So...whats for dinner?

Carole, that's great to have an actual page number for a recipe...rather than hunting the proverbial needle! Thanks!

The dinner at Fenway was good....much of it I ate with my eyes...:/, but did enjoy some grilled beef tenderloin, interesting sauteed vegetables, and baby greens salad. The eye food items included sumptuous lobster rolls on toasted buns, Legal Seafood clam chowder, a wonderful cheese tray, and tortellini with a carbonara sauce. Desserts pretty basic except for cheesecake squares with apple crunch on top, which I broke my dairy free status to try after the strong recommendations of my tablemates. Good thing Ibworked out a lot this AM. It was soooo good! It was so weird to be at Fenway with a brightly lit empty field...the Sox are busy losing games in Cleveland.

This is my week to meet friends for lunch.  Had Chicken Piccata at a new Italian restaurant yesterday.  Lunch came w/bread & a salad for $11.00.  I'll go back, but not in a huge rush - if that makes sense.  It was good but didn't knock my socks off.  The best part was the build-out.  High ceilings, exposed beams, clerestory windows, slate floors - what I would imaging as an old Italian cottage.

Going for Italian again tomorrow.  Different friend - different direction.  Houston is a huge place & the first restaurant was South.  Tomorrow I'll head North to Tomball to meet a friend who's driving in from Lake Conroe.  We choose the Italian restaurant because we know we can sit & visit in this place for a long time & no one will get upset.  I've been there before so I'm looking forward to linguine con vongole (clams in white sauce), but may have to switch to shrimp & vegetables in Alfredo sauce.  Or filet of salmon w/creamy tarragon sauce.  Or substitute filet of sole for salmon.  Or listen to this one -

Sautéed breast of chicken on a bed of spinach with melted cheese,
roasted Pine-nuts & Alfredo sauce served with fresh green vegetable

For heaven's sake - it's 11pm and I'm hungry.  Shouldn't have started looking at menus.  Or maybe because tonight was water aerobics again.  I ate at 5pm and went to the pool at 7pm.  Hard work out since I've done nothing in the way of exercise in over a year.  Just had 2 radishes but I don't think that will cut it.  Oh, oh.  I hear chocolate calling.

Minus, that Italian restaurant sounds like it's THE place for me!  I'm tempted to drive to Houston and meet you for lunch.  Enjoy.  You deserve it.

Moon, the flavored oils and vinegars are easy to find now with the popularity of the Oil & Vinegar stores.  I have one about 5 min. away.  I'll bet you have one within a few miles, too.  My favorite combination is champagne vinegar and lime-infused olive oil.  It is really delicious, even on the fingertip! 

Off to the gym this morning with dh.  Then an annual apptment with bc dr.'s NP for an ultrasound of chest and underarms.  Always that tinge of worry.  Then after that I'll take my 91 yr. old mother to her weekly hair apptment for shampoo and set.  Today a trim, too.

My bathroom scales were so kind this morning after being unkind for days that I'm wondering about the accuracy.  Maybe I should have rotisserie chicken and salad for dinner every night!!

Carole, good luck with your tests. Do we ever get over "scanxiety"?

Tonight is spaghetti and meatballs. Meatballs already made and frozen. Easy.

Yes it is Carole! I usually have the sauce made too, but I've gone through it lately. Still have two big cans of San marzano tomatoe so that will replenish my stock some.

My apptment couldn't have gone any better.  No problems detected! 

The chicken and rice dish was delicious.  Thank you, Eric!  When I was in the kitchen tonight making the dish, I said, "We're having Eric's chicken and rice dish."  DH said, "Who?"  LOL!  The toasted pine nuts add a wonderful taste.  So does the cilantro.  A couple of changes.  I forgot about sautéing the onions to cook with the rice.  Also, dh had chopped green onions as a garnish on his helping.  I had black grapes in the refrigerator so I used those.  This will enter the menu rotation.  I think you could throw in chopped celery, grated carrots, grated Italian cheese. 

Tomorrow night we eat out for dh's birthday dinner no. 1.  Yay!!

Laurie, just to prove you were right in outing me for night owl habits, here I am posting when I should be snoring! 

Very busy day with a few events with my volunteer grp and my former school colleagues. Way too much relational stimulation for me!! Managed not to eat myself silly, (food at both places was pretty unremarkable) ! So hopefully my MO appt this afternoon will reflect the same record loss I saw today on the scale. (Carole, of course you should trust your scale when it's kind!)  So, I'm thinking, wouldn't it be great if MO says, "Of course you are fine to stay off meds since you are removing so many fat cells" Hahahahaha! 

I love that Laurie's salsa chicken is still making the rounds!  And it is great that you can hang out at the lakefront cottage....with boat, ta boot! Cool! Now you just need some serious sunshine to warm up that water!

Carole, yay on the US results!

Moon, knew they'd love that salad!

Cute pic, Bedo!

I'd better get to sleep since I need to have at least a partial brain to deal 1) with the  functional meds clinician who has me dairy deprived and I plan to change that, and 2) the MO who will try her hardest to convince me to take the AI (yay for you Carole, your AI time is almost up, isn't it? Hope you don't need the ten year protocol!) and I plan to stay rogue, despite the fact that I think she is a wonderful, sensible doc.

'Night all.......

Crims are quick this day Eric - wow ! 20 minutes.   I think they deserve everything they get.   What happened to human kindness ??

Eric, what a bummer.  We hate to realize we're living in a world with dishonest people all around us. 

Played golf at 8:10 and got soaking wet with perspiration.  Had lunch afterwards with my women golfer friends and ordered a grilled blackened salmon sandwich.  It was so tasty, the salmon cooked just right.  Not overcooked.

Tonight we're having dinner at the same club, different dining room.  DH gets a free entrée because June is his birthday month.  We're meeting another couple and the man will also be using his free birthday entrée.  Nice not to have to cook tonight.

eric - why not?  But I think I'm meaner than most of you.  Or I've just haven't re-gained my patience with idiots since treatment.  Wonder if I'll become 'kinder & gentler' again?

My friend has grown 6 kinds of tomatoes so I got 9 or 10 samples today.  I'm supposed to report back like a food critic.  I'm so excited - tomatoes for breakfast, lunch & dinner.  Our weather is so hot that the fruit production will be finished in another two weeks.

Bedo - so glad that you're back.  Walking 2 miles a day is wonderful.  I like the dill Triscuits.  Good luck w/the date.  I'm going to a concert w/my SIL.  I'll be interested to hear how the "new" Verizon TV plan works out.  I cut the cable cord some time ago & never replaced, so it's been news on line for me.

Tonight's dinner was one tomato, a bowl of leftover green peas, one King's roll w/leftover chicken salad w/cranberries.  Dessert will be popcorn in a couple of hours.

viv - will certainly hold all of you in my heart and hope that the tide turns very soon. You all must be frightened, sending you strength!

Vivian - Holding your SO's son, your SO, you and your family close in prayer. Holding the hope of signs of abcess resolution.

Vivian.  Also sending prayers.

Eric