So...whats for dinner?

Laurie - so glad everything's going well for you.

Hatch chilis show up in Phoenix...awesome peppers....almost as good as the sera no peppers. :-)

Breakfast is a breakfast bar.  In about 5 minutes, I'm driving the school bus on a route.

Pork stir fry last night with sweet and sour sauce.

Nance  My mom did the cabbage rolls, and I remember there was rice in them.  Never liked them as a kid, and probably haven't had them since.  I need to try your un-rolls, as I now have a different "adult" pallet and will probably like them.

Minus  Hope those treatments fly by.  I had to drive an hour each way to get my tx but I was not working at the time, and I treated myself to shopping while in the larger town that had more shopping options than what I have here locally.

We leave on Thursday for our NC home to check on the house and maybe do some painting.(Moon...doesn't it feel good to have nice clean newly painted walls?)  Hope they are warmer than they have been. The sun was shining here yesterday and I was literally hanging my head out the window on my way to work...until my nose froze. My mood needs some sunshine!

moon - I keep all the meds and supps in a large wire basket (bigger than a shoebox) that I got from the Container Store and refill my old lady pill case (the jumbo sized one) each week.  For a while I did a morning and evening, but I changed my calcium so now it all fits in one.  I do keep the wire basket in the kitchen but it is not in an area of cupboards that gets used a lot - it has extra candles and some serving pieces.

I use old-school freezer tape for stuff that goes into the freezer.  It looks like masking tape and I use a sharpie to write what it is and the date it went into the freezer.  I did this a lot when I would visit my mom, I cooked large pans of things and then portioned them into single serving containers and labeled them and stashed them in the freezer.  I usually put an extra piece of tape with heating instructions too - there were rotating shifts of people taking care of her, not everyone was kitchen-savvy.

Love, love, love cabbage rolls!  Must try the un-rolled version - far less time-consuming!  I do the ground beef and rice filling, rolled up in the cabbage leaf.  I put them around the edge of a large baking pan.  I cut up potatoes and put them in the center of the pan, then cover them with diced bacon that has been cooked with diced onion, and the chopped heart of the cabbage.  The sauce is tomato soup combined with sour cream, which is poured over the rolls, but not the potatoes.  My last name has -ski on the end of it, so cabbage rolls are a staple.  For some reason DH's family has always called them "pigs in blankets" but I am not sure why... 

auntie - I had some sciatica issues a number of years ago, and have degenerated disks in my lumbar.  The sciatica happened because of the position of the seat in my car!  My kids were non-driving teenagers, so I was constantly in the car.  I got a new car with an adjustable seat (I tipped it further back) and the sciatica went away quite quickly.  Try some heat, or ice, or both, and some anti-inflammatories, and try a thin pillow that shifts your position when you are sitting.  Maybe it will help?

minus - I did not have rads but I have read on this site that skin to skin contact made the skin irritation worse - I had read about wearing a cotton tank under the bra (if you are wearing a bra) but over your skin creams/oils.  Hope it goes by fast and that your skin holds up well!

Thanks for the tips everyone.

To mark things for the freezer, I use blue 'painters tape' and magic markers.  If you wrap the painters tape around the package or container, it seals on itself an doesn't come loose after freezing.

I loved the food in New Orleans... and those cakes sound particularly yummy!   Unfortunately was not there for Mardi Gras

Tonights dinner was pork loin and stir fry.   I am trying my best to cut down on carbs.   Cheat a bit at weekends

Hope everyone is well as they can be and can find their happy each day !

Happy to hear it's better nance! Yay!  Tazzy, been missing you. Carole you started it with the King cake talk! One store sells them here but to me they just taste like a big danish. And we have to shove the little baby in ourselves. Liability issues so they don't get blamed if someone breaks a tooth. LOL

Tonight I went out with a friend of mine who lost one of her long time friends. She spoke of her friend the whole yime. I had met her friend a couple of times. I just listened. Sometimes that's all you can do. I had a lovely shrimp in black pepper sauce with plantains and mango salsa. Oh. Yum. Not excessively hot but flavorful. A bit expensive but here in the Midwest shrimp is a treat. 

Much love to all. 

That's the king cake that I make. I leave the filled ones to the professionals lol! I had an exceptional one in Galveston one year that had a raspberry cream filling. Oh my!

Carole, so glad you got to play golf finally. We've enjoyed the 50 degrees temps tremendously. It's going to make those inevitable colder temperatures seem harsh.

Tonight was drunken noodles with spicy Italian sausage. This has colored peppers in it too, making for a very festive looking dish.

Yikes, Laurie!! Glad that tuned out safely! Nothing feels worse on the road than no traction on hills!! You guys are slated for more snow tonight. Ugh...... Stay safe!!!

The twenty-something daughter of a friend of mine came over today to network about grad school and borrow materials for her current school job. She had said she'd stop and pick up lunch for us. Sounded great to me! So I was surprised when she showed up with two bottles of seltzer water. LOL! Fortunately, I made  a much needed food store trip yesterday, so made us a spinach salad which we had with hummus and pita bread.....and seltzer! It was so much fun talking with her and learning about her current job experiences....oh the longing for daughter chat!

Carole, so nice that you were able to get out on the golf course!

Laurie so glad you're safe! Stay that way! 

Lacey, glad you had food on hand. Seltzer is not really filling.... LOL

Carole, glad golf was fun! 

Auntie, the King cake is in a grocery store here that isn't a chain but is close in feeling to whole foods or traders joe. When I was in New Orleans I made it a quest to find the tackiest beads I could find. I'll post a pic soon and you can judge if I found it.... LOL

Supper is the chicken breasts I need to cook tiday. Think I'm going asian.....

Laurie, scary stuff! One more reason to hate winter.

Lacey, sounds like a perfectly delightful lunch.

Tonight I tried a Tyler Florence fried chicken recipe. It was a bit unusual because it called for roasting the chicken for several hours at 200 degrees, then soaking the pieces in buttermilk and then frying it. It took half the day to get through all these steps and I have to say the results were hardly worth it. It was just ok.

We had 40-50 mph winds today, yike! It was raining horizontally!

SpecialK, thanks for recipe link.  I read the recipe and it looks good. 

I seem to be in a lazy mood as far as cooking is concerned.  Maybe it was going 4 wks without cooking! 

Tonight we're going out to dinner with neighbors so that fits in with my laziness! 

This afternoon I plan to take some of my empty oil and vinegar bottles to have them refilled at the oil & vinegar store.  I'm out of grapeseed oil, plain and flavored.

I remember both times I delivered "life news" like you're talking about.  :-)

In both cases, the parents gave an enthusiastic yes.

It became a joke that I waited until AFTER we were in Canada and Sharon's parents had answered "no" to the "Do you have any firearms or other weapons?" question posed by the customs agent.

With Mickey, her dad's response was, "Hell yes!  It's about G-- D*** time you two got your act together.  I've been wondering what was taking so long."  

Eric