So...whats for dinner?

carolehalston

We spent a week in Traverse City one year when the cherries were ripe and available at roadside stands. Also available were luscious cherry pies.

wallycat

Leftover Indian and added some brown rice and fleshed out the zucchini with a ton of overly-grown green beans and a 1/2 can of red kidney beans.

cyathea

Dinner was a roasted pork tenderloin marinated in garlic and herbs with balsamic vinegar sauce with shallots, rosemary and a tablespoon of fig jam. I used the quinoa I made over the weekend to create a quick hash with scallions, tomatoes and edamame. I used fresh lemon juice and smoked paprika to give the hash more flavor. I’m looking forward to having the leftover quinoa hash for lunch tomorrow. Trader Joe’s has shelled frozen edamame that is very convenient. I think some red bell pepper would have been a good addition as well but I didn’t have any this time

Reader425

sounds good Cyathea. I love tenderloin.

Tonight was leftover ham cut into chunks, onion and potatoes in a white sauce and seasonings. I added a Mediterranean side salad for us both and it was tasty.

wallycat

Last of the Indian leftovers. No luck fishing tonight.

carolehalston

We met Ron and Judi, "neighbors" at the farmers market, at West Forty for an early dinner. I had a BLT salad that came with a bread stick. DH had a BLT platter. No before dinner cocktail and earlier than we normally eat. The company was more enjoyable than the food. They don't plan to be regular vendors at the market next summer. We'll miss them.

The weather has turned mild but is gloomy this morning. I plan to cook a small pork roast in the slow cooker.

eric95us

DD and beau are packed up and the rental truck is loaded except for sleeping stuff, cat stuff and their cat. They're hoping we can be underway to Detroit by 10am.

We've been eating out since we got here to Traverse City. The dinner meals have been hamburgers Wednesday night and tacos last night. Tonight is ?????

Our internal clocks are still out of sync, so we've been eating only an early lunch and an early dinner. This has worked out well as they fall asleep fairly early--DD works from 6am to 2:30pm and Beau works 2am to 11am.

wallycat

Frozen burger, broiled zucchini slices and a steamed sweet potato. No fish again. argggghghghghhg.

Taking car in tomorrow so no idea what/when we'll eat dinner.

MinusTwo

Wally - sorry about the lack of fish. Any fishing trip is a good day, but it's sure nicer to catch too.

Eric - glad the trip is going OK. Crazy schedules. I like the early lunch & dinner plans.

wallycat

Minus, you are right...any day out in our gorgeous parks is a great day; and it is cool and fall like!

DH's scans all came back stable. YAY! Now if we could fix his back pain (stenosis, not cancer related).....

eric95us

Unloading the truck in Detroit. They decided on a 20 foot truck but none were available, so they thought two trips with a 15 foot truck.

My logistics & transport job skills were useful. 1 trip in a **VERY TIGHTLY** packed 15 foot truck. :-)

cyathea

wallycat, so happy your DH had good scans!

Today, we had a late breakfast and a late lunch, so we skipped dinner. Breakfast was Kodiak pancakes with added flax seed and blueberries. Lunch was a tomato sandwich and yogurt. We picked up some BBQ take out, but I need to work in the yard to pull the knotweed that grows around the perimeter, so we’ll have the BBQ sampler tomorrow: brisket, pulled pork and chicken to share with coleslaw, mac and cheese and corn bread. I’ll probably skip the corn bread because it won’t be as good as my mother’s recipe

MinusTwo

Eric - as we already knew, you are a clever fellow. Hope the trip is smooth.

Wally - yup - good news on your DH's scans.

Cyathea - Pulled pork is my favorite. Due to the BCO board weirdness, I can never tell or remember where anyone is from anymore - but I believe pulled pork is usually from the Carolinas? I'm stuck in Houston where BBQ usually means mesquite.

Reporting in from Lacey. They spent some quality time at their lake place this summer. Now (like many of us) they are considering how to downsize their living arrangements and eliminate stairs. She is terminally frustrated with the BCO program problems but said to please tell everyone hello.

Nance - how did your downsizing work? I know both Special & I have one story places - so at least no stairs. And no snow!!! I added 'tall toilets' in the last couple of years, and bars in the shower. Hope I'll be here until they carry me out feet first - but of course I've never had the funds for a house keeper, let alone visiting nurses, or a care giver. Best I can do is a lawn guy every other week since Lymphadema curtailed my ability to pull the start cord on a lawnmower. Don't mean to whine. Life is OK.

Yesterday's meal was Romaine lettuce salad w/Campari tomatoes. Today's meal was two hot dogs.

aussie12

Hi all

Finally had a decent meal today after having a migraine for 2 days. I had vegies and fish and soup. I had a PET scan on Friday and had to eat a high protein, low carb diet on Thursday. I think that it was something that I didn't eat that gave me the migraine. Not eating until after PET scan about 11am didn't help either.

I'm glad to see that everyone else is eating well.

I'm having surgery on Saturday October 1st to get a stent put in my right kidney as it's blocked, thanks to some cancer in my uterus.

I will be watching the Queen's funeral tomorrow. With Australia being a Commonwealth country it's been non stop news here. The last time that she was here in Australia it was here in Perth. I didn't go and see her though but there were thousands who did !!!

wallycat

Thank you for the well wishes on DH; he is still in pain, but not from the cancer (pain is pain, and I feel so badly for him. I'm dreading if he needs back surgery).

Aussie, good luck with your surgery. Always unnerving. We are not a commonwealth and I am so over this queen-crap. Bad enough they are privileged by birth but then to foist this on the US...ugh..did they forget why the US exists, LOL. Sorry for the rant.

Our car won't be ready till next week. Rodents chewed some wires. Ugh. At least we were able to drive it in as is without the $400 towing.

Minus, feel free to share your rants and raves...a safe space. I always say, "happy to be here to complain about it..."

I cobbled together a spinach, sweet potato, zucchini and egg "cup" with melted cheese for a fast dinner yesterday (got home frustrated and angry about the car but have a fancy-schmancy loaner, so all good in that regard).

Maybe a frozen pizza tonight, depending on if we fish.

I walked alone yesterday morning (DH's back hurt too much) and was wearing my new hiking shoes to see if they were comfy for longer treks. There was some new repaving work and tar pouring on the street I cross. The shoes have big lug-nut-type soles. I was waving to a neighbor that I spotted and my shoe caught the end of the uneven repaving ..and down I went. OY. I hobbled home; put ice on the knee and ankle and then rubbed arnica into the areas. It seems I broke nothing, thankfully, but I did think of my oncologist, who missed a step on her step ladder, fell, broke a knee cap and has torn ligaments and needs a cane for a while. This morning, my knee is only scraped and mildly colored. My ankle is swollen and purple but I can easily walk on it. So no broken bones is a win for this old gal!! I had considered horse back riding for an occasional fun thing to do but now, I will rethink that, what with bones and possibility of falls.

Update: DH's back is not up to fishing so I am making palak "paneer" with naan bread (I use tofu for the paneer)

ChiSandy

Sorry I've been so absent, what with dealing with the basement, prepping for Fri. night's Madison gig, and watching CLE videos. 21.5 hrs down, 9.5 to go.

Mentioned on another thread, but saw the neurologist on Tues., which was eye-opening. My back & leg problems are due not to the L-3-5 stenosis, but to sacroiliac (SI) joint dysfunction...caused by longstanding scoliosis which was never treated! I had always wondered why my front blouse buttons seemed off-kilter, with long necklaces hanging plumb but not tracking the buttons. When I had my first (R) knee replacement surgery, the anesthesiology resident trying to insert the epidural catheter hit it off-kilter and I nearly hit the ceiling (so from then on I insisted that nothing be administered to my spine without fluoroscopy; the anesthesiologist who did my epidural for my C-section did it by touch, actually palpating my vertebrae). The SI joint stenosis entraps the sciatic nerves leading to my piriformis muscles and consequent sciatica and possibly those tibial spasms as well. The neuro was aghast that not only had the scoliosis--dx'ed when I was 12 or 13--never been treated beyond admonitions to "not slouch," but also that nobody ever treating my occasional back attacks ever "connected the dots." Maybe because radiologists' reports had always called it "mild." She said, too, that I had the wrong kind of PT this time: the ortho I had seen at Skokie Hosp.'s walk-in clinic was a sportsmedicine specialist: "when you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail" was her remark. She's referring me to the system's clinic that specializes in neuro-oriented PT and vestibular therapy to improve balance. If none of that works, she will consider first shots into my piriformis muscles and then an (ouch) EMG. (It might also explain how back-of-knee pain I had in 2014 after hiking was misdiagnosed as a tear in the gastroc head, and my spring 2015 hip/thigh pain as "bursitis"--neither of which had any imaging other than X-rays and an US to administer an ineffective cortisone shot to the suspected hip bursa).

Wally, elevate that ankle as much as you can. A bit too late now for ice to accomplish anything, but bracing it with an ACE wrap (if you don't have an actual ankle brace) and using a cane on the opposite side--diagonal stride, bearing weight on the cane--would be wise. Arnica always helps ease bruising and muscle soreness. (Speaking as a lifelong ankle-sprainer).

Monday night was leftover salmon & veggies. Tues. we grilled brats, dogs & tomatoes. Wed. Bob had a drug co. dinner, and I had a mani Thurs., so I had Buffalo wings & celery sticks. He brought home broccolini. Thurs. night we went to L. Woods--shared a big wedge salad, Bob had the meatloaf & spuds special and I giant dry-rubbed beef ribs & green beans. Got so full on my half of the salad (of which I brought home half) that I could barely get through one rib. Fri. I had my gig in Madison (went very well), but we didn't go out for dinner--the duo with whom we sang in-the-round headed north in their camper to MN, and my singing partner went home to his wife who was having a bad fibromyalgia day. So I blew the intermittent fast (having had brunch at 1pm) and at 1am had my leftover salad with tomato, keto ice cream, and a bowl of keto cereal. Yesterday, back on my 16:8 schedule. Brunch was a keto "everything" bagel with schmear, lox, onion & tomato; dinner was leftover green beans, broccolini, and 2 of the 3 leftover beef ribs (felt like Fred Flintstone). Brunch today was avocado toast with veg & egg. Dinner? Depends on both when Bob gets home and the timing of the expected storms. If he gets home early enough (and is hungry), we'll walk to a nearby restaurant (Regalia, Indie Sushi, or Mas Alla Del Sol Mexican). If not, the remaining rib and veg.

wallycat

Sandy, appreciate the pointers. I did ice it briefly the morning it happened, along with the arnica. The swelling seems to be going down. Scrapes on knee but funny, no bruising. I bruise very easily. I can walk without too much discomfort but did try to raise my leg this evening.

Leftover Palak paneer tomorrow if we go fishing in the afternoon.

cyathea

Dinner was pork tenderloin with some leftover BBQ sauce (Carolina style which isn’t as sweet and has more vinegar than other styles), roasted zucchini with truffle and cheese seasoning and some panko, cucumbers and tomato salad, and some quinoa. Minustwo, I’m from Pittsburgh but we have a few BBQ places that use a southern style smoker for the meat. I don’t know what kind of wood they use but it probably isn’t mesquite (though I do like that). We usually go to a local place (Spork) for BBQ takeout but this time we wanted to go for a drive so we went to Pit Take in Greensburg.

Tomorrow I’m thinking of having some roast chicken with a side of spinach ravioli. It will be quick, which is helpful on a weeknight.

eric95us

Tonight will be pizza at the Station inn in Nashville, TN. It's a live music venue that Sharon has been wanting to go to sine the last time (3 years ago) we were here.

It looks like a "dive" (maybe even a "plunge" which is a step below dive) bar, but has excellent (and often famous) bands booked for performances.

wallycat

Papperadelle with sausage, zucchini, green beans in a marinara sauce. I made waaaaaaaaaaay too much. May freeze some of it tomorrow. Good for leftovers if we fish tomorrow. Skipped today to stay off ankle, which amazingly doesn't hurt much at all today and the swelling is down to near normal, plus too sunny. The fish hate the sun as much as I do, LOL.

carolehalston

Dinner was Fritos with my cocktail. We ate a heavy lunch in Fargo after delivering our resort neighbors Mary and Lyman to his daughter's house along with their luggage. They had a flight to Ocala, FL, early this morning. It will be odd not to have them next door for daily conversations and happy hour gatherings on their deck.

Our lunch was at the Tavern. I had a Reuben that was delicious.

We are watching the weather news with concern as a tropical storm is building force with the possibility of heading for the Gulf.

I am very ready to head home to Louisiana but would prefer not to arrive along with a hurricane. The leaves have suddenly begun to turn colors almost overnight.