So...whats for dinner?

All the mom's are still here. I invited my mother in law over for dinner, but she says she's not feeling well and is going to be busy tomorrow, so she won't be here.  My mom is more than happy to come over anytime.  So, it will be just Sharon and my mom for mother's day.

I re-read my other post, and I guess I shouldn't type while I'm trying to figure out algebra stuff (for Sharon). 

The yeast leavened waffles taste much better than the baking powder ones.  They are also much less dense.  I made a bunch extra and froze them so DD can eat them at school.  As for the Lodge cast iron cookware.  The one new thing I bought was pre-seasoned and it worked just fine without having to do anything but rinse the dust off of it with plain water.  As for starting from scratch..what I meant was when I'm taking a rusty, cruddy or rancid skillet and am stripping it down to bare metal to start over.

Off to the shower and then off to get my mom and something for dinner. I'm thinking of trussing up a chicken and putting it on the grill/rotisserie..and some rolls and vegetables and a salad...and if Sharon won't shoot me, some cookies....... Oatmeal sounds good for the cookies.. I just said something about that and I got a "NO!!!!"..so maybe no cookies... :-)

Nibbana...potatoes sliced paper thin and baked until crisp?????  Or should I have not said that?

Food has happened over the past few days.... one night was a smoked salmon with a lemon cream sauce over pasta. One of my simple meals. Side was a HUGE salad. Bought a rotisserie chicken at Costco, so we have had chicken sandwiches for lunch. Most days sliced, and mine is filled with more veggies than chicken. Today, we picked the bones clean and I made chicken salad. There was so much chicken left that some is sitting in a container waiting to be enchilladas. Yesterday I spent a fair amount of time making Puntas en Chile Colorado. LOTS of it since I bought the flap steak at costco. Also used my pressure cooker to make black beans. Wow! Perfect texture.

The chile is really delicious. We had some of the leftovers tonight, and there are 10 two-serving containers in the freezer. Love having ready to eat meals in the freezer.

Party planning and shopping is underway for the kid's graduation party on Sunday. My daughter has begged me not to go overboard, but I think this is not possible. I so want everyone to enjoy their meal. The boy's parents are coming. First time I will have met them. That alone can make me a tad anxious.

We ignore Mother's Day here so no special waffles or pancakes.

*susan*

2nd, I'm flattered that anybody thinks I'm the queen of anything lol! I collect thousands of recipes (most of them tried only once) and I still struggle with menu planning. There are a lot of awesome cooks on this board whose meals always sound better to me than my own, but I think Susan is the real kitchen goddess. As you can see from her post just before this, what she does in the kitchen is inspirational. Just sayin' :-)

Ditto on Susan as the kitchen goddess! I was inspired, but also exhausted by the end of that last post. When are you opening a restaurant?! Hope the graduation goes well. We have a close Parisien friend's daughter graduating from college, and I first thought about having a dinner here for her....but chickened out.....so we are taking them out to a restaurant instead.



For Mother's Day, we met DS2 (local son who gets to celebrate every family and Hallmark occasion with his parents...lucky boy....good thing he is a sweet, caring guy)at Atlantic Fish Co. on Boylston St. and had a lovely brunch.



Then we walked over to the bombing memorial, and to the building where the first one occurred, which is "his" major Boston account, so he has been very involved in getting everything back up and running so that the tenants could resume their businesses. I don't think I would have thought about all the fall out for businesses that we've been learning from him. I was happy that his company was very generous to their business tenants that lost revenue during the crisis.



I rarely go out in that section of Back Bay, Boston, and was struck by how much more upscale and trendy it is now....of course it was forty years ago when I lived there....;)



For brunch/lunch I had a lobster and mozzarella omelet with fruit salad and too many red bliss roasted potatoes...left most on the plate given my new effort to get fit! However..... we all shared a tasty pear/ blueberry crisp for dessert.



Hope everyone had a lovely day!

I've got sweet potatoes baking in the oven right now.....Good stuff.... :-)

Eric

Don't know many who make their own pasta from scratch, that's saying something. Would agree Susan is right behind.



Nibbana... Can you eat grains? That's my newest interest

All my kids were here for dinner last night.  My daughter used it as an opportunity to clear out her freezer of her CSA meats - lots of sausages, beef tips and some chicken.  Plus she made potato egg salad and pasta salad.  It was too cool to sit everyone outside, just the men braved the 60 degrees.  And we had frozen mudslides made with the frozen concoction maker that they got me...I think everyone is looking forward to parties on the patio...lol.  I'm surprised DH encouraged that gift - we usually go with "will it fit in a motorhome?"  This machine is huge!  But the mudslides were yummy!

carberry - easy crockpot stuff - pork roast, BBQ sauce, and a can of cola for pulled pork BBQ on buns, or stew beef with thin sliced onions, sliced mushrooms, a can of undiluted mushroom soup and an envelope of Lipton onion soup mix.  Both can go all day and create very tender results.

I got an orchid. Because it's "tempermental" like me, per DD.  "And beautiful", I added.  Yes, that too", she added.

SpecialK... Great new photo!



DH woke me up a couple minutes ago, brain not awake yet. He goes to sleep early (around 8-9 PM), I can't usually fall asleep till well after mid nite and don't get much sleep, would love to sleep in. Maybe I'll get a nap today

Specialk... Beautiful! Looks like you lost a couple years, how did you do that?

SpecialK... Awwww, that's cool, especially given you were preteens when you married!

SpecialK... Nice try, but don't buy it as your previous pic showed you're young and cute too! So glad this bc journey hasn't aged you. Between bc-related events and family issues, feel like I've aged a bunch the past couple of years. Should go walk off frustration but its 100 degrees in the shade right now (couldn't sleep last night so slept in too late for a cooler walk).

Special:  I too like your new picture.  Thanks for the crock pot tips.