aKathy's What's for Dinner 6/2

A quick check-in before I get busy.   I am hanging in there.   It was a pretty good weekend as I had a lot of projects around the house to keep me occupied.  This week is the week of self-care -  facial, makeup session to update/restock, mani/pedi and massage.  Spreading them out through the week because I am still dealing with so much paperwork/phone calls.   

Today I'm having lunch with BFF, then running a couple of errands afterwards.  Since I'm having lunch out, dinner will light.   I made tuna fish salad yesterday and will have some of that in a pita.  Super hot this week with a dose of Saharan dust thrown in so it will be perfect.  

Thanks to everyone for checking in on me.   

That's why I love it here!    


I'm home today and I'm happy about it!    .  Retirement suits me ...

I have things to do around the condo ...

I probably won't leave the house!

The booking system for subs is down so I hope it is fixed today ...


Oh, I might leave the house because pork dumplings are calling my name for dinner!    

Good morning! After a weekend of just not doing much, my week is looking busy. My backyard is in need of cutting but it has rained so much, the ground was too boggy. My priority tonight is to cut it when I get home. If my muscle soreness from that *(@&%@ pilates reformer board will let me do the pull string. I am already looking at a push button start mower for next year. Battery operated also. I thought I might try to start looking hard at the end of summer and maybe find one on sale.

I did, however, just set up new internet. So my afternoon is looking short here at the office. I am happy about that!

Dinner will be tofu ricotta open face sandwich. It has lentils and some sort sauce on top but that I think it should be quick enough to put together.

This was so very good to read.

This is very good to hear. You have been the caregiver for so long. You really must take care of you.

One day I hope to utter that sentence. I'm working until I die it seems at this point.

Well, gotta go. Several things to do here before I head out for the day.

I went to AquaFit this morning ~ the water was fabulous. I came home, took a shower, did my stretches and now I'm icing my back.

We were hoping to see the Aurora last night but no luck in our area.

I need to buy a light weight comforter for the summer. The old one is so disgustingly old.

Dinner will be grilled steaks and corn-on-the-cob.

This cracked me up! In front of a school on the last day before summer.

Emma and her boyfriend are without internet until the June 5th!  The horror!   



Oh, I'm only semi-retired ... I work ... sometimes too much!    .  

It will be another seven years until I am completely retired ...



I love that aspect too!

Happy Monday, all. I was up most of the night and finally just got a couple of hours sleep in the end. ugh, but at least I don’t have anything specific I have to get done today. Tonight I will take a pill and go to bed early.

Dinner might be Chinese chicken soup. There are dumplings in the freezer that I want gone, and I have some baby bok choy to toss in if it hasn’t died yet. Otherwise I’ll chop some cabbage and use that. Our heat wave is over (for now) and it’s bordering on COLD today. Which I welcome.

Hope you’re feeling better today, scrapmaven. Mostly everyone is sounding better/healthier today, and I hope that holds for all of us.

I just put together chicken parmesan, all ready to go in the oven, so that is dinner. I have some angel hair to go with.
I should probable make a salad as well.

I worked both weekend nights, and we don't say the q word in the OR, as it is the kiss of death....but it was. The day and evening shift had one case each both days, nights, not even a phone call!!
Probably the calm before the summer ramps up, and the "knife and gun clubs" decide its time for action!!

scrapmaven, sorry you are feeling poorly😕
GypsyGirl, glad to hear you are taking care of yourself this week!!!

Lawdy, I have got to share something. Since I had to come home early to get the internet installed, I thought I would get to work on the dinner items I planned on having. A tofu ricotta sandwich. I made my whipped tofu ricotta and got the lentils started. It called for a Tangy Pepper Sauce. Well, I have time so I will make that also. Along with some pickled red onions. Y'all!! When I say this is a must have condiment sauce I mean it. There may be something out there that equals it ready made, I don't know. But I am going to share this. This is from my meal plans that I get from Rainbow Plant Life. So without further ado, I give you Tangy Pepper Sauce!

3 fresno peppers or jalapeños, stems removed
1 medium red bell pepper (or yellow or/orange)
2 fat garlic cloves
2 TBSP red wine vinegar(or aplecide/white wine vinegar)
1 TBSP lemon juice
1.5 tsp kosher salt
1 tsp organic cane sugar
2 TBSP evoo

1. For spicy, keep the chile peppers intact; for milder heat, remove the membranes and seeds. De-stem and de-seed the bell pepper, then roughly chop it.
2. Roughly chop the garlic
3. Add both types of peppers and garlic to a food processor along with the vinegar, lemon juice, salt, and sugar.
4. Pulse until the mixture is finely minced but not totally pureed. (uhhhh, ok. fine line you walk here)
5. Transfer to a jar for which you have a lid and drizzle on the olive oil. Mix well and taste, adding another pinch of salt or sugar as needed.
6. Seal the jar and refrigerate for at least 8 hours before using. It'll stay good in the fridge for at least 2 weeks.

Here are my notes: I used 1 medium jalapeño and did not remove seeds or membranes. I didn't have any good bell peppers in my house but I did have a brand new jar of roasted red peppers from TJs. I used maybe 1.5 of those. You don't have to use organic cane sugar. But here's a tidbit for you. Organic cane sugar is sort of ivory color. Regular sugar is white. The reason it is white is they process the organic sugar through the burned bones of animals. Thus the color. Also, the reason why vegans will always always use organic sugar as there is no animal product involved. Not that I am completely vegan but the bag of organic sugar at Costco is so reasonably priced, I buy it. I have several on hand, just in case supplies get low.

I was supply teaching at DD’s school today - music! 5 classes with the same lesson plan - I’ll be humming that song for days! School is winding down here so I won’t have many more days of supply teaching to choose from.

We had one of our favorite food box recipes tonight (that is just regular ingredients we always have so it was a good find that we have weekly now without having to add it to the box lol) -panko crusted Chicken with Montreal steak spice, home fries and carrots.

The sun came out this evening but still cool - moved all the potted flowers into the garage for the night.

scrapmaven I hope you kick that bug to the floor and stomp on it!