So...whats for dinner?
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Macaroni and cheese for me tonight. I had a tooth with a cavity below the gum line and the dentist had to cut away the gum to fix it. She said she had never seen a cavity below the gum line like that and went to say I was lucky that the tooth could be saved.
The procedure was completely painless (!) but right now it feels like a wasp stung me in the mouth. She said "it would sting tonight, ache a bit tomorrow and be fine by Wednesday, but don't run until next week.
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Eric - ouch. Hope the prediction for no pain by Wednesday turns out true.
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Eric - Wishing you a speedy recovery from dental procedure.
On 7/15, I will be having a root canal & dreading the pain in the gums caused by numbing injections more than the actual procedure. Will probably also be eating mac-n-cheese and/or mashed cauliflower for dinner that night.
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"My" dentist takes her time with the local anesthetic stuff and I never feel "the needle", nor the procedure. She said she had a lot of dental work done when she was a kid and hated the numbing shots. I think this makes her a bit more sensitive to the plight of the patient. :-)
She uses a lot of the nasty tasting topical anesthetic and waits a few minutes for that to numb the gum, then she takes a lot longer than other dentists to infuse the local anesthetic and finally she waits about 20 minutes before starting the work. I never notice anything other than the weird feeling that happens as the tissue transitions from normal to numb and back to normal.
So far, she's right on how things are going. Today it's just a slight "almost ache" and I'm expecting that things will feel back to normal by tomorrow. She did say to not run until next week because of mouth breathing drying out the gums, so I'm anxiously waiting until next week so I can get back to running.
Dinner tonight was a very late lunch.
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Eric, when I was recovering from my root canals a couple of years ago, the perio and endodontist recommended 2 extra-strength Tylenol and 3 or 4 ibuprofen every 6-8 hrs. Worked as well as Norco, but w/o the dopiness or constipation. And I was able to stop taking the combo by the fourth day,
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Today, other than when I ate a tortilla chip and accidentally ground it against "the spot", everything feels back to normal. My tongue is still getting used to the new (temporary) gum line. :-)
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Eric, and our tongues do exaggerate any change!
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Eric, whenever I've chipped a tooth (or when last year I "sequestered" a superfluous chunk of bone) my tongue always wants to "play" with it. It's a universal thing--sort of like wanting to peel a sunburn or nail polish (well, the latter not for you).
Dinner was black sesame-crusted seared ahi with Asian slaw.
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My tongue always seems to be on patrol to check out unfamiliar things. :-)
Dinner tonight was eggplant parmesan using some more of the garden eggplant.
I've also got 2 more loaves of sourdough bread in the warm oven for the second rise. It should be ready to start baking in about 20 minutes. I am so very glad to have the familiar flour back!
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Splurged and bought a package of 8 Wagyu burger patties at Costco. Seven in the freezer - one for dinner tonight. It's American Wagyu, but still pasture raised. The side will be Kroger Private Selection petite potatoes with Hatch Green Chile Ranch artisan seasoning blend.
Also splurged at Total Wine. The Carson Ridge Cab from Paso Robles that I like was on sale for $9.99 - and an additional 10% off if you bought six. Well of course I did.
Today was 100 straight days of walking 3-1/2 to 4 brisk miles every morning. Unfortunately at 7am in Houston, that means it's still 85 degrees when I start. I missed 3 days or it would be 103 days - one for a dentist appointment, one because of thunder & lightening and one meeting a contractor to schedule the painting of my house. Anyway, I celebrated by cutting back to walking only 3 miles today. And I'll likely goof off the rest of the day & just read a book.
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Used to get American Wagyu beef (steaks, tri-tip, burgers, hot dogs) on quarterly subscription from Snake River Farms. Yum!
Dinner tonight will be leftover seared ahi (even better cold--might dig up a tube of wasabi) & Asian slaw. (Bob will have leftover rigatoni Barese).
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Dinner will be butternut squash risotto (Alexis brand makes one that has a nice "sauce" to it) with sauteed shrooms & leftover rotisserie chicken breast. I usually cook up some frozen organic spinach to add in, but ran out. Waiting for a Whole Foods delivery order, so may hold off dining until then.
Eric - Homemade sourdough bread - yum!
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Yeast is still almost impossible to get here, so the sourdough helps me with that. I make 2 to 4 loaves of bread per week and about the only time I use yeast is for dinner rolls. It is not easy to wait until the loaves cool down before grabbing the bread knife!
No offense intended Minus, but I think Houston's summer weather is nasty! I'll run in the late evening when it's 100F, but the dew point is still around 40F degrees and the sweat has a chance to dry/do some good. When I was deployed southeast of Houston and was unloading a semi-trailer parked in the sun....when we were done, we were so sweaty that even the mosquitos stayed away.
Today we bought a 2016 F-350 truck from test daughter's "uncle in law"....long bed, crew cab, 4 wheel drive, heavy duty suspension, 22,000 miles on the odometer. Sharon and I both have commercial driver licenses, so this isn't "that big" compared to what we have driven. :-) Even so, it's not "tiny". We're going to put a 4-season truck camper in the back of it and use that for vacationing as well as when we're looking around at "not hot and not city" places to live.
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Eric - no offense taken and you are absolutely right. 100 degrees and 100% humidity. It's the humidity that's the killer, but also the fact that mountains & deserts cool down at night. Even this early in the summer we rarely get below 80 at night. It's supposed to be over 100-102 the rest of the weekend & Monday.
Special - how about Florida? And I'm sure Louisiana isn't much better, which is why Carole is in the North. And how are you both? Nance, are you sort of settled? No need to unpack everything. Lacey, did you make it up to the lake?
Love the idea of your 'new' truck Eric.
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Sorry to hear about the dental woes for some of our dinner table friends. I braved the dentist last week for a cleaning, which had already been delayed - so I was at 8 months - just because I don’t want a repeat of the abscess that ultimately caused the extraction and implant that took 18 months. All seems ok for the moment, but they took no xrays and no exam by the dentist. The hygienist was the one who discovered the problem last time, it didn’t show on X-ray anyway. Much like my mammo and TVU and MRI all missed stuff - my teeth are following suit, lol!
minus - I just checked, it’s 84 degrees out now at 10pm, and it has rained several times today, so I’m right there with you. Summer here can easily require three showers a day, depending on activity level. Kudos on your walking! That is a super effort considering the season - I need to get out and walk now that the pollen is reduced, but I face the weather dilemma. You practically have to get up at dawn to not melt. I also have to watch how warm I get because it affects my lymphedema as well and outdoor exercise with bi-lat sleeves and gauntlets in the summer is tough - are you wearing yours? I was really in a gym groove before the shutdown and I miss it, but even though the gym reopened with limits, I’m not going.
Dinner three nights ago was chef salads. Last night stir fry with shredded beef, cabbage, carrot and onion over ramen. Tonight sliced chicken Kielbasa type sausage with sliced onions, peppers and bbq sauce over rice
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I grew up in 29 Palms, CA at the USMC base. It would be 115F degrees at night and 68-75F degrees by morning. If anyone is familiar with the climate at Edwards AFB or NTC/Ft Irwin, 29 Palms is very similar.
I mowed the lawn tonight and I'm both itchy and soaked. Sharon is pretty much "dead in the water with allergies" if she does it, so I take care of it and stay away from her until I can use the shower to de-pollen.
Neither of us were hungry tonight. . I had a microwave oven "baked" potato and Sharon had the rest of the eggplant parmesan,.
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Our forecast is for triple digits for at least the next week and today proved to be a start!
Tonight's dinner was Asian chopped salad (from a bag), sliced chicken breast(cooked in air fryer yesterday with a companion that was used in a pasta salad) and a slice of gluten free bread 20 minutes out of the breadmaker and topped with butter and honey. Glass of Cass winery(Paso Robles, CA) viognier as evening sipper.
Auto correct wants to turn viognier into cosigner! Glad I caught that one.
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Special - my lymphadema is mainly breast & truncal. I do wear a compression bra 24/7 (even in the swimming pool), but have found the WearEase is light & cool enough to work. My goal is to prevent the LE from progressing to my arms, so I do have sleeves & gauntlets. But no I don't wear them walking. Probably should, but that really would stop me going at all. I did wear them for flying (hmmm, do we really remember that activity??) and heavy repetitive activities.
I'm finally cooking some of the yellow split peas today. I soaked the "beans" last night and have already cut up onion, carrots & celery to add, along with ham hocks.
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Wow! You guys are amazingly tolerant to be able to walk/work in such heat. I did some yard work this week in 85ish temps with only some humidity, and felt like Eric’s description of himself after mowing the lawn...with the addition of tiny hair pieces on my skin after my hair cut. I purposely engaged in my weeding/pruning tasks then since I knew it would be a sweaty, dirty business and I was already itchy from the hair snippets.
I cringe when I think of dental anesthetic. Back in the 70’s while undergoing a root canal through a cap, the need for extra anesthetic resulted in a shot that left my brain feel like it was fireceacker exploding. I subsequently developed a real fear of any oral anesthetics. Shortly afterwards we moved here, and when I sought out a dentist I told him about my new heightened fear. Up to that point I had never minded dental visits, which were well known to me through my formative years . The new dentist explained how gently he anesthetized patients, following exactly the method that you described, Eric. I was greatly relieved and never had another fear for the many years I saw him. Unfortunately, he just retired and I have yet to see the new dentist. Hoping he follows the same plan......eeeeek! Of course Covid has disrupted my dental cleaning schedule, and I have yet to follow up, so I am currently dentistless! Probably not a good thing at this age.....
I’m about to make gazpacho which we will have with BLTs on sour dough bread for dinner tonight. No serious cooking is going on in this unairconditioned kitchen. After a pulmonologist appt on Monday, we will probably head to the lake to do a VERY LATE house opening! I hear that the pine pollen was just wrapping up last week, so at least we won’t be clearing it twice.
We are in for a rainy weekend here. I think I will cut out lots of mask fabric so that next week I can bring it north to sew when I feel the urge to be productive there.
I hope all of you Southwesterners are staying safe....the news here about the Covid cases and hospital admissions there sounds so serious. Or is it “ fake news”? I’m really hoping that MA citizens use their heads as we open up, so we don’t re-surge after such a long time of quarantining. Our gov and his administration have done a great job managing our crisis, As has the Mayor of Boston and I do not envy their jobs at all.
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Lacey, it certainly is not "fake news" here in Texas. While the state has not shutdown again, DH and I are essentially behaving like it is. We are both of age to be at high risk and to top it off, I have type A blood!I
Would that you could share some of that rain. We have just started drought restrictions with predicted highs in triple digits for at least the next week. Staying inside for that too.
What time is dinner? Your menu sounds great! Enjoy!
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TX is definitely not "fake news." Gordy's GF's parents live in a suburb of Houston and if they were to escape to Chicago, they'd have to self-quarantine for 14 days, per city order. (They'd have to find a hotel willing to take them). IL has seen 1000+ new cases two days in a row now, but deaths are steady on the low side. Positivity rate is up to 2.9%. However, Chicago's case count is down, averaging 171, with 6 deaths. City's Health Commissioner predicts that w/in the next couple of weeks we may see a day with no COVID deaths in Chicago. The city's Phase 4 is stricter than the rest of the state's, with 17 citations issued to violator establishments. As of today, any place that serves alcohol must close by midnight (and turn off the taps by 11pm); and package stores still must close by 9pm. (Bob says that's racist, because so many minority people work late shifts and can't buy alcohol to go before 9pm).
Dunno what or where we're eating tonight. Must be a) w/in walking distance, b) have al fresco dining, and c) have either a liquor license or allow BYOB on its patio. Tall order.
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We went to Indie Cafe, next to Whole Foods: a sushi-Thai-sake-wine bar. No indoor dining--they are doing an extremely busy, almost assembly-line takeout operation from inside. We sat on their patio. Shared a bowl of "Daruma Ramen" (I had the broth, veg, and a slice of pork belly--left the noodles to Bob) and each had a "Seven Samurai" salad: 7 generous pieces of sashimi, field greens, radicchio, carrots, radishes, kale and cucumber pickle in vinaigrette. Very reasonable--we will be back more often. (Last time we ate there was a decade ago)! For dessert, will put strawberries and home-grown black raspberries over Greek yogurt (or maybe Enlightened Keto butter pecan ice cream) back here at home. Pan-seared halibut (might marinate it in white miso), heirloom tomato, and snap peas tomorrow night.
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Well, Beaver, I am glad that you are hunkering down away from those “nasty Covid particles“. Think how well Tx would be doing medically if most people dId the same. I’m also Type A, so we were treating me the most like spun glass for those three plus months of isolation. At first our son insisted on doing all of our grocery shopping. And gradually DH took it over. He still enjoys doing it!
We are still not taking great socializing risks, and even gave up our outer Cape vacation this week.
When we head to the lake we’ll have more control of our environment in our house there, and NH is also quite low with positive cases...so we’re ready for that minimal level of risk. We’ll be doing a short trial run staying there since DS2 invited us over next Sunday, so we’ll return to be with them to see how their home improvements are coming along. Will likely need to socially distance with them since toddler Amelia Is back at her daycare home several days a week now. This is all so nerve wracking and weird. But no high risk takers here....Dinner tonight ended up a great choice for our sultry weather. Weadded avocado to our BLTs, which was delish. Our sandwiches were huge, and the soup more moderate, so we’ll have some for tomorrow night. I took a pic for Laurie’s Facebook dinner page, so will share It here...
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I'm also Type A--personality and blood.
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Type A blood here too. Interesting.
Boxes are mostly unpacked. Still have the guest room to put together. I finally got my clothes all in one place which will make it much easier to get dressed lol. I actually cooked a meal last night - grilled rosemary lemon chicken, buttered noodles and asparagus. DH made a (box) cake yesterday which we had with fresh strawberries. There won’t be any complicated meals at this place. The kitchen is just way too small and the counter prep space nearly non-existent. It’s a situation where to do a thing you have to move something.
Tonight’s simple meal is bbqd pork steaks and corn on the cob.
We are caught in the large heat dome with predicted temps nearing triple digits for next week and lasting for 10-15 days. Of course we have the added blessing of humidity. I will say this for the apartment - the air conditioning is outstanding
Perfectly delicious looking summer meal Lacey!
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Lacey, your meal looks as good as it sounded.
Nance, glad you are getting at least partly sorted out. Your kitchen brings memories of our apartment living right after we got married. We at least had a table nearby to help with space (it was a pink Formica hand me down from DH's parents). Any idea how long you will be dealing with cramped quarters?
Sandy, your dinner out sounds yummy. Be glad your weather supports that. We are in full blown summer mode here which means both heat and humidity. Early on, when under official stay at home orders, we ordered take out about once a week. When reopening began we starting hearing about restaurant staff being diagnosed with Covid so we stopped getting take out. I'm ready to start again, running out of menu ideas!
The good news here is that Covid data for the county today show a decrease in the number of active cases, for the first time. Finally, more recovered than new cases! However, still lots of new cases and an unacceptable positivity rate with hospitals showing the stress and strain. We are definitely not through this yet.
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Dinner last night was none for me and a plate of cheeses/crackers, deviled eggs, and fruit for DH - he was feeling tired from the week and not like a heavy meal. I was all about easy last night, and just wasn't hungry myself. I had some apple. I have chicken thawing for tonight but that is as far as the plan has gotten. I would love to make BLTs and gazpacho - two of my personal faves - but DH is a non-tomato person. He will eat cooked tomatoes like in marinara or chili, but not raw - he can't even look at them. There is a school of thought that this is a genetic disposition - much like the cilantro situation. If I make a BLT for me I often add avocado to make it a BLAT, so I just make a BLA for him, lol!
I am also type A blood (A-) and personality, lol!
Florida Covid cases are not showing a let up - and I am starting to hear about more incidental exposures for people at work - including DH, which of course, makes me nervous. Our ICU beds are not looking good here and we have two regional trauma centers as well as a bunch of additional good sized hospitals. My neighbor's DD is a medical resident in the ER at Parkland in Dallas and she just tried to come home to visit. They had to meet in North Carolina, she was not allowed to come to FL due to the high Covid numbers. Our DS may need a tonsillectomy - he had his third strep case in short order. If so, we need to go to Virginia to be with him. I just looked at VA cases, they had as many in the last week as we did in the last day.
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Hi:) have been reading all your posts, took a while:) We have an abundante of berries this summer, I bought a special Devine for picking blueberries and in one hour.. 2.3 kgMy eldest got into a romance with a boy from Netherlands who came here for two weeks, not in my place, he is staying in a hotel but they already been here for dinner. I cooked Persian, three different kebabs, cholo-, dgooge-, and bargikebab with rice, a yoghurt sauce and grillen tomatoes plus sallad and some confidential. The first one is minced meat kebab, the second is chicken pieces marinated in yoghurt and Saffron and grilled, the third one lamb rostbiff rubbed with spices and also grilled. The new boyfriend said it was like in a restaurant😄 It is just a dgooge and bargi on this picture
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The blueberries
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Otherwise, I made bulgur and meat stuffed cabbage rolls this week as well)
Even stuffed tomatoes
ChiSandy, I can do so many dishes of beets, one of my favorite veggies
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