aKathy's What's for Dinner 7/24

Hello scrapmaven! What color are your nails? Did you have fun?

I have some rechauffe soup, a lot of salad, fruit up the wazoo, I did put half that loaf of homemade bread from yesterday in freezer but I still a bunch left. I'll find something, many things to eat today.

My day is slow. I had some work to do this morning that I've completed. I had to tell my coworker to enter her project data in the spreadsheet. She didn't know the spreadsheet existed. I had to tell her it existed way before me (so she was here) and I just keep copying it forward and adding a new tab for new year data. She's so dumb. How she did not know, I have no idea.

I just put a loaf of gluten, dairy, and egg free zucchini bread in the oven. Jeremy's young cousin was diagnosed with a gluten and dairy allergy a few years ago. She never gets any treats. Her mom saw some of my dairy free baking and asked if I would consider trying my hand around Danielle's dietary requirements. I told her I would. So once this is done, I will freeze it until we see them for the reunion next weekend.

I have a meeting at 1 today. It should be quick. And then I'm free.

Good evening all,

I popped into after school this afternoon, as we were having an end of school year 'ice cream picnic'. The two main carers bought ice cream, whipped cream, bananas, chocolate and caramel syrups, wafers and sprinkles and we made ice cream sundaes to order for the children (and ourselves). The weather was gorgeous an we sat out on the playground on picnic blankets and enjoyed our treats. The kids from the other after school care groups looked on in envy, as their carers had 'just' bought ordinary ice treats on sticks!

DH is home from Lisbon tonight, but his flight is delayed by half an hour. He'll get home about 8-8:30, so will save dinner for him. The timing on this flight as about the worst for eating - leaving Lisbon at 2:30pm (which is 3:30pm German time) and landing at just after 6:30 (but it will be 7pm with the delay.

I put a beef massamum curry into the slow cooker before I went out, and it smells amazing! I'll cook some rice when I'm ready to eat.

I am so glad to hear you got a super fun color! I bite my nails something awful. But every once in a while I paint my toenails a fun color.



No, I've never made this before. I adapted a regular recipe. I made the same recipe last week dairy free. It came out very well. I thought I'd try subbing GF flour. So far, it looks like the rise isn't the same.

A lot depends on getting a good massamum curry paste, but yes, it's delicious and one of our favorites. You could easily make it plant based (I think - not sure what's in the curry paste: it may have fish sauce) - just use the vegetables (potato and pumpkin/sweet potato are essential, but you could add others, like zucchini and eggplant) instead of using meat.

taylortroop I love a good book sale. Enjoy!
sueg your meals ways sound amazing. I tend to either have no ingredients on hand or tons of ingredients and no gumption.

I’m heading out to my mom’s in a bit. She has a doctors appointment tomorrow and wants to visit a friend in the nursing home so I volunteered to take her. Dinner will be whatever she wants. Her wish is my command!

Enjoy your day, lovely Pea friends!

I looked up a recipe from scratch and it does call for fish sauce.  Bummer. I need to start really getting more into curries because a lot of them are adaptable to plant based diets. 

Thank you, this is good to know. Honestly, I made it into muffins last week and they were delicious. Very moist.

I grew up in an Italian/Irish family, at a time when 'ethnic' weren't really a 'thing', s our family always had more adventurous meals than most Australian families. Add in years of eating out and travel, and my repertoire is all over the place! I keep a good supply of dried herb and spice mixes on hand and we also grow our own fresh herbs in the summer.

if you want to branch out a bit, look at YouTube. Spain on A Fork (Spanish, obviously) and Marion's Kitchen (mostly Thai, but other SE Asian cuisines thrown in occasionally are always good. For other cuisines, I search on YouTube or google and hope for the best

jeremysgirl - look for Indian curries. Many Indian groups are vegetarian, so their food may be more adaptable. Thai does use fish sauce a fair bit, but often it is for salt with umami, so there are probably subs out there.

I am working on a puzzle today. I keep a table open with a puzzle so my mom can work on it when she stays with me. Puzzles are her hobby. Turns out that I'm enjoying them as well. I'm finding that I'm enjoying this and coloring on my adult coloring books more then paper crafting.

No idea what we're having for dinner. Might be a eat what you can find kind of day.

My hobbies tend to ebb and flow. As long as you have something that soothes you, I'm 110% in favor. With that said, puzzles make me want to pull my hair out. LOL! I am not able to enjoy them at all. Weirdo that I am...

Happy Wednesday! For a week that was supposed to be nothing but rain, it's almost all missed us so far. We've only gotten a little under an inch. Today it's to the east and south of us. This morning I'm trying to catch up on my paperwork and filing before I go to the hospital. Not sure what dinner will be. Apparently my oven has a delayed start feature so I may set it up for a baked potato and have it ready when I come in. I always have good intentions but am usually too tired to follow through when I get home.

He is doing well today.  Yesterday they went ahead and did the final PLEX treatment instead of today.  Today they are amping up the steroids for 2-3 days to give the lungs an additional boost.  The goal is to get him off the ventilator in the next couple of days.  DD said he was asking for breakfast this morning which is a good sign.  She is on morning duty.  They've also cut off the sedation for the day.  I'll be going up after lunch.  

DH went with me to the sport's club this morning and walked on the treadmill/swam laps and read a book while I did my water aerobics. The instructor today was awesome and high energy. She seems to know everyone by name so I introduced myself. When we were leaving she saw us in the hall and said bye Joy so she retained my name.

Dinner will be Teriyaki Chicken over rice with a veggie and a fruit salad.

Nice update on your DH **GypsyGirl** !

If critters are eating your tomatoes, place small red ornaments on the *cages* and it will confuse them and they won't return.

I'm the same way about puzzles. I don't find them relaxing at all and they stress me out. My sister usually has one up around the holidays for people to work on and I'll just sit and watch. I'm sure I'm partially ADD because I have a hard time concentrating on them.