So...whats for dinner?

Michelle- I'm glad the claritan is working for you, it didnt help me at all, infact i ended up in the er a couple of times the pain was so bad, and had to take pain pills. same way with tamoxifin and the other AL's weird how it effects some and not others. The grilled squash with the balsmic sounds good.

Any one ever have a peppadew? those things are so addicting, you can find them in the deli's at supermarkets where they have a olive bar, or in a jar on the shelf next to the pickles and peppers, they are a mild sweet and spicy pepper- they look kind of like a cherry tomotoe with the center hollowed out- anyway, made a grilled cheese sandwich for dinner and put some inside was great, i also put some in my corn bread the other day, they are good for pastas as well. made a homemade tomatoe soup which was tasty.

Hope every one is having a nice weekend!!

Sorry I've been away for so long. Here's an article/recipe about grilled pizza: linky  

DH did pizza on the grill again tonight.  We like the traditional Italian pizza so this one had pepperoni and sausage.  I gave my bread machine away a couple of years ago...this stuff in the specialty store is just so good and convenient.

 We also had a spinach salad with red pears, cranberries (also good with dried cherries), blue cheese, bacon, candied pecans and an apple cider vinaigrette.  It was yummy!

Michelle

Yum!! every ones pizza sounds and looks good!

Michelle- i used to live in norwich, ct and have been to the milestone, brought back some great memories, my husband was the F&B director at Mohegan sun casino and lived there for 2 years, miss some of my friends from there. Those pots are absolutley gorgous i bet there not cheap either! they look expensive. Sounds like you have such a great time, im so glad you are getting out and enjoying yourself and glad you are able to because of mile SE. Oh and your salad sounds good, thats how i make mine only with sliced strawberries and croutons but everything else is the same. Hope your feeling better. I cant belive im still up, but i finally finished a cook book that i have been trying to make for my daughter for the last 2 years and she keeps begging me for all my recipes so thats what i have done the last 2 days, i think i have carpoltunnel (sp) now  LOL!

Michelle- Thats funny, there is a place in New London, ct called the milestone or millstone cornor and it is a plaza with restaurants, shops etc,, we were close and yet so far away LOL! Being the wife of a F&B director does have its advantages, he brings home food and wine that the distributers want him to try so he will order there products from them, he is currently a F&B director at a casino here in oregon at chinook winds casino, we are only 3 minutes driving time from there and when DH is away i go there, but that is the disadvantage LOL im to close to it!  I quit smoking 4 years ago, and i know what you mean about casinos being smoky, a lot of casinos have put new air purifiers in now so you dont even smell it, unless of course you are sitting next to some one who is and being rude and blowing it in your face,  so i try to play a couple machines at a time so no one sits next to me LOL!

Laurie- Oh i know what you mean, when my mom passed there were so many recipes that i wanted to call her about but couldnt, luckily though she did right some down and having been raised with them owning restaurants and my brother being the chef, he makes a lot of my moms recipes, Thats why i have decided to do this, my daughter is always calling for recipes and she never writes them down, She has a lot of good qualitoes but being organized is NOT one of them LOL! But at least now i know if any thing did happen to me she will have them to cherish, sorry you cant duplicate your grandmas beans maybe if you can describe it somehow, we can all help?? 

teka- So true, wonder why that is that some woman will not share even with there familys, although we do have a family secret recipe that we serve at my dads restraunt called the R-Haus restaurant in grants pass oregon, which is on the rogue river , years ago, when john wayne was doing the movie "Rooster cogburn" he came in there for dinenr and had a soup that was and is still famous, even well known magazines have requested it, it is better than it sounds,ha! it is a cream of zucchini tomotato soup, but whenjohn wayne came in and had it, he loved it so much and took a gallon of it back to his room- We called it the Duke soup for a long time! LOL!- My mom just threw it together one night and it has been popular since then, my friends even tryed to get me drunk to get it out of me haha! Forgive my rambling, just thought it was an interresting story to share with you all!

Teka, I agree about those family recipes.  When I was in college and had my first apartment, I wisely wrote to my grandmother and got some of her recipes.  She was the "cook" in the family.  Years later, i surprised my mother and sister by baking "grandma's cookies" and making "grandma's stuffed cabbage."  The recipes were never given in accurate proportions. but once I started I could reproduce the recipes quite well ...I would measure the incredients as I added them.  I am so glad that I have those recipes which my daughters now use.  :-)

Hot here too!  No cooking for me tonight.  Leftovers and a salad for dinner.

Sherrill - that dish sounds yummy.  Will have to try it in a few weeks when fresh zucchini and local corn hit the market.

Treatment #3 tomorrow, hoping I fare as well as I did the first 2.  I did go out with my daughters tonight and drank a little Prosecco and had tapas at a local Nashua restaurant. Everything was yummy, including the Prosecco that had muddled blackberries in it.  I've been drinking tons of liquid, now I'm hoping the little bit of alcohol doesn't mess with me tomorrow.  

Michelle

Michelle-Hope every thing goes good tomorrow- will be thinking of you! I havnt had prosecco in a long time it is so good, i use to have it with strawberries, but i would love to try it with blackberries. Im thinking the liquids might do you good so it flushes out all the toxins? I hope so.

I had the best macaroni and cheese with lobster tonight, it was only 11.00 dollars so didnt think it would be that good, but had a lot of lobster in it and was so delicious, it was a new place we checked out tonight that we didnt know exsisted, so it is our new fun place to go.

Kay, I think squash would be good too, as long as you don't over cook it and it becomes mushy.

Good luck today, Michelle!

Debbie, lobster mac-n-cheese....yum!  I love lobster, but I don't tend to order it often, because years ago I had it poached in butter (soooo delicious.  you barely had to chew it, it was so tender), so I will always compare lobster to that time.  Last Friday, I met a few old friends for dinner and butter-poached lobster was on the menu, but I couldn't bring myself to order it!  It just seems so sinful!

Kay- It was good for breakfast, i finished it up this morning LOL!

Sherrill- and Laurie- both zucchinis sounds good, i have a lot of fresh zuccs in the fridge right now from a friends garden.

One way i do my zucchini recipe is slice them lenght wise and then in 3 inch pieches, and take some baby red potatoes cut in half and par boil, in a saute pan i add a little evoo and butter a little rosemary, and thyme and garlic salt and pepper, then add the zucchini and red potatoes face down and cook untill they are both tender then flip over and generously add parmesan cheese on top and broil in broiler until the cheese is melted-you could also add squash with this recipe this is one of my favorites.

Hi,

Today, husband and I are returning home from " Prince Edward Island Canada " which had delicious lobsters, scallops, and mussels.   St. Ann's Lobster Suppers serves an excellent meal.   I've never eaten such tasty ( I think baked ) mixed vegetables ( turnip, carrots, green beans, parsnip, and red cabbage ).   We still haven't seen a moose in NY, VT, NH, ME, or Canada.

I feel like such an idiot.  I went to the supermarket and asked the kid that worked there where EVOO was.  He didn't know what that was so I thought I had to go to a place like Whole Foods for it; they didn't know what it was either.  I just typed it in on google and it came up with Extra Virgin Olive Oil.  What an idiot I am.  I should have known by the caps that it was an acronymn. 

Thanks for the recipes.  Going to try the beets today.  I'm also going to try making cream of squash soup with a recipe I found on the internet.  Will let you know how that is.