So...whats for dinner?
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Yesterday was a big kitchen day..... the ramen broth simmered until 10:30 and then I strained. This morning, I will have to reduce for storage and then freeze. I have some English muffin bread rising, and the eggs are in the sous vide machine. The boy wants to try soft-boiled eggs, so I have two in there for him. The husband wants scrambled eggs so he can have some muffin bread instead of his usual French toast. Packaging up all the food I made this week for the freezer will take some effort, but the magic freezer does need to be stocked to retain its magical qualities.
Woke to more snow, and the Boston Globe says that there is more on the way. Ugh. Just tired of this cold and this snow, and I hardly have to go out in it!
*susan*
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Red,
I would make stuffed, braised cabbage with the bulk sausage. Or, you could do something like this bean, kale and sausage soup: http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/kale_with_sau...
Hungarian sausage with pancakes would be just wrong, I think, though, now that I think about it, a hash with peppers, sausage and potatoes with a soft boiled or poached egg on top sounds pretty good.
*susan*
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OK I can't post picture. Grrrrr
Another 16 inches today and tomorrow
I will be eating all the special food I bought for my DD that she ignored and requested boxed mac and cheese.although she did eat the stuffed grape leaves
Plenty of fresh pizza, tossed veggies in oil and vinegar, a mash of turnips, carrots and sweet potatoes and some Indian frozen dinners. And cauliflower soup.We spent the evening (as usual ) watching a scary movie and tapping each other on the shoulder from behind and making snarky comments like "the cell phone!!! call for help on the cell phone you fool!" and "don't trust him, they're never really dead, he'll get up again when you don't expect it!!!!"
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ROFL! That was all about posting a picture? I thought maybe Vodka-Bedo or Bourbon-Bedo had been to visit.
*susan*
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Ha Ha. Oh no, I can't drink hard alcohol. The last time was about 20 years ago and never really liked it. It tastes too strong and is too strong. As I said, I'm a cheap date. lol
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Bourbon-bedo.... That has a certain ring to it! :-)
The Lebanese Couscous was well liked. It supposedly is enough for 8. In our case it was 2 adults and one teenager with enough left over for said teenager to have (all the left overs) for breakfast. The recipe came from Ghillie Basan's "The Food and cooking of the Middle East".
Green Beans, a fruit salad and rolls rounded out the dinner. I thought about doing some appetizers, but decided "no". Sharon has been successfully fighting the Arimidex weight gain by losing weight and I don't want to undermine her effort by making "fat pills" in the form of appetizers.
Gotta go figure out what's going on. Six fire trucks WITHOUT red/blue lights & sirens have stopped along the street......
Fire cadets practicing driving fire trucks. One of fire fighter trainers lives down the street and they got more water/made a "pit stop".
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Bedo - I always find your deleted posts so mysterious. I imagine all sorts of things lol!
Well all the food came out great. Except the cheesecake was slightly over cooked. No one noticed but me. The popovers were too bland, I really prefer Yorkshire pudding. Much better flavor. I used some preserved lemons with the asparagus along with some garlic. Boy was that good. I'm going to be breaking open my second jar of lemons soon. The cured salmon was a hit with everyone but DH (not a salmon guy. He had a slice of ham.) We have enough leftovers for lunch and dinner, so no cooking today. Yay!
Lacey, yes I have used my tagine -- twice in fact. Both times the dishes were fantastic. I'm a big fan of the vessel and the spices. The Urfa peppers came yesterday, so I'll try to get some harissa made and make another dish in it this week.
Carole, I'm sorry to hear that about the cannellini beans. I always have canned in the pantry, goya when I can find them, but just purchased a bag of dried cannellini at Global Market. I'll have to use them sooner rather than later I guess.
It's in the 50's here and the door and a couple of windows are open. Not for long. It's supposed to be cold again tomorrow. I'm off to see the hand doc tomorrow. The hand is very slowly improving. My index finger is slightly numb the thumb still completely numb.I know how long it can take but I'm very impatient for improvement.
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Fire truck driver training for the fire cadets...One of the fire fighters that I know (work with sometimes) lives down the street and they stopped by to grab some stuff. It certainly got everyone out of their house! :-)
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Susan thanks for the sausage tips. I love cabbage rolls, and I wouldn't have thought of them, and I copied the soup recipe too.
It is nice here today, snow is melting and the sun is shining....
Need to run a few errands. May go walk around the lake since it is nicer.
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lacey - thanks for the update on your hand. I'd been wondering if you are still hampered in your cooking efforts or just pushing through.
Eddie's V's was absolutely wonderful. Thanks heavens we had the sense to skip the oyster bar and the appetizers. We were already so full at the end we felt positively disabled. I started w/shrimp & lobster bisque; my girlfriend had a Fugi apple salad - greens, candied walnuts, beets, green beans, etc. Oh - and great fresh bread. I choose Georges Bank scallops sauteed w/citrus fruit & roasted almonds in brown butter. She not an adventurous fish person so had North Atlantic Lemon Sole w/a parmesan crust. She did try & like my scallops so one more thing she can add to her seafood list. Couldn't resist sides - crab fried rice w/mushrooms & scallions and she had sauteed spinach w/garlic & more parmesan. She loved the rice. By dessert we were reeling so only managed to stuff down a creme brulee which they presented free for our 2014 B-days with Happy Birthday written in chocolate sauce on the rim of the plate. We told them it was last summer but they insisted. Portions were huge. Food was excellent. Service was magnificent. Very pricey but we're both glad we went. We hadn't celebrated last year's joint birthday because her husband was so sick nor done anything since he died in October and it was well worth the splurge.
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Minus 2---your description made me drool......how am I going to satisfy myself tonight with left over meatloaf????
Susan, I went to the Library and to Barnes and Noble to see if I could find the new Book of Middle Eastern Food---no luck, but I did find (by the same author) The Food of Spain on a clearance table. I did not buy it as the book was HUGE, but thought if you love her cooking, you might want to know. I think it was like 12.98, regular price 45.00
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Yum. Sounds like a spectacular dinner out, Minus. DH's favorite seafood (or one of his favorites) is scallops.
Redheaded, the Hungarian sausage meal sounds good. Susan's suggestion seems like a great way to cook the bulk sausage. Maybe mixed with rice as a stuffing for the cabbage?
Susan, that's a great looking pressure cooker ensemble. What a good idea to have two pots, different sizes. We have lots of Goya products in our Walmart. And in other supermarkets, too.
Nance, your cannellini beans will probably be fine. Fresh Market had their canned cannellinis on sale recently and I bought several cans, but I would definitely buy some dry ones if they were available. Great Northern white beans seem to be the preferred larger white bean around here.
My older brother brought the dessert today to my mother's house. King cake with a Bavarian cream filling. The bakery employee asked him if he wanted baked or fried king cake. He got the fried, which is like a giant doughnut but with the typical colorful sugary icing. Looks just like the baked. It was the best king cake any of us had ever tasted. I had never heard of deep fried king cake. The filling is injected into the center of the circular cake. My cousin Iris, who lives near my mother, came for lunch and she brought two bakery cakes, a Mississippi Mud chocolate and a lemon pound cake. An overabundance of dessert foods.
Our dinner was a typical heavy hodgepodge of dishes. Boiled smoked picnic ham, potato salad, garden salad, brussel sprouts, bowtie pasta with a white sauce. At least we didn't have bread!
Those deleted posts from Bedo intrigue me, too.
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As you can see - I'm still brain dead from all the food. I meant - Nance - thanks for the update on your hand. Apologies to Lacey & Nance.
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Minus -- fabulous meal!! I so love eating vicariously through others lol! Lacey and I both have hand troubles so you weren't so wrong.
Carol - OMG, what a king cake! I ate a deep fried twinkie once (wrong on so many levels). I want to have Sunday dinner at your mother's house.
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Deep fried twinkie? OMG - truly weird.
Edited to say I live in the South and they fry EVERYTHING.
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Hi! Been so busy post DH surgery haven't had time to read or post. I keep logging on and then have to put my phone down to go change a diaper/feed a hungry mouth/water someone/run to school!....Thank you everyone for your well wishes! Recovery is coming along slowly but surely. Have had a sitter to help me with the babes luckily, and my mom flew in for a couple of weeks too - I think mostly to take care of me. Moms are good like that : ) . Had a scare the morning after DH came home from the hospital - he got up to go to the bathroom and got lightheaded....sat down on the toilet and called for me...said uh-oh....and eyeballs promptly rolled up into his head and he tipped forward....right onto me! My poor 3 weeks post surgical chest took the brunt of his weight, but I was able to swing around and so we sat on the bathroom floor for a bit while he came to. Ai yi yi...but now he's up and having regular walks and almost completely off the painkillers. Hoping for life to settle down to some kind of new normal soon.
Many meals cooked in the last 10 days...my fav was a brown rice congee with mushrooms and poached chicken with sautéed greens. It's so comforting in the cold weather, though not much culinary skill required. I think DH's was when I made one of his favorite childhood dish of Chicken Otto - tender chicken breasts with white wine and oj! DH's aunt gave me a leather-bound binder of recipes - a mix of family recipes and her favorites as a wedding gift - a very old fashioned kind of gift that I'm not too modern to appreciate.
Wishing everyone a warm and cozy night...especially to those of us on the east coast facing more snow.
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Carole - I third it. I want to have Sunday dinner at your mom's house. I've never had king cake but I would be game for anything deep fried.
Nancy - I hope the hand appointment goes swimmingly tomorrow. I have an index finger that is not wanting to bend so much. Guilty from sleeping on tucked under my chin. I try not to go to sleep like that but know for sure I do it when deep asleep.
Minus - your meal sounds fantastic. I'm not too adventurous on eating seafood either but I certainly like scallops.
Eric - the Lebanese Couscous sounds good. I found several recipes but not the one you had. Might try one though not with lamb in it. Has been a long time since we had couscous of any sort which my unadventurous DH actually likes. LOL I think it reminds him of rice, his favorite.
OO Veruka - what a special gift to get from DH's aunt. I love collections of old recipes. Handwritten, cut out from old newspapers, anything. So glad your DH is on the mend. Hope you are continuing to take care of yourself.
Susan, Lacey, Bedo, Veruka - who else. Are you ever going to catch a break on the snow?
We had the pork stir fry tonight. DD did not get out here yesterday. Something about having to work. Truly I think she just could not get her act together to get out here. Have enough stir fry for dinner and probably a lunch for one. I used a Lee Kum Kee sauce that I was not so impressed with and think they are supposed to be of better quality. The ginger teriyaki I had a couple of weeks ago was much better. I watched some PBS cooking shows yesterday morning. Simply Ming did some stuffed cabbage. Looked very good and quite Western to my way of thinking but then I then that's his style. I'm going to have to look for the soy sauce/sauces that sponsor him. Maybe they are good. Wan Ja Shan.
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I wish I could catch a break on the snow. We have two more snow events coming on Thurs. and then again over the weekend!
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Mommy of 2---I feel your pain. I don't know how you all manage. Can Cabin Fever kill a person.? We have only had 1/2 of the snowfall we had this time last year in IL. It is just a blah gray outside and there are little tiny flurries ever now and then. I am so sick of grey days......I'd take white snow and sunshine and frigid temps, just to have some "bright" in my life.....
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So far we are managing one storm at a time.
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Yes, Red and Mommy, it is amazing how one manages to manage when these storms just keep coming. We are yet to be done with this three day latest accumulation of 14 more inches on top of more than two feet, and I too have paid attention to the forecast of more snow later in the week . Ouch!
My biggest worry is the accumulation on our less slanted family room roof, and the ice dams there. DH will be out there at some point shoveling it off. At least a roof fall would land him in a mound of snow...I guess not too bad.
And pretty soon we won't even need to use a ladder to get to the roof.....seriously! This is the most snow I think we have ever had in a short time.I am salivating after reading all the wonderful meals you have been preparing! And minus, your seafood dinner would have made me think I died and went to heaven! WOW! Good for you and your friend for splurging!
Veruka, good to hear from you, and that things are looking better for DH now. Glad you have family support through this rough time. Love the gift from your aunt!! Precious shared info!
So the Brownie/Girl Scout dance has come and gone. It was adorable to see these little girls demurely arrive with their grown up male family members, all dressed up and some with corsages (they should call it the Oedipal Dance;), then take about five minutes before turning into wild gymnasts, stage performers, and the like. By the end of the event most did dance with their "dads". DH got a kick out of DJing this, and a good time seemed to be had by all.
Then, despite this latest storm, we made it into Boston yesterday too see Motown the Musical. Very well done!
Then we went with our friends (who had driven in from Amherst, mind you!) for a drink at the lovely hotel at which they were staying, then walked over to LaVoile on Newbury Street for dinner. It was delightful! I had duck breast over spinach, mushrooms and fingerling potatoes (several of which I traded for some of DH's huge artichoke hearts...the bed for his red snapper). Also had potato leek soup, and dessert of an apple tart. I was a bit disappointed that it was not the apple dessert I had there before and loved. But it was fine. We also had a cheese plate after dinner (in addition to dessert! Needed energy to manage the snowy walk back to the hotel;) For some reason, the restaurant gave us complimentary dessert wine. Yum! I have to say that even before that we loved the service there. May have helped that one of our party members speaks fluent French. The Back Bay of Boston was a peaceful and magical scene last evening. Glad we went and made some happy memories during this crazy winter!
Minus, soon I will be the only one with the bad hand.
Nancy, hope your appt went well and the healing continues! Oh, news flash! I saw a pizza recipe for one with Meyer lemons. If interested in it, I will post the link for you Meyer lemon queens!
. There was also one for marinated kale and creamy ricotta. Right up my alley! I have totally wasted today...needed to after the busy weekend. I think I'll take a stab at making some dinner. DH will need some energy for the snow removal job tonight.
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Lacey, your evening out sounds delightful.
I decided to make pita bread today. The dough has just about risen enough. I used 4 cups wheat flour and 2 cups white. I thought I would make some pitas and some without the pockets. To prevent the ballooning, you pierce the dough with a fork. I will use my baking stone instead of the upside down baking pans recommended..
Our dinner is totally western US. I have 4 skinless bone in chicken thighs marinating in buttermilk. I also have a breading mixed up, taken from Healthy Comfort. I'll cook the thighs in a 400 degree oven. Our side will be a mixture of quinoa and brown rice (out of a pouch) with sautéed shitake mushrooms and roasted pine nuts. I bought a box of the quinoa and brown rice pouches at Sam's. Have used one and it was quite good. Very easy, too.
It's so mild today I've had the kitchen door open. Will be cooler tomorrow, high about 62. I'm signed up to play in a women's golf event.
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Carole - so is a Pita w/o a pocket a Naan? Are your Quinoa & Rice pouches by Seeds of Change? I've bought some of that label at Costco and they're delicious.
The last time I was in Boston was 1988. I can remember all the lovely meals but don't miss the snow. It's just as long for NYC since my scheduled trip for a week w/ 3 Broadway shows in 2013 was derailed by BC. Trying to decide whether to plan bucket list trips to places I've always wanted to go (the Carolinas & San Diego, Vermont & Maine, Mackinac Island, Grand Canyon) or go back to places I know I love (San Francisco & Carmel, Hawaii, Washington & Oregon & Western Canada). You can tell I REALLY miss the Pacific Ocean.
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I was just emailed by the state that there is a Meningococcal disease emergency and asked if I could come in to help cover the 24/7 shifts that are needed.
I am not sure if I'm the best one to ask, as I ate raw pizza last night. I was hungry at 3am.
I will be happy to help as my "real job" does not start until Monday.
Veruka Stay warm! -
Oh Bedo - 24/7!!! Be sure to take at least Sunday just for you so re-group before the new "real" job. Do you all know "What is real" from the Velveteen Rabbit? Hope the job turns out to be something that you can "love".
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I remember the velveteen rabbit a little bit, and without looking it up, am sure that I am "as worn"
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Spent all day staring at maps and vacation rental websites. So much more tiring than work!
Dinner tonight was a Crispy Ginger Chicken, a lettuce stir-fry [who knew?] and some rice. Mr. 02143 was not crazy about the chicken, so that is an experiment that I will probably not repeat.
The amount of snow is beyond absurd. And they are talking about a storm on Thursday which is, of course, treatment day. How do we make this stop?
*susan*
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