So...whats for dinner?

minus, tell me more about the fish n chips, please. DH love it but haven't found agreat local place yet, one restaurant looked promising but it was catfish only, so nope.

minus - will report in after the injection tomorrow. Even at my MO's office - where they certainly have experience with secondary lymphedema - they wouldn't do the thigh, but I am going to press to test, so to speak.

auntie - I did - in the less lymphedema-ish arm - and it has been uneventful so far. Just the way I like it. I’m a little tired, but the saving grace is that DH had a dentist appt this afternoon and is not wanting dinner, so I can just chill out! Every time I have to pay a plumber or appliance repair person it makes me wish I had become one. Points for me though - I opened the garage fridge last week and the handle came off in my hand! $11 later I received a new handle next day from Amazon and put it on myself. Yay me! Soup and rolls sounds like just the thing to soothe plumbing woes

Both of those photos are making me hungry!

We ended up having some little sandwiches made on potato dinner rolls - it’s dinner roll Thursday apparently! Also had cracked pepper kettle chips - so good, but a little spicy!

eric - I’m all about fixing it myself, so is DH. We are of the “why pay someone else if you can do it yourself” philosophy. Funny moment though - when we closed down his mom and dad’s house we brought their golf cart here. Not long after, it started acting up so he sent it to be serviced. The mechanic called him and asked if he was aware that it had been re-wired with speaker wire? He just laughed and said - that would be his dad’s handiwork, and also explained why it was having electrical issues, lol! My FIL was a handy guy, in addition to being a doctor, but he did take some shortcuts... hopefully never with any patients though, ha!

Oh Lacey - what play are you reading? I'm really getting into this virtual stuff.

I'm attending a webinar tomorrow morning "Women In Journalism. Then tomorrow night I'm attending a virtual 'Studio Session' at Stages theater. Sunday is a Bach Society concert in the afternoon and a Baroque quartet in the evening. My virtual social calendar is so full I actually forgot a brass quintet event last week, but I did make it to 2 author interviews about their new books - C.J. Box and Joe Ide. I've put both on my reading list.

Spent most of the week working on updating my will & attendant paperwork. My alternate people are no longer viable so I'm having to make new choices. Because I only have one child who has no children, it's hard. I am finally pulling the trigger to donate my body to the Medical School.

Dinner was a leftover cold hamburger steak cut in PU bite size pieces and discretely munched as I fielded Civic Club phone calls. Served with Gnarly Head Old VIne ZInfandel from Lodi, CA. Really very good for the price $8-13 depending on where you live & if your a "frequent buyer" member. My DIL still prefers 1000 Stories.

Last night was rotisserie chicken, baked potato and green peas, easy to fix and to eat as we were both dealing with the side effects of our second Moderna vaccine. Feeling improved today but still just a bit off. At the moment dinner will be a surprise--have nothing planned as of yet!

My low-carb diet is in remission this week.

Tues. night we went to a nearby Argentine steakhouse, Artango. Wanted to dine in the covered patio, but because of gas-utility work all along the block, patio heaters were a no-no. So we ate indoors--a 200-seat room exceedingly socially-distanced. If there were even 30 people in there I'd have been surprised (city rules say up to 50 people or 50%, whichever is less). Felt sort of sad because the usual flamenco dancers & guitarists weren't there. Appetizers were salad, grilled langostinos with red quinoa/English pea croquetas, and duck empanadas. Main was a shared "Asado Argentino:" grilled morçilla (blood & rice) sausages, chorizo, sweetbreads, NY strip, corn on the cob, & slow-grilled short ribs still on the bone. We brought home leftovers. What we didn't bring home was the dessert we shared: a dulce de leche souffle with Nutella semifreddo & crushed hazelnut cookies, berries, and diced pear on chocolate sauce. I hadn't eaten sweetbreads since 1988 at Locke-Ober (R.I.P.) in Boston, and forgot how yummy they are--but this was the first time I'd had them sliced & grilled.

Wed. night was our virtual Clif Family wine tasting. Gordy came over but Leslie was having major Zoom fatigue, having taught online from 8am-7pm. The wine educator was delightful and informative. We had the suggested nibbles-pairings (maple curried peanuts & cashews with the Sauv. Blanc; smoked pimenton almonds with Zin; and cacao-solar-grown honey spread on Carr's Whole Wheat Biscuits--which I think went better than the recommended shortbread cookies). Afterwards, we had salami, cheddar, salmon roe & crème frâiche on blini, heirloom bicolor tomato insalata Caprese (with my kitchen-grown basil), and blistered shishito peppers. Sent Gordy home with a CARE package for Leslie, of course.

Last night I made a late dinner of pan-seared sea bass chimichurri over nuked Peruvian lentils-in-a-bag, plus the last of the romesco broccoflower florets tossed with olive oil & Alessi "dipping spices." Unfortunately, I'd forgoten how "aromatic" sea bass can be when pan-seared, so after opening all the windows, running both the range hood (during & after cooking) and ceiling fans, and using up all my organic "room freshener" spray I gave up at 4am and went to bed. I think one of our home improvements (after home repairs, of course) will be to run a duct along the ceiling in the stairwell to the basement to be able to vent a range hood to the outside. Ours is a recirculating one with a filter because the stove is against an interior wall (said stairwell wall) and we'd have to get rid of a cabinet to run a duct to and along the kitchen ceiling.

Tonight Bob came home quite early. It's a Lenten Friday, he wanted a good restaurant dinner, and had Lettuce Entertain You points about to expire, so we went to Cafe Ba-Ba-Ree-Ba. Our tapas were shared veggie: brussels sprout/manchego salad & goat cheese baked in tomato sauce ("cabrito al horno") with garlic bread; for him, grilled octopus & potatoes and for me, pinxtos of Wagyu tartare over truffled ricotta. Main course was paella de mariscos (shrimp, salt cod, calamari). During plusher times they used to add clams, mussels and even crab. Nonetheless, it was still delicious--and they make it correctly, with that crunchy "soccarat" at the bottom of the pan. I'm eager to find out if I can get a pseudo-soccarat with riced cauliflower, as I really do have to go back on the wagon soon. We brought home half the paella (after exhausting it of seafood & veggies)

He's working this weekend, so late dinner tomorrow for us will be the leftover paella topped with the Argentinian leftovers, frozen peas and maybe some olive-oil tuna. And Bob will get the third one of the Wagyu carpaccio pinxtos (there were 3 in the order, of which I ate 2 since he wasn't doing meat today). I'll likely make avocado toast for my brunch (and Sunday will go to Cellars for the same, or for their quiche).

Leftovers tonight. Skipping the corned beef this year for St. Paddy’s Day, gonna make stuffed cabbage rolls instead.

Leftovers from last night bbq feast and what I hope is a perfectly ripe pear for dessert. I love all the usual fruits but I've been craving the not so standard ones lately. The pear will be nice, too bad my local grocery had no plums, I really wanted one of those too.

Cold boiled jumbo shrimp and potato salad. I did NOthing today except read. What a treat.

Carole - I recently read an article about putting wallpaper up as a backsplash. That probably wouldn't work if you have a 'stove top' set into the countertop. I have an actual stove with a high back so it might be OK for me - since I too can't find tile that makes me excited.

Last night was one of DH’s favorite meals - rouladen with boiled buttered potatoes and sweet and sour red cabbage. I made the rouladen in the pressure cooker for the first time. There was a minor malfunction in that the sealing ring was not fully seated so that it never came up to pressure and the meat ended up somewhat overcooked. The flavor was good but it was rather chewy. Tonight is carry out night so that is to be determined.

I made hot cross buns yesterday. They are pretty tasty especially with a cup of coffee or tea on a dreary day.

Last night Bob got home late. I added sauteed diced peppers and most of the Argentine meat leftovers to about half of Friday night's leftover paella. Bob was supposed to take the rest of it with him for lunch today but forgot. Too carby for me for tonight--will probably take out a grilled salmon Caesar from Cellars for myself, as we haven't been there this week and I feel disloyal. (We will go Wed. night for their special St. Pat's menu--an exception to their currently being open only Thurs-Sun). Between the time change, downloading tax stuff, helping the cat adjust to a new DST feeding schedule I felt too lazy to get dressed and go out for brunch, so I made grilled cheddar with bacon & tomato on keto bread instead.

Last night was pork roast with gravy, warmed up brown rice and steamed broccoli.

The fresh buns and coffee definitely sound delicious.

Made faux-phô: a package of "Vegan Phô" that featured shirataki noodles and a sauce packet. It was tasty, but lacked the depth and silky unctuousness of the real thing made with long-simmered bone broth (note to self: next time order out from one of the dozens of Vietnamese restaurants within a 2-mile radius of my house, but substitute my own shirataki for the real noodles, which I'll freeze). I added jalapeño, basil, and deli roast beef so it was a reasonable facsimile and quite filling. It held me till Bob came home with the soda bread his echo tech baked. I had a sliver, and it was wonderful.