aKathy's What's for Dinner 11/6

Yessssss! Me and you, both. Let's do this thing.

sueg your food pics looked fabulous

I am finishing up a project I need to have submitted by 4 pm today. I'm almost done, I've just got to upload it.

I don't know what I plan to do this weekend. I have absolutely nothing on my agenda. No money either. Hahahaha...but nothing on my agenda. I hope I finish the latest shawl I've been working on. It would feel good to get that done. But part of my new outlook is not feeling like I'm on a deadline with any of my crafts. Doing what I feel like doing when the mood strikes me.

We still have rechauffe lasagna. But who knows? Jeremy could decided to hit the store and pick up something else.

November already? 🤔 Time flies when you're having fun!

Last night of beef stroganoff here, and TGIF!

Yesss! Come to the dark side scrappert! Lol!

I meant to say I bookmarked the hot honey chicken recipe from teddyw too. Ironically my SIL brought me back a jar of hot honey from a recent vacation. I didn't know what to do with it.

Well it was supposed to be a day at home today, but dh told me we're going over to a kinda-co-workers house for dinner. I think it's takeout pizza. I've never me them before so this should be interesting. Dh is looking to sell him his business so he can (mostly) retire next year.

scrapmaven good for you starting to do stuff for yourself! it's absolutely necessary

Delta Dawn how long do you cook it in the air fryer for?

I'm amazed that anyone can eat leftovers for several nights in a row! I'm not really a fan of leftovers, and if I have to eat them it's one more meal only and then they're garbage. It's why I can't really meal prep, to me it feels like eating leftovers

Hi friends...it's been a long time since I posted, even though I've been lurking like a creeper almost every day. Lots has happened since I was posting regularly...got married, moved back to NW Indiana near where I grew up (to be with him), changed jobs still a social work professor but left my university of nearly 15yrs, lost my 2 sweet min pins at 14yrs old, got two more (that are crazy), bought a house... But some things stay the same...we still eat dinner, so here I am! My resolution is to begin posting again. I've gotten a lot out of the last 20yrs at 2p's and it feels pretty one sided.

Tonight's plan is pizza and an early night. My husband Nick was off for 10 days (unheard of) between Christmas and NY's so this week back has him worn out. I am scrambling to get my classes ready for the start of the semester next week and I'm tired too. I have one more to finish and a zoom call this afternoon. I've also been dealing with SO.MUCH.BUREACRACY trying to get our healthcare issues taken care of, as so many of you in here are familiar. And I took the pups to get their nails trimmed which requires all I have not to lose my mind from the barking and drama and bad behavior in the car. So, pizza it is...I feel like I've earned every pepperoni already today!

I am absolutely NOT a leftovers person. I agree with everything you said here. There are only a handful of things I will eat a second time. Lasagna happens to be one of them.

I'd love that. I'm in Hobart. It is strange to be living in a quasi-familiar place (grew up in Gary), but having left all my people behind in Indianapolis. I teach in South Bend and we like to go for dinner or day trips into MI too. My husband is a peach, but I miss girlfriends. I had hoped family might scratch that itch (his and mine), but nope! Very glad for this place, still.

I make pork bites and cook for 15 min in my toaster oven air fryer. It does a great job.

I’m feeling better today, scrapmaven … thanks for asking. My friend and I put off our lunch till next week, anyway. 

tmarschall, love seeing you return to us. Congrats on the wedding and move and new pups, and I’m sorry about the old ones.

Expecting houseguests again next weekend, so I need to start getting ready for that. I’ve spent the past week washing every single item from the guest bed (formerly the boy’s bed) after DD/SO + large dog + wet weather made it all radioactive. So that bed needs to be totally reconstructed now.

I ended up making my beef barley soup last night, so that’s dinner. For the foreseeable future.  Me, I love leftovers! Hate having to cook something new every night, and perfectly happy to eat the same thing all week (like my friend rymeswithpurple) if it means I don’t have to cook again.

I eat keto when I have had a bad week of eating. Lately dinners I am cooking keto, too. That just means a meat of some kind, salad (we don’t do anything special to salads and a green vegetable. If we have tomatoes I will serve them, too. My dad is not a huge fan but I am. Caprese salads are nice, too. I eat balsamic vinegar because I really like it. I also love fresh mozzarella. Just keep going. Also try to get some excercise when you can. If the weather is too cold walk inside your house. I do that too. Keep going!

Just woken up on our last morning in Australia for this visit.
Yesterday we went to Questacon, a fabulous, hands on Science museum that I would thoroughly recommend to anyone visiting Canberra. It is probably even more fun if you have little kids - DS2 can't wait for Sophia to come visit him so they can go together.
Dinner was a wine bar in the city, which had lovely 'small sharing plates' of food. We had a wide selection - oysters, chicken bites, tuna tartare, pork with beet and apple salsa and a kaffir lime creme caramel for dessert.

This morning, we are hiking up Mt Ainslie early, then coming home to shower before going to brunch. Then the rest of our weekend will be travel. Flights from Canberra to Melbourne, Melbourne to Dubai and finally Dubai into Munich. I'll see you all on the other side (or maybe I'll check in from Dubai)

I started the same on Monday and I have little energy as well. It will eventually come back after another few days or a week, so I’m just hanging in. Have you tried drinking some electrolytes in your water? Wishing you luck! 

Never a truer word spoken (or written) - leftovers are certainly not my thing but DH will eat them anytime. Lasagna is probably the only thing I will eat as left overs. 

I've had a rough week, and I'm getting scared that I'm having
post-hip replacement complications. I do NOT have the strength
to go through anything else! I just don't. I was hard enough
to just have the surgery!


Did I tell y'all I cried for THREE HOURS STRAIGHT
before the surgery? Yea, THAT is how afraid I was!

I've asked for a referral to a functional med/ rehab physician,
but who knows how long it'll take! Sooo many doctors are
behind schedule, short-staffed, and overwhelmed. I can't even
get into my regular doctor for 2 months.

DH and I LOVE leftovers! I like that most dishes have richer
flavors after a day or two (or three ! ) in the fridge--especially
sauces, homemade soups, etc.