So...whats for dinner?

Susan- isn't that odd about the graduation gift story as opposed to the Boston Marathon?  Well, your menus sound wonderful no matter the reason the father/son duo is there, I guess.

Am on a Greek salad "kick"...had one out last night and made my own tonight.  Really think the one here was better in that I made the dressing- no sugar- and added a few "extra" olives to the salad.  My mom and DS1 are coming for dinner tomorrow...no traditional "Easter" menu items...having what the 3 of us like best- roasted chicken, Basmati rice, butter beans and broccoli- tossed salad as well, but I am the only one who will eat it. 

Change of plans. I am candying the lemon and orange peels at this moment, but will do the hot cross buns next weekend. My MIL is bringing rolls.

My FIL always brought the dinner rolls to the holiday dinners and my MIL is continuing the tradition. I don't want to upset that. :-)

Glad we made it to 1000 pages! Hooray!

Hello, everyone! Happy Easter, Passover, and Solstice!

Last I was on here, I was sick. Then I did get the pukie flu after that. Then a kidneystone incident, finally passing one that could be analyzed. Then, because Im stupid and must be a masochist, scheduled a long, long, long overdue, colonoscopy on last Friday. Oh yay. But hopefully, better times now! LOL!

Had only 1 child, my youngest son home for a meal with my husband today. He's a 3rd shifter and rolled in at 6:30 am. At least 3 hours before I usually make it out of bed. LOL. So made a big brunch, with ham, mashed potatos, bagels (sorry Susan, straight from Big Apple Bagels ) with cream cheese and my last jar of Dandelion jelly, green beans, hard boiled eggs, (nope, didn't color them, except for an "X" to tell them from the raw eggs) and cupcakes. Served with wine, OJ, grape juice and coffee. All eaten before I usually even wake up. But so good to see him it was worth it! Yes, had some candy out too. Peeps ( didn't eat them cause they are still squishy)and chocolate marshmallow eggs, and reeses eggs.

Hope everyone's holiday was good!

Moon, so glad to hear you're in better shape. How fun to have your DS at the crack of dawn.

H

For some ridiculous reason I woke up at 5am both of the last two days - and I am usually a 9am person unless I have to get up. Read the newspaper this morning (which was actually delivered by 5:30am - although usually not hereuntil 7:30am), boiled 5 eggs ate two while they were warm, and went back to bed. I'm being extremely lazy today.

Dinner will be wild caught, flash frozen, Atlantic Cod dipped in butter and lemon, rolled in Panko and baked for 12 minutes. I will boil a bag of Baby Dutch yellow potatoes for the side, eat some hot with butter and save the rest for tomorrow. Maybe for potato salad. Maybe for fried potatoes with onions.

How appropriate that Moonflower was the final poster on the 1,000th page! So good to hear from you.

Eric, 150 years old doesn't mean much..... but you don't probably really care about value.

Dinner tonight was just the two of us. Tandoor chicken, garlic dal, cauliflower with scallions and mustard seeds, basmati rice, and she grilled naan bread. I am stuffed! I have our guest's bib number and will get text messages all day tomorrow telling me about his progress. I have given him tons of yogurt and granola to take to Hopkinton with him in the morning so he can eat one hour before he starts his race.

*susan*

The violin is kind of like the 22LR rifle that my dad was given when he was 9. It is priceless as a heirloom but not monetarily valuable. That's OK as I wouldn't be selling it anyway.

adding.....

Oh...I'm going to have to start over on the candied orange and lemon peel...damn (said very gently and with laughter) dogs.... :-)

April, I have the earlier version of this machine (no calculation function) and I love it. I bet you will too. Let me know how you like it.

P.s. it took some experimenting to get the exact ingredient formula I liked.

April, do not scold your daughter. Mothers deserve nice presents. Beautiful machine! It might even carry on a conversation with you. LOL.

I own the Kitchen Aid pasta making attachments including the extruder and have used them but not in a couple of years. Being a caregiver has taken away much of my "play in the kitchen" time.

A pork tenderloin is thawing and will be the meat course for tonight's meal. Now that I have mastered not over cooking this cut of pork, I am enjoying it. I will use some fresh rosemary from a pot on the patio and fresh garlic to flavor the tenderloin. I have fresh beets to cook this afternoon and salad makings

Nance - you have a new picture! And i think new glasses? How's your Dad doing?

April - thanks for sharing the details. Everything sounds delicious. I got it about the hands. I can no longer knead bread. Most annoying.

Carole - I love the little pork tenderloins. They're perfect for one of two. But it was hard for me to dial back on the cooking time too. I'm of the generation that my Mother always said to cook pork almost until it rattled in the pan so you wouldn't get trichinosis.

I took my nephew to lunch at a neighborhood restaurant that's been there since 1956 - mostly Italian. There have been some changes since the older parents died, but the food is still good. He had a shrimp salad poor boy. I had lunch size 'spaghetti works' - noodles, meat sauce, meat ball, mushrooms, covered with two cheeses & melted under the broiler. Needless to say, no dinner for me.

We went to the Signature Room at the 95th fl. of the John Hancock bldg. for brunch. Gorgeous views due to perfect weather. There was a buffet of various salads, cold seafoods (oysters, snow crab legs, shrimp, lox), mini lobster rolls, shu mai, spanakopita, artichoke fritters, omelet and leg-of-lamb-carving stations, and various miniature desserts (tartlets, mousses, red velvet whoopie pies, brownies) and a sundae bar. We also got to order entrees off the menu: I had seared duck breast with wheat berries, enoki mushrooms and baby bok choy. The rule was you could order as many entrees as you wanted, but not take anything home. Had never encountered this at the Sig. Rm. before—but now that I think of it, this was the first time we dined at noon instead of getting stuck with the 3pm sitting (by then, they were pushing food and asking not just if we wanted anything wrapped but also a second entree to take home). Poor Gordy ordered the pork tenderloin but had pigged out on seafood & salads, so he valiantly cleaned his plate and couldn't eat anything else till midnight!

Dinner was our Indian leftovers. Tomorrow, I start Cycle 2, Infusion 1.

My guest had a slower time at the Boston Marathon than he had hoped for. He was disappointed. He did not qualify for a repeat. They leave at 4AM. We leave at 7:15. I had expected that they would be leaving after us, so this a bonus. Tomorrow night, no guests by choice. I am trying not to do check ins on treatment days. I have decided that tomorrow we will remove the steroids. I am still nervous about the allergic reactions from week 1 after all.

I, too, am sending positive thoughts/energy your way, Susan.

Susan - hope you do OK w/o the steroids. I spread mine out longer than prescribed by doing one a day instead of two for the second two days so there wasn't such a precipitous drop off of energy. Keeping you in our thoughts.

steak, salad and a veggie

Today's infusion was in the "corner" room. I was in this room during week 1, and then week 2 and 3 I was in a dark interior room right at the entrance to the kitchen.

Here is the view. But you know, that is nice while they bring you the blankets, but once the Benadryl starts, I don't see anything. Today we omitted the decadron. So the only pre-meds were the Pepsid and Benadryl. The moment that hit the system, I began to feel a bit dizzy and I fell asleep. Without the decadron there was counter balance. They had to wake me up for the Taxol safety check. I slept for the full hour of Taxol. Came home, and fell asleep for the next 2 1/2 hours. I got up to have some coffee and then crashed again!!! I had no appetite until about 6:30 and suddenly I was ravenous. We ordered a chicken parmesan from a local restaurant to go. One order, split two ways, and we still have at least two servings left! This is why we never go to this spot to eat in. Portions are simply too big.

My fever went up to 100.6 tonight, but seems to have broken before it hit the magic number, thank goodness. ER's and I hate each other.

See how I am doing in the AM.

*susan*