So...whats for dinner?

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

    Yay Michelle!!!  Your news makes my day!  So happy for you and your family :D

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

    Special K - That sounds heavenly. I will have to look for premade crepes. Don't see it on my agenda and knowing me would never get around to doing it.  Thanks so much for sharing.

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

    Special K the recipe sounds yummy, but I agree.  I might need to find pre made crepes- sounds like something I would flub up.  Which reminds me, I want to try making egg rolls...I know they make those wraps pre made...

    So maybe DS2 yucky belly was car sickness?  He was not sick during the night last night as I feared (lots of nightmares but not sick.)  My belly is doing better today finally too.  I actually feel like cooking and making dinner.  But I am going to keep it simple since DH finished my bread crumbs last night for the chicken parm and just have cubed steak and mashed potatoes with gravy. 

    It is snowing here again, but not as cold.  They are only expecting around 4 inches.  Hopefully it's enough for the kids to slide on!

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

    Yay Michelle!

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

    Yaaaaaay Michelle!! That is GREAT news!



    SpecialK,



    Thanks for posting your recipe! I can't wait to try it.... One question, is the medium size ricotta the 15-oz size?



    Laurie,



    Glad it was just car sickness and that your stomach is starting to come around! We had a snow day here today. Started with snow, moved on to sleet and now freezing rain. Supposedly the temps are supposed to rise overnight and we'll eventually be getting rain! Basically a big ol' bucket of ugly! Blech!

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

    Wonderful news, Michelle. 

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

    Michelle - I'm so glad I looked at this thread today!  That's the greatest news!!!

    I've been kind of avoiding this thread because of the post-chemo days queasies and food talk but so glad I opened it to get that news (as well as your meat sauce recipe on page 351 and now SpecialK's recipe as well - but most importantly the receding mets news!!).

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

    Thanks everyone!  Needless to say we are all thrilled as this is the first good news since I was told I was NED in October 2011 then the Mets news the following May.  And I'm glad you all are enjoying my sauce recipe!  We had spaghetti tonight but it was Paul Newman's Cabernet Marinara sauce, DH added some ground beef and cooked the Dreamfields, and I ate a whole serving of it.  He was a happy man as my eating has been pretty skimpy.  He told me I can have chocolate ice cream for dessert...LOL!

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

    GEESH!! I can't keep up with you guys.

    Don't know where my Potato Leek Soup recipe went.

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

    I always make my own sauce and usually freeze it (this, since marrying my Italian husband back in the late nineties) but some of these sauces sound really good - i.e. the Paul Newman's Cabernet Marinara as well as the smooth one SpecialK mentioned.  I think I may try the Paul Newman's Cabernet Marinara with some penne.  

    Have any of you ever tried the little cubes of frozen spices from Trader Joe's?  I don't think I could cook without them - well, I could - but they sure do make cooking easier (at least for me).  They're in the frozen food section and the ones I use all the time are garlic, basil and now ginger.  I think they also have cilantro.

    Here's a link to what they look like.  The brand name is Dorot:

    http://www.notmartha.org/images/other/2012feb/dorot.jpg

      

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  • Kay_G
    Kay_G Member Posts: 3,345
    edited January 2013

    WOOHOO! Your news made my whole week Michelle! I am so happy for you.



    Deborey, no worries, I saved that potato leek soup recipe. I can't wait to try it.



    We had DH's chicken masala tonight. It was leftover from last week. Had it with a salad and some naan. I am not a big fan of leftovers either, but I think things that are in a lot of sauce (I.e. spaghetti sauce, soups) are actually better the second time.



    Deb, can't wait to hear how your dad liked all those things you made for him. Laurie, glad to hear all is improving in your house. LeeA, you are handling chemo extremely well. You'll be done before you know it.

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

    LeeA - Well another reason to return to Trader Joes. No, I haven't seen them but the ginger sounds interesting. TJs sent me their newsletter today - 5 nachos, 5 beer pairings. Do yah think SuperBowl is coming up????

    Enjoy the chocolate ice cream, Michelle. Great day!!

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

    Now I'm back at work, I just cant keep up with you guys.

    Michelle... that is the most excellent news - wonderful.

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

    Oh I forgot a funny story...yesterday my daughter and family came for dinner and she brought soup.  After dinner, she took down some storage containers including a small Corningware dish with a plastic cover to hold some of the soup.  Just one little problem...it wasn't empty!  Apparently when we came home from THANKSGIVING dinner, my son put away the leftovers brought home for him and he accidentally put the bowl with the cranberry sauce up in one of the cabinets.  I thought it odd, when I got home from Vegas, that the cranberry sauce wasn't in the fridge.  I didn't think he liked it, but then maybe he had changed his mind.  So that little dish had cranberry sauce in it for almost two months...LOL!  Good thing I wasn't the one who found it!!!  How on earth did it not reek???

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

    Yes, the medium container of ricotta is the 15 oz. one!

    Michelle - your story about the cranberry sauce is similar to something I did last week.  I bought 4 large skin on, bone in split chicken breasts and I planned to cook them to have chicken available for lunches.  Rubbed them with olive oil, sprinlked on S&P and put them in the oven, with the timer set.  Timer goes off and I decide that they need 10 more minutes but with the oven turned off, but I forget to set the timer.  I wander off, get involved in something and then GO TO BED!  I realized the chicken was still in the oven the next morning while on a walk with DH.  I was so sad... and I felt like an idiot!   

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

    Oh, Special, and Michelle those are both funny stories! I bet Laurie would really not like THOSE leftovers! I also left something in the oven some years ago...and because of that I now always re-set the timer so I won't do it again....because there is a really good chance of a repeat performance!



    Michelle, I can just feel your sense of relief with today's good news. It lit up our thread with such great energy! Neat! Enjoy that chocolate ice cream!



    LeeA, I have never noticed those frozen spices at Traders but need to go this week since today there was not a spot to be had in their parking lot, so I passed. Now I have a good reason to return! :) I'll be interested to see if those products made it to the East Coast stores. Thanks for the pic!

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

    You all make me laugh.  I just popped in before bed and got to read Special K and Michelle's stories of rotten left overs and enjoy Lacey's joke that made me laugh out loud!  Michelle- I can't believe your son put it IN the cabinet!!!

    Good night everyone and sweet dreams....also as my 3 year old would say....Happy Halloween. (I don't know why he says that?)

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  • Moonflwr912
    Moonflwr912 Member Posts: 6,856
    edited January 2013

    LOL. So funny on the food mishaps. You can add me. I left the stove.on for a couple.of hours on the itty bitty simmer burner. My DH came home after three hours, I told him the stuff was in the fridge. He took out the container put it on a burner and it started to melt. That's when he noticed the burner was on. Geeze I could have burned the house down. But the worst part. It was my new tupperware container I hadn't even had for a week that hot melted.....

    Michelle, I am so happy for you! Great news. Much love.

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

    Lacey, we have similar parking problems at most of our Trader Joe's out here. When I first moved here my husband would say "oh, we don't want to go there - it's too hard to park!" 

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited January 2013

    Michelle:  Wonderful, stunning news.  Minus

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

    Michelle- sitting in hotel watching tv and was catching up on post when I saw your news. I'm just so happy to hear those mets are shrinking couldn't of hoped for better news. Have a big, big bowl of ice cream !!

    Yay!!

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

    Deb- your soup is on page 421 I thought for a minute it disappeared when I copy and pasted it lol



    Will post more when I get back, can't keep up either :-)))"

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited January 2013

    OK - so how do you get to the pages mentioned?  421 is easy because it's close, but I sure don't want to page back to 351 one by one to get Michelle's pasta sauce.  As you can see, computers are not my area of expertise.  Thanks

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  • Kay_G
    Kay_G Member Posts: 3,345
    edited January 2013

    We have parking problems in Trader Joes here too.  We live in the county seat, and it has a little downtown section with restaurants and shops, and Trader Joe's is right in the middle of it.  Luckily it's only less than a mile from my house, so I usually take a walk unless I'll be getting too much stuff.  The parking is such a problem that one of Trader Joe's employees actually stands guard at the parking lot and asks you if you're going shopping at Trader Joe's before letting you in the parking lot on the weekends.  Crazy.

    I will have to look for those frozen spices too.  I never noticed them before, but then again I wasn't looking for them.

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

    My sister in law found a raw chicken leg in her flour container. We're still not sure how she did that.



    I burned the whole front of a microwave off. I was cooking a pot of hummingbird solution and thought I had turned the burner off. Turns out I had just turned it to simmer and went outside to putter around in the garden. When I returned, the pot was black and the front of the microwave dripped down onto the stove. Good thing my husband who was in the basement smelled something burning. I salvaged the pot but not the microwave.

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

    MinusTwo,



    You can get to the sauce recipe by doing a Search using Michelles Sauce as the Keyword and Laurie08 as the member name. You will get quite a few matches but the recipe is given in one of the two entries with the date Oct 18.



    Hope this helps! If not I or someone can copy it and repost it!

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

    Kay....

    Look at the URL of this page... it should be something like this: http://community.breastcancer.org/forum/7/topic/764271?page=423#idx_12677

    #idx is the post id, but see the page number????? So, no reason to "scroll." Just put in: http://community.breastcancer.org/forum/7/topic/764271?page=351.

    Fun with browsers!

    *susan*

    the site is being stupid. topic/764271?page=351. Just replace the page number in the URL and get rid of the post_id.

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

    Lol, Nancy on the chicken leg in the flour!!



    I know I've 'lost' many a measuring cup or spoon only to find it the next time I use the flour/sugar but never a chicken leg! That must have a real surprise when she found it...lol!



    Holy cow on the microwave! That must have been such a mess!





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

    Thanks for the tip Susan!! I didn't know you could that! Sure makes getting back to a page a heck of a lot easier! Guess I've learned my new thing for today....

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  • lexi4
    lexi4 Member Posts: 1,074
    edited January 2013

    Michelle,

    So thankful to see your good news!! Keep it up!! Shrinkage is GOOD!

    I have purchased premade crepes at Costco. They aren't as delicate as a homemade crepe, but good. I usually prepare them with some nutella, sliced strawberries, and sliced bananas inside. A little flourish with some sqeezed chocolate sauce and it looks like I worked pretty hard :)

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