So...whats for dinner?
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I got back from my disaster job training about 45 minutes ago, so I haven't had a chance to read all the posts.
The boys do look like they're having fun. That's a perfect use for a chair.I'm a desert kid and that amount of water seems strange to me. It's not that I'm afraid of the water/ I was a competitive swimmer from age 6 to about 16 and swam A LOT. Rather the water was expensive and I was always told, "Turn the water off" and "Don't waster water".
Eric
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Michelle- Congrats on your DH finishing the race what a great accomplishment.
Eric- Funny I remember my parents saying the same thing "Dont waste the water" And " Close the door" Were you born in a barn! LOL! Of course when my mom said it we laughed at her, because she never really got mad at all. Awww memory lane!
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Apple, I also waitressed for years and still miss it. People come in tired or hungry, and they leave happy and relaxed. It is a nice job.
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Michelle: What an accomplishment for your DH! Congratulations!
Lacey: The kind of party I would love to attend...very unique!
Moonflwr: The salmon sounds yummy! The best salmon I ever had was one that I caught in Oregon...steaks were sliced from it and cooked fresh that evening. The rest was smoked. Very expensive fishing trip, but worth every penny!
eric: One of the reasons I could never live in Az...even though I love it....no ocean!
I totally admire anyone who could waitress....such a difficult job keeping track of all those orders and serving, as well as putting up with customer's quirky attitudes! Not that selling real estate was any easier...lol!
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Laurie those boys are adorable! I want to jump into that lake! I think I will make your picture of the lake my new "zone out" "relaxation" picture. I usually watch one on youtube of a stream in Costa Rica. You can hear the birds and see the stream flow, but yours is great
Carrie Happy Birthday!
Lacey, that party sounds like the set of The Great Gatsby (or something, 12 grade English was a loooong time ago)
Have to run, going to the Cultural Survival Festival with indigenous artists from all over the world. Beautiful things! Fair trade.
http://bazaar.culturalsurvival.org/
Have fun all!
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Laurie I love that pic of the boys jumping....action shots are the best...they will like seeing it when they are older. Your husband is so good to do quality time with the boys...it is so important..they will be great young men.
I agree thaqt summertime, with all the activities is exhausting. Friends up with their boat from the other end of the lake for a week, muscleman triathalon going on ( a friend is participating) bands everywhere and someone had the nerve to say that we are celebrating my birthday all week....ha ha I feel a nap coming on.
Bedo let me know how that cooking works out for you....maybe I will be inspired.
We cooked on the boat again yesterday...so much food we fed everyone that passed by the boat. My GF did a shredded chciken cacciatore in the crockpot, used a rotisserie chicken from the store and added pepppers and onions and sauce and I think garbanzo beans...we ate it on burger buns. I did a potato salad with sourcream and bacon, chives and shredded chedder cheese (like a baked potato) burgers, sausage, pasta salad....soooo much food
Whoever posted about the fish, that is on my list for this week...if we ever stay home long enough.
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Salmon "pinwheels" with lobster stuffing and Warm Fennel Salad with Citrus, Pine Nuts and Olives. Trying to get more fish in my diet...
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Carole: I agree your trip sounds amazing and I agree with Laurie the white chilli sounds really amazing - I will try that for sure.
SpecialK: Good luck with the trial and have a great trip.
Carrie: Hope you had a great birthday - sorry for the belated wishes.
Michelle - congrats to your DH, what a great achievement
Lacey: the party sounds such fun, what a wonderful setting, and I love that idea of party favour books being the bookworm that I am.
Bedo... that Cultural Fair sounds so interesting. I love learning about other cultures, find it absolutely fascinating.
Momine: your lazy lunch sounds delicious.
Debbie: I love blue cheese, in fact I love any type of cheese - that is my downfall. I could live on cheeses.
Kaara - I would like to see your recipe for the stuffed peppers and butternut squash sauce.
SelenaWolf: Nice meal. I too am adding more fish to my diet. I try to rotate fish one night, meat the next and so on. We still seem to have more meat than fish...but definitely more fish than we used to.
Hope that everyone is enjoying their weekends. Sorry to anyone I missed. We have forecast for more thunderstorms this afternoon. -
Way to go Michelle's DH!!
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Happy belated birthday Carrie.
Michelle..hoping for lower marker numbers. Sharon's numbers continue to rise, even during treatment, but the MO isn't worried about it. According to the MO, a good response to treatment can cause the numbers to rise for a few weeks.
SpecialK...Good results to you....
Lacey...regarding the cut and paste...My Firefox web browser doesn't allow, without some changes in the default setup, copying and pasting. It was done to as a security measure as some bad software depends on that feature to accomplish its attack.
And for those I didn't mention...wishing you all happy times.
Sharon and Chrissy have been "up north" this weekend with the tent trailer--escaping the heat. It got up to 54F degrees and was somewhat rainy, but they didn't mind. This was a week where two of the three jobs "hit" so I was stuck down here. I've been doing some more cleaning inside and yard work outside. I know she'll want to do something when she gets home..and I'd just as soon it be "relax". :-)
With all the talk of salmon, I'm going to go over to the store and see if I can find some....maybe invite my mom and MIL over...If no salmon, then maybe some other fish...quinoa or brown rice and some zucchini....and maybe an onion bread.
The onlion bread is a yeast bread made more or less as usual..don't use salt in the dough...instead add about 1/2 cup of onion during the kneeding...after it rises, roll the dough out in a buttered cookie sheet with sides to about 1/2 inch thick, sprinkle with dried rosemary and a TINY amount of salt, bake about 10 minutes at 400F degrees, brush with a lot of butter and bake about 10 more minutes. There is no 2nd rise, so the bread stays thin and dense.
But first back to cleaning...
Eric
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Eric - OMG that onion bread sounds awesome. We eat a fair amount of Naan from Walmart or the local store, national brands. I go to lots of ethnic neighborhoods even here in Ft. Worth, but it's too darn hot to carry around bread all day if I could stop/shop. With just the 2 of us would waste too much esp. since fresh to moldy is so short a time on bakery bread. Guess I need to plan and carry cooler. Arlington and Mid Cities (out by DFW airport) areas have large middle Eastern populations. Don't know of any westside only an OK Oriental grocery. Love those, too. Naan isn't too bad frozen/thawed. WallyWorld has it occas. on the day old rack. Oddly enough I think my patient load is shifting further out that way but OMG that will add even more to my 45 minute drive time in, I live in Parker Co northwest of Ft. Worth. All the roads from North Ft. Worth east to airport under major widening project. Can you say we're 30 years behind the population growth?? May see DD more as she lives not too far away. Might be spending some Friday nights with her if she will tolerate me (LOL she's 25).
I had salmon yesterday for lunch. Frozen fillets from, you guessed it, WallyWorld. DH not a fish fan. I'll eat just about any but did buy some frozen white fish (?tilapia maybe) that was gruesome. It was like eating white glue not that it was spoiled just a waste for the money. And I season with pepper and McCormicks lemon/herb seasoning with olive oil. Maybe dog will like it cooked??? She'll eat anything.
Glad Sharon & Chrissy enjoying cooler weather. Radar here has showers around. Thermometer on shaded east facing back porch says 97. Humidity high and hot enough to pop some pretty good showers. And it's early yet. Plenty of time for more!!! Need rain.
Boneless chicken thighs and fresh brussel sprouts for dinner. Bought the brussel sprouts last week and forgot about them. And left the chicken out by accident yesterday when digging in freezer. Found them a couple of hours later just beginning to thaw. Popped in frig. for today. DH actually likes brussel sprouts and he's only an OK vegie eater but then he's not really the "meat and potatoes" kind either. Actually he's pretty easy to satisfy. Mostly he would prefer I not make a mess for him to clean up. After 36 years can't ask for much more.
TTYL. That darned paperwork is calling. Told myself I would be working by 1:00 and it's 1:30 now.
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carberry, I make a similar baked potato salad but also add blanched broccoli florets cut into quarters and sunflower seeds--got those ideas for additions from a baked potato bar lunch restaurant.
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Bedo- Have fun at the Bazaar today I love going to crafty fairs so much fun!
Tazzy- I agree I eat too much cheese too I always know I ate alot when my eyes get pufffy! Arrghh!
Selena- Would you mind posting your recipe for the warm fennel salad please? I love fennel and like to bake it with parmesan cheese but would like to make a salad out of it.
luvmygoats- Sounds like a real mess there on the freeway! My DH won't eat to many veggies either but does love brussell sprouts.
Eric- Sounds like my Focaccia bread I make with Rosemary and olives been awhile since I made it though.
HI Chabba and everyone I missed!
Going out to dinner with friends tonight. still hacking and coughing up a storm and havnt been out of the house since last Monday,I told them I did not think i was contagious but didn't want to take a chance but they insisted and said, we just won't do much hugging. I would think since my fever broke it will be ok, at least I hope so, I sure don't want to get anyone else sick.
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Debbie, they can't say they weren't warned! Have a good time.
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Sauted boneless chicken breast in EVOO with thyme & rosemary from my garden, steamed broccoli that my sweet neighbor gave me from their garden. I picked a sweet yellow pepper, I think I will eat that too.
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Carrie, the cooking worked out well.... you can do it.. you can do it.... deep breaths..lol
http://bazaar.culturalsurvival.org/profiles/yarina
He let me play his "hybrid" I don't know what else to call it, it has 5 strings, the usual 4 of a violin E-A-D-G and then the lower C of a viola it was electric, and flat, not made out of wood, but I he turned off the sound thank God. He is from Otavalo, Ecuador, he wrote down his village because when I'm outta here, in a year or two (with God's will) I hope to live in Ecuador, Panama and Costa Rica for a a small bit each before settling down. He's second from left. No idea what I'll do about insurance. Or anything else for that matter. OK, no snarky comments about his age, but he is pretty to look at.
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The sweet yellow pepper I started eating nearly burned my tongue and lips off, it was super HOT!!!
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deborye... I sympathise. You reminded me of a time when DH & I were in Thailand... were sitting in a bar having a drink and on the table were a bowl of sliced 'cherry tomatoes'... so course I dived in - whoa... turns out they were sliced thai peppers
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Change of plans. Sharon had some thawed chicken...so chicken instead of salmon... The onion bread/naar is rising.
Deb..I'm wondering if the pepper was a hungarian wax pepper...aka hungarian banana pepper? They can range from pretty mild to, if you're not used to it..a bit hot.
I have a shrimp recipe that would probably do pretty nice with that. It can dilute a habanero pepper to something that won't hurt "now or tomorrow" so it probably would do OK with that pepper.
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ooops.
i really miss peppers and hot things.
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I *love* hot stuff. Serrano peppers are the best...and they grow well in our yard.
Eric -
The bread is done. Sharon and Chrissy love it.
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bedo- What fun! Looks amazing to play. I agree, pretty to look at hehe! I have good friends from Ky who own property in Panama and just love it I hope you get to follow your dream some day.
Dinner tonight was Thai food I had never been there but friends go there all the time. It was ok. Seemed more like chineese or japeneese rather than the Thai I have had in Hawaii and I got major stomach cramps after so thinking they use lots of MSG! They did put ,lots of ginger in the dishes so was happy about that.
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Bedo, you are running off to Equador with a boytoy? I am shocked, just shocked I tell you
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Tazzy: The stuffed pepper recipe is just turkey hamburger mixed with celery, onions, garlic and seasonings, then stuffed in red, organe, and yellow peppers and baked in the oven for about 45 minutes @ 400 degrees. The butternut squash sauce was from a jar that I found in the Fresh Market. I thought it was a good substitute to tomato sauce (BF is allergic to tomatoes) and it worked.
Today I'm going to make some okra and tomatoes for myself that can be served over brown rice. I love this dish but my BF can no longer eat it because of his tomato allergy. It will be a no meat day for me...I'll do a chicken breast for him, or a fish fillet.
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Bedo the festival looked like a lot of fun... and who knows what future opportunities await you in Equador!
Yesterday I actually did get to start some weeding (making barely a dent!). It was like what I imagine hot yoga to feel like given all this heat and humidity.
We also made a visit to our new local farmer's market where we got some great corn, kale, cukes, blueberries, rasberries, and the most succulent sweet sea scallops. For dinner DH grilled the scallops with some red peppers, and we had wild rice AND corn (because I totally forgot we had the corn until the rice was already in process...no complaints from DH about two starches) and cuke salad with fresh mint, which of course has now sprouted up in different parts of our backyard. Good thing I use it a lot!
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Thanks Kaara - good substitute, can imagine it gave the peppers a nice flavour.
Debbie: sorry your meal wasn't up to Thai standards. Hope you are feeling OK now.
Thanks for saying you had cucumber mint salad... been ages since I did that - will be on tonights menu.
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MinusTwo - here is the salmon souffle recipe:
Melt 1/4 c butter, add 1/4 c flour (for those of us who avoid wheat - I use rice flour), and stir until combined. Add 1 c milk (I use 1/2 and 1/2 as my hubby likes it rich), stir over medium heat until thickened. Add 1/2 to 1 c cheese (I use a combo of cheddar and parmesan). Stir until melted and thick. Add a sprinkle of pepper (there's enough salt in the cheese, so I don't add salt) and a little nutmeg. Take off the heat and set aside.
Saute about 1/2 lb of mushrooms. In the souffle pan break up already cooked salmon (I use about 1/2 of a 2-3 lb filet), add sauted mushrooms and 1 or 2 T of mayonnaise to moisten. Stir together so all are combined and then press down so the salmon/mushroom combination is a layer in the bottom.
Separate 4 eggs. Beat the whites until they are VERY stiff. Beat the yolks until they are lemon colored and thick. (If you choose to beat the yolks first, be sure to clean the beaters VERY well, as any yolk in the whites will prevent them from getting stiff.) Stir the yolks thorougly into the milk/cheese mixture. Very gently combine the yolk/milk/cheese mixture with the stiff egg whites. Pour into the souffle pan. Place souffle pan in a pan of water (something like a pie plate with a little water in it). Place in pre-heated 325 degree oven. Bake for approximately 1 hour or until a knife inserted comes out only wet.
It's not low calorie, but it's really tasty.
Apple - why are you not eating hot things, if you like them?
Our zucchini are coming in droves now, so for dinner tonight we're having stuffed zucchini.
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I don't know about Apple, but I still have diarrhea a lot, especially after hot things. Sucks, cause I get real bored with bland things.
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Eric, you sound like a talented cook and a "man for all seasons." I'm hoping to see Sharon's markers down, too, along with Michelle's.
All of the meals and foods mentioned in the last two pages of posts sound wonderful. That birthday party sounds like the ultimate party. I would love to have been included in the guest list.
Laurie and others who inquired about our summer trip, we usually travel during the summer for three months or longer. Our 5th wheel camper is the type referred to as "fulltimer" model. But we "fulltime" only during the summer. The rest of the year we pretty much stay home. Luckily, our next door neighbors have four boys and each of them has been our yard boy during our summer absences. We pay them a fairly generous monthly fee for cutting the grass and looking after things. If a hurricane creates a big mess, we pay extra for clean up. We're on Boy No. 4 now so once he finishes high school, we're out of neighbor boys!
Today dh and I bicycled another section of the Heartland bike trail, not quite 13 miles. It's much warmer here in northern MN than we would like, but that seems to be the story with much of the US.
Dinner tonight will be leftover barbecued pork roast and a big salad with fresh tomatoes and cucumbers we bought at the farmer's mkt. on Sat. I am beginning to see the value of a slow cooker. Cooking the pork roast was really easy. I didn't even brown it.
I also was a waitress in my younger days and I don't miss it at all! I have great admiration for good wait staff. It isn't an easy job. You have to multi-task and I wasn't good at that. I tip very well when we get good service. And I don't blame the waitress if I see she's being overworked and is serving too many tables. DH has a nephew who was a waiter at good restaurants in St. Louis. He was very good at his job and made great money. He also developed quite a palate for good food and wine and is an outstanding cook himself.
i keep asking locals about a good restaurant for walleye fish and they just look blank because everyone fishes and catches their own walleye. I wish dh and I were fishermen but we aren't. If we caught any fish, neither one of us would want to kill them!
Happy Monday!
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