So...whats for dinner?

(((((( Susan ))))))



Thinking of you tonight.

I've done it again....I read the posts when I have a minute or two here and there and keep up with reading them.  Posting something of my own takes more than a few minutes and when I'm busy....it doesn't happen.

Susan, I saw the posting and went over and read about Pat "Frap".  I know it's late.  I'm sorry.  As I've said before, I consider true friends to be family by choice...sort of like a spouse or fiancee....so when a friend dies, it leaves a huge hole...

Happy Birthday...Mr Lacey.

I'm being paged......helping with homework.

Eric

Garden - I made your slaw last night. It was excellent. I had some tonight with blueberries on the side also excellent. I don't think DH even noticed the jicama in it.

I did make it shopping yesterday but alas it was not the exciting trip I had planned.

I've been on the schedule for a bone scan r/t my continued pain/swelling that onco says is sternoclavicular costochondritis. After I called 2 weeks ago and said 6 weeks of Celebrex did nothing he sugg. bone scan. I was going next Friday and called yest. to find they had a cancellation today. So I went to the big city. I had those 3 hours to waste in between so spent some time at Starbucks and then went to Mexican Market. We are well stocked with Sofrito again and something called I think Mojo Grillo - an orange marinade. They also had great produce with good prices. On the way home I stopped at Trader Joes and spent $8 - a record low for me. They have pretty nice looking figs for 3.99/lb where Central Mkt. is 5.99/lb. I need to eat them up but even soft they are good.

Lacey, Mr. Lacey's bd dinner sounds fantastic! Glad he had a good one.



Luv, please tell me how you do that trader joe's trick.

This isn't my pantry but it's a shot of SOME of the past couple of day's harvest.

My refrigerator is overflowing with sweet corn, squash and cucumbers. More of everything will be ready later in the week. Maybe I should open my own produce stand . . .

Nancy - I walked very quickly thru TJs and did not look left or right. Seriously I bought only the figs and a piece of pesto Gouda cheese. That and my cooler was full already though I ended up coming home after TJs. The figs are from Calif. Just cut 3 of them, one perfect, one near ripe and one quite unripe but I ate all 3 of them. Tiny black organic figs in clamshell package. The best thing about figs is you can eat the whole thing so you know what you get up front. Just told DH this morning I would like to plant a fig bush in big pot and over winter in garage. I think he moaned. He gave me the advice I planted the wrong kind as my plant did not fruit as well per a co-worker. I told him it would help if the tree/bush did not die back to the ground every year.

That mouthful of a DX is inflammation of the cartilage that attaches ribs to sternum in my case where the clavicle (collarbone) attaches to the sternum. I have a large walnut swelling there that seemed to appear overnight. I can't see how I could have missed it for very long. My onco has offered no cause darn him. I think it is much more related to rads though this is opposite side from rads and way above the field anyway. It can be also spontaneous and the cause for many ER visits thinking chest pain from heart attack. No scan results for 24-48 hours so really don't expect anything until Mon. at earliest. This has been hanging on since mid May so what's a few more days anyway. I've already had a chest CT that noted neck was "unremarkable". Onco would have stopped with that except for my gripping.

Lacey - Mr. Lacey's BD dinner sounds fab.

Susan - I neglected to add my condolences at the passing of your friend Frapp. Damn this disease. Hope you are getting some rest after your heartwrenching day yesterday.

Bedo - glad to hear from you sister. I bookmarked the "abundance" site. Not so much abundance here with the drought but I know zucchini would gloat at it. I have 2 peppers on my plants. Grasshoppers are flaunting themselves. I have several large golden orb spiders around but they don't catch enough!

Nancy - caught your pic with my preview posting. WOW is all I can say. Do you need a produce friend?

Nance, your veggies look perfect!  Wow!  Mine look kind of "organic" I want to retire in MO now.

For dinner, taking the rest of the chickpea salad to DD.  Probably have favorite sandwich, avocado, tomato, muenster cheese on wheat.

Can't go for MRI until Monday now.

Goats hope everything turns out all right. Do spiders and grasshoppers have protein?  You could make grasshopper pie haha!

SpecialK - does your DD get to eat the results? If so looks yummy. Many thanks for the sympathy. Might be the reason too as it's on my dominant side.

Bedo - why yes I think grasshoppers do have protein esp. these over thumb size ones. Yahoo had a posting earlier this week about growing your own larvae I think it was and yes for meals. I leave the spiders or relocate them if they're where I need to be. I love looking at them. Have watched one on the side of my shed produce 2 eggs. DH said it looked like she was having a seizure producing the one yesterday. I wonder if her life span is just about over.

I think the chickpea/spinach dinner looks interesting. We're having boring marinated chicken breasts with some frozen vegie. I'll make the last bit of cabbage mix into something. Too hot to cook much and certainly no oven on.

luvmygoats - she is a catch and release girl - she loves to eat fish, but not the ones that she catches herself.  Many of the tournaments she competes in are catch and release only.

susan - your pizza sounds delish, and I am glad you felt supported!

Oh my goodness Nance   that pic should be in a magazine along with some great recipes on how to use it all!

Did a small pot of home made sauce, unfortunately not with my own tomatos, but those of the local Amish farmers.  Mine look like crap and wont produce much....not quite sure why....but I still have zuccini coming on!  Nights are getting cool here and my body is starting to scream comfort food.

Susan MMMMM on the pizzas, I have never used goat cheese on pizza..good?

Making a zuccini quiche that i will cut in squares and eaten as an appetizer out on the water today. May add some crumbled sausage in it and lots of cheese.

Special  WOW that fish is bigger than she is.  How is the tonsil girl?

Special thoughts going out to Michelle...hope all is well.... just letting you know we miss you here and think of you all the time.

carberry - tonsil girl is good!  The first two weeks very very rough, but she turned the corner at day 16.  She is doing her internship now - 50 hours a week, but it is 50 hours with dolphins, so she is pretty darn happy!

hello ladies...In my crockpot....mostly cabbage, onion, carrots, garlic, 1/2 ring polish sauage and chicken broth and salt and pepper.   Trying to learn to eat my veggies so only using half the amount of meat I usually use in recipes.  Would love to hear some cabbage recipes.

Yesterday I began dicing vegetables around 11 for our Catalan samfaina after arriving home from the farmer's market. Eggplant, onions, zucchini, a purple pepper, tomatoes. This stuff simmered for the requisit 3 hours and was no where near marmalade consistency, so it simmer for three more hours. I then searched the world for a lamb riblet recipe that at least seemed to be Spanish and found one! Lamb ribletts with apricots and onions on serious eats. This didn't seem like quite a balanced meal, so I toasted up some fideos, threw the samfaina into the pan and dinner was served.

I don't like fruit with meat, but after tasting my dried apricots, I realized that they were not sweet. It was an adventursome moment. The results? One of the most delicious meals and one that hit our mouths in new and different ways. Good thinkg I liked the samfaina since there are 9 cups of leftovers in the fridge!

Wish we would get a Michelle update. It is worrying that she is still not using her computer.

*susan*