So...whats for dinner?
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Same thing happens with airports...
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Peggy - Can you not have bits of your diet along with hers? The cooking in olive oil sounds fine. I read some on Paleo (I think it must have been a Yahoo trending last week) and no grains on it. I'm with Susan, I know I would drive to the closest bakery/grocery and buy out the bread aisle. I think vegies are on it as well to the best of my memory. And I agree with her that 2 weeks on any diet so long as you have no food allergies/intolerances is doable. Enjoy the time with your daughter.
About those giant chickens - I pull off so much more fat but you're right about trouble finding even a 4 #er. Umm - fresh free range chicken. I've never had it but does sound yummy. I agree with never too much garlic or for that matter cooked onions in a dish.
The Mexican food (well Latin kitchen) Sat. night was good. I had a fish taco and a black bean/corn with vegies, refried bean and Cuban rice. Brought home good portion for lunch yest. The ice cream party was great too afterward. I made a 2nd set of wet walnuts with honey but not as good as the 1st ones. I think hosts had 7 1/2 gallon cartons but we had a large crowd too.
I have to dig in the freezer. Hopefully I can find something mostly done since I should be cooking in the mornings. Ah - great plans gone awry.
Praying for Michelle and hoping to hear good news today.
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Susan, I love those summer meals. Some nights I just want to declare vegetable night for dinner.
Last night was grilled skirt steak, salted new potatoes (the first of the season, yum!) and cucumbers, peppers and tomatoes from the garden. I made leftover salted potatoes to put into a potato salad for lunch.
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Peggy, the paleo diet should be fine. It's how I basically eat, as I'm allergic to many grains. Be sure to eat a LOT of vegetables, though. Don't depend on the meat to make up most of your meals. Some people call it a high protein diet, but it doesn't have to be - depend on vegetables for the main source of your meal rather than meat and you'll be fine. I do, however, eat some yogurt as otherwise my stomach is unhappy from the letrozole.
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Hi everyone! I was hoping there would be some news on Michelle. If you are reading this Michelle just know you are in my thoughts and prayers and I hope you are feeling better each day. Gentle hugs!
Carrie- So sorry about your parents health. I hope the biopsy shows up negative and its just scar tissue or something not serious on your dads lungs.
Laurie- Sorry about your MIL- It must be so hard for all of you not to be able to talk to her when you would like to comfort her. I hope your time alone will be relaxing.
Nancy- Happy Belated Birthday hope you had a fun filled day.
We have been gone for over a week visiting my dad then drove to Portland yesterday for DH dr. appointment, Since Vancover, Washinton is just over the bridge from Portland, Oregon we drove there and ate at Joe's crab shack. It was delicious. We had crab and lobster boil each had 2 lobsters, king crab legs. sausage, corn, shrimp and red potatoes we also ordered a crab dip and fried clam strips- DH had 2 large beers I had 1 small beer and the whole bill was only 80,00 not including the tip. The meal was so good especially for the price.
Someone mentioned blueberries (sorry can't remember) I have been making a smoothie with them, adding baby spincach, kale, 1 bananna and 1 peeled and diced apple, frozen blueberries, almond butter. almond milk and a little flax seed. I just put it in a regular blender and it is delicious it doesnt look so great infact I made my dad one and he thought it might give him Diarrhea I think only because it looks like it might. Not a pleasant looking smoothie but I just love the taste.
Hope every one is doing good, and like Seaside said she still thinks of you all even if she isnt' posting, so do I. Big Hugs to all.
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Debbie, so good to " hear" from you! And wow what a dinner. That would be my DH's idea of heaven! I won't even tell him about it or he might try to get on a plane to Portland!
I know what you mean about the disgusting color veggie smoothies can have, but I color mine with adding beets (also good for cleansing one's liver!) and the smoothies are a lovely raspberry color....definitely more appealing.
I have been researching blenders this week as I am tired of packing and bringing the vitamix to the lake house weekly. I bit the bullet and purchased a Breville thinking it could be comparable ( from the reviews about its smoothie making ability).....well, not with smoothies that have kale and other cruciferous veggies. The chunky texture was sort of gross to me, and a challenge to get through a straw. So I am sending it back and continuing the search...open to anyone's ideas and experiences with blenders that can pulverize those crucifers!!
We left NH today with a mission to get DH a new cell phone on the drive home. We planned to stop to get BLT's for dinner after getting the phone. Welllll, the service guy at the phone store convinced DH that he might want to wait until Sept when it is rumored tha the new model is coming out. He decided to do that...and we went on the hunt for the BLTs......ha ha. For all of the restaurants we usually pass when driving random places, tonight we passed none that would be a likely candidate for BLTs. Ultimately, we drove all the way home and for dinner, DH had a leftover steak sandwich and I had a large piece of watermelon (a well traveled one) along with some pomegranate yogurt and walnuts. Not exactly a BLT, but filled the tummy fine! -
Debbie, that dinner sounds wonderful!
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Happy birthday Nancy! Laurie, so sorry to hear about your MIL. But very happy to hear about your time to yourself! Sounds like you 'spent' it just right. I think you are very wise. Thinking of you and your family.
Moving this week! Not a lot of cooking going on. But I am keeping up with the thread, and thinking of all of you. Eric, I smile to think of your DD driving!
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Lacey,
This is a blender that American's Test Kitchen recommends if you can't afford a Vitamix. Reviews indicate that it isn't quite as good.... but the price difference might make up for its shortcomings?
*susan*
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Thanks again for all the birthday wishes, it was as much fun as turning 65 can be lol (hello medicare!)
Last nights Japanese grill was big fun. Tonight is tikka masala with naan, then tomorrow it's off to the Washington d.c. area for a few days to see my son receive a masters degree (#2). It's going to be a short trip with not much sightseeing involved unfortunately. It's been years since I've been there and lots I would like to see and revisit. But that's another trip. I'm hoping that all my slightly red blushing tomatoes will be ready to pick when I return on Saturday and that the critters behave themselves while I'm gone (ha!) -
Susan, what all does one get from half a pig?. A meat locker here often runs specials and I have seriously considered it.
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Nancy,
Funny you should ask.... I am looking at primal cut diagrams now, trying to decide what cuts I want. We have already decided that we want the 14 pork chops instead of tenderloin/ribs. Of course I want the fat back, liver, hooves, etc. I don't believe in waste. I should get one jowl which I will cure. The pork belly I will start to cure and then smoke for bacon. My big question is what to do with the shoulder and ham. I want to cut those into more manageable sizes, but how? The hocks will turn into soup. This still leaves a lot of pig to butcher. All the bits and pieces I will grind for sausage and Chinese food. Dan dan noodles! Will let you know what I decide, but the beauty of this is, you get to decide what you get.
*susan*
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Thank you Susan, I see that it's the same kind of decisions as when I get half a cow. It's funny, I always have to specifically instruct them to give me the tail, apparently few people want them, so I always get extras. Oxtail soup!
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Don't forget the pigs head! I don't remember what she did with the brains and eyes but the rest of it got put in a big pot with water to cover and apropiate spices and cooked until the meat fell off the bone. I was only 12 the last time she made it. The meat was shreded and packed loosely into loaf pans. The broth was cooked down until there was just enough to cover the meat. It would gell when it was chilled and make the best lunch meat.
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we used to make scrapple when we'd butcher a pig. Like chabba said, it was cooked until everything fell off the bones, then my grandma added spices (especially a ton of sage, salt and pepper) and then mill ground corn meal (polenta) stirring until REALLY thick. Then she'd put it in empty milk cartons and chill it. For breakfast we'd slice it and fry it. That was the best breakfast EVER. After I married (and grandma died) we never butchered pigs anymore, but on occasion I'd buy a pork shoulder and make it. Now, unfortunately pork doesn't agree with me or hubby and he's developed an allergy to corn - so no more scrapple.
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DH and I ate scrapple somewhere in PA one year. We didn't particularly like it, but it might have been different from yours, gardengumby.
All the supermarkets and grocery stores in south Louisiana sell hogshead cheese. My mother used to make it when my father butchered a hog. She still loves it, especially the home-made. It's kind of a country person's pate!
Today after playing golf, dh and I went to the West Forty restaurant in Park Rapids, which has lunch specials every day. We ordered the roast beef and gravy with mashed potatoes and carrots and told the waitress we would share the meal, to bring us an extra plate. Instead they divided the meal into two platters in the kitchen, and each platter was ample for a meal, especially since we ordered side salads extra. We knew from last year how much food was loaded onto a plate when you ordered the special.
I had to smile at your mention of BLTs, Lacey. Yesterday dh and drove to Brainerd, MN, and biked a portion of the Paul Bunyan Trail. We stopped at Merrifield, a little town, and had lunch at a place that was a bar/grill. We ordered Extreme Blts, not realizing they were TRIPLE deckers! On Texas toast. They were delicious but must have had a half pound of bacon on each sandwich. And the serving of French fries was absurd. I've never had a tastier BLT but we weren't hungry for dinner last night, just had a snack.
Tonight I'll cook some pork medallions that were thawed for last night. I'll do a pork piquant with lemony sauce and capers, a really good WW recipe. I also need to cook some broccoli and cauliflower that are aging in the refrigerator.
Thinking of Michelle and Debbie's Dad and Carrie's parents and Laurie's MIL.
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Hi everyone- first of all- kind of grossed out about cooking a pigs head, lol! We never did anything like that! My weekend was so relaxing it was wonderful. I read an entire book and slept in, got a pedicure and swam in the pool. Saturday night a girlfriend came over and we ordered a pizza and drank wine pool side until midnight. Sunday night dinner was a wonderful turkey sandwich I made and last night was left over stuffed eggplant as DH was working late. Tonight I am just going to bake some chicken with carrots and zucchini and serve with rice.
Eric- Your post on DD driving made me smile. My Dad did the same thing. He taught me to drive on an old pick up truck, no power steering etc- high beams on the floor- remember those? He had me go on a hill and would not let me drive on the main road until I could master the clutch and not roll back at all. The irony was after I mastered that truck I don't think I was allowed to drive it again for many years?
Lacey- We did get so lucky that the storms missed us this weekend!
I hope everyone is doing well. Debbie- So glad you checked in- how is Chuck and your Dad feeling?
(((((Deb))))))) Still thinking of you.
Bobo- Good luck with your move!
Michelle- Hope you are feeling better- think of you all the time.
Hugs all around for everyone.
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Laurie and Eric - my dad also taught me in a straight-stick pickup truck. But he didn't think it was at ALL funny when I started to laugh as I jerked across the parking lot. Driving was seriously business. He made me so nervous that I went and signed up for drivers ed.
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Thinking of Michelle.....
As for lurching across the parking lot....I was having to not laugh...
Eric
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Enjoying the stories about learning to drive....I learned on a 1953 stick on the column....no power anything. It was a monster and my friends and I lurched a lot that first summer. I can still picture us giggling. Managing stopping and starting on the hills was a riot....and very anxiety provoking if a car came up behind me while I tried to master the stick, clutch, brake, gas challenge!
Carole, that sandwich sounded great. I have yet to satisfy my yen for a BLT, but may try a new restaurant in town that is bound to have them.
Tonight we (dh) grilled halved chicken breasts with my new favorite marinade...teriyaki with extra garlic, fresh ginger and chili pepper sauce for some spice/heat. Marinated some summer squash and onions in that flavor too. But the highlight of the meal was grilled beets with a drizzle of fig infused balsamic. Yum!
Susan, thanks for the ninja tip. I do worry about all those high blades and washing it w/o slicing my hands. Waring has a good one that I am talking to the mfgr about...have to pack up and return the Breville tomorrow.
Fascinated by all the butchering prowess in this group! Never even got close to learning those techniques from my family. I'm impressed, ladies....and maybe a bit grossed out, too. ;/
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I have no idea what is for dinner. I took out a pound of burger which I will make something with I suppose. I need to go to the grocery store and come up with my meal ideas for the week. We are headed out for a bike ride and then for a swim before DH gets home.
This morning we headed to the park with friends at the playground of the school where DS1 will be going this coming year. Afterward they had story and craft time at the school. The program was amazing. The people were very involved and organized and both boys were on their best behavior (for once). Afterward me, the boys and our friends wandered the school and looked at classrooms etc. DS is very excited to go to big boy school, which makes me happy.
On the BLT note- did I mention I stopped and got one on Friday? Can't wait for tomatoes from the garden for a tomato sandwich with cucumbers on the side- YUM!
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Me too Laurie! When I left this morning there were half a dozen starting to turn. Here's hoping for ripe tomatoes when I get back Saturday!
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Tonight was supposed to be pork chops, but my butcher is diddling and I won't have my pig until Friday. I had already invited hte kids to have dinner with us, so in typical susan-fashion, I overdid. Made 80 meatballs today. A pot of sauce is bubbling on the stove. Will serve over pasta with a large salad.
The meatballs are the result of.... got several large cuts of beef, which I then had to grind, and since I had ground meat, I really should grind those dry pieces of pork from the freezer, oh and I have a pound of ground venison, oh, meatballs. Why do I do this to myself? It is 86 degrees today, and I don't know how much hotter in that kitchen. I just never learn!
*susan*
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Momma mia! Thatsa lotta meatballs!
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Oh Nancy I am jealous! We won't get ours for another month! The cucumbers right now are about 2 inches- they will come first.
So all I could come up with for dinner is Salisbury steak and gravy, baked potato and corn on the cob. DH is running late so kids are eating pasta- we will eat together later.
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Susan you may have a death wish, but you are going to go out on a bed of meatballs! They sound seriously delicious!
We are having steak and salad, with fresh boysenberries for dessert. -
Ah gumby, you live in the land of boysenberries. Lucky you!
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Ah gumby, you live in the land of boysenberries. Lucky you!
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They are my very favorite berry - alas the season is incredibly short.
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In that case, you had better eat as many as you can :-)
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