So...whats for dinner?

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

    Bacon, asparagus and onion quiche tonight and more salad. Went out for breakfast buffet at a local restaurant today - carb overload! Lunch was just half a cheese sandwich with celery sticks.



    As a snack this afternoon, I had a container of Greek yogurt. This is the first time I've tried it and wow, I'm sold! I usually make my own yogurt and have never tried it with Greek starter. Does it come out as creamy? I didn't realize it had twice as much protein as regular yogurt. How did I miss all this?



    I cooked the corned beef today and will finish the vegetables in the cooking stock tomorrow. I'm also making dark chocolate Irish whiskey tarts for dessert, some Irish soda bread and a cottage pie for DH, who cannot stand corned beef. Fortunately we have friends who come and enjoy the boiled dinner with me every year.



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

    I have practically lived on Fage Greek yogurt - 0% fat - since starting on chemo.  23 grams of protein per cup.  The large container is about 96 grams of protein.  I mix it with about 2 or 3 ounces of Trader Joe's fresh-squeezed orange juice.  I hope I haven't killed it for post-chemo enjoyment (I started eating it when we did the 17 Day Diet a couple of years ago). 

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    Michelle, so, so happy to hear the news regarding your counts!!

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    susan, wishing you well as you deal with Graves disease. 

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    moonflwr, I grew up in a suburb of Chicago and every single summer we went to Wisconsin on vacation as soon as school got out (my dad was a high school teacher/coach).  I sure do miss all those fish fry dinners up there!  There used to be Friday night fish frys in the suburbs as well way back then.  Not sure if that's still the case but have never seen one out here.  Our destination back then was Birchwood - not far from Rice Lake.  Seems like such a long time ago and it was!  There was a little restaurant in Birchwood that had the best American fried breakfast potatoes.  My mouth waters just thinking about them!  

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

    Rebekah & Nick skiing in Canada, Revelstoke.

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

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

    Nance, you are one busy cooking bee! What is cottage pie? Sounds like you have a wonderful St. Paddy's Day dinner prepared. I think that soon we will no longer see regular yogurt since the Greek style seems to have taken off in the past year or so...and taken over the store shelves. It is quite good, and I love getting the extra protein when I eat it...tho that is more rare since my smoothie regimen.



    I went to Panera to meet a work friend for lunch (where we spent three and a half hours catching up....thank you Panera!), and had their special spinach salad. It was tasty, but they do manage to make it calorieful with not only bacon and hard boiled eggs, but a sweet dressing and some crunchy fried things that I just knew were not good for me.....oh well! I did excercise before I went there after having my junk fest last night.



    So DH just called to let me know that he and DS2 are well on their way home from NY, replete with a pizza from Brooklyn to share with me. Very exciting! Tho by the time they get home, we may need to eat it for breakfast. DH also had to have the guy throw in a few potato knishes (why they were being sold at the pizza joint I don't know ;) for good measure. He is such a New Yorker at heart!

    So I can hardly wait to have some authentic Brooklyn pizza....even if it is in the AM!

    Believe it or not, that has been on my bucket list, which I suppose counts if I eat it in MA. :)



    Meanwhile, I brought my sewing machine down to the dining room where I have all my sewing projects stacked up, and have been chipping away at the taggies I promised people....lots of local sports team themes. Hope to have the Red Sox ones done and delivered by opening day! I have been so unproductive this year.....

    Have a good night all...

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

    Sharon doesn't like the corned beef, so I'm going to try a coddle from....I'm not sure where..... I don't recognize the hand writing....

    It looks like a perfect job for the dutch oven or deep skillet with a well fitted lid. :-)

    1/2 stick butter

    2 sliced onions

    4 thick pieces bacon or a slice of ham cut into squares

    1 pound sausage, sliced.

    4 very large potatoes sliced--leave skins on.

    Salt

    Pepper

    2 cups meat stock and then "vegetable, beef, pork or chicken" in yet another handwriting.  so I guess it may not matter...

    Heat butter in large pan.  Add onions and cook about 5 minutes.  Add bacon (or ham) and sausage and stir.

    In a pot, layer meat-onion mixture, then potatoes, salt and pepper and repeat until all used up.  The top layer should be potatoes.

    Add almost all of the 2 cups of stock, cover and bake at medium (note says 350) for 1-1/2 hours.  Check at 1/2 way time--if looks dry, add more stock.

    Edited to add.....serve with a good stout... :-)

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

    Lacey, cottage pie is shepherd's pie made with beef instead of lamb, although I think the name shepherds pie is used often for one made with any kind of meat.



    New York pizza sounds fantastic.

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

    Sitting here sated after the Brooklyn pizza. Begs the question, why can we not experience this in Boston??!! It was just so perfect. Fortunately DS2 stayed to enjoy it with us so DH and I ate less than we might have otherwise. :)

    DH did put his knishes in the fridge for tomorrow....will enjoy his Jewish roots on St. Paddy's Day!

    DS2 left for home knowing he'd never find a parking spot close to his Southie condo tonight, (his neighborhood is flooded with outsiders in for the parade tomorrow) and getting ready to run in a race tomorrow.

    I'm sorry that UMASS lost today, but so pleased that we got to enjoy Brooklyn pizza. Yummmmmm!

    While waiting for them/it, I finished two taggies. Yay!

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

    I was wondering what they called shepards pie with beef, thanks Auntienance! Nice to know. Lacey, Panera has good soups too. They manage to add enough sodium though! Eric, that coddle sounds great. And I hope all your cast iron stays seasoned well. I was going to buy a dutch oven enamel over cast iron, but I think I would have a very hard time lifting it when its full. I may end up investing in a grill griddle combo, I wouldn't have to move it, just flip it. Might work for me. LeeA, I AM in the burbs! LOL there are always fish fries all year round. Just during lent, all the churches offer them too. So you can enjoy them and feel good about where the money goes. I just can't have them every week or I'd just blow up. So good.

    Tonite I had another freezer meal, Italian marinated flank steak. It was one I didn't split, so we had leftovers even with my husband home. I fried up some potato with onion for a side. Added cabbage to the peppers and onion, for another side. It was very good. I am liking this! Still have 5 more meals to try. Plus the other half of the ones I tried already, except for the flank steak, LOL. Much love to all.

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

    A bunch of posts happened while I was posting.....

    Deb, it looks cold where they're at....

    Michelle, it was 89F degrees when I looked at the thermometer today.  It was absolutely wonderful outside.  It will still be worth bringing a light sweat shirt/sweater as it is cool at night and most places really like to show off their air conditioning...

    Nance...that's a good idea...soda bread.  I'll have to look into that.  I've got a bunch of bread baking books...I'm sure I can find something...

    Lacey...I didn't get Brooklyn pizza when I was back there "for" Sandy.  I had Manahttan and Long Island Pizza, but we didn't get into Brooklyn.  Sharon went to college in the Bronx, so she might have "strayed" over there to get it... I'll have to ask...

    Susan...enjoy being the object of a "fight" over who gets to show up when.. :-)  and enjoy the rice bowl....DD would eat that most nights if I would cook it.

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

    Thanks, Eric.  I've learned my lesson about packing sweaters and long pants to wear in the evening and in restaurants, even around here.  89 sounds fabulous!!!

    I'm going to have to find a place for corned beef and cabbage.  DH doesn't like cooked cabbage but I'm sure there's an Irish pub around somewhere.

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

    It has been a while, hello everyone! I am not sure how much I missed, but am did skim through to attempt to catch up.



    Michelle, hooray for gemzar! Hope you're enjoying your trip.



    Susan, I am sorry about the Graves' disease. I have not heard of it before. Hoping the surgery goes perfectly and you are feeling better after it.



    Lacey, I am craving Brooklyn pizza. Don't think I've ever experienced it. We don't have great pizza around here. The pizza down the shore, just 70 miles away is so much better. Some people tell me it's because the water is harder and that makes the crust bette. Bagels are good here, but some New Yorkers say they're better there.



    Making London broil today, garlic mashed potatoes, Brussel sprouts and a beet salad. Using the beef from my boss's neighbor. Has been marinating in emeril's recipe since last night. My in laws are coming, so it better be good. Will check in after. Take care everyone.

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

    Eric, there's not much to Irish soda bread, it's rather like a big biscuit.

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

    All the Irish dinners sound good.  My 6 ft. 5 in. "baby" brother's birthday is today.  I sent him a card but will also call today and sing a Happy Birthday duet with my mother after she and I go to church.  She's the oldest charter member of this Southern Baptist church out in the boonies (or what used to be the boonies) and she loves the attention she gets as I roll her into the church in her wheelchair. 

    All my birthday restaurant eating has sent my weight sky high and given me the "weight control religion."  Yesterday I had a cup of home-made broccoli soup for lunch and chicken salad about 4pm.  DH and I and another couple went to the Abita Opry and I had a bottle of water while the others had hot dogs and chili and chicken sausage gumbo from the concession stand.  I wasn't even tempted.  The Opry was really fun with four different music groups.  One group was jazz with some really good musicians from New Orleans and a woman singer.  Another group was a family who did gospel. 

    I'll wait until the end of the month to get my corned beef fix.  We plan to go to the Louisiana Derby at the NO Fairgrounds and the corned beef poboys there are famous among the race track crowd.  They cook the corned beef in their kitchen and pile it onto French bread.  All served on styrofoam plates!  You add your own mustard and relish or whatever.   Of course, you could have it served to you if you pay a little extra and go into the clubhouse but we go early and get great seats on the finish line in the grandstand, which is very nice.  Lots of beer available at the beer concessions but I'll probably skip those calories.

    We just got our first Panera and it's about 5 min. away but Panera could probably figure out a way to make the water and lemon high fat and high cal!  Their food is definitely tasty.  Great bread, and hence the name.

    Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

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

    Forgot to say that the Catholic churches in our area do the Friday fish frys during Lent, either dine in or pick up.  They do a good business.  As for fried fish poboys and dinners, they're available year round in the restaurants.

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

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

    Thanks for the Irish blessing post, Deb. Have a great St Patrick's Day!

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

    Michelle,

    My mind keeps coming back to you and lowering tumor markers. I just don't think I have the words to tell you how very happy I am for you. Hope that the markers [and tumor load] just keep going down, down, down.

    *susan*

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

    Thanks so much, Susan!  We are all ecstatic over the drop after almost a year of continuous rise.  I feel better, too.  Now I can hope for a nice, long ride on Gemzar.  It was so excellent to spread good  news for a change!

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

    Carole, I so admire your discipline in passing on those things that sabotage your weight loss efforts. I can't seem to say no to anything. When we were in Abita springs, DH bought a DVD of the abita opera. It looks like it should be great fun to see in person.



    Here's a little st. Patrick's day factoid for you. Panera began as St. Louis Bread Company (and retains that name in the st. Louis area) in a community about 3 miles from my house. I used to go there every Saturday morning and stand in line for their cinnamon and rye breads, still warm from the oven. They were extremely popular even then and grew rapidly. Their bear claws are still some of the best I've had.

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

    Top of the morning to everyone.

    Michelle, like Susan, I keep thinking about your tumor marker numbers..and when I do, I smile...

    Eric

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

    I really do love Panera. But you have to be careful. I like the roast beef sandwich and black bean soup. I get the sandwich without the sauce, as I hate mayo or anything like it. That particular 2fer is one of the "Eat this Not that" choices. So it isn't too bad. The only thing is with the soup they give you bread, but if you ask they can sub something. I just forget til its on my plate! Lol

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

    We were going to go out to eat at the Glenview Pub so I could have my corned beef dinner but when I called to ask about the menu they had a limited menu today and DH does not like corned beef dinners and they were not serving shrimp or anything he would like so I called Brickhouse and picked up a corned beef dinner there and then went to Fishbones and got DH Baked Stuffed Shrimp.  My dinner was OK but I prefer the red corned beef. In the past I would make it at home but I hate just cooking it for myself.

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

    Deb - we went to The Irish Cottage in Methuen.  They had a great corned beef dinner for just $10, plus the other dishes we had were excellent.  You might want to think about trying it.  They had a limited menu, too, but it was still pretty extensive.

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

    I had both dutch ovens going today. One for the coddle and for the soda bread.



    I took a look at the bacon and sausage and I decided to pre-cook them a bit to get rid of some of the fat. I'm glad I did. Had I not done that, the coddle would have been much too greasy.



    When I looked up Irish soda bread, I found it was the same as "my" southern biscuits except I didn't need a rolling pin nor the round cutter. Cake flour, baking powder, salt and enough buttermilk to make a very moist dough and knead it as little as possible.



    Everyone like it...so the experiment worked out pretty well.



    Eric

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

    I've seen soda bread cooked on a tv cooking show but have not made it myself.

    Not sure what dinner will be tonight but I have a box of really nice baby portabello mushrooms and am thinking I might make a WW recipe for Mushroom Risotta that is really good.  Have served it to guests and been asked for the recipe. 

    But...I also have a package of ground lamb in the freezer and shepherd's pie might be good.  Have all those ingredients on hand, too.

    Decisions, decisions.

    My WW meeting is this morning and then dh wants to drive over to Biloxi to a bike shop this afternoon.  He has been looking for a new bike for me.  Mine fell off the bike rack last summer and was damaged. 

    Michelle, I smile every time I think about your good results.  If anyone deserves a positive outcome, you do.  Smile

    Debbie, comforting hugs to you.

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

    The chocolate Irish whiskey souffle tarts were absolutely fabulous. I substituted Bailey's Irish cream for the whiskey though and that kind of upped the wow factor in my estimation.



    No clue about dinner. This always happens to me. When I plan a big meal for guests, once it's done and my mind is empty of all the little details, it takes it a while to get in gear again. Perhaps the minestrone I had intended to fix last week . . .

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

    Hubby is hoping for lasagna tonight.  I'm going to try and make a quickie version using canned sauce with some amendments.  It's an ambitious undertaking for me but I think I can do it.  Need to go to the grocery store to get the ingredients.

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

    Nance, I totally get how easy it is to have culinary "let down" after a successful marathon effort! Knowing your track record, you will at least have a wonderful minestrone tonight. :)



    So impressed, Michelle, that you are already making lasagna....amendments or not. You continue to be our heroine.....and I bet Rick is thrilled!



    Crazy day here....have a nasty URI (that's what I get for leaving my house to meet people for lunches and dinners so much last week!), but dragged myself to the cardiologist who was evaluating me after the chest pain issues, for a final appt. with her.....not so fast..... While she doesn't need to continue to see me, she did express concern about the calcifications present in my cardiac arteries, which while not problematic yet, could be in a few years unless I start a low dose of a statin and baby aspirin. I had been happy that I was one of the few people I know at 67 years who had yet to be prescribed a statin, especially since I already take celebrex and the hormone therapy....well, no more. Make some more space in that pill box! Jeeze! As she pointed out, my mother's family does (did) have cardiac issues, so this is just my insurance. I will get over myself, but another meds was just a surprise.....especially since I seem never to take any med without feeling side effects. Hope the statin is gentle. :)



    We have tickets to see the Celtics face (defeat?! ;) the Heat tonight, and I was so looking forward to it. Just feel too lousy to join the crowd, so DH is arranging for someone else to use the tickets. I think we'll order dinner in before I park myself under a quilt on the couch to watch it.



    DH just came in to let me know that his cousin emailed everyone to say that his wife is in her very last moments on the earth, (she has been on the end of life roller coaster for the past couple of weeks) and still trying to support all around her who are so distressed about losing her. A very strong, loving, woman who will be so missed.....a story too often repeated. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers. Thanks....

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

    Michelle- I hope your lasagna turns out awesome.  You are an inspiration to us all!  At least the storm will be here and gone for you to fly out on the 20th.  It will melt fast- I keep reminding myself of that.lol!

    Lacey- Yuck on the URI, I hope you feel better soon.  The cardiologist results are concerning, take care of yourself.  Prayers for your cousins wife.

    Everyone St Patrick's Day food sounds like it was yummy!  DH and I went on a pub crawl through a bunch of his accounts bars with two other couples while by dear brother watched the boys.  We had all sorts of different foods as the men were ordering for all of us!  I had corned beef nachos, Guinness french onion soup, buffalo chicken nachos, sesame chicken strips some Irish Whiskey beef stew and at one place they had soda bread!  I had never had it but had read about it in books etc and it was very good.  Everything actually was yummy.  It was a great time as we all piled in our mini van and rode together.  I had a cheese omelet for dinner that DH made.  I did not feel like cooking but needed something.  So I bribed him, if I gave the kids a bath and read them their book and got them in bed he would feed me.  He makes an awesome omelet.  God Bless him because when I came down stairs he had everything ready to go including a hot pan and whipped one up in no time for me.  It was delish.

    Tonight is meatloaf which I will make extra big so we have left overs for meatloaf sandwiches.  I was going to hit the grocery store today before the storm but went to the chiropractor first and could barely walk after the adjustment.  Not normal?  He said it was a big one and ice it it will get better.  I have iced it and it is better but the whole thing was weird.  I was actually nausea's after?

    My other fun thing from the weekend was DS1's soccer coach had something come up and asked me to coach his game on Saturday for her. (I worked with her for years back when I used to work.)  So I had a blast coaching the kids and afterward DH said he was impressed- he wasn't sure I could pull it off, he said I was a natural.  I said no- I am just a woman.  LOL!!!

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