So...whats for dinner?

MinusTwo

Goldie - i've been following you on another thread and OH MY you've been through the wringer. Glad you're back on regular food again - even if it is soft food. And glad that you'll get to leave the hospital - maybe tonight?. Good that you have a friend to stay with so you don't have to make that long drive immediately. Holding you in my thoughts.

Met my nephew & family for early dinner at a new Japanese restaurant. Of course I had to read the menu on line first since he is a vegan. I was psyched for a shrimp tempura meal - nope only on week days for lunch. I was looking forward to green tea ice cream - nope only a green tea mochi. Ended up sharing some vegetarian goyza and calamari for appetizers. I had an Udon noodle dish. The 7 year old had seaweed salad. Her Mom had a Ramen with beef & chicken & fish & shrimp & etc...Food was OK & we're all full, but probably not worth going back unless we are going to have sushi.

eric95us

Goldie, I'm glad you're getting better.

Would you like Sharon and I to check your place?

carolehalston

Goldie, hope you are back to eating as soon as possible.

Minus, at least the company was good.

I was weary yesterday afternoon after doing the farmers market the first half of the day. We had mashed potato salad and hamburgers without buns for dinner. Simple and satisfying.

goldie0827

Eric, that is very kind of you, thank you. My neighbor has been doing that for me, plus I have cameras. I'll be heading home this morning. I'm meeting that same friend in Payson (half way), she is meeting with her daughter and exchanging out grand kids. So I will follow them.

Ribs, potato salad, cole slaw, and baked beans......summer foods, yum!

wallycat

Goldie, I was stunned to read about your situation but happy that all is good now. Do they know why it impacted? I suspect they sent you home with instructions. Scary stuff.

I made a hodge podge of stuff: venison roast in the crockpot with onion/mushroom gravy, sushi rice and roasted cauliflower.
Tonight, I'll fix rock fish and have the rice and the cauli as sides.

Our local QFC was selling copper river salmon for 12.95/# but it looked so sad, I skipped it. Maybe they'll have it flash frozen and sealed for sale this year, which is when I'll stock up.

I'll be watching 2 neighbors' yards while they travel so maybe I'll lose some weight. Or I can indulge in a bag of chips...my heroin of choice. I have a bag of blue-potato chips sitting on the counter for our anniversary celebration on Bastille Day. Funny how the small things can make me happy these days.

Editing: corn on the cob will replace the rice tonight. I'll poach eggs and serve it with the rice tomorrow.

ChiSandy

Friday night we went to Jameson's Charhouse in Skokie. We started with Manhattan clam chowder (I "ate around" the potato chunks) and then split a classic wedge salad. My entree was "Greek-style" wild-caught halibut & asparagus (instead of rice pilaf). Alas, the fish had definitely been floured before cooking. Sigh. Bob had his usual filet mignon but also opted for veg rather than starch.

Last night Bob worked late, so I grilled walleye filets (with chimichurri sauce), half-rings of Delicata squash (salt, pepper, cinnamon & nutmeg--the recipe also called for maple syrup but the squash is sweet enough on its own) and the asparagus left over from Friday night's dinner. I had a fish fillet and half the squash left over, so that was Bob's midnight snack.

I can't help carb-loading late at night--the tastes & textures of sweets and crackers comfort and distract me from my worsening sciatica, backaches, foot and hip pain. (PT seems to be aggravating it). I haven't stepped on a scale in weeks because I'm afraid to. Dreading my Wed. weigh-in and scolding. (Still on the waiting list for psychological counseling...nearly a year and counting). Seeing a new podiatrist tomorrow. Hope I can get some sympathetic answers rather than a runaround.

Tonight I will probably either nuke hot wings or grill a couple of chicken brats on keto buns with kraut. (Had a keto bagel for brunch with lox, schmear, and the trimmings--keto bagel was fairly tasteless but a good lox-and-schmear delivery device with fewer carbs than low-carb whole grain bread and better texture than keto white bread). Yesterday's brunch was a 2-egg + 1 white veg & Swiss omelet with a turkey sausage. (The white was left over from Friday's 2-egg + 1 yolk French herb/chevre omelet).

illimae

Tonight DH made his creamy garlic Brussels sprouts, he had pork chops with his and I pan seared mahi mahi for myself, both were delicious. Tomorrow is my 2nd cycle of Enhertu and while I certainly plan to control nausea and vomiting better this time, it’s unlikely I’ll be doing much cooking and eating from about this Wednesday through next.

MinusTwo

Mae - wising you an easy Enhertu infusion & LOTS fewer side effects this time.

keywestfan

Sandy, trouble with being vegetarian is I can’t find anything at Jameson’s, except a salad, though haven’t been there since pre- Covid when we’d go to Northlight. Went to Hot Tameles in Highland Park last night for Queso Fundido, jicama and double avocado salad, black beans with bananas. My favorite these days is Big Jones, but that’s all carb loading with biscuits, popovers, neither of which I can resist. Weight stays the same though.

What I was interested in though was your saying PT might be aggravating hip pain. I am very impressed with my PT, Katlin, but she works me hard for my left knee( which she thinks has full ROM and has nothing very wrong with) and with the muscles and tendons of left leg. I am very sore the day after I’ve seen her and the next day can barely walk. I’m going to cut back on the exercises and try walking fewer than my 10,000 steps. It’s too painful to limp along like this. Also, still struggling with my reluctance to use a walking stick or cane, negotiating curbs and such. Know she’s right that I need to. I suppose I think that after 8 weeks of PT, I should be in less pain, walking better than when I started. Have 3 sessions left, then will maybe go back to Skokie Ortho clinic.

Also, wanted to ask if stopping Letrozole has made any difference in joint pain( or in anything else.)

carolehalston

I couldn't think of anything I wanted to cook for dinner last night and it was too hot to cook anything inside. I had boiled eggs in the refrigerator, also celery, and packets of tuna in a kitchen cabinet. So I made tuna salad. Also romaine salad. So we had salad with salad for dinner.

Today is supposed to be another hot day with temperatures in the 90's. Tonight a cool front collides with the heat and moisture to create storms, possibly dangerous ones. I always hate the mention of baseball sized hail when the truck sits outside.

Hope you have an easier time with the second treatment, Illimae.

goldie0827

Wallycat, corn on the cob with poached eggs?

Illimae, would love the creamy brussel sprouts recipe please. They look so yummy! Wishing you all the best on your next treatment and keeping that nausea away.

Took me 45 minutes to drive my 6 mile dirt road, which usually takes 25. The bowels were obstructed. Scar tissue had grown around the bowels and twisting them. Also part of the bowel had adhered to my abdominal wall. Emergency surgery, NG tube down my nose, throat and into the stomach. You should have seen what was coming out of there! I will leave there, since this is a food thread! Incision about 8". Surgeon said I could come back in 2 weeks, that means staples will have been in for 3 weeks. I'm thinking that is way too long! Dinner was a tuna fish sandwich and some chips.

wallycat

Goldie, the corn was with the rockfish and roasted cauliflower. Tonight, I'll use up the leftover rice, mushroom gravy, add what fish we have left (not much) and flesh it out with a poached egg over it, almost like a "bowl" presentation, with whatever veggies are leftover or I can find.
I can't believe your ordeal. I'm glad you're on the other side of the situation and hope you recuperate quickly.

Illimae, I'm sending good thoughts that your next treatment will be easier and that it kills those nasty cancer cells.

Language question: is it a regional thing to say "tuna fish?" No one ever says salmon fish, sardine fish or grouper fish...or do they?

MinusTwo

Wally - interesting question about tuna. I was raised in CA. Have lived in Utah, New Mexico & Texas. I've stayed with friends or family in all of the Western states - including long stretches in Hawaii. When talking about sandwiches, my Mom usually said tuna fish. Salad might be tuna salad or tuna fish salad. But of course if you're going to have a lovely tuna steak, it's just tuna. I love word use questions.

Edited to add, perhaps it has something to do with whether it is fresh fish or canned tuna?

eric95us

Tuna, can refer to a prickly pear.

And in some parts of the US (Brooklyn), asking for tuna, might result in a piano tuner showing up. :-)

MinusTwo

Love it Eric - LOL.

102 degrees so no cooking. Dinner was a serving of a 2 avocado guacamole with Rotel Tomatoes & Chilies since I didn't have any fresh tomatoes. I still added a large dollop of Mrs. Renfro's Green Chili Salsa. On the side - 1/2 a cup of leftover fried rice. Served with HEB Deli Rosemary Crackers and the last of a Yellowtail wine (not to be dignified with a name & should have been poured it down the sink). Desert was two of Mrs.Tate's Buttercrunch Cookies. If you haven't tried Mrs.Tate's cookies yet, they are delicious. My BFF swears by the coconut. But VERY expensive so take your credit card.

Goldie- so glad you are home & starting to recover. What a long, unexpected episode. I trust you are treating yourself gently !!!!!

Jazzy - I hope you're just changing positions and not changing employers?? As we head towards retirement, major changes are NOT fun.

goldie0827

Eric, is something going over my head? Which isn't unusual. My DH always told me I needed a zoom net to catch those things and then determined my "zoom" net had a hole in it. Then he would tease me and call me scarecrow, and tell me everything will be ok, we'll get you some more straw! I've not heard of tuna being called prickly pear. I do get the piano tuner tho, I caught that one!

Minus, I don't think Jazzy posts here. You're in the wrong lounge, I mean on the wrong thread. Musta been the Yellowtail!

eric95us

Spanish word for the fruit of a prickly pear cactus.

illimae

Goldie, I found the recipe pretty quick, enjoy!

ChiSandy

I always thought "tuna fish" referred to tuna salad sandwiches; when used in tapas, vitello tonnato, salade Niçoise, pan bagnat or pissaladière, even canned tuna is referred to as just "tuna." And the fresh stuff? Around these parts, it's "ahi," whether seared, tartare, poke or carpaccio. And Eric, in Boston as well as Brooklyn, "tuna" is the other component, besides "amplifyah." in a "receivah."

Last night I made Caesar salad (not grilled), and a grilled grass-fed bison Polish sausage (back in Brooklyn, we called them "specials") on a keto bun with sauerkraut and kosher-deli mustard--working my way through a jar of Ba-Tamp-Te. Then Bob brought home wings (fried "naked" with sauce on the side) with celery sticks & ranch.

Brunch today (after 3pm, since I left the house at 10 sans breakfast or coffee and my podiatrist appt. out in the near-boonies took forever) was a fried egg, and one slice each of bacon & low-carb/hi-fiber toast. Tonight I skillet-blistered shishito peppers, then made a charcuterie plate with country paté, jamòn Iberico (a gift from the kids), very ripe Brie, and 10-yr-old cheddar. Followed it up with some more wings & celery. Speaking of veg., I harvested my first tomato--a large cherry that had ripened to orange, so I rescued it from the squirrels. It's ripening on the sill.

aussie12

Goldie sorry to hear about your illness and surgery. I have bowel cancer and have had 3 surgeries on my bowel and it's not nice at all. Hope that you recover quickly.

Have been eating spaghetti Bolognaise, chicken patties, wedges and vegies. Not very exciting but I don't have much taste sometimes.

carolehalston

Meatloaf Monday at Clancy's last night. DH chose the meatloaf and I had nachos. We both had iced tea and were impressed with how not ordering alcoholic drinks lowers the bill. We enjoyed our martinis prior to driving the mile to Clancy's.

We're thankful this morning that our thunderstorms last night weren't the violent variety. No hail to pummel our pickup parked out in the open.

goldie0827

Ha ha Wallycat, good question regarding "tuna fish", you make a valid point, however, I don't an answer!

Eric, thanks for tuna lesson!

"Native to Mexico, the nopal cactus is sometimes called prickly pear cactus, but the plant's Latin name is Opuntia. In Spanish, cactus fruit are called tunas. The fruit grows on the rounded edges of cactus paddles and has a thick skin covered in small spines."

Illimae, thanks a heap for the recipe. I'm going to share it with my brother and daughter. We LOVE brussells!

Sandy, enjoy that mater!

Aussie, and everyone else, thank you for the kind words re my surgery. I'm recovering very well! Aussie, I'm sorry about your bowel cancer and hope your prognosis is good.

Carole, many years ago, that happened to my DH's truck, dimpled the whole thing. He was so upset by it, couldn't look at it, so he sold it!

More tuna yesterday, as I make 2 cans. I like to mix regular with white, I don't like either by themself.

ChiSandy

I like to make my tuna salad with olive-oil-packed (Cento, Pastene or the line-caught stuff sold at WF), and use the oil itself plus a little lemon juice instead of mayo. I add chopped celery, celery seed, parsley, and fresh dill. We don't even keep water-packed or "vegetable-oil-packed" tuna in the house any more--it just doesn't taste as good, especially on its own atop a green or Niçoise salad. The water-or-veg.oil-packed stuff is loaded with additives & chemicals (soy protein isolate, MSG, salt), and is usually not sustainably-caught.

Brunch today was an olive-oil-fried egg, small piece of buttered low carb/hi-fiber toast, 2 turkey sausage links, and half a tomato broiled with Parm-Regg. and herbes de Provence over a Little Gem lettuce leaf.

wallycat

Sandy, that's a great idea on no mayo. DH prefers mayo, which I can take or leave. Hate draining the tuna since any omega-3s are bound in there. My favorite "tuna product" is tuna belly. For canned tuna, if I get albacore, Ortiz is amazing (sadly, the price lets you know that) and I use that in tuna salad. Otherwise, Ventresca (tuna belly) is my favorite (again Ortiz brand) for eating as is, no mashing it up. For "every day" tuna, I buy Genova yellowfin stuff. All of it, in olive oil.

Frozen burger with slaw and the last of the rice. I'm just reading cooked rice shouldn't be kept more than a day because it can grow some nasty toxin/bacteria. I'm on day 3.

ChiSandy

I forgot about Genova. Definitely delicious. The other line-caught stuff from WF is Pole & Line (be careful because the company also makes a tuna cat food)!. They also have Wild Planet canned without water or oil.

Just too hot out to walk anywhere, sit on a patio, stand over a grill or heat up the kitchen. Tired of driving--it was 100F to & from PT & the Evanston Hosp. lab for my CBC draw; and I'm also trying to conserve gas. Bob agreed. We had some roe (salmon, golden whitefish, American sturgeon) and sour cream in the fridge--so I toasted a couple blini for Bob & 0-net-carb white bread rounds for me, and supplemented with Finn-Crisp for him and Atkins crispbread for me. Will likely put together a Caesar with tomatoes, olives & sardines if we're still hungry. No Niçoise, because I have neither spuds nor green beans. Or maybe a tapas plate with smoked mussels, jamon, cheeses and pate (lettuce on the side). It's still in the 90s, and neither of us is very hungry right now. Dessert will be berries & maybe brie.

But what I really want is pasta or pizza--and that's not happening, especially considering tomorrow is the dreaded weigh-in. I want what I'm not allowed to have (and it comforts me late at night to distract from the physical pain in my L foot & right leg/hip because I can't take the kinds of meds that work). And I am bored silly with what I'm allowed to eat, especially veggies, that may fill me up but don't satisfy me. Will discuss tomorrow whether Noom or WW might be a better fit for me at this stage of the game. (My diet would have to be restaurant-friendly).

aussie12

Goldie unfortunately my bowel cancer is stage 4, I've had it since 2015, chemo for life, 65 so far. I had breast cancer in 2012, 10 years ago.

I did some shopping today and didn't really buy anything interesting to eat. I will need to go back tomorrow and buy some proper food. Just watching Jamie Oliver now making a yummy roast dinner.

DivineMrsM

aussie, I'm sorry to hear of the bowel cancer diagnosis. You've been living with it for awhile now. It can't be easy, but as one living with mbc, I admire your perseverance.

I'm happy to hear that many of you like tuna. I've always made and loved tuna and egg salad. In early 2021 (before the vaccine came out), I was very sick and in bed two weeks with Covid which included severe nausea. I was so hungry, but could barely look at food! One saving grace was tuna and egg salad on a slice of bread rolled over. One a day. It sustained me!

Tuna has fallen out of favor with the younger generation. Finding a tuna melt on the menu in restaurants is more difficult these days. It's been awhile since I made them at home. I might try again this summer.

eric95us

A tuna (fish) melt sounds good. We ate having some friends stop by today, so today's meals are set....so, tomorrow...

MinusTwo

Goldie - thanks for the update & glad to hear you are TRYING to take it easy. I thought Jazzy has pulled up to the table at the dinner thread a couple of times, but I could be wrong. I'll pop over to the other thread & ask her.

Another attempt to install an ice maker today - which I purchased w/the new fridge in early March and was back ordered (four times). Second try earlier this month was the incorrect model & wouldn't plug in. This time, the model/stock number on the box they shipped directly to me was correct & was what they ordered from the National Parts Warehouse (because now Best Buy doesn't sell this anymore). The instruction guide inside the box was for a different model number. Oh oh. And the actual icemaker itself? Yet a third model number!!! It's getting so ridiculous I can't help laughing. Luckily I still had the blue Rubbermaid ice trays in the attic.

Dinner will be something to do with spinach, which needs to be used.

wallycat

Socca bbq chicken "pizza"

The ugly warm-up will hit us here next week. I remember our 3 days of 99-100 but don't think it will get that bad on our little boot. Ugh. Hate climate change.