So...whats for dinner?

Cherry-sw

Hi ladies🙂 I know I was gone for such a long time and I am sorry, it just happened.. rads were exhausting, marriage crumbling, meanwhile life just was falling upon me with kids, a new puppy.. Ok, there are no excuses.. but here I am and I missed you😊 Porcini mushroom tacos in cabbage leaves😊

ChiSandy

Welcome back, Cherry-sw! How are things in Switzerland?

Cherry-sw

Hi ChiSandy! I live in Sweden😁 But Switzerland is doing well too, company I work for has a HQ there, I travel there sometimes, but not now of course. And you know, our FB group, former Starting chemo August 2017, had a reunion last year, in Chicago😄 We stayed at Palmer House. It was amazing, great food, great beer, strong cocktails... We went to Manny’s.. Loved it!

ChiSandy

My bad, Cherry--I had you mixed up with another BCO sister who lives in Zurich. Glad you loved Manny's! I miss it, but I would have to drive all the way down to the S. Loop (where parking is nearly nonexistent) to pick up food from there, as it doesn't deliver all the way up here to the far N. Side.

ChiSandy

Pot luck tonight (some here say "jump-ups"): defrosted some Costco BBQ pulled pork from the freezer (with a not-bad sugar-free BBQ sauce), sauteed green beans, leftover roast potato wedges from Sun. brunch (for Bob), and tomato-basil salad over the last of the baby arugula.

Reader425

Hi all dinner tonight was simple. Baked crab cakes, baked potato for me and baked clam strips for DH, leftover coleslaw, and a large green salad with veggies. Ive been adding sea salt pecans to my salads to up my protein and healthy nut intake.

Nice to meet you Cherry!

Beaverntx

Cherry, yummy looking picture.

Dinner was air fryer cooked fish and chips with the last of the waldorf salad from a couple of nights ago.

SpecialK

Cherry - hey! Welcome back!

Cherry-sw

ChiSandy, Manny’s had most amazing baked beans I ever tasted. Zürich is very nice, our HQ is situation 40 min by train from it

Cherry-sw

Reader425, nice to meet you too, have to learn how to make crabcakes

Cherry-sw

Hi SpecialK❤️ I am stupid happy that I finally decided to post here

carolehalston

Cherry, nice food picture.

Crab cakes are on the menu for tonight. I bought a lb. of lump crab meat packed in Alabama at Rouse's supermarket on Tuesday. A lb. makes too many for one meal but the cooked crab cakes freeze well.

I plan to make a trip to Sam's Club today and will try the phone app that allows you to scan items and skip check out.

SpecialK

carole - one of my good friends here in Tampa uses the phone app at Sam's, was doing that long before the current situation - she loves it but has found that some locations (we have multiple here) handle it better than others. The unfortunate thing is that you don't know that it hasn't worked until you get to the checkout. Hoping for good scan karma for you!

MinusTwo

LOL - "scan karma". Yup - welcome back Cherry.

Yesterday was a hot dog for breakfast and a bowl of cottage & canned peaches for dunch. Then I had 3 (three) glass of Apothic Dark wine while on the phone with several people around the cocktail hour. Needless to say I needed something to absorb the alcohol. Jump-ups - bowl of penne pasta with a bit of left over red sauce, mushrooms and the last of the cooked turkey cut in small cubes. I meant to put cheese on top but I forgot. Warm and soft and comforting.

ChiSandy

Just heard from my primary care doc's office and the news isn't good: he is, in the words of his staff, "gravely ill" with COVID19 and in the ICU (they didn't say whether he is intubated); his PA tested negative at the time he fell ill, but now she's feeling sick (has already had both types of flu) and is being re-tested today (and she has little kids at home). Pray for them both.

SpecialK

minus - I have been having cottage cheese with peaches since I have been staying at home - its throwback for me. My mom also often made cottage cheese "salads" with dinner with sliced tomatoes, Catalina or French dressing, and sliced green onion.

chisandy - oh no! Will certainly send prayers, it is so scary, right? Will hope for the best for both.

Togethertolearn

Tonight was oven hamburgers yum. No sides of course.

ChiSandy

Ordering out tonight: pumpkin soup, beet/goat cheese salad, meatloaf with spuds & green beans for Bob, bourbon-glazed grilled salmon & sweet potato slices with julienne veg. for me.

Reader425

Sandy 🙏 for your PCP and PA. So scary and sad. Our state is reopening but our county is staying closed due to not enough decline yet.

Dinner tonight was crockpot chicken and rice. I needed easy as I had a lot to do. Chicken, mushroom soup, mushrooms, 1/2 cup of rice sprinkled with French onion soup mix. I made steamed carrots to go with it. Actually quite tasty.

Cherry-sw

Hi Carol and Minus, feels great to be back. Yesterday dinner wes leftovers: Russian cold soup and Persian kebab with rice. I have been planting flowers, hot peppers and tomaters for my balconies and the family got to fend for themselves. Today we will barbecue, ribs, shish kebab of pork😂, sausages and markantes chicken breasts. Sides will be a varit sallad, grilled tomatoes and zucchinis.

carolehalston

The Sam's Club Scan and Go app worked great until I got to the exit door and was told apologetically that I would have to go to checkout because there was a problem with using the app for liquor. Normally it was ok but there was a glitch. I didn't make a fuss. Just turned around and went back to a check out person, who said buying liquor with the app should have been ok. She acted a little annoyed. Oh, well.

I made the crab cakes and had them in the refrigerator, ready to cook when dh reminded me that he had signed up for a wood turning demonstration on the computer from 6 to 9. So we had hot dogs again. I brought his plate to him in the office. It was raining buckets and the tv reception was lapsed so I played games on my IPhone.

Tonight will be the crab cakes and either asparagus or yellow squash.

It rained as much as 11 inches in some places. The morning news was full of pictures of flooding. A distraction from Covid-19.

ChiSandy

It stormed so hard here overnight that the power line from the basement to the garage shorted out--for the first time since my landscaper dug the trench for the replacement back last fall before it got too cold & snowy to work on it. The new conduit piping has been lying on my deck all winter & spring. The electrician swears he'll be here Tues. through Sat. It's a good thing the crew installing our new shared privacy fence was here this morning re-hanging my back gate, so one of them could lift & hold the garage door open for Bob to exit. Obviously, I'm not going anywhere except on foot until the line dries out when the GFCI no longer kicks in, and the opener will work again. Meanwhile, he'll park on the street for the time being. (His car is 9 yrs old).

Oh, and the thunder scared Happy so much he forgot to puke.

carolehalston

The crab cakes were especially good last night. DH made a nice remoulade sauce. The side was yellow squash, steamed and browned in butter.

No inkling on tonight's dinner.

M0mmyof3

leftovers tonight and thinking maybe making chili tomorrow

auntienance

Thanks for the feedback on the garlic press. I have the Kuhn Rikon, which I like for the ease of cleaning, and the Joseph Joseph that I like because of the larger pieces of garlic left. They both require a certain amount of strength that tax my arthritic hands and wrist and they both smash the clove a bit. I've used both the Trader Joes frozen cubes and the jarred stuff. The TJs is a bit too mild and the jarred garlic a bit too harsh but they are certainly handy to have around. Sandy - your method of smash and mince is probably the best. I despise mincing garlic but I use a lot of it so always looking for a shortcut.

Special - I'm glad for you DH's test result although I keep thinking there might be some relief in knowing it was behind you, at least for a while. Carole, I'm hoping if and when you can get tested you find that you're done and gone with it. Sandy, hope your doc and PA weathers this.

We've had a string of cloudy rainy days that are gloomy. I haven't been able to plant the four tomato plants that are sitting in a trug on my front porch because it was too cold (unheard of to have our heat on in mid May) and now too wet. A couple of days ago, a rabbit boldly came onto the porch and ate the tops off half of the plants. Fortunately, he left some leaves so I think they'll do ok but will definitely require caging. I've never planted so late. What a year.

There have been dinners but they have been anything but inspiring. DH wants pork burgers for dinner. I'm craving Chinese. Who knows where this will lead.

I have crab cake envy.

MinusTwo

Nance - Thanks - you enriched my brain this afternoon. I knew I'd heard the word 'trug', and the meaning was clear from your sentence, but I couldn't rest until I looked it up. What fun. I won't tell if any one else wants to guess before checking Wiki.

I too have crab cake envy. Last night I cooked two personal frozen pizzas from Costco. Actually, I enhanced them with more red sauce, fresh sauteed mushrooms & black olives. They weren't bad but I won't buy them again because it was a box of 12. That takes up too much room in the freezer for the value & I'd already given away all but four.

My PCP recommended eating some protein immediately after walking (or exercising) to see if that would help with my calves aching at night. Eggs boiled, peeled & waiting in the fridge now. She also prescribed some NSAID gel, but I don't think I want to risk the possible side effects for muscle aches. Instead I'll try Claritin for a week. Hey, it worked for bone aches after chemo & Neulasta shots - why not? And if it doesn't work, well nothing lost.

So a hard boiled egg for breakfast. The last hot dog in the fridge for lunch. (WHY do they STILL package dogs & dog buns in quantities that don't match???) Dinner will be a large salad.

Carole - do I remember correctly that you're considering heading north on June 1st? Will the trip require two nights on the road or just one? I think you're smart to buy all your food staples before you leave this year.

SpecialK

minus - have you considered magnesium in spray form for your legs? Here is a link. I like that it is a more direct application rather than a systemic approach. I have some friends who use it and really like it.

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&channel=iphone_bm&source=hp&ei=l2fAXqTLD-m1ggfZrJqIDA&q=magnesium+spray&oq=magnesium+spr&gs_lcp=ChFtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1ocBABGAAyAggAMgIIADICCAAyAggAMgIIADICCAAyAggAMgIIADoFCCkQxAI6AggpOgUIKRCgAToFCCkQkwI6BQgpEKsCOgYIKRAWEB46BQgAEIMBOgQIKRAKOgUILhCDAToCCC5QsQ5Ymi5gxEJoAHAAeACAAd4BiAHYCZIBBjEwLjIuMZgBAKABAbABDw&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-hp

I also read an article about muscle stress and the helpfulness of casein protein right before bed. The food specifically mentioned is cottage cheese, which you like, right? Easy and worth a try

ChiSandy

I have magnesium spray (TheraWorx) for when I get those tibial muscle spasms (I can even see the muscles twitching over the hardware) I've had ever since that ORIF surgery I had after a car smashed my R lower leg back in late '96. I take 500mg of Mg every night too. The nozzle on the spray bottle does tend to clog--and it's hard to spray holding it upright with one hand and aiming it. I bought a foam CVS version, but I hate the perfumey scent. Claritin works for bone pain, but I'm not sure it will do anything for muscle aches or cramps. Have you tried ice massage? Take a paper bathroom cup, fill it with water, & then freeze it. Then, when you need it, massage it over the sore muscle--peeling back the paper as the ice melts. Stop after 20 min. (or you get relief, whichever comes first). It was a Godsend after long, 4-set gigs back in the day, when our bandmembers' arms were sore and weak.

Voltaren gel is now OTC here in the U.S. (used to be Rx-only, and I would smuggle some in from my travels abroad). Unless you slather it on frequently, it should not be absorbed systemically--and even then, not reach the GI tract, which is where oral NSAIDs can cause irritation. I find, though, that menthol roll-ons and arnica gel are just as effective for sore & achy muscles. (And back in the day when I could climb into & out of the tub, a warm juniper-oil bath worked wonders after a vigorous workout. Kneips is the brand I used).

Today, I was about to pop a faux-pizza Margherita (low-carb toast, tomato, basil, mushroom, fresh mozzarella) into the broiler when Bob called and said not to eat breakfast, because he was bringing home Japanese food after an early session interpreting stress tests. So for my brunch I had a half-portion of a large sashimi platter, plus half a bowl each of white & red miso soups. He had part of the hibachi surf & turf with veg., plus one of those iceberg-lettuce (meh) salads that Japanese restaurants serve with miso dressing. We'll split the leftovers for dinner.

auntienance

TheraWorx doesn’t work for me, which I bought for the severe Charlie horse cramps I often get in the middle of the night. What’s worked best for me is stretching my legs before bed and when I do get a cramp, very warm compresses. I get almost immediate relief from the compress. This is a pain (literally) to do in the middle of the night.

Chinese carry out won the dinner lottery

eric95us

Today, at the store, was a shelf full of toilet paper. On the packaging was the claim that it was "100% Recycled". I started laughing at one possible implication of that statement. Am I normal, insane or demented? I can't decide. :-)