So...whats for dinner?

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

    Nance, YUM!!!! I'm going to make the cod with clams first, then the spaghettini with anchovies and tomatoes, then the monkfish stew. The Captain will be at the Farmer's market tomorrow, so I email him before hand so he can save some of the fish I want for me.

    Susan, your posts even if short make way more sense than mine. You've always inspired me with cooking and my pathetic attempts to play a stringed instrument. I am not worthy, lol, you've kindly helped me. It seems that you calmly go from one stage of life to another with a plan, and with your family's best interests at heart. And I do get the strangely exciting part about the house hunting.

    You are ALL going to have to come to my house for buttermilk cucumber soup- I gave some to my landlord and her guy because I had so much and she said, "Oh, good, I didn't know what to do with this buttermilk after I used a bit for biscuits" then gave me a huge container. And now with the rain, monster cucumbers.

    Whoo Hoo day off. Three day weekend!

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

    Yay road trip for buttermilk cucumber soup!

    DD brought home a giant bag of freshly picked Florida blueberries (weird, I know!) and I am a blueberry processing factory - muffins, pancake syrup, freezing them on a sheet pan for later use, washed and dried a pint for fresh use. I am down to the last couple of cups - I am thinking blueberry tartlets.

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

    Yes come Special! I hope we can meet if you come to Boston even though I am in a neighboring state.

    Here is our hero. Captain Cook. Yes that's his real name, lol

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

    How on earth did I not know that homemade ricotta is so much better than store bought??? Maybe because I didn't know it was so easy. Definitely my bad!

    SK, I want to be at your house.

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

    Trying this.....

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

    So, interesting.... I can post if I force the URL to back up, but not if I just find this thread directly. Minus, Bedo and I are not able to post through the "normal" methods. I was going to write a long post about making lunch for my high school best friend who arrives tomorrow, and instead, got mired in technical stuff.

    This site must not like these LONG LONG threads.

    *susan*

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

    Now, we are on a new page. Does this work?

    *susan*

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

    Yes, Nance home made ricotta is so superior to store brought. And how did I not know that you had yet to discover that?! MY bad because you are so versatile in the kitchen... I just assumed it!

    Never rained today so not much of an iphone post to share some of our interesting meals. Had our long walk into town, coffee in center, bus ride back and afternoon laze on our bayside beach which is really beautiful this year.

    Back to town to Cafe Heaven for dinner where DH had his bouillabaisse and I had a " lobster martini" ( a large mound of lobster meat atop diced tomato, avocado and arugula in a large martini- like glass) Very delish. Also had a Greek salad. Warm peach blueberry crisp with fresh cream for dessert.

    On our way to dinner we passed a gallery with a "Public Invited" opening, so we stopped in, had some champagne and wonderful chats with a few P-town artists whose work I really liked. It was such a lovely serendipitous pre-dinner event!

    Tomorrow a day at the oceanside beach...forecasted to be hot! We will probably see seals and hopefully not sharks since we'll want to swim.

    Pic of DH inside Cafe Heaven which is adorably whimsical, yet tame for P-town.

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    Happy man with a tummy full of seafood!

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

    OK, Susan, you lost me on that! But I love that when I post on my IPAD your suggestion to move to plain text has saved my sanity...what is left of it! ;). TY

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

    testing - I still can't change pages or select anything I copy, or submit a post

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

    Oops - post just went through - but if I select a previous page, I can't get back to the current page. Can't select last page. Got a message that can't post so close together. Had to copy this post out to "word" and close "so what's for dinner" and then start over. Maybe this one will go through? I'm off to bed & will check in the am.

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

    YES YES YES!!!!!!

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

    Checking to see if this new page behaves better. [I can never let technology win!]

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

    Oh good

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

    I was having the same issues but was able to post on my phone. Glad it wasn't just me.

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

    Lacey, I knew you could make ricotta, but unlike creme freche (which I make often), it's readily available even here. I had never knowingly tasted anyone's homemade so just didn't know how good it is and assumed it wasn't worth the effort. Silly me!

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

    At BWI airport... HOMEWARD BOUND!!!!!

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

    Eric - Hooray. I know you're more than ready. Susan - I don't like technology to win either so I'm quickly checking before I head to water aerobics. Bedo - my post last night that wouldn't work was to count me in for the road trip. I'd come visit even if you move to St. Louis - or Montana.

    If I use preview pane & go back a page, the thread get's stuck there. Had to close the thread, loose my post and start over. Can't use 'back to top". Backspace only sometimes works.

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

    My best friend from High School is coming to visit today. We lost touch sometime back in the mid-late 80's but with the miracle of social media, found each other again last summer. We had a wonderful day together while she was East visiting her Mother. Her annual pilgrimage to see Mom is this week, so she is stopping by the house with her husband for a quick lunch.

    We made Paté Brisee, and then I cooked some leeks and this all has turned into a leek and goat cheese quiche. I then made my green bean salad with haricot vert, orange rind, hazelnut oil, and tons of chives. One of my favorites for make-ahead. A quick trip to the farmer's market and I have a large salad of local lettuces with carrots, spring onions, and tomatoes [not local]. I poached some wild caught salmon and have a mustard sauce and bracing cucumber salad to compliment. I totally forgot to make a bunch of drinks, so selection of sweet tea, no sweet tea, and Somerville's finest tap water. No dessert either. Just ran out of time. As it was, I didn't crawl into bed last night until almost 1am which is WAY past my bedtime.

    Yup. Over did again!

    *susan*

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

    Susan, that's an awesome lunch! Enjoy your visit.

    Eric, welcome home!

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  • luvmygoats
    luvmygoats Member Posts: 2,942
    edited July 2015

    You can go to any page by going to URL and change the last # which is the page #. Just for grins I tried going backward/forward and I couldn't and I'm on PC with Firefox so not just devices/phones.

    Big shopping after very unsatisfying MO visit. Not sure what to make of this guy. Anyway DH and I shared a deli sandwich from Wally World for dinner last night. DD voted for hamburgers so we are having those when DH gets home to grill. Have makings for fruit salad and bought 2 kinds of potato salad at Central Market. Also have some small portobello mushrooms, big cebolita onions and red/orange peppers to skewer. Thawed out some bulk frozen chicken breasts to do at the end for later tomorrow. Making what I call a cheesecake pie. We are all trying to diet but we need something sweet. It is pudding mix, cream cheese, supposed to be sour cream but I will sub vanilla yogurt for most of that in a graham crust. Birthday dinner sort of. I have good olive oil I can put on the skewers, anything else. I bought fresh dill thinking I might marinate them. Now I have to use up fresh dill which I never buy. Can you roast potatoes with dill?

    MO tells me 10 years on Femara, we have never discussed time length. Boo Hiss. Discussed Prolia again and he has me coming in in 2 weeks for that BUT I think I've changed my mind. I think I should wait until my bone density in April to see what the Fosamax has done. I quiver to think what the Prolia co-pay will be if my insurance even will approve it. MO must be getting a cut for the Prolia he is so hot to go there. Otherwise same old I'll call you if anything is abnormal. PTL they have a patient portal so I can check my own abby-normals ha-ha.

    Susan - I just found my frozen leeks. That quiche sounds amazing, I know not with my frozen leeks lol. Enjoy your lunch with your friend and I hope someone else in your family does your dishes tonight so you can rest.

    No clue why this community cannot support a farmers' market. They've tried, even built a nice shed near the grocer. Grocer wouldn't lose that much business and might even draw in some. I went up the road to check at the meat market but local guy wasn't set up there today. I think he is mostly weekday. Was hoping for a local canteloupe. I saw him yesterday on way into town but didn't want to stop. County seat 20 miles south has a lovely 2-shed market.

    TJ's doesn't have figs yet but CM did. $5.99/lb but very tiny ones. I bought 1/3# just enough to do me b4 they get too soft. CM guy agreed they were Calif. product so that explains delay and what I see as a shortage.

    Yay Eric getting home again. Your trip is in those missing pages I still need to read.

    Nancy/Red - did the rain tap finally turn off?

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

    Luv - it has not rained yesterday or today yet but there's a chance daily. Still a big improvement. I bought fresh figs at Global Foods the other day. They are tiny too, and usually they are not.

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

    Lacey - forgot to say, love the pic of your DH!

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

    Susan, your luncheon sounds absolutely wonderful! Glad (from Facebook note) it went well all around! Lovely....those kinds of relationship renewals are so precious.

    Eric, you are probably home by now... engaged in many tasks as usual....with appreciative recipients! Thank you for your hard work and personal sacrifice for the greater good!

    In contrast....this AM, DH and I got up really early to do some serious beaching on our first great summery day here (finally). We headed into Truro for coffee... Found that our former coffee spot was out of business, but next to it was a newer gourmet chocolatier and specialty coffee shop. Not really our thing, but it was a coffee option, and close to Head of the Meadow beach ( ha! took ten minutes to make the coffee!). Begore leaving, I took advantage of their speciality and bought three pieces of great chocolate covered English toffee...aka treakle?

    Got to the beach by 10:30 and enjoyed a beautiful few hours there in full sun, so lathered ourselves a lot with #50 sunscreen. It paid off! Neither of us has a bit of burn!

    We went to the Atlantic Spice Co on the way back and loaded up on spices (I think) I need.

    So after swimming in the pool a bit, we decided to stay in for dinner, and eat food we could avoid taking home tomorrow. DH made himself a tuna sandwich using the Trader's yogurt dip with cilantro and chives,(we had no mayo). I ended up having chili lime chips and the yogurt dip! Too bad those chips weren't carrots! I dread getting on the scale! We had a fresh raspberry piece of pie for dessert. Heavenly!

    Tomorrow we pack up and head home after another beach visit....back to reality! But probably not before a stop at one of the seafood places we often enjoy en route in Plymouth. So will end La Grande Bouffe!

    Special, I hope you are back to enjoying AC after all of your effort!

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

    lacey- shockingly, we still have no AC in one half of the house. We thought everything was set but when the AC guy came in to turn it on at the thermostat we realized there was no fan. The part has to come from Miami and won't be here until Monday. Tonight I made turkey kielbasa with sautéed spicy cabbage with mashed potatoes, while simultaneously making and baking blueberry gallettes just so I could get out of there as fast as possible. I did have lunch out today with a former co-worker, single and 70, that I walked through treatment for breast cancer. She is retiring and moving to California to be closer to her daughter and granddaughter. I'm so happy for her and we had a nice time

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

    My lunch with my best friend [high school] and her husband was wonderful!!! The food was great, but that was besides the point. I had lost touch with J. years ago. I moved all over the country, and after the kid was born we saw each other once, and then I disappeared. She found me via LinkedIn last summer, so we spent one day together last year, and today, we had a shorter visit. Today was just a continuation, and gosh, I still really like her! 40 years later, and I marvel at how similar our life choices have been. Though I was not hungry, 8pm is pill time and I must have food in my stomach, so I ate some lunch leftovers just because I had to. That quiche was mighty good, and the french beans were delicious.

    There is nothing like a "old" friend.

    *susan*

    p.s. We may have found "THE" place!!!

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  • Suladog
    Suladog Member Posts: 952
    edited July 2015

    ricotta seems to be on everyone's mind. I made a gluten free homemade ricotta strawberry tart with a strawberry balsamic glaze. We had friends over this evening and it's great to get back to entertaining again image

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

    Suladog, that looks good. :-)


    When I'm wanting read around in the thread while I'm posting, I open up a new tab and write the post in one while I'm skimming around in the other tab.

    I'm still on east coast time. All but the 05July, I was getting up at 5:15am. This morning I got up at 2:10am and was wide awake. Rather than fight it, I got up and took care of my travel paperwork.

    It used to be I could whip through the travel form process for a 2 week deployment in about 10 minutes. This, the first time I've used the new system, took about an hour and I'm sure something won't be correct. Hopefully familiarity will speed things back up.

    I'm glad I can get back to cooking "normal" again. I ate out twice during the 14 day deployment and the rest of the time I cooked/prepared the rest of the meals out of the about $80 worth of groceries I bought at Walmart. So, this time "I ate the bear" (as in, "Sometimes I eat the bear and sometimes it eats me.") on the flat rate per diem. As expected, it is usually "the bear eats me", so this is a welcome change. :-)


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

    Luv, it rained here Saturday again, we were under storm watch and a town abut 6 miles over from me got 6 inches....I think I got another 4....sump pump not pumping, no water standing, but it is coming up from the cracks in the cement floor as the ground is so saturated. Predicting more today, Monday, Tues. plus extremely high heat and humidity. So far nothing and the wrens are singing in my backyard. My guess is the dew worms are all exposed in the garden.....maybe.....its like walking on a soaked sponge out there.

    Actually went to Mass last night right in the middle of the rain and went this a.m. to a local spot and had a huge Mexican omelet with hash browns and rye toast and oodles of coffee. Found a small single beef roast at SAMS CLUB (yes, somebody must have screwed up packing it). So that is in the crock pot with Merlot, onions, garlic, celery and a whole package of carrots, as my dad's favorite veggie).

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

    I wrote a post last night and was unable to post it. I copied the text. Here it is.

    Nance, the mustard didn't work for me. A song is coming to mind: "too old to cut the mustard any more!" Different mustard. I downed a couple of teaspoons of mustard one night after biking and still got leg cramps. I keep potassium supplements on hand and pop a couple of them. It also helps to rub the cramp with a Ben Gay type of salve like Reflex and slap hard with my hand. My father got cramps and I do, too. They are so painful when they hit.

    Dinner tonight was fettucini bought by mistake. I meant to buy linguine. The sauce was home-made marinara (with Italian sausage) that was out of the freezer and the grated cheese was parm/reg. I made a pig of myself because the ratio of sauce to pasta was perfect for me. I don't like my pasta drowned in sauce. And I can enjoy pasta with no sauce heavily sprinkled with good Italian cheese. The salad was good, too. Romaine, diced tomato and cucumber, avocado and blue cheese with CA extra virgin olive oil and white balsamic. Garlic bread would have been great but we didn't have any. Our chubby bodies thank us!

    Susan, that's great that you enjoyed the visit with the old friend and the food was all good.

    Eric, glad you're back home and back to family life and cooking.

    SpecialK, you've been without whole-house a/c for far too long.

    Luv, I'm sure your time with DD will be a celebration.

    Lacey, your vacation has been a foodie's delight!

    Sula, what a beautiful tart.

    Our lovely MN weather has turned into humid warmth, thanks to a south wind. I loaded up the laundry this morning and went to the Laundromat in town that I have used in past summers. First laundry since leaving home on June 26th. DH is outside working on additions to the deck he built the last couple of days. He's building a couple of tables in the outer corners and an L-shaped bench in one corner. I'll post a picture.

    Dinner tonight will be leftover spaghetti with a little more sauce from a Rao jar. And a repeat of the salad, too. Tonight is a cocktail night. Yay! We are having a drink now on the average of every other night. And feeling SO virtuous!

    Sorry if I missed responding and I'm sure I did.

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