So...whats for dinner?
Comments
-
The rotisserie chicken sounds good. Wish I had gone to Sam's Club and bought one. Dh has a woodworkers' guild meeting tonight and said he was ok with warmed up butter beans from last night. I have a huge bag of the coleslaw mix so will make another coleslaw.
Even the WW 3-cheese ziti sounds good! Redheaded, how are you getting along? Is there still pain?
Nance, hope you enjoy your dinner out at the Italian restaurant.
-
Lacey, we were posting at the same time. Your son is nice-looking and his girlfriend is very cute. I cannot imagine being that selective about food. Does she eat dessert foods?
-
Lacey--Sounds like a tough Easter crowd. This might sound callous, but, if I were you, I would cook a variety of things you are good at that can cover lots of tastes in food. Then I would relax and enjoy what you did. They are guests at YOUR table and should be grateful for the work you put into it. (That's the tough side of me. The soft side of me is a people-pleaser and might be kindly, like you are doing, and look to make something special for everyone involved.)
Carole--cole slaw sounds good. I hardly ever make it because I'm the only one who will eat it. Do you do anything different or is your traditional?
-
Ha! Carole, she did take the risk to try Indian Pudding and ate several bites. I am actually at a loss abkut whether she even like desserts...hardly ate the one we had a few weeks ago when out. Am thinking we should hike or something and soend our time together away from food!
But we have always congregated around food...oh dear. 
MZ...you are totally fine on this thread..we have all been in various stages of treatment while here, and I am pretty amazed at how well you are doing already! So glad that you have supportive family to help out when you are "feeling the pain". Your family sounds so interesting....and love that your son in Mexico has a bit of the Anthony Bourdain in him! I am not into bugs myself...but it's prbably more the thought than the taste.
Better get our leftovers in the oven.
Oh, can't edit again...hate this Ipad dysfunction on this site.....
-
Thanks Lacey
Life is never dull at my house, that's for certain!Funny story: The other day we were in the car heading to Grandmas for a visit. Brother was teaching Sister how to do a simple origami fold that becomes a bird. It's made in such a way that when finished, you can pump the tail up and down and it makes the wings look like they are flying. They each finish their bird. Sister moves the tail on hers like Brother showed her. She frowns because it isn't working right. So Brother explains that she isn't moving the tail correctly. Sister adjusts her actions. Still not working. Finally, Brother took Sister's bird and starts examining it. He laughs and says, "I know why the bird isn't flying! You folded it so that its head is coming from its butt."
-
Last minute I decided to make some scallion pancakes to accompany our dinner. They weren't perfect, but they didn't cost $6 for an order either! I tired the Serious Eats recipe tonight, and I am not sure I think it is better than Ming Tsai's. We ate both of them.
*susan*
-
MZ, love the origami story! What are the ages of your children? I definitely am not open to the idea of eating insects. I tend to not like insects as they figure into my life.
Susan, scallion pancakes sound good. I'll have to look them up. Pancakes of any kind appeal to me in my old age.
Lacey, hiking might be a good alternative to dining! LOL!
-
Mmm...scallion pancakes sounds interesting. What goes in those? Are they easy?
Carole--Kids are boy-20, girl--16, boy-14, boy-11. Nope, can't say I want to eat bugs either. But my boy that's in Mexico is an adventurous type. He is serving a mission for our church and he is wanting to embrace the culture, so he tries everything. The funny part is that he is 6 foot 4 inches tall. Most of the people there are tiny. They look at him and think he must eat a ton. One family served him and his companion EACH and entire chicken, along with several other sides!! Incidentally, he ate the entire thing to be polite. Early on in his time there, he was missing eating normal things. One day he spotted some yellow bell pepper slices on the serving table at a dinner. He proceeded to heap them on his plate. He found out the hard way that he had dished up habenjaro peppers. Ohhhhh, did he burn!!
-
Here is the recipe that I used tonight. They are a savory treat. As you cook them they puff lightly, and then you dip them into a prepared sauce.
http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2011/04/extra-f... The Ming Tsai recipe seems to have been pulled down. I make the dough by hand. Not worth getting a food processor dirty to mix a little flour with water.
My goodness. A whole chicken must have cost them a whole week's wages!
*susan*
-
Yum, thanks Susan. Going to try it when I get my energy back. Saving the link.
I know right? A whole chicken! I worried about what it must have cost that family too, but I am hoping it was one of the more wealthy families that he visits. He definitely sees the poorest of the poor, but some are better off. Poor or otherwise, he really adores the people there. He comes home in four months and he says it's going to be hard to leave.
Here he is with one of his favorite people. The man didn't own a tie, so Gabriel gave him one of his. He later saved up and presented Gabriel with a new tie in return. The pic shows them wearing each other's gift. So cute.
-
Lacey, I would just suggest everyone bring a favorite dish to Easter dinner to share, that way you will have one thing she will eat, for sure....
Carole, I get funky pains in the wrist and arm from some finger movements and sometimes it feels like a toothache. I get the cast off a week from Thursday.
Love the origami story! I remember someone at work making those and selling them and we all wrote our names on them and decorated the office Christmas tree with them....
-
Redhead--Great idea on the Easter dinner thing. That's cute using origami to decorate a tree. I found these cute little bowls and I want my son to fold them for our Easter table.
-
These days I feel kind of like that origami bird . . .
Dad mission was a success, hooray! Next mission -- wound care center for his foot ulcers. I found a very highly rated one not far from him and he seems to be willing to try. Double hooray!
For dinner we had a wedge salad with blue cheese, pancetta, tomatoes, onions and a slightly sweet Italian vinaigrette house dressing. I had a pasta primavera with angel hair in a garlic butter sauce. Lots of fresh veggies, sauteed perfectly -- roasted red peppers, red onion, carrots, broccoli, spinach, mushrooms and baby peas. Really lovely and delicious. Dh had rigatoni with their house made sausage. I love Charlie Gitto's food, but not their red sauce so much. Like a lot of St. Louis Italian restaurants, It's a little to sweet for my taste, but dh loves the stuff. We both had spumoni for dessert. It was all quite good.
Great picture Lacey, what a handsome couple! And so is your son and his girlfriend lol! Just ask the girl what she likes then fix one dish along those lines. If she's that picky, this probably isn't her first rodeo. I expect she encounters food dilemmas quite regularly. Make sure you serve lots of bread lol! When I was first diagnosed with diabetes the few people who invited me to dinner always fussed about fixing something special for me. Although I truly appreciated it, It took some convincing them that I was responsible for what I could/should eat and I would manage no matter what they fixed. As long as it wasn't just a dessert buffet, I was good.
The only bugs I have eaten were by accident. Blech!
-
Great picture of Gabriel and his friend.
DS's girlfriend may be like Nance was when dx'ed diabetic. She may prefer to fend for herself at a meal and not have a lot of attention focused on her. We'll all be waiting for Easter dinner, Lacey!
Nance, I do not like heavy, sweet red sauce either. Long ago we ate dinner at the home of an Italian man whose sailboat was next to ours at the marina where we were "live aboarders." Waldo's red sauce was the best I had ever tasted. He told me he put a piece of lemon in the sauce. I usually do the same. I would never add sugar, as so many people do "to kill the acid." I was shocked when I learned recently that my sister-in-law's mother, an Italian whose parents spoke Italian, uses Prego with added sugar for her red sauce. This group of Louisiana Italians who settled a town called Independence, about 40 min. from my house, are originally from Sicily.
-
Carole & all the rest of you who recommended - so where do you rate Rao's marinara on the sweetness scale? I found a source but only bought one bottle because of the cost. I will try it when my son is here for a day or two next month.
-
Nance, Isn't that restaurant on the HILL??? OMG. I wish I could botttle the smell when you open the door to VOLPI's. My Italian friend Maria promised me a road trip for Xmas, and I am hoping she is thinking of grocery shopping soon.... -
Red, their main restaurant is on the hill but I went to one of the others. Love those smells on the hill!
-
Had a refreshing salad with some leftover Costco chicken today. Mixed leafy greens, citrus vinegrette, dried cranberries with orange essence, minced chicken breast, sprinkle of grated cheese. After a couple of days of junky eating, this really hit the spot today.
You gals are making my mouth water with all this talk of marinaras and such. The way you talk of the smells on the hill and the smell when you open the door....it already tastes yummy. LOL I have a favorite Greek place that strikes me that way. They are the ones who have the dressing I like to put on steamed green beans. They have suvlaki that is to die for. I think I might have to make the 4 hour drive to visit that place when rads are done. Mmmmmm
-
Well, not sure what if anything will be for dinner. I keep waking up at 3-4 a.m. and then going back to sleep around 6 and not waking up till 8. TOday I woke up at 8:45....Got up made mayself and egg on toast and coffee and phone rang, a girlfriend who had been up since 7 wanting to know if I had errands, well heck yes, and she was offering to drive me, so we took my vacuum cleaner to the repair shop, where I can expect bad news, and then to buy my Dad's groceries at Kroger and Jewell, and then to get the door key I had made re-done as it wouldn't work (thank God he had his car keys in his pocket or he would have been locked out....) and then we delivered his stuff and she said how about lunch at cracker barrel. So we went there and I had Chicken & dumplings, turnip greens and the cinnamon apples along with 2 biscuits. I made a pan of brownies that just came out of the oven...... And laid around all day. This is day two of FEMARA for me. Woke up with a sore left ankle and sore right knee and pain in my cast...... This better go away real soon, or we are dumping this one. I hate to add a statin in to control the cholesterol, but the Arimidex just did "silent' things like mess with my Liver, my cholesterol and my b.p......
-
Minus, the Rao marinara is not sweet to my taste. It is expensive but I bought a couple of jars recently because I don't think I can make anything better. I can make something cheaper! The salt content in Rao isn't off the charts, either. I'll be interested to hear how you like it.
I'm making a home-made version of shake and bake boneless chicken breasts, using a recipe in Art Smith's Healthy Comfort cookbook. One side is an enhanced brown rice and quinoa out of a packet. Minus, you buy this, too. Or have bought it. I am adding toasted pine nuts, chopped sundried tomatoes and canned artichoke quarters and grated parm. reg. Will throw together a green salad, too.
If I lived anywhere within day travel to the Hill, I would be going there. I think Italian is my favorite ethnic food.
-
carole--How do you make a home-made shake and bake? Are those other ingredients like pinenuts, etc also in your coating or did you mean that stuff is in a separate side dish?
redhead--Sorry to hear about your broken sleep patterns. I'm a serious insomniac (thus my username--lol) I do fine until my sleep gets broken into pieces like you are doing. What's FEMARA--OK to ask that?
-
Femara is the same as Letrozole. Its one of the aromatase inhibitors that they give you if your tumor was estrogen receptor positive.
-
MZ, the pine nuts etc. are in a side dish. Home-made shake and bake means I mixed up my own bread crumb coating for the chicken, which was marinated in buttermilk.
-
Redhead--thanks. I have still have a lot of Herceptin infusions ahead of me. That stuff makes my bones and joints hurt too. Some days I can hardly move. I hope your ankle and knee improve.
Carole--thanks for the tips. These are the kinds of things I want to learn to do--homemade versions of packaged things. I want to cook more healthy, but not have my family whining about too many changes in their favorite things.
-
Minus, the Rao's that I bought was arriabiatta and not sweet. It was not very spicy either which is kind of the whole point of arrabiatta and my complaint about it. I do want to try the puttanesca even though dh won't eat it.
Carolyn, make a detour to my house the next time you go to Decatur and we will make a safari to The Hill. You would love it.
-
I'll report back on the Raos. I just bought the Marinara to start. My son was horrified by the price, but it will be enough for at least 4 meals for one. He loved Spaghetti O's as a kid for heaven's sake. He still may not be a connoisseur of red sauce but I'm REALLY picky.
Carole - yes I love that quinoa & brown rice. I get the Seeds of Change brand.
MZ - I had the infusion center slow down my Herceptin infusions to 90 minutes and got rid of almost all the SEs except a runny nose.
Redhead - I have sleep issues too. Lately I haven't been able to go to sleep until 4am so then I sleep until 10. I was always a 'night owl' but I thought I'd managed to convert myself. My mind gets going with all the things I need to do and am ignoring so I finally turn the light on and read.
-
MinusTwo--Thanks for the Herceptin tip. I will ask if they will do that for me. Next treatment is Tuesday. I have the runny nose part too, plus a few other things that I haven't heard anyone else mention.
I am awake until 3 or 4am most nights. I never sleep in either. I have been an insomniac since babyhood. It got worse when I added children to the mix. The midwife I had with #3 kiddo told me to try a few things that have helped over the years. One is to write down things that are going through your head and won't go away. Two--sometimes a little protein will help, an egg or something. Three--don't fight it. Laying with your eyes staring at the dark is unsatisfying. Get up and do some things and then try returning to sleep later. I never know which one of these will be the answer, but sometimes they help. My naturopath prescribed Melatonin CR. It's a time release version. It definitely helps me sleep. But for me, using it comes with a price--a horrendous headache. Not worth it. Not everyone gets a headache though. It might work for you gals who are sleepless like me.
-
It's going to be a busy night. My DH's brother's family is coming to put on a musical concert for all of the family here tonight. They have seven kids. They ALL sing and play multiple instruments and they participate regularly in professional symphonies and local plays or musicals. It's going to be a nice evening I think! My own daughter is singing for a dinner/fundraiser tomorrow. I have to help her practice. She's 4'10' (she has Turner's Syndrome). She's singing Chim Chim Cheree dressed like a chimney sweep, complete with a chimney broom on an 8 foot pole. It's going to be so cute. DH is playing the accordion for the same event.
Dinner will be using leftover rice to make a sort of Americanized fried rice. This was actually something my DH lived on as a poor college student and he calls it Kielbasa Surprise. LOL It's rice, eggs, cheese, kielbasa, onions, garlic, and a salad seasoning called Salad Supreme. Makes up in about 10 minutes and fills starving teens very nicely!
(That seasoning is great on twice-baked potatoes and good in homemade mac and cheese or cheese chowder.)
How is everyone today? Redhead--how's your joints?
-
mombiezombie--my joints were not too bad this a.m, but I woke up a 2:30 and didn't go back to sleep--at 4a.m I took 1/2 Xanax and then I woke up around 7:30, jumped in my clothes and tried to make it to the bus stop to go to my Dads, but missed the bus, so I came home, ate a brownie and a cup of coffee and asked a neighbor to take me. Was there about 1.5 hours and thought I could cath the next bus, and had to run a block and then it took me clear out another part of town, and ended up at the Mall, so I got off there and shopped for about an hour and my back hurt so bad I thought I was going to have to sit down and rest. Caught the bus home, fixed a hotdog for lunch and took a pain pill they gave me for my writst. slept from about 2:30-4:30 on sofa like a dead person, so probably won't sleep tonight. My neighbor told me to book myself a massage and she would take me, so I am going on Tuesday. That ususally gets me un-knotted for a while....
Tomorrow and Saturday is our Quilt Guild's quilt show. I
do not have any quilts completed this year with all that has been going on, but I am working 2 hours in our "boutique" so I will have another bus adventure tomorrow as I will have to change buses and walk about a block or two or three from the airport to get to the venue......
Dinner tonight will be leftover chicken, mushrooms and rice with a salad and tomorrow I am planning on having MUSSELS!!!!!!!!!
-
MZ, how wonderful to have family members who are musically talented. I am so self-conscious about my poor singing ability that I only sing along to the radio when I'm alone. LOL! At church I move my lips because the ONLY way I can come close to singing on key is to hear myself. Here is a true family story. My brother Shelby took chorus in high school. His teacher called him aside early on and told him she would give him an A if he would move his lips but not actually sing. This is true! He made straight A's in chorus so when he graduated, he received a small chorus scholarship. Is that a hoot? When the chorus put on a musical, Shelby got the butler role. The butler did not have a singing part. He tells this story with great amusement.
We are going out to dinner with a couple who live next door. They're so busy we seldom get a chance to visit with them. Their four boys have taken turns being our yard caretakers during the summer. Now the youngest is a senior in high school. He probably will get a better job this summer. So...we'll have to make different arrangements.
I'm not sure where we'll go to eat, but I'm hoping it's somewhere that serves good fresh fish.
Categories
- All Categories
- 679 Advocacy and Fund-Raising
- 289 Advocacy
- 68 I've Donated to Breastcancer.org in honor of....
- Test
- 322 Walks, Runs and Fundraising Events for Breastcancer.org
- 5.6K Community Connections
- 282 Middle Age 40-60(ish) Years Old With Breast Cancer
- 53 Australians and New Zealanders Affected by Breast Cancer
- 208 Black Women or Men With Breast Cancer
- 684 Canadians Affected by Breast Cancer
- 1.5K Caring for Someone with Breast cancer
- 455 Caring for Someone with Stage IV or Mets
- 260 High Risk of Recurrence or Second Breast Cancer
- 22 International, Non-English Speakers With Breast Cancer
- 16 Latinas/Hispanics With Breast Cancer
- 189 LGBTQA+ With Breast Cancer
- 152 May Their Memory Live On
- 85 Member Matchup & Virtual Support Meetups
- 375 Members by Location
- 291 Older Than 60 Years Old With Breast Cancer
- 177 Singles With Breast Cancer
- 869 Young With Breast Cancer
- 50.4K Connecting With Others Who Have a Similar Diagnosis
- 204 Breast Cancer with Another Diagnosis or Comorbidity
- 4K DCIS (Ductal Carcinoma In Situ)
- 79 DCIS plus HER2-positive Microinvasion
- 529 Genetic Testing
- 2.2K HER2+ (Positive) Breast Cancer
- 1.5K IBC (Inflammatory Breast Cancer)
- 3.4K IDC (Invasive Ductal Carcinoma)
- 1.5K ILC (Invasive Lobular Carcinoma)
- 999 Just Diagnosed With a Recurrence or Metastasis
- 652 LCIS (Lobular Carcinoma In Situ)
- 193 Less Common Types of Breast Cancer
- 252 Male Breast Cancer
- 86 Mixed Type Breast Cancer
- 3.1K Not Diagnosed With a Recurrence or Metastases but Concerned
- 189 Palliative Therapy/Hospice Care
- 488 Second or Third Breast Cancer
- 1.2K Stage I Breast Cancer
- 313 Stage II Breast Cancer
- 3.8K Stage III Breast Cancer
- 2.5K Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
- 13.1K Day-to-Day Matters
- 132 All things COVID-19 or coronavirus
- 87 BCO Free-Cycle: Give or Trade Items Related to Breast Cancer
- 5.9K Clinical Trials, Research News, Podcasts, and Study Results
- 86 Coping with Holidays, Special Days and Anniversaries
- 828 Employment, Insurance, and Other Financial Issues
- 101 Family and Family Planning Matters
- Family Issues for Those Who Have Breast Cancer
- 26 Furry friends
- 1.8K Humor and Games
- 1.6K Mental Health: Because Cancer Doesn't Just Affect Your Breasts
- 706 Recipe Swap for Healthy Living
- 704 Recommend Your Resources
- 171 Sex & Relationship Matters
- 9 The Political Corner
- 874 Working on Your Fitness
- 4.5K Moving On & Finding Inspiration After Breast Cancer
- 394 Bonded by Breast Cancer
- 3.1K Life After Breast Cancer
- 806 Prayers and Spiritual Support
- 285 Who or What Inspires You?
- 28.7K Not Diagnosed But Concerned
- 1K Benign Breast Conditions
- 2.3K High Risk for Breast Cancer
- 18K Not Diagnosed But Worried
- 7.4K Waiting for Test Results
- 603 Site News and Announcements
- 560 Comments, Suggestions, Feature Requests
- 39 Mod Announcements, Breastcancer.org News, Blog Entries, Podcasts
- 4 Survey, Interview and Participant Requests: Need your Help!
- 61.9K Tests, Treatments & Side Effects
- 586 Alternative Medicine
- 255 Bone Health and Bone Loss
- 11.4K Breast Reconstruction
- 7.9K Chemotherapy - Before, During, and After
- 2.7K Complementary and Holistic Medicine and Treatment
- 775 Diagnosed and Waiting for Test Results
- 7.8K Hormonal Therapy - Before, During, and After
- 50 Immunotherapy - Before, During, and After
- 7.4K Just Diagnosed
- 1.4K Living Without Reconstruction After a Mastectomy
- 5.2K Lymphedema
- 3.6K Managing Side Effects of Breast Cancer and Its Treatment
- 591 Pain
- 3.9K Radiation Therapy - Before, During, and After
- 8.4K Surgery - Before, During, and After
- 109 Welcome to Breastcancer.org
- 98 Acknowledging and honoring our Community
- 11 Info & Resources for New Patients & Members From the Team