So...whats for dinner?

Your grandchildren are model pretty April

Still "Keto-ing" along...supper tonight was a chicken thigh, mashed cauliflower and broccoli salad.  It is so easy to eat whatever fits my plan...DH is working in VA- was home last weekend Sat-Mon.  While I miss him terribly- we weathered being apart when he was deployed to Afghanistan for 10 months 2012-2013.  So, while we can do it- will be glad when he finishes this job....HOWEVER, it is so helpful that I have time to adjust to this way of eating all on my own. 

Dinner out tonight with former neighbors. We're meeting them for a pre-dinner drink in the bar. There will be high calorie specials on the menu like au gratin dishes.

Susan, I asked for the Greek potatoes recipe. Someone in our group recommended a recipe some months (or years!) ago but it called for a large amount of olive oil and I didn't try it.

So either nobody is cooking? Or nobody is eating?

I had very weird meals. I usually skip breakfast, but since I missed diner last night I had a bowl of oatmeal w/heavy cream early very this morning. I knew I was going to a friends for bloody marys at 4pm, so I had a can of Beenie Weenies around 3pm. My friend's husband makes a WICKED bloody mary & I needed some ballast. Last but not least, for supper I had a can of smoked oysters with triscuits and the remainder of my Malbec wine.

Tomorrow is one of the plays on my season ticket subscription. We usually go eat afterwards but considering it's Mother's Day, we may not get seated anywhere.

Happy Mother's day to anyone who is a Mother or who had a Mother. Well - that's about all of us.

Friday hubby got home late from work, so he picked up KFC for dinner. Enough leftover for tonight for dinner! No cooking for me on Mother's Day!!!!!!!

Wow Eric - $21.00 is sure a lot of ambiance. But hope you had fun after you got over the sticker shock.

i just lost a 2 page post. Arrrggh. Happy Mothers day! LOL

Moon - great to see you. She's a real cutie.

moon - she's so big! I also have never had dandelion jelly - what does it taste like?

Dinner tonight is small sirloin steaks, mashed red potatoes, and Brussels with some bacon and onion glazed with balsamic.

Happy - the best part is the secret stash is on a top shelf and I often forget about it for weeks at a time.

Dinner was LOTS of radishes, carrots & celery w/ranch dip while I read the paper. Then leftover Chinese lo mein.

The thawed whole chicken was huge. I cut it into pieces and the breast made 6 pieces. The bony pieces are roasting in the small oven. They will be boiled for stock.

The meaty pieces will feature in tonight's dinner in a lemon and olive skillet dish. A side will be yellow squash

april - very vibrant! I love stuffed peppers and take advantage of having them when I can, the rest of the fam are less enthusiastic about them!

Dinner tonight is not decided upon. DD is driving to the east coast of FL and back today, she set another world record (she will be on the TV show Finchasers in July setting 6 world records for rainbow trout and spotted bass in NC and GA - what?) for a bass caught a couple of weeks ago and is delivering the paperwork and weighing device personally to the IGFA over in Dania Beach, FL. It is about 3.5 hours each direction so she won't be home for dinner. DH will likely go to the gym since he skipped last night. I need to grocery shop as we have guests coming tomorrow night for a one week stay and I have a birthday luncheon to attend tomorrow at noon (need to bring a salad). I really want to put the shopping off until tomorrow morning because I am cleaning today, and looking decidedly unglam! I would need a bit of an overhaul if I go to the store, lol! So, I must peruse what is available and the freezer is looking like Mother Hubbard's cupboard! I am leaning toward a short pasta with turkey and spinach meatballs, jarred marinara, and some shaved parm, and calling it good.

April, so sorry to hear you've been sick—hope you're getting better. Hang in there. Both here and in the DC area, people are reporting that grass & tree pollens are so high this season that their colds seem to last longer, because the allergies are making everything worse and creating more gunk for the viruses & secondary bacteria to infect.

I remember my grandma used to make stuffed peppers with ground beef, onions & rice. But when I read the words “stuffed peppers,” I remember back to when I was on the original (Jean Nidetch-era) incarnation of Weight Watchers the summer before senior year of college. (Looking back, I shake my head in wonder—I was 134 lbs. and thought I needed to get down to 115. Geez. And I was an inch and a half taller then). One of my staples was stuffed peppers, made with an entire 6-oz. can of water-packed tuna, tomato juice, salt, pepper and dried veggie flakes. And I actually ate them. Back then, a dinner portion of protein (poultry, beef, lamb or fish—no pork) was 6 oz (after cooking).

Really nice and warm today—87 even here by the lake, but the wind made it feel comfortable. Was going to grill, but had a little pork and rapini left over from Sunday. Walked to Whole Foods for various citrus fruits (not to mention returning a lucite dishwashing brush that began disintegrating after just a couple of uses) and intended to grill a small grass-fed hanger steak, but they had roast chicken thighs at the hot bar along with grilled veggies at the salad bar—so refrigerated the steak (as well as a couple of small wild sockeye fillets to defrost) and nuked the leftovers to add to the chicken & veg. Last night made a fruit salad—tonight they had sliced papaya, so may have that with mango and various berries for a late dessert. (Also had sliced jackfruit, but I remember from last year there was so much waste breaking down the slices to get to the edible bits, so I passed on it).

Tonight DH and I will have dinner at Pontchartrain Poboys and have oysters one last time before leaving the land of fresh shell fish. I will probably have an oyster Poboy.

I was up at least four times last night with my body flushing out all the fluid it was holding after I ate baked ham on Sunday.