So...whats for dinner?

Oh boy. How does this thread keep falling off? LOL.  

Laurie sorry about your MIL. Hope the Femara works well for her. 

All the recipes sound so good. Been a bit busy. We finally had our Christmas dinner today. All 4 kids and the 3 spouses came. Yay! I haven't seen my SIL since he moved back to WI in August! But his rotations and schedule is so messed up. With 3 of the kids and spouses working 3rd that's why today was "Christmas" ! LOL  we had the typical ham dinner. Salad with spinach and strawberries. Mashed taters and corn. Made the cornflake christmas wreath and brought up the French silk pie we bought at the last fund raiser. So it went well. And everyone made it home before the cold starts settling in. Expected to be 18 below on Monday so school is closed on Monday. But of course -5 to -10 expected tomorrow for the Packer game on Sunday and over 80,000 fools will be in the stadium to watch!!!! I don't know how they will be able to play with wind chills in the -40 range... brrrr. Not to mention we have a foot or so of snow on the ground. They had people shoveling out the stadium today. 

I hope everyone is tucked in tonite and staying warm. I hope the snow wasn't too bad for you guys in the NE and DC. 

Ps, I hot my kitchen Aid mixer for my gift! Yay!

Much love to all. 

laurie - I take Femara.  I started on it initially after completing chemo, but after six months of moderate joint pain I developed a trigger on my right thumb.  That is my dominant hand, so it was difficult to cut with scissors, write with a pen, or hold a knife to cook.  My onc switched me to Arimidex, which is another of the three aromatase inhibitors.  I did ok on it for about a year, still had significant joint pain, but the more I move the less pain I have.  I developed triggers in my wedding ring finger, one toe, and my left ankle, which was pretty severe.  I also had right knee pain that required a cortisone injection. Some days both the ankle and the knee hurt so much I had issues walking.  Oddly, the ankle felt better if I wore a shoe with a heel.  My onc switched me back to Femara this past summer, but a different brand, so far so good.  If your MIL does have some side effects she can try different brands (generic) to see if some of her SE subside.

Here is the marmalade recipe. Still haven't seen them here yet. My mother was really disappointed not to receive some marmalade for Christmas. http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Meyer-Lemon-Marmalade-102746

Those meatballs sound good. I'll post 2 more pictures then stop!  The second is the view when I leave for work in the morning and the first is my hike again. Can't wait for the halibut later this month. I hope everyone has a wonderful week. I am working a lot but it will be so nice to take time off again in the summer. I eat oatmeal every morning.  I know that's very exciting, but sometimes I put bananas or blue berries in it. I'm going to get some brown sugar and cinnamin  Can't spell for beans I still check out your recipes and liked the canned spaghetti sauce mentioned above!

I'm trying to figure out obamacare.  Have a good week!

Brrrrrr! Minus 11 degrees here after a blizzard of snow yesterday. The city got 12+ inches. I think we only got 4 or 5 but the 30 mph winds caused so much drifting it's hard to tell. Our driveway has two feet and our deck has none. Go figure. The weather event had pretty much shut down the city (including my lab appt.) The high today is only going to be -5.   Here's the funny part, Friday is supposed to be 40 degrees. Crazy!

Since I'm pretty much stuck indoors today, I think I'll make some corn chowder. Haven't had that for a while. Last night was a stir fry using up bits of tenderloin and red and orange peppers. Very pretty and tasty. The Grace Young cookbook has a lot of very good recipes I can't wait to try. Thank you Susan, for that suggestion. I'm anxiously awaiting a delivery from king Arthur flour of some high gluten flour so I can make more bagels and rye bread. Doubt that there will be any deliveries today.

Bedo, don't stop the pictures, love the chronicle of your adventures!

Yes Nance -5 is bad and a foot of snow is too. Especially when no one has the equipment to deal with it. LOL. That said it is now -18 here in WI. School canceled. That's cold! 

Corn chowder sounds great. Maybe I'll make up a bean soup with the ham bone from Sat. 

Carberry and Carole meatballs and spaghetti sounds like a winner. Seaside, that's the sauce I use-Classico. What do you add? 

Bedo, I Love following your adventures and seeing your pics. You have a beautiful walk to work! 

I think my first use of my new Kitchen Aid mixer will be the pumpkin yeast bread. I found my old recipe. I was looking on the Web and couldn't find a good one. They all had way too much sugar. For a yeast bread a quarter Cup is way to much. And that was the lowest I found. So i was happy to dig mine up. The only sweetener is 2 tablespoons of honey. When I had my Bread maker I Made THIS 2 OR More Times A Week AND Set It To Be Done In Time For THE Kids breakfast. Not a bad warm breakfast for them. So I'll give it a go. LOL

Thinking of all of you who are in the deep freeze. We had mild temps today with rain, so most of the snow is gone...and now the temp is crashing, so we'll be cold once again!

Spent a couple of hours at the gym this afternoon (DH and I have been enjoying a stretching class after our regular workouts...feels so wonderful!), and we left at rush hour so got stuck in tons of traffic. I had to rush dinner since he has a committee meeting tonight, so quickly cooked up some butternut squash ravs from Traders, with a white sauce, accompanied by a baby spinach, pear and red onion salad. I had planned to have two ravs.....but I was puzzled by a certain taste I could not identify until I ate SEVEN of them!   I now think it was an almond flavor....but still not sure and the container label is out in the cold trash bin. Will have to buy them again to have on hand for a quick dinner....and to check out the ingredients.

Monica, hope you are loving your new Kitchen Aid! Maybe you can post a pic of your pumpkin yeast bread? I have never see a recipe for that......

Speaking of mixers, I received a scraper mixing blade for Christmas .....must make something to test it out, but I really do not want tasty stuff around, too much temptation!

Oh, that is so exciting Carol!! Maybe we should start a "here's a pic of may vacation discussion, lol)

Please let us know of any interesting food Down Under.

Lacey, that butternut squash sounds divine! I'm having left over soup for dinner Ha

Moon, how do you make corn chowder?

Nance and all, I hope you are all well with the freezing weather. That is really scary and I worry about people who have never experienced it or are not ready for it.

I'll sign off. Work all the time 10 hours today, which doesn't sound like much, but I can't pace it, I have to take things as they come.

Happy Monday to all

Snuggling with my Upstairs Dog.(Landlords) we both needed it.  Plus playing with an old sock tied in a knot

Took some Perdue boneless chicken, onions, small potatoes,carrots, celery, mini penne and made a chicken stew with lots of dried herbs from my garden.  Boy am I full. My sister is temporarily living with me until she can find a place of her own.  At least I am not alone.

Not nice for me to moan about the cold - but for Houston 20 is frigid.  Most people are running a water drip so the pipes don't freeze so the pressure is low.  (our pipes are either in our attics or under a crawl space for buildings up on blocks).  Hope those of you who are 'buried' w/snow are all OK.

I spent the evening sorting through my huge recipe box (at least 4x a regular one).  Interesting to see how my tastes & cooking preferences have changed over the years.  Part of it is living in Houston.  I don't turn on the oven except in the middle of winter & I often have to run the air conditioning even then.  Eric & Carole can understand.  A lot is the availability of fresh foods that were unheard of when I first married.  Iceburg was the only lettuce and veggies were canned - frozen veggies were just beginning to appear in the stores.  Casseroles were pretty much all we could afford.  One of my son's favorites was a hot dog, slit for a slice of cheese & rolled in crescent rolls then baked.  I haven't thought about that one in ages.  Lots thrown away and I still have 3/4 of the box to go - then the huge 12x15 envelope stuffed w/recipes I've clipped from somewhere.  Bittersweet to find recipes in my Mother's handwriting.

Bedo - love the adventures & the pictures.  Deborye - I agree.  No fair!!!

Really Deb?  You like torturing us?  I want my Carolina Home!!!!  Everything closed around us today, but I still have to go to work.  We did not get the blizzard but are in a deep, deep freeze.  I have been asked to assist at another clinic that we just opened and they need help getting settled in, so I will go there early then on to my regular job.  Hope the car can handle the cold.

Will do up some chicken tenders and have them ready for a chicken Caesar salad when I get home tonight.  Soup sounds like the way to go though or maybe take out.

It was -11 last night but it's up to 0 right now. Heat wave!

We are establishing new low highs on the northshore (north shore of Lake Ponchartrain).  It was only in the 30's today.  Tonight we'll have another hard freeze and then it will start warming up.  You should hear all the grumbling! 

I made a navy bean soup today with ham, chopped carrot, celery and  onion and canned tomatoes.  It was good but would have been better with some  spinach or other type of greens thrown in.  We also had another good green salad with blue cheese. 

The turkey breast was delicious. Surprise it was boneless. Made the price per # a little easier to bear. I think I will try the foil cooking with chicken breasts and some dry Italian seasoning - homemade Good Seasons mix or maybe some rosemary powder, butter and flour. House smells wonderful. Cheated and made Velveeta mac/cheese. Enough turkey leftover for at least one more night and possibly 2.