So...whats for dinner?

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

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

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  • SeasideMemories
    SeasideMemories Member Posts: 3,194
    edited January 2013

    LeeA... That was beautiful!



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

    Usually when I think of breast cancer I am angry.  Tonight I feel utter sorrow.  I am so sad for Apple, I am so sad for all of us, for our families.  For all of the tests, and scans.  The surgeries and waiting, the hopes and the fears that we have all had to endure and are still enduring.  My heart is so heavy tonight.  Apples passing makes me remember too brightly what my family endured when my mother passed away and my heart just breaks for her family and what I know they are going through.  How I miss hmy mother so deeply, how her family and so many other families have to miss someone that is truly so special.

    Because we are women we are strong- almost all of the time, for ourselfves and for everyone we love.  And sometimes I wish we weren't. Because half the time it is a front....probably more than half.

    Anyway- I needed to pour my soul out there to someone and I know no one else who will "get it" more than all of you.

    I am honestly sitting here and weeping for Apple, for my mother , for all of us.  I wish I was ignorant, I wish I wasn't afraid, I wish I wish I wish....

    Thank you ladies (and Eric) for being you.

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

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsXQAhe8uYY

    apple playing the piano

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  • debbie6122
    debbie6122 Member Posts: 5,161
    edited January 2013

    Now I'm crying again beautiful post Laurie,and video

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

    The Mods posted the link on another thread.  So talented.

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  • SeasideMemories
    SeasideMemories Member Posts: 3,194
    edited January 2013

    Laurie,



    I do hear you... I too wish, maybe not for ignorance, but for a return to our days of innocence where we thought that nothing could hurt us... A return to our old selves... I too can't seem to stop the tears and I think my family is thinking i've lost it and ya know what.... I don't care.... Because, yes, as women we are strong and, yes, the majority of the time it is a front but tonight I just don't care about being strong... Tonight I am just wishing that life was just a little bit more fair and that today never happened....



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

    Seaside- You are right.  Innocence, a return to our old selves.

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

    Sending ((((HUGS)))) to everyone tonight as we all struggle to deal with feelings about the loss of Apple.....and so many other losses that this one evokes. It is a sad and painful and worrisome reminder, indeed, that we are all frail humans, and have encountered a disease that we hate and fight with all of our strength....in varying degrees depending on the day.

    Laurie, I cannot even pretend to imagine how painful this is for you, given the loss of your own mother when you were young. Of course your heart is heavy...you've walked this terrible path, and know what Apple's family is bearing right now. But look at your resourcefulness....starting this thread which has provided so much support to so many, including that from and to Apple. A testament to your ongoing strength....even when you feel frail. I appreciate what you have done for all of us on here, where we can share our strengths and our fraility....and can just be the humans we are...together.



    So at 5:58PM tonight we arrived at our friends' home to pick them up to go out to dinner. DH knew our Michelle plan, so he went into their house and stayed with them for several minutes, being sure that I had the time I needed to channel my energies to our sweet friend and sister. I really appreciated his support with this...and I know that he wishes the best for Michelle, too.

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

    Amen Laurie . . .

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

    sorry for the late night emotional rant- my computer should lock its self up after 3 glasses of wine or 12 am.

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

    Has anyone notice things are out of kilt on this thread?

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

    Yep  the post are now filling up the whole page instead of on the right side. and the comments dont line up with who posted them. Hmmm?

    Laurie So well said!

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

    Very beautiful post Laurie. 

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  • carollynn79
    carollynn79 Member Posts: 654
    edited January 2013

    Apple will be missed by so many of us, she touched many of us with her wit, wisdom , and her strength the piano video is wonderful.  My thoughts are with her family. 

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

    So sad to hear about Apple...my heart goes out to her family.

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  • eric95us
    eric95us Member Posts: 2,845
    edited January 2013

    Last night I cooked dinner....although my heart wasn't really in it.  Still, we had to heat.

    The chicken roaster was not quite tall enough, so I had to use....the dutch oven that is pictured in my avatar.

    I did a whole chicken.  It was a simple thing.  Melt a quarter stick of (real) butter in the dutch oven at "just below where the butter smokes temperature"...almost "high" on my stove and brown the chicken skin.  Then I turned down the heat to it's usual for the dutch oven, "low" on my stove, sprinkled garlic salt and pepper on the chicken and then added some wine...just enough to cover the bottom of the oven about 1/2 inch and "put the lid on".  I drank the remainder of the wine myself.  It was a white wine because that's what I had in those little 6 ounce bottles, so I only got 1/2 a glass.  It took about an hour and a half to cook the chicken.

    I also made jasmine rice..because I had it and because Chrissy *LOVES* it.  Because there was so much juice in the bottom of the dutch oven, I added some corn starch and made gravey..if one can put gravy on potatoes, rice should be OK too! :-)

    While that was going on, I was thinking about tonight's meal and decided on a middle eastern ground lamb "seems almost like meatloaf" dish.  That got me thinking about Apple and her love of middle eastern cooking.

    I can't find ground lamb, so I pulled out and cleaned my old LF&C vintage 1897 meat grinder in preparation of grinding some lamb meat.

    Mickey insited that I play Bette Midler's The Rose when I scattered her ashes.  She said it would both remind me of her so she could be with me forever and remind me to keep going despite...."things"....  My guess is that Apple would choose this song for us...and for the same reasons..

    It must have worked.  I remember Mickey..and I now "have" Sharon and our DD....  :-)

    Eric

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

    Apple has been very much on my mind today and for some reason I too, Eric, have been thinking about her love of middle eastern cooking and her neighborhood grocer where she found so many interesting foods.



    Last night, in spite of a nasty cold I'm brewing, I made my first batch of pasta. Oh boy, flour flour everywhere. But it turned to be very good, if not very pretty, and I can see how one could forsake store bought pasta forever. I'm now debating on whether to buy the cooks illustrated pasta book. Then again, how many variations on pasta dough are there? Seems to me it's mostly egg, flour and water. But what do I know . . .

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  • InspiredbyDolce
    InspiredbyDolce Member Posts: 1,181
    edited April 2014

    Hi Everyone,

    Happy New Year!

    I haven't been on in a while.  Shocked to see the news and upset about the passing of Apple.  Michelle, I missed the 6PM prayer shout out for you, but I sent you a few hugs a while ago and heartfelt prayers!  You are often on my mind.  

    I just had my 1 year healthy-victory anniversary on 1/4/2013.  I was out of sight and nervous leading up to it.  Everything came out normal.  I may have scared off one of the new interns at the Oncologist's office though.  She was trying to talk to me, and get file updates as they were about to stick me with the needle.  I'm someone who panics when I'm about to get the needle, and I needed to focus.  My husband, the lab tech and myself were already in a very small room, and I can't believe she managed to come in and find a spot in there - we were so cramped.  They usually ask for any updates further down the hall when I'm getting weighed.  So as she persisted to ask questions, I finally blurted out that I needed her to just "chill out for a few minutes until I'm done in here."  LOL  That is how extremely stressed I was.  

    So in the what's for dinner topic, I need some help!

    I'm thinking of making vegetable soup in the crockpot tomorrow.  I've never made a soup before.  We would like to have an uncomplicated time getting dinner ready as we want to be on the couch by 7PM to watch the new season of The Bachelor!  :)

    For the soup, what veggies do you all suggest?  I have so far:  zucchini, carrots.  What else would go in to the soup?  I'm planning on buying the 100% organic vegetable broth (low sodium), and 2 cans of diced tomatoes, with one of those being spicy.

    Any ideas, please post here - I'll go get the items you all suggest in the morning.  

    Also, does anyone know if I'm allowed to have natural carbs from fruit?  I got these dried figs and dried apricots from Trader Joe's.  They are unsulfured and no chemicals in the drying process.  Nothing added.  Just the fruit.  Are these okay, or are they considered fast carbs?

    Thank you and have a great day everyone!

    - Want to exercise and looking for support?  Try visiting the "Let's post our Daily Exercise" forum!  

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

    Debra- I would add some diced potatoes, peas at the end, some kidney beans maybe corn?  Just some thoughts.  I never seem to do a straight veggie soup.

    Making stuffed shells for dinner to use up the rest of the homemade sauce.  I am just doing a straight cheese mixture that the boys like of ricotta, mozzarella and parm, nothing fancy.  I bought some nice garlic bread sticks to go with it.  If I am motivated I will make a salad to go with it.  Right now Dh is watching the Patriots play, the boys are over tired and off the wall and I am doing laundry and picking up while the shells boil.

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  • SeasideMemories
    SeasideMemories Member Posts: 3,194
    edited January 2013

    Debra,



    If you're looking for a really good soup that's got tons of vegetables and beans are OK for you, Nancy (AuntieNance) posted an excellent recipe for Minestrone back on page 352. I have made it a few times and, while I didn't use the crockpot, I can't see why that wouldn't work out just fine... I did use more of each vegetable and added a little but of cooked sausage that I wanted to use up but, it would have been just as good without...



    If you do make it, Nancy's suggestion a couple posts after the recipe to boil the pasta separately and add to individual bowls at serving time was a good one if you won't be eating it all in one night. Otherwise the pasta sucks up all the liquid...



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  • SeasideMemories
    SeasideMemories Member Posts: 3,194
    edited January 2013

    Ok... This posts not lining up thing is making me a little nuts here.....lol!



    Laurie,



    No need to apologise for sharing how you feel here, ever.... we all are in a very emotional state right now and rightfully so... As for dropping the 'strong face', sometimes a glass of wine or two allows us to just be who we really are and feel what we're really feeling if just for a moment before getting back to the business of being invincible women.... lol... Edited to clarify.... I just re-read this post and hope it didn't come across as we should all get back to business but, more that, for me, I have slipped my 'strong face mask' that we so often present to the rest of the world back on even though I'm crying inside... Sure felt good to drop the facade for just a little while...



    PS... I had had a couple myself last night before I posted as well... Thank goodness there's not a breathalyzer on my Ipad...lol!

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

    Seaside- thank you and you are 100% correct on everything.  You are one smart lady.  I sulked for half the day and rallied around 1 and as you put it-got back to business.

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

    I seem to have stockpiled many ingredients in the fridge and figured that today I'd cook up some of them so we'll have some meals ready for this week when we have some construction happening in our kitchen. So,if it is a mess, we are all set for meals. I made a chicken and white bean chili which was nice and spicy. We just ate it in the family room as we watch the Patriots game....good indoor tailgating dish! ;) Also made a beef stew that included typical veggies as well as butternut squash and spices like cumin and cinnamon. I'm letting that cook a long time..."slow cooker on the range" motif.

    I hardly ever make beef stews.



    Last evening when we ate at a tapas restaurant, one of the many tasty little selections was a dish of scallops in saffron sauce. Oh my....yum! I googled it and found a recipe that looked close to what we had..It would really be a nice meal to serve guests.



    I enjoy Middle Eastern food also, and will miss Apple's chat and stories about her experiences with her grocer and her recipes. There was something just so authentic, open, and creative about Apple! The piano tape is hauntingly beautiful.....



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  • InspiredbyDolce
    InspiredbyDolce Member Posts: 1,181
    edited January 2013

    Hi - I love all the suggestions.  This might end up being a $30 soup.  LOL

    Why is this post page showing this in landscape view instead of portrait view?  This is driving me batty!

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  • eric95us
    eric95us Member Posts: 2,845
    edited January 2013

    My screen display of the thread was messed up this morning, then it got better and now is messed up again.  It looks fine when everything is presented to my Android phone. 

    I haven't done an all vegetable soup before. 

    I usually start the soups with some sort of "de-fatted" soup stock...I will boil chicken, turkey or (toasted) beef bones, run it trhrough a strainer, and then let the stock cool so I can skim off the fat.  I heat the stock back up and then add in whatever I happen to have in the fridge...leeks, carrots, celery, garlic chives from the pot outside, some rosemary also from an outside plant.  Spices are usually salt, pepper, thyme, fresh basil if I have it (or from the jar if that's all I have).  If the hot pepper plants have anything on them, I'll add a minced serrano (just one) pepper for a bit of "tang".  A few hours at a very low simmer in a covered pot

    The amounts change based on what I have and my mood.  The dried stuff is usually a 1/2 teaspoon, the fresh spices (rosemary, basil, garlic chives) are in the "couple of tablespoon" amounts, (more f I don't taste it) and the carrots and celery is dependent on whether I want it "thick/stew like or thin".

    My dad, when he was alive, was on a very salt restricted diet, so it would be zero salt and everyone else could add in what they wanted.  Over the years, everyone went from adding a teaspoon or more of salt to a bowl of soup (so it's as salty as the canned soups) to virtually no salt at all.

    One thing that I may try the next time I make some soup (happen to have last night's chicken bones in the freezer) is some fresh cilantro.

    As for dinner tonight, the kibbeh (middle eastern lamb meatloaf) was awesome.  It's another, "type it up and make it again" recipe.  I was amazed at how well it swallowed up the onion.  3 of them in a "serves 4" recipe and the onion wasn't over powering.  I'll post the recipe later.

    Eric

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  • SeasideMemories
    SeasideMemories Member Posts: 3,194
    edited January 2013

    Has anyone contacted the mods about the sudden, weird layout here? As far as I've seen the only thread that's out of whck is this one.... If no one has, I will do it....

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

    60 degrees today and I  finally found my grill!! Yahoo took advantage and did some steaks for dinner and some chicken breast for later in the week.  Marinated the chicken with lots of fresh lemons...very lemony chicken. Made some scalloped potatos with sauteed bits of bacon and carmelized onions all in the skillet on top of the stove, used the little yukon gold baby potatos, came out yummy. Also made a pasta salad with stuff from the olive bar at the grocery store (just because it looked so darn good) Got the greek olives, marinated artichokes and marinated sun dried tomatos, all I had to do when I got home was add some tri-colored pasta. cubed cheese and oil and vinegar with some spices.

    Ok really overextended myself in one day with the cooking....I think I'm done now for a couple of days.

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  • debbie6122
    debbie6122 Member Posts: 5,161
    edited January 2013

    Havt had time to read the post just got back from laying out in the sun and getting ready to go to dinner in the way up to the room I bought a lei and tomorrow morning I will put it in the ocean and say a prayer for Apple. Hope every one is feeling better And hope Michelle is having a great time in her trip. Can you believe a Bloody Mary is 10 bucks here ? Gresham gonna have to switch to beer. Lol

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