So...whats for dinner?

Moonflwr912

Welcome back Tazxy, and safe and fun trip! Kay sounds like NY was fun.

Going to be going up north now for MIL wake tomorrow, funeral is Friday. Food is gonna be catch as catch can. Was gonna make a cake, but too lazy. The only good thing about this is my daughter is comimg forbyhe funeral. So I will get to spend the drive.both ways with her. So much better than being in the hospital bed! LOL much love to all.

LuvRVing

We've changed our reservations for dinner tonight before the Mummenschanz performance - we are going to eat at Bistro du Midi because they offer free valet parking until well after the performance and 10% off dinner.  Sounds too good to be true.  Lacey and Susan - ever eaten there?  It's French and the menu looks very impressive.

Moonflwr - while it's under sad circumstances, I know you'll enjoy spending time with your daughter.

carberry

Iam such a huge internet shopper  I am sure the neighbors think I am having an affair with the UPS guy...he is here a couple times a week this time of year..hehehe

Susan  Yes I think asparagas goes with mushrooms quite well  I like to put them in my chicken alfredo with mushrooms.

Michelle  sounds like a great night out. I love a chance to get dressed up (which I did for our concert)

Moon  enjoy your daughter

Kay  That city is so majical! Bryant Park was my favorite with the ice rink, the blue tree and all of the artisan shops.

auntienance

Carrie, I know what you mean about the UPS guy, we're on a first name basis lol

Lacey12

Michelle, we've not been to either of those restaurants. They both sound great....I checked out the menus....YUM. Enjoy your little revisit to France, and the show!



Safe trip, Susan.....

Blessings2011

Well, I did get one of those nasty viruses going around, thanks to my "I'M NOT CONTAGIOUS!!!" FIL.  

DH is willing to fix me anything I want - unfortunately, everything tastes like cardboard, so I may as well just suck on a paper towel.....

Call the waaaaambulance!!!! Grrrrr....

FIL thinks it's perfectly fine to go everywhere when he's hacking and spewing....and he never EVER covers his mouth when he coughs. We were sitting with him and MIL in the nursing home on Sunday and he was coughing all over us. I should have just gotten up and gone out and sat in the car.

(DH did have the big talk with Dad yesterday. Tried to convince him that once you are exposed to a cold or flu, you are contagious for 48 hours before your first symptoms occur.

Then - you are STILL contagious for up to one to two WEEKS after your symptoms disappear!!!)

He's 90...will it make any difference? Probably not.....

Off  to make some more ginger tea!!! At least I'm losing those last few pounds.....

gardengumby

take care of yourself, Blessing.  No, it won't do any good, but it's still good for your DH to have the talk.  Drink lots and lots of ginger tea, and while you're at it, throw down a zinc tablet (and of course some vit C)... 

debbie6122

Bacon and baked french toast for breaksfast that was yummy!

Seaside- Where ya at? (tag, your it) haha!

Blessings2011

Thanks, gardengumby....been doin' Zinc and C the whole time! In fact, I've been throwing every supplement possible at this. Who cares if it's scientifically proven to reduce the severity of a cold or flu....if I think it will help, then dang it, it will!!! 

debbie6122 - oooooooh......BACON!!!!! 

LuvRVing

Hope you feel better, Blessings!  Tough way to lose weight.  My DH got a cold from me after I got it from the grandkids.  But he whines so much and he's not really that bad (ever see the video about the man cold?)  I finally told him to suck it up - I just had brain rads and I got the cold with a sinus infection and didn't whine as much as he has...LOL!

Debbie - yum!

Lest you may not have seen it or forgotten...the man cold video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbmbMSrsZVQ

debbie6122

LOL Michelle- I have seen it before but laugh every time.  I just posted it to FB Thanks for sharing.

Hope you feel better Blessing!

deborye

Michelle, I loved that video and it is soooo true.  Men are big babies.

Hope everyone feels better soon, knock on wood I managed to avoid that bug/flu that was going around.

bedo

Why would my daughter do this to my grand-dog?  She is 8 years old  and I don't know in people years anddoes not want a mohawk. 

I'm having mussles with pasta butter garlic and wine sauce for dinner

susan_02143

LuvRVing, Never eaten there. I rarely go into the city to eat. Will look forward to your report. And yes, that does sound too good to be true!

carberry, my husband will be happy to hear that he is not alone.

We drove today almost to the Canadian border to pick up our second lamb. We stopped in Lancaster to have lunch with my Mother at the Moombeam Café. This lamb was quite a bit smaller and only needed one box. And then we headed back South. We went through Nashua so we could stop at the Costco. Though we had also planned to stop in at Wilson Farms, it was already 6:30 so we grabbed a rotisserie chicken and some lettuce. Once home, I split some fingerling potatoes, crushed some sea salt with herbs from the garden, and roasted them. A very simple dinner to be sure.

If Laurie has headed North for Santa's Village, I am afraid that there will be rain tomorrow. It was pouring between Concord NH, through Nashua, and into MA. I don't often do 10 hrs of visiting, driving and shopping.

*susan*

deborye

I'm thinking of going to the Pheasand Lane Mall Sunday to check out the Stonewall Kitchen Store, maybe do some Christmas shopping.

susan~I hear Wilson Farms advertized on the radio but have never been there.

Santa's Village, I can't wait to bring my grandkids there when ever that will happen.

eric95us

I was just reading--very quickly--the posts...been super busy....

Eric

LuvRVing

Our dinner last night at Bistro du Midi was excellent.  My only disappointment was...Italian bread, not French bread!  Really?  When I asked the server she said, "well, this is Boston!"  LOL!  We had the forethought to order a chocolate souffle before we even ordered our entrees, and it really was fantabulous!  For entrees, I had monkfish and Rick had a strip steak with peppercorn sauce and pomme frittes.  Everything was delicious and I was really glad my entree was small because that meant I had room to enjoy the souffle.  Even so, we couldn't finish it, it was so very rich.  The restaurant was four blocks away from the theater and we were happy to be able to walk a little bit.  Mummenschanz was a fun show, and would be suitable for children.  It's the lowest tech show I've ever seen - nothing except for the lighting.  It was elegant in its simplicity and we really enjoyed it.  When we left the theater, we called the valet and by the time we walked back to the restaurant our car was waiting for us.  It was a really good value if you want to have dinner and then go see a performance.  Anything that involves free parking in the theater district is a good deal!

Deb - I've been to the Wilson Farms in Litchfield many, many times.  We lived in Litchfield in the '80s and went their often for great produce.  I wonder if it's the same company.  I know they have locations in the Carolinas. 

Eric - good to hear from you!

Yes, today would not be a nice day to go to Santa's Village.  Tomorrow is supposed to be sunny if chilly.  My daughter and I are going to a "mini-Cooper marshmallow rally" that involves driving to the Loudon racetrack to see their Christmas light display.  I've never done anything like that so it should be fun.  I asked her what marshmallows had to do with it but she didn't know.

Speaking of my smarty pants DD, she passed the first tests towards getting her CPA - she found out yesterday and we are all so proud!  Supposedly, this was the hardest portion and it's hard to pass it on the first try. 

carolehalston

Sorry to hear that the weather isn't good for Laurie's trip to Santa Village with the little boys.  Weather can be so uncooperative.  It was foggy here this morning but it has cleared.  Despite the advice of my podiatrist, I'm going for a long exercise walk.  Afterwards I'll ice-massage my heel (plantar fasciitis), take ibuprofen, etc.  I NEED to walk off last night's delicious meal of Oysters Mosca and green salad with avocado and blue cheese.  The scale was cruel this morning!

Tonight's dinner will be...  I'll think about it while I'm walking! 

auntienance

Michelle, your evening sounds wonderful, especially the souffle :-)



Did some decorating yesterday. Minimal, but once I get a couple of poinsettias, I think it will be festive enough. I think I convinced DH to put up the tree this weekend. We agreed that we would only put on the glass ornaments. We made the mistake of giving each other ornaments every year and 32 years of this behavior has resulted in a lot of tiny little individually wrapped things that make tree trimming (and untrimming) very time consuming and labor intensive.



Yesterday I dry brined a chicken using my new favorite spatchcock method. I usually marinate my chicken in buttermilk so I'm very anxious to see how this compares. I may rinse the salt off to see how the skin compares to the turkey. I don't know what the sides are going to be. Probably just some sauteed veggies.



Hope everyone has a great weekend!

carberry

Michelle  Hilarious on the video.  Really though my DH is not like that at all..hasnt missed a day of work for illness since I met him 36 yrs ago.  Sounds like you had a great night out...love it when it all works out.

Making big pot of chili today then doing some shopping for Christmas.

Bedo  Sorry we couldnt see the picture.

Lacey12

Michelle, Bistro sounds like a great spot to check out....funny about the Italian bread and waitress explanation tho. Nice evening....:)
That Mancold video is so relevant right now! DH came down with a whopper yesterday, and was snorting, hacking and kvetching all night....until I got up and administered two benedryl (I don't think they are meant for this sort of cold, but we had nothing in the house for cold symptoms). Well, it knocked him out.....perfect! I do feel badly for him tho since he is supposed to have his second cataract surgery on Monday and is worried this might cancel it. He is eager to get both eyes working correctly.



Just have to say it was a labor of love to get him that benedryl since at 2:00AM I was looking for it in the kitchen where several hours earlier I discovered some mouse droppings near our fruit bowl, then found an apple with a neat little circle of bites. I expected to run into Minnie on my benedryl hunt.....but fortunately didn't. We have not had any mice in this house for over twenty five years.....I guess our little schnauzers were the intimdation factor. I am not a happy sharer of space with critters.



Kudos to DD, Michelle! Nice accomplishment! Those tests are so stressful...... Our DS2 sat for the CPA exams, passing two, then failing the tax one, which he took on his way to the airport to catch a flight to Las Vegas with his cronies....really smart! I klept my mouth shut. Meanwhile, he was recruited out of the accounting dept to the asset mgmt side of his company where it makes no difference if he has those letters after his name....so he happily abandoned the process. I again kept my mouth shut.


Nance, you are ambitious with your chickens. Hope it is great. We also have way too many ornaments, and mostly DH decides what to put on the tree since he has been the tree decorator in recent years. It is fun to take the trip down memory lane as each ornament is unwrapped.

Speaking of memory lane, as I was engrossed in a major produce shopping effort at Russo's, yesterday, a woman came up to me and asked if I had worked at The Home For Little Wanderers...which I did, forty years ago. I immediately then recognized this gal who worked as a child care worker in our treatment unit, while getting her graduate degree. We were both in our early twenties then. I actually remembered her name as soon as I looked at her face (the long dark hair has transformed to short grey), and we had a good catch up. I'm still amazed that she recognized me so many years later...and amazed that I pulled up her name spontaneously, since I can barely retrieve my own these days.
The MO just called me to check on my meds issues. I hate these meds that impact my sleep, but can't complain about the MO who is traveling with me as I navigate thru it.

Yukky rain today...I think I'll cook...and keep an eye out for Minnie.
Yikes, way too long a post......

Lacey12

Oh, also....DH was just checking out a site on "gravity defyer" shoes. Might that be useful for you, Carole, to take the pressure off your heels when you walk?



http://gravitydefyer.com/

chabba

Michelle, Congratulations to DD!  I really do understand what an achievement that is.  I was in my 40's when I took the exam.  I had only had three accounting and one auditing course but I was in a job that required me to deal with CPA's every day.  I knew a CPA would give me more credibility with the industry CPA's and that I was at least as smart as any of them.  So I took a six week cram course and passed it the first time.  That certificate not only brought me instant respect but led me into the most interesting, challenging and satisfying job of my life. 

I hope your DD prospers and finds the same satisfaction in her success as I did.

auntienance

Lacey, eek! We have not yet had a mouse in the house, but we get them in the garage, which attracts black snakes. I don't know which is worse. I'm happy they catch the mice but I'd rather they do it outside the garage!



Our ornaments have a lot of sentimentality attached to them too. That's why it takes so long, those trips down memory lane are time consuming!

eric95us

Wow. 

Sharon is working. Chrissy is in the IB program (an advanced placement type of program with an international flair), so she's working.  I'm working too. 

So, when I do get home...around 7:30pm...there's lots of work to do.  Add to that all the lower priority things that piled up when I was gone....It's busy around here.

Lacey, it sounds like you need a cat.  They're good at keeping the critters at bay.  If you get a Maine Coon Cat, they're also great lap warmers and big enough to handle the bigger critters too.

Sounds like colds are making the rounds...yucch. I'm not quite like the man cold video, but mine seem to last longer than Sharon's colds.  I hate it when Chrissy is sick.  It is the "she's feeling bad and I can't do much about it" that is the absolute worst.

Michelle, congrats to your daughter!  My mom took some of the CPA exams "back when" and I remember her studying at the kitchen table, along with my brother and I.

I'm reading about all the shopping stuff here.  It almost makes me wish I was called up now instead of last month...at least I'd have an excuse to avoid the shopping lines.   Shopping is so-so, but I HATE the lines and the "stress" that everyone around me is displaying.  Still, I'm heading out today to get a couple of things..then it's get the lights up outside (it's a cold 60F degrees right now) and pull out the fake Christmas tree.  So, it will be a "slow and steady busy" today...which won't be too bad at all.

Just before I was sent to New York, I picked up a HUGE (over 500 pages)chicken cookbook from Goodwill for $1.00.  Before I leave, I'm going to take a look and find something interesting.  There's got to be something in there that can be done while we trim the tree.

Eric

LuvRVing

 

Here is the picture of bedo's granddog...LOL!  Poor doggy!!! 

Everyone - thanks for your comments about my daughter's success.  She takes the next one in late January.  She gets a pretty big bonus once she completes the CPA requirements so she's highly incented!

Eric - gotta try online shopping, it's really stress-free.  500 pages of chicken recipes - wow!  When we moved from MO, I got rid of most of my cookbooks as I just search online when I want an idea.  The one book that I kept (and actually bought a replacement on ebay a few years ago) is the Pillsbury Family Cookbook circa 1968.  I got it as a wedding gift and it has a few recipes that I still use.  There's a really good pan-fried chicken recipe that my DH loves, I just didn't make it very often when we lived in the midwest because you could find good fried chicken almost anywhere.  Here in NH, it just isn't the same!

eric95us

I didn't get to the Christmas shopping yet, but I did give myself a Christmas present.

In the desert, we have the "water from hell".  IThe hard water deposits build up amazingly fast.  Usually it takes forever to clean the shower and I'm gasping for breath from the fumes before I'm done.

Ths time was different.

Earlier in the week I had stopped by a janitorial supply place and picked up a gallon of all purpose shower cleaner-soap scum-hard water deposit-mold-stain remover.

I was all prepared to do battle, but first I read the instructions.  Harsh chemicals deserve that respect...and spraying was mentioned.  I got an idea... I had a cheap garden "pump up" sprayer...I added water to the sprayer and adjusted it for a very "rain like" spray (so it wouldn't make too many fumes).  Then I added the cleaner and sprayed away.  Then I switched the sprayer back to the plain water to rinse the cleaner off the shower surfaces and took a quick shower....

In 5 minutes, the shower went from looking like an anbandoned ghetto gas station reject to somethngthat even my mother in law would approve of.

An edit....

Michelle, I guess you were posting while I was typing.  If I had to (but ONLY if I had to), I would get rid of all my cookbooks except one...It's a stained, dog eared, falling apart, nothing to look at...and very special to me....paperback Betty Crocker Cookbook.

bedo

Thanks Michelle and congratulations on your DD's success.  Those tests are supposed to be really hard!  She must be really smart!

Re my grand-dog above, why would my DD do this to her?  You can see the embarrassment in her eyes. She is 8 years old in dog years so I guess she is middle aged (?) and does not want a Mohawk, which is what DD asked the groomer for. 

I am searching the supermarket circulars for specials now before I decide my meals for the week

susan_02143

"Make this STOP!"

Poor puppy dog.

LuvRVing

Lacey sent me this picture and asked me to post it, in light of Bedo's poor grandpuppy's mohawk.

"Couldn't resist sending this photo to post after seeing Sally's DD's  dog.....

Every time little Daryan gets his hair cut the stylist (mind you!) insists on making him look trendy. It makes me crazy....but fortunately after a hair wash he just has a nice cut. This last one was more woodpecker-ish than the true mohawk look she gave him once. I do not recall ever having my kids pictures taken with a stylist, probably because I used to cut their hair! But I guess these two have a close relationship since he is turning 2 this week and has had well over 10 haircuts already. Hair is this boy's middle name!"

I must say, that is quite a head of hair!!!