So...whats for dinner?

We went to a community meeting last night so we ate dinner on the way to the meeting....Firehouse Subs in Showlow.

The home closing date has been changed from May 20 to May 13, which is good news.

Right now the internet is between "bad and even worse". I type on the phone and then hold it up in the air, wait for it to get service and then hit "submit". Wired internet is coming on the 23rd.

cyathea: My husband calls those kinds of meals "loaves nd fishes" You take scraps of this and that and combined them together and end up with a meal that is delicious. I get that "You should write this recipe down" No recipe. Just what's in the fridge that needs eating

mae: didn't you say that the brain was at least NOT lepto? But more rads --- ugh.

I had a Caesar salad topped with fried shrimp at Pontchartrain Poboys for early dinner yesterday afternoon. DH had the shrimp and catfish basket with potato salad as his side. We met my sister, her dh and her granddaughter at the popular restaurant, which was not crowded on Thursday at 5 pm. The food was good and we had a leisurely visit.

Sandy, whatever the ingredients of white balsamic vinegar, we like the taste and use it regularly. I don't like my salad looking brown.

Dinner will feature leftover pasta.

My favorite vinegar always & for ANYTHING is Tarragon vinegar. It's been hard to find so I finally ordered half a dozen bottles from Amazon earlier this year.

We got together today at a neighbors to celebrate the birthday of one of the 5 of us. There is one man that still shows up in lieu of his deceased wife, who was a good friend to all of us. They have a game room & she always had women over for cards, dominoes, to work puzzles, for lunch, etc. He commented once that he misses "hearing the girls laugh" - so we're glad to include him. Usually one person coordinates ordering everyone's choices & another picks it up. Sometimes it's deli sandwiches, sometimes salads, sometimes BBQ. Often someone makes a dessert. Today each person selected their own 8" pizza. Too much food & the pizza was only OK - certainly not great. But one of the ladies made a buttermilk pie which was delicious.

minus - we need to strike a deal - I send you Raincoast Crisps and tarragon vinegar, you send me HEB Texas Pecan coffee, lol!

Still eating soft food and stitches are still undissolved. I have a history of that type of stitching staying put. Mouth is still a bit tender. Last night I made DH a kale salad topped with chicken, orange segments, almonds and an Asian vinaigrette dressing. Dinner tonight, for DH, will be leftover pulled pork and prob mac n cheese. If he wants a cold dinner again I will make a green salad and top with the pulled pork and Ranch/BBQ dressing. I may be able to manage the mac n cheese. I’ve been eating pretty much once a day, and that has been ok. Not really hungry.

Happy Birthdsy wally!

Happy new house eric/sharon!

DH and DD are joining DS and girlfriend in CO for several days to look at property. Thinking we may buy some land and build. I was originally going but now have too many appointments to try to coordinate with DS limited schedule of availability. He is 48 on and 72 off, but all his 72 off periods I had someplace to be, lol! Plus I need altitude acclimation time, so it is easier for them to go.

We have the keys. :-)

Minus, I like tarragon vinegar, too, and had forgotten about it.

SpecialK, I hope you can begin to eat again soon. Would a home in Colorado be a vacation home or would you relocate there when your dh retires?

Eric, more congratulations on possession of the keys!

The leftover pasta was delicious last night. I mixed a small carton of hand-grated romano (I think) with the mixture of pasta and meat sauce and heated in the microwave. Made a large tossed salad. We each had a small second helping of the pasta, finishing it up. I thought the leftover version was better than the original.

Tonight's dinner will be small pork steaks from the nearly empty freezer. Veggie will be yellow squash.

Lacey, where are you? Probably watching the Celtics!

carole - what we are considering is kind of a compound in CO with a place for DS and his girlfriend, a common area with a fire pit and hot tub, and another place for us. We would be there in summer and do short-term rentals in the winter for skiers. Kind of your same idea with summers in MN and rest of the year in LA. DS would property manage. We are looking at plans that have two/three bed and two bath over garages.

Just baked an apple/pear crisp with Swerve and GF flour as an experiment. Will report back

I'm home now, got home last night around 8pm. Makes for a long day, hour drive to the airport, sit in the airport for an hour, almost 4 hour flight and then a 4 hour drive home! Nothing too exciting re food. Last dinner at my brothers was a lemon/dill grilled salmon, lime/cilantro rice with sauteed fresh beans, asparagus and mushrooms. He had a bottle of some lemon/dill butter to put on the salmon that was really yummy.

Had my neighbor come to water for me while I was gone, got home to no water! She left my spigots on and drained my tanks, which I filled before I left. So probably 1500-3000 gallons of water wasted!

Eric, yay for getting keys!

Wally, belated birthday wishes.

Hello all! We just returned from an impromptu trip to Texas to visit DBIL and DSIL's new digs. Unfortunately, it was not without incident. DH picked up a virus (thankfully not COVID it seems after two negative tests) from which he is just now recovering. Two days into the visit - I was walking with my DSIL through HEB when I got a sharp pain in my left foot. Hadn't twisted it or anything just a brief pain. I kept walking and it went away. Later that afternoon my SIL said "Your foot is really swollen." I looked down and it had swelled to twice it's normal size. No pain, no bruise, no fire ant bite - nothing. Went to urgent care where they x-rayed and found nothing but sent me to the er for an ultrasound to look for a blood clot. There was none. I was sent home with an ace bandage and spent the next week off the foot and elevating and icing and it did eventually return to its normal size. Total mystery but between that and DH's illness, it put a damper on our activities and visit.

The few meals since our return have been unexciting. My DSIL cooks a lot of chicken so I haven't cooked that yet. Last night was grilled pork steak with cucumber salad and corn off the cob. Tonight, DH requested polish sausage with kraut and mashed potatoes. I'll fix that and some cornbread, which for me will be the highlight of the meal. I'll probably slice the rest of the cucumber too with some rice vinegar and onions.

Speaking of new digs - congratulations on the keys Eric! Best of luck with the move.

Special - ugh on the dental work. Glad you're on the mend. I have a problem tooth that's going to require resolution very soon. Not looking forward to it.

Carole - I bought some Camellia brand beans at the HEB while I was in TX. (I love that store.) Looking forward to trying them.

Minus - I waved to you while I was in Texas. I'll be back this winter most likely.

Wallycat - happy belated birthday! Sandy - give us more pictures!

Nance - what a nightmare trip. Glad you'll be back in the winter. Maybe we can squeeze in lunch - although I do know how difficult it is to visit "outsiders" when the family wants all your time.

Wally - Oh good - I didn't miss your B-day. Best wishes for a great day tomorrow.

Happy Birthday, Wally.

Nance, some trips are memorable for the wrong reasons.

We attended a choral concert yesterday afternoon. The program was Beatles music. Afterwards we went to early dinner with a friend who is a member of the professional choral group and her dh. The restaurant opened recently and is enjoying popularity but it wasn't crowded at 5 pm on Sunday afternoon.

I had an oyster appetizer for my main dish. Six crispy fried oysters on little beds of creamed spinach. The oysters and the spinach were delicious. I also had a small house salad which also was very good. DH had the shrimp remoulade salad and enjoyed it.

Crab cakes were on the menu but at an unspecified price. Market price. I meant to ask but forgot. The high price of lump crab meat has taken crab dishes off menus. It was mentioned on tv that the favorite crab dishes at Jazz Fest were missing this year and dishes with crawfish and shrimp were substituted.

Special, so sorry to hear about the covid. Hope your DH improves soon and that you can stay unaffected.

I added a grilled cheese on rye bread (the Finish type bread, thin, whole grain) using gouda. It was perfect. Leftover shrimp and cocktail sauce tomorrow, not sure what else I'll toss to round things out. DH loved my home made cocktail sauce and wants to repeat it all, LOL.

Nancy, a similar thing happened to me back in 2010 when I was walking through a skybridge from the hospital garage to visit a friend in the hospital. I'd been wearing Crocs and for a brief moment my foot "stuck" to the linoleum but I was able to keep from falling, and kept on walking despite feeling a sharp "catch." Orthopedist thought it was a 5th met. stress fracture; X-ray was inconclusive so he sent me for an MRI which merely showed inflammation (it was so swollen by then that I had to weat a cast-boot). Went to a podiatrist to get orthotics once it sort of blew over, and she had a hunch--had me do a "dynamic" X-ray via fluoroscopy (going from nonweightbearing to gait motion). She said it was "cuboid syndrome," in which the ligaments attached to the little cuboid bone (adjacent to the 5th metatarsal) hyperextend on sudden dynamic flexion, more commonly after jumping to make a basketball shot or while dancing. In my case, it was the sudden dorsiflexion of my foot when the Croc sole caught momentarily on the skybridge floor. You might want to see a podiatrist.

Special, how far into COVID is your DH? Is he eligible for Paxlovid or any other antiviral? The new monoclonal antibody that works against Omicron BA.2.12.1 (quickly outcompeting BA.2) is pretty scarce, and the prior one--bebtelovimab--for BA.2, doesn't seem to work for the newest subvariant(s). Hoping he turns a corner soon.

Dinner was a grass-fed burger on a keto bun, with lettuce, tomato, red onion and sharp cheddar; plus grilled shishito peppers I dressed with EVOO (Arbequina) and Maldon flake salt. Appetizer was a Caesar with a few quartered heirloom grape tomatoes. Dessert tonight will likely be an Enlightened keto mini-cheesecake.

Sat. night I ate the leftover piece of octopus & arugula salad; pan-seared Arctic char & broccolini, preceded by a small Caprese with the "heels" of three heirloom tomatoes with the last few blobs of balsamico DOP left in the bottle (used the spade end of a crab pick to get it out & smear it on the mozzarella). Last night Bob brought home wings (sauce on the side) and salad, which I had with celery sticks and 365 blue cheese dressing (not the packets from the restaurants, which have corn syrup). I had the first half of the salad last night with lime EVOO and blueberry-ginger "balsamic" from Old Town Oil; the second half was tonight's Caesar. (He had chicken Vesuvio and a spinach salad while at the restaurant). Last night's dessert was three gigantic organic strawberries and a square of AlterEco 85% dark chocolate.

Last night's dinner was baby back ribs finished on the grill with barbecue sauce and tossed romaine salad. We seldom eat all the ribs but we did last night. They tasted really good.