So...whats for dinner?

minus - thanks!  I am excited - I have been laying on my bed for five weeks - three and a half weeks trying to heal the open skin, and now a week and a half after this second surgery because I have so many stitches!  I am tired because I have been doing nothing, which is weird, but true!

Laurie, my condolenses  to you,husband and family. You are all in my prayers.

Vivian 

Definitely a better jam with real sugar! Sounds delish, Carole!

By the way, can you or Nance share how much dry popcorn you pop in the microwave. I bought a new pyrex bowl, but not sure how much I can pop....just small batches? Thanks!

Lacey, this is pretty imprecise, but I put in enough to just cover the bottom of the bowl. Fills it perfectly with popped corn. I've done this with several different sized bowls. Btw, I parted with my old friend, my greasy old popcorn pan and lid, kicked to the curb in favour of the microwave method. I bet I've had that pan for over 20 years, used exclusively for popcorn. It's an old ugly odd shaped thing with a non stick coating that had long since worn off. Now my other pots and pans stack nicely!

Lacey, I usually put a couple of tablespoons of popcorn.  The neat thing is that you can redo any unpopped corn kernals.  The last time I made a bowl for dh and a bowl for myself.  The 2nd bowl popped better.  I wondered if it was because the bowl was already hot.  I spray my popped corn with butter-flavored spray and sprinkle a little salt.  DH likes celery salt and butter spray on his.  Popcorn is a good fiber food in addition to tasting good.  Warning:  the bowl gets very hot. 

Nance, we used to pop corn in a pot on the stove when I was a kid.  Always used some oil.  Shake, shake, shake!

We're off to the airport today to pick up dh's nephew in the early afternoon.  We plan to stop at Drago's in Metairie after we pick him up and enjoy some grilled oysters in the half shell.  Drago's created this now-popular food.  They douse the grilling oysters with melted butter and top with grated cheese.  The rest of their menu offers some great food, too.  Drago's has a downtown restaurant, too, if you're visiting New Orleans.

While Rhett is here a couple of days, we'll also have some boiled crawfish.  It's crawfish season now.  You wouldn't believe how popular "mudbugs" are in this part of the world.  They're not cheap but people buy sacks of them for cooking outdoors in big propane cookers with lots of "crawfish boil" seasoning and corn on the cob and small potatoes.  We'll drive a few miles to Crabby Shack and order them off the menu and eat them there. 

Laurie, my condolences to you and your family.

Minus, what will you be having for dinner with your blueberry muffins? ha ha!

To all you gardeners, I am so glad that I held off buying "starts" and planting them this weekend. It snowed last night! This weekend is the big cleanup of the community garden and first workday, there will about 100 of us. So fun!

I haven't cooked anything interesting recently except some cod from Moosewood cookbook low fat favorites, with green onions, tomatoes, garlic paprika and lime for my daughter. I made asparagus with it. Afterwards, she "made" me go by ice cream.  I ate it too. So much for an attempt at being healthy!

Today I've had 2 cups of coffee with Swiss Miss and ice cubes, as I am too lazy to go buy milk. Still on Alaska time.

It's time to take a shower, and practice and go back to my fiddle group tonight and show everyone how awful I am, now that I haven't practiced in 6 months. That should motivate me.

I hope that everyone is having a beautiful day.

Went to Pickity Place Sunday with my DD and Grandchild to be.  Had a beautiful baby shower Saturday.  Pics on FB.  Going to Pickity Place brought back memories of our few times with my BCO sisters.  

Here is me, my DD in her 7th month. This quilt was handmade by a friend I graduated with.  She does beautiful work.

Thank you for all your replies, I am better.  The deep tissue on my back and tata are still a little pink.  I would not wish this on my worst enemy.  Second thought, LOL

Deb, how sweet to have the shower at Pickety! Your daughter is a beautiful mommy to be! Thanks for sharing the pix.  Gorgeous quilt!  Glad you are healing well. So excited for you to have this joy in your life!

Nance, I know what the ambivalent feeling about a CSA is. I know I'd love it, yet start to feel it to be like the Sorcerer's Apprentice with all the produce showing up regularly. So I keep putting off joining one.

Tonight we went to the last Celtics' game ( of a miserable season indeed!) and had dinner at a pub near the TDGarden (the sports venue). Probably the most awful meal I've had in a while.....was hankering for just a blt, and they had a chicken club sandwich, which I ordered minus the cheese they put on it (since I do not do dairy now!!!:). It was on white bread that was not toasted but actually stale to the point of being toast hard....and since they left off the cheese, they decided I also did not want mayo, so I ate a dry chicken club on stale white bread. My bad that I didn't ask for a side of mayo half way thru the sandwich. Ok....So I practically NEVER eat potatoes, let alone french fries. Well, I scarfed down a whole lot of 'em tonight that came with the paltry sandwich. I think I was just needing the ketchup condiment fix! DH had the fisherman's platter, which seemed fine...and he too ate all of his potatoes.

I am much preferring the sound of food choices you mentioned ghat you'll be having with your DH's nephew, Carole. Enjoy!

By the way, glad to hear you can re pop those un popped kernels without anything exploding in the microwave. I was worried about how hot the bowl was, so we tossed them rather than wait until it cooled to re-micro anymore in that bowl. Will have to be more intrepid.

I actually still have the large thick pan that we used to make popcorn in while I was growing up. Makes me realize that the pan is more than 60 years old, and it is still in good shape except for dark burnt grease marks on the outside.....oh and the handle is a tad loose....all that shake shake shake!

Laurie glad the stress is decreasing. Hang in there.

Lacy anx Nancy, I like the idea of CST but I'm alone most of the time and even a half share is too much. 

Wish me luck. Just saw my ortho.  He agreed to do one of my knees! Yay. June 18. 3 years delayed by 7 reconstruction ops and BC and various SES and scenic detours. He says he's nuts but he's up for it. I'm scared but I really need it. The image tech saw the first X ray and said "NO wonder you have pain" LOL.  It is pretty obvious. Bone on bone and tendons shot. LOL.  I must be nuts to be happy to have another big op but also excited. LOL

Just lost a long post, aaach!! Maybe later :-(

Sometimes (only) I've been able to hit the browser back button and get the post back. Also, I've Sometimes been lucky and pasted (ctrl-V) the lost post back into the window....

Beautiful pictures, Deb You might have noticed that my facebook has been trashed

Laurie, enjoy the vacation!

Moon, good about the knee

Going to volunteer at the free clinic here one day a week.

So loving not working

But may take a "pregnancy leave" cover at a plant here May-?

I need help!

Where oh where is that website that tells you what you can make with the ingredients on hand?

I want to make soup

I have: onions, sweet potatoes, spinach, garlic, carrots, great northern beans, chick peas, carrots, red and yellow bell peppers and vegetable broth. Oh, and brown rice.

?

Don't know where to start.

Oh, and I have hot sauce.

Thanks!

Minus, those sound great!  So yummy!

My first love is viola. It is a tenor violin, without that high e string and with a delicious added c string. It's like a violin but lower. I love the lower sounds of viola and cello.  Plus, now my dd is dating a double bass player who plays alternate in the BSO

(So much better than the last one, heh heh, the happiest day of my life was when they broke up. He was an "artist" who never sold a painting) 

But, if you want to just have fun and get together, it would be hard to get a bunch of violists together, because, traditionally they either play solos, or harmony

So now I play fiddle, because I don't like to practice.

I really really really stink but have more time to practice. I am NOT like *Susan* in any way.  I am a total hacker.

Need soup please!

Soup for the poor! Soup for the unemployed!

Kidding.

Soup for those who are trying to save money until the next job! 

Please give soup ideas for the lazy who don't want to leave their cabin and upset the Grand-Dog by leaving her!

Thanks, Nance,

I'm in, with the spinach and whole grain pasta 

Have no ideas about portions, but, I'll improvise.

I'll let you know how it turns out.  

I hope adding uncooked pasta is OK