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.
The best is "greene and black" but you have to win the lotto to eat this every night!! i will treat myself to this once a week maybe but it is good AND with a glass of red wine is supposed to clear the arteries! WIN WIN!! Ok so i guess a bottle of wine and a whole bar of dark choccy is super healthy RIGHT?????
In looking for recipes to try I came across one in a fund-raiser book from 1986 for "Wisconsin's Finest Chocolate Beer Cake." Now that is not the recipe Mom used, but only because she never saw it. It is something she would have tried. So I tried it tonight. (I took an extra half dose of insulin.)
Its liquids are beer, maraschino cherry juice, and buttermilk. Barb and I agreed it is pretty good. (Hope Pat agrees, because I used his last bottle of beer to make it.) In color and texture and taste it reminded both of us of German chocolate cake, which is odd considering I used bitter-sweet chocolate.
I'm still in search of a recipe to match a 55 year old memory, but this wasn't bad in the meantime.
I made my standard chocolate buttercream. I HATE measuring powdered sugar, so all my recipes have been converted to use a 2-pound bag of powdered sugar. That makes 5 to 6 cups of frosting, way more than needed for small sheet cake. So now I have buttercream in the freezer for the next experiment.
Captain, I have instant reaction to MSG. My sensitivity seems to be getting worse quickly. Before, it was 15 minutes after the meal. Now, I get it while eating. Very bad throbbing pounding headache that sleep and pills won’t stop the pain. I was eating out with my niece/hubby at a Japanese restaurant when I felt the pounding headache suddenly. I did’t have my Tylenol (useless against this pain). The only pill I had was an allergy pill (shrimp). I can’t believe. After I took it, the headache ceased!
Boni, that always happens here. I was worried when I buy 2 boxes of ice cream. What if the power goes out? What a waste!!!
Dinner - I just lost my favorite local restaurant at the mall. I always drop by and pick up a large cup of beef soup - what the Filipinos call Sinagong (sure I'm spelling it wrong). I take it home and add more water since this soup is very salty and very sour but lots of veggies like okra, etc... So, I got a strawberry chicken salad at Wendy's. I cut up thin slices of avocados and threw it into the salad.
theyre all still smiling . if attitude could beat this virus i had it whipped from day one ..
ive been thru some s*it in 15 years . i planned to stomp this virus ' guts out this time ..
if i can make some money ill jam back to chicaggy and see those grandkids again .
i just heard ike in the garage twitching .. he he
fought an electrical snafu all the way home last week . must have stopped 30 times . NEVER got exited . by eliminating one crappy connection at a time i finally found it -- a loose sta - kon on the ignition ballast resistor . then ike blew an old brake line . meh , better luck next time karma . smashed a brake line off and came home with one brake .. made right turns a breeze . lol
Anyway maybe check this book out its interesting stuff as im off wheat i do feel better so will be interesting to see if my chol is down when i get my bloods done again. Then stress can up your chol so we are stuffed either way!! Yeh avoid stress? and negative people HA! LOL
That is all. ;-)
I would willingly have skipped dinner tonight, but it was Barb's birthday and her kids took her out for dinner and wanted me along.
I sure hope tomorrow is back to normal for me!
I have one of the rescue kits of glucagon in the medicine cabinet. Sometimes I wonder if I should carry it, too.
I think if I were diabetic I would have a bottle of soda in my purse just in case. It would be a lot more tasty than a tube of glucose! I wonder if it would work well enough.
This sucks. But not as bad as it did before A Canadian team discovered the role insulin plays!
Cap~Yes, all organ food is high in cholesterol. You post about your daily activities often...maybe you are burning off the cholesterol...keep having it checked.
So YES, I am going to cook chicken livers again tomorrow. The benefit is they are high in iron. I am also going to make a red, white and blue potato salad, very yummy and of course not so good on cholesterol. Hubby is going to a baseball game. am cooking just for myself. Plus...I am so bad, I went to Baskin Robbins today for an ice cream...they had my all time favorite...Mississippi Mud. I bought a quart!!!
Dinner tonight was Wendy's chili, strawberry chicken salad and rice. Ate half tonight, the other half will be my brunch tomorrow. I didn't have enough time to buy real meat after work.
I've just ordered some very simple books With Pictures for beginners. Cooking Basics for Dummies, How to Boil Water, Betty Crocker Cooking Basics.
After I'm done changing my dad's pampers, I'm going to search the internet bookstores for a cheaper costs of 2 more books: .....How to Cook Everything The Basics: All You Need to Make Great Food--With 1,000 Photos .....How to Cook Everything (Completely Revised 10th Anniversary Edition)
I'm finding myself getting so frustrated. I was so desperate, I asked dad how did he used to cook chicken soup. Me, asking my father who is going down the road of senility. Of course he doesn't remember! Have to go....time to change his pamper.
Don't waste too much money on cook books. Once you have mastered the basics you will find plenty of excellent recipes on the internet. Use your money to buy good quality seasonings.
There is a website called "Living on a Dime" take a look at that and see what you think. Try and plan ahead at least for the week based on the weekly store specials and do that shopping when you have time at the week end not in a rush after work. Keep staples like rice ,flour and potatoes on hand. you can add fresh or frozen veg of choice. once you have mastered a dish for example lasagna cook two pans and freeze the second for another night. It is already fully cooked so all you need to do is reheat. Make your own pizza well until you get to yeast cooking buy a ready made crust and throw your own sauce and ingredients on. baby steps Book, you are in first grade and trying to master college courses.