So...whats for dinner?
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Thinking of making beef stir fry for dinner.
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Oh my goodness, Lacey, you are such a trooper, shoveling all that snow! I'm proud of your improved fitness. What a shame about the attitude of those teenagers. When all that snow melts, where does the water go? Enjoy that thoughtful Valentine's Day dinner gift.
Susan, I shopped for sherry at a great spirits store a couple of months ago. They had dry sherry, most of it obviously fine sherry from the prices but I bought Dry Sack, which is a medium sherry. Not so much for drinking, though it is drinkable but for recipes. I was familiar with Dry Sack because we used to buy it and drink it as an after-dinner liquer.
Moon, I'm glad you checked in. I'm having hard thoughts about your dh, who sounds like he is being very selfish. Your DGD is a well-deserved blessing and I'll bet your DD is grateful for your babysitting. Hugs.
This afternoon we will be picking up neighbors and travelling across the Lake Pontchartrain causeway (24-mile bridge) to New Orleans for the Endymion parade, always the Sat. before Fat Tues. We'll have secure parking at an office building on the parade route and catered food from Voo Doo Barbeque and soft drinks and beer. This is about the 3rd year we've done this. I'll try to get some phone pics of the parade. It's one of the big ones and the court costumes are gorgeous. We'll have to be careful when the beads and throws are flying through the air because you can get hit in the head! It's always a little spooky making occasional eye contact with those eyes behind the masks! There's music with lots of high school and college marching bands and flambeau carriers add to the atmosphere. The crowd is quite large in the area where we set up our chairs, lots of families and kids on dads' shoulders. Knock on wood, everybody has always been considerate and friendly. Just out for a good time. Nobody exposing body parts for beads. That tends to happen in the French Quarter, a more adult scene, and a lot of the "exposers" are not New Orleans people but tourists enjoying putting aside inhibitions.
DH is off to a woodworking club meeting this morning and I am off to the gym. It's sunny and will be another pleasantly mild day. But the forecast for Tues., Mardi Gras, is looking rather miserable. Doesn't matter to me but I always feel bad for the New Orleans visitors when they don't have a pretty day to be outdoors and enjoy the parades. Last year was awful.
Happy Saturday.
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Moon Ahahahaha! Love that twinkle in the baby's eye.
Lacey, you really are in good shape!!!
Goats How are the goats?? Love your idea of grilled cheese, I think I'll make it with
Susan's great idea for minestrone soup. I think I'll put in great northern as I'm not crazy about navy beans'
Have to pick up a friend who doesn't have a car and go to Farmer's market and the supermarket before the next "storm". All the bread and milk will be gone as usual. I always wonder what's up with that- are they making milk sandwiches?
Happy Valentines Day!
or Singles Awareness Day! / Love Yourself/Cat/Family/Friends Day as the case may be.
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Omigod Lacey, I'm exhausted just reading your post. I'm in awe of you!
Monica, what a doll baby! I'm happy you get to spend so much time with her.
Carole, glad you liked the soba noodles. You got me thinking about them so I think I'll have to fix some. Panera has a new soba bowl that I would like to try next time I have lunch there. Have fun at Endymion it sounds like such a great time and you have an ideal setup.
Susan, funny you should mention the xiaoxiang, I just noticed yesterday that salt was listed in the ingredients. Never noticed that before.
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Carole, take pictures, please!!
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beautiful child-made me smilefractured radius and ulna- forced them up and backwards---will get a plate and pins to secure it, and t stays 4-ever---8 weeks in cast, then 8 weeks p.t. will have arn yp like letter L with fingers t owards ceiling for a while... I honestly am not sure, when said plate and 60-70% function returning, I zoned out, motto has always been deal with today, so that's what i'm doing.
I can open mayo with jar between my legs
The deli where by friend grabbed me some tutkey and cheese while I waited in a scripy put it in baggies with zippers, I hold bag in my teeth and use left hand to open zipper.
even banannas can be challenge----and the film on tv dinners is not my friend I may lose that final 20 lbs after all!
good news--the dog I went searching for when I fell was successfully caught in animal control trap, he had followed the creekbed at the lake I was at clear out to the I55/I74 interchange west of town! so maybe I can find some peace in that
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Oh Red, how awful. But you sound quite resourceful lol! Hope you heal completely and quickly.
Susan, I keep meaning to ask, how did the English muffin bread turn out?
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Good grief, Susan and Nance, you must be looking at the bottle when you spell the name of that Chinese wine! How is it pronounced? I'm so word oriented that I always want the pronunciation.
About the soba noodles, Susan was making sesame noodles recently. I thought I would check out some recipes.
Redheaded, you are indeed resourceful. Good luck with healing and regaining normal use of your arm.
Cooking Light mag. has a new editor. The latest issue came yesterday. I always dog-ear pages with recipes I might want to cook. Last night I found myself dog-earing almost every page! There's a pretty picture of Michelle Obama on the cover, the first time the magazine has ever had a person on the cover. Middle-eastern cooking is definitely making inroads into mainstream cooking. There's a recipe for mashed sweet potatoes with M/E spices that I intend to make. It's always a bit disappointing when I find myself in a trend. And it happens so often in different areas of life. Most of us are susceptible to influences that are easing into our consciousness without our knowing it.
On that thought, I'll have some breakfast.
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The guy at my fave Asian market pronounces it Sh-ow Sheeng. I wasn't looking at the bottle so I probably spelled it wrong lol!
I usually tear out the pages of the magazines, that way I can throw what I don't want away. Right now the only ones I subscribe to have kindle copies that are accessible, so I don't have to worry about throwing away something I might want later.
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soba noodles...drunken noodles... Hmmmm
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Ha ha Eric
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Red that completely su##ks
It is so hard to function with a hand injury, and no one realizes it until they have one. Or realizes how much it limits what you can do
I was attacked by a Rottweiler in the Arctic tundra and was flown out to have surgery in the lower 48
It will get better. Trust me. Just do whatever PT says, no matter how silly it seems
Susan-I made a "bucket" of minestrone. Might have to freeze some
Snow!
But not the kind of snow that you can make snowmen or penguins out of.
Actually I like snow. And have no complaints. I've lived with it my whole life and like snow-so not -pc
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Moon, your DGD looks like such a happy little one, and I am also so happy that you and she get to enjoy each other a few times each week. Lucky both of you! Good timing!
Of course the snow is falling as I write this....ahhhhhh! I basically like snow too, Bedo, ...otherwise I'd be in a warm climate in winter with all of my other (smarter?) retired friends. But this latest month here has been a bit much in many ways. I feel so badly for the retailers in Boston. Commerce has been badly affected for sure. And the stress level of people who have not been able to get to work on the T. Yikes! Today our new governor asked people to consider next week, Valentine's week, (given that so much would be cancelled tonight and tomorrow) and to please go out to eat, buy flowers,etc. etc. We'll see how that works out.....guess it can instill hope in folks who are still waiting for the Valentine's treat that didn't happen!
Red, you sound like you have a good plan for recovery already and yes, are you resourceful with all your new one handed strategies!
Today I awoke early...tho was really tired after being up waaaaay late getting the house in order for the return of DH in debilitated form. I was eager to see the roof guy show up and he did in late AM, suggesting that he thought the roof would be fine until Monday and he would shovel it then. I shared my worry (based on nothing but the huge mountains of snow that no roof should bear!) about trying that route, and he ended up sending a guy out an hour later. That poor guy worked his tail off without stopping for four hours, and cleared the whole roof while not refilling the driveway, and only partially filling the back path that I worked so hard on yesterday. I didn't even care. I was so happy it was getting done. It was tricky because this shovel man had a really severe hearing and speech impairment, so it was hard to communicate with him about being mindful of where the skylight was 'hiding' under four feet of snow! But we finally got it. Then at one point the poor guy dropped his shovel and when I returned home with DH, he was "swimming" on top of the snow drifts to reach it in the back heard where he was trying to throw all the shoveled snow. It is a crazy situation on our property. We paid a small fortune to have this done, but you can bet that this man saw very little of that sum. We gave him a generous tip for his hard work in the freezing temps and driving snow. I am so thankful, especially since tonight DH is sleeping in the family room as he is not yet ready to handle our tall staircase.
So the trip to and from the hospital today was pretty uneventful, and the most challenging part was getting DH in and out of the car. He is in pain a lot and sooo protective of his hip! Poor guy. But boy, if I were ever to be a home health aide (won't happen!), I would need to be partnered with a cook, cleaner and laundry person. It is so consuming....but I think probably because it's the first day home....and being dependent and "fragile" is out of character for DH. So I have to adjust to that. We are definitely moving into a big role reversal to get through this healing/recovery phase. Hope I make it! Tho I may just be tired after all the home maintenance this week. Fortunately, DS2 already communicated from Chicago (last visit before Chicago girl moves here next week)that he'll stop in on Monday when he returns to help out. Yes!!
Tonight's dinner was, as expected, delicious and plentiful, so we will have Sweet Basil leftovers....yay! And I have all the leftovers from the broccoli rabe/chicken meal I made last evening. So I can ignore the cooking for a bit....and will need to...until DH can feel a bit more independent. He is usually a fast healer. Hoping for that!
I hope you all had a nice Heart Day.
Carole, yes, please take pix of your parade experience. It will remind me of Treme. Loved that show and all of the colorful cultural presentations by the actors
Nite all...and please excuse all my typos...this crazy IPad will not cooperate with letting me go back and make corrections....very annoying. Changed my browser, but no change
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So many stories to respond to, and not enough concentration to do it right.
Moon, I am so glad that your granddaughter is giving you so much pleasure. Spending time with her each week will give you such purpose and joy. I am always baffled by your spouse, moving closer, moving farther away, disappearing. I know that you have decided to live with this uncertainty, but I sure wish it didn't need to be that way. And, I wish that you were being supported, both emotionally and financially, in a way that you don't have to worry about food and basic needs.
Pat, funny how the most independent folks become "different" when they are forced by their bodies to become dependent. They are in pain. They are angry. They can't actualize what their brains are telling them they want to do. They get grumpy. The weeks that I cared for my mother loom large in my memory as very long weeks. You will pull this off. But, you do need to get relief. My mother used to take Tuesday and Thursday mornings for herself, and all day Saturday when caring for my sister. For the 6 years that my father declined while living with her, it was only Tuesday mornings. She just needed a break. See if you can arrange something like this for yourself.
Red, best healing thoughts to you. You must have taken quite a tumble! But, I admire your clever workarounds in the kitchen. Nothing like a determined woman to find the alternate method to accomplish any task.
The English muffin bread has been quite a success. This is my third Sunday in a row making this bread. Everyone likes it. It is not as good as my actual English muffin recipe at all, but I can start it at 8am and be eating bread at noon with my Sunday eggs. The kids like it. The husband likes it. I like it. But, it might be time to try your recipe.... see what another version might do for us. [I will say that the simplicity and speed of this bread is one of its key attributes.]
Vacation planning has taken over. I am so darn OCD about finishing something before moving to something else, that work has taken a real back seat. We now have an itinerary: Malaga [hotel 3 nights] -> bus -> Granada [hotel 2 nights] -> train -> Cordoba [hotel 2 nights] -> Seville [apartment for a week] -> plane -> Valencia [4 days] -> train -> Barcelona [apartment for a week] -> plane -> Istanbul [still looking for a place to stay.] -> plane -> Boston. So I have bought all plane tickets, have places to stay everywhere but Istanbul. Hard to believe how much time this has all taken. Now, I need to figure out the renfre, train website that makes it almost impossible to buy a ticket, buy tickets to Alhambra, and the bus from Malaga to Granada.
Finding an apartment in Istanbul has turned out to be really hard. You think you have found a perfect place and then it turns out to have a 2 ft wide spiral staircase for 5 floors, etc. Or it is on a street that looks like a war zone. Or, or or.
Today, I am breaking down a leg of lamb. The lovely whole muscles will turn into lamb stew of some kind, and all that other stuff will turn into Merguez sausage. I think the sausage will be supper, served with some bulghar, and a salad.
I have missed a ton of people... sorry....
*susan*
oh yea. We have at least 15" of new snow out there, and it is still coming down hard.
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Hahaha....as nice as it is to see the sun shine after this last 18 inch white load, it's keeping me busy mopping up water in the window frames that are getting leakage from the ice dams. So I am amazed at how ice can be melting when the temps are between 10 and 20... But I guess in between the window fram it is at least 32!
Am turning into a real Nurse Ratchett with so much multitasking. I get to act it out by pushing DH to do the PT exercises he finds a bit difficult....of course that is how I got my shoulder and and knees better...so Nurse Ratchett knows best!
Off to make DH his next food item....tuna on a bulkie with lots of lettuce. He is so more food oriented than I -
Oh....and tomato soup out of a WF box! So uninspiring....but efficient so I can get back to the windows...
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Geez Lacey -- it never ends, does it? You are a trooper with a capital T!
Susan, don't know if this is significantly different than KAF's. Btw, I don't use rapid rise yeast, so it usually rises in an hour or so. I usually make a double batch and bake it in the pullman pan. Makes for a nice square toast.
English Muffin Bread
2 1/2 cup all purpose flour
1 pkg rapid rise yeast
2 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup milk
1/4 cup water
cornmeal
1. In large bowl, combine 1 1/2 cups flour, undissolved yeast, sugar, salt and baking soda; stir in milk and water.
2. Stir in remaining flour to make soft dough.
3. Grease 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 inch loaf pan; sprinkle with cornmeal. Place dough in prepared pan; sprinkle with cornmeal.
4. Cover; let rise in warm, draft-free place until doubled in size, about 30 to 45 minutes.
5. Bake at 400 degrees 25 to 30 minutes or until done.
6. Remove from pan; cool on wire rack.
I'm braising some lamb shanks with garlic and Indian spices. Boy does the house smell good. I'll serve it with some Israeli couscous and green beans with shallots and lemon.
Carole, hope you enjoyed Endymion. I'm making a King Cake with a lemony cream cheese filling. I've made lots of king cakes, but this is the first time I've made a filled one. It's the hardest dough I've ever worked with! You have to roll it up like a jelly roll and the filling kept trying to squeeze out. I was covered in cream cheese filling! We'll see how it turns out.
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24" of blasted snow! on top of whatever was still there. Incredible! [she says with her best French accent.] Male people blew and shoveled lots of snow. Now the wind is blowing the snowbanks back into all the cleared spaces.
Lamb stew is in the oven. Sausage mixture is co-mingling and ready to grind. I am covered in splatter and will need another shower. The kid made beef stew at the same time so the house smells wonderful.
Nancy, funny! That is almost exactly the same as the recipe I have been using with a few minor changes. Gonna try this next weekend.
*susan*
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Happy Mardi Gras!
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Nancy, how delightful your king cake is! And I may just have to "try" making your English Muffin bread recipe tomorrow...mainly because we are clean out of bread! So much for scrounging for kale nefore a snowstorm!Distressing for DH! I actually gave DH the tuna sandwich today on a "dated" bulkie roll. Not sure I can manage that (morally) another day. So after his lunch, and my clean up (please understand, in our house I am creative dept., and he is maintenenace dept.) our neighbor came over to snowblow our walks and driveway (which also involves clearing and moving the cars to our "Timpano" neighbors driveway...they are in FL). Well, since I am currently ablebodied, albiet tired, I figured I may as well help him, so I donned five layers and headed out to do the front walks, the edges of the drive, and the back walk and grill area which was totally re-covered since I did it yesterday.
I have to admit, I have less of a problem with Mother Nature covering my handiwork than I do with the town employees or contractors who bomb past you with their plows filling in every place you have painstakingly just shoveled. Oh well...if I blame MN it feels softer.
Tonight, after I returned to the warmth of the inside, I heated up the rabe, chicken and squash medley, and made a nice salad to go with it, and it was just delightful (maybe shoveling appetite?).
Also had a fun Facetime with DS1, DDIL and the "little buggers" when I came in. Learned that DDIL is starting her own GYN practice, after being with a group OBGYN practice for a several years. Her malpractice reduces by half once she will no longer do OB...and a scheduling coup for a mother of very young kids! I am always impressed with the confidence of the women of our children's generation. I think "our" generation were "transitioners" for them! I am excited for her. She texted us after Facetime to say that DGD told her that, her hip hurt...that she had a boo boo like PaPa's. Kids are amazingly impressionable. I have yet to seriously start my picture book based on DGD about her love of tutus and how her DGM buys her lots of them from a consignment store and she fantasiizes about who wore them and what they did as they grew up (that's the fictional part), Need to work on this a lot, (once my familial multitasking job is done!) and I love the theme.
Oh, while I was out shoveling, a woman walking her dog stopped to chat. It was great to meet a new neighbor, who, as it turned out, bought the house of someone I know a few blocks away. That is one of the things that is great about snowstorms (or many in succession!) in Boston ...you connect with unknown (yet) neighbors. Turns out her DH hails from a town near where I grew up....and they have a place in Ocean City NJ where I spent my formative young adult summers...unlike the " Jersey Shore" of TV.
Susan, I have no idea where your "guys" put your new snow unless they truck it away...
Hope you all manage well in the newly forecasted weather trend for this week. Seems we will just get the end of it...but I worry for those in the midwest. Stay safe!
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PS Susan....love your French accent!
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Lacey they were putting it in dump trucks at work to clear the parking lot and taking it ?????
I got a message from the community organic garden today. We will have our "Spring Meeting and seed swap" in 16 days which is the beginning of the "Spring Season" Hahahahaha!
On the positive side, I will get to be on the 'Bee Team" this year, as I've always wanted to learn bee keeping.
We will have a mushroom expert come from a local mushroom "farm?" and give a talk, so there should be plenty of mushrooms and recipes.
Minestrone soup for dinner.... and brunch. and for dinner tomorrow night. Am such a pig about cheese that I gnawed down the leftover cheese rinds that went into it.
For once I am glad about this tiny place, as it will feel like -25 tonight per the forcast.
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I finally got the computer going again. It would not connect to wireless networks with a capital letter in the SSID (network name)...Once I discovered that, I checked around and found it was a known issue. Going back one version for that part fixed it....sigh...
The thread has been busy with all sorts of less than great news..broken wrists, falls, leaks.. I hope this nasty damaging (to people and houses) weather stops soon and it warms up *slowly* enough that it doesn't flood.
Moon, I like the picture of you and your granddaughter.
Dinner tonight was a quick "put chicken in the dutch oven, add corn, beans, a couple of chilli peppers, and crushed tomatoes....and cook until done."
Sharon, DD and I spent nearly all day cleaning up/out the back yard and trimming things and then we went over to my mom's place and did the same thing over there on a smaller scale. When we got back, no one wanted to cook and we all were too stinky to go out to eat, so the simple dish above.
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Eric, good for you, solving the computer problem. For me, it would be, "Take the laptop to Best Buy," and pay a small fortune. That's what dh did recently and I think he paid about $200. I told him to trash his laptop and buy a new one. He doesn't always listen to me!
Nancy, what a pretty king cake. I'll bet it tasted/tastes good, too. I'm looking forward to the end of king cake season.
Not a clue yet what dinner will be.
Happy Lundi Gras to everyone.
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well I cannot blow my hair dry or use curling iron looking wild and wooly today. need some gelee in it to make it a style, right dr nurse called, had cacellation so I arrive at 930 now for surgery at 11. thanks for sending my angels back and being in my pockets
I hope they feed me something good when I am awake...I could kill for breafast
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Good luck with your surgery Red!
King cake was so so. A bit on the dry side in spite of the filling and not much flavor. I might try it again with an almond paste filling (next year.)
I know it's red bean and rice day, but tonight is chicken, okra and smoked sausage gumbo with a baguette. We got 8 inches of snow overnight and bitterly cold. Ugh. So ready for spring.
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Thinking of you Red..
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fingers crossed Red!
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