So...whats for dinner?

Hi Eric,

I don't know if you are having our storm or it may be coming. We are having sustained winds of 35 mph. That is a lot for our area. It has started to rain as well, but with that wind it is blowing sideways so maybe it won't be so bad on our scorched earth.

Tonight was also enchiladas. I really dislike Spanish rice so we had corn, salad & some beautiful sliced red peppers. It made for a pretty plate & was delicious.

Stay well,

Jane

Grilled salmon last night, with garlic (too much stinky garlic) broccolini & brussels sprouts with pepitas. (All from WF). Tonight, Bob is bringing home Boston Market. (Likely have it with my leftover veggies).

This a.m. was a couple of Birch Benders' keto toaster waffles. Better than making waffles out of their pancake mix but still not filling.

Tonight was cheeseburgers on a Kaiser rollcut in half. One half with lettuce, onion, ketchup and mayo. The other half was topped with potato chips and onion dip. Both were just what I was craving.

Tonight was use-up-the-leftovers night. Tom Kha soup (coconut with chicken, carrots & cabbage) and tossed salads--one from a Thai restaurant last Fri. night, the other leftover from the quiche from Beard & Belly/Honey Pig Sun. morning. The former's dressing (on the side) had turned nasty, and I think I'd discarded the balsamic vinaigrette from the latter, so I used up the lemon-Dijon vinaigrette i made a couple of nights ago. Plus a stick of string cheese (I like to play with my food, so I don't eat it too quickly).

Stepped on the scale tonight: my weight gain due to my backache and brief spate of pity-party holiday-comfort-eating since mid-Nov. was 6 lbs. So the weight-mgmt. NP tomorrow probably won't give me too much grief at our telephone appt. but she won't be happy.

I should have used the plain text editor - Madras curry.

Hubby got a grinder and I got a salad from the store for dinner while we did our grocery shopping for the week. It is very cold and windy here tonight. For the short span of time hubby and I were in the store it dropped almost 10 degreess!

My weight-mgmt. didn't tear me a new one over the modest weight gain (I'd lost 2 lbs. since the last time I got on the scale and freaked out), but did lecture me sternly about not getting enough exercise and about thinking that I can eat like a normal person so long as I'm on an aromatase inhibitor. (Would that the gain had been the result of a true binge, but nooo....). So I freezer-foraged tonight and found a low-carb entree from Trader Joe's (bought just before the first lockdown last March): bay scallops, mushrooms & peas in an Emmenthaler cream sauce. I "fleshed it out" with some snow pea pods and enoki mushrooms. I served mine over leftover broccolini, but put Bob's over jasmine rice. Will defrost a couple of wild salmon filets for tomorrow night.

Breakfast was an olive-oil-fried egg (I love those crispy lacy edges--first encountered eggs cooked that way in Barcelona in 2015), and a small slice of keto toast with salt butter. Late lunch was a small slice of avocado toast (guac, shallot, cilantro, & tomato on high fiber-low-carb bread) and an almond-milk breve cappuccino.

DH has not been very hungry for dinner the first part of the week, mainly due to eating a late lunch and arriving home late. He is not a fan of eating dinner and then almost immediately going to bed - he is an early to bed person, often by 9pm. I am totally the opposite, lol! He is also having some problems with routine labs - his thyroid med is not working at the current dosage, so he had a US, and there appears to be something on his thyroid... also having some above range values on potassium, hemoglobin, and hematocrit. Repeated those labs, don't have those results yet, but at a minimum he needs eval from a thyroid specialist. The kind of nice thing about being seen on the base is that they are experts in pretty much nothing, so refer out to civilian providers immediately - they don't try to solve any problems themselves.

Dinner last night was an experiment - chicken apple sausage sauteed with chopped kale and then added to penne in a creamy spicy sauce - yummy!

chisandy - I have now been off letrozole for three years, still can't eat like a "normal" person without gaining, albeit a slow creep, but most definitely carb related. Sorry for that announcement, and hope that won't be the case for you.

The most noticeable difference for me when ending letrozole was not having so much joint pain and stiffness. Weight loss - not so much. BP is always good - which it should be with three bp meds. Sheesh.

I like the idea of Hello Fresh just to keep from agonizing over what’s for dinner. I usually make my DDIL make risotto because I detest standing over the stove stirring for hours. She’s more patient than I. (My impatience has ruined many a roux.). I was delighted to discover that the instant pot makes a decent risotto with no stirring!

Last night was chicken parm carry out from a local Italian joint. Tonight will depend on whether the counter guys and the plumber get my kitchen up and running today or tomorrow. In the meantime, I’m off to Costco (double masked) geezer hour for staples. Maybe I’ll find something there that tickles my fancy.

As You’ve probably seen in the news, Missouri is 50th in it’s s vaccine rolllout (in)efficiency. We are on three lists and have heard not a peep from any of them, even though we are in the compromised tier and eligible. It’s pretty shameful but pretty typica for this state. We always seem to be in a race to the bottom.

Lacey, no vaccine for me. I’m only in the 1b group because of cancer and MDA is now having patients schedule a spot but I had severe reactions to my first two tries at chemo. Taxotere resulted in a BP drop to 80/60, a tremor (tested but no evidence of seizure) and back pain. Taxol was next and it landed me in the ER with a BP spike to 170/110, back pain requiring morphine and the ER doc said the last time she saw that reaction, the person coded.

I’ve messaged my MO but with this history, I don’t think it’s recommended, so I remain cautious, fortunately I’m a loner, so the lack of socializing isn’t a big problem.

Dinner will be taco salad.

Obesity runs in my family--my mom got slim only after her GI read her the riot act about her diverticular disease. She asked him if she had to give up popcorn, tomatoes, cucumbers or berries, and he replied, "just stop eating crap." So she became a "clean eater" and within a year went from size 16 to 6. My sister still struggles with her weight--she's doing WW just to maintain and keep her blood sugar in check.

Last night Bob brought home some more of that Natural Ovens Keto-Friendly (0 net carb) white bread, so I made a bedtime snack of grilled cheese (was watching A Little Late with Lilly Singh, and she & her guest did a "20 questions" sort of back & forth. One of the questions was "favorite 1:30 am snack." When they both simultaneously replied "grilled cheese" I knew what I had to do.

Brunch was a guacamole BLT on keto bread. Dinner tonight was pan-seared Alaskan salmon (just salt & pepper, no oil or even lemon), sauteed snap peas with sesame seeds & roasted garlic; plus the last of the roast brussels sprouts with pepitas (pumpkin seeds) Bob brought home from WF on Wed. night (he had jasmine rice too). Might snack later on a satsuma mandarin, now that my paper cuts have healed (ever try to peel & eat citrus with cuts on your fingers? Owwwww....).

I feel really fortunate to report that dh and I are scheduled for our 2nd shot of Phizer vaccine on Tuesday. I'm prepared to experience some side effects afterward like flu symptoms for a day or two. I'll wait two weeks and then venture to the gym for Senior exercise classes again. AND go out to dinner, maybe to our golf club which has a Prime Rib Dinner special in late February.

Last night's Hello Fresh dinner, prepared entirely by dh, was very good. Italian Sausage Rigatoni with Creamy Sauce. He made quite a mess in the kitchen but no complaints. I took a picture but will have to post it from my phone. He made the comment that we could make the dish without the meal kit, and that's certainly true of all the meals we've had so far. It is convenient to have the ingredients in the right amounts in a paper bag with detailed instructions.

Tonight is chicken cutlets with green beans and mashed sweet potato. The chicken has a maple sauce.

Bob had planned to stop by the steakhouse Petey's Bungalow en route home from Christ Hospital late this aft., but when he called ahead to order he found they don't open till 4pm. He wanted to get as much of a jump on the snow as possible (it started earlier down in the SW 'burbs than up here), so he decided to head as far north as he could before driving through Boston Market. He brought home a cut-up chicken plus a couple of sides (creamed spinach, steamed mixed veg.) for me, and a turkey dinner (breast, gravy, mac & cheese & creamed spinach for him). We're not hungry yet (I didn't have brunch till after the Zoom call I was on), so they're in the fridge for now. Need to use up some Bibb lettuce & tomato, so will make a salad and perhaps heat a can of lobster or tomato bisque: with the snow flying & the wind howling, hot soup sounds comforting.

Brunch was eggs scrambled with the edible remnants of asparagus tips & scallions in the crisper, plus chopped lox.

Nance - hooray for the countertops.

DInner started with Ancient Grains rice mix that I cooked earlier this week. That already had onion & garlic & etc sauteed before boiling, but I sauteed more onion and added mushrooms & water chestnuts. Added grains & soy (yes son, the light variety) and water chestnuts. Topped off with a full bag of spinach. Delicious. Desert as Mrs. Thinsters coconut cookies dipped in dark chocolate.

Had my first Pfizer vaccine yesterday - in my thigh due to LE. Since they said to exercise the muscle, I walked 7 miles. (ooo lala). The site is a bit swollen and a bit tender - not really sore. The main SE was exhaustion.