So...whats for dinner?

MinusTwo

I was lucky enough to snag some more Olathe corn so linner was two ears of corn. Accompanied by a Hatch chili scone. Desert was my protein - a 1/2 cup of cashew nuts.

auntienance

I saw Olathe corn at the grocery when we were visiting my DBIL and DSIL. I meant to bring some home but forgot. Drat! So instead I have Florida corn tonight with a large T bone steak and baked sweet potato (russet for dh.). Tonight is the last night I can have corn for a few days as I’m a scheduled for the dreaded colonoscopy Tuesday. 😩

eric95us

We're in Sandpoint, Idaho and on the way here we stopped at a roadside stand and bought corn, peaches, apples and peppers (bell and Jalapeno). The corn was picked earlier today and we are looking forward to eating it tonight.

Glad you're feeling better Chi and to "Mr." Special..like Chi said, may the stay be successful and short.

Enjoy the corn Auntie and hopefully all is well with the 'scope results.

MinusTwo

Eric - are you solely tent camping? Looking forward to more details when you settle back home.

eric95us

We are using our new slide in truck camper and our "new to us" truck.

We bought a Ford F-350 long bed crew cab 4x4 truck from test daughter's husband's uncle. Test daughter's husband bought one truck from his uncle and I bought the "twin truck".

The camper is a Lance 850. It's *nice"!

SpecialK

eric - thanks for the good wishes, he is anxious to get it done, but he will be fine. DS just sold his big camper that fit on top of his Dodge Ram. He traded that truck for a Toyota Tacoma and now has a camper shell on the truck bed and pop up tent on top. DD has a pop up tent on her 4Runner also. They both love to camp!

Dinner tonight was meatball sandwiches on ciabatta and broccoli salad.

mommy - I made beef stew last week! Great minds think alike

ChiSandy

Oh, how I miss farm stands! I ought to find out if any are close enough to Chicago to drive there, load up, turn around and go home. Even the city farmers' markets have pretty slim pickings by the time I get there (if I can even park--the one down the street from me, where I used to perforn, was cancelled this year). We used to play the Sweet Corn Festival in Sun Prairie, WI. Part of our pay was all the corn--sweet enough to eat raw--we could haul home.

Tonight I grilled loin lamb chops--marinated in Greek olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, fresh oregano, garden rosemary, & salt; and finished with lemon, olive oil, garlic & garden mint. Steamed broccoli with olive oil, sea salt and grated Parmesan. And (from a trip to Middle Eastern Market, where I scored baba ghannouj, cucumber/spinach/yogurt dip, and taramosalata on our way home from my manicure) tabbouleh salad that was mostly veggie rather than bulgur, plus whole wheat Lebanese pita brushed with olive oil & za'atar, and toasted on the grill (after I turned it off). Took a night off from tomatoes.

carolehalston

The fish fry on Wednesday night was fun and the food was good. The fish was fried crappie fillets cut into pieces. It was crispy the way I like fried fish. My side was a creamy cucumber dish. Sliced cucumbers, mild onion (both from farmers mkt) with a sauce of sour cream, vinegar and a sprinkle of garlic powder. I didn't eat it but most was consumed and I got a couple of compliments.

My favorite side was a crunchy salad with broccoli, cauliflower and other additions. Laurie kept out a portion for me without the onions. That was very nice of her.

Last night we went out to dinner, a rare happening this summer, with an elderly couple (more elderly than we are!). It was almost an hour's drive. The restaurant, Charlie's, has the main restaurant and an adjacent outdoor dining facility called the Boat House. We got there early enough to get an outdoor table. The specials of the night were Chinese selections. DH chose one of them, an egg roll and sweet and sour chicken with white rice. He enjoyed both.

I ordered from the regular menu and had a walleye sandwich on ciabatta bread and fries. I love fish so fish two nights in a row was a treat. The walleye served in restaurants is Canadian walleye because walleye cannot be fished commercially in MN.

The only negative was political. Shirts and hats for the presidential candidate whom I'm hoping will be the BIG loser! I find it depressing that people with good qualities can be so misled. In my not-so-humble opinion!

CeliaC

carolehalston - Walleye (YUM!) s a big favorite of mine, as well as fresh Lake Erie perch. (Grew up near the shores of Lake Erie.)

Sandy - Your Middle Eastern market finds sound so good! Lucky to have such a good source nearby.

Yesterday, I mixed up Primal Kitchen Vodka Sauce, basil, garlic, shrooms, zoodles, some veggie spaghetti and chopped Bilinski Sun Dried Tomato/Basil/Garlic chicken sausages. This will last me several days. So, no more cooking until Sunday!

eric95us

Huckleberry ice cream, 2 scoops in a waffle cone for each of us. Right now I feel like an overstuffed tick and Sharon says she's full too. So if we have dinner tonight, it will be light and in a few hours!

auntienance

Oh yum Eric - huckleberry!

Trip to Costco yesterday resulted in food for several meals involving a roast chicken, a shrimp cocktail and some precooked baby back ribs. Ribs were tonight with grilled garlic bread and some potato salad. Tomorrow night will be the remains of the chicken in chicken enchiladas.

Special - best wishes for your DH. I’ve only had one sinus infection but I was pretty miserable. Can’t imagine what your DH has been going through.

Envious of your crappie Carole - one of my most favorite meals.

I’m missing fresh tomatoes and cucumbers - both off limits until after my colonoscopy. First time I’ve ever had to avoid cucumbers for this procedure.

MinusTwo

Special - please remind us of your DH's surgery when it get closer. Hope everything stays on track for the 8th.

Nance - I never heard of cucumbers being off limits either. Maybe because of the seeds?

Finished off the last of a delicious "personal" watermelon from Central Market. I've had mixed results with these melons from Kroger, but this one was great. Dinner was a Hatch Chile Crab Cake. Yum. Served with mushroom risotto. Since I'd already had two glass of Carson Ridge Cab talking to my BFF on the phone before dinner, I stuck with water to match my entree. I'm thinking fried rice tomorrow - or deja vu dinner with whatever is in the fridge sauteed with leftover rice.

ChiSandy

No tomatoes or cukes within a few days before a colonoscopy? Wouldn't the liquid diet the day before, followed by the prep, take care of seeds in your food? By the time my next 'scope is due, I'd be past the age where they stop recommending it.

Brunch was a veggie-provolone frittata. Bob worked late tonight (the practice is picking up again), so dinner alone was the Middle Eastern stuff: tabbouleh, cuke-yogurt salad (added more cuke), babaghannouj, hummus, a couple of falafel and half a whole wheat pita. Bob will either be working late again or staying down in Oak Lawn overnight. Gonna either order out tomorrow night or freezer-forage (probably a burger or defrost a couple of chicken thighs). Or make half zoodles & half whole wheat spaghettini with pesto or cacio e pepe, cherry tomato caprese on the side.

carolehalston

Dinner was leftover curry chicken thighs and brown rice, corn cut off the cob sauteed in butter, and salad with tomato, cucumber and avocado. The corn was very sweet. The leftover rice and chicken was ho hum.

I bought two pretty eggplants yesterday at supermarket. A layered eggplant dish is in the near future.

MinusTwo

RE: Colonoscopy - I was told to stop nuts & seeds several days before - including things like peas & beans. And then nothing red for 24 hours. But of course the prep drink & resulting time on the porcelain throne is worse than the procedure. Early on I had polyps that were removed & call backs every year or two, but now my last procedure after five years found NO polyps. Hopefully I'm through manufacturing them, but at least I got a pass for another 5 years.

auntienance

Minus - thanks. Peas were on my list too but not beans curiously. This is a new doc this go around. I’m a big polyp producer too so frequent flyer. Hoping for a better outcome this time.

Lunch is the remains of the shrimp cocktail, a leftover bbqd rib and some potato salad. Dinner will be the aforementioned chicken enchiladas and some yellow rice.

Beaverntx

Nance, I've had 4 colonoscopies over the last 14 years and every time the prep instructions have been different, even tho the last two were only 3 years apart with the same doctor! Prep has gotten better over that time, though. Not saying that it is wonderful, just improved.

ChiSandy

Breakfast was cream cheese and lox (with tomato, onion, dill & capers) on one slice of low-carb whole wheat bread. Dinner was a panino on two slices of the same bread (prosciutto, provolone, tomato, bell peppers and mushrooms with rosemary from the garden). Bob made it home too late for dinner.

M0mmyof3

Tonight is leftovers

carolehalston

Dinner last night was home-made hamburgers with a side salad of cucumber and avocado.

SpecialK

carole/minus/illimae/any other TX & LA peeps - as much as I am glad neither Marco or Laura are coming to Tampa after an initial forecast with that possibility, I am now worried about you guys.

Dinner tonight will be pulled chicken over Napa cabbage, additional veggies, with a sweet and sour dressing. DD has to travel for work over to the east coast of FL this coming week so DH will be staying over at the downtown house to take care of the little orange parrot and the chickens, so I will be ferrying dinners and his work lunches over there. I need to paint the two exterior doors on the back of that house, and do some odds and ends inside. We have replacement (hurricane strength) windows going in starting on the 31st, and continuing Sept 1 & 2. We had no choice but to do impact resistant glass as that house is in the >139mph zone, but it tells me why they did a whole house remodel in 2018 and didn't replace the windows.... I am glad the house doesn't have any more windows and sliding doors than it does, this is not an inexpensive undertaking. We really have to do this though because the original metal windows have gaps and water and bugs can just come right in. There were two additions in a previous remodel but the installer says he can make the front look good - the good news is that the two like windows are in the middle and the unlike are on the outsides so it will look symmetrical in any case. We will be doing a final (hopefully) termite resolution kind of simultaneously as opening up the window locations allows us to get some treatment in those spots. I am unwilling to tent because of both the rain, and the fact that it will only treat what is currently there. This area has a lot of old historic trees that are full of termites - I would have to tent every spring at $1200 a pop - nope. Will drill into the ceilings and spot treat, thank you very much. We did do treatment for subterranean at $1500 because those are harder to treat yourself.

ChiSandy

Brunch was an egg Benedict (on a Mikey's keto muffin half, with tomato, prosciutto and hollandaise). Was going to grill a burger or fish for dinner, but we're having pop-up thundershowers. So will likely do whole wheat pasta supplemented with zoodles.

Reader425

Hi all, I've been a cooking fool (for me) lately. Friends with a farmette and small vineyard loaded us up recently. I made simple tomato sauce in the crockpot from tomatos they grew; blueberry muffins; sauted squash with dinner tonight of bunless three cheese burgers and slow baked beans. I've been maintaining a 9 lb weight loss but its back on the healthier eating train tomorrow.

Special 🙏 for your DH. I am prone to sinus infections and can't even imagine. Glad he seems to be on the right track now.

Sandy 🙏🙏for you as well.

Nance, All the colonoscopy talk reminds me to make that call soon. People always say its "better" now but I think that's just a marketing ploy. 🤣 Hope all goes well.

eric95us

We are in McCall, Idaho tonight. Vege-burgers and corn on the cob for dinner.

The visibility is around 5 miles/8km due to smoke from the multiple nearby wildfires.

auntienance

Reader - lol, I can’t say that anything has improved either.
Minus and you other coastal folks, please hunker down and stay safe. Carole, glad you are out of harm’s way. Eric, you be wary too.

Special, that house doesn’t sound like any fun at all.

SpecialK

auntie - it has been a learning experience! It never occurred to me to determine wind zone - our house is more in the ‘burbs and well out of any wind zones, so we had no experience with that concept. The flooring issue was caused by the silly appliance installer - and was covered by their insurance - but happened right as everything went into lockdown. Bleh. The termite thing - eh, this is Florida... even the fancy houses on Bayshore get regularly rented. The good news is that it’s super cute, but there have definitely been a few headaches.

Celand

Dinner last night was a bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios for me and left over hot and sour soup for my husband. We will bake a 1/2 chicken for tonight probably have baked potatoes and vegetables. Will wash clothes today and prepare for twin hurricanes coming our way, in anticipation of power outages. As of this am, Marco weakened to a tropical storm but Laura is strengthening, so please keep us in prayers!

carolehalston

Celand, I hope you stay safe and comfortable. Where in Louisiana do you live? If you don't mind revealing location. DH and I live between Madisonville and Covington in St. Tammany Parish but we are in northern MN until October if all goes according to plan.

Last night was my eggplant lasagna dish with a romaine salad with favorite additions. Leftover eggplant dish will provide another meal.

Celand

Carolehalston,

We are in Lafayette, the heart of Acadiana. We are about 45 minutes west of Baton Rouge. We know the drill, as you do too, glad you and DH are out of harm's way for these two storms. I hope and pray that your family and friends here are safe and that you all don't get significant property damage or flooding. We have lived here for 33 years but have never flooded, although did have a couple of close calls (like when we have gotten over 20 inches of rain in a day).

Eggplant lasagna sounds good, did you bring Tony Chachere's seasoning with you?

Celand

eric95us

It looks like a very light sprinkle rain here, which, if it happens, is excellent for the fires....turns them into a slow moving tame fire that burns out the dead pine needles/twigs on the ground without hurting the trees. This consumes the fuels so a big wildfire is less likely.

Stay safe everyone in hurricane alley. I'm on call in September and, no offense, but I'd rather not meet you when I'm on the job! :-)