aKathy's What's for Dinner 9/27

Good evening all,

scrapmaven - I am feeling fine today. I slept really well last night - in bed before 9, woke at 3am for the bathroom, then crashed again until almost 6am. Also, no more nausea, so I’ve been able to eat normally as well, which I think has helped. I went out this morning to walk to the recycling bins, then to the supermarket and home and the fresh air helped too. I am not too worried - I have had these dizzy/nausea spells before, sometimes so bad I haven’t been able to get out of bed, and they generally last less than a day. I think I was just a bit anxious on Wednesday evening because of the surgery. I’ll be at my GP for bloodwork on Tuesday, so I will mention it to be on the safe side.

Today I finished up most of the attraction bookings for our trip to Venice next week. There was just one I couldn’t complete because I needed a security code from my bank - I received the SMS from my bank, but couldn’t remember my bank PIN which I also needed. DH can fix that tomorrow, either by doing the booking or finding my PIN!

DH won’t be home for dinner - his flight is scheduled to land at 8:35, but he has already had a message from LH that there will be a delay. Evening flights at this time of year and through winter are a pain, as the delays have just accumulated over the day and can lead to major delays. At least it isn’t snowing yet!

For my dinner, I am going to make tuna pasta, one of my comfort food favourites, as my mum used to make it often for Friday dinner.

This makes me so happy to hear. I love when you come back from Houston restored. That doc must be a little bit magic.



I cannot believe how many strays you have around you. I'm glad you watch over them, but geez. People need to spay and neuter their pets.



Not event the least bit surprised.



This was well said. I hope all of us can put some extra effort into investing our energy into one another.

Linda reached out to me this morning. They have a lot of trees down. But they are safe, as is their home and cars. I don't know when she will be back to peas, but she is alright.

I'm going to try to sew a quilt top, the one I started last weekend, this weekend. I also am hosting some friends for lunch on Sunday. I have not yet met my friend Chris's new girlfriend. She is a vegetarian. So I'll be making a vegan lunch for all of us. I have decided to just go with the fact that I'm not an evening person and start inviting people for lunch instead. They were pleased to get the invitation. I'm still working on the menu.

Tonight I'll be making dal. With split yellow lentils. I'll be serving with rice and a chili pepper tadka. It's a new recipe that I'm excited to try.

About to take dd to her internship at the museum and then have some laundry and chores to do. Going to scrapbook today as well and maybe work on my last few Halloween cards.

Dinner will either be pasta or potato leek soup. Kind of leaning towards the soup.

Welcome home, scrapmaven. Glad you’re feeling better now.

Your boys are adorable, Tearisci … especially the one you gave birth to.

scrappintoee, I am always happy to see your posts, whether I manage to respond or not.

Dinner tonight is up in the air. My cousin is coming to stay for a couple of nights. He always wants to go to my friend’s Mexican restaurant, but whether that will be tonight or tomorrow night, I don’t know yet. Otherwise, I have rechauffe Swiss steak and mashed potatoes I will (happily) eat.

Tomorrow I probably won’t post, as I’ll be gone for afternoon tea for most of the day, with my sister and a couple of friends. It’s in the town we stayed in for a few days earlier this month, just around the corner from our hotel. Dinner options will be the same as today.

stormsts I'm glad you got MIL a safer place to go and quickly.

Hi everyone,
I am loving this breezy, cool cloudy day. I hope we stay in this weather pattern for a while. I am thrilled for fall and it seems like between the bait and switch of summer's end and sometimes early rainy cold days that strip all the leaves off early, it gets cheated! We are also going camping for 4 nights (close by) in Oct and I want chilly mornings for bacon and coffee outside and fires in the evening. Fingers crossed!

I didn't sleep well...I was starving! But I waited til morning and went out for breakfast. I was going to do some reading and grading at the coffeehouse, but I just felt draggy so I can home after picking some things up from the library. I tease (but totally serious) the ladies at the library that I've become friendly with that I am gunning for the first opening with them for my retirement job. I'm guessing that will be 10yrs...so I am counting down!

I'm pretty excited about a new project I'm exploring. I think I want to write a cookbook. I mean, I've had the desire for a while, but I think I have a solid concept. First, I need to get recipes together to begin writing and testing those, but that's kind of the least of it. I'm researching recipe writing and trying to match up recipes and concepts and memories. I'll share more when I'm able if anyone is interested. I don't have a huge online presence beyond my own circle so I'm not expecting a blockbuster. If the worst outcome is a nice collection of recipes and stories for the people close to me, I'll feel like I succeeded. But it would be great to create something that fills a useful niche with a beautiful book.

Has anyone tried Pair Eyewear for glasses and interchangeable "plates" to change out designs? You have a base pair, that will determine the shape and size of the glasses and then you can select decorative and/or sunglass plates to attach. Mine are coming today! I love changing out glasses and I have a bazillion pair, thanks to having to use or lose flex dollars in December. I'm excited especially bc I have a couple plates with Snoopy and the Peanuts, my favorites! I'm embracing the quirky! The only thing about buying frames online is if they fit my face well. So we will see!

I'm making homemade Kung pao chicken with broccoli over rice. And...homemade pork egg rolls! Looking forward to that, even if it is a little more work than usual. Being back to work has out a crimp on my cooking (and posting).
Sending hugs to whomever needs them!

OMG! That is so exciting! Go for it! I can't wait to hear more about it!



Same!  I hardly ever cook but I would definitely buy your book!!!

so today has been productive. dh went for a hike, checking out another possible backpacking site. I went swimming for 30 min. then came back and vacuumed, mopped and cleaned the bathroom!!

doing not much but reading this afternoon.

nothing is in the fridge for dinner.. so we will have a discussion when dh gets back. I do know we need to make guacamole today.

the weather is perfect. 73 degrees and almost no humidity. thinking of all thoses in the east dealing with nasty weather.

we all need more hugs in our lives.. even if we have a lot.. can always use more. and more naps.. grownups want more naps!! (that's when you know you are grown up... naps are a joy!)

Fridays are half days for me. I usually go to the Rock for the big shopping: Costco, Aldi, Trader Joe's, etc. But we were supposed to have more rain from Helene and I just wanted to be home today. So Walmart had to do.

Tonight we are having a baked shrimp boil. I'm munching on some pretzel bites from Aldi atm. I must say they are fantastic with the mustard sauce in the box.

I'll get back to read everybody's day in a bit. I need to sit and rest.

I don't post on this thread too much because I feel like my dinners are boring. And I know this is much more than a dinner thread. Maybe it's because I don't share a lot about my life on the board or really with too many people. It's a habit, I guess. Or maybe I feel like, who cares if I got my car washed or painted a picture.  But I'm trying to be more open in general so I'll be hopping in here as often as I can think of something to say.

Tonight I'm making chickpea pasta (pasta made from chickpeas) with roasted broccoli and tomato sauce. It's an easy dinner night, though I've been coming up with some recipes I really love and will report in on those as well.

I have my 50th hs reunion coming up in a little over a month and I vainly went out today to get a little botox near my eyes. Hoping it turns out the way I'm imagining it will...

Welcome back! We really talk about dinner in passing and it's more of a get to know you type of thread. Everyone is very nice and encouraging!

I am going to split my day between working outside in the yards and unpacking more boxes.  I don’t know if I will have the energy to do both.  I definitely need to mow the front yard.  I normally love doing that but the front yard in this house is awful to mow.  

First, it is huge.  Probably 6 times the size of my old lawn.  Second, it is really bumpy, like they didn’t bother to used one of those water filled rollers to make the soil flat before putting seed down.  Either that or they ran something heavy over it after it rained, leaving trenches all over the place.  You can’t tell by looking at it because the grass hides it all.  But when walking across it, it is so bad it makes my legs hurt.  It is a good thing that I plan to get rid of all grass and plant some kind of creeping plant there that will gradually fill it all in.  I am also going to create a walkway from the street to the porch steps to make it easier for people to get to my front door.  Right now, they have to walk down to my driveway and come up the long ramp to the porch.  It just isn’t a nice front yard at all and I want to give it curb appeal.

I think I am going to make a big pot of taco soup for dinner.  It doesn’t require too much effort since I have some cooked ground turkey in the freezer already.  That just leaves chopping an onion and dumping in multiple cans of different kinds of beans and a couple of cans of diced tomato.  I also have chopped cilantro and poblano chilies in the freezer too.  I find it so much more convenient to just buy enough for several batches of soup, then chop it all and freeze it, ready to go for the next batches of soup.  Fresh cilantro tastes better, but I don’t feel like adding a grocery store trip to my already full day.  And a pot of soup will last me several days so that I won’t need to come up with dinners for a while.  Fortunately, I love soup and don’t mind having repeats day after day if it is something I really like. I have been doing laundry all morning and I am already pooped because my sleep was too weird last night.  I may not make it to the boxes, but I have to get that grass mowed.