aKathy's What's for Dinner? 4/14

Good Friday means no meat for us, so it will be either vegetarian or fish, depending on what the restaurant is offering. Quite possible we will head back to the same restaurant in the hotel as last night - the food was excellent, and there were many yummy sounding menu choices we didn't have.

It has been a day of much walking today - 2 hour guided tour of the old city, with an absolutely fabulous guide. She studied medieval Sachsen history at Dresden Uni, so I guess it's no surprise she knew her stuff! Dresden is a truly amazing city - so much was destroyed in a huge bombing raid right at the end of WWII, but it has been faithfully restored since then, some even during the Soviet era, as they wanted to portray Dresden as an example. One church they even numbered the stone blocks as they demolished what was left of it, so they could use those pieces again when rebuilding. There is one building that is classic Soviet era architecture in the middle of the old town, and our guide said that at first, people wanted to tear it down after reunification, but in the end it stayed as 'it's a part of our history too'

I'm not sure, we have the chiropractor right after work, and then I need to get DH a bday card. We will probably pick up something quick before we come home to pack to head up to DS' university tomorrow.

(Last night we had McDonald's, not the delightful Gorton's fish I had planned)

As for pizza, the more the merrier in my opinion! What that is depends on mood, but I do not like plain pepperoni pizza!

If he'd wanted one in the first place, my dd could have made him a really nice one! Now he has to settle for one of mine.

As for pizza, I love one with meats and vegetables. Supreme, the works, whatever you want to call it, but no pineapple!

I haven't read that - I'll look into it when I get home.
We have had a lovey trip - just a couple of days in each of 3 cities, all of which were in the DDR. Leipzig surprised me, Potsdam was mainly for the old Royal Palace, but had other interesting details, and Dresden is just as wonderful as I expected.

My kiddos are all going to be home this weekend and DD requested asparagus for dinner. "Oh and those chicken pocket things" So we are having chicken pockets, asparagus and twice baked potatoes.

Since it's pizza night, we're having pizza. What else would you have on pizza night?

We love to get lots of toppings - pepperoni, bacon, ham, mushrooms, green peppers, onions, olives and I even like banana peppers. The rest of the family picks the banana peppers off. That's okay, I pick the olives off! And lots of cheese. Extra cheese on top of extra cheese.

It's the last Fish Fry Friday and we are passing since the last two weeks the only good thing about the food was someone else cooked it. The fish seemed like it was cooked the day before and warmed up, not a good taste at all. So tonight we need to go to the town 30 miles over and look at some sort of tool that if we had one the other part of we would not have smashed his finger to the point of bleeding yesterday. So we will be dining on either KFC or Arbys. I don't care which one as long as they do not expect me to either cook or clean up after.....LOL

I'm thinking of a black olive and tuna pasta, I copied a recipe from somewhere and will try that. BF will have to find something else, as he won't eat fish.

I'm home alone (ahhhh, so nice!) And have several left over/convenience foods I can chose from.

Thr perfect pizza for me is Brooklyn style thin crust, red sauce, salami, pepperoni, oniin, mushroom, spinach, olive, with extra cheese.

As far as pizza night goes it will be moved to Tuesday when Passover ends. And I won't care what's on it at that point as long as it breast and risen and fluffy

I had to make a Costco run today, so came home with sushi for dinner. Yes, our Costco makes wonderful sushi.

I also have a bit of Korean short ribs and corn of the cob that I might grill and serve along with a green salad. 

ETA Hawaiian and Marguerita Pizzas are the favorites in our house. When the kids were little, for years, we had pizza & a movie night every Friday.  In the last few years rarely have pizza anymore and I'm not sure what happened.

Hey, I'm going to do a spin off "What is your fav pizza?" on the main board   

So I am sitting here with a candidate for the Worlds Largest Cat curled up next to me, snoring so loudly I can't hardly hear the tv, squinting at the computer hoping that I am spelling at least at a third grade level and waiting for a boy to come home from his frivolity full college...dinner? Ummm..No.

Wanna know why? Because I got my eyes checked today. And dilated. And for the first time in a billion years the ophthalmologist kept calling me on squinty eyed cheating. And quit using the same lines of letters so I couldn't memorize them. I know, I know, you aren't supposed to do that, but Lord, when they use the same series over and over again, how can you not?? But this woman? She was the bestest ever. She specializes in the weird eye thing I have and works a lot with kids so after the first squint, she had my number and ... huh. Boy my eye sight stinks. Far vision? Bad. Near vision? Bad. Intermediate? Just as bad. I knew something radically shifted recently but damn. It all went to shit over night.

So this old girl needs glasses. Multiple pairs apparently. Due to my weird eye thing I can't wear progressives, bifocals or contacts. I am going to have to cart around a briefcase just for glasses. 

So dinner? Not real high on my list. The dilation has thrown off my balance and I am a bit queasy. 

But if I were to order a pizza for dinner-my favorite is always the bbq chicken kind.

(and edited to add: a big old thank you for melissa for her very timely glasses thread. I haven't ever had to buy glasses before and will read through it again taking notes the whole time...)

We are not religious but I find the fish and chips tradition on Good Friday somewhat comforting. I am making homemade oven fries, cod and coleslaw for supper.