AKathy's "What's For Dinner?" 06/08

I am going to use up leftovers tonight.. buy some salad and asparagus to go with them.

another foggy cool day.. summer has arrived!!

dh found out yesterday our doctor is retiring.. we have been going there for 20 some years. he was in practice alone.. so easy to get in for appt and easy to get responses.

so that will be fun in a few weeks I will start looking for someone new.

I will try to do some basement clean up and more scrapbooking today. dh is going to an alumni gathering at the computer history museum in silicon valley. he has never seen it.. thinks he will take a picture of every display of equipment he has worked with.. he graduated with a degree in computer science in 1974, the first year his college (western washington u) offered such a degree. back in the days of heavy math and card decks.

Happy Saturday!

Normal Saturday here - big grocery shop this morning, then lunch. DH went into the city to buy clothes this afternoon and I stayed home and crocheted while watching the Women's final of the French Open tennis.

Dinner is almost ready. We are having Thai beef salad. DH has marinated the steak and will cook it on the grill. I just made a huge salad, with loads of Asian greens and herbs in it.

leannec - I love all cheese. We eat a lot of goat's and sheep's milk cheeses - they are not all the same; some are really mild and others are quite tangy. The feta we usually get is sheep's milk, which is how it is traditionally made in Greece. I also like blue cheeses but DH doesn't so much. Again - some are milder than others and I tend to stick with the milder ones.
When we were in Mainz and had our amazing multi course dinner, the course of the set menu we skipped (because we didn't want 6 course, and it was the one they left out) was the cheese course. Some other patrons had the cheese and it was incredible to see. They had a glass cabinet with something like 20 different cheeses, and they wheeled it to the table and you got to chose 5 or 6.

The only cheese I've ever met that I don't like is Swiss. Something about Swiss tastes bitter to me. Now it could be that just the kind my dad used to buy was bitter and it's not an all Swiss problem. But I haven't tried since I was like 8. I'm sticking to the fact that I don't like it. 😂 Seriously immature of me. Honestly cheese will be the most difficult part of a vegan diet for me. Followed by seafood.

cadoodlebug that pic is hilarious. Your DH is a good sport. Jeremy would do the same. He would take the pic but be mumbling under his breath about it. 🤣

My washing machine broke the other day when Chloe was here doing laundry. One of the springs inside. So yesterday Jeremy went and got a new spring...for $135. He took the whole thing apart and installed it. Then I ran a load this morning, spring broke again. He got to see it in action and it is actually a motor problem. The spring breaking it just a side effect. He called the parts store. $250 for the part and then they warned him that he was most likely not going to be able to take the motor apart himself. So another 200+ for labor. We went this morning and bought a new machine. 🙄 I mean almost $500 + the 135 for the new spring? May as well buy new.

The machine will be here on Thursday. So my mom is stopping by in a bit to pick up Chloe's laundry and take it to her house to do. Chloe's been working her tail off so we are all trying to help her. I'll go there tomorrow and throw in a load so I have clean undies.

I've just been doing some food prep otherwise. I made Jeremy a big batch of cookies to take and share with his friends. He's being picked up in just a bit and he won't be back until Wednesday night.

Other than that? Nothing going on really. I'm going to cook some lentils to have on hand for sandwiches. I found out last week that I really enjoy sourdough bread toasted with a tofu "ricotta" spread (I really don't think it tastes like ricotta but it's delicious), lentils and tomatoes and cucumbers. Delicious. I'm also going to toast some chickpeas in Greek spices for some chickpeas Greek salad wraps. I think that's what I'll have for dinner tonight.

You make me giggle. Do you have days where you just cook all day and load the freezer? I'm quite jealous of this idea actually. However I have found that if things go down to my basement freezer they are never heard from again. 😂 I am out of sight out of mind. This is something I absolutely must improve. I'm nervous my garden will just overproduce this year and I'll need to freeze and can. And then I'll never see it again. 🤣😂🤣😂

Happy Saturday!

leannec I am dragging today as well. We were out way too late last night.

Today is DD birthday. She is 36. How did that happen???

DH and I went and picked strawberries. Will probably be the last fresh ones we get this season. Then we made it to a grandson's baseball game. Went to the store to pick up a few last minute things. Now to clean. I think my parents will arrive Monday. No idea how long they will be staying.

Dinner is rechauffe pork chops.

I went out early today for breakfast then a quick trip to Walmart.
I've been looking for something to keep my cooking oil and olive oil out. In NY I had them in a plastic squirt bottle right by the stove and they were fine. I did the same thing here and my oil has a rancid taste. Do you keep yours out by your stove and if so what do you keep them in?
It's another hot day so I'm glad I'm indoors now. I'll be working on my planner and maybe color some images for cards while I watch a movie.

For dinner we are having tuna fish sandwiches.

In my pantry in the dark.

lucyg.. toss that turkey--in there too long and the quality will be gone. start again.
I like turkey breasts, cause it is smaller and I tend to use it up.

what do you do when you accidentally win one at an auction or something? It’s not what we would eat because we are picky. We like fresh and this one particular brand. It goes in the freezer.

I love cheese - edam is probably my favourite followed by brie but I'm really not picky except I don't like Munster or Kraft American.

olive oil is in the pantry in the dark.

dinner here is tea sandwiches (cucumber/cream cheese and tomato/cheddar), watermelon salsa with tortilla chips, and carrot sticks/guacamole - perfect for a hot summer day (high was 98 here and humidity makes it feel hotter -yuck). I'm trying to stay on top of our farm box so we don't waste.

This week we got a BIG watermelon, 8 tomatoes, 7 little cucumbers, 5 sweet potatoes, 2 delicata squash 3 BIG yellow onions, 7 peaches, and a dozen red potatoes - this is the 1-2 person box (there are 3 of us). And I still have stuff leftover from last week. I keep upping our vegetable intake and I need to up it some more obviously.

Donate to a food bank or give to a family who could use it or give it to a soup kitchen. 

Then you don't accept it in the first place.  If you are at an auction and you *win* an item, you do have the right to refuse and the prize will go to the next bidder.

Well, I’ve never accidentally won one. But if I did, I’d either keep it/cook it, or give it away to someone who did want it. My housekeeper has lots of people to feed, so she’d probably be delighted to take it.

please try never to win food that needs to be cooked. It’s a pita when you are in that position. Our freezers have a few things in them and it’s all still viable thanks to the 3 of us. (Dad doesn’t Cooke at all).