AKathy's "What's For Dinner?" 06/29

Visited a great Vendor Fair at our local and favorite Fulton Farms (fresh corn and all types of vegetables, strawberries when in season). Did a little retail therapy as well. We have gutted our kitchen (since April!) so I'm learning how to cook more things in an electric skillet and just found a recipe for cooking corn on the cob in my instapot - guess what's for dinner!

We walked a shorter route this morning because it was already hot. Starting Monday we'll have temperatures over 100° for at least 10 days.

I'm getting ready to run to Raley's so we might have Jalapeno Popper Chicken.

Now that I've finished bombarding y'all with vacation pictures, it's back to a daily meme.

I love this one because my sister used to entertain DS for hours doing this.

Good morning, all. No idea what’s for dinner, but I’ve been so bad about posting the last week or two that I thought I’d better just freakin’ post while I’m thinking of it. Just busy with family stuff. East Coast sister is in town.

I’ve been slightly craving tuna noodle casserole lately, so if nothing better comes along, that might be dinner. (AussieMeg: the tuna for tuna noodle casserole comes out of a can. Just so you know.)

leannec and cadoodlebug, love the memes. They both 100% apply to me.

Good morning everyone (well, it’s before 10am here). I am feeling quite accomplished today. I got up early and just started cleaning and working on tasks. Now I have clean floors, done laundry, ordered some things I needed, and hung some art work. Now I’m just sitting with my coffee before moving on the next thing. It’s sunny today here which is nice as we haven’t been having the greatest weather. Tomorrow we are going to a local lavender field that is now open for the season - they are having food trucks and live music and I am looking forward to relaxing and getting some lavender lemonade. Have a wonderful day everyone!
Haha - out of th habit of posting here - I forget to mention what was for dinner. I am working my way through Valerie Bertinelli’s new cookbook and making “gumbo inspired chicken thighs and rice.” 

Well he's home now and apparently the error wouldn't stop because it was leaking. It plugs in behind it. I can't unplug it without removing the whole thing.

I have chicken in fridge, so it will be salad and surprise chicken something. nice day.. dh said he would take the expired marine flares we have to a fireworks buyback.. hoping to get rid of them cause hazardous waste for city won't take them. can't fire them off...

I pulled everything out of top part of closet and getting rid of most of the clothes.. they don't fit.

will watch the baseball game on tv this afternoon. feeling kind of lazy.

It’s a hot sticky one here today. Yesterday was cool sweatshirt weather. What the heck is wrong with Mother Nature??

Took my mom to the grocery store this morning, then stopped to buy dog food. I got 2 free cans of food with the purchase of my bagged kibble. We will see if Walker likes the Gumbo flavour!

My mom turns 82 on Wednesday. I’ve decided just to have my brother and SIL for grilled burgers. It’s too hard to get the kids, niece and nephew together because all the little ones are playing soccer, baseball and swimming lessons. So no one else is invited. Easy peasey!

Not sure about supper yet.

Nap? Did someone mention a nap. I'm sitting on the nap bench today. Just biding my time...

Glad you had a nice visit with your friend.

I’m dozing off just doing my social media rounds …

Oh shit sueg , I'm glad your boys aren't too stressed about it, but can I tell you that you just about gave me a heart attack when I read the words "brain tumour" just now! Well, that's what I get for not checking in here for a few days. I had to go back and read your previous posts, and I'm happy to hear that it is benign. 

jeremysgirl we bought a new Bosch dishwasher earlier this year. We kept getting an error message too. Only a very few washes were getting through to the end of the cycle, most were stopping. DSO tried everything but couldn't work out the problem. We ended up getting a Bosch repairman out, and he fixed it within one minute. It turned out we had a flow restrictor on the pipes, so there wasn't enough water getting through for most of the cycles. I can't even remember getting the restrictor put on, or why we would have done it. I'm glad it was an easy fix, because DSO was ready to throw the dishwasher on the scrap heap! 

lucyg I am a bit lost - what is the significance of canned tuna?    I have two dishes that I have been making since I was a teenager: tuna mornay and tuna curry & rice slice. I used canned tuna for both of those.

ooops then … I thought I remembered your being horrified at the thought of tuna from a can. Maybe it was chicken from a can instead? I might have compared canned tuna and chicken because they’re pretty similar, except one tastes fishy and the other tastes basically like nothing at all.

Oh no, it definitely wouldn't have been tinned tuna that I was horrified at. Like I said, I've been making those two dishes with canned tuna since the early 80s, and I have a ton of little cans of tuna in the pantry for lunches. I can't actually remember the discussion you're thinking of, but I reckon it would have been about canned chicken. I did buy some once to use in DS's school sandwiches, and it was bloody awful! 

Believe me, I freaked out too when he doctor said tumour. He then explained to me that, in medical terms, a tumour is simply a group of cells growing in the wrong place. Technically, even a pimple could be considered a tumour! sort of like how a wed is any plant growing somewhere it shouldn't

And my younger son was suggesting that we should fly him to Germany for August and September, just in case I needed extra care.