AKathy's "What's For Dinner?" 11/03

I am still feeling a bit under the weather from a heavy cold that set in on Thursday - probably not helped by being outside in the cold and mist for Trick or Treat. I was feeling a lot better yesterday afternoon, enough to feel OK to go out for dinner, but when I woke up this morning, I was so bad that DH suggested that I not go to church and I agreed - we have a lot of little ones and many elderly (including our priest) in our community.
I have pretty much spent the whole day on the sofa knitting and watching knitting videos. DH headed to the airport after lunch to fly to Barcelona for a conference, but the horrible weather Spain has had this week hit Barca today and so he was delayed nearly 2 hours. I hope all will be fine for him to get home on Thursday.

Dinner tonight is rechauffe from last night. We had dips and pita, then ordered the meat platter for two, knowing it would be too much food, so I have most of a pork kebab, a lamb burger and a pile of gyros meat, as well as tomato rice, tzatziki and aubergine dip to eat. I probably won’t eat it all tonight either!

leannec as someone who gets sick a lot I love the idea of crumpets to eat. I love them with Bonne Mamman jam myself. Just really take it easy. I was that sick once and it was rough. Playing on the computer in bed sounds perfect.

Good morning.

leannec . Today your job is to do all that you can to make yourself comfortable. Grab your blankies, your pillow and your Nextflix and feel much much better. What did the doctor say about your foot? Gentle ((((HUGS)))).

teddyw , how is your dd2? Is she resting at home? What a scary moment for all of you. Mama and baby need some rest and extra love today. ((((HUGS)))).

Ya'll have been so kind to me. I do feel better since the edge is off of the headache. It's lightly there and I was up w/it last night, but it's much more tolerable.

jeremysgirl , Relaxing w/some crochet and Friends sounds like a great idea. I hope you feel much better by tmw.


I'm pretty tired from being up for several hours last night. I'll knit and wish I was sueg and could knit so beautifully. Speaking of our friend, sueg , I hope that your cold will subside and that you feel much better by tmw.

Dinner is Chinese noodle soup w/fresh broth.

Take good, loving care of yourselves, tribe and have a relaxing day. AussieMeg , wishing you an easy day at work and a nice night.

Hi all,

Just popping in to say I hope everyone is on the mend soon from all our various ailments. Even though I haven't been posting I care about my tribe (are we supposed to use that word still? Anyway, my peeps! Sending good love and healing thoughts).

I am grading today, trying to get caught up and distract myself from election stuff. My anxiety is over the top. We've done all we can do on our end so I just hope things work out.

Dinner is pot roast with carrots, onions over mashed potatoes. I may bake some this afternoon.

We have a friend coming to spend Tuesday night with us. He is bring a favorite pizza from Indy up with him. It was always my (superstitious) tradition to have Donatos pizza and a cherry dessert to watch the returns, but we don't have that chain here. I miss it! So he will bring it with him. We will have chili (cream cheese, melted cheese) dip, queso, tortilla chips, and a veggies tray. I may make chocolate chunks cookies and cherry pie bars. It won't all be for Tues, but I suspect my pal Bob and I will be up stress eating til very late.

We went to my favorite cake decorating g supply place yesterday and I did some major damage. I can't wait to play with my fun stuff!

Feel better soon, everyone!

DH and I decided to head to a lake about 10 minutes from us just up the hill. There were lots of swans, ducks, geese, etc. It was a lovely, brisk walk.



Don't know if I've ever mentioned it but I have vivid, wild dreams almost every night. Last night I was awakened by a voice yelling *the last person into the bonus room is in trouble!* I jumped out of bed, ran to the bonus room and realized no one was there. THEN I realized it had been a dream.

Dinner will be Jalapeno Chicken Poppers.

Big hugs to everyone who is sick and/or in need of hugs.

scrapmaven my dd is just sore today. Otherwise fine. She’s sees her OB tomorrow thanks for asking.

The 3 yo’s parents don’t get home until after bedtime. My sil always books the last day of trips to take the last flight home. My dd hates this because she still has to prep for the eork week. You know laundry, groceries, chores… stuff he doesn’t do.
We are the complete opposite. First flight out so no chance of delay and we can recoup for the week.
Luke is ready for his mama and done with us lol.

Dinner is up in the air I didn’t plan ahead. Possibly eggs with veggies.

Your lake looks so pretty cadoodlebug.

Every once in a while I'll scream at someone in my dream and wake both dh and myself up. One time I dreamed that dh was cheating on w/me some unknown person. He was being a real jerk to me in the dream. So, I woke up screamed "PIG" at him and slapped him in the arm. For the next week he kept telling me that he was going to wear a football uniform to bed. Dh couldn't have been cheating IRL, cause he telecommuted and we spent every waking hour together in the house.

I've won ribbons at the state fair for pies, cakes and cupcakes, and once I entered something at a fall festival (didn't win). I'm not really competitive, although now living in a different part of the state I do think about entering some things in the county fairs up here. They all have different rules/procedures (yes or no to cream pies/cream cheese frosting, enter the day of, enter in advance) and they all hit around the same time as school is starting for me. Every year I think this is the year but nope it was not, lol.

I also did the Bake magazine competition during the pandemic, but that's really just about online voting and raising funds...that year it was for No Kid Hungry I think. I made it to the quarter finals before I got knocked out.

OMG, this is DH and it drives me nuts that he also books out of LAX which adds another hour to drive home. Usually it is so late/early morning hours so traffic is reasonable but he might get home at 2am and head out to work at 5. It is always cheaper which is his main criteria. I'm all about time of day, direct flight only, etc.

Glad you have diagnoses and a treatment plan, leannec.

Sorry you aren't feeling well, sueg. The rechauffe sounds lovely.

tmarschall, your election night dinner plans sound great, too. DS was asking if we were having pizza.

I was enjoying hanging with my peeps and now they've all dispersed (one for brunch, one to donate plasma and one to a meeting) for a while so I'll tune into the Ali Edwards Daily December Prep class for a while. I hate using earbuds while watching/listening so prefer to do it when no one is home and then I can also half listen to whatever football game is on.

We will have roasted chicken thighs and drumsticks along with potatoes, carrots, green beans and broccoli for dinner. Just need to decide on the seasoning, but feeling like it will be Herbes de Provence and olive oil with Balsamic glaze to finish.

dinner is I don't know.. probably takeout.

beautiful day. we are going to a block gathering in someone's driveway at 2. (our driveways are steep slopes.. 10-15 ft long.).
I really need to go clean in the basement. I was lazy yesterday. I woke at 5 am.. oh well.

we did get to sing a fav choir piece for church this morning. No nobis domine.
one friend in church who is a retired pastor and is 89, expressed his profound fear about the election, the future and the division. it was something we were all confronting outloud.

I've been playing all day in the DD Prep Class. Just a fun day to relax.

We had family pictures last night. I can't wait to see them.

Dinner will be rechauffe from our dinner out last night.

I babysat this afternoon for a few hours while DS and DDIL were working. The grandboys are grounded from their electronics and they had difficulty finding something else to amuse themselves. I suggest reading a book so they quickly got out Lego.

DH took the oldest out into the bush hunting squirrels. They didn’t see even one!

Supper is rechauffe chicken, baked potato, coleslaw and beans.

I don’t want to be stuck somewhere as things back up for the day.
As luck would have it their flight was canceled. They’re trying to get on a different airline because sil has to travel for work tomorrow morning. 🤷‍♀️
I’m also a clean the whole house before I leave so I come back to laundry only.

The time change always messes with my appetite as well as my sleep, both spring and fall. In addition, we had a very busy weekend and so a lot of the mealtimes were already off. We went to an anniversary party yesterday and ate sort of late afternoon-ish, then just had a very small (takeout) dinner.

Today, DS & I had a big late lunch and DH has been snacking off and on all day...consequently none of us are really hungry for dinner. Anyway, we have plenty of rechauffe to choose from in the event someone is hungry before bedtime...which will definitely be early tonight! I'm wiped out, both from the time change and anxiety/stress about the election and its aftermath.

Get well soon to the peas who are under the weather!