aKathy's What's for Dinner 10/19

Hi scrapmaven I know you are serious about your singing if it's just not a sing-a-long while you knit. 😂 Someday I will hear your voice. 😉 Well I've heard your voice, but I need to hear it singing. I catch your show at Carnegie Hall. ❤️

I'm quilting. So I tried to do my Halloween quilt just by tying it together. Well it's been in very serious use this Halloween season. By me. But also by two furry friends who will not be named. 🙄 And the ties are coming out. 😵‍💫 So I'm remembering the encouraging words of austnscrapaddict that she quilts all her throw sized ones on her regular machine. At the time I just thought that was way too hard. But with this one I thought, you know what? I'm going to give it a go. So that's what I'm doing right now.

It is going to be 71 today. Yuck! I love fall and this isn't it. But it's a good day for golf. So Jeremy will be going to play this afternoon. Which leaves me all alone to do what I please. 😉

I told him to text me when he's on the 16th hole and I will begin dinner. That potpie will be tonight! I swear. We went out last night because I was so jumpy I needed a margarita. We happened to have tacos too.

DH is playing in a 2-day golf tournament so I slept until 7:30! I will run some errands including a library pick-up and looking for new shoes at REI.

Otherwise, I'll continue on my crop prep and watch college football.

Dinner will be spaghetti and meatballs.

Yikes!

cadoodlebug damn cats. 😂 I love mine but they have their quirks. I have one who likes to sharpen her nails on the baseboard in my bathroom and dining room

I had a very rare night with 7+ hours of uninterrupted sleep! When I did get up, DH had the slider open and was enjoying the brisk 54F/11C fresh air and had cooled the house to the low 60s. His first words to me were "where are you going?" because I was wearing more than my usual yoga pants and a tank top. Because it was cold. 

I have a bit of paperwork to complete this weekend and will probably push it to Sunday night because I procrastinate like that. As long as it is ready to go Monday, I'm good. I received 5 $10 checks in the mail from one of my health groups yesterday so will include a stop at the bank when out today. We reached our annual out-of-pocket maximum way back in February but the receptionist at one office gets really nervous if I suggest not paying my copay. I'm intrigued that all the refunds came the same day, were processed as separate checks and no indication of service dates, but happy to see the money.

Most of my day is going to be finishing the office purge and working on updating my craft supply inventory. And maybe even get around to making knitting project bags like sueg.

Dinner is going to be French onion soup. I picked up the Gruyere yesterday and forgot to tell DH to keep his paws off it. Thankfully he'd only had a small chunk so we have enough to for the gooey, cheesy part. 

We were planning taco chicken salads but the avocado refuses to ripen. Hopefully tomorrow. So we went out and I picked up rib eyes to grill. It’s a warmer than usual fall day here so grilling will be a pleasure. 

I’m sitting on my couch listening to podcasts and doing jigsaw puzzles on my iPad. I’m willing October to pass without incident. 😕

Hello all. I guess I’ve been playing hooky again. *sigh* Life is busy and my natural inclination is to be s.l.o.w. So not much gets done.

I picked up my first chicken pot pie of the season at Costco yesterday. That was dinner last night and will be again tonight. I’ll give half of it to my neighbor as she likes it, too, and I can’t eat the whole thing.

Also have a chuck roast for tomorrow that was on sale at Raley’s. I swore I wasn’t going to buy one since I’m trying to empty the freezer, but it fell into my cart, anyway. Can’t resist a sale. I’m thinking something in chunks, like beef stew or maybe soup.

Last Friday (a week ago) I got my covid and flu shots, both at the same time and in the same arm. Just reporting in, again, absolutely no reaction. Don’t be jealous.

I know I have some PMs that I haven’t looked at yet. Apologies. I’ll get there.

Where is leannec today?

REI has a great return policy and customer service. ExH used to shop there all the time and really liked it. 

dinner will be leftover veal pharm for DH, and I wil have meatballs that were in the sauce I used on the veal. I was not a fan of the veal, It came out fine, I guess it was not as flavorful as I was expecting....DH loved it!
I would prefer chicken pharm to the veal.

It is a beautiful unseasonable warm day, not quite 70 degrees. I harvested yet more tomatoes....and actually ordered a food mill from Amazon...my goal is to process the tomatoes and hopefully have a huge vat of sauce I'll divide and freeze to have at the ready. I have been washing the tomatoes and freezing them, so I have gallon size zip locks in the freezer just waiting for me

Happy Saturday!  Have been enjoying the cooler weather and even sat outside for a bit this afternoon.  Currently working my way through the ironing pile.  This past week I've elected to work on string quilt blocks each day, rather than iron clothes so now I must play catchup.  

Otherwise, I've had a slow day in preparation for a big wedding I'm attending tonight at 6:30 pm.  DD is a bridesmaid and has been at the reception site since 8:30 am to get ready.  With 11 bridesmaids, they have to start getting them ready early!  So dinner will be whatever the meal is there.  Should be good whatever it is.  All I have left to do is makeup, curl hair and get dressed.   Will take me 10 min. at most to drive to the church.





Everything is so relative!  For us, 71 is wonderful fall weather and I've been enjoying the cool mornings and pleasant afternoons since the front came through on Wednesday.   Sure is better than the 99 it was on Monday!!!

Thinking of everyone and hoping to get back to the dinner thread regularly in the next few days.  

jeremysgirl 71 is bad?  I would love 71 vs 82 today! Later this next week it will be 88.  Second summer.

cadoodlebug I felt like I bubble wrapped my family room when my dog was a puppy.  He wanted to gnaw on everything.  There is a puncture on my tv stand and he wanted to gnaw on sofas, 80 year old cane love seat, etc.

taylortroop How is Walker doing?  Is the medication helping?

lucyg were the chicken pot pies from the frozen department? Do you recommend?

karenlou I  like chicken or eggplant parmigiana the best.  Bon Apetit has a great eggplant recipe and love their sauce recipe. Yum.

**GypsyGirl** enjoy your wedding!

Tonight we are having steaks, potatoes and asparagus.