So...whats for dinner?
Comments
-
Glad to learn that you are safe and warm, Carole! I hope things remain that way for you over these next days.
Thank you, Carole and Special for the Pfizer SE feedback!
This past weekend I decided to make a meal with grits to bring to DS2’s family since they are without a kitchen for the next few months and I’m going to try to make a few meals to make their life easier. Were I them, I would probably have delayed the kitchen project until they could go to restaurants again, or were not eating every meal at home due to remote work. Anyway...DDIL2 is southern so I thought a grits meal would be nice, but she doesn’t eat seafood....so no shrimp and grits.
After a bit of googly research, I found a chicken and grits casserole I decided to make. We had it the night I made it, and I found it a bit too much after mixing all the grits and cheeses and sour cream. But that may also be my typical reaction to eating something I’ve cooked all day. We also ate it two days later and I enjoyed it more then! The report from the constantly being renovated house residents is that they also liked it. Next I’ll make something more familiar...lasagna, which I know they eat, and then maybe turkey chili, and the turkey/kale meatballs they enjoyed recently. Always a challenge for me to cook meals for DDIL who is such a selective eater...and DS2 who is the non-mammal eater. Oy! Yet their toddler has yet to meet a food she doesn’t enjoy scarfing down! Tonight I’m making chicken....probably marsala since I have mushrooms on hand. Salad will be the side along with spaghetti squash
I hope everyone is able to remain safe and warm until the awful weather pattern passes. Hope to hear from Minus soon!
-
Hope all you TX, LA, MO & points SW sisters (and brother) are staying safe and have enough layers & blankets. Got up to 23 here today, another couple inches of snow expected overnight into tomorrow. Bob made it home today but didn't want to chance getting stuck in the alley (the city doesn't plow them) so parked on-street. HK made it out to take her DH to & from dialysis, and will street-park here tomorrow (we'll use my Outback for the trip to & from the nail salon because if I drove myself I might not be able to park there; en route home I will drop her off at her car).
It's Ash Wed., so Bob insists on fish. So I got a tuna poke bowl delivered with our groceries, which I will supplement with canned crab bisque, Asian slaw & veggies. Comes with brown rice & avocado. Might make my share of the tuna into fish tacos with low-carb whole wheat tortillas. One pazcki (apricot) remaining, which Bob says he'll eat in the morning (however stale it'll be). They don't freeze well. Resisted ordering hamantashen--the grocery sells only the cookie-dough kind, and so does the bakery that made the pazcki. If they're not yeast-raised, they're not "carb-worthy."
-
Thanks to everyone for thinking of me. I'm OK. We lost power Sunday night & didn't come back on until Tuesday. I was able to get the house warmed back up from 45 degrees (brrrr), then power went out again this morning. No phone since Monday morning so no internet, since I use a desk top with a DSL line. But no power anyway, so... Luckily I have lots of sweaters & quilts. And battery hurricane camping lanterns, so I could sit in my recliner & read. We have no water but fortunately no burst pipes either. In Houston pipes are in the attics and outside walls with no insulation. Seems most of my neighbors have had ceilings come down. I ate all the perishables (think salad & fruit) the first two days. I remembered hurricane times and drew several gallons of water for kitchen use before we lost the water & all my buckets full so I can flush commodes. Fortunately I have a gas cook top so I've been able to heat water and make such delicacies as egg drop soup and grilled cheese sandwiches and omelettes. Lunch was a can of BeenieWeenies. At least two more nights in the 20s. Fingers crossed my pipes hold.
-
Yay, nice to see you minus! Sounds like an ordeal but very glad you were prepared.
-
So glad to hear the update Minus and that you are hanging in there, so to speak. My nephew's family in Dallas had to go to a warming center for a bit due to their 3 month old infant. In pictures she just looked like the cutest bundle, but scary to have to worry about heat.
Tonight was Ranch baked chicken, coleslaw and baked sweet potatos. Tomorrow will be Chili. We have ice and snow coming in so appropriate.
-
Glad to hear from you Minus and happy to hear you were so prepared! Stay warm my friends
-
Adding to the good to hear from you Minus..
Glad you're OK.
Stay warm, everyone.
-
DH was chef last night and re-created a HelloFresh kit meal that we had enjoyed. Among the ingredients were Italian sausage and big tube pasta. It was good again and very good to have him do the cooking.
Today is gray and gloomy and cold outside, but warm and comfortable inside.
Yesterday I returned to the gym and was very happy to walk 30 minutes on the treadmill. It was early afternoon and the gym was almost empty. This afternoon I'm hoping to attend the Chair Yoga class for the first time in weeks. I stopped going to the gym when our covid positives rose in this parish/county. It's now two weeks since my second vaccine shot so I'm venturing out again.
Glad you are faring ok, Minus.
-
Had power long enough last evening that dinner was chicken corn chowder made in the Instant Pot. Eric, still planning to make your Lasagna Soup when I can use the cooktop to cook the pasta!
-
So glad to know that Minus’ survivalist skills are working well for her to withstand the Texas weather crisis. May it pass soon!
We are entering another snow phase, which unless we get 2 feet is just an annoyance here.
I am enjoying hearing about your DH’s cooking adventures, Carole. If my back doesn’t get better my DH may need to move in that direction. His interests in cooking/baking are pretty hilarious. Right now, for some reason, he is smitten with the idea of making a king cake. ????? So he is off at the grocery store buying ingredients (along with the throng of pre-snow storm panicking milk and bread shoppers!) to make a king cake. I am just rolling with this. Lent observers would probably be horrified at his late showing on this interest.
Oh.....and if any of you who bake (you know who you are....) have advice or a favorite recipe for king cake baking, please share. He has (independently) been watching lots of videos to learn how to make one. So far I am just watching him become obsessed with this new interest.
We ended up having rosemary/balsamic grilled chicken last night with a cuke salad and more roasted veggies. DH was motivated to shovel out a path to the grill which had been snowed in for several weeks. I appreciate having that option for dinner prep -
https://www.swankyrecipes.com/mardi-gras-cream-cheese-king-cake.html.
Lacey, I’ve always used KAF’s recipe with excellent results but this time I used simple recipe from Pinterest that was pretty easy and tasted pretty darned good.
-
MinusTwo! I came to look to see if you were okay, and so glad to hear that you are! Once your house gets heat, it will warm up that attic pretty nicely, but without 😳, not so good. Glad to see that Illimae and Beaverntx are faring well also! Mae, I cracked up when I read you said you had all the essentials, including booze. Still a little concerned about JavaJana in Woodville, because she hasn't posted but BCO says she signed on today, so that's a good sign. I'll PM her.
Like you, I'm grateful for a gas stove. At least we weren't hungry AND cold. Our eldest daughter (33 years old today) has an all electric house, so I'm buying her a propane stove TODAY. Fortunately they had neighbor friends with a generator who helped them out greatly.
-
minus - glad you aren't frozen! And that you have a gas stove! Crossing my fingers that your pipes stay good - we were stationed in central CA during an unseasonably cold snap - down to 18 F - right as all the guys left for the first Gulf War, and many wives were dealing with burst pipes in the ceilings/crawlspaces - my DH was not yet deployed so he ran from house to house helping clean up wet ceilings that had come down and fixing broken irrigation pipes. One wife had a dog that was having puppies as all this was going on...
Yay for all our other Texans being ok, and prepared with alcohol! Smart!
lacey - is your DH also purchasing a small plastic baby to put in the King cake?
Dinner tonight is an unknown. I cleaned the stove all ready to have it pulled out today so I could donate it. Apparently the appliance store has the incorrect email for the external installation folks, so they never got the word. I finally called and while my sales guy thought I had an install today, the actual installation people were totally unaware, lol! Long story short - had to put the stove back together and the new one now is coming on Monday. Don't really want to cook on it though because it is super clean, so maybe we will grill this weekend and have salads or things done in the oven until Monday.
-
Gordy's fiancee's parents in Katy still had water, power & heat as of last night (they may be just outside the TX grid). I'm hoping my sis in the DC burbs of northern VA doesn't get ice-storm slammed. We're slowly digging out; on my roofer's wait-list for raking and ice-dam breakup (he's serving only existing customers--he did a new roof for us in 2010). Our roofs are pitched & gabled; the only flat one is a reinforced "IRMA" (rubber membrane) over the rear of the attic. Gordy & Leslie's back door froze shut so that he couldn't take the dog out to the yard, so he had to walk her at 4 a.m. Doggy-daycare is closed too, and their alley is as messed-up as ours anyway (Leslie's SUV notwithstanding).
Dinner tonight will be seafood Posillipo Bob's bringing home from the Palm: lobster, shrimp, crab, clams & mussels in spicy broth, sort of like zuppa di pesce. The Palm's portions are huge, so we'll share. This'll buy me time to defrost a couple of wild salmon filets for tomorrow night. (He's observing Lent, as in complying with it; I'm "observing" as in watching him and eating whatever protein I want. He's still guilt-ridden about having had eggs Benedict yesterday morning and not stopping at the hospital chapel to get "ashed" via Q-tip).
-
Beesey - thanks for the Houston update. Did you hear from Java?
Not to jinx anything, but we have now had power for 24 hours and 10 minutes. After no water for those same 24 hours, we now have a trickle. Enough to fill a jug with more commode flushing water if you're patient - but boil orders will probably last until Monday. High today is up to 38 but back to 23 tonight.
Lunch was a can of clam chowder from Boudins Bakery in San Francisco. And I baked a loaf of sourdough bread. I found some 'shelf stable', organic, "bake it at home", non-GMO, sourdough bread at Costco last month. Comes 3 loaves to a box by The Essential Baking Company. It was pretty good. Not quite the same 'tang' as real San Francisco sourdough, but better than La Brea or Parisian. Best thing is that it lives on the shelf 6 month so a great emergency ration.
-
Mae - Happy Birthday weekend. Hope you have a great time!!!
-
Thanks minus! Tomorrow we’re having burritas and ritas. No party, just our houseguest and 1 friend. 45 pretty much sucked with everything last year threw at me, I’m hoping 46 will be nice.
Also, power has been back on for more than 24 hours straight, we are warm and well supplied, I just hope specs didn’t run out of tequila, lol
-
Mae, may you have power, water, heat and libations for your birthday!
I'm getting tired of snow every day, but hey--this is Chicago. Our first winter here was the Blizzard of '79. My first band's debut gig in 1982 was on a -23F Saturday night. We hit our all-time record low--minus 26F--when Gordy was three months old and we were stuck inside. We trudged to a 2015 Super Bowl party using ski poles through a blizzard with 3-ft. drifts. We complain, but forget that by & large, this city is built for brutal winters, stifling summers, rolling blackouts during heat waves, and at least one day per spring or summer huddled terrified in the basement watching online weather radar maps for tornadoes. It's a bit tougher this year when COVID precautions keep us from being able to resort to public transit while our cars are snowed in, but we can ride it out.
OTOH, Texas is not prepared for this unforeseen and unforeseeable once-in-a-millennium freakish weather. It never before had to be. Its leaders' perversely independent streak has come back to bite them and penalize their constituents. There was no reason for their wind turbines to fail--they don't fail here in the Midwest, not even the upper Midwest and Canada's prairie provinces--and they supply only 13% of TX's power. Panicked dire predictions that the Green New Deal would make it worse fail to consider that solar power requires only sunlight, not heat. (Antarctica uses solar power). Heat pumps draw heat from all but the very coldest air--and store it. The stubborn self-reliance that led to TX having its own power grid made it impossible to buy energy from neighboring states, the way those of us in the Midwest/Northeast and Pacific grids can.
Oh, yeah--dinner. Bob brought home seafood Posillipo, but the lobster was overcooked. Tasty, but too flaky to extract neatly from the claws & knuckles (poorly cracked, to boot). He bought two orders, so the second one is tomorrow's dinner. It didn't come with a pasta for the broth, so I'll nuke him some spaghetti and spiralize myself some zucchini (or do what I did tonight: sop it up with a slice of low carb high fiber bread). One bright side of those huge snow piles out on the deck: I put the shells in a plastic bag which I tied up and tossed onto the snow pile so they don't stink up our kitchen garbage. I know I should make stock from the shells, but what am I gonna use it for anyway?
-
Yup ChiSandy - lots of problems (and assholes) in Texas. But lots of problems everywhere. I don't think that political angles belong on the dinner thread, so I have no other comment.
Let's get back to basics. Let's talk about what we're actually cooking or baking or stewing or roasting all by ourselves. What are we making & cooking in our own kitchens with our own two hands. Many of us haven't been out to a restaurant or ordered take out since COVID hit. We've learned to make new things and it's just not the same as ordering out all the time. Once again - I REALLY miss Susan and her fresh bread every day. Special & Nance & Lacey & Mae are cooking. And Eric - what are you cooking?.
-
Yes, Mae, Happy Birthday!
Dinner was meatloaf, nuked sweet potato, green peas. Too cold in the house for green salad.
-
If Bob didn't have to work nearly every day, he wouldn't be able to pick up curbside takeout. Chicago is now permitting indoor dining at the lesser of 40% capacity or 50 people, but I don't quite feel safe yet doing that in places without high-power air-exchange ventilation systems, at least not till after my second shot. (The weather has also been a factor--duh--and our favorite places have yet to reopen, even for takeout). I'm fridge-and-freezer-foraging most of the time anyway, especially when it's just me. (Easier to "eat clean" that way too).
-
Tonight we had pork country style ribs, roasted cauliflower and salad. DH does meat pretty well but overcooks the steaks, so I usually grill those.
The opossum we heard looking for scraps out by the grill got a plate of old dog food from our little ones emergency bag (he passed in 2019). I know the critters are cold too but I’m not bringing them in, we will help them out though.
-
ChiSandy: Save your shells for stock and make risotto or a fisherman stew. I miss having someone put the food in front of me then cart away the dirty dishes but I am not ready for indoor dinner, even though I think it it is only 25% here. Most of my favourite places are still just take-away.
Last night's dinner: Baby back ribs in the Instant pot, mashed roasted cauliflower/roasted garlic, green beans from last summer's garden.
-
Mae, Happy Birthday! And may 46 be a much more gentle year for you, indeed! You have weathered a lot and your zest for life is delightful! I’m so happy for your visiting opossum.
The snow gods just sent a teaser here this time, so we feel very thankful. And now DH can continue to focus on his king cake baking experiment. We are negotiating how much I should be involved. LOL We have such different approaches to kitchen creating. Hmmmmm. To be determined..... ;]
Nance, thanks for your recipe suggestions! He's still deciding!! And, Special, we sure do have “the baby". We have enough babies now to share with anyone else who wants to engage in this late-timed baking effort!Yesterday I made lasagna for us and for DS2's kitchenless crew, which I'll deliver today or tomorrow. I made the meat sauce with ground turkey and added eggplant to our layers. We had “some of" ours with a salad last night.
Tonight we'll have “jump ups" (did we ever recall who introduced that term to our thread?) since that's what exists in our fridge. Yay!
Sending warm thoughts to all who are dealing with the extreme weather.
-
lacey - it was seasidememories way back in 2013, the term came from someone she knew many years before and refers to "jump up and get your own" leftovers out of the fridge.
illimae - Happy Birthday - and may this be a better year - you do indeed deserve one! Also thanking you on behalf of the opossum, he prob said jackpot!
-
Echoing the birthday wishes illimae. You deserve a good one. Cheers!
Possums are the good guys. They eat ticks!
Lacey, DH does understand that a king cake is basically just a big cinnamon roll doesn't he? Of course down south they come in many delicious flavor variations. Please let us know how it turns out. I'm tickled that he's so enthusiastic about the project.
DH wants homemade pizza tonight but I think I’ll put it off until tomorrow night so I can do an overnight rise crust. That leaves me in the what’s for dinner quandary. I think maybe oven baked thick pork chops and cornbread stuffing and apples. I’m feeling like lemon meringue pie tomorrow because I have a single pie crust in the fridge ready to be rolled out.
-
Dinner plans for tonight are for "planned overs": corn chowder for each of us, raspberry chipotle pork tenderloin with roasted potatoes for DH, meatloaf and green peas for me. Salad is not yet decided as we still do not have water or propane., making it hard to wash greens or boil water to do so! May just have an apple. Snow is mostly melted and fingers crossed below freezing temps over night don't turn the roads into skating rinks.
-
As a (mostly) low-carber, I never make risotto. I eat it only rarely, in a tasting portion as part of a multi-course dinner out. I don't do stews of any kind, either. At one point, my freezer was full of crustacean shells, with no room for the food I needed to store; and I don't make stocks either because there's no room for containers of it in the fridge or freezer. My freezer has an icemaker, and there's no level surface to put an ice tray full of stock to freeze into cubes. When I cook, we tend to eat our meats & fish plain, with pan sauces and some veggie on the side. Sometimes a stir-fry with leftovers. (I'm a bit more adventurous for breakfasts/brunches). I'm no longer an adventurous cook, in no small part because there's just the two of us (and sometimes Bob is so late that he decides to eat at the hospital, so it's just me), it's no longer safe to have guests over, and we're lucky enough to afford to order out (and dine out when it's restaurant-patio weather). I cooked a lot more before dieting, and when Gordy lived with us,
Tonight, though, Bob had sourdough and I low-carb bread to soak up the broth from the second order of seafood Posillipo. For veg., sauteed julienned tricolor bell peppers. (We ate the entire "Gigi" salad as last night's appetizer).
-
Burritos moved to tomorrow, tonight is stuffed pork loin with kale and broccoli/cauliflower.
-
Yum Mae. Thanks again for calling to check on me. I hope you will have a fantastic entire weekend long B-daze celebration.
For dinner I made two green chili cheese enchiladas with flour tortillas, served with LOTS of sour cream. And I ate them both.
Got my 2nd Pfizer vaccine 8 hours ago. So far no side effects except a tiny bit of swelling at the injection site in my thigh. Not sore at all unless I thump on it.
Categories
- All Categories
- 679 Advocacy and Fund-Raising
- 289 Advocacy
- 68 I've Donated to Breastcancer.org in honor of....
- Test
- 322 Walks, Runs and Fundraising Events for Breastcancer.org
- 5.6K Community Connections
- 282 Middle Age 40-60(ish) Years Old With Breast Cancer
- 53 Australians and New Zealanders Affected by Breast Cancer
- 208 Black Women or Men With Breast Cancer
- 684 Canadians Affected by Breast Cancer
- 1.5K Caring for Someone with Breast cancer
- 455 Caring for Someone with Stage IV or Mets
- 260 High Risk of Recurrence or Second Breast Cancer
- 22 International, Non-English Speakers With Breast Cancer
- 16 Latinas/Hispanics With Breast Cancer
- 189 LGBTQA+ With Breast Cancer
- 152 May Their Memory Live On
- 85 Member Matchup & Virtual Support Meetups
- 375 Members by Location
- 291 Older Than 60 Years Old With Breast Cancer
- 177 Singles With Breast Cancer
- 869 Young With Breast Cancer
- 50.4K Connecting With Others Who Have a Similar Diagnosis
- 204 Breast Cancer with Another Diagnosis or Comorbidity
- 4K DCIS (Ductal Carcinoma In Situ)
- 79 DCIS plus HER2-positive Microinvasion
- 529 Genetic Testing
- 2.2K HER2+ (Positive) Breast Cancer
- 1.5K IBC (Inflammatory Breast Cancer)
- 3.4K IDC (Invasive Ductal Carcinoma)
- 1.5K ILC (Invasive Lobular Carcinoma)
- 999 Just Diagnosed With a Recurrence or Metastasis
- 652 LCIS (Lobular Carcinoma In Situ)
- 193 Less Common Types of Breast Cancer
- 252 Male Breast Cancer
- 86 Mixed Type Breast Cancer
- 3.1K Not Diagnosed With a Recurrence or Metastases but Concerned
- 189 Palliative Therapy/Hospice Care
- 488 Second or Third Breast Cancer
- 1.2K Stage I Breast Cancer
- 313 Stage II Breast Cancer
- 3.8K Stage III Breast Cancer
- 2.5K Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
- 13.1K Day-to-Day Matters
- 132 All things COVID-19 or coronavirus
- 87 BCO Free-Cycle: Give or Trade Items Related to Breast Cancer
- 5.9K Clinical Trials, Research News, Podcasts, and Study Results
- 86 Coping with Holidays, Special Days and Anniversaries
- 828 Employment, Insurance, and Other Financial Issues
- 101 Family and Family Planning Matters
- Family Issues for Those Who Have Breast Cancer
- 26 Furry friends
- 1.8K Humor and Games
- 1.6K Mental Health: Because Cancer Doesn't Just Affect Your Breasts
- 706 Recipe Swap for Healthy Living
- 704 Recommend Your Resources
- 171 Sex & Relationship Matters
- 9 The Political Corner
- 874 Working on Your Fitness
- 4.5K Moving On & Finding Inspiration After Breast Cancer
- 394 Bonded by Breast Cancer
- 3.1K Life After Breast Cancer
- 806 Prayers and Spiritual Support
- 285 Who or What Inspires You?
- 28.7K Not Diagnosed But Concerned
- 1K Benign Breast Conditions
- 2.3K High Risk for Breast Cancer
- 18K Not Diagnosed But Worried
- 7.4K Waiting for Test Results
- 603 Site News and Announcements
- 560 Comments, Suggestions, Feature Requests
- 39 Mod Announcements, Breastcancer.org News, Blog Entries, Podcasts
- 4 Survey, Interview and Participant Requests: Need your Help!
- 61.9K Tests, Treatments & Side Effects
- 586 Alternative Medicine
- 255 Bone Health and Bone Loss
- 11.4K Breast Reconstruction
- 7.9K Chemotherapy - Before, During, and After
- 2.7K Complementary and Holistic Medicine and Treatment
- 775 Diagnosed and Waiting for Test Results
- 7.8K Hormonal Therapy - Before, During, and After
- 50 Immunotherapy - Before, During, and After
- 7.4K Just Diagnosed
- 1.4K Living Without Reconstruction After a Mastectomy
- 5.2K Lymphedema
- 3.6K Managing Side Effects of Breast Cancer and Its Treatment
- 591 Pain
- 3.9K Radiation Therapy - Before, During, and After
- 8.4K Surgery - Before, During, and After
- 109 Welcome to Breastcancer.org
- 98 Acknowledging and honoring our Community
- 11 Info & Resources for New Patients & Members From the Team