aKathy's What's for Dinner? 11/16

My finger is so sore that I unwrapped it. It is the part with the packing that is sore. Otherwise I thought it looked good..I did not want to risk tearing the delicate skin. So I just wrapped it back up and I'm waiting impatiently to see the doc at 2 today.

I'm logged into work but things are slow. Unfortunately though someone scheduled a 4pm meeting! As an early bird I hate later meetings. But I should be back and I really need to be there.

Tonight is dinner at Mom's. She is making pasta with pesto and sundried tomatoes. But I guess she's also making polish sausage and sauerkraut too. My sauerkraut loving husband will be grateful. I do not like sauerkraut. So I don't make it often. Pasta for me please!

And it is about damn time they fix you up scrapmaven

I think it's alright. I don't see any visible signs of infection. Just the packing is rubbing and keeping the wound open. So they should remove it, make sure there's no more infection and close me up.

I have had a slow day today. When I woke up, the site where I had my vaccine yesterday was quite red and sore to touch, so I decided I needed to take things easy. Other than the redness, I don't feel ill at all. I went for a walk and have done a bit of knitting and some hand washing of finished sweaters that needed to be done, but that's all.

Dinner tonight is sweet potato shakshuka. We haven't had it for ages and DH asked for it. It is also simple to make, so perfect for today. cadoodlebug - thanks for your meme. I knew something was missing from my shakshuka, and it was spinach! Thankfully, I always have frozen leaf spinach on hand, so I could add it. 

so up in seattle after a very very long drive. dh and I left 6 am.. then he remembered he forgot his mom's present at home ---we were at the east end of the bay bridge.. so we had to turn around and crawl through an hour of traffic and finally left home 2 hours after the first start. we only stopped for gas and bathroom.. and made it on the 10 pm ferry with exactly 2 min to spare.. saved us from waiting another hour for the next ferry..

so this morning, ran down to market for breakfast and dinner stuff.. about to go visit mother in law in her care home.

tonight, we are having salad with teriyaki meatballs sauteed in pan. tomorrow, there is a big family dinner (all 5 of us!). it is sunny and cold on Whidbey island outside seattle.

we will be back home wednesday.. so I can cook a little turkey on thursday.

Hi dinner tonight could be burgers maybe. I think my dad would rather eat with the kids and I than at the golf club. The paella was delicious last night. I have to remember to get saffron the next time I go to the Mediterranean deli.

We had chicken stir fry last night. I am craving a Chick Fil A cobb salad so that may be my suggestion for tonight.
I will also be shopping this weekend for Thanksgiving. We decided to just not go anywhere and cook at home for the 3 of us. Should be a nice quiet Thanksgiving!

I hope everyone starts feeling better ASAP!
Ugh, I'm dreading an appt. today and hoping I won't need surgery!!!

cadoodlebug...that meme made me laugh!

We're getting Italian take-out for din-din.

I want everyone to feel better … scrapmaven , jeremysgirl , destined2bmom , teddyw , scrappintoee , and who am I missing? I’m sure I’m missing someone.

Congrats on the good news, Darcy Collins !

Today (gotta leave in a few minutes) I am finally, finally getting my hair colored. So much gray.  I can’t wait. Going to make her take before and after pictures. Because I’m not coordinated enough to take decent selfies.

Dinner tonight will be chicken pot pie from Costco.


ETA rymeswithpurple! You’re the one I left out. Feel better, my dear.

lucyg ~~ Add me to the list of the ill & injured.  My right knee has blown up   very swollen and hurts like @#$%^!!

I had a synthetic injection under the kneecap in mid September for the osteoarthritis.  I thought that a baker's cyst had formed behind my knee last week. I was standing a lot as I was at a quilting seminar and had to stand to cut the fabric, press the fabric etc. 
I saw my family doc on Tuesday and she gave me some pain meds but they aren't helping and the swelling is getting bigger.
I called my ortho doc and was told that I need to see my family doc again and she has to order some imaging and then the ortho doc will see me.  What a run around.  So here I am, popped up on perc, probably pui'ing and still in a LOT of pain.

I am also taking ibuprofen to reduce the inflammation and topical Voltaren gel.  

Dinner will probably be soup from a can and a bag of chips with some coffee crisp ice-cream for dessert, as that is what I have that is easy to prepare.

Hope the other ailing peas are slowly getting healthy.

quiltz you had me at chips and coffee crisp ice cream! Is it as amazing as the candy bar??

So sorry about your knee woes. I’m five weeks post op from a total replacement of my right knee. I’m wondering how I can return to work in a week and a half. I see the surgeon next Wednesday for another follow up.

Better than the chocolate bar because the ice cream is coffee flavoured and with chunks of the coffee crisp candy in the ice-cream, it  is very  delicious.  A grocery store, Sobey's, uses coffee crisp bars and creates danish pastry, donuts, cookies and cakes using this very goodness of a chocolate bar. There are coffee crisp ice cream bars on a stick, with the coffee ice creams coated with the crushed bar and dipped into chocolate.  All is delicious.