aKathy's What's for Dinner 5/22

Yay for having your ds's at home soon scrapmaven!


I took today off ... I'm feeling the need ... I'm having pain in my left foot so I'll see if I can get in to see my doctor ... it's also supposed to rain all day which is depressing.   .  (Calgary gets the most sunshine per year of any city in Canada ... we're spoiled!)

I plan to do not much today ... big surprise!   

Dinner will be veggie fajitas ... yum!

Good evening.
The weather here today has been crazy - cool and drizzling rain this morning, sunshine at lunchtime, then a massive downpour at 2:30 that only lasted 15 minutes, and now we’re back to bright sunshine.
I went out mid morning for a nail appointment - that was when the drizzling rain started - then walked home via the butcher and the grocery store. Once home, I put meat into the slow cooker for dinner.
Apart from that, a quiet day. I am trying to get a few things planned for our trip next week. I want to book a walking tour on the afternoon we arrive, but it’s hard to decide which one to take. I might end up spending a bit more for the company that does ‘design your own’ tours - you tell the, your interests and they plan around that.

Dinner tonight is beef carnitas. The meat is nearly done, so I’ll just have to put together the sides a bit later. Not sure when DH will get home, so waiting for him to message me.

leannec - I hope there’s nothing serious wrong with your foot.

Okay, now we’re going to try again to do risotto tonight. I’ll add mushrooms and chicken to the basic recipe.


Responding to yesterday’s thread:

Tearisci, if only I had an instant pot to cook my risotto in!

jeremysgirl AussieMeg and scrappinwithoutpeas, the produce arrived in a styrofoam cooler with ice packs. And the raccoons minded their own business.

Well thanks to lucyg - now I'm craving risotto - but unfortunately taco tuesday is a day late here. Maybe I'll make some risotto tomorrow!

Happy Wednesday!

We're supposed to get some big storms this afternoon with baseball sized hail and possible tornados so i'm hunkering down and not venturing out.

Dinner tonight will be steak and either mac and cheese or baked potato. I'll see what mood I'm in once dinnertime rolls around.

Hope you all have a great day!

spent 4 hours yesterday talking to my college buddy!!! that was fun.
got all my errands done.

so last night I texted dh and told him to make reservations!! so we are going out to dinner tonight.

not raining today. more house cleanout today!!!

It's Wednesday so it is my day off!

I got up and took a long walk before it got hot. It was so refreshing. Ran a few errands in town. Now I am home jut picking up and doing laundry.

jeremysgirl to answer your question from a few days ago, I do not drink bourbon but DH and the couple that went with us do. We went to Woodford Reserve and Buffalo Trace. The tours were very interesting. Woodford Reserve is beautiful. It is set among horse farms and just has a fabulous setting. It was a fun short, weekend getaway.

Going to a baseball game tonight for DGS. I am prepping honey bbq chicken to put on the grill after we get home.

Happy Wednesday! We finally got power back about 6 pm last night - so 5 full days without. The whole house generator was ordered this morning and should be installed in 3-4 weeks. When DH finally got on board he doesn't mess around!

Today I'm cleaning out the fridge, getting unpacked and doing laundry. Headed out to HEB soon to replenish food. Hoping to find my nail salon has reopened so I can get a mani/pedi. Had an appointment last Friday but that obviously didn't happen! Now with all the yard clean up I need one even more.

DH's port insertion went well on Monday.   Tomorrow afternoon they are doing the biopsy, then Friday morning he has his first Kytruda treatment.  So things are moving along on that front.  

Absolutely no idea what dinner will be.  Still need to go find some coffee and lunch!  

I just wanted to give a shoutout to all the electric companies who sent crews and trucks to help us out. We'd still be sitting in the dark if it weren't for them. In my area we had crews from Appalachian Utility (KY), Pike Electric (NC), Valley Storm Services Corp (TN) and a huge fleet from Saginaw, MI (have forgotten the company name). They traveled so far and then had to work in 100+ heat indexes. Everyone here truly appreciates their work and sacrifice! THANK YOU!!! There are many more companies from other states here (about 5,000 workers total!) but those are the ones in my area.

The Birdhouse Lady
How about a meat/cheese tray with rolls, maybe a breakfast casserole, lasagna.    Congrats on this new baby!

Emma was breech ... we even tried an "external version" to try to turn her ... not fun!    . Didn't work and we scheduled the c-section ... then the little bugger decided to break my water a day early!  Went to the hospital in an ambulance because there was no way I was going into labour!   

The nice thing about c-section babies is that they have perfectly round heads!   

So exciting for you!!!

It was a quiet and long day but I'm not complaining. I had a contractor stop by and look at the floor that I need to get fixed but he can't get to it until next week. We'll see if that happens because he told me the same thing last week over the phone.

For dinner we had kielbasa with potatoes and onions. I can't remember which pea told me about this and had to try it. It was delicious !

I'm back!   I woke up at 7:30am and thought five hours sleep just isn't enough. Luckily I managed to go back to sleep and woke up again at 8:30am. 

The Birdhouse Lady not long to wait now - how exciting! If I were cooking meals for someone, I would make things like pasta bake, tuna mornay, risotto, curries..... things that are okay to reheat. Some people are fussy about reheating meal with meat in them. My DSO refused to eat reheated meat. I have no such qualms!