So...whats for dinner?

Lol Sandy - “extreme regularity" - I like that. My penicillin allergy manifested itself after a ruptured appendix resulted in my receiving massive doses. Subsequent tests showed sensitivity to ampicillin as well but curiously, not amoxicillin. I haven’t been tested in 15 years so who knows if I’m still sensitive.

Tonight was bratwurst, fried potatoes and cole slaw.

Today I bought some Dot’s cheese curls, which are new to this area. I may have made a terrible mistake

Minus, I like them a lot but I probably won’t buy them again. I’m very fond of the flaming hot Cheetos and the crunchy.

Dinner was a lovely charcuterie board - no meat but 3 kinds of cheese and 5 or 6 vegetables with some fig/rosemary crisps. Great with a glass of San Gregorio single vineyard Las Martas Garnasha while I was watching a virtual organ concert for Bach's 336th birthday. Excellent wine for right around $10. Great concert. My favorites were "Sleepers Awake" and the "Toccata in F Major" (the one playing in the movie Phaedra when Tony Perkins went around the bend - figuratively & literally).

Carol, your mention of chili caught my attention so dinner was chili with corn served over cornbread. Unlike you, I got mine very spicy--perhaps we should meet half way and exchange half of yours for half of mine? 😉

Dinner tonight was ribeyes cooked in a cast iron pan, baked potatoes with butter and sour cream - naughty, and steamed green beans with dill and lemon pepper. DH worked on the new gravel driveway at DD's all day so was happy to see red meat for dinner! I spent some time trying to understand and operate my newly installed microwave. It does a bunch of things and comes with special pans and crispers/steamers, and is also a convection oven, so kind of like getting a regular wall oven and a slightly smaller oven too. I found the manual not particularly useful and at one point it was speaking French after I pushed the wrong button in the language set up. My college French was not adequate to understand what the microwave was telling me, and I finally got back to English. I was tempted to ask Google for some bad words in French, but I refrained. Then I got stuck in demo mode but finally got out of that and actually cooked the potatoes for dinner - victory! Or should I say, la victoire!

Edited to add - illimae, wow! Yum

After the pandemic, it’s going to take a while for me to return to my old venturing out ways. I’ve gotten used to staying home.

Tonight is steakhouse night at home - latiron steak, baked potato and roasted Campari tomatoes.

Illimae, Katie’s must be new to Galveston since last I was there (several years now) but I can see that I will have to go there when I return because they serve golden tile.

For anyone thinking of trying Katie’s, here’s a more thorough review.
The cocktails were tasty but pricy, my rum drink was delicious but at $12, two was my limit. DH has the Bloody Mary adorned with snacks, it was $25, just one for him.

The crab cakes were good but best is Mr. B’s in NOLA so far, Katie’s ranked 5th place for me. The shrimp cocktail was pretty good according to DH but Mambo (several locations in HOU) is his favorite, hands down, and he’s had many across the US. But the Mac n cheese was worth the trip for sure, it’s ranks top or 2nd for both of us.

Knowing what I do now, if have the pelican punch rum drink, the Mac n cheese and I’d try the fish (not fried), which is caught each morning and sold in their little market next door and served in the restaurant.

Special, my Bosch dishwasher doesn't speak German to the best of my knowledge!.it was in the house when we moved here so all I've done is load and push buttons...

beaver - so far the Kitchenaid dishwasher is the only one of the appliances that required no set-up, so mine hasn't said anything either, lol! The language below each button is English on the front. I haven't used the oven yet, but it has the shared control panel and digital screen with the microwave as it is a one unit built in wall situation. I am hoping that since I have the language set for the microwave the oven won't spontaneously speak French when I use it for the first time. These appliances are far more complicated than any I have had previously and I am finding it a bit challenging even in English!

On a not so great front - it appears that I have a case of shingles. I am suspicious that it is due to my vaccine a week ago, this is a pattern with cold sores for me when I get sick with any other virus, or my system is stressed in any way - like a sunburn, windburn, freezing temps, too much stress, etc., and I am amazed that a cold sore did not happen with this. The rash is on the opposite shoulder from my vaccine, and I initially thought something bit me or it was a contact thing. It is on my worse lymphedema arm and I can feel the tightness happening down the inner bicep. Roughly between the shoulders, slightly closer to the vaccine side, I have a four inch incision that still has stitches in it from a wide excision skin cancer removal. Those stitches come out Friday, with another surgery happening about two inches to the left on that day. I have anti-viral meds from my viral induced hearing loss, and I started taking them last night - and the area is itching and burning less. As long as it doesn't get too crazy I will just have my MOHS surgeon/derm look at it then. Bleh.

Shingles.....uggh. Hopefully the anti-viral stuff does the job.

One of our cars would do French, Spanish and English, but so far the appliances "do" only English.

I've been doing a lot of catching up on home maintenance stuff and the dinners have been taking 2nd place to getting all the work done. Dinners have not been the most inspiring. :-)

We did make a braised chicken recipe with rice and it was one of those "Next time try...." results. The chicken was chalky dry, so I'm guessing we overcooked it. Normally we use a dutch oven in a regular oven, but this time we decided to use the crockpot. Our (very old and ugly) oven will regulate temperatures down to around 140F degrees. I checked the crockpot, unfortunately only after the overcooking, and found it keeps temperatures around 190F degrees. Oops.. :-)

Special, for what it's worth, a neighbor got the Moderna vaccine eight days ago and, today, was diagnosed with shingles.

Will the anti-viral meds reduce the Covid vaccine effectiveness?

Last night was pork piccata made with a pork tenderloin and mashed potatoes. It was so good that I ate more than I should have.

Minus, I'm in good status on all three of those!

DH cooked a stir fry last night with the rest of the pork tenderloin and various veggies. He was supposed to use cabbage but left it out. My sister brought two huge cabbages someone had given her.

No planned dinner tonight, so I made a box of Annie’s white cheddar shells and cheese with a side salad, it was pretty good. DH was making some Italian sausage, so I had two small meatballs as an after dinner snack.