So...whats for dinner?
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susan - Olivia is a beauty, I want to just hug her! How sweet that she went home in her mom's hat! I still have the ones from my kids too - and everything else they wore, touched, created, etc. I clicked on the link for the deviled egg tray - now I want one! I made "twice baked" style eggs for the party today - yolks mashed with mayo and sour cream, bacon and chives. Topped with more bacon and chives. There were none left.
Just got home from the base with a carload of dirty platters but I was pleased to do the lunch for my DH's retiring secretary. Her official retirement luncheon is 5/31, but with surgery tomorrow morning I am not sure how I will be. This will be a long surgery - 4-5 hours and bi-lat, but I am so hopeful this is the last one. We had a bit of a wrench, I had a PET scan last Sat., and didn't hear anything about it until Thurs. I had activity bi-lat across the chest. MO called PS, PS called BS - I had a short notice appt. with the BS - he thinks surgical inflammation and scar tissue, but said to go ahead with the surgery and have the PS look around extensively when she has the implant and TE out.
chisandy - my firstborn was a big boy and very, very hungry - I breastfed every 90 minutes, around the clock, and had to supplement with formula almost from day one. Fortunately, there were no lactation bosses in military hospitals back then - I would have bopped anyone who looked at me cross-eyed or implied I was doing something wrong! I had 42 hours of labor, 17 hours of Pitocin, no epidural, and then a C-section, and I was right on the edge as it was. He gained in the hospital and was a pound heavier by his two week appointment - there was no way I could produce enough milk, or keep up, so he had formula from the get go. He is now 6'4" and about 210 lbs. I am 5'2" and usually weigh about 120 or less. I still can't figure out how I had/have such a big kid!
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Ah, Special K -- best of luck with the surgery. You've been through this a lot. I too, hope it's the last one for you. Are they replacing anything?
The weather has been cold for May. It seems like we're having April weather, when in April, it was more like March. Unlike the grass, the vegetables aren't loving the 40 degree cold nights and damp days, especially the tomatoes. I'm not loving it much either. Here's a bright spot though -- more irises:
That's about all that's blooming right now except the peonies, which are just opening.
Yesterday and today, I painted my white front door slate gray. I love it. Grays are my new favorite colors. I have a new light for porch, which DH must install and now I need a new doormat. Looks like a new house from the outside! Amazing how one little thing can change a look.
I think dinner is a grilled ham steak, baked corn and some asparagus. I'm still not terribly inspired about cooking. I have a piece of fromager d'affinois in the fridge which will be my appetizer on some rye crackers. It's so rich, I may not want anything else. Kind of like eating a stick of butter.
There you are Bedo -- good to hear from you!
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Nance I love that picture. During our bike ride in the woods I picked some buttercups to see if everyone liked butter, then had the kids smell "skunk cabbage" and taste honeysuckle and told them how to tell north from south by the moss on the tree. Joshy said "Wow You know alot!" Everything is relative.
Special I hope that your arm is mended and that this surgery does the trick.
So hard to catch up. You are all such busy ladies!
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All this talk about cold temperatures has me wondering about what to pack for our 3-day trip to MN. It has been spring/summer weather here long enough that I'm used to wearing shorts and summer tops and sandals. It won't break my heart to wear jeans for a change.
Bedo, good to hear from you. You always make me smile.
SpecialK, hoping everything goes perfectly with your surgery.
DH cooked some frozen speckled butterbeans with a hambone from the freezer. The brown rice is cooking now. I'll make a salad or slaw. And that will be dinner!
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Special K, best of luck with your surgery tomorrow
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Special - I'll be in your pocket tomorrow. Seems like yesterday you were talking about waiting for this "last" go round, but I know it's been forever for you. I still owe you a wonderful debt for all the advice you gave me before chemo those years ago. You were such amazing support. Hope everything works perfectly this time.
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Special, may everything go just the way it should for your surgery.
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Good thoughts & vibes for you tomorrow, SpK!
To my amazement, I have just learned that the weather in NE and central NC this week will be mostly rainy. In fact, it'll be warmer & drier in Chicago than at the folk music conference in Montreat (e. of Asheville). So now I'm sweating out whether my big suitcase will be back from the repair shop early enough for me to pack it so I can leave early Wed. morning (for a 2pm flight--the TSA lines at Midway are several hours long. Wish I could spare enough time away from home to hole up at a hotel near Midway tomorrow night). I will need every inch of suitcase room to pack layers (rather than the usual jeans, t-shirts, a peasant top or two for performing, t-shirt dress & sandals I used to pack for the conference). At least I don't have to pack a lot of business-friendly clothes like I did for Europe. I get to check two bags free, so I will check the biggest ultralight spinner I own (currently in the shop for a busted handle) and my padded double dulcimer bag. Into one half will go my standard 4-string dulcimer inside its own padded bag. Into the other will go a second pair of shoes if my loafers get muddy, a couple of boxes of chocolates as thank-you gifts for whichever showcase room hosts don't drink (my singing partner is bringing the four bottles of red wine with which I'd normally drive--I handed them off to him after our IA gig Sat. night), and probably socks & underwear. The front pocket gets my harmonicas and rubber shmatta (piece of carpet liner) to keep it from moving around when I play it. Unlike a guitar, I'm not worried about checking it--it looks exactly like a golf bag, and baggage handlers always respect golf clubs more than they do musical instruments. I get one carryon for the overhead and one personal item for under the seat. The carryon will be my folding Voyage-Air guitar which fits into a backpack case about the size of a French Horn case and has a zip-off compartment to hold my little MacBook Air, strap, capo, tuner and cable (I'm “plugging in" at the benefit in Hickory). The “personal item" will be the lightest weight large tote that'll hold my jewelry, pillbox, iPad, adapters, puzzle book, note pad, compression set (and donning aid & glove) and--when it's time to board--my purse. My cane doesn't count.
You've probably seen videos of the horrifically long (multi-hour) TSA lines at Midway. (They weren't even 1/10 as long last month when we flew to & from San Antonio). Even though I almost always get TSA Pre-Check, their lines' wait times are also listed ambiguously as “31+ minutes." (Use your imagination as to what “+" means). With what letrozole has done to my joints and carrying stuff (even as a backpack) will do to my lymphedema, there's no way I can stand in line that long. So I reserved a wheelchair for all ground points at Midway & Charlotte (to be safe, I actually spoke to a Southwest rep via phone). It may not get me through security any faster (it used to)--so I'll have to leave home by 10 am or even 9 for a 2pm flight--but at least I get to sit through it all!
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Thanks all for the good wishes for tomorrow!
chisandy - travel safely, sounds like you have a plan!
minus - that was so sweet - we all help each other, in the ways that we can!
auntie - exchanging the left expander for an implant, swapping the right implant for a smaller one to match the new left one, removing the right nip (my original surgery was nip sparing but due to all the surgery on the left I no longer have symmetry and removal allows the PS to tighten the skin around the new smaller implant. I will get a 3D tattoo later), and a bunch of fat grafting to try to smooth out all the damage to the left side. This will be a long surgery so I anticipate feeling less than tomorrow night, but I should be home. I am going to the same hospital as the surgery in December and I found their anesthesiology peeps to be excellent, so I am hoping for a similar experience this time. I am first surgery of the day - have to be there at 6am
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Special, I also send you my best. You have had far too many surgeries!!! Let this one be the last.
Olivia has lost too much weight. My poor daughter is just not creating enough milk yet, and Olivia was starving and crying all night long. She saw the pediatrician today and they have a new plan to combine breast feeding and supplemental formula so that Lauren can continue to encourage milk production and Olivia get what she needs too. My kid is just as pragmatic as I am. She isn't feeling guilty or anything else. She is going to do what it takes to keep Olivia healthy. And, I fear for the person that pulls that tit-Nazi crap on her! I took the kids dinner tonight, and you know, I think they were starving too. By the looks of things, they have been living on peanut butter. I will take dinner again on Wednesday. Dinner for them was a chili without beans. For us, I came home and made a simple vegetable soup. we had our big meal of the day at noon; leftover Indian.
*susan*
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Special, add my well wishes to your list. I also hope this is a last surgery for you!
Bedo, glad your knee is back to bicycling!
Tonight, after I worked out for three (3!) hours at the gym (too tired to tell the "why so long" story, but let it be known that I now have completed my first Zumba class with our new Brazilian trainer!), I made chicken with a spicy maple sauce and scallions, with sides of butternut squash, orzo, and a garden salad with balsamic dressing. It was gobbled up by both of us tired, starving Zumba dancers! Sadly, we are finally running out of the maple syrup we got from the farm in my sister's VT town.
Susan, I'm glad that your daughter is pragmatic when it comes to feeding Olivia. There is no other sensible way! Olivia has to be nurtured, DD has to happilysurvive this stage of new motherhood.
Mammogram tomorrow...with hopes that I do not get called back for three more sets of pix like last year.
Good luck packing, Carole and Sandy. I get chills just thinking about having to pack so much. And Sandy, for sure, being in a wheelchair certainly does not buy you any exemptions....when I went through O'Hare in one, I was not so politely asked to get up at TSA check point and be body searched! I must look really suspicious!
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Just Gordy & me at home tonight, and I don’t want to do much cooking--because that means cutting stuff and scrubbing oans, and my LE and cording are starting to flare. Having to do housework AND run errands & grocery-and-sundries-shop AND get ready for a long solo trip AND gather and carry instruments AND provide easy ways for my (smart and loving but devoid of life skills that don’t involve either their jobs or leisure) family to survive in the absence of both women who make their non-work lives seamless is putting tons of stress on my arm. I will have to do MLD several times today, as well as tomorrow. And now that the nerves in the skin over my SNB and lumpectomy incisions are finally waking up, I’m getting soreness I didn’t have after surgery.
So I bought a roast chicken and since Whole Foods was out of any precooked veggies that were the slightest bit appealing, I went through the crisper for the things that really needed to be cooked & eaten before I leave. First, sauteed ramps: chop the white bulbs and red stems and sweat them in olive oil like they’re onions, then toss in the leaves. Seasoned with sea salt, finished with truffle salt. Then broccolini: nuke 30 sec. to “blanch;” pan-sear in olive oil, crushed garlic, lemon and white wine. Finish with orange Sicilian sea salt and crushed red pepper flakes. Serve with the roast chicken. I proudly presented it to Gordy and he said “leave it in the microwave.” That drives me nuts--I work so hard to get everything ready at the same time (and if I’m cooking fish or steaks, to get it to a perfect degree of doneness; and when he eats it, the veggies will be limp and the protein will be dried out and overdone. At least he didn’t call GrubHub again. That’s costing us as much as dining out.
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Steak, hash brown and veggie
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Lacey, I do hope your mammogram was unremarkable, something we all (those of us that get them anyway) strive for :-) How did you like Zumba? I would really like to take a class but I'm afraid it would be too embarrassing.
Sandy, sheesh, that's a lot to do. That meal deserved better.
Special, wishing you a speedy recovery after a successful surgery. I think the tattoos are remarkable.
Carole, when do you leave for MN?
Wish us luck, we are taking dad to visit the supportive living place tomorrow and having lunch there. Really really hoping he likes it.
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Catching up on all the posts-----
Susan, that baby Olivia first picture post and 2nd, just made me say OHHHHHH out loud. Only the cat here to hear me talking ...LOL. And the little hat reminded me of the one the old priest wore in the movie GOING MY WAY (bing Crosby).
Moon, I would love to know the recipe for the Dandelion Jelly that taste's like honey.....intrigues me.
Carole, I would pack some warm sweaters for MN. As cold as it is here, I can't imagine much further north. I slept with flannel sheets on the bed in the cabin on the Gunflint Trail in July.......just saying. Had a fire in the fireplace 5 of the 7 days.
Special--healing prayers coming your way and the FIL and all of you are in my prayers as well.
I saw the GI doc Monday--I think I like him every bit as much as my MO, but he did want to do a Colonoscopy on Thursday---which just gave me enough time to arrange for a ride and buy the prep shit and stress a bit. He doesn't think he will find Cancer but said he and my MO kinda think breast cancer patients should do them at 5 year intervals--mine would have b een at 5, in 2018, but since I am having a change in habits, he wants to do it now. Which beats me stressing for two years and having regrets if something showed up. Prep is different from before---split dose and ad a new way of putting me under....OH WELL.
My walmart shopping cart looked interesting yesterday---MIRALAX, DULCOLAX, APPLE JUICE, BoULLION CUBES, LOTS OF JELLO (made an unmade) and a big package of toilet paper....I am sure my face just dared anyone to say a word at the check out lane.
Anyone want in my pockets Thursday at 11:00? I'd stay clear of them until then, if you know what I mean.....LOL>
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Good luck, Red!
Nance, thanks for your good wishes.
In the end the mammo was clear. Yay! It was a crazy morning, tho. Of all things, the ticket dispenser in the hospital parking garage was empty, thus no one could gain entry. I had twenty minutes to spare....however, a ton of cars were logjammed trying to make turns to get out of the narrow drive that leads to the garage. Sooo frustrating! And the other lot was full. But alas! I have a card to enter another lot where we can park for the fitness center. As soon as I could extricate myself from the logjam, I zoomed up to the top of the campus, parked at the fitness center and ran back to the other end of the hospital. Just made it.
I was prepared to wait for results like always, but learned that they now do not read any pix taken after 10AM. Great! It is a rare mammo result I have that does not require more pix. I politely fussed with the tecnician and she offered to ask her supervisor if I could get mine read after lunch when the rads were back. "Why YES, that would be lovely!" So with two hours to spare, I got a coffee, bought some cards at the gift shop, and hiked back up to the fitness center where I spent a half hour on the treadmill, before returning to the Breast Center to wait for the reading. The radiologist was the same woman who called me with my diagnosis and plan almost five years ago. It was nice to have a chance to let her know how helpful she was then. So...good news this time! Can't beat that!
I hope things are going well for you, Special!
Nance, good luck tomorrow! Maybe you should smuggle one of your Dad's fave meals into the living place, to help him feel at home during the luncheon! Seriously, tho, I hope it goes well.
And Sandy, I agree that all that work deserved more appreciation.
Having leftover chicken with leftover veggie sides, and a salad from a head of red leaf lettuce from Volantes that is the most H.U.G.E head I have ever seen!
After dinner we are heading to the library to listen to one of the last lectures in a series about presidemtial elections. This one is about Nixon, and we invited an older friend who worked in the administration during that time to attend. The presenter is quite theatrical ( a lively college lecturer), so I will be interested to see if our "Washington friend" notices how accurate the lecturer is in his presentation of details that occurred at that time. And actually, we should remember them ourselves! Ha!
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Nance, hope the visit goes well. I would love for my mother to have the option of assisted living.
Red, wishing you a good test result on your colonoscopy.
Hope SpecialK is doing well.
Also thinking about Olivia and family and hoping things are great in that household.
Lacey, yay on a good mammogram.
I got home about 4 pm from the nursing home and found that dh had, rightly, turned the slow cooker off. I removed the small pot roast that was falling apart. Prepped some potatoes and carrots and have them cooking in the liquid in the slow cooker. Not a culinary delight but we will eat pot roast and veggies and call it dinner!
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Red, absolutely in your side car. I agree, your back pocket seems too risky! Funny thing... the way you wrote your post, I don't know if you have your MO and GI docs or love them!
Sandy, very ungrateful! How old is Gordy?
Nance, I hope that your Dad loves this place, or at the very least, is open to a new home. Maybe there will be a gorgeous woman there who winks at him? Or excellent desserts. If these places were smart, they would ask for a potential paying customer favorite recipe and make it for their introductory lunch.
Lacey, that is just ridiculous! Good for you for coming up with Plan B. Not everyone has that option, but still... and not reading the mammogram on the same day? That is just cruel for us "survivors." Also cruel for women who end up with a call-back. Volantes has lettuce already? Are they growing their own? I had thought that I would be in your area of the world on Tuesday and Thursday, watching Olivia while the kid took a course. She, in her infinite wisdom has dropped the course. Will take the whole summer to be a Mom.
Lunch was leftover soup for me, about a cup and a little bit of chickpeas with Indian wings. We are STARVING!!!! Today I made some fresh harissa, broke down a leg of lamb, and prepped for kabobs and Merguez sausage. Tonight is Taco Tuesday so Chef Lorenzo will be cooking for us. Final day of my Xeloda cycle, and I am beat up this month.
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Wishing everyone good healing and good luck on all that is going on in your lives! I'm horrible at keeping track of who has what but I'm getting better at it... I think?
I caught this gal last night and she weighed in at 2.8 lbs of wonderful fresh catfish right from our lake. I had planned on having it for dinner tonight but I just wasn't up to it. So, we had a big salad that I made last night with crab meat, cheese and a drizzle of honey. It was just right! -
Red, I'm on board. You won't remember a thing I hope
Nance, I hope that things go well tomorrow, and if not so well, Dad adjusts in a few weeks.
Lacey, yay on the good news
For dinner, unfortunately, frozen Gordon's of Gloucester fish and frozen vegetables. Don't feel sorry for me, if I weren't so lazy I would get up and buy some groceries, and if I weren't so cheap I would order delivery.
I would have made some pasta with the block of Parmesan cheese that I bought, but I ate it. That's right, ate it. For breakfast. With iced coffee with chocolate milk. Actually only 1/2 of it. I previously ate the other half. It was good.
Hellooo Minus...a tasty meal recommendation
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Lori, That is a beautiful fish indeed!!! What is your favorite way to prepare fresh-water catfish?
Bedo, I haven't had a Gordon's fish stick in at least 35 years. Are they any good?
*susan*
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Susan--both my MO and my GI docs are wonderful. Very kind, intelligent and informative--no rushing the patient. I even told the GI doctor about my PC calling at 3:15 on the phone on Friday to tell me I had malignant cancer, and he told me that he would know if it was cancer, but if anything was biopsied, that he would schedule an appointment for the results, good or bad.... He gets 5 stars for that!
Lacey, GRRRR for even thinking about not giving a survivor their results same day Your parking story made me laugh. I've been there and done that---many times. In Chicago, I fi nally just learned the bus route and avoided driving all together.
BEDO, let me know about the taco, I think I could maybe handle that.
I love to fish-----and the best way for catfish is fillet it and fry in in peanut oil well breaded. Serve it with Coleslaw and tater salad and sweet tea.....
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Good morning everyone, I hope all are well and pain free!
Susan, my favorite way to cook fresh catfish is pan fried. My DH says it's perfect every time. He cut this one up a little as it wouldn't fit in my pan. He said he'd get me a bigger pan for the bigger fish. We have a deal, I catch, he cleans, I cook and we eat. We restock our lake twice a year. I think all our friends from Texas come to visit because of our lake and not so much to see us. We still love them! LOL
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SpecialK, Wishing you a fast and easy breezy recovery from your surgery.
Lacey, congrats on a clear Mammogram! 3 hours at the gym? Now that's impressive. How did you like Zumba? How was the lecture? It must've been cool to attend it with someone who could give a first hand perspective.
Susan, your daughter is smart. What is she supposed to do, let her baby starve? As far as the breast feeding Gestapo goes, those people are crazy. There isn't a right way of doing things and what works for one person may not ok for another (literally).
Chi, it sounds like your DS has it pretty darn good over at the homestead.
Red, wishing you the best for an easy colonoscopy and clean results.
Lori, that is one beautiful fish. How nice that you can catch your own catfish in your back yard.
Bedo, the combination of parm and chocolate milk sounds divine. The saltiness from the cheese with the sweetness from the milk is a big yum.
Tonight for dinner is braised Italian turkey sausages. I brown the sausages, sauté sliced peppers, sliced onions and garlic with fresh basil and dried oregano, add tomato paste and cook for a couple of minutes, add a cup of Marsala wine and 1/2 box of diced tomatoes. Put the sausages back in the pan, cover and simmer for about 15 minutes. I let the sauce continue to simmer for about 20 minutes until thickened. I serve this over mashed potatoes for my dad, but it works well in a large hoagie bun or mixed with pasta.
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Special good luck with surgery, and as Susan said, Lets hope it is the last!
Nance Hoping the visit goes as planned and he can see things in a positive way.
Bedo If I ever have to go into the woods, I am taking you, cause we wont get lost and we will probably have a great salad along the way.
Last night was chicken enchiladas. I found a great roasted yellow pepper salsa that was great on top of these. Tonight we have to eat up fridge stuff...maybe meatball sandwiches leftover from our spaghetti and meatballs.
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hsant, I'm glad you enjoyed the pizza pix. Those were the whole wheat flour ones that we liked less than the regular flour ones I make. Seems like most of you don't prefer the whole wheat variety either. In a pinch, however, I would eat any pizza...have yet to try the cauliflower crust though.
My Monday gym marathon happened because I went for my typical hour of treadmilling and weight work before our stretching class. The new trainor for that had a very different way of conducting the class, some things more rigorous, but very little roller work which I missed (will do it at home now, especially for my back). At the end of that class, the new trainor (who is Brazilian and a good dancer!) was starting a new Zumba session. Several of our "stretching classmates" convinced me to stay....and DH was game, as he is for any exercise class, so we did. Well, for a person who fancies herself a dancer, I struggled through these fast paced feet and whole body moves. My inner Latin was lacking. But "us newbies" had a good chuckle at ourselves, and the trainor kept emphasizing that we were there to have fun. That certainly mitigated our feelings of embarrassment. Not sure if I will continue on a regular basis...we'll see. Three hours is a long gym stint, and I need to do the early part of my regimen for ongoing joint support.
Last night's presidential lecture was, as usual, informative and entertaining.....and our friend who attended with us felt that the presenter was quite accurate with his characterization of the events and people mentioned from late 60's and early 70's Washington. He, himself, is such an interesting late eighty-something man whose grasp of historical and current political events continues to amaze DH and me. And he uses DH as his computer consultant (Susan, don't laugh;) so that he can keep as functionally current as possible with technology. I so admire that.
If I ever get myself off this machine, I will make ratatouille for tonight. I also have some large portobello mushrooms which I will stuff....maybe with a spiced orzo/kale mix of some sort and cheese.
Have a nice day everyone.....rooting for things going well on all fronts....
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Hsant exactly what I was thinking but was too embarrassed to put into words!
Carberry, I did show them the fiddle head ferns too, and picture of a real violin/fiddle scroll on my phone, but I think they need to be cooked.
I'm thinking of making Green Goddess dressing. In fact I will make it, I know how, I have a cookbook and will make a saladLacey, I am not worthy in any way of your exercising.
Wench, we had a shack, a real shack in Wedowee, Alabama at one time. My husband pulled the catfish out of the lake, he cut their heads off and the scales and insides and gave them to me. I cut them into squares and microwaved them when we got home. He said they were good. I put lots of tartar sauce on them. I didn't know how to cook fish. I think he lied about the catfish.
"The Shack" and my hound dog Austin maybe 8 years ago?
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Lori, I forgot to comment on your impressive fish! I would not have the vaguest idea what to do with a freshly caught catfish. I used to fish as a youngster (grew up next to a lake which was stocked with trout) both fresh and salt water (bluefishing being the most fun), but these days, stick to the fishmarket with the ready to cook variety. You must take a pic of the new pan that is large enough for that guy!!
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That is a fine catfish. It must have been fun to catch.
Lacey, your experience with the zumba class reminded me of the time I tried taking a steps class. The pace was much too fast and I couldn't begin to keep up with the routines.
Dinner tonight will be at a local seafood restaurant called Crabby Shack. The couple we're going with are coming here first for a beverage.
I feel like I should be getting ready for our departure next Tues. but so far I haven't done anything.
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