So...whats for dinner?
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Carolehalston,
We sure did dodge the bullet with Hurricane Laura. We rode it out at home and I was saying my prayers from 1 am til 5 am when you heard the wind whistling and blowing. We woke up to yard debris blown all over, my backyard swing toppled over and my husband lost his pecan tree. But I am very grateful that is all the damage that happened and no life was lost. My girls rode out the storm in our mobile home but they were also fortunate no damages or life lost. It is a challenge to find shelter with my daughters 4 cats and our 3 dogs. I feel terrible for the communities that took a direct hit. It will take a very long time to build back up. My friend from Sulphur, who evacuated, says that they will be at least a month with no power. It seems that these storms get stronger each time, it makes me want to move away from here.
I do know where Jeanerette is but not familiar with four corners. Lafayette does have good restaurants, unfortunately, some have closed due to Covid19. But still a few are left. Cajun food is so good!
Oh, speaking of food, dinner was leftovers, my husband had leftover Barbecue ribs, macaroni and cheese, baked beans. I had leftover eggplant casserole and rice from Lebanese restaurant that we went to last night. And of course, our Ghirardelli chocolate for dessert!
Celand
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ChiSandy,
Well NOLA dodge the bullet with Hurricane Laura and TS Marco was downgraded at last minute. I know that your friend was rrelieved.Our westward neighbors were not so lucky. The news media has shown many photos of the destruction. My friend from Sulphur who evacuated with her family to Kentucky said that there will be no power for at least a month.
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Celand - so glad that you and your family are OK. Scary stuff.
Beaver - thanks for the potato salad recipe. Sounds delightfully rich. Reminds me of my mother's fruit salad recipe - when she cooked the dressing at great length. I just toss cut fruit with coconut, baby marshmellows, pecans and sour cream.
When I had all my windows replaced a couple of years ago, the window company actually moved all the furniture & covered it with plastic before they started in each room. Here's hoping the rest of the experience isn't as painful Special.
Edited to give a shout out to Eric - who actually may be sleeping in his own bed tonight. That was a long round about treck but I know you had a great time.
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Tomorrow night is "in bed at home". The camper is quite comfortable, so it's not a nig deal where we're at. But I do miss DD and the dogs.
I was on call for July so I wasn't on call for August or September, but if the federal medical response goes 'long"...I could get an email....and be away from home some more.
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Celand, glad you made it through Laura unscathed!
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Celand, "no power for a month" is almost a death sentence. Here in north MN we are feeling the coming of fall weather. Our plan is to do what we did last year--stay for the fall colors and head home before the snow starts. That should be about the middle of October.
Dinner last night was homemade chili out of the freezer served with sour cream and grated cheddar. Side was a salad of tomato and cucumber.
We're watching some video of destruction in Lake Charles on the morning news. Terrible scenes.
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I’m also relieved to learn that members of our kitchen table were spared the wrath of Laura. A few weeks ago, I was concerned during a local storm that the giant swaying trees in our yard might land on our house. We lucked out with minimal rain before the winds, so OUR trees stayed firmly rooted, and we only experienced loss of power for 12 hours. I can’t imagine how terrifying it must be to experience the level of hurricanes the Gulf Coast folks do. I’m glad you and your family are safe, Celand!
We are still hunkered down at the lake....probably for two more weeks. I managed to strain a muscle in my lower back last week, so have been on “back rehab” protocol. I’m sorry not to be near my “back healers” at home, so the rehab could be faster, but with DH’s reminders of my meds and rest/movement Routines, I should be closer to normal In a few more days...hopefully.
Our Meals have mostly been done on the grill by DH since food prep standing has been too hard for me. I can just stand long enough to put a salad together. Last night, DH felt ambitious and followed a recipe for shrimp and sausage in saffron rice. I thought of it as a faux paella dish (which is his signature...and only... dish), and it was really pretty, but not as tasty as his paella. Lots of grilled chicken and nuked sweet potatoes and salads gracing our plates lately.
My Celtics are back on the court and looking strong so far, so I’m grateful to be able watch them again during my “rest” period. Also proud of them and the NBA for stopping their playoffs for social/racial justice causes until they could use their power to negotiate a platform that includes establishing safe voting places in the NBA Teams’ arenas.
Minus, I might be scouring the grocery shelves for that Chocolate pudding!
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Oh no lacey - so sorry about your back. I'm actually going to buy several boxes of the Godiva Milk Chocolate pudding mix and put them in Christmas stockings for my DIL, my nieces & some lady friends.
Carole - I'm jealous of your approaching fall. As you can imagine, our last couple of days have been awful - 101 & 102. And the humidity!!! Do you have someone watching over your LA house?
Welcome home Eric.
The potato salad with mini pieces of English Cucumber w/o the seeds was really delicious. Living dangerously to avoid going to the grocery store for celery this time. What's next? Wild rice with water chestnuts if I don't have mushrooms??
Day # 150 of my walking program, 3-1/2 to 4 miles every darn day. Lost 12 lbs. LDL down 25 points. I'm sure I deserve to go out for a lobster dinner reward, but that's not going to happen anytime soon. But oh I do miss the ocean!!!
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Lacey, bummer about your back. I have age-related "degenerative disk changes" so the nerves get irritated and can cause aching, even sudden spasms. I've found that lidocaine and menthol (e.g., BioFreeze) roll-ons, followed by topical CBD balm, do help. (Some CBD creams have menthol, so it's a 1-2 punch, but I don't like my hands smelling of menthol). Sometimes I use Voltaren gel. There's a piriformis stretch that my PT taught me last year that also provides some relief--but you have to do it slowly and patiently so that you feel a gradual stretch. If I get impatient, spasms can happen all over again. As the weather cools down, there's always the trusty heating pad. At the beginning of a sudden spasm, ice is better--but if it's one of those creeping nagging backaches, heat is better because it relaxes the muscles.
But today I had a "good back day." Tylenol at bedtime and in the morning, proactively...
Dinner was an insalata Caprese of homegrown heirlooms (Green Zebra & striped beefsteak) with blood orange olive oil and fresh basil, followed by collard greens and a couple of leftover rib tips, then grilled asparagus with olive oil & lemon juice. Bob will be home for dinner tomorrow and promises to bring arancini from Pompeii in Little Italy. (No cannoli, though--I've gone back to faking it with ricotta, monkfruit sweetener and rum extract. The shell of the real one I hd last week was sort of an anticlimax).
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I was diagnosed with disk degeneration about 20 years ago, had pain and got an MRI. Mine is lumbar, but since breast cancer I now have an additional level, and also some thoracic bone spurs. I have inconsistent pain, but mine is made worse with sitting - particularly if sitting for an extended time like in a car or plane, and sometimes I have pain upon waking. I haven’t really done much about the issue consistently but have found the stronger I am the less pain I have. I don’t take any consistent pain meds, but have found heat to help a lot.
Dinner last night was forgettable, pork potstickers and some veggie fried rice, after a long day of watching window installation and cleaning up. Not sure what is for dinner tonight - something fast and easy. All the windows are in except one, and the slider is postponed because it arrived damaged
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My back issues are lumber and cervical--the latter began in my late 20s.
So Bob brought home food from Pompeii tonight. The arancini were ultra-meh: mushy, drowning in marinara. Sausage & peppers excellent, forgettable but decent tossed salad, and semi-Sicilian pizza (square, soft crust but not as thick as true Sicilian, at least NY-area-style). I had a 2x6" strip of sausage pizza and 1x6" strip of cheese pizza. No dessert. Maybe some dark chocolate later.
Tomorrow night is Cellars' winemaker dinner--perfect patio-dining weather.
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Dinner at Cellars tonight (with Oak Farms wines from---amazingly--Lodi, CA) was as follows:
Seared day-boat scallops with grilled-peach salsa on spinach.
Apple-serrano ham crostini on baby arugula with hazelnuts.
Rice-and-chorizo-stuffed calamari with romesco sauce.
Thin-sliced grilled skirt steak on acorn squash puree and diced summer squash & peppers.
Brie fondue with spiced appples on cinnamon toast.
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Dinner last night was beef stew cooked in the multi-cooker using different functions. The veggies were the usual--carrots, potatoes and one onion for dh. I cooked green beans with fresh tomato in a separate pot since I didn't include the green beans with the other veggies. DH is a fan of beef stew and we have enough leftovers for another meal.
It was in the mid 50's this morning and it's very windy. I will be skipping women's golf league.
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Glad to hear our gulf coasters made it safely through the storms. Hope to avoid more “big uns” this season.
Food has been happening, if unenthusiastically. Too much carry out for sensible people (which we are obviously not.). Cooking tonight though - jambalaya made with brown rice, andouille, chicken and shrimp (for me only.). Sides will be sliced tomatoes and cucumbers and a piece of garlic bread.
We finally have furniture so will be entertaining the kids and grand-dog Monday. Looking to make Rao’s lemon chicken, possibly a risotto, tomato, cucumber and feta salad and a peach clafoutis. NowI just have to figure out meals for Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
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DD and I donated a unit of blood each this afternoon to be held for DH’s surgery on Tues. I probably didn’t eat enough pre-donation because I am dragging now. I am doing quick sirloins, garlic mashed red potatoes, and Brussels sprouts - all easy and I apparently need the red meat. Took the dog out about an hour ago and had to abandon ship, then again it was 97F and as usual for this time of year, you could cut the air with a knife.
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Thanks for the back support and advice! I know that back my “events” typically resolve themselves back to my usual level of tolerable back pain/dysfunction from my degenerated disk issues. I have been using ice at first along with heavy tylenol dosage since I was nervous about Ibuprofen use for a week or so. And I used arnicare for topical massage. Fortunately, by today, I no longer have the spasms, which emanated from the area of the muscle I strained. So, yay!
I have not been cooking much to avoid standing at the kitchen counters for long periods, but last night managed to make a pasta dish topped with portobello mushrooms parmesan. And I made enough For leftovers, so we had that again tonight while watching the Celtics/Toronto game. DH is a virtual fan for this game, so he’s sneaking some bites when he’s off camera. I was a virtual fan last week, and found it difficult to stay in my seat for such a long time.
Today was our first non chilly day this week...not much summer left in the Lakes Region. We’ll probably head home in ten days
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Lacey12:
I hope you are enjoying your new refrigerator!
You are right, they don't make them like they used to!
I kid you not, the cheese drawer went crashing in to the lower shelf in my refrigerator last night. A few months prior to this, the middle shelf collapsed. The plastic becomes brittle in the cold environment and breaks. The parts in question are ridiculously expensive so I have to attempt the repairs with epoxy (JB Weld). My previous refrigerator literally just died with no warning. It was humming along just fine, keeping things cold, and suddenly did a death shudder and went silent. I had just done a marketing, of course.
Anyway, dinner tonight was no effort chicken noodle soup from the market.
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Hi all! Where does the time go? I made meatloaf again, and it reminded me that was what I made when I last posted. LOL.
I am so glad all is well with all of you and thstorm
My DD2 had lost 35 lbs on keto.ay
My keyboard is only letting typeone letter at a time.sorry. must stop
Much love
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I was all set to fridge-forage (leftover mac & cheese, greens, the last 2 rib tips) when Bob called and said he would be home for a late dinner and volunteered to bring home food from Whole Foods. He went to the prepared food counter and picked out two "entree + 2 sides" dinners. Unfortunately, it hadn't occurred to him that they'd be cold (which is odd, because they are in the same case as premade salads). So he brought home ice cold salmon, meatloaf, green beans, Brussels sprouts, and cold broccoli salad & sweet slaw. I ate the salmon cold, because there was no way to nuke it without ruining it, and reaheating in the toaster oven would take forever. I'm grateful he brought home food so I didn't have to cook from scratch, but figuring out how to bring everything to the right temperature at the same time was stressful.
He's never had to live alone, so he doesn't know how to cook nor even how food "behaves." (We both lived with parents until our wedding day, and moved 3000 miles west the next day--we pretty much came of age together). He's always had his mom, me. our housekeeper, or the nurses at his offices & hospitals do things for him. Gordy wisely decided to move out and rent his own place for a year to acquire independent living skills before moving in with his girlfriend. He taught himself to cook (in addition to what I taught him), clean and do laundry.
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Moonflwr921:
It's a glitch between your device and the website. Try switching to the plain text editor before you type your post by clicking the link to the lower right of the text box.
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That happens to me sometimes on this site Monica. Always after I’m most of the way through the post so I don’t think to use the plain text editor.
Dinner will probably be beef and noodles using up the remains of an earlier this week pot roast unless something else inspires me at the grocery store this morning.
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WC3, well, the refrigerator is not getting rave reviews in this house, tho we were happy that it fit, and it is a relief to know that all of our food is being consistently cooled! And ice cubes are made efficiently.! Yay! You are correct about the inferior quality of the plastic inside, and I keep feeling that the drawer handles are going to crack in my hand! As yet they have not. 😉 One of my neighbors here was just complaining that the freezer of their 3 year old GE two door fridge just stopped working suddenly. She did mention that the Whirlpool we just bought was the only brand made in America these days. Not sure if that’s true. Hopefully, that will mean something good....but I’m not hopeful. Design-wise, I am not so thrilled since on the top shelf where we place our tall items like milk, vinegar, and wine bottles, there is a large temp setting box right at the top middle of the shelf, making it Impossible to use the whole shelf, or to get around the box to use the far side of the shelf.....really annoying! Not sure who the designers of such a fridge are! That’s my (fifty) two cents About a new refrigerator! Rant over.....
About to marinate some chicken that we’ll grill tonight. No idea what else we will have with it, other than salad.
I’m feeling limber enough that I will walk to the beach and Join DH and our neighbors for Friday five oclock cocktail hour. Didn’t go for any earlier sunning since I figured sitting in a beach chair would not be the wisest move.
Have an enjoyable and safe longweekend, everyone.
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Oh,...and yes, Monica, whenever I’ve had those glitches on the site, changing to plain text has always helped.
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Went to brunch this morning. Cellars was out of quiche (and I hadn't thought to bring some low-carb bread for their avocado toast, which they serve on grilled Tuscan white bread), so I had the seared-ahi Salade Niçoise instead (forgot to say "hold the potatoes"). We had to eat indoors due to yellow-jackets getting too up close & personal. Will serve the leftovers tonight with last night's leftovers, and turn the spuds into potato salad for Bob.
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Lacey - thrilled to hear you're up for a walk to the beach. Hope the cocktails are fun
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Well, I never thought I would have anything dinner-wise to share but I do today(!). I finally figured out how to make a good green salad with just oil and vinegar dressing (extra virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar). I bought another plastic container of lettuce (Organic Girl from California) like I always do and most of the time I throw it out. This time I was desperate and thought I'd try another way of making the vinegarette (sp?). So I mixed the leaves in a really big bowl and sprinkled the olive oil over them and mixed them quite well, tasted them and salted them. Then I put the balsamic vinegar into the salad and mixed it quite well. Since I like chopped salad I chopped up some of the salad. Not much but breaking it down. Then I added some chicken salad and avocado slices on top. It really tasted good. I think I'm finally on my way to enjoying my home cooked salad. What a relief. Thanks for listening to all this!
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If you don't want to mess with (and then have to dismantle & clean) a food processor, and don't want to give your arm a workout whisking like crazy, get a manual salad-dressing shaker. (I used to use the Jamie Oliver one with the ceramic ball inside, recommended by ATK, until the plastic housing cracked; so I got the new top-rated--and cheaper--OXO version). These shakers' shapes promote emulsification, whereas a plain jar doesn't keep the oil & acid from separating. The key to making a vinaigrette is to include an emulsifier--I like a litle bit of salt, pepper & Dijon mustard or even a tiny bit of beaten egg--to keep the oil & vinegar (or lemon juice) in suspension; such an emulsion more evenly coats the leaves so that the taste is consistent throughout the salad.
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lacey - lost my post, but was asking how the virtual fan thing works? Our first two homes games for the Buc's will be without fans in the stadium, and wondering if they will do this, or just do crowd noise as they have done with the Rays. Glad your back is feeling better, and fully understand the description of normal dysfunction, have the same situation. I really need to get back to an exercise regimen, it does help me.
cowgirl - hey! Was reading your post about salad dressing, I haven't yet been able to do just oil and vinegar - I am too much of a dressing girl - but yay for you! I have an interesting recipe for a vinaigrette that comes from Bonefish Grill, their citrus vinaigrette. It contains citrus juice and herbs/garlic, and the usual oil and vinegar, but then you boil it in the microwave to emulsify it - which is the only dressing recipe I have seen with that step. I can post the recipe if you think you would be interested. Love the chicken salad and avocado on top - I would be all about that!
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Last night's dinner was grilled loin lamb chops and corn cut off the cob and sauteed with butter. DH did a good job at the grill.
Today is the Labor Day celebration at Pine Hollow Resort, the last hurrah of the summer season. Some folks will be too busy to come back except to winterize. The meat dish will be baby back ribs paid for by the owners and cooked by four different men in their smokers or grills. The side dishes will be pans of cheesy potatoes made with frozen hashbrowns (called funeral potatoes), beans, salads. German chocolate sheet cake for dessert and also brownies. I am making a romaine salad and sausage and chicken jambalaya with white basmati rice. Rice is not popular here in MN/ND where everyone grew up eating potatoes. I rarely cook white rice but opted for it instead of my usual brown rice. The brown jasmine rice I buy in Louisiana isn't available here.
Our next door neighbors, Mary and Lyman (Vietnam vet) are leaving next Friday, returning to Ocala, FL to deal with serious medical issues. Lyman has lung cancer and Mary needs eye surgery for cataracts and to prevent blindness in one eye. The viscous tissue in that eye is attached to and pulling on the retina. Both Mary and Lyman are long time smokers and Lyman is still puffing away as he is faced with removal of one lung.
This morning it was high 40's outside and low 50's inside the camper when I got up. After giving up on dh getting up first. He has been outlasting me. It is supposed to warm up into a sunny high of mid 70's during the day, perfect weather for the Labor Day celebration. After dinner tonight there will be karaoke and the drinking and partying will go on very late for the drinkers and partyers. I gave up on hangovers a number of years ago.
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Good for you, cowgirl! Now that you've mastered your own vinaigrette, you can have fun experimenting with more dressings. I seem to be stuck on my favorite horseradish vinaigrette, using that frequently for our daily side of salads. I also use an OXO shaker for making and keeping my dressings. It sure makes it and keeps the dressings easily.
Special, we had been notified by the Celtics before the first playoff game about the chance to be a virtual fan. I responded for the first game, and DH responded for this past Thursday's one. I think we get the offer since we are season ticket members (gotta keep us hooked in now somehow!:), But I also recently read on a Celtics' fan site that some people have applied to be on through a website about which I was unaware. I will send that to you if I can re-locate it.
I would probably be too technologically challenged to set up my entry to the event, but DH managed that on the day I was assigned. It's weird in its "virtualness". I kind of feel like a floating body in the virtual seat, and you do disappear from sight sometimes. And if you leave your seat for more than a brief time, they replace you with someone who is waiting for a seat.
In this last game, DH Sat through the first half, then gave it to me. I felt more comfortable with the process and watching the game on half of the computer screen this time. But I have to say, I kind of prefer watching it on TV without the distraction of being a virtual fan...in this odd "floating group", where you really don’t know people. Then, the weirdest thing happened, towards the end of the game, all of a sudden I heard someone greet me with my formal name...Hey, Mrs.________! It’s kind of hard to see who all the people in your section are so I had no idea who knew I was there in this virtual scene. So after getting over my shock, I asked who it was, and the person said his name....and I could not remember who that was, (old brain!)so asked him to raise his hand so I could see where he was. Ah ha! It was a guy who is married to one of my son’s good friends....I know her but hardly know him. I was glad I could then greet him and move on. No idea how he recognized that I was there in his virtual section, but it felt so strange to have this virtual experience blend with real life, with someone calling out my name among 30 floating virtual fans. Not sure if we will get any more invites to attend, but if the Cs make it to the finals, that would be kind of a nice experience, hopefully never to need to be repeated!The NBA is obviously trying to plan for their future, given these uncertain times, and sending out virtual fan satisfaction surveys about this experiment. It looks like they are hoping to make it a fee based opportunity in the future if they need to continue with empty arenas
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