So...whats for dinner?

Lacey12

Carole, your cooking class sounded like fun!



Last night I went to dinner with a friend at Patriot Place since she lives near it. Lordy does that place have a zillion eateries! For a starter we had a delicious foccaccia with three different spreads to go with it....a garlicy white bean, an eggplant (sort of like baba ganoush) and a beet/bean spread that was oh so delish!

I had cod for my entree that was plated with a few interesting mushrooms and greens.

We split a dessert that was a frozen pecan nougat over a brown sugar wafer surrounded by blueberry compote. Yum! Making myself hungry here......



Another beautiful day in New England.

Heading out for my walk.....

susan_02143

Arrived home yesterday to a house in chaos. The kid had two young children so she could administer the Wexler test for a class assignment. Her friend, the procurer of these children, was here with a MASSIVE and rather smelly dog. One of the children was coughing and sneezing. They took over the first floor of my house. Finding a spot to eat lunch was not easy.

Made dinner in spite of all this. Grilled lamb chops [almost finished all the lamb], little baby onion rings [husband bought onions at the Farmer's market], steamed green beans, and some corn. I think the end of the corn season is near.

I have sliced the rest of the onions, along with some supermarkets ones, and they are carmelizing in the oven now. I will make a Lyonnaise French Onion soup when they are done. Serving it with the two leftover chops from last night, lentils and steamed broccoli. Or maybe I will roast the broccoli. Haven't decided just yet.

The whole house smells like onions just about now.

*susan*

Lacey12

Oh, such chaos to return to, Susan! At least a house smelling of onions beats it smelling like dirty dog! Hope your family visit went well.



Managed to get distracted as I was headed out before. Now I really will go for the walk and maybe hit the Farmer's market on way home.

Moonflwr912

Susan, I actually miss chaos like that. Whats wrong with me? LOL I actually made the mistake of trying to dry onions. Oh man the house reeked of onions. For a week.

Lacey, after the rsin we had yesterday, it turned into a besutiful day here. Gorgeous day. Enjoy your wonderful weather. Much love to all. Thinking of you Michelle.

jenjenl

baked chicken with bacon and cheese, pasta and corn.

Lacey12

Had a great long walk, ending at the Farmer's Mkt. uptown, where I met DH. A lot of local baked good vendors peppered the booths, so we just had to buy some delish giant ginger cookies! All that walkin' ya know!



Bought some steak tips from the meat guy to have for dinner. Marinated them for grilling, then had a caprese salad over lovely fresh red leaf lettuce, corn on the cob, and candy cane beets over the sautéed beet greens with garlic and diced tomato. I have developed this obsession about needing to use the beet greens whenever I buy beets...they just seem so healthy!



Garden G, I hope you are okay...saw some awful footage of serious rains in Washington.

carolehalston

DH's stress test results came back "abnormal."  He is scheduled for an angiogram on Tues. morning.  So it's unlikely that we will get over to Biloxi while Nancy and her dh are there hitting the jackpot at the casinos.  I hope we can get together on her next trip.  DH and I are hoping he qualifies for another stent to address his blockage problem. 

I was up at 7:30 this morning and started peeling potatoes.  I made potato salad, macaroni and cheese and baked chicken thighs for Sunday noon dinner at my mother's house.  I also made a simple green salad, but the carbs were more popular.  My oldest brother and his wife, his son and his wife and 8-yr-old daughter were there.  It was a nice day. 

I've been wanting pizza.  I'm thinking that tomorrow night we will have home-made pizza for dinner.

Warm thoughts of Michelle.   

susan_02143

We bagged the lamb chops. Soup, lentils and a little broccoli was the perfect meal! [Note to self: when having something with cheese, no meat needed.]

Ended up making the kids a mac/cheese and a ham steak. They needed an assist.

*susan*

SpecialK

All this food sounds so yummy!  Had a pretzel bun and brat at the Buccaneers game mid-day - just had chopped vegetable salads with some chicken breast for dinner.

carole - hope things go smoothly for your DH, my FIL has done the stent thing - worked great for him, and was a problem-solver.

Moonflwr912

Carol hoping it works for your DH. Pizza sounds good.

Tiday I had leftovers in stirfry. AND a cob of corn. Yum. Since I usually have an issue with the D I dont eat it often and I wanted it while I could still get a fresh cob. Double yum. Even if I have to stay home tomorrow its worth it! LOL

eric95us

Chicken, rice and beans tonight. And the sourdough is baking the oven.







Eric

lovewins

i love reading this thread....it reminds me of the food network i watch at my folks.  i have been reading a long time but only posted once.  anyway i was wondering what your alls favorite go to food was when you were going thru chemo...i am running out of ideas and it is hard to eat.  any suggestions would be appreciated.

Moonflwr912

Lovewins I had taste changes so the only things I could eat were, unfortunately, white things. Mashed potato. Baked potato. White cheese,swiss or aged cheddar or mozzerella. Toast with jelly. Chicken soup. Biscuits and gravy. Sweet potato baked worked. Not the best diet but I could hold it down and swallow and the taste was passable. I stayed away from most veg as I had diarrhea from tx. Much love

susan_02143

I, on the other hand, was all about the protein. During the steroid highs, I would cook, cook, cook and freeze 2-3 oz portions of protein. Things I liked: hard boiled eggs, meatballs, quiche, chicken pot pie filling, little steaks. Every day I ate oatmeal as my first meal of the day. I then ate about ever 2-3 hours, about 2 oz of food. Next meal was a fruit smoothie. Gosh yogurt was appealing and good for the stomach while the body was immune-supressed. Cheese had almost no appeal, unless it was a topping for pasta. Mashed taters, well anything that was a salt conveyer, was appealing.

Night before chemo we would eat out. I did chemo by vein so needed salty food. We ate a Thai place most weeks. I had never been there before. I never went back again, of course. Long out of business now.

Will post back more... oh yes! Chicken soup. Pho. Any soup that wasn't acidic was very appealing.

*susan*

Moonflwr912

Oh yeah. Food that was cold had less taste so I would eat cold slices of turkey chicken ham cold for protein. Once in a while yogurt would appeal so I would eat it then.

SpecialK

Potatoes in any form.  Seriously.  I will confess to mashed potatoes with crumbled bacon, cheese and sour cream.  And I do not have an aversion to them now, lol!  Also, I always enjoyed a hearty soup, and fresh fruit.  Yogurt, and Cream of Wheat or oatmeal.  I liked to have trail mix on hand too - helped with trying to keep something in my stomach - also apples with peanut butter.  During the last 10 days or so before the next tx I ate a lot of red meat because my hemoglobin is kind of low normally, and it took a hit during chemo, so steak, burgers and spinach, but I could only handle that just before the next tx.

bedo

A different type of illness changed my taste buds for bit. Everything tasted like lemons.  Best were cold bland things like instant breakfast, ice cream and, unfortunately the only thing that tasted normal were Gummi Worms, which aren't all that healthy.

Eating with a plastic spoon sometimes got rid of the metal taste.

I'm a really bad cook.  So listen to the others!

The potato, fennel, onion and cheddar soup I made a bucket of was really bad.  I gave it to my neighbor, heh, heh.

I'm thinking up something to eat with the final recap of Breaking Bad tonight.

Maybe I'll make some mushroom barley, or tomato Bulgar soup with fresh bread from the market and spinach.

MinusTwo

I probably had the worst diet of all.  I had to stick mostly w/the BRAT diet for the "big D" - bananas, rice, applesauce & toast 18 days out of 21 - but I cut the rice since it tasted horrible and after the 3rd tx I cut bread.  Yes to mashed or baked potatoes but only with butter & salt.  Cream of Wheat, Stauffers Mac & Cheese, occasional omlette w/a hint of cheese.  Campbells Chicken Noodle soup.  Occasional Trader Joe's Tomato Basil soup.  Fruit popcycles.  Ice cold apples sliced really thin.  Cold boiled shrimp.  Lots of gingerale, root beer & coke.  I know - caffeine dehydrates but my onc said go ahead - getting down any liquid was better than not and most juices had a nasty taste.

My taste buds were just beginning to come back before surgery last Tuesday.  I actually ate a Fuddruckers hamburger Monday - first red meat in 5 months.  Unfortunately the antibiotic has killed all the good bugs so I have a raging case of thrush & mouth sores - and everything tastes off again.  Sigh.  But my brain still loves the great recipes and meals on this thread.

gardengumby

Thanks for the kind thoughts. It was definitely crazy weather and right smack dab in the middle of the worst day (Saturday) and at the most rainy spot (Olympia) we had a BCO get together. The rain was so heavy that I had to hold the GPS right next to my ear to hear it. Hubby kept saying "we should have taken the truck!" I probably had to go the least distance. We are hardy ladies!

susan_02143

Lunch was the leftover lamb chop with lentils, reheated. Dinner was the rest of the onion soup with cheesy croutons. And with that, my fridge is getting pretty empty.

*susan*

jenjenl

eggs benedict - so good. 

SeasideMemories

Jenjen,



Welcome! And I second the yum on the eggs benedict! Had many a fail making the poached eggs and then found a product called a poach pod on Amazon. Makes poaching eggs so much easier!



Laurie,



You mentioned that you tried Chicken and Dumplings in the crockpot and you didn't care for it. I've been eyeing a few recipes for that so would be interested in knowing what recipe you tried and what you didn't like about it.

Laurie08

Jenjen- Welcome!

Here goes a quick post!

Seaside- The base for the chicken and dumplings was great- the problem was the dumplings.  Bisquick, butter and milk.  It was so pasty!  And yes they were cooked through.  Let me know what you find, I love the idea.  If anyone is french out there I thought it would be like grandpere's....nothing close.

So- both boys have croup and we were at the Er last night.  My house is on lock down.  My oldest has asthma issues and with this compounded can do nothing but lay or be out of breath to the point it is scary.  AND THE KID WONT SIT STILL!  He is driving me nuts.  It should pass quickly. 

Dinner tonight was pork chops and applesauce, pasta and sauce and corn- HOPING the boys would eat their favorites.  They didn't.  Better luck tomorrow!

Hugs to all!

lovewins

thank you ladies i just got home from bingo...i am now eating a pancake...not too bad.  thanks for all your suggestions!  i am leaning towards the white food but getting very sick of it!

SeasideMemories

Laurie,



So sorry that the boys are sick! Croup is no fun at all. Things that worked... Get the shower going, the hotter the better. You want the steam. Then sit with DS in the bathroom (not in the hot shower)! For some reason the steam helps.



Another tact that we took during an acute attack was to take them outside into the sudden cold. That also seemed to snap them out of that crazy, bad cough. Not sure if it's cold enough yet for that.



Thinking of you...



Most of the slow cooker chicken and dumplings called for using refrigerator biscuits (ie pillsbury) cut up and added toward the end as the 'dumplings'. My mom and sister do a stove top version with Bisquick dumplings that is really good. I may try the crockpot version and cross my fingers,.lol

auntienance

Lovewins, Campbell's chicken noodle soup, saltines, trader Joe's ginger cookies, peanut butter, turkey on whole wheat and caramel/cheese popcorn. Lots of it. Could not stand red meat.

Laurie08

Seaside- Great advice. I have been bringing them into the steam during the day when they struggle.  Tonight temps are supposed to be in the 40's so they are in my bed with all the windows open and extra blankets on them.  They say the cold is good too.

If you try the chicken and dumplings let me know.

Lacey12

Laurie, I do hope that croup curse leaves your house pronto! Trying to keep those guys down is just not fair to any of you!



Lovewins, welcome and hope some of the ideas are helpful.



Carole, sending positive thoughts for a speedy cardiac "repair" for your DH. I know how worrisome the wait can be. Good luck!

chabba

I found that for fluffy dumplings it is important not to crowd them and they really need that 20 minutes simmering uncovered. Don't make them often, dh would say not often enough, so I always have to check to see if that is the first or last 20.

eric95us

Laurie sorry to hear about your boys. The steam sounds like a good idea.  When I'd get sick like that, I'd crawl into the bath tub, turn on the shower and let it go as long as possible...it helped...  I never tried cold, but around here, cold is 60F degrees!

Lovewins....Both Sharon and Mickey liked plain sourdough bread during their chemos...both said it helped calm the nausea.  I don't know if it has some magic properties, or if it was just "something".  Regular home made white bread didn't "do it".  Sharon liked ice cream as well. 

Sharon and I went kayaking again yesterday.  The weather was beautiful. 

Wednesday is Sharon's onc appointment....just a regular check.

And, as always, thinking of Michelle.  Hugs to you if you're reading this...and hugs even if you're not.. :-)

Edited. 

Carold, I must have missed the post about your husband.  Healing thougts to both of you.

Eric