So...whats for dinner?

Tonight is primavera with angel hair. Maybe a salad. I'm feeling like meatless today. I may feel like fish if we get the 3 to 5 more inches of rain they're calling for. We've already had 5 inches this week alone. Glub glub!

My dad's military retirement was also impressive.. Just as good was him being in the USMC birthday "cake ceremony". At two marine birthdays, he was the oldest marine present. It was so great seeing others make a fuss over dad. :-)

Men do look handsome and manly in uniform. 

No dinner for me tonight.  I had a heavy lunch with my mother and sister, comfort food because we had weathered a minor crisis.  I have thawed chicken breasts in the refrigerator and colored bell peppers.  So I plan to slice up some colored peppers and onions and stir fry chicken slices with the veggies.  DH can sprinkle on soy sauce to his heart's content.  I may also mix up a cabbage slaw for him. 

Today my kitchenaid pasta attachments arrived.  They are quite sturdy.  No wonder they're pricey.  I read the instruction booklet and the recipes. 

auntie  maybe the fish will come swimming right up to your door and knock to come in.  Lots of rain on and off here too, and some pretty intense thunder storms. Trying to get the lawn mowed in between raindrops.

Settled for a big salad tonight, but was really craving bacon, so did some up and crumbled on top. OH and at work we had cake and ice cream for a co-workers birthday.

eric95 - BDUs are not the most flattering of uniforms - my favorite is the mess dress.  Marines have the absolute best uniforms of all kinds - hands down!  We recently took my FIL to the WWII memorial in Washington, D.C. on one of my BC vaccine trips.  He just turned 88 this month and had never been.  There were two different contingents of "Honor Flight" guys there so he chatted and had a blast!

I went out and walked and got rained on!  The only time it rained all day....  I am trying not to take this personally...  I am back to doing MyFitnessPal - it definitely works for me when I have to be accountable!

My DH wore BDUs for the last couple of years he was active duty because he is Special Operations and it is joint - he wore flightsuits at the Pentagon when not in blues (Air Force).  The word "blouse" gave it away, lol!

Minus, I could eat the other half of that club sandwich.  It sounds yummy.  I'm sipping my lunch, a Raspberry Collision from Smoothie King. 

When I got home today from playing golf, I eased off the bandage on my face.  I have quite a shiner, since the incision is fairly close to my eye.

Dinner tonight will be pork chops and a dish with brown rice and broccoli.  I have leftover brown rice from dh's stir-fry dinner last night and some blanched broccoli in the freezer.  Will look up a recipe.  We're going to a concert at 7 pm so will have to eat early.

No fish swimming up to my door.  I need to water the plants on the patio.

Oh Nance, I have been vicariously enjoying your recent creative carb fests. What will I do now!?



At my shared retirement party least evening, there was a really extensive buffet that included bountiful grilled vegetables, chicken marsala, chop choi (sp?) chicken, grilled tornadoes of beef over spinach and feta risotto, french rolls and mixed greens salad and a zillion beautiful and delicious desserts on a buffet table. I was amazed that a hotel provided such a wonderful buffet.



The program for the three of us was delightful since our principal is a born performer and knows all of us well, and likes us. In addition to my regular retirement gift, she read and presented me with a book created by many of my former "young clients" about what they learned from me. Parts of it were hysterical, and the "out takes"were particularly amusing. God, was that touching.....and is fun to have in my memoirs. Sure loved that too big job! Would probably have stayed in it were it not for the big C.



Carole, glad your surgery went well. I'm eager to hear about your new pasta attachment adventures!



Hope our sisters on chemo are having gentle treatment.



Grilling steak that's been marinating, and throwing a few cobs of corn on for good measure. Rounding out with salad and maybe a few brussels sprouts if they are still in the veggie bin. Gotta reconnect with our fridge....Glad to be in charge of my own meals after our NJ trip, which was a carbo loaded experience.

I guess adding to the previous post without editing to it...

I'm hoping things are OK in OK.  I'm on call until midnight MST tonight. (fingers drumming).  I hope everyone else in tornado alley is not having to worry.

Dinner tonight was a pot roast that I started around 11:30 this morning--took an early lunch.  The only other thing Sharon wanted was a salad...so other than the rolls that I snuck in there, that was it. 

Eric - I have KOCO TV playing on the net and Weather channel on TV. They might have just dodged major damage. Weather Channel vehicle tossed 200 ft; only minor injuries. Sounds like might be more damage in St. Louis area and east of there. We supposedly per local weather have only slight chance of tornado tomorrow but more for wind/rain. If I have to have a storm, give me that. We do have flood insurance since we live on a creek and a bar ditch.

Nancy.  One of the situation reports I'm being "fed" mentioned St. Louis and I immediately thought of you.  I'm glad you chimed in here.

Eric

Tried to post this unsuccessfully last night. The good news is they're taken the severe weather threat out of the forecast for today:



Thanks Eric. Right now we're getting lots of thunder and lightning, Yike! Quite a bit of damage in St. Louis and St. Charles counties but no more high winds tonight, just lots and lots of rain. Looks like we're in for more of the same tomorrow. Enough already!

Nancy, so glad you're ok.  Nothing scarier than the threat of tornados.  At least we get advance warning of an approaching hurricane and have time to evacuate.

Special K, I completely understand your NOT having the streamlined steak dinner! 

This morning I'm poaching a chicken to make chicken salad, which will be part of a picnic supper tonight.  We're going with another couple to Jazz in the Vineyard.  It's a take-your-own-chair-and-picnic-supper event at a wine vineyard out in the country.  Of course, you buy your wine there! 

My brown rice and broccoli dish turned out really good.  I got the ingredient ideas from a South Beach recipe.  The sauce was low-fat mayo, low-fat sour cream, sweet curry powder, a little hot curry powder, a little lemon juice, and grated cheese.  I had a  chunk of mystery cheese that turned out to be fontina.  I heated the concoction (cooked brown rice, chopped cooked broccoli, and sauce) in the oven then browned the topping of bread crumbs and extra shredded cheese under the broiler.  I could have skipped the pork chop.  But didn't.  I think I'll have a helping of the leftovers for lunch.

Started reading a fascinating article in the latest Smithsonian magazine, which is a food issue.  It's about the scientific theory that cooking is responsible for the development of our large brain.  Not just the addition of meat to the human diet, but cooking food.   We get more nutrition from a diet with cooked food than a diet of raw food, which requires more energy for chewing and digestion.  The raw food apparently provides more nutrition for the microbes in our intestines than it provides for us.  That's why people on a raw food diet tend to be underweight. 

Being underweight is not a problem I'm currently dealing with!!!

Last night's dinner was tandoori chicken [on the grill since I still don't have a tandoori,] lentils, rice and naan bread. I made extra in case the "kids" wanted to eat with us, but they didn't. Enough leftover for all four of us to enjoy the meal a second time tonight.

Today is moving day. My daughter, the boy, and the two cats are moving into the house. My daughter came by twice this week and put up her bookshelves and hemmed and hung a HUGE set of curtains across the top of the stairs to their "apartment." She chose well. The curtains have enough fabric that they aren't pulled taut. The goal is to let the cats imagine that this area of the house is where they should live, and to reduce the sound transfer from their TV to my office.

My enthusiastic neighbor has been keeping bees in his backyard but didn't know enough about beekeeping to split the hive. The damn bees are swarming everywhere, searching for a new home. Have I mentioned that I am deathly allergic to honeybees? I had planned to spend the cooler morning hours taking my sprouted seeds and planting them in the beds, but will wait until my backyard isn't full of bees. Instead, I am writing a treatis on the internet!

Thinking of you Deb. So thankful that all the Midwesterners on this board were safe yesterday.

*susan*

Nancy - So glad that you are safe. Sounds like scattered damage around the city. Watching new conference - well it's on as background noise - from OKC. Storms building along TX-OK border but I think mosly will be east/NE of us. I think we'll have our weather in the next couple of hours though sun trying to come out.

What do you find special about the short grain brown? I'm not the "fluffy rice" person. Mom loved rice that stuck together and that's how I make it. LOL. I've bought a Lundberg brand called "Golden Rose Brown" medium grain at one of the obscure health food stores. I have 2 large bags because I rarely see it. It makes a yummy pilaf. DH would eat rice over potatoes. I have been on looking for vegeterian recipes - well let's say less meat recipes. But DD coming out this afternoon and we're having hamburgers, cole slaw, corn on the cob. Do those last 2 count with lettuce/tomato/onion on burgers??? LOL

Carole I agree with Nancy you go such fun places. DH just had 2 days off and he spent part on couch and part out working on house/mowing. I wish I could get him out but must admit I'm a homebody too.

OO - google says short grain sticks together. I think sushi rice is short grain. Makes sense.

Susan - do you make or buy your naan? Bread is my downfall more than sweets. But DH does like naan esp. the garlic. Enjoy having your DD back. Mine is almost 26 (next month) and I was shocked when she said she was coming out this weekend - now "out" means about hour drive. She spent 3 day weekend in her apt. playing online computer game. I tell her she needs to get out and make friends. Her work has young retailers/IT professionals but she says they're all married. No hope for grandchild here but then I was almost 35 when she was born.

Carrie - glad your cousin is safe. I agree, people just accept it as a way of life. I think I'm the only one on this cul-de-sac (8 houses multi-acre) that has a tornado shelter and I'd think most could afford it. And we are not in city limits so no building codes for it I don't think. At least not when we built ours.