So...whats for dinner?
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Eric I'm glad one Mother is doing better. Many thoughts to your other Mom
Susan Cheeze Sauce !! As a vegetarian that turkey looks mighty good
Minus, sorry about the tooth. I hope the tooth fairy compensated you.
Big bro came from NY and we drove up to Dorchester and ate a ton of Pho and other things yesterday at the Vietnamese Restaurant with daughter and stayed the night on the floor for Thanksgiving. I couldn't take it and slept on the love seat. Insanity runs in the family I've been told.
Happy Holidays to all
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Eric glad about your Mom. But you might want to get her meds checked out. My MIL was given the wrong amounts and it sent her to the hospital too.
Much over to all. Stay safe shopping....
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Eric - glad your Mom is home. Diagnosis it hard over the holidays so you'll have a "watchful" weekend before you can follow up Monday.
Bedo - great to 'see' you. Actually i put the tooth in my purse in a baggy instead of under my pillow. Hmmm. Doesn't seem to be any more money in my wallet. On the positive side - no less money either since ex paid for dinner. I love the idea of Pho with family for Thanksgiving. Being together is the best part. But I'm not sure I would do well on the floor anymore either.
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minus - sorry about the tooth! I once broke one off eating a salad (how did I do that?) and I did swallow it! My son lost his first tooth - actually lost it outside playing in the snow. He was panicked that he didn't have it to put under his pillow - we had to write a letter to the tooth fairy. I had to sign it, and I think my DH did also. The tooth fairy wrote back to let him know that she found his tooth outside and it was all good - her letter had a LOT of glitter on it!!!
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MIL just went by ambulance to hospital ED.
Sigh......
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eric - oh no! Hoping she is ok, or feeling better soon!
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Eric, Darn! Can't catch a break here. I am so sorry that the mothers are having such a hard week.
My bread making today produced two lovely loaves. Did a really wet dough which stuck to the brotforms. In the end, they puffed up a bit in the oven and were the basis for a delicious turkey sandwich. We went all out. A bit of bacon, some homemade mayo, tomato [not bad for a winter tomato], and lots of thinly sliced white turkey meat. There are days and days and days of turkey left. I am thinking enchiladas, turkey stew with the leftover gravy, and a bunch more sandwiches. I just love turkey sandwiches.
Great day today. Got lots of work done, and frustrations were kept to a minimum.
*susan*
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Oh dear, Eric....."it never rains, but it pours..." Definitely not an easy thing when it's parents and health concerns. Sending positive thoughts along.
This AM I awoke to a loud thump and a very horrible crash of glass. DH was downstairs and found that our mailman had "literally!" crashed through a large leaded glass side window of our front door. He claimed that he was fine, that he tripped, and went to break his fall (on the window!!), thus crashing through. What a mess! They did call the supervisor who came and took pix, and helped install cardboard in the window space. Very attractive and insulative!! It is 8 degrees out!
We later added some plexiglass, and called around to leaded glass places to see how soon we can have the window repaired. It may take a while....and will undoubtedly be quite pricey, so I hope we don't have to foot the entire bill ourselves. I'll bet our mailman won't be feeling as "fine" tomorrow as he said he felt right after the fall. Poor guy.....
Had turkey sandwiches tonight with cranberry salsa. Love the idea of adding bacon to them, Susan. Howver, I really feel like I have had my fill of carbs to clise out 2014! So I may bag the whole leftover thing from here on....and let DH chow down on them.
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Leftovers from Turkey Day tonight!
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I had a 2nd Thanksgiving for my mom. Before "the phone rang", she had eaten multiple helpings of roast beef, stuffing, mashed potatoes, squash, potato casserole, turkey, green bean, some bacon wrapped asparagus, rolls and salad....then 2 *large* (about 1/3 of the whole pie) pieces of pumpkin pie with real whipped cream and a nice ale.
And she said she wasn't hungry... :-)
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Hi everyone! I have been super busy and struggling with technical issues like no computer and then no internet. But I wanted to wish everyone a post Happy Thanksgiving! In the Northeast we were out of power for Thanksgiving but we made it work
We had a generator for Thanksgiving and could only use the oven- nothing else. We cooked the turkey in the oven and everything else went on the wood stove and turned out beautifully! I honestly was shocked it all went so well! Everyone who came over had no power either and were very thankful. I had a few skeptics in the bunch when they saw all my pots on the wood stove but there were smiles all around at the table. It took an hour and a half to get a rolling boil on the potatoes! So all in all a success! Our power came back on around 9 on Thanksgiving. We were very lucky as we were one of the first turned on.Today we went and cut down a Christmas tree. The weather was very crisp but sunny and we had a blast. I think my DH (Clarke Griswald) got the biggest tree ever this year! It was too wet to decorate tonight so we will do it tomorrow.
Dh goes in Monday for a hernia surgery. DS2 has a birthday in a week and we have parent teacher conferences on top of soccer. All with DH laid up in bed and me doing double time! But this too shall pass.
I ope everyone is doing well and had a wonderful Thanksgiving.
Hugs to you all.
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Hi Laurie!!!
You are a better woman than I.
It is so good to hear from you and know that you still have that energy.
Hugs for Thanksgiving to you and your family
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Oh Bedo- don't let me fool you- I am exhausted!
HUGS!!!!
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Laurie - I well remember when kiddos were young and can't imagine how I ever found the energy to get everything done. Hope hubby's surgery is easy & everyone else stays healthy. So good to hear from you but we do understand. Check in when you can.
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laurie - good to see you! You sound busy as ever - and it sounds like your holiday was exciting! Glad the cooking worked out - all that camping experience maybe helped! Hope your DH's surgery goes well and that he is good as new very soon!
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Hello Bedo and Laurie. You are busy people!
Eric sorry about your Mom. But on the other hand, she had a great meal before the hospital trip.
My dinner was the fresh half turkey breast I had in the fridge. But since I went toy brother for T day, I had to cook it. Seemed a shame to freeze a fresh bird. LOL. Just made stuffing as long as it was gonna go in the oven. Put the half breast over the stuffing mound. Then made potato and sweet potato. But did them together in a scalloped dish. My favorite way to eat them. No green bean casserole cause I already have way too much leftovers. LOL. Bought a slice of pumpkin pie though. LOL
Much love to all and happy cooking.
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Thanks for your newsy post Laurie!
Love your tree....not loving your up coming schedule so much, but with that supportive community you have up yonder, I know you will get through it. Best of luck to DH with his surgery. My DH had two in past years and with the mesh procedure they mostly use, the healing is pretty fast.
So the scales are up and I will be having no more stuffing no matter how much is leftover! Ha!
So tonight, DH fixed himself some leftover turkey, and I made the pomegranate, baby kale, walnut, wild rice and feta salad that I've been dying to try. It was really tasty....and a few less bad calories than anything else in our refridge! Here's a pic:
Boy, the leaded glass artisan showed up today to assess the smashed in window. This is going to be quite the involved fix! He needs us to get a carpenter to gently remove the entire window so it can be repaired in the studio,and he has to go on a search for one of the types of glass that it contains since it happens to be rare! We might just want to replace the windows with plain glass and sell the leftover good window on ebay! He said that these next to the front door windows are often damaged. I guess people were more gentle in the olden days!
I have been spending the whole day organizing and documenting medical history data for my upcoming genetic counseling appt. What a royal pain it has been on every level! Wading through the questions, calling cousins and my sister to try to get dates, ages, dxs, etc. Learned that there is a lot unknown in my mother's family as I tried to ferret out info. And am now selfishly happy that my father was an only child since that short cut this form completing immensely....no aunts, uncles, cousins. There are many of those on my mother's side since she was one of ten. Anyway, I am almost done....and the only reason I am doing this (aside from my MO's recommendation) is for my grandchildren. It will be great to have it off my plate.....:)
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This leaded glass story is giving me the shivers. We have three leaded glass windows in this house and I am pretty sure that replacing them would be a very expensive proposition. Two of our windows are on either side of the front door, but they aren't full height. There are radiators below so the windows go from about 4' from the floor up to the ceiling. Timmy, our postman, would have to work pretty hard to fall through them! I know that we need to find some kind of storm window arrangement for those three windows. They leak cold air all winter long, but somehow have not actually found the energy to do anything about this leak.
Your salad looks much like one of my favorites. I do a simple mustard dressing: mustard, shallots, vinegar and olive oil emulsified. This tops a salad of spinach [baby preferred], toasted walnuts, pickled red onions, dried cranberries and a bit of goat cheese. I first had something similar at Sweet Tomatoes in Newton Center and liked it enough to create a home version which I do like better.
We have done three days of turkey. Turkey on a plate, turkey between slices of bread, turkey in a bowl with some gravy on top. Last night, I decided to make a soup from the leftover butternut squash. I was planning to sautee a bit of onion with some Madras curry I had made for another dish, and then finish with some of the leftover cream, but then it occurred to me.... I had creamed onions [made with milk.] So I toasted the spices and then added a bit of the unpasturized cider before adding the last of the turkey and vegetable stock. In went the squash, and I let this simmer for a bit. Then I added some of the onions. I used a food mill to get rid of the squash-fibre stuff and we had a lovely soup. I had a large bowl, while Mr. 02143 had a more modest amount to accompany his huge plate of turkey, corn, and stuffing. The rest of the corn will turn into corn chowder since I have a bunch of corn stock in the freezer. Once again, we will not finish the stuffing. I just don't really love stuffing, and people just don't eat that much of it anymore so there is a lot leftover. The turkey carcass will go into the oven today for a stock and I will make a turkey stew with the rest of the meat. I suspect that this will head to the freezer since we just might have hit turkey-overload at this point.
I am making family brunch today. The excuse is a package of Harrington sausage.... so I will make some pancakes, sausage, toast [for me, since I don't eat pancakes] and maybe a few eggs.
Almost caught up on the code I have promised clients. Actually made some progress yesterday!
*susan*
p.s. Laurie, reading your post made me exhausted! Good luck this week!
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Off to my mom's house to fix kitchen cabinets and part of a wall damaged by a pipe leak. The contractor wanted $7,100 for what will take an afternoon for a friend and I to to do...and we will be doing a better job too.
Then, probably at some point get MIL from the hospital. She's still there.
No rest for the wicked.... I must be one wicked :!&#&&"!$ :-)
DD's school football team won the state championship game last night. It was an exciting game to watch.
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Eric, I hope more healthy days are ahead for your mother and MIL.
Laurie, it was a treat to have you pop in. Your Thanksgiving without electricity sounded like quite an adventure! Wishing your dh the best of results with his surgery.
Lacey, what a story about the mailman! I read that paragraph aloud to dh. That's the kind of occurrence that we never expect!
Everyone is welcome to their Thanksgiving dinner leftovers. I'm just not that big a turkey fan. Although I'm pleased that my sister put a turkey carcass in the freezer for me. I do like making a big pot of turkey soup with veggies and noodles.
We had 18 people at the table at Thanksgiving dinner in Decatur, IL, at dh's sister's house. Two were small children. It was a very ample meal with many dishes. One of the best IMHO was a roasted root veggie medley. No dinner rolls, Susan! I suspect my SIL had made dinner rolls and frozen them and simply forget about them in the hustle and bustle. Once again she made two dressings, one conventional and the other an oyster dressing that neither dh nor I find tasty. SIL doesn't eat oysters and she uses a recipe that's nothing like New Orleans oyster dressing.
It's good to be back home. I walked in and opened the patio door and a lot of windows to admit some fresh air. It's in the 70's today and sunny. I'm hoping I can get in a couple of days of golf this coming week.
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Well, Carole, I would never have expected our mailman to come crashing through our front side window either! But then a number of years ago, a window washer put his arm through one of our sunroom windows (also leaded glass...we have a lot of it in this old house, and the sun room windows are all leaded). He also was uninjured, fortunately! That one was not as big a job as this recent mishap.
Glad that your trip went well...and safely without any major storms. Must be nice to return home to 70 degree weather. Today was beautiful here....50's so it seemed that everyone was out putting their outdoor holiday lights on their shrubs. One never knows how long we'll have civilized temps!
We will probably decorate minimally this year since DS2 will only be here for Xmas eve night and part of Xmas Day, before heading to FL to meet Chicago girl's parents, and DS1's clan are not coming north (here anyway..they are working over Xmas and then taking their young 'ens skiing in VT), so it seems silly to go to the trouble of getting a big tree....we might just get a little table top Charlie Brown xmas tree, so we have something to put lights on. The lights always bring such feelings of warmth and cheer during the long, dark, cold evenings.
Gee, Eric, wish you were around here to do the carpentry work we need to get as part of the window repair!
Hope your project went well today, and that your mom is doing much better...she certainly will be able to burn some energy after that meal! LOL Hoping our regular builder guy who has done big jobs for us has the time to squeak this mini project in. Glad we aren't entertaining this holiday season like we have the last few. We'll be sporting the cardboard, foam for insulation, and plastic bag in the front hallway for quite a while it seems.
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Oh, for dinner I guess we'll move on to the Roche Brothers "home made" ravs I have in the freezer. Been waiting for an emergency to use them. Tonight is the emergency...DH is busy watching the Patriots, he already had one dish of leftover turkey today, and I'm too lazy to go to the store. So spinach ravs with a salad...maybe more baby kale and arugula, red onion, carrot, and grape tomatoes, dressed with dijon vinaigrette.
Susan, I like your salad..sounds like one of the favorite spinach salad varieties I make, too. Can't go wrong with that. Last night's salad called for a sweeter dressing, but I think I'd change that next time I make it.
Silly story....I was very gratified today when a friend told DH that I had converted her to be a kale person. I think she only puts it in her smoothies, but it's a start! She was just making smoothies with fruit, which I do not understand, since I would much rather enjoy chewing my fruit. My purpose in making smoothies is to get all the healthy veggies disguised in there with the fruit.
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Ruth Chris for Thanksgiving sounds divine to me. A group of my Circuit Clerk pals and I ate at the one in Chicago some years ago. It was DIVINE....... -
My mother in law is still in hospital. I visited MIL, and didn't get started until *WAY* late, my friend and I moved the cabinets, replaced the damaged wallboard, taped it up and "mudded" it, reinstalled the electric boxes, and I'm waiting for things to dry before sanding it down a bit. Then it's fix the cabinets and reinstall them. We got not quite 2 hours of work in today. Mom's kitchen sink isn't hooked up, but, if I can get a couple of hours off tomorrow, I think I can finish it up to where it's all going again.
Two guys, 4-5 hours of time, $60 worth of stuff, and some *really good* beer for my friend.....I don't see how it can come to $7,132.00. It must be some sort of magic, or they didn't want to do the work and figured that would be the easiest way to say "no" without actually saying it.
Sharon was grading papers all day and DD was busy with homework, so I took the easy way out for dinner..... A couple of cans of Loaded Potato Soup and stuffing from a box. I didn't even thaw any turkey out. I did however, use some of the turkey broth I canned in April.
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Eric, that estimate is a lot of $$$$. Maybe because so many contracter skills were needed? Sheetrock installer and finisher, electrician, plumber, carpenter. Fortunately, dh has all those skills and would be doing the work for us, too.
Lacey, I'm up 3 1/2 lbs on the scales this morning. I know at least a couple of lbs are bloating from salty restaurant food. The other 1 1/2 lbs are from eating sugary baked goods that I ordinarily do not eat. I'll probably be craving sugar for a few days since it's addictive.
Not sure what's for dinner but breakfast will be a smoothie as I climb back on the healthy eating wagon!
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Not much cooking going on. Ate up last of leftovers yesterday with some not so hot chicken 'n dumplings from grocery deli. Tonight is simple chicken salad sandwiches and prob. frozen french fries. My house is a disaster in that "in between stage". Heating man coming tomorrow to service it and you could not even budge thru where he needs to go. DH is impressed with the cleanup but lots stowed in those nice handled grocery bags. But it is very much cleaner in here. DH has been working so much and his business has been feeding them pretty well for lunch so mostly he wants a snack, veg out then sleep when he gets home.
Nancy - I did look up your Black Eyed Pea Stew again. Do you use the kale or substitute something else for it? I have the andouille saved back. I have frozen leek somewhere but might splurge for a fresh one. I've never eaten kale and not sure DH/DD would take to it. DH barely eats cooked spinach - now in salad is another thing or on a sandwich no problem.
Eric - wow you have certainly had your hands full these past few days. And now you are the construction man. Hope MIL is on the mend and docs find out what is going on with your DM.
Lacey - I usually have something stowed in the freezer for "those nights". If only a pizza crust to make. I wish there was a source of pizza dough around here. We just have Pizza Hut and Mr. Jim's and doubt either sell dough. Do you know if you can freeze it if I ever find it? How's the window repair coming? Plexiglass is your friend.
Laurie - prayers for your DH's surgery today. DH had it many years ago, day surgery. Took the week off, desk job then. His work never even knew when he had stuff done. You are the busy mama. Boys both in school now, at least preschool?
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Sweet potatoes baking in the toaster oven. Step One for a stuffed cabbage skillet dish is done. Ground beef and diced onions cooked. Cabbage and diced tomatoes to be added and simmered. Saw this dish on Facebook and dh and I both reacted positively. So it's "what's for dinner."
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Well thanksgiving may be over.... the leftover corn was turned into a corn chowder with some corn stock I had in the freezer. The butternut squash was combined with veggie stock for soup as well. We ate turkey for four consecutive days, which may be a record! Last night I picked off the rest of the meat, about a quart, and the bones went into two dutch ovens and into the oven with some water. It was clear this morning that there was not enough container for all the bones, so I transferred everything to a large stock pot and went stovetop. This has now been strained. Tomorrow, I will defat, make some turkey stew to freeze, and the rest of the stock will also go into the freezer. Sadly, the stuffing, which was wonderful, for stuffing, will hit the trash. The best Pasta e Fagioli soup I make uses smoked turkey stock, so that is in the cards in the near future.
Our warm weather is about to disappear. It has been oddly warm for the past few days. Heck, my parsley in the garden is thriving! Just weird. But, it will be cold tomorrow, and then the winter rain begins on Wednesday.
Dinner tonight was the last of last year's lamb; a few chops. We grilled some asparagus and I made some steamed potatoes, that I sautéed with onions in duck fat that I rendered last week after my cousins' dinner. Strangely, I have lost 2 lbs since the week before T-Day.
*susan*
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susan - you have been burning calories doing all the coding and cooking!
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Susan embodies the saying, "I'm burning the candle at both ends. Send more wax." :-)
I'm about the same place on the stock. I'll probably can, instead of freeze, mine so I don't have to patiently wait for the microwave oven to thaw it out.
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