So...whats for dinner?

Oh please do Susan!

DH requested pasta for tonight's dinner.  So we'll have Dreamfield's linguini with Sal & Judy's Heart Healthy spaghetti sauce with some Italian sausage added.  (To prevent it from being too healthy?)  Grated parm-reg.  Tossed salad with lemon juice for my dressing.  I'm drawing heavily on exercise points for today's WW allotment.

Making a big pot of broccoli cheese soup, America's Test Kitchen recipe.  Soup weather will soon be over.

carole, I made that soup too, a month or so ago. What did you think of it? *susan*

I am banking on this post making it through...my last two self-destructed....Ipad be damned!



Susan, good to hear from you.....Lovely photos...and impressed that "the kid" could make that cake.....genetic pre-disposition obviously.



Laurie, you just never stop having raucous fun up there!! Boys! Hope you can continue to keep that illness at bay.



Carrie....your steak sandwiches sounded so yummy. I could really go for something like that right now!

Skipping dinner since I had a friend over for a late lunch...made a mushroom, spinach, onion, and roasted tomato quiche, served with arugula, cranberry, walnut salad...and the parsnip cake for dessert....sort of a cross between a spice cake and carrot cake. I really enjoyed the ginger cream cheese icing on it. Since DH had a late afternoon meeting,(which will morph into dinner) I figured I could skip eating after so much lunch (except for the chocolate I am now munching on with green tea...the tea erases the chocolate, right?).



Special, I loved your luncheon menu! I actually wrote you that two days ago but it evaporated.



Nance, my friend who was here today makes pasta using her cuisinart for it....are you more authentic in your floury approach? Your meals since you've returned home sound wonderful. I was also going to steer you to Penzeys for the fenugreek.....before learning about your need for immediate gratification. Eager to hear about how that turns out....



I am submitting this before it goes the way of my other recent posts......

Susan, I like the soup.  This is the 2nd time I've made it. 

OOOH - Nancy - I will have to read thru the Penzey's online recipes.  They sound good what I glanced thru.  I'd be sunk if I ordered the catalog.  Used to get King Arthur Flour (back in the day b4 much online) and probably good I don't get it any longer.  You'd of thunk that the essential chili store Pendery's here in Ft. Worth would have some good online recipes.  NOOO.  Had to basically make up my own.  Never used a recipe using fenugreek.  I wouldn't know where to find it locally except at Pendery's or maybe Central Market.  Hope your stew turns out to be everything you are anticipating it to be.  I think I found a Penzeys in Arlington.  Not close but closer than Dallas or Houston.  May need a roadtrip with DD soon.

Susan - the pictures are lovely.

Special K - You win the award for energizer bunny this week.  WOW!

Laurie - Glad you're winning the battle of the cold.  Mine is slowly fading into the sunset.

Tonight will be leftover enchiladas whenever DH gets home (off work about 9P) and some salad for me.  I think DH thinks most anything green is a plot except for his belived brussel sprouts.  Yuck.  My lunch today was some goat cheese, 1/2 tomato (hard as a rock from Cent. Mkt) and some multigrain crackers.

Carole - You're right about soup weather though I have been known to cook bean soup in the summer esp. since I can make sev. meals of it.

I have to spend time tomorrow cleaning goat barn.  One set of mom/babies going to outside pen tomorrow for the day.

Morning everyone!  Haven't been on in a while and this thread moves so quickly it's hard to keep up...I'll have to go backward and read when I have time!  Hope everyone is doing well and looking forward to Spring!

I don't know how I did it, but I managed to dodge the stomach flu that my BF brought down from SC!  He was sick as a dog when he arrived and I took care of him...thought I would be next, but it's been a week and nothing, so guess I'm safe.

We went out to Grande Luxe Cafe yesterday and had a nice lunch, so dinner last night was just snacks and a bad movie....The Master....don't bother unless you need to fall asleep...lol!

Tonight he has requested pasta with sauce...now that's easy!  He likes everything I cook, which makes me wonder what he was getting before...lol!

laurie - on man, I remember those days!  My children are 18 months apart - like a bad set of twins!  Sounds like you were busy but also had fun, and now I want a cookie!  It is funny - my kids are in their 20's now and I long for the days when their problems were small and life was fairly uncomplicated, and I always knew where they were! 

kaara - I feel ya on the illness dodging - DD had to go to the urgent care on Sun. with acute bronchitis, she was actually gasping for air when she coughed and had a 103 temp.  I stayed in her room with her because she was scared - I can't believe I did not get sick!  I have been doing laundry and washing my hands, sterilizing all the telephones and common surfaces in the house like I'm possessed!

This is my last week of being able to eat "fattening" food without gaining much weight [compared to my normal look at food and gain.] I am using these last few days to eat some things that will be off the list soon. Tonight was a grllled burger on homemade rolls, a vinegar-based cole slaw and onion rings. Little skinny onion rings. Yum! Will have to eat more carefully tomorrow though.

*susan*

I want to eat Carole's soup at the table at *Susan*'s  kid's house and I'll have whatever you're having for wine laurie.

Then I want to go to the Luvmygoat's goat barn.

I am at my wit's end with this innocent faced monster. Chew! Chew! Chase the cats! Run in circles! Beg! Rip up my new dog coat! Grab underwear, run away!! Oh, Oh gotta go outside Now! we're going for a walk, hopefully that will wear her out. She weighs about 5 pounds. chahuahua+ traveling salesman

Can't do it! Oh well, I guess she'll have to be my new picture avatar, that I can do!

Mussles again for dinner!  PS Carole, where can  I find that soup recipe?

Michelle, glad Texas road house did the trick and your appetite is back!

Hello everyone else!  Still on Vacation ( at home) Whoo hoo! sleep-eat-read repeat.

 

auntie - check this recipe:

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/tyler-florence/tempura-battered-onion-rings-recipe/index.html

Wow, everyones cooking up a storm it all sounds so yummy. And all you southerners, boo to you. It was up to 40 degrees this week, then back down to 12 like normal. It's cold. Anyone get to see the comet? Too much cloud cover here.

Supper yonight eas one of the freezer meals. Smoked mozzarella and tomato chicken and pasta. I thawed out the seasoned chicken, sauteed it, added in the cooked pasta and, supper. And it was really good. So far, the only one I didn't like was the hamburger. That was too salty. So next time ill cut it back. I will try to make the crockpot meal this weekend, when my husband is home to help eat it. The pasta meal was enough for at least two hungry people, and that was only half the normal recipe.

Felt a bit upset, I needed to Ho for a.blood test and port flush. Turned out.I needed magnesium again. Sigh. Oh well. At least that's all i needed. To everyone, much love.

I don't know if I posted the "rice bowl" that DD **LOVES**.  If not, I'll post it.  It has a fair amount of olive oil in it so the rice is stickey enough for chop sticks...and there's a fair amount of rice vinegar in it, so it's got some tang to it.  I'm still amazed that 2 onions can go into it and it not have a strong onion flavor.

Susan, what kind of cake is that?  It looks great. I've not made a cake (other than cheese cake) before and it's something I'd like to try. 

Did I miss the Ethiopian recipe?  Before it got so busy around here, I had been working on some (inspired by Apple) Middle Eastern recipes that are turning out pretty well.  Now that things are settling down, I'm going to start back up on them...they have some very interesting flavors.

A couple of weeks ago, I discovered that there is a Penzey's store about a mile from a REI and an all organic food co-op--which are all about 15 miles from the house.  Looked at kyaks, bought a pair of trail running shoes in my size (size 14 EEEE), spices and a bunch of chicken and lamb...all in all a good day! :-)

My 95 year old mom is going to need her deep brain stimulator battery pack/pulse generators replaced.  it's a 45 minute out patient surgery to do that, but I'm sure they are going to be extra cautious and do lots of tests to make sure that everything will be OK.  She has what is called essential tremor and the implants are absolutely amazing.  The first time they turned them on and mom's hands stopped shaking, she had tears of joy....

Eric

Bedo, I bet you would like the website justbento. Lots of lovely lunches. Cute too. Also lots of links to more. Interesting concept for better eating.