AKathy's "What's For Dinner?" 12/14

Happy Saturday!

The cleaners are here to do a deep clean and my dog is going nuts. He's like why are these people in my house?! I feel somewhat guilty being on the couch while they are cleaning but they are making good money so there's that.

Hope your husband is doing well naby64!

Tonight is my company office party and it's at a place that serves wings and has pickleball called "Chicken N Pickle" so it should be fun. My sister likes pickleball so I'm taking her as my plus one. I'll cheer her on from the sidelines.

Hope you all have a good day!

Good morning.

leannec, Emma is very thoughtful. What a sweet thing to do for the residents. One time my son's 1st grade teacher had the entire class make me cards when I was released from the hospital. It just made my day. What a special treat. I wanna be Emma and Molly on Christmas morning.

cadoodlebug, enjoy seeing your friends and have fun at the party.

naby64, perhaps you can get out tmw and do your shopping. I'm sure you have an overfull to-do list, but take it easy, too. Don't let your stress level become overwhelming. I'm glad that your husband is home and doing better. This is bad timing w/the upcoming wedding, but there's never a good time for a medical crisis. ((((HUGS)))).

We're getting ready to head home. We had an intense storm last night. It was so loud that we were up for a while. I reached out to my doctor in Houston for help w/the headache. He gave me directions and it suddenly calmed way down yesterday. Today it's only very slight. I should have called him 53 days ago. What a relief to not be in such pain. Now I can focus on Christmas prep, if this thing has truly calmed down. I have to get my baking done and finish shopping.

Today I have a feeling I'm in for a small nap due to last night's storm. Dh has bbq pork chow mein for dinner.

Enjoy the day, my lovelies.

scrapmaven tomorrow is completely off the table. I help in the nursery at church in the morning, sing in choir, ditch the service to get checks ready to run. There are a couple of extra steps involved now that the lady who helps me isn't comfortable with. So I'll need to do those. Then our choir concert is tomorrow afternoon at 5. However, the handbells have to be there at 3 for practice, then choir arrives at 4. Concert. Then I get to hug on baby boy that arrives at 4 tomorrow. I'll go up on Monday and all will be good. My ODS just called me and told me I need to let go of stuff that is not in my control. He understands me and that I and my DD are the same. He said you both want to control the narrative and there are some things here you just don't need to be worrying about. The boy is wise on occasion.

So my ear buds are going in and I'm going to do what I do for stress relief and that is clean. I do some of my best cleaning when I'm mad or stressed.

I've thought more on dinner. DH has some potato soup he didn't eat the other night, so I'll heat that up for him. I've got some honey nut squash I may bake up to serve alongside the bean dip with some sourdough toast.

I have been busy baking three kinds of cookie dough I mixed up earlier in the week. DH just delivered the first tray to the neighbors.
KelleeM and her DS are on the way down, as Kell and I are working on the pictures for my brothers memorial on monday.

Dinner will be rechauffe....there are chicken thighs and also chicken parm....I'll cook some pasta and make a salad and call it a day.

naby64, Glad DH is beter ((hugs)) to you!
scrapmaven glad the headache is somewhat better...
leannec, in my next life I want to be your daughter!!!

Hey all - trying to get some stuff done today! Lots of shopping/baking on the todo list. Does anyone have any recipes that use pears? My husband received a Harry & David gift - and we really don't like pears.

I think it's hamburgers for dinner. Take care all!

the good ol' southern pear salad. Half the pear and core it. A dollop of mayo and sprinkle with shredded cheddar cheese. Sounds absolutely gross but strangely satisfying. We got our minister of music a box for his bday this past Wednesday. He was so happy and excited. He loves them. A pear tart maybe?

I love baked pears with a nut/spice mix and or poached like these from Ina Garten. Or make a half pear/half apple crumble. Or use them to make loafs or muffins.

My mom used to make a salad with half of a banana sliced lengthwise then some mayo and broken walnuts.

The other one was a pineapple ring with some cream cheese in the middle.

I wonder how cream cheese and pear would taste.

Since none of my regular shows are on right now, I’ve been watching Heartland. There is a whack of seasons and I’m currently on season 3. In one of last nights episodes, the horse died and I was a blubbering idiot. I don’t even really like horses!

there are small earthquakes all the time in wellington.. it was mostly a bed shake.. not long after I was awake with the tornado warning. my son and his wife are in sf now.. then flying back to dc tomorrow.. so they checked out our house!!

scrapmaven we love Victoria for all the same reasons. We would never leave.

I walked Dexter and it was so nice out. I cannot complain about winter at all. It’s so nice!

I am making lobster ravioli with a white sauce and salad. I cannot wait to make it. Please tell me it’s not that hard. I love white sauce and I am going to make a rue and go from there. ROUX oops my bad.

what kind of white sauce? Alfredo? If so, it's super easy. A stick of butter and whipping cream. Warm the cream until the butter melts. Add chopped garlic to your taste. At least 2-3 cloves. Then grated parmesan. Maybe 1-1.5 cups. Stir until the parm is melted.