So...whats for dinner?

susan_02143

Seasie [and Moonflower by PM],

Thank you so much for your kind thoughts. Cookie97 was such a vibrant person it is hard to believe that she is no longer with us. An unexpected friend. A true friend.

Loosing people we have come to care about deeply is the dark side of this website. But the shimmers of light are too numerous to mention.

*susan*

SpecialK

susan - have a good time on your trip to see your fam!  Sounds like fun!  I love your dinner with the Greek potatoes - I love those - used to go to a little place to get them when I lived in Virginia.  I too am sorry about the loss of another dear friend Cookie97 on the heels of your recent loss of Frapp, but I am glad to know that for you BCO offers support and encouragement.  I hope that makes your losses a bit easier to bear. 

moon - I actually learned about the no underwear on colonial women thing at a military wives' luncheon when we were stationed at a base right near Colonial Williamsburg.  We had a presentation by one of the costumers and she explained the features and function of the women's clothing and added the gem about the lack of underwear.  I was the wives' organization president and had to go back to the microphone and conduct business right after that comment - there were several hundred women at this luncheon and all decorum was out the window!

Moonflwr912

Susan, hugs.

SpecialK, that would be an awful act to follow! LOL I am not good at public speaking and once told a room full of parents at our annual meeting to Go feed your faces! LOL (had been spending way too much time with my teenagers at that time) LOL. I think that woke everybody up.

chabba

I'll have to ask DH if his high school history teacher mentioned colonial underware--rather lack of!  His teacher loved keeping his students on their toes by that kind of information every so often.  I learned for myself what a treasure trove of interesting trivia he could be after DH & I were just married and I worked with the teacher for a couple of years.

Lacey12

Susan, so sorry that you face yet another loss....definitely the downside of connecting wih our select group, but you are right that there are so many shimmers of light.

I hope you have an enjoyable weekend with family...and get in some lovely colorful views.



Speaking of sisters, DH and I spent much of the evening talking to my younger sister who is living with her two dogs at a camp cabin in VT (with no plumbing) while she hunts for the elusive house to buy in a very modest price range. She has seen very few places and is currently entertaining the idea of a barn turned house, currently unlived in by humans. It will be a huge project if it passes inspection and she buys it. Beautiful land and views, and she sees the positives for her gardening passion. I get stuck at the description of the mouse droppings, bats and the large outbuilding that looks like it will collapse with the first winter storm. DS has vision, creativity, and is a hard worker, so as a long term project, she might be able to do this....but WOW! And she has the self-imposed restriction of refusing to do any houseclosing during "mercury retrograde", so has less than a month. She is a gutsy character...but tiring of using her Dunkin Donuts cup for a bathroom. Oy!

carberry

Susan  Sounds like a great trip...I cant imagine not seeing my sister for so long...mine lives right up the road from me.

Use the website "zillow" and it is 6009 Stern Court New Bern NC.  It is in a community called Fairfield harbor, a boating community.  New Bern was voted as one of the best places to retire, it is the "colonial" capital of the state...so I guess I wont have to wear underwear!!!  ha ha  Anyways...if we get the house it will need a total cosmetic re-do inside, but we really like how it is laid out all on one level, with only the two extra bedrooms upstairs.

Lacey YIKES! on your sisters plan to turn a barn into a home!  I totally envy people that have the capability of doing a remake of those proportions.

Last night was tomato soup with grilled cheese  with a side of some homemade dill pickles. 

carolehalston

Susan, I hope you enjoy your visit with family. 

Carrie, that boating community in NC sounds perfect for you and your dh.  By re-doing the interior, you can make the house your own. 

I'm re-reading my book on making artisan pasta and working up to trying out the pasta attachments to my stand mixer.  I'd forgotten about buying them on Ebay shortly before we left for the summer. 

Surprising that pioneer women didn't wear undies.  SpecialK, what was the explanation?  No elastic? 

SpecialK

moon - yeah, it was hard to get those ladies under control again, but I crack a mean whip, lol!

lacey - your DS sounds like a character, and someone who likes a challenge!

carberry - I almost spit out my coffee on the underwear remark, funny!

carole - the explanation was not that there was no elastic (funny too!) but that they thought it was more hygienic.  I think at some point not long after they wore a pantaloon type underwear that was sort of open, then through French influence the closed pantaloon became the vogue.

auntienance

Oh Susan, I'm so sorry you're experiencing yet another loss.  It seems to just keep on coming. I hope your upcoming family visit brings you some comfort (and fun).

Las night was Navajo bread tacos with fresh pico de gallo, avocado, lettuce, tomato and cheese.  Tonight will be grilled and barbecued pork steak with salted potatoes and a cucumber tomato salad.  Summer is still holding on here -- 87 today.

Carole -- get those attachments out -- pasta is fun!!

Laurie08

Susan- I am so sorry for your loss.

Carrie- I looked up the house and it is AMAZING!!!!!  Thanks for sharing with us!  The open concept right on the water, with a dock and the nice fireplace?  Beautiful.  I can see why it is a dream home.

Lacey- I am all for trying new things, the project idea of the barn being turned into a home sounds like fun- but I don't think I could handle the Dunkin Donuts cup!

Tonight is an open house at DS1 school.  Third night in a row with something at night, yuck!  We will use the leftover roast to make steak and cheese sandwiches and feed the kids whatever so they can go to bed at a decent hour.  I cooked the tip roast exactly as I would cook my eye of the round and it was VERY rare.  Weird?

bedo

Carrie, LOVE the house.  I would just row around the lake all day.

Special K.... your note about no underwear just leads to more questions, but I won't ask them.

I'm going out to dinner.

But I'm making potatoe soup with onions and fennel for tomorrow. And I'm craving some kind of greens.

SpecialK

bedo - haha - new term - "colonial commando"

Moonflwr912

Im with Bedo, NO COLONIAL COMMANDO questions from me! (Although they keep floating around in my mind....LOL)



Tonight dinner was spicy chicken breast (whole) with grilled pineapple with rice and grilled veg at Highland House. Its my favorite dinner there. I always have enough for lunch as a stir fry the next day. Have you noticed when I go out I order by leftover possibilities? LOL

Much love

bedo

So... Carrie showed us her new home, so I will show you near where I will be working and living for the winter.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Selawik-National-Wildlife-Refuge/188321731253108?sk=photos_stream

Further South than I'm used to.

Well, that took me forever and a day!

But it will be winter most of the time so check out the mushers!

I had new lettuce and pear salad, and, butternut squash, black beans and cooked greens quesadillas for dinner out with a friend. I am feeling so much better and will finish my treatment in 3 weeks, about.  I am already feeling stronger.

I will be making potato and onion soup for tomorrow with a bulb of fennel.  I am craving greens, so I will have that too.

Susan, it's a 20-24 hour flight, broken up, what's the deal with bringing your violin as a carry on, I seem to remember some uproar. Although, as usual I probably won't practice, and am a hack.

Special K and all, I will be wearing long underwear in AK in case anyone is interested.

SpecialK

moon - that is smart in my book!

bedo - best to stay covered up when it is fleepin' freezing outside!

Moonflwr912

Carrie Ill have to look up your house. Bedo beautiful. Stay warm. Good night to all.

eric95us

Colonial commando...

Hmm....I would imagine that where Bedo is going to spend the winter...on a windy day.... the practice could result in blue moons.....

chabba

Thanks eric, I needed a good chuckle!

Kaara

Debbie:  So sorry about the loss of your father.  Sending you prayers!

I had good news this week...clear mammo and also didn't have to have my dreaded eye injection for the second month in a row.

In the process of moving from the mountains to the beach, so very busy.  I'll catch up on this thread when I can...it's so active...sorrry I'm missing so much:(

Have a blessed weekend everyone!

carberry

Eric  LAUGHING and getting a funny visual in my head!

Bedo those pics are gorgeous.  I have always wanted to do the Alaskan cruise.  My in-laws say it was one of the best trips they have ever taken (and they have been all over the world)   So glad you are feeling better. I love the winter squashes, but never seem to get the motivation to cook any of them.

Bought all of the ingredients to make a big pot of chili....bring on some good Sunday football!

carolehalston

We're going out to dinner tonight with neighbors.  No cooking, no cleanup!

auntienance

Jumping on the chicken fried steak bandwagon. No mashed potatoes, but oven roasted leftover salted potatoes. I will make some gravy for the cfs. We'll probably have to have green beans since the garden keeps spitting them out. Trying to use stuff up! I'm really really really looking forward to some seafood next week.

deborye

Eric, I don't know what SCD means, maybe some kind of digestion disorder?

deborye

(Michelle and family)

Lacey12

Was watching The Chew today thinking of Michelle and hoping that she can still enjoy watching it! Someday when I get back to NYC, I'd love to go to the Kelly and Michael Show as well as The Chew....someday.....maybe if I hint around enough, my family will go to the trouble to get tickets for me. I'm no good at follow through these days.



I have been wanting to make pan pizza (aka bar pizza maybe?), so last night before going to bed, I made the dough and left it on the counter in its bowl until today (no need to kneed). Then today I made a fresh batch of kale walnut pesto to use on one of the pies.

It was wonderful! I think my pesto may never be purely basil based again!



So on the kale pie, I added roasted red and yellow tomatoes (which were waiting around in the fridge for these pan pies to be made) and mozz cheese.

The second pie had a tomato sauce with an assortment of roasted veggies and two cheeses. They were a fun change. I'm not sure I have ever cranked the oven up to 550 degrees before! Love those caste iron pans for this recipe! Had my "go to" cuke salad with it since I was too busy doing hot oven management to make a leisurely garden salad.



My sister sent me an Eat More Kale.com bumper sticker...not sure I could do that!! Every morning and most evenings!



I am getting more anxious than she is about her buying this barn/house with all the critters. Am crossing my fingers that another option comes along......this one is such a huge project!



Carrie your house is lovely! Looks so relaxing.....



Can't recall if I posted last night....we had a nice visit with our sons' old pediatrician who had a children's health center named after him, and which is attached to the city's poorest public school. They totally service those kids all day with medical, dental and behavioral health services. Dr. Hass is 75 and semi retired, but makes the trip to the center every other week to work.....a wonderful man!



Afterwards, we met up with DS2 for dinner in Southie. The level of twenty and thirty something energy at The Lincoln (where he claimed the food was good, and it was) was almost overwhelming to my aging senses! I don't recall any concentrated "yuppie neighborhoods" like that in Boston when I was that age....maybe Cambridge, but there it was more mixed. Susan, you must see some of the same in 02143.

Anyway, we had a delightfully light calamari with aioli and hot peppers. The guys both had black and blue tuna, and I had a sweet spicy grilled shrimp and caesar salad.



Tomorrow evening DH is doing a DJ gig in JP, so I am going to meet a friend for dinner at a restaurant that promotes a farm to table menu. While philosophically, I love that, I always worry about an errant " weed" getting in my food selection causing me to get hives. Will be VERY careful with my choices!



Nite all....

Moonflwr912

Lacey, im with you on the Chew. But if I ever get there the guest will be some weirdo with a book about eating out of garbage cans or something! LOL. Its a fun show and they really seem to get along pretty well. Not like the first year when I thought Mario was going to kill Daphne. LOL

Supper was looking leftovers. Tomorrow will be Cheeseburgers in Paradise in Madison. My DD2 is trying to pick out bridedmaids dresses and we are going to Madcity to look. My DD1 is up there and so is my DS2 so we will visit at CIP. Thats where DD2 wants to go after. Much love to all.

carolehalston

I attended a cooking class today at a nearby kitchen ware store.  It's a wonderful store and has a beautiful kitchen designed for cooking classes.  There were six women including me in the class and the chef was an older Italian man.  We got to sample home-made gnocchi and pasta made into cannoli and ravioli.  Chef Paul did several different sauces.  It was a lot of fun.

We got 10 percent off any merchandise we bought at the store and I took advantage of the discount. 

I should make some home-made pasta for dinner but I'm feeling lazy after all that sampling at the class!

Maybe I'll make a pizza. 

auntienance

In the pizza vein, calzones here tonight. Assorted veggies and bits of meats and cheeses to use up. I cut an arm load of basil, which I brought in and put in a vase. It will last a good while, but there's still a lot in the garden.



We leave for the gulf tomorrow. I'm ready! Carole, I sent you a pm.

Lacey12

Excited for you girls to get together, Carole and Nance. Have a great visit!

Moonflwr912

Supper was at Cheeseburger in Paradise. My DD2 wanted it after looking for bridesmaids gowns. Yum.

Carole and Nance, have a wonderful time.