So...whats for dinner?

bedo

Hi Minus!

You don't sound wimpy at all. I only exercise since I have to walk every place and kayaking is fun. 30 minutes is a long time on the treadmill!

I will stay in Rhode Island this Fall and for at least a year, and the University is about 2 miles from my house. I'm moving out of the cabin to a bigger old house which I love.

Have to take the swim test. 2 laps crawl, 2 "other" then 2 laps crawl, 5 minutes treading water and then floating.

The kids are hysterical there are 2 other "blonds" in the clinic, one 32, one 39 and me, lots older. They can't tell us apart as over 30 =OLD PERSON and we all look alike apparently.

eric95us

Bedo, an "old person story".

I was driving the school bus and two 5th grader girls were talking about one's dad.

"He's not that old."

"He's 37."

I looked up in the mirror and I could see a surprised/confused look on the one's face...and then, "Oh. Wow....Yeah, that's kind of old".

Thinking about it, her dad was probably in 6th grade when I got married.....

ChiSandy

When I grew up in NYC, no fireworks or firecrackers were legal for civilian use, except for licensed professional pyrotechnicians hired (with permits) for public displays. Even the sparklers sometimes put on birthday cakes by restaurants were illegal--they burn at >1000F. We were able to use only those little spring-loaded metal spark-generators: pushing the plunger repeatedly made a metal disk fitted with clear red and blue windows spin as flint & steel struck each other. They were available at toy stores as well as the corner “candy store"/newsstand/soda fountains that also sold yo-yos, tops, Spaldeens and Fli-Back rubber-ball-and-paddle toys. Made for some very sore thumbs and occasional pinched fingers, but no real injuries. When I was a teenager, there was an empty lot down my block (I used to cut across it as a shortcut to my high school). Until condos were built on it, our precinct cops would use it to set off ashcans, M-80s, cherry bombs and Roman candles on the Fourth while we stood a safe distance away behind sawhorses and crime-scene tape.

In Seattle, where we moved after our wedding day and college, “safe & sane" fireworks were seasonally sold in pop-up supermarket parking lot kiosks run by Kiwanis, Lions, Rotary, etc.. What made them “safe & sane" was that they had no projectiles and produced no explosions--thus no Roman candles, bottle rockets nor even firecrackers. Just sparklers, “fountains" and Piccolo Petes that just made whistling noises and stayed put. But 45 miles to the southwest was the Puyallup Indian Reservation--where, as sovereign Native American territory, sold cigarettes and liquor tax-free, and real firecrackers & fireworks were sold without regulations. For awhile, the WA State Patrol tried to stop non-Native Americans as they left the reservation and inspect their cars for contraband, but it was too costly and time-consuming. People would use the projectiles and firecrackers bought there to combine with the legal stuff and thus create “unsafe and insane" fireworks. One year, a friend gave me some of those little fingerling firecrackers at the beach. I lit it and tossed it......overhand. (I'd never before held, much less lit, a firecracker). It exploded in the air mid-arc, just above and about six inches from my right ear. My hair was singed, I had a small cut requiring a Steri-Strip, and first deafness and then extreme sensitivity to high frequencies in that ear for at least a week or two. Since then, I've tried to steer clear of firecrackers--not always easy as we drove home from Green Lake on Bicentennial Night (when drunks would throw firecrackers in the path of or even beneath cars), or years later as we walked back from SF's Chinatown during Chinese New Year when we had to dodge and weave around them all over the sidewalks.

MinusTwo

Anybody else remember "snakes"? Those little black pellets that you'd touch w/a match and they would spill out a trail of black (ash I guess) just like a snake. We were allowed to have those & sparklers.

I took my neighbor & her husband to a special lunch to thank him for ferrying me back & forth to the med center 3 times when my broken arm kept me from driving. This restaurant has their own meat market so it melts in your mouth. She & I split an appetizer of fried asparagus with lump crab meat. He had French Onion Soup. And of course we devoured their wonderful warm bread. Two of us had a delicious fillet served with garlic mashed potatoes & "seasonal" veggies. The other friend had a "hawaiian rib eye". All excellent. Oh - why didn't we quit there? The husband had a Rocky Road bread pudding - stuffed with choc chips & drizzled with carmel & walnuts. No kidding it was huge - 4" x 4" x 4" with a 3" square marshmellow on top of that. My friend had a trio sampler - creme brulee & truffles & cheescake w/salted carmel topping. I was going to have a "deconstructed" lemon meringue, but they didn't make it this morning so I opted for plain creme brulee. Hmmm - guess I forgot to mention that I started with a Screwdriver. I'm not particularly a vodka fan but this place uses only fresh squeezed oranges. Yum. Maybe I'll eat again tomorrow...but maybe not.

bedo

Minus I want what you had. All of it. I don't remember snakes but I remember little black BB things, individually wrapped in paper that you threw on the ground and they made a loud noise. That screwdriver sounds good. I almost never drink hard alcohol, but now I'm wondering if a Bloody Mary with fresh tomatoes would be possible when I get back home?

Instead for lunch I had the usual salad with all the other veggies and I remembered cauliflower, broccoli, red and green pepper.

We had a bar-b-que tonight and I had a veggie burger, corn on the cob and watermelon

I went to Hudson NY yesterday with another staff member. I was a BIG DAY for us. We went to Walmart and I bought peel and stick wall decals for my cabin. Then we went to Copake and had salmon burgers with wasabi sauce. It was the best salmon sandwich I have ever had

This might not sound very exciting to you but it's all relative.

I am drawing faces on the bandages. To amuse myself and the campers

Tomorrow I'm going to Bash Bish Falls, the biggest waterfall in Ma state. I'm going to stick my feet in the water, which is so clear that you can see straight to the bottom, and commune with nature.

MinusTwo

Bedo - I love having updates from camp. Hope you'll be able to keep it up.

ChiSandy

Bedo, camp sounds wonderful! I remember those little paper-BB thingies from when we first visited London in 1991 with Gordy. We were at a playground in Hyde Park, and he and a couple of diplomats’ kids (with nannies supervising) had a grand time throwing them onto the ground. We didn’t have those in Brooklyn in the ‘50s and ‘60s--we had to resort to taking strips of cap-gun refill paper and hitting & scraping the gunpowder-filled dots with rocks until they went “bang.” More than a few kids got singed fingernails from doing that.

One of Bob’s patients is the Operations Manager for U.S. Cellular Field, in the White Sox front office. So he treated us to a party tonight in his skybox. We had a parking pass, but Bob had to go there directly from work, so I took the CTA train. (Quite pleasant--we live far north and the train was empty when I boarded, though SRO and then some by the time we reached the stadium station). There were lots of low-carb options in the skybox: arugula salad, insalata caprese, salumi, cheeses, buffalo pulled chicken breast, oil & vinegar slaw, grilled asparagus & prime rib. (Also had a bunless hot dog). For dessert I helped myself to some of the fresh fruit platter while everyone lined up out in the corridor for the dessert cart. But in walked Bob with a giant hunk of red velvet cake and two scoops of ice cream, with blackberries & strawberries. Alas, I did give in and have a sliver of that cake. Oh, and........SOX WIN! SOX WIN! (5-0, over the Yankees). Complete with fireworks at the end.

MinusTwo

I don't remember a time when the dinner thread was this silent for an entire day. Summer's funny with everyone traveling or hosting relatives & friends. Or just trying to stay cool.

I don't think I shared my good news. PET/CT showed No Evidence of Disease!!! I know the sneaky bugger could be lying in wait again (probably under my big toe nail which they didn't image - LOL), but I'm officially putting it behind me a second time and moving forward again. Port removal scheduled for next Tuesday.

Supper Wednesday was left over pepperoni & mushroom pizza (cold). Dinner last night was leftover filet mignon that still melted in your mouth even cold, right out of the fridge. That was served with a huge bowl of steamed zucchini "zoodles" from my spiralizer. It's too hot to cook & almost too hot to heat. Days are 98. Nights don't go below 80. OK Eric, I know you've got me beat, but this is miserable.

auntienance

Happy dance for you Minus!

eric95us

I'll join in too on the Happy Dance! :-)

naiviv

Hello all, it's been too long to try and catch up with all past posts. I did read a few pages and see lots of familiar names and will be catching up soon.

Wanted to say hello and see how everyone is. I am doing well. Kids and work keeping me busy. I finally accumulated some time and am home on vacation...trying to catch up on house things that need doing. Have been working on house slowly mostly weekends and upstairs is 95% done. Now comes downstairs.

Getting ready to start dinner soon. Penne pasta with turkey meatballs in tomato, garlic and basil sauce. Garlic bread and salad. Bought some cherries for dessert, if I don't finish them first.

Vivian

Lacey12

Yay for you Minus!! ))))

susan_02143

Phew!!! Minus that is great! I am going to admit that I had not allowed myself to think the results would be otherwise, but it is nice to have this affirmed by someone with an MD at the end of their name!

Whoohoooo! *susan*

bedo

yay for you - Minus ! Are you going to celebrate? blueberries and strawberries and yogurt for breakfast salad for dinner

MinusTwo

Actually I celebrated tonight with two (2) gin & tonics. That was after my supper of 1/2 a turkey & Havarti sandwich on 7 grain bread. Dessert was a largish slice of grocery store bakery Raspberry Cream Cheese coffee cake. The accompaniment to the gin was a bag of pretzels to tweak my salt stores against the hot weather.

Thanks everyone for celebrating my happy news w/me.

Eric - I saw it was 106 in Phoenix today. So...you're over the heat wave? I always wondered if you can really cook an egg on the sidewalk.

Lacey12

Minus, you crack me up! The egg on the sidewalk reference....

And yes, I used to set off those snake things with my brother when growing up. We were also allowed to use sparklers. My kids threw those snap things on the roads in NH...not available in MA...to their great delight! We also let them use sparklers in NH, of course....but it was less fun being the watchful parent than the excited kid. When we were young (in NJ) we also did the pound the caps thing with rocks, big enough that our fingers were spared.

I hope you guys with the high temps get some relief soon. And, if convenient, please send some our way. We are freezing tonight in P-town...sixties with a very strong wind making it feel much colder. I hear we will be in for more seasonable temps next week.

Lots of really interesting meals here, and we have been repeat customers at Cafe Heaven where we have become fast friends since last year with the co-owner there. He loves providing good food, we love eating it! I can't even recount/describe all the inventive dishes we've enjoyed at various restaurants, but will post some pix and descriptions of the first CH meal once I get the shots on my ipad.

Here we were enjoying some prosecco in the best window seat at Cafe Heaven for a July 4th dinner, while watching the P-town crowd stroll by....and that's quite the "colorful" view! That night, DH had their wonderful citrus salad, which I totally loved last summer, then the seafood stew. I enjoyed a "lobster martini", followed by a petit filet over salad with baby greens and roasted vegetables. I so enjoyed finding various roastedveggies among the greens under the steak, which was done to my idea of perfection. I have to sync my phone pix with this ipad so I can post them...will do later..... Internet service can be intermittent on this remote spot on the water.

Lacey12

Here comes the P-town food porn....

Dinner at Cafe Heaven:

Citrus salad......................................lobster martini (lobster salad over arugula and avocado in martini glass

Their version of bouillabaisse...DH loves this, but hoping tonight for a more Portugese base that Napi's offers.

My wonderful warm steak salad with roasted vegetables within the greens and a lovely balsamic dressing and drizzle.

For dessert, we had a take out piece of multi layered lemon olive oil cake with creamy lemon icing. Wish I'd remembered to take the pic! Alan, the owner and pastry guy made it.

I keep losing the photos, so will continue this in another post

Lacey12

At Joon Bar and Kitchen, we started with sharing their duck sliders and slaw, followed by a lovely sounding micro greens salad, which unfortunately also had micro flowers throughout, which would have me finding the nearest ER, so DH enjoyed that himself:

I put the camera away for the entrees which were halibut steak for DH, and an amazingly tender panko breaded pork chop for me. Never have I had such a crisp and delicately tender pork chop. Yum!

Wednesday we walked into town (three miles, which we needed (!) daily) and since we got there after the noon hour, stopped back into Cafe Heaven for a brunch kind of meal. I had a poached egg over lobster hash (not a hash girl, but I really liked it), with a well dressed arugula salad.

DH had the tastiest mexicali omelette which had a topping of chipotle pesto. It was amazing! But he started eating it too fast for my photography skills

ChiSandy

Oooh! I think I’m gonna defrost some langostinos and make a “lobster-oid” salad--I have avocado and arugula, and it’s been awhile since I’ve used our martini glasses. If you ever find yourself in Nassau County on LI, there’s a wonderful Portuguese restaurant on Mineola Blvd.in Garden City called Heart of Portugal--great caldo gallego, grilled sardines, bacalao and cazuela.

Lacey12

Last installment for today....

The Mews Restaurant is pretty mainstream by P-town standards, but their new chef turns out some nice offerings. We enjoyed a beet salad with burrata and micro greens,

and a lovely watermelon/cuke/tomato gazpacho (no pic).

For entree, I had a delightful blackberry sauced duck breast and leg with a farro/pecan "salad" side and veggies.

DH had their signature lobster risotto. Sorry for the tasted spot....by me. Very good!

Didn't even look at dessert menu....soooo much good food!

Yesterday, we had a late lunch at Bubula's....cod fish taco and a chicken saltimbalca (sp?)sandwich on focaccia. We planfully skipped dinner before seeing a local play, and ate cheese crackers and apple afterwards at home.

Today it's (too!) cool and windy again, and I was not geared up for another multi-mile walk, so we drove over to Truro (next town) where we had coffee, a really good kale soup, and split a very well made BLT, before heading to the Atlantic Spice Co. I didn't need too many spices, especially since Susan and I visited Penzy's not long ago, but we got some fun kitchen items and a gift multi-spice package for my next door neighbor whose driveway we are using for our resting cars while ours is being repaved in our absence.

Tonight at Napi's DH will have their Portugese fish stew, and I'll have some spicy fish dish, and tomorrow we will head home and anticipate some serious gym time on Monday! The good news is that for all of our eating, we've walked many miles, so hopefully calories are being well used!

I wonder if I will adapt to making meals again! This has been a fun foodie week

susan_02143

I have been reading, but haven't found the wherewithal to post. Food has happened in between lots and lots of laundry, cleaning, and vacuuming. All the things that I like not at all! There has also been bread making, granola creating, and last night, an emergency vegan muffin session. So far, I have liked all of our guests.... which seems really unlikely, doesn't it? My efforts mean that my listing now has five stars [out of five stars] so I think I will be able to raise our rental price soon.

As for us, our meals have been built around seasonal vegetables. We are now getting local carrots, peas, zucchini, spinach, lettuces, and tons of herbs. Thursday night was our every-five week date at Sarma. They were spot on. My HFS wasn't too bad that day, so we were able to walk back and forth. Last night I sautéed some chicken breasts and then made an almost-picatta sauce. Mr. 02143 isn't a caper fan, so I just left them out. Tonight, I made the harira soup. I modified my recipe a bit, and it was fabulous. In fact, it was so good I wrote it down in pepper plate so I can do it again! Tomorrow night we are having dinner with the "kids." We will head to their house and order take out.

Lacey, your time in P-town has me envying your culinary life. What a special time you have had. The weather has been very odd hasn't it? Our house is cold and damp. Last night's guests used both duvets and the blanket!

All of you who are hot should consider a visit to Boston right now. We have enough cold to share.

*susan*

ChiSandy

Homemade bread....granola....muffins....oh, how I miss them! I had steamed corn on the cob tonight (half an ear) and it feels like a major carb cheat! I went to Whole Foods to replace some stuff (lettuce, celery, artichoke) my fridge froze and therefore ruined. (Ice crystals in the freezer despite a temp of -18C, things freezing in the fridge despite being set on 2C. Ice maker frame leaking all over the floor. Never buying an LG again). I saw some really nice grass-fed beef that one could actually grill (usually their grass-fed beef is stuff like bottom round, stew cuts, at best flank steak) so I asked for a hanger steak and a tri-tip. After he wrapped the hanger, he asked me if I wanted anything else and I mentioned the tri-tip. He said they’d never had it before, that it was more of a West Coast thing, yada yada; he wrapped it and handed it to me. Checked out, brought the bags up to the deck, lit the grill, unlocked the back door and went inside to start putting things away. But something seemed to be missing....the hanger steak. Dumped out all the empty bags to make sure I hadn’t missed it, went back into the garage, searched the car...nope. It was then I realized that the butcher was so distracted by the tri-tip conversation that he hadn’t handed me the hanger steak and I hadn’t noticed. I also realized that I hadn’t put it on the belt at the checkstand, so at least I didn’t get cheated out of it. By then the grill was hot, so I just went into the meat-keeper and pulled out a chicken/feta/spinach sausage. Was tempted to go back to the butcher counter (WF is only a couple blocks away, but since I’d already had the sausage, corn and an insalata caprese I thought better of it). Hopefully, Bob won’t be working too late tomorrow night so I can at least grill the tri-tip.

eric95us

..eating camp food this weekend.....Sharon and I drove 48 high school kids to a weekend summer camp up in the "cool country". We're only 2 hours from Phoenix, at over 6000 feet elevation and it's a nice 70 degrees right now.

Typing on a phone..uggh....

bedo

minus that sounds perfect

and lacey those pictures are mouth watering.

time for bed

the bugle sounds at dawn. well at what seems like dawn for the campers and me

susan_02143

My guests has left. He is a total geek, getting his PhD. specializing in robots and just returned from Houston where he was an intern in NASA"s jet propulsion laboratory. Yea. That kind of geek. So, he has been playing the new PokémonGO game on his phone. As he was leaving today, he told me that my front yard is a PokeStop! This explains all the millenniums hanging out by the Windmill Plaque [which looks like a gravestone] in front of my house while staring at their phones. Needless to say, I am downloading the game to figure out what they see in my front yard!

*susan*

auntienance

Love love love the food porn Lacey!

Susan, I was watching This Old House w/DH yesterday and they were showing a purple house in the Boston area. Is that the one in your neighborhood?

Went to see dad yesterday and took him to lunch and snack shopping. Hes still doing well but he got in trouble for walking by himself in the hall (they want someone to walk behind him with a wheelchair) but they never seem to have time to walk with him. He is frustrated and pessimistic again about ever getting out and I don't blame him. I will have a chat with the DON tomorrow.

I have an abundance of potatoes and eggs so dinner is a Spanish tortilla with roasted red peppers and onions (possibly a bit of ham). Picked the first beefsteak tomato today, yum!

I have no idea what PokemonGO is.

MinusTwo

Susan - how funny. At least it's good to know why people are lurking. I am astounded that you can keep up with all the cleaning & washing of the B&B, not to mention still working & cooking creative meals regularly, & taking meals to your DD. I don't think I could do 1/4 of that much anymore.

Tomorrow is the 9th anniversary of my last cigarette in 2007. I'm going to eat an elegant Italian dinner down town with a friend. My mouth is watering for one of their specials "Shrimp Damian". Then she'll drop me off at the Wyndham Medical Center where I'll spend the night. No way I could get to the hospital by 6am Tuesday otherwise. My ex- husband will pick me up after surgery & take me out for a steak if I've come around enough to appreciate it. Or maybe rainbow trout? Can you tell I'm hungry?

It's easy to tell what food group is of premier importance to me just looking at my cupboard. Sitting waiting: garlic Naan, soft flour tortillas, pumpernickel bagels, raspberry/cream cheese danish, English muffins, sourdough bread, Hawaiian sweet rolls... Guess I'd better have a salad for dinner.

MinusTwo

OK - I cheated & didn't come clean about the food group additions: Salted Carmel sugar cookies, Moravian Meyer Lemon crisp cookies, Walker's shortbread, Pecan Nut Thins ... The problem with buying/cooking for one is that any craving is usually satisfied with one or two pieces - and then you're stuck with whole thing. Lots of bits & pieces in my freezer. Too bad you can't do the same with salad stuff.

luvmygoats

Bedo - I have serious camp envy except for the swimming tests. I can swim enough to save myself but heaven help anyone else needing saving other than a good shove to the ladder.

I will take any cold weather anyone wants to send us and I bet Minus agrees. Though today it is only 94 but feels like 101 per WC (I think it feels not quite that bad). We had an inland hurricane last night torrential rain 3" and 45 MPH winds. Lots of stuff down N of Dallas. We have appt with insurance adjuster for next week to check our roof from the last windstorm.

Cooking?? Last night was canned soup because the ac was off d/t the lightening and didn't want to heat up much. Tonight might be chicken breasts or they might just get cooked and back in fridge for tomorrow night. I had a big salad about 2 and DH had a sammie so neither of us is really hungry. I really haven't cooked much but this week will be a bit different. Taking dinner to friend/husband Thurs night after her hosp procedure. Chicken and potatoes - her 2 favorites. Maybe a jello salad for coolness. Have to make an ice cream topping for Sat - have a boozy (bourbon) caramel sauce recipe that sounds very good. Might make a cake and take it to the fire department this week. I've been in the police building but that was to get fingerprints for nursing license when they added that requirement. The fire dept. is just down the road and the bays are usually open. I figure either one is good to go for me to express my appreciation.

Oh my Lacey I cannot imagine all the different foods you get to eat. Hope you had a good drive back.

Welcome back Vivian. Tell us more about what's happening with you and your family.

Minus I agree. I've never met a cracker or a bread I didn't like. One good thing about goats - they will eat the leftovers. We bring all the dead chips home from the spring/fall camping trips and they get to enjoy them. Congrats on the 9 years smoke free. Will be praying for an easy port removal and esp. for no further need for one.

Susan - sounds like your Airbnb is doing great. I agree with Minus I don't know how you keep up with everything. I just barely understand what Pokemon Go is. I know it's akin to geocaching which I've never done but read about. No doubt if we ask a youngster they will know. It has a detailed Wikipedia listing.

The Great British Baking show is about to come on. No idea why I watch it, like I'm going to bake anything they do. Dump cakes etc are more my style lol.

ChiSandy

Susan, I had no idea Pokemon was still a thing!

Bob’s working till 8:30 tonight (down in the s.w ‘burbs) so I’m not sure if I’ll be grilling that tri-tip by moonlight, or whether we’ll go out to Greektown (Sloan & her DH are in town, so maybe if they’re night owls that’s what we’ll do, and meet them near the Blue Line station. Taking them out for tapas at Cafe Ba Ba Ree Ba, then nightcap chez moi tomorrow night).

Meanwhile, this a.m. my streak ended. Last egg in the carton had only one yolk, but a big one. Went to a reception for our new rabbi; just got home, picked some berries (double-gloved to avoid LE, but my leg still got “thorned”) and had a nice breve cappuccino. Waiting for both Bob & Sloan to call.