So...whats for dinner?

1…413414416418419…1391

Comments

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

    And you can camp in your own trailer in Disney World's Wilderness Campground. 

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Laurie08
    Laurie08 Member Posts: 2,891
    edited February 2013

    Special K- My thoughts exactly!  My 5 year old does not really agree.  He thinks our camper is great, we don't need a new one and he wants to go on a plane :/

    Michelle- We talked about that too!  When they are older, we could camp our way down to Florida, camp at Disney and camp our way back!  The one we are looking at has a slide out and a queen bed instead of a full.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • SpecialK
    SpecialK Member Posts: 16,486
    edited February 2013

    laurie - pretty savvy 5 year old, lol!

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Tazzy
    Tazzy Member Posts: 2,546
    edited February 2013

    Good luck with the camper Laurie... DH & I are looking for our first one also.  

    Stuffed peppers and green salad for dinner.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • auntienance
    auntienance Member Posts: 4,216
    edited February 2013

    Comfort food tonight. Chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes and cream gravy, buttered corn.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Lacey12
    Lacey12 Member Posts: 2,951
    edited February 2013

    (((((Debbie))))) Holding you in my thoughts.



    Hope the purchase works out, Laurie. Good timing to get a deal...and after hearing how well you guys did with the car purchase, I bet it will work well. Imagine the fun planning you will be doing once you get it!



    Had a quickly made greek salad topped with chicken for dinner, along with hummus and pita bread. It hit the spot. We went to an early movie right after dinner to see Silver Lining Playbook. I thought I would like it better than I did....after hearing so much hype about it. I expected everyone to have more authentic Philly accents (which I always notice when I go to my hometown) than they did, especially Bob DeNiro, who I heard was coached in that department. And as a clinician, I am probably a pretty bad critic about how mental illness is portrayed in films, so I should reserve judgement, I 'spose.



    Came across my mother's old spaghetti sauce recipe today and made it to use in the roasted veggie lasagna that I will make and bring to a "winter blahs" party (take note, the blahs in this region have very little to do with winter, and more to do with the Pat's loss to the Ravens;). I do hope we get to do a Super Bowl squares sheet! :) My only connection to either team is that the ex-player who is with Jessica Simpson and played for the 49ers, used to play sports with my sons through high school here. That's a stretch of a connection....maybe a rationalization for rooting against the Ravens. Glad I'm not the parents of the coaches! That must really be hard. How about Beyonce's response to the media yesterday.... Touche!

    Carole, you must be seeing a lot of action in your neck of the woods!

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • LeeA
    LeeA Member Posts: 1,660
    edited February 2013

    I have to avoid this thread for a certain number of days following chemo.  

    That said, I just now opened it up for the first time in about a week and I am so, so sorry to read the news about your sister, Debbie.  My thoughts and prayers are with you and the rest of your family.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • LeeA
    LeeA Member Posts: 1,660
    edited February 2013

    Michelle, Kauai sounds 1000% better than Hilton Head.  Granted, I've never been to Hilton Head so there's that - but when it comes to Kauai,  there's not a day that goes by that my mind isn't there on Tunnels Beach.  

    When we were there in September I read about a restaurant that's supposed to be really good for breakfast.  It's in Kapaa and we plan on trying it on our next trip.  

    It's called Art Cafe Hemingway in case you're interested.  Here's a Yelp link: 

    http://www.yelp.com/biz/art-café-hemingway-kapaa-2

    I'm going to be checking this thread all the time to see if you're posting from there (and posting photos!).  

    --

    Minus, we rent a house in Haena and if you don't mind sharing, I would love to know which restaurant you recommend.  

    The last time we were there we had three meals (we got in a rut!) at the only sit-down restaurant in Haena - The Mediterranean Gourmet http://www.kauaimedgourmet.com/  The view is beautiful and I thought the food was delicious.  I loved their Mediterranean Flat Bread (from their menu: flat bread toasted with organic pesto, feta cheese, and pine nuts. topped with local organic arugula) and  Fattoush salad.  

    ---

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • QueenKong
    QueenKong Member Posts: 154
    edited February 2013

    Camper sounds great, all those camping recipes! so much fun. Teach the kids to cook for you. Don't forget the lounge chair.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • carberry
    carberry Member Posts: 1,153
    edited February 2013

    Laurie Good luck with the camper, I think you made the right choice. We camped with the kids while they were young and have the best memories of those trips. We also took the camper south, florida, South Carolina, virginia.  Myrtle Beach was our favorite (Pirateland) was a campground right on the beach, you just walked outta your camper door and you were on the beach. Saves on a lot of meals when feeding a family.

    Going out for dinner tonight, but tomorrow me and my girlfriends will be cooking up apps for the super bowl game. lots of diff variations of chicken wing stuff, like nachos and dip, she is the cooking queen and I will just follow her lead. I am in charge of the wing sauce though.

    Apparently the groundhog did not see his shadow?  An early spring?

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • carolehalston
    carolehalston Member Posts: 6,887
    edited February 2013

    Thinking of you, Debbie, as you grieve for your beloved sister. 

    LeeA, the flat bread with pesto sounds so good.   

    Laurie, it's amazing how much space you gain with a slide in a camper.  Our first two campers, tagalongs, did not have slides.  Our third, a 5th wheel, had one large slide.  Our current 5th wheel has 3 slides.  Once we're set up, our camper is like a little home.  But it takes a 1-ton truck to tow it.  And before reserving a site in an rv park, we have to make sure the park or campground accommodates big rigs.  Personally I think a little smaller is better because a lot of the older state parks weren't laid out for big rigs.

    We went to the Krewe of Eve mardi gras parade last night with another couple.  The floats were really pretty and the queen and maids had lovely white costumes.  We caught our share of gaudy beads and afterwards escaped the crowds to have dinner in another town.  I had the best grilled oysters I've ever eaten.  They were served on the half shells with spinach, parmesan cheese and butter and buttered French bread on the side.  The dish was actually an appetizer but there were six oysters so I had it as my entre with a salad. 

    Tonight's dinner is one of my favorites.  Whatever our friends serve us at their home!  I do know Julie is making a lemon meringue pie for dessert.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • carberry
    carberry Member Posts: 1,153
    edited February 2013

    Carole  I am living through you....you guys have the best food in NOLA  Yum on the grilled oysters. that my favorite dish too (anything that someone else has cooked)

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited February 2013

    Lacey:  How was your Mom's old spaghetti sauce recipe?  Are you willing to share?

    LeeA:  I'll have to dig out the file from my last HI trip & will forward the restaurant name up by Princeville if I can find it.

    Carole:  I've been watching the oyster comments on the other thread.  I looked up the Oysters Mosca recipe & was drooling.  I have to admit I'm not a raw fan even though I've lived in Houston for 40 yrs now.  My Mother always served smoked oysters on crackers for special parties.  I still consider that one of my favorite "dinners".  Of maybe a big bowl of popcorn?  

    The sun's out here & we're at 76 degrees today.  Sending warm thoughts to those who are cold.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • auntienance
    auntienance Member Posts: 4,216
    edited February 2013

    Carole, your oysters sound outstanding! I'm heading to the gulf coast in a couple of weeks and I'm already salivating at the thought of fresh seafood!

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Lacey12
    Lacey12 Member Posts: 2,951
    edited February 2013

    Minus, the sauce brought me back to Mele's (Amelia's) kitchen! It was always interesting to me that all of her seven Italian sisters (the three brothers never cooked!) had their very distinct spaghetti sauce recipes. Growing up, I could almost tell with my eyes closed whose house I was in by which spaghetti sauce was served. :) Knowing she would be happy to share the info on this little food-stained card, Mele's recipe was like this:

    1 large can of tomato puree (I didn't have any yesterday so used plum tomatoes in juice added to the blender)

    1 large onion

    1 small carrot

    1 stalk celery (not in my kitchen since I'm allergic:)

    1 clove garlic

    1/2 fresh green pepper

    2 large bay leaves

    1 Teaspoon sugar (cuts the acid in the tomatoes)

    Salt and pepper to taste



    Place puree in a large pot. Fill empty puree can about 1/4 full of water, getting the remaining puree out by stirring the water. Pour that into a blender. Clean and cut up the vegetables, and add to blender. After blended, add that mix to the pot. Add the bay leaves, sugar, salt and pepper. Mele also put a teaspoon of fennel seeds in a metal tea bag, and hung that in the sauce, which to me, was her signature flavor. You can certainly add other spices to your liking, like basil, parsley. Bring to boil and reduce heat to simmer. After an hour or so, she would add cooked meatballs or cooked sausage (some people add raw meatballs...learned that from a friend's Italian mom; they just end up a little softer). I put a bit of olive oil in mine, since I don't often add meat to it. If you want meatless, just let it simmer by itself on low for several hours, stirring occasionally. Tho I have to say....her sauce with meatballs on a plateful of spaghetti was a very happy eating experience! :)

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Kay_G
    Kay_G Member Posts: 3,345
    edited February 2013

    Debbie, thinking of you. ((((( hugs)))))



    I have a few blocks for the Super Bowl, Lacey! I love that. We do it at work. We do it a little differently, every time the score changes the person with that block wins $20. The person with the ending score wins the rest of the money. It's $5 per block, so total payout is $500. I am feeling lucky!



    The camper sounds great Laurie. Hope it all works out. I also think you're making the best choice. Your 5 yo will come around when he camps in the more spacious camper.



    I also envy your food choices in NOLA, Carole. i am dying to try an oyster po' boy.



    Just had an omelet for dinner tonight. Making a chicken chili recipe on the whole foods website for the Super Bowl tomorrow. Wish DH wasn't working all weekend :(

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Lacey12
    Lacey12 Member Posts: 2,951
    edited February 2013

    Good luck Kay!

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • LuvRVing
    LuvRVing Member Posts: 4,516
    edited February 2013

    Lee - this is the view we got from the Mediterranean Gourmet when we were there in June 2010.  We were bemoaning the fact that we were missing the sunset from the St. Regis until it started raining and we got this beautiful rainbow.  Everyone ran outside to take pictures!

    Haven't tried the Hemingway cafe but will seek it out. 

    You'll get pictures, I promise!!!

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • LeeA
    LeeA Member Posts: 1,660
    edited February 2013

    Michelle, that's beautiful!  I just sent a link to your post to my husband.  We're going back in September but we may add in another trip before then.  We are addicted - plus we have some Hawaiian Air miles we can use toward part of the airfare. 

    When we were there in 2011 we stayed at Pali Ke Kua - which is close to the St. Regis.  This is the view from the balcony of the unit we stayed in (zoomed in as much as possible): 

    This is the same view from the beach in front of the house we rented on Haena Point/Tunnels beach in September.

    I can't wait to live vicariously through you when you get there!




    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • deborye
    deborye Member Posts: 7,002
    edited February 2013

    Michelle~~~I'm excited for you.

    Laurie~~~I love camping, never had a trailor but my parents had a motor home,  I went with them to NY for the Hot Air Balloon festival a few times.  We did a lot of tent/tent trailor camping.

    Hope everyone that has the flu or whatever it is has a speedy recovery.

    (((HUGS)))

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • eric95us
    eric95us Member Posts: 2,845
    edited February 2013

    LeeA and Michelle, those are some awesome pictures.

    I haven't posted much the past couple of weeks.  THe past couple of weeks have been crazy at work and then last Saturday and Sunday and this Saturday I was, from 8am to 5pm, taking a training class for job #3.

    I'm hoping that I can help dig out from the housework, get over to mom's house, take care of her stuff and then bring her over her and cook some dinner for everyone.....

    Cooking is my relaxing time..and unfortunately, it's the first thing to go when I get busy......

    Laurie, I hope your camper purchase works out for you.  They are lots of fun.  Chrissy remembers our tent trailer trips and is always ready to go on another one.

    Off to the housework.  The dogs are blowing their coats and it's looking like snow drifts along the sides of the hallway....even through I swept last night!

    Eric

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Lacey12
    Lacey12 Member Posts: 2,951
    edited February 2013

    Eric, hope things calm down for you....Got a kick out of your "snowdrift" description of the dog fur. Must have been for us northerners.....we used to call it " tumbleweed" when it got plentiful which feels more desert-like....tho maybe your dog is white.....my sister's was a golden ;)



    Just made three roasted vegetable lasagnas ....two for the gathering we are heading to and one for us....I ended up having a lot of ingredients....and worked it out to three casseroles full, and just a few leftover roasted eggplant, peppers, tomatoes to make DH a real yummy sandwich tomorrow.



    Enjoy the evening everyone!

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • annemarieh
    annemarieh Member Posts: 140
    edited February 2013

    Michelle, and LeeA!! Wow...So beautiful. Love it!! Keep posting pics! (as DH and I cant afford to go)!! But camping is awsome! Laurie, good luck with the camper! Those are some of my best memories...camping with the family!! (love your posts', and your DS' comments) LOL!! SO FUNNY

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • carolehalston
    carolehalston Member Posts: 6,887
    edited February 2013

    Beautiful pictures, Michelle and LeeA. 

    Lacey, with all that cooking energy since your retirement, you may have to start a catering business! 

    Eric, I hope life slows down a little for you, enough that you can get in some cooking time. 

    Debbie, caring thoughts sent out to you.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Laurie08
    Laurie08 Member Posts: 2,891
    edited February 2013

    the camper was a GO!  It is in new condition, incredibly clean and well maintained.  We purchased it for 5K below blue book value and brought it home today.  It is heads and tails nicer than our previous camper.  The 12 foot super slide makes all the difference.  We are very excited and can't wait to start booking our trips for this summer!

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Kaara
    Kaara Member Posts: 3,647
    edited February 2013

    Hi Ladies:  It's been a long time since I've been on the site so will have a lot of catching up to do.  

    Laurie:  Your camper sounds like fun...we did a lot of camping when my kids were young...now my idea of camping is the Holiday Inn;)

    I've been cooking a lot lately but not my usual healthy fare....new guy....new food choices, but I'm slowly getting him into healthy eating...LOL!  Last night we went with some friends to a Mediterranean restaurant in Greenville and had one of those sample platters with many things to taste...it was great...my favorite was the rack of lamb with yellow rice and cranberries...delicious!  I think I can make the dish at home with skewered veggies to go along.  Tonight I made meatballs in sauce that was served over rice...quick and easy for the Super Bowl game.

    Headed to Florida on Tuesday after a month in S. Carolina enjoying cooler weather.  It's time for some warm weather and beach time!  My new friend is looking forward to meeting my family...hope he survives..LOL!

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • bedo
    bedo Member Posts: 1,866
    edited February 2013

    LeeA and Michelle Those pics took my breath away!

    Laurie so good on the camper....

    Speaking of life recipes ....

    I have found myself having to let some friendships go

    One, life revolves around money

    Two revolves around looks and money

    Three life revolves around pretty trivial "health" problems

    My two best friends are not typically beauties (although I think so)

    But they are there for me.  And they say they love me.  That's a lot, when a friend says that before hanging up the phone. 

    Most of all I believe in them and trust them.

    I seem to be cutting a lot people from my life that don't meet the criteria of true friendship

    It is somewhat lonely, although I am basically a hermit anyway

    Speaking of hermit crabs, I'm not having crab tonight, but

    Herring in wine sauce out of a jar with crackers

    I hope that everyone had a really nice weekend.

    Debbie I am thinking of you

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • luvmygoats
    luvmygoats Member Posts: 2,942
    edited February 2013

    Bedo - We are having unhealthy Shake N Bake (sort of, a knock off) and Birdseye Steam Fresh corn something, DH's choice.  Quick and easy. Had earlier verrryyy unhealthy Key Lime Pie Martinis. I rarely have any alcohol but these sounded good and were good. DH has his Corona beer, I have a rare glass of wine.

    I have not had herring of any kind. But I seem to have 5-6 cans of sardines that I guess I'm going to have to eat up. Sure that I bought them for their calcium content. Dog would help me but seems to barf with anything but her dog food and even then sometimes only with that. I think lunch tomorrow wiil be crackers and sardines.

    I, too, am pretty much a hermit. Have church friends but no close friends.  Friends in the big city we see every 2-3 months for dinner but no one I would really call to confide in.  But one of those city friends had BC about a year and a half before me so I could and did call on her.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • LeeA
    LeeA Member Posts: 1,660
    edited February 2013

    I referred to myself as a hermit on the January chemo thread just a few days ago.  On the other hand, cancer sure gets me out of the house...I've felt "busy" since I was diagnosed.  I've never had any girlfriends, per se, since moving to California; however, I've met one of the BCO members and she is great.  We've been to lunch twice and she has definitely been one of my rocks through this. 

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • eric95us
    eric95us Member Posts: 2,845
    edited February 2013

    Awesome news on the camper.

    I've always called the dog hair along the sides of the hallway "snow drifts".  We have a black dog that looks like a border collie with a retriever face, a probable yellow lab and a huge Maine Coon cat  The hair on the floor ends up a gray color.

    I didn't get to cook today. I got done with the chores around the house and went over to my mom's and did chores there.  DD went to a Super Bowl party the church youth group put on and Sharon wasn't hungry.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Categories