So...whats for dinner?
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Hello:) Believe me or not I have already written it once but the my computer decided to reboot, and here I am writing it again.
Last night I made Ukrainian stuffed peppers:) Just saw those white bell peppers in the store, these have more thin flesh and are more triangel-sheped than bell-shaped, and ihave their own aroma, different from those bell peppers we usually see in the stores. I stuffed those with ground chicken, cooked sushi rice and fried porcini that I soaked in water for an hour and then fried in oil and added to the stuffing. Last fall was a great year for mushrooms, me and the pup..
the pup:) needs an introduction)) he is a red Welsh Corgi Pembroke, quite big-boned and stocky, 18 kg, wtf, named Mr.Darcy, Sävholms Simonini His Lordship and Grace, but goes under Darcy or cute little fucker, because he fucks things up every now and then... So, us two went foraging every weekend and now I have a stock of dried mushrooms, different sorts. Keep your jokes to yourself)) I know mushrooms, it is Russian national sport)) Later I let the peppers simmer in a tomato sauce and then ate it with sour creme.. I know, I am still fat, sigh. Anyhow, the smell was killing and after a couple of glasses of Australian riesling I ate three peppers. I know, please)) Later I fried some patties of excessive stuffing and tried to serve it in hamburger to my eldest. She did ate it but later she ust looked it me and said, this is not my thing. Got you, hunn.Today I made real hamburgers, both broiled and regular, organic beef mixed with lots of minced onions, caramelized red onions with brown sugar fried in truffel butter.. Yes, it was a good year even for truffels and I went to the island of Gotland whereb they have a lot of black truffels and you can join the group where you can watch a lagotto romagnolo seek and find truffels. An experience I can say, and my gay friend lives on the island, I am so grateful))
My eldest little honey just scoped the patties, onions.. assembled her burger and ... and went on with her gaming.
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tonight was chicken and rice casserole
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Cherry, LOL! I love Corgis (though I've never had a dog), and I sometimes refer to my little black princess kitty Heidi as the "Corgi cat" because of her short little Ragdoll legs. You were able to get truffles? Ooooh, I'm so envious! They are insanely expensive here, and you have to use them up w/in a few days. I just look for truffle oils & salts that have actual truffles, not "essence." I buy a tiny one from Eataly (when they're on special) once a year for a holiday dinner. Shaved truffles make soft-scrambled eggs a luxury meal! Couple of years ago, I tried to order one from Tennessee Truffles, which supplies most gourmet restaurants east of the Rockies; but then the owner e-mailed me back that a blight had hit all his truffle oaks; and that it would take years for the roots to be hospitable to truffle growth.
Celia, that is just TOO funny!
Made guac this morning so I could have avocado toast (egg-topped) for brunch. Dinner tonight will be scampi and pan-roasted asparagus with cherry tomatoes & black olives. Smoked whitefish & trout as an appetizer (or adjunct to the scampi). Bob went to Calumet Fisheries, but they were out of sturgeon & sable.
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This evening, I bring some sad news for those who knew “Susan", amember of this dinner thread for quite a few years, sharing her vast knowledge of food, cooking and baking.
Posting on her mother's Facebook page, Susan's adult daughter shared that she passed away peacefully this past weekend from complications related to her cancer, which she'd amazingly managed for the past 15 years. An accomplished professional musician, Susan was also a computer consultant and in recent years ran an AirB&B where she wowed their many international guests with her culinary magic. From the time breast cancer entered Susan's life she provided support to many fellow survivors as they navigated their treatment paths. In their condolence messages to her daughter and husband, many of these women spoke about the importance of Susan's generous support to them.
Susan spent the last four years of her life lovingly nurturing her adorable granddaughter, delighting in sharing her love of music and food and much else with her. Susan's only end of life regret was that she would not be able to see her grow up.
I will certainly remember Susan for her many wonderful contributions to our dinner thread, as well as getting to know her personally over lunches and dinners. One of those dinners was in Boston, with Minus, who, with her friend, Pat, was passing through town. I also met Susan's sweet granddaughter seeing the delightful relationship they enjoyed. She exhibited so much courage and strength and never let her long battle with cancer slow her down. She leaves textured memories in many circles.On a lighter note, many years ago, I learned from an older relative that using a bar of soap might reduce some awful leg cramps I was experiencing. Well, it did.....and sometimes now, I come across that little bar of soap in my night table and smile. No idea at all why this worked, but it did when I needed it for basic leg cramps.
Tonight we had “jump ups“, consisting of leftover cod and veggies in Rao's Puttanesca sauce over orzo. Salad on the side, of course!
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Lacey, how sad
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Oh Pat, this makes me so sad. Susan was such an inspiration in so many ways. Hope she’s cooking up a storm with Apple and Michelle. Thanks for sharing
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I remember Susan.... :-(
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Pat, so sad Susan was taken from us (and her family) too soon. May her memory be for a blessing--as her life was to so many.
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Sad news about Susan. Thanks for sharing.
Last night was leftovers and salad. Tonight will be bone in skin on chicken thighs, probably roasted in the outdoor grill/oven.
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Very sad news about Susan. I am so glad she was able to see her daughter marry and be in the renovated home they worked on, and be a wonderful grandmother to such a special little one - I could feel their love through the photos she posted. My heart breaks for those she left behind and how they will make their way without her. I too hope she is baking bread for everyone in heaven and sharing a cocktail with those from our thread who were surely there to welcome her.
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Yes, I'll continue to miss Susan. I may be wrong, but I think Eric is the only one who bakes bread regularly??? Like my Mother - Susan baked every day - bread, cinnamon rolls, you name it. I'm so glad I was able to meet her during my Boston trip.
And am glad for the rest of you from this thread that I have met in my travels.
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Minus, I promise we will meet the next time I’m in Missouri city
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I try to bake bread as often as I can.
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I have missed Susan's posts. :-(
I've been baking sourdough bread loaves once or twice a week for the past few years. Just before the coronavirus panic buying started, I had purchased a 20 pound bag of flour because I wanted the cloth flour sack. That flour lasted about five weeks. About the time I started to "I need to find some more flour", it was again on the shelves in the store.
Yeast is still hard to find, but I rarely use it. I have a jar in the freezer and itis likely to last me for several years. About the only time I use commercial yeast is when I forgot to start dinner rolls early enough in the day.
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Goingto be pretty warm today here so I am planning an easy dinner. Hubby's birthday is Sunday and he's been craving tacos, so I picked up the makings last night. So he's getting tacos on his birthday for dinner
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Susan even made her own crackers. That made a deep impression on me. She paid attention to every little detail of a holiday meal.
Dinner last night was roasted chicken thighs and leftover speckled butter beans and brown rice. Easy and satisfying.
Tonight will probably be catfish out of the freezer.
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Oh I'd forgotten about the crackers. Thanks for the reminder Carole. I usually think about the fresh breakfast rolls & breads that Susan served to her AirBnb guests every single morning.
And thanks Nance for the reminders about Michelle. Thinking of her in her bunny suit. And I see Apple playing the piano. And Debbie in Oregon. And so many more good women.
We have 1246 pages on this thread now. I would love to go back to page one and read them all for the memories. I think someone here still sees Laurie on Facebook. Please let her know what a wonderful thing she did starting this thread.
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I remember drooling over Susan's pics of her breakfast sweet rolls; and am indebted to her for her Boston restaurant recommendations.
Dinner tonight was leftovers from last night's insalata Caprese with pesto over field greens, roast chicken/peas/mashed sweet potatoes for me and shrimp & broccoli pasta in black pepper vodka cream sauce for Bob. Dessert was a Fat Snax keto double-chocolate chip cookie (2 gm. net carbs), far better than it needed to be.
I generally don't eat regular bread--there's a bakery here (Today's Temptation at Jewel & Mariano's/ZBest Kosher at Whole Foods) that does a whole grain bread (wheat, millet, rye, oats) which is 2 gm. net per slice. When I am halfway to 2/3 through a loaf (or the weather starts getting humid and it might get moldy due to lack of preservatives), I stick it in the freezer against the day when I can't find a fresh loaf on the shelves. When I defrost a frozen slice I have to toast it, but that doesn't bother me (although a tuna sandwich is better on non-toasted bread). I do miss good sourdough (especially pain au levain and the Poilane flown in twice a week from Paris I used to buy from Treasure Island before the chain went under). But I have gotten used to eating this way without feeling deprived (though I get nostalgic watching cooking shows or reading menus full of stuff I no longer eat).
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oh no. How sad. Susan was very active when I first found this thread, and Ive been thinking about her this week. Im glad she got to enjoy her DGrandaughter too. I loved her B&B stories too. Hugs for all of her family nd friends. Rest in Peace Susan.
Supper tonight was a Wisconsin Fish Fry. Yum.
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Dinner last night was a Louisiana fish fry. In my kitchen. This meal will be our last catfish for months. The side was fresh-made potato salad. DH commented on how delicious the fish was. I had three good-sized fillets and cut them diagonally into strips. He made his tartar sauce and I had my supply of lemon wedges.
I inventoried my meat supply yesterday and concluded that I probably won't use everything up by the time we depart on June 1. This year I may leave the house refrigerator on since the generator should kick on during any power outage.
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How sweet to read so many memories from Susan’s dinner thread posts. I’d forgotten about her making her own crackers, too. But I do always remember her descriptions of her last trip to Europe, and especially her stay in Barcelona where she enjoyed morning coffee on their balcony overlooking the entrance to the town shopping area. And such lovely memories of Apple and Michelle! They were both such special ladies...and, or course, Debbie! Remembering all of their amazing strength and creativity!
Minus, you mentioned Laurie, who is a very busy mom of her active, growing boys, and during Covid she started a dinner thread on Facebook. Fun to see what the young moms (and a dad or two) are serving. Lots of dinner pictures are posted...nice for inspiration! I laughed last night when I started to eat and DH said....“WAIT! You forgot to take a picture!“. Ha Ha! That dinner was fajita marinated grilled chicken breasts, with sweet potatoes and salad.
This morning, DS2 Facetimed with us as the little one was particularly engaging, and he figured she would entertain us. It was a nice way to start the day, but it’s still odd and sad that our “local” grandchild Is now a toddler walking everywhere, when just a few months ago, here, DH taught her to stand up! And we haven’t had her here since! Who knows when we will be able to care for her again...:(.
I was distressed to learn from DS2 that when they take walks along their waterfront, it is crowded with people not social distancing, and not wearing masks. WTF!!! I really worry about how people will “safely manage” all the returns to work, stores, restaurants, recreation, etc. Clearly, It seems to me, the vaccine is our only hope.
I did break my own rigid quarantine (also due to the very high pollen issue) this week to go to a closed fabric shop whose manager let me in at a quiet time to select mask fabric. I went crazy with all the bright fabrics, and bought a lot, including some lovely batiks. Good thing I found all those since I am spending the next few days making masks for tons of kids in a struggling local town, where they cannot get their free lunch meals unless they show up wearing a mask, since that is a state rule now. Later this week, I’ll drive all the masks completed by our group to the town person (the UU minister) who sponsors the mask give away.Today is our lake assoc meeting.....sadly on Zoom. I can’t think of a year that we missed our “Season opening“ meeting in the 34 years we’ve been there. Things change......
Tonight we will have leftover grilled chicken with sides of brussels sprouts and salad. Fast albeit uninteresting. Loving anything fast these days!
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Bob is at the hotel overnight, so I finished off the last of the leftover peas & mashed sweet potatoes, and made a burrito out of a low-carb tortilla, lettuce and smoked trout (dressed with Legal Sea Foods lemon-dill aioli). He says he didn't see any diagnosed COVID patients today. Tomorrow, though, Little Co. of Mary will be his penultimate stop, with Holy Cross (a pit--the order of nuns that ran it is dying out and Mt. Sinai, which bought it, is running it into the ground and not doing all that well itself) his last stop, so he won't be able to shower before he comes home. (AFAIK--and he knows--there are no showers there for doctors; and going back to Little Co. to shower is way too far out of the way). He forgot to bring his hospital shoes, so I will have to put another pair by the back door so he can dash upstairs and shower & change.
My little basil plants (set 2.0) had grown enough on the windowsill that I brought them outside (but didn't re-pot). Alas, they're dying. Before I brought them outside, the leaves had started to get grayish speckles. I wonder if there's a local blight, because I ordered basil from three different grocery stores, and all of them were out.
Electrician was able to run 1/3 of the new conduit before the clouds & thunder started rolling in. Gonna be dry most of tomorrow so he'll be back around noon. The storms today didn't knock out the garage power (I deliberately left the light on before locking the side door so I could tell). Hopefully, the new line can be connected before any more torrential rains.
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I have ventured out a few times over the last several days into places to run a couple of necessary errands, which were not at all crowded, and was also surprised how many unmasked people I saw. They are generally younger people, but I also saw a few my age or older, and they were mostly coming and going as the places I went had mask requirements. It was kind of surprising. I still have not been to the grocery store, and don't plan to go - DH seems to be enjoying doing the shopping. It had been so long since I had been out to a place of business that I was slightly giddy but also slightly nervous, it was an interesting combination of feelings.
Last night was leftovers for DH and a salad for me. The previous night I had made thin sliced pork chops, the breakfast style ones, by dredging them in cornstarch and then marinating in soy sauce, sesame oil and garlic for an hour. Pan fried in olive oil and served with rice and steamed carrots. I don't cook white rice very often but had the tail end of a bag, so used that. I always, always make a starchy mess on the stove with a boil over, so I decided to get a rice cooker. Funny story, for Christmas in 1999 I got my husband a rice cooker. He is a huge rice fan - and he was going to be away for a year at a USAF university for an additional Master's so I thought it would be a good gift for him to take with him. When we opened gifts there was a similarly sized package from him to me - yup, a rice cooker. Great minds... We actually returned both of them, but clearly should have kept at least one!
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SpecialK, I really like using my Instant Pot to cook rice. The rice has always come out well, usually brown rice. One appliance with many uses creates less of a storage challenge.
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beaver - I looked at one IP at Williams Sonoma, but ultimately decided on a straight up rice cooker with a steamer tray that can cook veggies at the same time. This one is fairly small and will fit in my shelf of countertop appliances in the laundry room. I may need to donate the electric wok - haven't used it in years, but maybe I should dust it off - I used to use it all the time and might be easier than doing stir-fry on the stove. Can you tell I have a hard time parting with things? I was glad when my kids set up their own houses - I got rid of all kinds of things to help them get started, lol! When we closed down my in-laws house they got some more stuff. My DD made me cupcakes for Mother's Day with my MIL's semi-vintage KitchenAid mixer - so cute! Her first foray into using a piping bag to frost - they came out great!
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I just use a covered sauce pan to do rice...and I don't even time it. I just set the stove top temperature to "almost simmer" and check it every so often to see if the water has been absorbed. I guess I'm a young "old fashioned" person.
Re masks. It's about 50-50 here and I'm on both sides of the 50-50. I was in the empty (except for me) outdoor section of a home improvement store looking at brick pavers...it was hot...and I didn't bother with a mask. If there are people around where it's likely that we will get closer than 8-10 feet, I'll put on a mask. One place I noticed some folks going in ahead of me and they looked like they weren't feeling well, so I put on a real N95 mask. And, I got mask shamed for "wearing a mask reserved for health care workers".
When I ignored the lady (sorry) following me around with her grocery cart, I got the increasingly loud, "I SAID YOU ARE BEING SELFISH. THAT KIND OF MASK IS FOR HEALTH CARE WORKERS".
Sigh.... :-)
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Made chicken tacos for my hubby’s birthday
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Lunch was sliced rotisserie chicken on a Hawaiian sweet roll. The plan for dinner was spinach salad with miso dressing. The reality was 1/2 a cup of left over macaroni with some left over rosa sauce (red sauce & sour cream). Then a bowl of raspberries with heavy cream. I HATE that fresh raspberries from the stores have mold after only 24 hours. Dessert was 1/2 a cup of cashew nuts.
Day #56 of walking 3-1/2 to 4 miles every morning. I still hate mornings, but it's getting easier to roll out of bed and tie on my shoes. It was only 87 this morning, so not quite as hot.
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Tonight was the rest of a homemade pizza with a glass each of Primitivo from Ken Volk in California.
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Bob reports that most people he saw out on the streets as he was driving between the hotel & hospitals were neither social-distancing nor wearing masks. Stupid, selfish, infantile, IMHO. (And half the ones who wore masks wore them below their noses. Idiots).
Haven't been to a store in 3 weeks, and am fine with that. Haven't been out walking either, because I'm sick & tired of having to be the one to swerve out of my way for entitled millennials whose attitude is "you're afraid? STAY HOME, boomer." Whole Foods and restaurants deliver anyway. Cellars delivered brunch: for Bob to eat tonight, a lox plate with extra bagel; for me, a spinach/goat cheese/sundried tomato frittata with pan-fried potatoes. Got a Caesar to sub for the spuds, but they threw in the potatoes anyway. The frittata was so huge & rich I ate half for brunch and half for dinner when Bob got home. Gonna grill a steak tomorrow night (shakshuka for me for breakfast, Bob will have the rest of his lox, the second bagel, and the last of the smoked trout & whitefish from Calumet Fisheries). If it's too rainy to grill, I will sear the steak in cast iron and open all the windows so as not to set off the smoke detector.
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