So...whats for dinner?

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited June 2017

    Off to the periodontist to get more clearances for my next Prolia shot. Meals will depend on what the storm does.

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  • M0mmyof3
    M0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,696
    edited June 2017

    Decided to make chicken parm instead. Finally conquered the process of breading chicken before throwing it in a pan to bake in oven, have always had a problem keeping the breading on the chicken before.


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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited June 2017

    Mommy - what's the secret?

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  • M0mmyof3
    M0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,696
    edited June 2017

    I just followed my mom's directions dredged it well in flour, and instead of using water with the egg batter I use a little milk, dredged it in bread crumbs and into the pan it went in a 400 degree oven. Came out nice and moist.

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited June 2017

    Thanks Mommy. Just because I'm not intuitive, I want to confirm - chicken rinsed & dredged in flour first. Then dipped in egg batter. Then dipped in bread crumbs. I'll have to wait until it gets a bit cooler. We're no where near what Eric is suffering, but I try not to turn on my stove for the months it's 95-100.

    Still waiting on the storm to quit meandering & decide where to land. So I bought a cold boiled shrimp ring at Costco on the way home from the dentist.

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  • M0mmyof3
    M0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,696
    edited June 2017

    My chicken was still half frozen when I dredged them but it worked like a charm.

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  • susan_02143
    susan_02143 Member Posts: 7,209
    edited June 2017

    Dinner was the leftover grilled chicken thighs, leftover cole slaw, and he had an uncle ben's wild rice and I had a almost-German potato salad. [still working on the potassium.] Tomorrow night my mother is coming to spend the night so that she can hang with Olivia on Friday. She wants to take us out to dinner, and I am going to let her.

    My stomach was doing better today, but man it was work to force myself to eat anything at all. Who ever would have imagined that there would be a bag of Fritos or a jar of peanut butter in the pantry and I can't imagine snacking. I will pick some place to go tomorrow for dinner where I can consume a bunch of calories. And, has enough spice and character so that I can actually taste the food

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  • ChiSandy
    ChiSandy Member Posts: 12,133
    edited June 2017

    I put the halibut back in the freezer after Bob called to say he was bringing home leftover calamari, filet mignon, broccoli & carrot cake from Gibson's, where he'd gone to a medical dinner. I combined it with a small chunk of leftover ribeye from last night. Not sure whether I'll have any of the carrot cake, maybe a piece of mochi ice cream from WF. (Chocolate and mango—last night I had black sesame, which was kind of like those fried sesame balls at dim sum brunches, only without the grease).

    Tomorrow is my friend's funeral, followed by the repast at a nearby Italian restaurant. Then a workout, a wine dinner (if I'm up to it) and early to bed: I have to drive Friday all the way up to Rice Lake, WI (past Eau Claire), which was the place closest to Hayward (almost to Duluth) my singing partner & I could book rooms for the festival in Hayward we're playing Sat. morning. So up with the chickens again Sat. morning to drive an hour to the gig, set up, play 3 hours (outdoors, in the chilly rain—hope the stage is covered and the power is grounded), tear down, repack and head back home. Sounded like a good idea when my partner up in Madison booked us the gig, but between hotel, gas & meals, we might not break even. After this, I'm done with any out-of-town shows that either aren't incidental to a vacation or other necessary trip or don't pay enough to be worth the time, effort and expense. I feel really awful (still have very sore deep muscle strain in my back that will take weeks to heal), but we're contractually obligated...

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  • M0mmyof3
    M0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,696
    edited June 2017

    Ummm, hate to tell you but Rice Lake and Hayward is a little farther than you think. It's about 2 hours from Duluth. Pretty much in the middle of farm country. Was born in Nothwestern Wisconsin.


    Tonight is leftovers from last night.

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  • carolehalston
    carolehalston Member Posts: 6,887
    edited June 2017

    Susan, I would happily eat all those calories you need and transfer them to you! I'll bet there would be lots of other volunteers.

    I am thawing a tiny ribeye, no more than 3 or 4 oz. for my dinner tonight. I'll pan sear it quickly to try not to overcook. My side will be a salad and maybe steamed broccoli. Broccoli is not a veggie I love but I occasionally enjoy eating it when I manage to prepare it to a perfect stage between "not too raw" and "not too cooked."

    I worked up a good sweat this morning mowing grass with a push mower and helping Mary, my neighbor, clear away a thicket of wild lilac bushes that partially blocked my view of the lake. There is more work to be done on the clearing but I am done with that for today. I'm debating on whether to make whole wheat buns this afternoon.

    Eric, I'm curious about Sharon's recipe for her chicken and dumplings. Does she mix up a dough for dumplings?

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  • ChiSandy
    ChiSandy Member Posts: 12,133
    edited June 2017

    I mapquested it, and Rice Lake is a bit over 6 hrs. away. If I leave in the morning I can get there by 7 or 8 for sure. I usually bring nibbles, water, & coffee and make rest stops on a long drive like that, but don't stop for full meals. Sat. I'm more amenable to breaking up the trip home if need be. Everything is packed but my instruments & mini-suitcase (my emergency overnight bag's been updated) and except for the guitar will go into the car tonight. (Stands, amp, cables, mic & chair are already there).Not much involved tomorrow in preparing to leave.

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  • eric95us
    eric95us Member Posts: 2,845
    edited June 2017

    I'm guessing "back east", that 6 hour drive has a lot more to deal with than a 6 hour drive out here. When I was in college, the drive home, was 6 hours, but after about 45 minutes (when I got out of Phoenix), I would very likely not see another car.


    Carole, Sharon uses the rolls from the pop-open containers. The recipe is one that is designed to go together quickly and then sit in the slow cooker for the rest of the day.

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  • M0mmyof3
    M0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,696
    edited June 2017

    Hubby just called me and said that I am not to make dinner, he's bringing it home!!!!!


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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited June 2017

    Eric - you are right about the drive perception. I lived in CA, NM & TX, and also spent summers on CO, AZ & UT. I first took my son back East when he was 14. He flew to Boston to meet me when I was on a job. We drove to stay with friends in NYC. We did take our time driving south & looked at lots of sights, but he was astounded, calling out that we'd just passed YET ANOTHER state - seemed like every few minutes.

    mommy - lucky you.

    Lunch was left over cold boiled shrimp to I could get the tails out to the trash before the garbage truck arrived. Dinner was flour tortillas, buttered then loaded with scrambled eggs, avocado slices, Mexican cheese & green chili salsa. Nuked and then rolled. Yummy.

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited June 2017

    Oh wow Joyce - please make sure Michelle's daughter knows we all still think of Michell often and wish Allison the best with this new baby. You're right. Michelle will be watching.

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  • ChiSandy
    ChiSandy Member Posts: 12,133
    edited June 2017

    Made it to Rice Lake just before 6 pm--early enough to enjoy a supper club dinner and get some rehearsal in. Hotel room (Best Western) amazing--1/3 the price of our rooms at the Marriott Melville in LI and the Oak Lawn Hilton, with more amenities and even a bellhop. We play in Hayward tomorrow from 10-1pm, then back to Madison for the night, and I plan to be back home in time for dinner Sunday. Then I cancollapse.

    Dinner was fried fresh haddock, salad & fries, with Sauvignon Blanc. Because I didn't bring my laptop and am using an iPad Mini, this is the only place on BCO I'm posting till Sunday. Have a great weekend.

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited June 2017

    Hope the concert goes well tomorrow Sandy.

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  • susan_02143
    susan_02143 Member Posts: 7,209
    edited June 2017

    Meals haven't been worth reporting to be honest. Too much take out, not enough vegetables, been the hardest week to date. But, Miss O still brings lots of joy! Her parents have paid a landscape company to remove tons and tons of ugly shrubberies and even uglier trees and put up a fence. They left their excavator in the yard over the weekend.


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    Dirt. Heavy equipment. What else could a young girl want?

    *susan*

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  • eric95us
    eric95us Member Posts: 2,845
    edited June 2017

    I can't think of anything else she would want. :-) Oh, I suppose, when it's hot, a good muddy spot.

    Hopefully it eases up for you. I'm glad Olivia is there to help you.


    The hot part of the air conditioning work, I hope, is done. A few hours of letting the vacuum pump run while I'm inside, a quick check for leaks and "fill 'er up". It will be good to again have air conditioning in the car.


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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited June 2017

    Susan - Eric is right. Just add water!!!

    Eric - I know my brother is glad to be up in Mund's Park instead of in the city.

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  • M0mmyof3
    M0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,696
    edited June 2017

    Hubby and I split a turkey grinder and made a salad to go with it.


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  • illimae
    illimae Member Posts: 5,710
    edited June 2017

    DH (the cook in my family) made my grandmummys recipe for Hungarian chicken paprikash with nokedli (like spaetzle), it was outstanding!

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  • eric95us
    eric95us Member Posts: 2,845
    edited June 2017

    I'm sure MIchelle was there too....

    Illimae, I had to look that one up. The retired neighbor at my college house...her mom and dad were from Hungry. They had owned a restaurant and before the internet had grown up, they were the source for cooking ideas and advice. So me having to look that one up kind of surprises me. Is there a recipe that you can share? Chicken is my favorite meat for cooking, so I'm always looking for new ways to prepare chicken...


    I finished the car air conditioning. It's good to have it working again.

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  • illimae
    illimae Member Posts: 5,710
    edited June 2017

    Eric95us, DH will write it down so I can post it for you, it may take a few days though :)

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  • susan_02143
    susan_02143 Member Posts: 7,209
    edited June 2017

    Joyce, thank you so much for those pictures. I am so happy that you were there. Her family all looks so wonderful.

    My mother took a picture of Olivia in her romper on Friday. Here she is trying to get one of her keys to work. [It never will there since that isn't a keyhole!]

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    Dinner was family dinner with all five of us. Grilled chicken, burgers for two, grilled asparagus, salad with our first Galese lettuce of the season, baby carrots and breakfast radishes, baked potatoes, and then the most lovely first-of-the-season strawberries for dessert. Simply dipped in sugar, tossing the stems into the bushes.

    *susan*

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited June 2017

    Joyce - thanks for posting. I still think of Michelle often.

    Susan - oh what a cutie. I always save extra keys for my young relatives. Making my son a keychain of his own years ago meant he left mine alone. Dinner sounds delicious. I had to look up breakfast radishes so I learned something new.

    My dinner was white clam sauce on noodles. Not spectacular. Needed more onion or garlic - or maybe some wine?

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  • susan_02143
    susan_02143 Member Posts: 7,209
    edited June 2017

    Definitely WINE... got to have wine with clams, says the woman who can't eat clams.

    *susan*

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited June 2017

    Yeah, my mistake was trying a white sauce base. I can toss that recipe.

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  • ChiSandy
    ChiSandy Member Posts: 12,133
    edited June 2017

    Concert went well. Looong drive, though. Made Rice Lake last night in plenty of time for dinner, got up to Hayward this morning w/in an hour. The drive home (with pit stops, lunch & dinner) was >450 miles. By the time we approached Madison, I realized I could easily press on homeward. (Terrible road construction traffic yesterday between Janesville & Stoughton, adding an hour to the drive—but tonight, intermittent rain notwithstanding, I sped like the wind…until we reached the end of the tollway heading into the Chicago city limits, which added…an hour).

    Lunch was back at Rice Lake at this chain diner called “Norske Nook." Always wondered about it, having seen signs for it all over northern WI. Well, half the menu is wraps, but made with lefse. (The "Lefse-dilla" was a bridge too far, however). Had an okay quiche, topped (weirdly) with some kind of sauce that was the illegitimate love child of Welsh rarebit & hollandaise. It came with a fruit cup, but the fruit was actually fermented. I was afraid to eat it lest I get busted later for DUI. Had sour cream raisin meringue pie, which looked a lot better than it tasted. (Baker's Square sour cream raisin has nothing to worry about). Everything there was sort of heavy.

    Outside Milton (just n. of Janesville, which today had no traffic) I pulled into the “World's Largest Culver's" for my last guilty pleasure of the trip: a codfish sandwich. Now, last night's supper-club haddock was just “meh:" cornmeal crumb crust, somewhat dry. But a Culver's codfish sandwich bears about as much resemblance to a Mickey D's Filet-O-Fish as does a prime aged cowboy ribeye at the Palm to a utility-grade sirloin at Denny's. Big thick piece of fresh cod, beer-battered and fried to order. Crispy, hot, gooey but still somehow seemingly wholesome. (Could've done without the shredded cheese, though—maybe it's my lifelong exposure to Italian friends and Italian restaurants, but fish and cheese are a match made in…Toledo). Cool double rainbow over the parking lot at sunset, though (especially since it's Pride Weekend). Will post a pic later.

    Susan, suggest you read Olivia the children's classic Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel (I loved all of Robert McCloskey's books).

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  • M0mmyof3
    M0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,696
    edited June 2017

    I have been to a Norse Nook and I loved it. A good portion of Northwestern Wisconsin was settled by people of German or the Scandinavian countries, so places such as Norse Nook that serve food that is served the way the people who settled there would make it.


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