Sorry to say, but this site has been so depressing for a few days. I thought I'd ask an average, everyday question....to make us all feel a little more normal today.
I made Eggplant Lasagna, and my BIL and SIL are coming for dinner. They leave for Cali tomorrow to see their beautiful grand daughter.
Sorry, sometimes we just need some REGULAR conversation.......or at least THIS caregiver does.
It'll be chaos at home, so I'm not interested in cooking tonight.
I realized today that because of my upbringing, with mom cooking with very very little salt, that I'm used to Bland food. I can handle spicy. I just cannot handle salty food. So, in conclusion, when making future meals, I will seek ingredients that are low sodium. And before I start cooking, I will Google on substitutes to use for those on low-sodium diet.
FYI, I may not have eaten the gravy, but I did make a dipping sauce made of low sodium soy sauce, vinegar, fresh red pepper and lots of onions. YUM!!! I put aside my 2nd chop steak without any gravy in it. That's my dinner for tonight. This time, I will eat it with corn.
I've discovered Birdseye brand frozen skillet dinners. They have about 3-4 servings per bag, but in reality it feeds me and my father with little to no leftovers. But its easy-peasy to make, and has lots of vegetables in each of the varieties, and at around $3 per bag its half the price of other frozen one-skillet dinner brands. Downside is the sodium content is very high.
Tonight had the three cheese chicken variety. Delish.
got an invite to stay 2 , 3 , or more days if I want . gonna make with the fudge ecstacy cookies tomorrow . lot of catching up to do with my son . of course weve both grown so there are a lot of philosophical things to compare notes on .
hope to take three kids trike riding tomorrow .
son has a girlfriend ive never met so we have a very delicate process to go thru to get aquainted . when she wakes up in the morning she'll find her refrigerator doors have been reversed . they swung the wrong way . it annoyed her but it annoyed me worse ( evidently ) ..
pork is done when the blood tinged juices run clear when forked . any continued cooking will result in dry , tough pork . ill bet youd love chops baked , surrounded by light apple stuffing . a can of corn in the stuffing mixture only makes it sweeter tasting .
there isn't any coffee in this dammed apartment this am . wth is wrong with people ?
I hope aunt edna is placed in NH while im gone . in homer simpsons words " itll be everybodys fault but mine " .. he he
edna is ok with the upped level of care but Ill bet everybody involved in the transition will be on her s*it list for a while . ( 2 minutes , dementia )
a pic speaks a thousand words ., youll need a milk cow , these cookies are rich .
anyway , i found something resembling coffee and the cookies were done before these guys even woke up .
i wrote to cuz this am and told her when her g - daughters came to ednas and we woke edna up , she produced a beautiful , shy looking , little girlish smile upon recognition of her GG - kids . thats when my head snapped and my a** headed to chicago . if cuz doesnt understand that then she can stfu and take care of her mother for a few days .
I want some of those cookies!!
the cookies are a b*tch.
Country style ribs and vegetables in the slow cooker for dinner today.
her response was " i always liked him " . im having a nice time here .
oughtta get some snow chains for ike and blow right over the north pole to europe since im so far north already . lol
speaking of " full of s*hit " , thanks debralee for linking megalomania and delusions of grandeur in my head . i was trying to learn exactly what megalomania meant .
My stir-fry last night took longer than I'd expected. And I had to go to the internet to see how to peel and devein shrimp.
I hear you about the salt! We tried to keep relatively low sodium for my husband's health needs. Now my son is rooming here and he dislikes salt. When I eat in a restaurant everything tastes over-salted. I simply don't add salt to a savory recipe that includes canned items, like tomatoes. There is more than enough salt in the canned goods. (Baking is different. I follow the recipe, including salt.)
I'm in SW Ontario, Canada btw, about 3 hours west of Toronto.