So...whats for dinner?
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So much talent here! Great cooks, symphony, singers--so wonderful!
Carole--That church service sounds neat with all the music. Our church does not do guitars and drums in the chapel, but we do revere music and the members are encouraged to share their talents in our Sunday meetings and at other church events. I believe the Spirit can teach us as much through music as is possible through sermons. I hope you and your mom have a lovely time. I used to be anorexic--so no scales at my house. I'm sure you NEEDED those two brownies. Chocolate is therapeutic!
Eric--That's so nice that you take care of your mama. I see that many of us do, me included. Good people in this thread! What a mess to deal with. You must have been tired after all that.
Auntie--I'm not supposed to eat bread anymore according to my naturopath. I try to be good but bread is one of my big weaknesses! Your Italian bread sounds mouthwatering. DO eat the whole loaf for me please? I'll live vicariously while you tell me how wonderful it was. haha
Special--That's a funny chicken story. We just brought home a new crew of chicks so we can have fresh eggs again. I will have to remember not to wear speckled pants in their presence! When I was a little girl in Arkansas, we had sheep and cows. I had lots of experiences with sheep rammings. I have a funny memory of being brought with my dad in our big truck out to the far cow pasture. I think they had to mend a fence. I was left in the truck with the windows down. I remember the cows crowding around the windows on both sides, sticking their heads in a bit, so they could stare at me. I was thinking, "don't eat me, don't eat me, don't eat me..." as I sat there. I was so relieved when dad came back. Their heads were bigger than my whole body at that time!
bedo--How's the ribs today? I think your cat is lucky you love it, dumbness and all. haha
I'm staying home from church today. Hurting too much. I think a good book is in order. DH is cooking again today. It'll be a surprise. haha
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A cow licked my bare feet once while I was sitting on a pasture fence on my friend's farm. Weird.
Our gym is building an indoor pool that will be open this summer. Can't wait for that. I love to swim.
About the only food or drink I've given up because of cancer is alcohol -- and that's really more because of diabetes. I still have the occasional cocktail though. I'm ok with that. I'm with Minus - (and Julia Child) eat anything in moderation. Which means, I can't really eat that whole loaf of bread after all ;-) I didn't use much soy but I've left that behind too. No loss there. Diabetes puts enough limits on me. I eat lots of good and good for me things. If I had to severely curtail the variety of things -- well, that's not a life worth living for me. If something was life threatening, I might change my mind. I have tried to reduce fats because of health issues. I admire those of you who can make such a plan that works for you and stick to it so well. Me -- I'm "whim driven".
Tonight is Pizza di Spaghetti and Lacey's artichokes. I have a bunch of spaghetti bolognese languishing in the fridge that needs recycling. I will be the only one to eat the artichokes. Suits me! I'll add a mixed green salad for DH. Btw, My lettuce is coming up!
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auntie - if you miss the taste of soy, or need it in recipes, try Coconut Aminos - link below. I wish I could do the everything in moderation approach - but if I do that I will gain weight. Rather rapidly. This is just since treatment, as I ate that way prior to diagnosis, so I am thinking it is the Femara/Arimidex, and me as an individual. Exercise and calorie restriction have no effect, I don't lose, so I think I am someone for whom food induced inflammation equals weight gain, and unpleasant side effects. Also, way less joint pain with this restricted diet. My solution has been to cut out a lot of stuff - but it has also been a fun challenge to make delicious food out of the things I can eat, so I am ok with it. I also do not drink, other than occasionally, due to reflux surgery many years ago. Alcohol actually gives me a stomach ache, so I don't really miss it. I am ok as long as I eat something like pasta or rice with it - something absorbent, lol!
https://www.coconutsecret.com/aminos2.html
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Auntie--That must have felt so strange! Cows have rough tongues. Diabetes on top of cancer survival? Yuck, I don't envy that. OK, so don't eat the whole loaf. haha I am starting to feel as you and Minus do about this food thing. I wanted to see the Naturopath, learn what he had to say, whole-heartedly try what he suggested for a while and then begin tailoring the whole thing to a balance of enjoying life and being healthy. I just wanted to see if I could do a strict cancer preventative diet and wondered if I could enjoy it. I figured I wouldn't know unless I tried it. So for now, I'm off of bread, but I have a feeling that it will creep back into my life--it's just soooooo good. Besides, having been anorexic for 11 years, I worked hard to like food again--I don't want to throw that away either. The artichokes sound yummy. There are lots of things, like that, that my family won't eat either. What's up with that? I like nearly all veggies. My exceptions are lima beans, canned spinach, canned peas--those should not be categorized as food. haha
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Special--We were writing at the same time. That's a great tip for soy replacement. Thanks
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MZ - agree with you on the canned veggies. Canned spinach -- blech!!
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You know how you teach your kids to be polite and eat what they are given at someone else's house? Well, my oldest boy was particularly good about that. One day he came home to tell me that his girlfriend's mom had served canned spinach at dinner. Straight from the can--no seasoning or anything to try to "fix" it. He said he spent the whole time desperately trying not to let the family see him gag every time he took a bite. He told me it was the worst thing he'd ever eaten--he even gagged once while trying to tell me about it--so funny. Since then, he's been served some pretty weird stuff in Mexico--bugs, questionable meats, slimy cactus. He still proclaims the canned spinach as the winner of worst food on the planet. Haha
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An interesting tip for oven cleaning. Wish I had known this when I was cleaning out the oven of this house for 15 hours. I had to use a hammer and chisel at one point. I actually wondered how the house hadn't burned down from what I found in there. Crazy.
http://www.newsner.com/en/2014/12/youve-been-clean...
I've never pasted a link before--Cypertard extraordinaire at your service here! So let me know if that worked.
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mombie - your link worked perfectly and yay for the hint! I have a self cleaning oven but this would work for the window/door which never get that clean. My friend used the term "techno-peasant" one day - describes me!
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Special--Yay! It worked! I like techno peasant!! I will have to tell my computer geek sister that one. She teases me all the time. While I am reading a favorite novel, she is devouring a programming book as if it's a best selling thriller. My oven is self-cleaning too. Well....it is now. When I first got here, it was caked with a half inch of hardened grime on EVERY surface. The sensor for the self-clean wouldn't work, thus the cleaning by hand. You couldn't even see the ceiling of the oven, the elements were unrecognizable, and the holes in the back of the oven, for ventilation, were completely crusted over. I wasn't kidding about using a chisel. We weren't sure if anything would function if I did all that work, but I had to try because we had no more money to replace the darn thing. It's twenty two years old, but it works great now, and it's spotless, except the window, which I will now be trying this cleaning tip. Good luck with yours.
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Canned spinach gives that plant a bad name....yecccch....nasty... :-)
I didn't cook last night and it was probably appreciated...working with sewer stuff and all that.
Tonight I'm hoping to cook. Although I almost hate to mess up the kitchen that I've spent most of the morning doing a "deep clean". Simple Green and water to "de-dirt", followed up by spraying 1 part bleach and 4 parts water on the counters and wiping dry with paper towels to sterilize.... I guess the 35 year old biology experiment performed in my supposedly clean college kitchen...left a lasting impression. :-)
I will have to try the oven cleaning experiment as the oven does need cleaning as well.
As for dinner, I keep seeing the "Share the Journey app (Part of Apple's Research kit)" headline at the top of the BCO forums..and I may pull out the Middle Eastern cookbook to see what I might find in there.
Special, I was told about another base housing floor wax remover. Expensive bozze. My mom and dad said that I was two years old and playing around in the kitchen cabinets and busted a bottle of booze. They said it ran out on the floor and both took up the wax as well as bleaching out some of the floor color. They said dad had to go down to the "package store" and buy several more bottles to mop the floor to get things back to a uniform color. Mom said "the cheep stuff" didn't didn't result in the correct color, so they had to go for the $13 (in 1962) per bottle stuff.
Mombie, those "sketches" are amazing. My test daughter (long story) draws like that....me....I might be able to make a straight line with a ruler. I was the kid in kindergarten who was graded down for not staying inside the lines.....
Bedo...ouch.....
I too like the flag on the cat idea.
Pest, my first cat, would go absolutely wild/crazy/insane happy when Mickey would show up. Lots of excited meowing and running around between her feet. It was a huge effort for her to safely get to a chair and once she was there, Pest would be up in her lap for a few quick licks on her arm before jumping off, running around the house at full speed for a few minutes and then finally coming back to settle down in her lap. We never did figure out what that was all about---used to joke that she must have been an entire bale of catnip.
Pest liked Sharon, but no wild and crazy antics when she showed up.
Off to mom's house....tile grouting.....
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Eric--The booze story is hilarious. As I don't drink, I will have to remember there are still uses for the stuff. hahaha Hmmm...test daughter? I won't ask further, but I confess my cogs are turning. I have some drawing ability--I got awards in eighth grade, but I ran out of things to teach Romina when she was about 7 or 8. The crazy thing is that she only has to see a new style for about one minute and then she can go to her room and produce it's likeness, but with her own flare. I love watching her. Drawing started as an OCD for her, but she has learned to control the compulsion and use the talent in a healthy manner.
Pest is a funny name for a cat. I like it. We had some friends that called their cat S.C.--for Stupid Cat, because he did really dumb things that cats don't normally do--such as chase cars like a dog and get hit. Yet it kept living! This is off subject as far as cats go, yet goes along with giving animals funny names. We want to get a beef cow soon. We plan to name it Chicken so that when we eat it, we can say "This tastes just like Chicken!" Yes, we are warped.
Happy tile grouting!
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A giraffe at the zoo once wrapped his whole long black tongue around my hand again and again when I offered him food. I screamed.
If I put mussels in a pot of water with oatmeal-which I think I'm supposed to do?- before cooking and some of them float before they are cooked, and still float even if I poke them are they dead? Or OK to cook and eat?
Sorry, there was so much to read so I didn't read it!
Vicodin Bedo
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I don't know about flotation or oatmeal where mussels are concerned, but popular wisdom says to discard open ones that won't close when you tap them before cooking and closed ones that don't open after you cook them.
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Ok I'm cooking the floating ones. Thanks. If I have to go to the ER I'm sending you my bill.
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Bedo--You already have a broken rib. You've filled your quota--you can't go to the ER for anything else! LOL I hate food poisoning. I hope you survive!
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I don't know *anything* about mussels.
Let's see.....
Pest. A Maine Coon Cat, I think. She walked into my house while I was bringing in groceries. I fed her and that was it. The grocery store was about 1/2 a block away and after a few weeks, she would follow me down to the grocery store and wait behind the soda machine for me to come out. Pest got her name because she would MEOW very loudly at 4am or so in the morning. She didn't want to eat, didn't want to play, didn't want attention and didn't want to go outside. She would just sit on the floor at the foot of the bed and MEOW as loudly as possible.
My test daughters...One of my three close friends has two daughters. I met them when they were 3 and 5 years old. They are now in their mid and late 30s. Test daughter is their term because they said it was if I was testing the waters to see if I wanted to be a dad. According to the two of them, I was as involved in their lives as much as their dad...and may be even a bit more protective of them.
About a year before the youngest (and first to get married) met the man that would become her husband, their dad was embroiled in finding out whether some medical test was a false positive, or not. A true positive result had a short and grim prognosis. They both came to me and asked...if dad can't..when we get married, would you give me away? It turned out it really was a false positive so I didn't need to do that. At the weddings there were two father-daughter dances......one with dad and one with me.
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Eric, such a sweet story!
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crockpot chicken breasts and stuffing. Modified some. It was very good. 3hrs on low.
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Twins.... and with carrots as in lazy day crockpot chicken? My daughter's favorite meal when she was about 6. Do you have twins? This is a nice forum if I missed you before.
Going to start the work week in the morning. Hope to check in before Friday.
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Bedo, I've heard to put flour in the water with the mussels, so oatmeal probably does sma thing. It makes them dislodge any sand still inside.
When they are cooked, you toss any that the shells don't open on.
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There isn't a huge amount of space, and it's not fancy, but it gets the job done
The table and chairs were made in high school wood shop. 36 years old and it's still doing fine. I'm laughing. The dog brought in a shoe...just to the left of the chair that is facing my camera.
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Our neighbor's chicken flock is down to one hen who spends quite a bit of time in our yard hanging out under the bird feeders along with the doves and squirrels. This chicken is quite pretty, her feathers a dark auburn color that are shiny in the sunlight. As long as she doesn't come onto the patio and poop, I don't mind her visits. It's a miracle she's alive because there are hawks and foxes in the vicinity, which accounts for her solo status. Her owner just bought some little baby chickens (biddies) and had them in a pen with wire on the top as well as the sides and something got inside and killed them. He was told it might have been a mink. This is possible since a small stream runs through the neighbor's property.
Chickens are very stupid. We often had a flock of chickens when I was growing up so I had the opportunity to observe them. If I stayed home year round, I think I would like to have about half a dozen chickens for the eggs and I would also like to have a veggie garden again, but I wouldn't have such a large one as I had before. Both these ideas are probably just that, ideas. DH was pressuring me this afternoon on a departure date for heading north to MN this summer.
MZ, I've never known anyone who was anorexic and recovered. The saddest case I know about was a young woman who was a star tennis player in a local high school. She was a lovely blond girl from a well-to-do family. I have no idea what caused her to develop the disease but it killed her. I'm glad you were able to learn to enjoy food.
Eric, I wish my mother had an Eric. She would work him to death! My dh has done lots of little jobs for her but a single older woman definitely needs a handyman. My youngest brother is probably the closest to an Eric and he lives in OK. My middle brother calls her to tell her about all his aches and pains and medical issues. The oldest brother hires someone to do his handyman work. He's pretty incompetent when it comes to tools and a couch potato besides.
Tomorrow I will definitely wish I had a cleaning woman. Things have gotten bad enough around here that I must don my maid's uniform and skip the gym. It's either clean house or weed flowerbeds so the weeds will get a respite. Both jobs are pointless because the house gets dirty again and the weeds grow back.
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eric - cats are crazy, but loveable - funny about the running around acting crazy! Love the test daughter story. My DD found two vintage painted captain's chairs like yours, she has them in her apartment - yours look solid!
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Eric - do you mean you made the table & chairs? Wow.
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Eric, That trial daughter story is a wonderful one. How wonderful for these young women to have had another adult in their life that wanted the very best for them. Your kitchen suits you! As to shut off valves for water.... if you need to ask, it is too late for that knowledge. Strangely, this is one of the few things I know about the mechanics of this house Oh, and how to shut off the boiler and electric power. I am not totally sure I know where the gas shut off valve is though. I should know that as well.
Everything I know about mussels I learned from TV. I am allergic so have never made them. The open/close thing I know... and some people swear by baking soda in the water to soak to pull out the sand, and others say it makes no difference. Farmed mussels, which is what we all get, don't have much sand to begin with.
Carole, yes. The weeds return. The dirt returns. Such is life....
Tonight, the whole day's plan was about watching the NCAA. Not me, but Mr.WithManyNumbers. [Duke won while doing it in style, I hear.] There is no way to plan dinner when there might be overtime, so we tried the new Schwarma spot that has opened one hill over. Not bad at all! I got a bunch of sides: hummus, tabouli, garlic sauce, and a meat pie while Mr.WithManyNumbers got a lamb schwarma. We also got a red lentil soup. The soup wasn't bad. An Egyptian version of this soup which was thinner and not as spicy. The hummus was very good. The tabouli was unusual. Truly a parsley salad with just a bit of bulgar, with no dressing I think. The garlic sauce was delicious... kick-*ss garlic! This was the first time I have had Egyptian Meat pie, and it doesn't do much for me. The owner of this spot might be willing to make my "dream" dinner, so next time I will give that a try next time.
*susan*
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I've had cats most of my life until the last eight years. I would love to have a Maine Coon. Beautiful cats! I'm supposed to be allergic to dogs and cats too but I don't have any reaction to dogs and cats only if they get in my face.
I also had chickens at one point in my life. Loved the fresh eggs. It's also possible a raccoon got the neighbor's chicks. I had problems with them, foxes, owls and neighbor's dogs. I raised turkeys too.
Eric, my first kitchen after we got married was half the size of yours (and no table). I managed to feed 26 people out of it one thanksgiving!
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Susan, I must have schwarma one day!
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For Eric:
And apologies for leaving out the cast-iron cookware! You are a talented and helpful guy! Loved the sweet story about your "test daughters".
Special, your allergies sound similar to mine....too many! I don't think I would do very well in a warm climate with mold spores. Tho apparently the ground mold has erupted here already...arghhh! No wonder why my eyes are itching like crazy after a nice calm spell over the winter. I'm hoping that when little Winston the Scotty visits here he doesn't track those spores in on his little low to the ground body. Our schnauzers never got my allergies going, even tho I am clinically diagnosed with cat and dog allergies, too. But our last pooch died just before I started Tamoxifen. After a year on that, my allergies emerged full force.
Guess I should be happy that I have spent my adult life free of environmental allergic reactions until now.Carole, I like the sound of the lunch out you and your mom had planned. And can totally relate to binge desserting! I would definitely give the scales a pass for a couple days!
Nance, eager to learn how your artichoke turned out.
Today, after church and a film about the migration of the monarch butterflies, I came home to make two pots of chicken soup....one included all the basics (and even celery which I never buy due to my allergy to it...but this pit was going to a friend) plus fresh thyme, spinach and farro; the one for us had pastina and spinach and some extra flavor of fennel. And I always put a parm rind in for that lovely flavor. I also made the faux french bread, but the loaves turned out to be ginormous since my brother called from LA to let me know how his wife was doing after gall bladder surgery, and I didn't have the heart to cut him short. Yikes! Big loaves that weren't as nice as they usually turn out. We had the soup and lamejun and baba ganoush with cut up veggies for dinner. Oh, someone asked about the faux french bread...I'll see if I can find the recipe and post it here....
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Lacey, I ended up just roasting them in foil this time with lemon juice, garlic and olive oil because I already had a main dish wth tomato sauce. Next time though I'll plan better!
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