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  • bedo
    bedo Member Posts: 1,866
    edited January 2013

    There are services that you can sign up with that will notify a person of your choice, of online friends and groups of anything unexpected that may happen.  Many families and friends may not be aware of your online friends.  I am not the best person to research this. So maybe someone can help?

    I am going to make Michelle Obama's recipe. It sounds healthy and good.

    http://www.yumsugar.com/Michelle-Obama-Cauliflower-Mac-Cheese-Recipe-23243043

    I played violin at a church today.  :O and :O  I am not used to playing in public without other violinists.  There was a Nun on organ, one on flute and a singer.  Well, I did it. I am not Catholic so I was kind of nervous.

    I hope that Apple and Susan are feeling OK

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  • Lacey12
    Lacey12 Member Posts: 2,951
    edited January 2013

    Specialk, so does that faux pas by your DH qualify to be termed "chemo brain by proxy"? LOL!

    So glad for you both that the paper finally turned up! What a worry....and too bad for all the extra work in the meantime.



    When food shopping today, I couldn't decide whether to get chicken breasts or thighs since they were both on sale at the local grocery store. So I bought both, and made chicken marsala in the crockpot with some of each and cooked up some more of each to later be added to soup. The Marsala was pretty good, tho I'm never crazy about all of the fat that is in the sauces from a crock pot meal.

    I grew up with a gnocchi making family, and used to love to run those little pieces of dough over the grater to get the right shape and texture. Interestingly, I have never made them myself in my adult life. Have fun making them! I think I like making them better than eating them.





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  • Lacey12
    Lacey12 Member Posts: 2,951
    edited January 2013

    Oh, Carrie, I hope you can see the doc and get something to chase that determined bug!

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  • chabba
    chabba Member Posts: 5,065
    edited January 2013

    Here are the terms for poultry that I grew up with (both in ND and WA) and whichare still used in many stores around here

    Capons:  castrated roosters, largest of the chickens, fat, tender, roaster

    Stewing Hens:  an old hen but could be a rooster too, used for stocks and stewing, makes wonderful old fashioned chicken and dumplings

    Roaster:  an older, larger fryer, tenderest when roasted

    Fryer:  slaughtered by age, can be of any size, best for short, quick cooking

    It has gotten hard to find any chickens but the roasters and fryers anymore.   I've only cooked a couple of capons in my life.  Back when you could often find them they were always much more expensive than any other form of chicken.  They were very much a special occasion bird. 

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  • LuvRVing
    LuvRVing Member Posts: 4,516
    edited January 2013

    Carole - you are correct, capons are castrated roosters.  Castration supposedly makes the meat more tender.  I remember seeing them on occasion around Thanksgiving, but I've never tried to cook one.

    The chickens in our Shaw's are either piece parts (not even halves) or the whole bird vacuum sealed - about 4 or 5 pounds, and labeled whole young chicken. 

    Congratulations, Bedo!!!

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  • SpecialK
    SpecialK Member Posts: 16,486
    edited January 2013

    lacey - DH is often doing one thing but thinking about something else, and is completely incapable of retracing his steps.  It is missing from his DNA - you can imagine how this may complicate trying to find a lost item, like keys/wallet/sunglasses!  Once, while he was still active duty military, he misplaced his flightline badge.  You have no idea how we tore apart the house looking for that thing - serious security investigation if it is lost because it gave the holder access to nuclear weapon equipped aircraft!  We finally found it in the pocket of a regular jacket - not in military clothing.  He never even thought to look there because he did not remember putting it there at all!  He was sure that he left his glasses in a restaurant on Dec. 23, 2011.  We spent a whole evening going to the restaurant, and every store we had shopped in that night.  No glasses.  Turns out they were on the windowsill in our own dining room, he put them there on Dec. 24th during dinner, then found them there a week later by accident!  I just laugh at this point!

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  • curveball
    curveball Member Posts: 3,040
    edited January 2013

    @chabba

    there is also the smallest of all, the Cornish hen. These are very young chickens weighing a little over a pound, and serve one (extremely hungry) or two persons per bird.

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  • chabba
    chabba Member Posts: 5,065
    edited January 2013

    I've eaten quite a few of them!  I didn't include them in the list because they are a breed of chicken if my memory serves me right.  The birds I listed can be of almost any breed, the classification depends on factors such as age, size or gender (or former gender).

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  • carberry
    carberry Member Posts: 1,153
    edited January 2013

    On the bird discussion...I need to ask my DH because with us owning a feed store ( make our own feed for different animals) I know there are formulas for feeding different kinds of chickens that helps to make them what they are and how they are used. There are special formulas for laying chickens called laying mash, but thats all I know.  Our neighbor was raising ducks for the high end restaurants in NYC and came to us for special feed that would plump them up and make them more meaty and flavorful.  Every breeder likes to adjust their own formula based on their thoughts on what grows a good chicken.  It truly is a science.

    Had a filet last night with spicey rice and green beans sauteed with garlic, lemon pepper and cherry tomatos.  My grill is snowed in so had to get out the george foreman grill for the filets, good but would be better on the real grill.

    Thanks Lacey  making an appt as soon as they open today.

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  • LeeA
    LeeA Member Posts: 1,660
    edited January 2013

    carberry, your snowed-in grill reminded me of this photo -

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    Eric, I loved the story of you meeting your wife so much that I just sent it to my husband in an email.  I've been watching all these romantic movies lately and it reminded me of a scene from a movie.  

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    SpecialK, re: lost items - my husband has always said I have St. Anthony on contract (he's the patron saint of lost items and there's a little prayer that goes along with it).  

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    Michelle, it sounds like you're headed somewhere (suitcases) - have fun!

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    I started chemo last week so dinner around this two-person household has been fend for yourself or "honey, can you run out and get me such and such?"  

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  • LuvRVing
    LuvRVing Member Posts: 4,516
    edited January 2013

    LeeA - West Palm Beach on Thursday, staying with JoyceK and her DH then visiting other friends on the other side of the state.  It was 70 at 7 a.m. this morning in WPB!!!

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  • SpecialK
    SpecialK Member Posts: 16,486
    edited January 2013

    michelle - where are you coming to on the other side of FL?

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  • luvmygoats
    luvmygoats Member Posts: 2,942
    edited January 2013

    Nancy - I love the idea of a password notebook. Mind sharing where you got it? Behind my monitor is covered with passwords most of which are just stupid things like onto magazines and such. The more sensitive ones are in another place. I have thought of putting them on notecards like we used for research projects. Not like I have a fancy new I-phone like Michelle has, so no need to carry them with me.

    I would love to find fresh chickens at a reasonable price, like from your Amish farmer. I have been too afraid to try poultry, even just for the eggs. Too many great horned owls and red tailed hawks. I am certainly a meat eater but could not eat one of my own. I have had calls when I have advertised my goats for sale wanting to know how much they weighed. My standard answer is "not enough" which is true only the really old ones might be big enough and they are NOT going anywhere.

    Michelle - enjoy your FL trip. We are in for 2-3 days of RAIN, a pour down. Not that with our drought we don't need it but I am craving me some sun which has sadly gone for the duration. Watched some of the bowl games over New Years just to see people in shirt sleeves and then had to check out the temps.

    Debbie - Enjoy your trip. I would love one day to get back to Hawaii but alas I think it will have to be a virtual trip.

    Susan and Apple, missing both of you so much.

    Lee - wishing you minimal SEs with your chemo.

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  • auntienance
    auntienance Member Posts: 4,216
    edited January 2013

    luvmygoats, I got it on Amazon. here's a picture: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/1441303251/ref=dp_otherviews_z_4?ie=UTF8&img=4&s=books .

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  • Laurie08
    Laurie08 Member Posts: 2,891
    edited January 2013

    Debbie and Michelle I hope you both have a fantastic time on your trips!!  Soak up the sun for me :)

    Our weekend away was wonderful.  So nice to do nothing.  Dh even did a good job of being lazy with me.  The first night there we went on what we called an appetizer tour.  We went to a bar/restaurant and ordered an appetizer and a drink and then moved on to the next place we wanted to try and would order an app and a drink.  The hotel was right in downtown and there was no end to the restaurants.  We parked the car Friday night and never got in it again until it was time to come home.  We did a lot of seafood, had some great calamari and at another place the crab cakes were wonderful.  We had lots of old faithful apps too, Buffalo wings, potato skins, these awesome flat bread garlic pizza sticks.  We ate way too much and drank way too much.  Saturday night friends of ours showed up in town and we went out with them for a little pub crawl.  By the time the night was done DH and I left alone to walk back to the hotel.  To be honest we were both quite drunk we got lost and seemed to be walking in circles.  DH decided he needed a slice of pizza and ducked into some hole int he wall place and came out with two slices.  It was just about the best slice of pizza I ever had!  I finally got smart enough to take out my phone and use the map ap on it so we could find our way back to the hotel.  The whole thing was very funny and reminded us of our younger careless days.  Thankfully since we ate the pizza and got to sleep in we both woke up with no hangover!  Neither of us could believe it;p

    So now back to reality- pot roast in the crock pot for tonight.  Nice and easy.

    Apple and Susan- thinking of you both.

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  • LuvRVing
    LuvRVing Member Posts: 4,516
    edited January 2013

    SpecialK - we are supposed to drive to Marco Island on the 16th and then fly out of Fort Myers.  But...we had a little miscommunication with our friends (not JoyceK) and they may not be getting their place in Marco until the 20th, so we may drive to the Tampa area where they are staying with their DS, DDIL and grandkids.  They just moved to Tampa and our friends are helping them get settled.  So maybe we could meet up if we end up in Tampa???

    Laurie - it sounds like you had a great weekend!  So glad for you!!!

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  • SpecialK
    SpecialK Member Posts: 16,486
    edited January 2013

    laurie - sounds like so much fun!  Glad you had a good time!

    michelle - absolutely!  Would love to see you anytime!  PM me and we can swap contact info.

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  • Kaara
    Kaara Member Posts: 3,647
    edited January 2013

    Laurie:  Sounds like you had a wonderful time on your "adult weekend" trip!  The appetizer and drink tour sound awesome.

    I'm in Greenville having a great time with my new friend.  It's been cold, but not so much so that we can't walk outdoors and have fun doing it!  I've enjoyed the college football bowl games..the last one being tonight!  We're having some of his friends over for grapes and cheese appetizer, steaks, potato, salad, garlic bread, and red velvet cupcakes for dessert.  Should be fun meeting new friends, and enjoying the game.

    I'll be here through January, then in February we headed back to Florida where we will be until March.

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  • carberry
    carberry Member Posts: 1,153
    edited January 2013

    Laurie glad you such a good time and glad you got yourselves "un-lost"  funny story.  We have a little pizza place in town that is the only place open when the bars close and we frequently will pop in there for a slice.  Nobody ever really knows if the pizza is good because we have never had it sober.

    Michelle  Hope you have a nice warm vacation.  today the sun popped out and when I was out to the doctors I just wanted to stand in the parking lot and soak it all up.

    Doc gave me an antibiotic, wanted to do a chest x-ray, but i said as long as she was gonna give me the antibiotic no matter what, I didnt need an x-ray.  My diagnosis is bronchitis, as I have a tendency to get this at least once a year.  She would not commit.

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  • curveball
    curveball Member Posts: 3,040
    edited January 2013

    @chabba, Cornish hens aren't all the same breed, although I think there are a couple of breeds or crossbreds that are widely used for raising them. They are more of a size than anything else. They aren't all hens, either. I got curious, so I looked them up on wikipedia and discovered that my guess where the name came from was wrong. I thought they were originally "game hens"--the hens of "gamecocks" (i.e. breeds of chicken used for cockfighting), eaten as young as it was possible to detect their sex. To quote wikipedia again, the Cornish breed of chickens was developed by people crossing two kinds of fighting chickens, because they wanted "to create a fantastic fighter. However what they got (though not the right build for fighting) was a fantastic meat bird." The small chickens were called "Rock Cornish" because one of the main crosses used is or was the Cornish x Plymouth Rock. So that's all about tasty little chickens. In France, they have even smaller chickens, called poussin.

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  • curveball
    curveball Member Posts: 3,040
    edited January 2013

    Last Friday or Saturday I made chicken curry:

    1 TB butter
    chopped onion--about 1/4 cup, or more if you like
    one apple, cored and cut into about 1/2" cubes (use a firm one that won't completely fall apart during cooking)
    one chicken breast, boned, skinned, cut into bite-sized pieces (can also be made with leftover cooked chicken or lamb)
    1/4 cup raisins
    about 2 tsp chopped garlic (the kind you get in a jar at the grocery store) or equivalent amount of fresh
    about 1 tsp chopped ginger (the kind in a jar) or an equivalent amount of chopped fresh gingerroot
    curry powder to taste
    1/2 cup rice
    1-1/2 c water plus a teaspoon or so of chicken boullion granules, or one boullion cube, or same amount of chicken stock

    melt half of the butter in a frypan, saute the onions until transparent (or longer if you like), then add the apple and cook that a little while. Set aside the onions and apples, melt the rest of the butter and saute the chicken if not already cooked. Put the apples and onions back in pan with chicken, add garlic, ginger, curry powder and rice. Toast the rice briefly, then add the water + boullion or stock. Simmer 20 minutes or so until rice is tender. If using leftover meat, add it along with the stock. Serve the curry with appropriate garnishes, such as (but not limited to) chutney, chopped bell pepper, chopped green onion, peanuts, Mexican style salsa, pickled peaches. I also had a little stuffing left over from the Christmas hens: it was rice, raisins, slivered almonds, dried apricots, cumin, onion and a little stock, that had been cooked in the same roasting pan with the birds. So I added that to the curry too, just long enough before serving to get it hot. It didn't need to be cooked any more.

    I think I'm going to find a recipe for crock pot curry (chicken or lentil). I like curry, and the turmeric in the curry powder is supposed to have cancer-fighting properties. Even if that turns out not to be so, eating curry frequently can't hurt anything. I will make it in big batches and freeze it by the serving.

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  • bedo
    bedo Member Posts: 1,866
    edited January 2013

    LeeA hoping for minimal sides.  Will be concentrating on that for you

    For everyone going away have fun!

    I'm going to California the end of the month

    Luvmygoats.   I've always wondered, what do you do with your goats?  I love their crazy rectangular pupils and hard gums.  I wonder if I could make a living having them clear shrubs and stuff and making their milk?

    I am so ready to stop working, but I think that's because when I get home at 5 I see the moon.

    For dinner, probably yogurt, but Peapod is coming and I have a yummie sweet and sour red cabbage I want to make in the crockpot.

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  • luvmygoats
    luvmygoats Member Posts: 2,942
    edited January 2013

    Bedo - Unfortunately mine are what I would call yard pets even thoug they are registered purebred goats. In Texas need a Grade A milk license to sell milk. Separate milk parlor, water, electric, inspections, etc. Not happening. Can't even sell for pet use or give away. Some states you can sell it something like 100 gallons/year and don't know about cheese. You would have to investigate your state regs. I've never milked seriously but thinking about one that is bred to kid early-mid March for our personal use. Have to switch her feed to non-medicated and she's not the most tame out there. And I really don't have anywhere to milk seriously, weather protected. Yes, I know in California goats are rented out for clearing brush to mitigate fire season. I don't even get an agriculture exemption for them because we don't have enough acreage. I just love them. Some out there are 12 years old; old ladies and you can tell it. No grandkids and only one dog so they are where my money gets spent.

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  • deborye
    deborye Member Posts: 7,002
    edited January 2013

    Meatloaf and baked padada.

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  • carolehalston
    carolehalston Member Posts: 6,887
    edited January 2013

    Thawed out the last package of walleye fillets from SD.  Will panfry them and have tiny boiled potatoes as a side.  Maybe a salad.

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  • Tazzy
    Tazzy Member Posts: 2,546
    edited January 2013

    pork side ribs and fries.... not a good start to eating healthier but I figure I have shovelled the driveway twice today I have burnt off a few calories.

    Laurie:  your weekend sounds about perfect - so happy for you.

    hugs to all xxx

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  • chabba
    chabba Member Posts: 5,065
    edited January 2013

    carole - just the thought of walleye has me salivating but I must admit the only ones I've tasted were the North Dakota kind.  Wink

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  • Lacey12
    Lacey12 Member Posts: 2,951
    edited January 2013

    Did a lot of housekeeping stuff today, and kept finding little Christmas items we forgot to put away......I think they are all away now. :) Then baked the lemon ricotta cookies (Lydia B's ) with the leftover one cup of my precious ricotta. ;) These cookies, which are a bit cake-like are iced with a lemon drizzle so are really lemony. Yum! I have yet to get to making bread in which I'll use the whey which is waiting in the refrige.



    Cleared out the fridge tonight for dinner since we had lots of leftovers, and somehow the two pizza pieces, lasagna, and veggie chili worked just fine with a sweet/sour cuke salad.



    Sounds like a lot of folks have nice plans to head to warm warm warm for a bit. Enjoy!

    Carrie, glad you got to see the doc.



    Laurie, your weekend reminded me a lot of the one time DH and I escaped to Newport for an overnight after buying a babysitting offer at our church auction. There is just something about having to eat and drink a lot when escaping like that! Really late night pizza comfort food also played a role in our fun. I chuckled when reading that...:)



    Getting ready to watch ND/Alabama game....with hopes that the South Bend boys can pull it off....a tall order. I went to school there, and the football Saturdays were so much fun....but recent years have been such a struggle for ND. My dad was a typical crazed ND alum, so he would be delirious tonight!



    I am finally having my follow up PC appt tomorrow that was recommended after that hospitalization a while ago. Since I do still get dizzy and nauseous on occasion,I figure I better not be totally negligent. Hope I don't "get in trouble" for delaying so long......;)

    Go ND! :)



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  • susan_02143
    susan_02143 Member Posts: 7,209
    edited January 2013

    Slowly coming back to my life, but still no enthusiasm for food. Nothing tastes good to me and I expect one thing, and then get almost nothing. I suspect that this is a residual side effect of the flu/cold that I had, not the Thyroid explosion. I will have a full blood panel on Thursday before treatment. I am eagerly awaiting those results.

    Since my husband insists that we eat, I made some Indian spiced ground lamb, dal, and basmati rice. A simple meal. Sadly, Mr 02143 ate so much of the meat that there are only enough leftovers for one person.

    All your messages of support has been very moving. Share everyone's concerns about Apple.

    *susan*

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  • LuvRVing
    LuvRVing Member Posts: 4,516
    edited January 2013

    Susan - welcome back!  Shame on DH for eating more than his share...lol.  But then it was probably really good so it's hard to quibble with him Wink

    I just got a Facebook message from Apple's sister, Emily.

    "HI Michelle.  I am Mary's/Apple's sister and I was able to see the breast cancer discussion thread.  She could really really use some prayers right now.  She has had a set back and we are not sure how serious it is.  She is not too mobile and very very tired.  It sounds like she has an amazing group behind here in this forum.  I am not sure what to tell you about her prognosis, but I will remember to update you if there is news.  Emily Bryde"

    I thanked her and told her Mary was in everyone's thoughts and prayers.  And I'm glad she promised to give me an update. 

    Watching this football game and I'm sorely disappointed.  This can't be the Notre Dame team that was #1???

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