So...whats for dinner?

My Costco staples are Parmesan and assorted other cheeses, smoked salmon when I've made bagels, fresh peeled garlic cloves, all of my beef and most of the pork, garlic sausage, wine and liquor, celery, asparagus and haricots verts (if they are fresh looking), printer paper, lamb chops, Tuscan olive oil, sugar in the summer (for hummingbird food), pretzels, campari tomatoes in the winter, butter, half and half, cream, eggs in the winter, bananas in the winter, sometimes lettuce if I need a lot, facial tissues, all of my supplements, alleve and allergy meds, rosemary olive bread (when I'm lazy), a roast chicken, fresh flowers in the winter, whatever else strikes my fancy and a partridge in a pear tree. I have a friend who always goes with me and a lot of times we'll split things, which helps.

I'm so very sad about Michelle. It's like another spoke in our wheel is missing. Like Susan, I hope she is in no pain and wish her and her loved ones peace.

We don't have a Costco in this area but we have Sam's Club. I buy large chunks of cheese there and some of the same items available at your Costco stores.

Tonight's dinner will be pork loin medallions with a mustard sauce. The recipe is in a Cooking Light magazine. I have to look it up. We'll also have salad and steamed yellow squash.

I can only imagine how sad Joyce is feeling about Michelle. I've never met Michelle and I am very heavy-hearted over her decline. No one has ever fought harder or been braver than Michelle. It was a blessing to get to know her on bc.org.

Hugs & love to Michelle & her family and to Joyce. So many eloquent posts. And as Moon said - all of us since we're all hurting thinking of our friend. This d#%n disease!! Thank you sisters for being there.

It makes lovely sense Eric. ((Hugs))

Echoing Nance and Moon's thoughts about your poignant words, Eric.

It's just so sad (and hard!) to again have the "opportunity" to rework all of our other losses with each new one.

There has been so much loss endured by so many of the folks on this thread(not counting everyone's personal losses brought on by bc)...tho, fortunately, so much support from each other.

I just HATE to think of Michelle in such a weakened state...we know her as such a vibrant woman! Such a fighter!!

((((HUGS))) to Michelle, Rick, Joyce and rest of the family.

Laurie - that's the nights we have eggs, bacon and those wonderful frozen biscuits. Not healthy by any means. I agree with your DH about chili needing to "set awhile". Sounds like a wonderful weekend.

Tonight is pork ribs and roasted Brussels sprouts (finally). Don't much go together but DH will be happy.

Thinking of Michelle and her family. Praying for her and her sweet family and for bestest friend Joyce.

Yes, Laurie, the weekend with all the fun and favorite people will be just the elixor you need. Have a great time!

We are also heading north to the lake house where DH will do some golf, and we will enjoy a lobster/steamers/king crab leg "fest" on the beach.

DH has been like a little kid waiting for the evite announcement for this "grand buffe" since he was in total ecstasy enjoying these seafood treats last October. I think I may have mentioned before that what I especially like about this event is that the forty-something men in our association do all the planning, shopping, and cooking. Now that is a TREAT!!

Tonight we spontaneously decided to go to the Celtics/knicks pre-season game that was in Providence (now that we realize that it is cheaper and faster to get there than to go into town....tho this is one of very few games played there). The bad news is that the food options were paltry. Had a piece of cardboard pizza....DH had a greasy calzone. Fortunately,I brought some gorp "just in case"and we devoured that by the third quarter.

Michelle and Joyce, keeping you both in my thoughts....

Hope you had a great Birthday SpecialK. I think you are enjoying your daughters job as much as she is. Lacey the seafood fest sounds so good. Yum. And even bettrr when the guys take charge. Laurie I hope the camping trip relaxes you! Luvmygoats eggs bacon and biscuits also sound good. Debore it is hard yo watch loved ones go through so much. Hugs.

Dinner was leftover stew I meant yo send with DH but forgot so gotta eat it. No room in the he upstairs freezer. And im not making a trip downstairs for three bowls of stew....

Much love to all.

LOL@SK! What a nice surprise though.

bedo - dried cranberries are also good in place of raisins in the apple pie! I had a tummy ache after the lemon drop and chocolate cake - don't know which to fault - I think I had too many acidic things today and not enough food until dinner!

moon - that happened one other time early in his military career. He and his commander (my DH was his executive officer) decided to come home early and scared both the commander's wife and me - she and I compared notes later - thought it was funny that we were so used to them never being home and when they tried to have a nice surprise, they scared us! Today was funny because the dog looked at me like "who's here, and what should we do?"

Happy Birthday, Special K! Your birthday dinner menu would have suited me fine except for the lemon martini. I would have gone for Grey Goose without the lemon. Vodka martini on ice is my favorite cocktail.

Bedo, you sound happy about those apple pies!

Lacey, your beach feast sounds like most people's fantasy seafood feast. Lobster AND King Crab legs. I had the King Crab once in Juneau and I experienced the reason for all the fuss and expense. The crab meat in butter and the little crab cakes were both so delicious. The outdoor restaurant was down on the docks where the cruise ships tie up and the weather wasn't good so we ate inside a tent set up by the restaurant.

Nancy, I'll pm you the artichoke casserole recipe because I think I did post it. It's very easy and I like it a lot.

Last night's dinner was pork scalloppine with mustard pan sauce. I try to find a variety of ways to prepare pork loin since it's the leanest pork. And DH isn't fond of pork loin. Finds it too dry. So I slice the pork loin into medallions and try different preparations. This recipe was easy. Pound the medallions thin. Quickly brown them in a small amt. of oil. I used grape seed oil. Keep them warm while you make the pan sauce. Diced shallots and garlic. 2 T whole-grain Dijon mustard, 1/2 cup chicken broth, 3 T sour cream. I had some mushrooms that were close to throw-away and I diced them and included them in the sauce. Tasty enough to cook again. Available on the Cooking Light web site.

Cream would have made this pan sauce better but added fat. I don't keep cream on hand.

Today will be a busy day so I'm looking for an easy dinner. Probably beef fajitas made with a small lean ribeye I bought from a farmer who grass-feeds his animals. Home-cooked black beans from the freezer, avocado, light sour cream and salsa. DH will be quite happy with the combination.

Hope you have a delightful weekend with your family and friends, Laurie.

Thinking of Michelle and her family.

Happy birthday special k! Sounds like it was a good one. Lemon drop is my favorite summer cocktail.

Thanks for the recipe Carole. Have you tried brining pork loin? Makes a huge difference. We eat a lot of tenderloin too though.

Bedo, I'll take your zinnias. I love them and the deer ate all mine this year. Didn't touch the snap dragons. Every year they pick a favorite flower to eat. Last year it was phlox. One year it was my sunflowers. Always roses day lilies.

Hi Minus and all,

I will be leaving next week, Thurs or Fri, as I will have to stay over in Fairbanks.

I can tell you one thing, I will NOT be sending you recipes for caribou stew or Muktuk (whale blubber) which is actually sliced off with an ulu, a curved knife which looks like a 1/2 disc and eaten raw. I had a bite once so that I wouldn't seem ungrateful, because, the kids like it better than Doritos. It was the size of a snail and sat in my stomach for days I think.

It tasted like snails. Another thing I ate once a long time ago