So...whats for dinner?

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  • Redheaded1
    Redheaded1 Member Posts: 1,600
    edited April 2015

    Dinner tonight was from a local campus institution "Avanti's"  Pizza burger with a small side salad to go.....Basically a meatball sub with melted mozzarella and red sauce...

    Went to Women's health night last night--Illinois Heart and Lung puts this event on every year in our community.  Kind of like a Women's expo with lots of venders offering give aways and info and a key note speaker, etc.    So both hospitals were there doing heel tests for bone desnisty.  Went to one booth and they said either heel will work.  So I did my right heel.  was still osteopenic at -1.7   Then on theo pposite side of the room was the other hospital doing same thing, so I said to my buddy--should I see ifthey match and she said sure.  So I went in their booth and was asked-which is your dominant hand.  My right.  Then give us your left heel, as we bear slightly more weight on the dominant side, so we always measure the weaker side  Got a -1.9 on the left heel..... at least it was still in the middle of osteopenic. 

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  • Lacey12
    Lacey12 Member Posts: 2,951
    edited April 2015

    Yes, susan, beautiful pic! Brightens my mood just looking at it...and remembering my trip to that museum. But we were there in February...no gorgeous flowers then! This looks like a perfect time to enjoy Paris!

    I just took a long fast walk listening to the Black Eyed Peas for cadence! Stopped at the store for some kale and mushrooms, and will make my favorite healthy sort of dinner, kale, onion, mushrooms, red peppers with poached or sunny side egg on top. Certainly have to say that your dinners, Carole and Nance, sound so much better...but I do love this weird little combo.

    Just had a call from my SIL. She and Db are returning from his EMG, and learned that he does NoT have ALS, which I did not even know was a possibility. Glad I did not know! Another layer of needless worry. But they think he does have the long term effects from agent orange...all that time in the jungle in VietNam, which I always wondered about. He's such a stoic he would never have attributed any symptoms of anything to his war experience. I expect that many war vets are like that.

    Well, it is getting later and later, and I need to get to my kale concoction...for some reason I am not the least bit hungry...but could use the vitamins.

    Oh, Carole, wonder if you might be able to turn the V-8 drink red if you added half a beet to it, or raspberries and strawberries?

    Tomorrow....BIg Night! :)

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  • auntienance
    auntienance Member Posts: 4,216
    edited April 2015

    Lacey, I think your "concoction" sounds delightful.

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  • carolehalston
    carolehalston Member Posts: 6,887
    edited April 2015

    I had missed Susan's picture since we were posting at the same time.  Glad it was mentioned.  I went back and found it. 

    The corn tortillas were quite good.  I still like my home-made ones better, but it was easy just taking them out of the package. 

    Nancy, our BIL who will be arriving tomorrow is from St. Louis, where the pork steaks are very popular.  He cooked some on the grill the last time we visited them in IL and the steaks were really good.  He cooks them slowly and they get very tender and are juicy.  I see them occasionally here.

    I will probably do a shrimp scampi dish for dinner tomorrow night.  It goes together easily when the ingredients are all prepped in advance.  I'll toss the shrimp and butter garlic lemon sauce with linguini and have grated Pecorino Romano for lavish sprinkling.  It has become my favorite Italian cheese, edging out Asiago. 

    Minus, I'll let you know how the green V-8 tastes. 

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  • Moonflwr912
    Moonflwr912 Member Posts: 6,856
    edited April 2015

    All the dinners sound yummy. Today was just soup and grilled cheese. My soup was V8 juice heated up. I used to drink it all the time like that at work fir lunch. Add a bit of hot sauce too. I don't know why I love it but I do. My eye is doing great and I'm able to drive again.

    Much love to all.

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited April 2015

    Moon - I like warmed V-8 too. How's your eye doing?

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  • Lacey12
    Lacey12 Member Posts: 2,951
    edited April 2015

    Moon, great that you are back on wheels with benefit of two eyes!

    Never even saw a pirk ateak....sounds tasty the way you descrobed it, Carole

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  • Lacey12
    Lacey12 Member Posts: 2,951
    edited April 2015

    Oh wow! This looks right up your alley, Nance:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/15/cruffin-r...

    Just saw it on Facebook, and can picture you making these at your pastry station! :)

    This morning as I was heading to my Kindergarten class, I ran into a young mother I know. She commented on how we must have had our property clean up done already since our corner looks so good....NOT! But it is amazing how much better everyone's lawn and bushes look without ten foot (gray) snow mounds covering them. It's all perspective and relativity I suppose. Meanwhile, it's a bit overwhelming to think of all the work that awaits us to actually clean up this corner and be ready for summer. Maybe the condo discussion really has to happen.....

    Off to do my next class...then to get ready for the Big Night dinner. If I remember and it isn't to offensive to others, I'll try to sneak a few pix in. The risotto they make has a beautiful presentation

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  • auntienance
    auntienance Member Posts: 4,216
    edited April 2015

    Wow Lacey, these look very doable. Can't wait to try them. I'll keep you posted. Thanks!

    Tonight is baked sausage ravioli and a salad for dh, a sauteed artichoke for me.

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  • susan_02143
    susan_02143 Member Posts: 7,209
    edited April 2015

    Lunch at Guy Savoy was everything you could ever hope for. I didn't take pictures.... but life has looked better ever since I have eaten his artichoke, mushroom, with black truffle soup.

    *susan*

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  • SpecialK
    SpecialK Member Posts: 16,486
    edited April 2015

    susan - yay!  Glad it was what you hoped for!

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  • auntienance
    auntienance Member Posts: 4,216
    edited April 2015

    All hail Guy Savoy!

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited April 2015

    Moon - I can't believe I asked you how your eye was doing right after the post when you reported progress. Oh well, some days I'm smarter than others. Glad you're healing well.

    I defrosted my small upright freezer in the garage this afternoon I used to do this every year but it had not been done since BC diagnosis. (hmmm, 4 years). I've spent the last several weeks tossing things that were way too old & eating what I could so there wasn't too much to pack in coolers. But ice on the top was at least 3" thick. Even w/a hairdryer in addition to my pans of boiling water, it took over 2 hours. Never again!!

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  • susan_02143
    susan_02143 Member Posts: 7,209
    edited April 2015

    I had a croissant for breakfast this morning, a rare treat to be sure! The Musée Carnalavet, which outlines the history of Paris, had a wonderful gallery of old Parisian merchant signs. Here is my favorite one which used to hang outside a cabaret.

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  • auntienance
    auntienance Member Posts: 4,216
    edited April 2015

    I love that sign!

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  • Redheaded1
    Redheaded1 Member Posts: 1,600
    edited April 2015


    Oh Susan, thanks to you----I LoVE PARIS IN THE SPRINGTIME......

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  • eric95us
    eric95us Member Posts: 2,845
    edited April 2015

    Susan, I like that picture. Most anything "cat" is pretty cool.


    It will be an interesting day. DD's school is off today, so I took a vacation day too. We'll be looking in the junkyards for car parts and then later we'll be taking her prom dress to the seamstress so it will fit better. I guess size 3 is a big clingy and size 5 is "tent like".

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  • bedo
    bedo Member Posts: 1,866
    edited April 2015

    love the pictures Susan!

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  • susan_02143
    susan_02143 Member Posts: 7,209
    edited April 2015

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  • susan_02143
    susan_02143 Member Posts: 7,209
    edited April 2015

    The l'arc de Triomphe with the Eiffel Tower in the background. Return from the opera late and all the monuments are lit.very beautiful.

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited April 2015

    Eric - quite a juxtaposition - auto junkyards to prom dresses!! Hope the day went well for both errands.

    Starters tonight - the rest of the cold boiled shrimp from my Costco trip. Probably 25 or 30 - yup I'm a glutton for these. Later I'll have raw cauliflower, carrots & radishes with some kind of dip for 'mains'. Desert will probably be popcorn. Hey Bedo, you're eating many more 'regular' meals than I am. How's the job now you're back? Or if I forgot and you're still gone, my excuse is chemo brain and how's that?

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  • eric95us
    eric95us Member Posts: 2,845
    edited April 2015

    Add traffic school to her list of things for today. She got a traffic citation for the car crash. This removes the citation points from her record.

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  • Redheaded1
    Redheaded1 Member Posts: 1,600
    edited April 2015

    Susan--will you get  to the big white church maybe on the Left Bank?  There are lots of steps with old fashioned street lamps coming down from where it is in Paris??


     

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  • carolehalston
    carolehalston Member Posts: 6,887
    edited April 2015

    I'm getting a longing to go to Paris! 

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  • bedo
    bedo Member Posts: 1,866
    edited April 2015

    Will you light a candle for us In Notre Dame?

    If no time I know that our thoughts will carry us through.

    It looks like you are having a fabulous time and I am so glad!

    Alright I've figured out the posting kitchen pics thing Is there another person who would PM me and I can post if I send them to your email?

    No way I am bothering Susan on her awesome trip!

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  • susan_02143
    susan_02143 Member Posts: 7,209
    edited April 2015

    One of the two lions guarding the Musée Jacquemart Andre.

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  • auntienance
    auntienance Member Posts: 4,216
    edited April 2015

    I may not have Paris, but I have beautiful French lilacs

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  • Redheaded1
    Redheaded1 Member Posts: 1,600
    edited April 2015

    I have French Lilacs too and and I am 3 hours north of you and they just have green leaves!

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  • M0mmyof3
    M0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,696
    edited April 2015

    My lilacs and azaleas are starting to bud. Figure we are about three weeks behind in seeing flowers and warmer weather

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  • auntienance
    auntienance Member Posts: 4,216
    edited April 2015

    Red, mine have just cranked on this week due to the warm weather. I hope you have buds at least.

    Worked in the yard all day. Oh my aching back! I forget how much work gardening is. It's especially laborious this year because we're reconstructing and moving all of the raised vegetable beds. My hope is that this will make the whole thing more manageable. They're being moved to what was a very large perennial bed. Between the deer and the weeds, the flower bed has been a losing proposition for the past few years that I just can't keep up with, so last year I moved most of the perennials to the fenced back yard. Now by moving the beds into that area, there will much less space for the weeds and dh won't have to mow around the individual beds. We're also adding new topsoil to the beds, so it's a job. I did get potatoes and onions planted today. Yay!

    Tonight is Laurie's salsa chicken with yellow rice and some pineapple slaw. I'm happy to have an easy meal tonight.

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