plug into the community" and help out. I'd do the same as I have one too, but I have a feeling about the time I get going on that, I'll be called out again. I wish it weren't so...like I've said before, with that job, it's nice to not be needed.
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chisandy - I listened to Stairway to Gilligan’s Island, lost it when the Minnow part cam, hilarious!
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Ahh herding cats. Memories! I worked for EDS (Electronic Data Systems) who did the award-winning superbowl commercial of the same name. (Google it it's good). I thought the idea was original to EDS but there were so many Military at the company we probably just 'owned' the idea or thought we did. 🤔
Mommy love the Bisquick recipes. Will try one soon. Thanks for sharing!
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I liked that. Thanks Chi. :-)
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We have sweet memories of SLO and visiting some wineries in Paso Robles on our way from LA to Pebble Beach with my brother and wife several years ago. I loved your Alma Mater, Special. Such a great college town. Our niece also graduated from CalPoly a few years ago. I would probably be cursed with similar seasonal allergies there as you, Eric, so staying for more than an afternoon would have lost its allure. Glad I can keep my allergy free memories of it.
Our tree pollen is coming on with gusto right now, so I might decide to use one of the masks I make during my walks. Have wanted to in past springs, but they were a really discrepant item to wear here. Now, not so odd, so a good time to start.
Tonight DH grilled some steaks he had picked up at Wegman's (same as we had several weeks ago...clearly we are not avoiding mammals these days!). This time I didn’t marinate them...bad idea. They need a nice marinade. Sides were grilled lemon pepper asparagus, sweet potatoes, and of course salad. Wine was a Zinfandel from Pasa Robles!
Beaver, you are right, adaptability is key in this situation. It is a true test for many, and so interesting to see how we manage to establish new routines that assure safety for all as best we can. -
Let's hear it for Paso Robles wine. Grapes were first planted in Paso Robles in 1797.
Another Cabernet I've been enjoying from there is Mina Mesa. I think it's a Total Wine direct line so not sure it's available every where, but also under $10.00 a bottle.
For you Zinfandel lovers, try 1000 Stories from Mendocino County. I ordered a glass at a restaurant one time because I thought the name was enchanting. It's a delicious 'bourbon barrel aged' Zinfandel that's still under $15.00 a bottle most places.
Napped in my chair this evening. I was trying to stay awake reading the morning paper, but failed. Also So now of course I'm wide awake at 1am. Also failed at making or eating dinner. Maybe I'll soldier on and loose a pound w/o exercise.
Following the drink theme, I think I'll pour a glass of Amarula. It's a great sipping treat. The consistency is like Bailey's Irish Cream but it's made with the Marula Fruit from Africa. Yup, that one that elephants travel miles to eat when the trees bear fruit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarula
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Interesting conversation about the California wines. We drank a New Zealand sauvignon blanc in New Zealand called Oyster Bay and really like it. I saw it at the local Piggly Wiggly (large wine selection in a small store) on sale for $9.99 and bought a couple of bottles. In the interest of not throwing away bottles to fill a landfill, we have been buying box wine. We like Black Box cabernet. No, we're not gourmands. I like the Barefoot chardonnay, which comes in box and bottles. The box does take up room in the refrigerator.
Last night was beef fillets cooked on the outdoor grill. The problem with filet mignon is finding two the same size. We had a large one and a smaller one. We shared the large one and the smaller was left over. Side was a zucchini skillet dish. Medallions of zucchini steamed in Rotel tomatoes until tender. Grated "Mexican Cheese Blend" from a bag on top.
No clue about tonight. Maybe boneless chicken thighs. The salad will be diced apple and celery and walnuts with a mayo dressing. It's definitely cold salad weather here.
I know there was a run on dry beans and rice at our supermarkets. I don't know whether the flour was scooped up. I have bags of little used flour in the extra refrigerator.
Lacey, I enjoy seeing pictures of your little granddaughter. I can see the energy in the pictures.
Impossible pies! That's what those Bisquick recipes were called. I should have known SpecialK would recall the name!
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Carole - I like the Oyster Bay sauvignon blanc when I'm drinking white. I drank the Bota Box Old Vine Zinfandel for awhile. It was good, but oops, it was way to easy for me to just push the button and have 'just a little more', so I quit buying boxes.
Last night was an "Oscar Meyer Wiener". Tonight will be salad. I've never added baby boiled potatoes to greens, but I have both & found a couple of recipes so I think I'll try. One was for mixed salad greens, green beans & potatoes. Since I have fresh asparagus already steamed, I'll sub that for the beans. Another had eggs, so I think I'll boil a couple of those for my protein. A third had cucumber, so maybe I'll toss in some of that too. I found another recipe with Spinach & I snagged a bag of that on my Tuesday run, so I'll try later in the week.
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There are plenty of dried pinto beans at the supermarket, but the smallest container of beans that one could buy is 50 pounds. One man had 5 bags in a cart. I hope he was buying for his entire neighborhood. If it was just for him, then if he doesn't self quarantine, he most likely will be shunned.
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And shunned at more than 6 feet!
Did a grocery run and found very few of the things on my list-- why in the world would they be out of color catchers for laundry?
Dinner was chicken breasts (from the freezer and cooked on the stove), fresh broccoli, air fryer golden potatoes, tossed salad with vinegar and oil dressing. Running low on oil from our local olive oil shop, not sure if they are open or not but figure we can make do if they are not.
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Beaver - really? Color Catchers? Maybe somebody thought they would kill virus??
Eric - love the bean story. I still have 3 bags of the Anasazi beans I ordered at Christmas.
Well, the gym has been closed two full weeks now. Although I've been working in the yard - which does involve some heavy digging & hauling this time of year - it's not a "program". I do better with organized exercise. This morning I started walking. It actually got down to 60 degrees last night so 3 miles at a brisk clip wasn't too hot. My plan is to do this every day, as well as figure out a routine for my weights & stretches. Is a plan less constricting than a goal? Oh well, I'll try.
The salad last night was delicious and HUGE. When I shopped two weeks ago the only petite potatoes they had were purple. I was surprised to see the insides are also purple since I'd never purchased them before. Last night I was dismayed to see the cold, boiled potatoes in the fridge had stained the inside of a white bowl that was my Grandmas. Eeek.
I have a Russet that is 'crying' so tonight will be baked potato. Maybe with some spinach on the side.
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minus - are you a TV watcher? What we do, if watching TV, is do an exercise for the duration of the commercials. Using 5, 10, or 25 lb dumbbells, or sit-ups, push-ups, jump rope, wall sit, etc. Have you tried a baking soda paste on the stained bowl?
Last night was turkey meatballs in marinara over penne, with a butter lettuce salad with shredded carrot, little croutons, and bottled Vidalia onion dressing. For some reason I am craving ice cream - which I rarely eat - but so far am successfully resisting. Probably because we don’t have any. There is a little place that has a drive thru and serves soft serve that is wicked good - DH sometimes takes the golf cart, lol!
Here is a photo from yesterday for a smile. It was our dog’s 13th birthday. DD brought him some pup cakes from Sprinkles. We were singing happy birthday to him and he was signing along. So cute
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Minus - Sending you a PM about exercise.
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Special - love the dog B-day party. I didn't think of baking soda for the stain, but got it off the china with a bit of Clorox. No, I'm not a TV watcher. I was thinking I could do reps with one arm while I'm reading and switch after "x" pages. Maybe I'll start taking the weights on my walks. Alternatively I might pick CDs I like but rarely play anymore - that would be a two-fer.
Celia - Looking forward to the Silver Sneaker's tips.
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