So...whats for dinner?

Yike Eric - hope 2018 gets better from there! (Although root canals are not what they used to be. I watched a movie during mine.)

Her mouth was hurting a bit, so she took one hydrocodone/acetaminophen 5/325. She's hoping that that will be the only one she needs.

Tonight we'll finish up the egg plant parmigiana.

Thanks Celia. That's worth getting my crock pot out of the top cupboard.

Happy New Year.

i bought chicken breasts and ground sirloin for News Eve supper. Unfortunately, I got the flu and had to chuck it in the freezer. Still got a headache and fever of 102. Been in bed since Saturday. I thought 2018 would be better healthwise. Sigh.

moon - oh no!

eric - oh no for Sharon!

Thanks Moon. It sounds like you're getting better--that's good.... :-)

Sharon is napping right now. Allergist this morning and another dental appointment this afternoon........I feel like a nap and I didn't do any of that!

Earlier today, we used some of my sourdough bread to make grilled cheese sandwiches. I don't know if we'll eat much tonight. I went for a run and that turns off my appetite and I'm not going to wake her to see if she's hungry. When she wakes up, if she's hungry, I'll put something together for her.

Just lost a darn post. I'll see if I can re-create

Eric - hope Sharon's root canal is a top tooth. I understand they heal easier like extractions.

Carole - I agree & the salmon sounds delicious.

Moon - Glad you're fever is down. Oh NO, we would never judge. Houston has been 24 the last two nights & I've been living in a collection of warm. Exercise tights on the bottom topped with sweat pants. Turtleneck on top, then a wool sweater, then a sweatshirt. When I ventured out to get the paper, I added a down coat. Wearing one of the soft cotton hats from the chemo days on my head day & night. And sometimes gloves in the house. Feet are covered by wool socks and my old astronaut slippers. https://www.acorn.com/p/acorn-slipper-socks-men-an...

Still I'm sitting in my kitchen reading the paper with my Heat Dish blasting warm air at my feet. Maybe tomorrow it will be warm enough for me to consider stripping off the layers for a hot shower.

Dinner was fresh mushrooms & pork medallions in brandy cream sauce served over noodles. Warm comfort food. Tomorrow I MUST do something with the Royal Riviera Pears from Harry & David. Just couldn't deal with cold food today.

It is a top tooth. She's feeling better now that today's local anesthetic has worn off.

I've run, gone to bed in my running shorts and then the next day run again in the same running shorts.

Tonight I think I'll pull a pork roast or pork chops from the freezer and set that up for tomorrow. The frozen pork chops always seem to turn out kind of dry when I cook them in the oven or skillet, so I'm too am going to try CeliaC's recipe.

Jessiecat is trying very hard to lay down on my laptop, so I guess I'd better move the computer so he can get some Eric time. :-)

Goodness, Minus, don't you have a furnace in your house?

Eric, I have given up on pork chops because the lean ones are always dry. DH and I like the pork steaks which have lots of fat that cooks out when they're grilled, but I only buy them during the MN summers when my good food judgment slips. I have learned to cook pork tenderloin so that it's tender and juicy.

That's what we're having tonight, pork tenderloin marinated for about an hour. The marinade is EVOO, s & p, chopped rosemary and minced garlic. Pork cooks for about 20 min in a hot oven and then rests a few minutes. The side will probably be sweet potatoes.

Minus, Gordy reported that Houston was just fine for him--24F was 30 degrees warmer than here! I offered to drive out to O'Hare after getting home from my Tues. night gig and sit in the cellphone lot awaiting his call...and bearing his down coat & gloves. But he said he was fine taking an Uber. He arrived home (at 2:30 am--his flight home was delayed too) clad in the sherpa-lined denim jacket Leslie bought him for Christmas, with three layers of clothing underneath and his hands in a pair of stretch knit gloves we keep around for emergencies.

Monica, get well soon--keep drinking fluids and isolating your dishes or using disposables. Eric, glad Sharon's tooth is quieting down.

New Year's Day dinner was pappardelle alla Bolognese. A bit more al dente than I'd have liked--next time I'll give the pasta another minute in the Fasta Pasta or two more in the skillet with the sauce. It was pretty good. Whole Foods had only meatless sauce, and Peapod's only in-stock meat sauce w/o corn syrup was Ragu Classic "Flavored with Meat." (It was also the only one that had beef listed as the second ingredient after tomatoes). To that I added the contents of a breakfast sausage link I'd squeezed out of the casing and browned, ground a little fennel into the sauce, and added some chopped fresh oregano and the remaining ounce of a long-forgotten bottle of Beauj. Nouveau. Grated pecorino and strewn chopped fresh basil over the top. Really hit the spot.

Tues. night I ate at the club where I performed: tempura veggies, plus the avocado slices a friend gave me from atop his chili. Last night I made shrimp & veggie Pad Thai (snow peas, celery, baby bok choy, carrots, shallots & scallions with Pad Thai simmer sauce--don't judge, it was from Whole Foods) over rice noodles). Tonight I was planning to make a Moroccan stew with harissa sauce and bison skirt steak (instead of lamb), to be served over mixed grains (brown, red & wild rices, quinoa and bulghur). But Gordy stayed over at Leslie's last night (met her flight at O'Hare), and Bob brought home leftover spinach & grilled chicken salad; so I just had the other half of the ginormous bagel & lox I made for brunch. Later on I will eat the salad (saving or perhaps freezing the grilled chicken breast strips) and the leftover Pad Thai. Gordy is probably staying over at Leslie's until Monday, when public schools are back in session and she goes back to teaching, The remainder of the beefsteak tomato (at least the part that stays fresh) from my bagel & lox will go into tomorrow's lunchtime BLT.

ChiSandy, I assume your son’s deli trip was to Katz’s or possibly Kenny and Ziggys. We don’t do cold too well here, that was probably obvious, lol

DH made a creamy Ham and Bean soup, it was perfect

Kenny & Ziggy's it was. He had jokingly warned "if they don't have Dr. Brown's*, I'm gonna burn it to the ground." They did, so he posted a FB selfie holding a can of Dr. Brown's Black Cherry (I prefer Diet Cream, but the oldsters when I was growing up swore by Cel-Ray--celery & tonic flavor. Bleccchh).

*a brand of soda pop ubiquitous in Kosher-style delis,

Congrats on the benign diagnosis! I use Aidell's chicken "andouille" sausage, and turkey "ham," when I make jambalaya for non-pork-eaters.

Yes, good news on the clean margins, SpecialK. DH has had MOHS on his nose and required plastic surgery to make his nose look semi-normal.

The soup does look rich and comforting, illimae.

Dinner last night was home-made turkey burgers, mine a little smaller than dh's. The side was a WW recipe for German potato salad that was quite good. I modified it by substituting one slice of thick bacon for Canadian bacon and a Tbsp of the bacon fat instead of oil. The crumbled bacon and one chopped boiled egg was added at the end. It was quite delicious, at least to a hungry person! No, seriously, dh liked it, too.

I am planning my menus to avoid hunger, enjoy the food and lose weight! All the while using food on hand as much as possible.

Tonight's menu will be flank steak in a beef and broccoli dish with soba noodles.

Yesterday I received a package of Penzey's seasonings via Amazon. I finally caved and subscribed to Prime.

Now off to the gym. Sun is shining and the temperature is supposed to rise into the 50's. Folks will be playing golf today.

Hoping to hear from Lacey soon. Hoping they survived the "cyclone" ok.