What's for dinner?

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MountainDon

Some thrown together fried rice.... started with some chopped onion. Added left over rice, sauteed all in olive oil. Added finely sliced left over London broil and a piece of rib eye. Added chopped celery (on its last legs) and left over green peas. Added three eggs near end... mixed and added some soy sauce, pepper mix. Done. And some left over for lunch.  :D
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Sassy

I fried some chopped bacon, added sliced potatoes, when they were getting browned & tender, added onions & variety of peppers from our garden (I'd frozen them this fall), salt & pepper - then threw in a few handfuls of fresh spinach & turned the whole thing off, let the spinach steam a bit.  Fried up some eggs, broiled some wholegrain sourdough french bread & that was brunch (also the leftovers were dinner  heh
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Homegrown Tomatoes

I forgot to mention that we had strawberry cheesecake for dessert.  Tonight, it'll be homemade lasagna that our pastor's wife gave us.  It looks really good, so I can't wait to try it out.  When I was expecting my second daughter, I cooked up a storm right before she was born and froze dozens of casseroles and lasagnas (made with goat meat, then) for after she was born.  (This was because my first daughter was constantly starving and when she was a newborn it was so hard to get a meal ready because she wanted to nurse constantly during the dinner-time crunch.)  I was afraid that no one would show up with meals (as happened with the first) and I'd be too starving to produce enough milk for DD#2 (as with the first.)  Anyway, we ended up with a whole freezer full of lasagnas and enchilada casseroles, and I thought we'd never eat our way through them...we were giving them away before we moved up here.  So, I haven't had lasagna in  a long time simply because I got pretty burned out on the "goat-sagna" for so many months!  :D 

Drew

The Old Man (OM) is in town for a while.  He lives up in Colusa, about an hour away from our farm in Palermo which makes his place a great crash pad for work days.  I'd rather drive 2 hours, sleep in until 6, drive another hour, and get to work by 8 than wake up at 5 (again), drive 3 hours and get to work at 9.  Or 10.  We're losing the light, people...

At any rate, he's an omnivore.  Before I gave up meat we'd trade turns in the kitchen.  In our family cooking was the "manly art" as far as those things go.  Now I end up cooking things that have an optional meat component and rarely have a meatless table.  I admit the change over from my repertoire from omnivore to vegetarian was long and a little tricky.  However, I was motivated since it would be me going hungry.  He, on the other hand, was like the traveler to Amsterdam.  There are enough people who speak English around to get by and he never had to learn Dutch.

Nevertheless, he's going to be spending a lot of time at our place over the next couple months before he leaves the country for a while, so I'm going to see about teaching him a few words in Vegetarian.  He is an accomplished cook.  The question is not how to cook but what to cook.

Dan said she'd make her vegetable noodle soup with homemade noodles.  I'll bake a loaf of multi-grain bread to go with it.  Then Robin and I go off to our yoga class.

Yoga:  It's good for the health of the people around me.

glenn kangiser

QuoteYoga:  It's good for the health of the people around me.

[cool] It's good frozen too, Drew -- taste like ice cream. rofl  d*
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Drew

I'm gonna have to kick your butt now, Glenn.

In slooooow moootion.

Oh, wait.  That's Tai Chi.

Not the kind you get at Starbucks, Glenn  That's Chai Tea.

Namaste

(^.^)

Sassy

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QuoteI'm gonna have to kick your butt now, Glenn.

You and who's army?, Drew.   [slap] (Old Oregon backwoods hick saying).

I have to caution you, Drew.  In cases of fighting the unknown assailant, I always go for the Huevos.  Seems effective.

Maybe we should sit down and have that glass of Chai Tea.

Must I drink it with a pinky extended?  [noidea'  I am rather unlearned in the city ways.  Thanks in advance for the reply.  :)
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Sassy

I love Chai tea!  Actually, 1st drank the East Indian version years ago working with an Indian nurse - she always brought a big thermos full - it was so good - but I do resist the urge to go to Starbucks - everyone at work either buys a big coffee/tea on the way to work or sends someone out with a bunch of orders...  it just gripes me to pay $3-$4 for a cup of coffee/tea!  I can buy good coffee beans & grind it myself, put cinnamon, vanilla, etc with a little milk - tastes just as good to me.  I've asked my co-workers what they spend a month - one guy buys at least 2 drinks a day from Starbucks - figure $7 x 30= $210 a month!  :o  Granted, he is single, doesn't smoke - I always tell the patients "think how much money you'd have if you stopped smoking?  All the things you could buy!  Right now you are just burning it up... " 

Anyway, there's just certain things I draw the line at  c*  ::)
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Drew

I used to smoke, Kathy, and while your advice is right on the mark, it might as well weigh 300 pounds.  Tobacco is engineered to be addictive in order to maximize the profits for its manufacturers.  It also has no medicinal qualities.

Thank our lucky stars that marijuana is illegal.  Can't have a dangerous medicine like that running around.  [noidea'

The tea would be a good idea, Glenn.  I gave up inhaling pretty much any kind of smoke a while back (Some messed up my stair climbing abilities, others ruined punchlines).  I'd be no good at fighting 'cause I'd have to get mad at ya first.   :D

So Dana, our yoga instructor, has us back against the wall with one foot on the ground, one hand on a block, one hand pointing toward the ceiling, and the final leg at 90 degrees to the ground.  My daughter, who is 15 and has the build of a waif-like anime character, has folded and is taking a break.  A good father is not in competition with his children, but my inner 42-year-old is saying, "Alriiiight!"

glenn kangiser

QuoteSo Dana, our yoga instructor, has us back against the wall with one foot on the ground, one hand on a block, one hand pointing toward the ceiling, and the final leg at 90 degrees to the ground.

Seems like you'd be very vulnerable at that moment, Drew. d*
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Drew

Absolutely.  Fortunately none of the yoginis, including 3 pregnant women, took that moment to extract their revenge on the Gender.


glenn kangiser

I'd suggest you skip class the days after any of them deliver. [crz]

By the way --- Sassy is going to bring back "Big City Surprise" tonight.  She's making the trek to the valley to rub elbows with the Starbucks, bagels and Granola crowd.
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Drew

I hope she gets back to the mothership before her air tank gives out!

;)

I'm looking at a biiig Doppler smear covering the Central Valley.  Much as I want to work at the farm, I'd probably better work at home on the bathroom.  Dan said she is willing to make concessions to let me do that instead of having to man the 4H candy sales table at the Belmont Lunardi's grocery store.  It needs to get done and it will be fun, but it's not the same.

Maybe I'll go to HD and get parts for my irrigation manifolds.  Make chili for the week.  Play power ballads and look at pictures of my farm in the springtime.  Sigh.    :(

---

Later that week we find Drew in front of the Colma Home Depot.  He's got an overloaded tool belt and a desperate look in his eye.  "I can hoddy, mister.  I can dig septic!  Five bucks an hour!  Okay, three!  Come on, man!  Roof!  I'll roof!"


StinkerBell

Tell Sassy the wine and cheese crowd is much better then the Starbucks and Granola.

Homegrown Tomatoes

Think we'll do something with some winter squash still left from the garden...We have to use stuff up.  By the time we get ready to move we may be living on granola and starbucks, but I doubt it.  Lasagna (not made with goat, hooray!) and something squashy... how does that sound for appetizing?  Maybe I can talk DH into going out for a celebratory dinner instead? 

glenn kangiser

Drew, I spent many hours wandering through that Home Depot.  I rebuilt the totally screwed up front entryway of the Lucky Chances Casino in Colma on the hill (lots of dead people there) and lots of other misc. work there.  30 foot tall structural steel beams.  Guard rails around the perimeter of the parking lot -- painted them Home Depot Rustoleum dark green.  Sassy sanded handrails after I welded them there.

I told the engineer why his way wouldn't work for the repairs - he agreed and turned me loose to do it my way.  He said if anyone needed drawings to let him know and he'd draw them up.  Never had a problem.

...and for dinner -- big city Grocery Outlet Marie Calendar's Lasagna, Sautéed Mushrooms and salad. :)
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Sassy

Hey, Grocery Outlet has a lot of good deals  :)
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I decided that tomorrow for lunch (as we won't be home for dinner) I'm making baked beans... I've never actually made baked beans before because I don't really care that much for them...they're too sweet, but must be a pregnancy craving or something.   So I sorted, rinsed and am soaking beans overnight.  I was thinking what I don't like about baked beans is that they're too sweet, so I'm thinking I'll reduce the molasses and brown sugar and substitute some of the dry mustard with wasabe... whaddya think?  Baked beans with a kick?  Besides, still trying to use up what we have in the larder before we move... unfortunately, apple butter alone doesn't make a very good meal, and neither does dried seaweed or a gallon sized bag of crushed red chili peppers.... now is when I get to be really creative.

MountainDon

I love baked beans with a kick!  :)  I've pretty near always added mustard powder to batches of beans, and add a spoonful of Jack Daniels horseradish mustard to store bought baked beans as a rule. Should be tasty with wasabe. Myself, I'd leave out more of the brown sugar and keep the molasses as I like the molasses taste better than brown sugar.   :-\
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Glenn I think I had mentioned before that after I retired(1st time) that I worked for a guardrail contractor and supervised a crew.  Well we had to install some at the Greenbrier Resort. Yeah they only know two colors. Green and white. So we ordered green rail and installed. That's the first time installing new green guardrail but have to admit it looked pretty good. So good that I have four pieces to install at my own bridge (wing wall approachs) and probably will make it green using the same paint you did.

glenn kangiser

It did look surprisingly nice.
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Quote from: MountainDon on February 01, 2008, 12:51:24 AM
I love baked beans with a kick!  :)  I've pretty near always added mustard powder to batches of beans, and add a spoonful of Jack Daniels horseradish mustard to store bought baked beans as a rule. Should be tasty with wasabe. Myself, I'd leave out more of the brown sugar and keep the molasses as I like the molasses taste better than brown sugar.   :-\
Well, they're in the oven now.  I cut up a slice from the leftover Christmas ham into them because I didn't have any bacon or salt pork.  I reduced the brown sugar to maybe a fourth of a cup (for two pounds, dry weight, beans).  I did go ahead and add the molasses.  There were four hot onions... my eyes are still burning from cutting them up... and I realized after I started the whole process that I didn't have any ground mustard, so I took whole mustard seed and crushed them in a mortar and pestle (they were much more fragrant than if I'd used ground dry mustard, anyway, and I added the powdered horseradish/wasabe to the mix.)  It smells really good... hopefully they'll turn out as good as they smell.  Like I said, I've never made baked beans before because I always thought they were too sweet.  I usually get my fix of them when my aunt makes them for a family get-together... and then they're too sweet.  We'll see.  May make some buttermilk biscuits to go with... tonight, DH and I have a date.  Highschool kid I know offered to  babysit tonight so that we can go out...she wants a chance to babysit the girls again before we move, and they can't wait to see her.

Homegrown Tomatoes

Tomato and basil pizza.  We would have the baked beans again, but I'm afraid I've banned DH from eating them.  After two bowls of them yesterday, he was impossible...

glenn kangiser

I am not the one who started it this time.  Hooray.  :)

I have a very good set of bacteria.  I suppose that chewing less -- swallowing the small beans whole so they will pass through the stomach and into the intestines for the bacteria to break down can enhance the experience.  The .22 caliber navy beans are some of the best.  The brown sugar and baking make them yummy. [crz]

Note that I have resisted commenting on this ever since you posted that your were going to be making baked beans.  I love 'em.
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