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.
Got a small hanger steak marinating and will make a salad to go with it. Yes, Moms at sisters tonight. I Love to eat in silence!
The first time I made the salsa I coughed and coughed and choked while the jalapenos and tomatillos were boiling. This time I knew enough to open windows and put on the exhaust fan. I was hugely glad to be able to shut the windows and turn on the AC when they were done!
meh ..
I didn't have to cook tonight. Granddaughter's husband invited the family over for dinner to celebrate GD's birthday. He might have been inspired by the cookout his BIL gave for his wife's bd a few weeks ago. The pasta, marinara sauce, meatballs, and Italian sausage were fine. What I liked even better was establishing some expectations for men in the family or potentially in the family regarding wives birthdays. (3 grandkids brought dates.)
Tomorrow is set aside for baking all day.
im the can - man yes i can yes i can ..
done ate my 11 quarts of cherries . love ( d ) those things .
Salmon from Costco, mashed potatoes, Dole chopped salad (bbq ranch tasty!) and the infamous tomato basil mozzarella salad.
i had garlic bologna sandwiches tonight . found a vine full of tomatos by the kitchen sink drain . yay .
edna had forgotten we cant go truck riding . she said we were out of there and she needed to go to the bank . i had to explain differently to her . " sheeitt " she says . thats edna most extreme language . f*ck the people who imprisoned her . thats my MILDEST language for them .
Yesterday Barb and I went to the state fair. We walked and walked and walked. It is pretty hard to balance the extra exercise and the out-of-the-ordinary eating and the insulin amount needed, but I did pretty good. My favorite food was fried veggies on a stick. (With a tempura-like batter.)
I'm going to try another new recipe tomorrow, for artichoke mushroom beef stew. I'll bet the biscuits would go with that, too. Or I could use some lefse I bought at the state fair.
with the electricity you use i dont think canning is a real bargain , its just soothing to have plenty of preserved food on the place in case there were problems with supply .
What is for dinner! To have one night where we all show joy, and do something small for us "comfort food". Remember everyone cares, and everyone needs love!
Thank you BoniChak
That reminds me, when I was a little girl, I used to like this great dish that my mother made (87 Alzheimer's, in Memory care), it was called Bon Ami? I know that is closed to the cleanser. But it was a mixture of chinese noodles, egg soufle sliced; tomato slices; sliced ham; soy sauce to taste, and bok choy. It was served on a huge platter, and all of my family had this each 10/26. This continued until my mother was 80, and I know she would laugh and smile if I told her about this, which I will tomorrow. My mother was all about comfort. She was the comfort for all of us, that is happy. :-) I am going to ask my sister the recipe and make it tomorrow!!!!
Tonight I had a huge bag of spinach I wanted to use up, so I made creamed spinach for the first time. It won't be the last.
I intended to to make chicken strips with barbecue sauce (leftover from the pork) but an upscale grocer near us has $3 off their rotisserie chickens on Fridays (5-buck clucks, they call them) and it is hard to pass that up and go for raw chicken. But I did serve it with the homemade sauce. That counts, right?
And I sauteed fresh mushrooms in olive oil and added them and dried cherries to a box of stuffing mix.
It was a pretty impressive dinner for not much money. Only the creamed spinach was a little work, but not too much.
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Mom is slowly getting on board with eating healthier (meaning lower carbs, less starch and sugars). She has even started to lose some weight, without having to exercise (which is good, because she can't) and she likes most of what I cook. She still bucks me on the fruit juice and fruits, but we've cut way back on them - she used to eat 3-4 bananas a day - now she eats just 1.
This pizza is a *great* substitute for the wheat flour crust pizza that we normally order, with far fewer carbs. The crust actually crisps up like a thin crust pizza would! It's a keeper. :-)