Sorry to say, but this site has been so depressing for a few days. I thought I'd ask an average, everyday question....to make us all feel a little more normal today.
I made Eggplant Lasagna, and my BIL and SIL are coming for dinner. They leave for Cali tomorrow to see their beautiful grand daughter.
Sorry, sometimes we just need some REGULAR conversation.......or at least THIS caregiver does.
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Nah .. lol .. (but I do like your attitude).
If I hadn't just had roasted red (bell) pepper hummus and sun-dried tomato pesto with cheesy crackers, I'd be hungry now for that. MMMhmmm.
We try to do a salad meal once a week. Sunday we had mixed greens with steak strips, two kinds of cheese, hard cooked egg wedges, radishes, pomegranate seeds, red grapes, parsley, green onions, carrot slices, and celery. (I forgot to add the walnuts I'd intended.) On salad nights we each eat out of a medium serving bowl!
leather.hahaha. im such a b**ch that i expect nothing but a hard way to go in return..
So I flipped a couple of days. No crime, right? This is my weekend to host my mom and I couldn't leave her to shop for the ingredient I discovered I was missing for taco squares. Instead I made potato pancakes with maple syrup, applesauce, and crisp bacon. She loves that. Lemon bars for dessert.
I don't know if there is a difference between latkes and potato pancakes. Most recipes look the same to me, but the latkes I get from my favorite deli seem thicker than my pancakes.
Taco squares tomorrow ...
And we are WAY off topic now. ;-)
sorry, i thought you girls were better judges of that than us guys..
What's for dinner? My Green Giant rice pilaf steamer bag just finished its rounds in the microwave. Yum yum!
Cap~Dog, Haha!! Hubby might go for that...Chinese is great, I have been using Bragg Low Sodium Soy Sauce from Trader Joes...hubby loves it (I can do without soy sauce). Dog is a possiblity...just not monkey!!
some pretty heart healthy recipes can be found in a chinese cook book. stir fried vegs , meat, white vineagar and grape jelly and youve got the sweet / sour from hell. dont forget the red pfeffer..
my youngest son bought me a chinese cookbook at a yard sale when he was only about 9 yrs old. i can take a hint when its that self explanatory.. the kid ate what we call " dog " for months.. heh. when our family would afford china buffet we called it " eatin dog " . its our f'in joke, we'll laugh if we want to..
the fudge ecstacys from " better homes than yours " website are the s**t if you just thrive on blowing people away. dont overbake them. when they turn from glossy to dull , get em out of the oven.. " get " milk.lol
It says she can have home-baked cookies, but then you can't use chocolate, molasses or dried fruit, so I have to think about this. I was going to bake her oatmeal cookies but I like to add things to them. So far, have figured I can add nuts, but would like to come up with something else to add and something we'd actually eat (that leaves out carob chips, which none of us will eat).
on a flight from atlanta to indy once we were allowed to sit anywhere we wanted since the plane wasnt full up. i found a window seat up front and figured id see some usa. it was solid forest and farmland for hours with only an occasional town and even less occasional city. it surprised me as id been under the impression that each major city sprawled into the next. i love europe but the usa has afforded me the cheap land and materials to build 2 houses in my lifetime. couldnt do that in europe, in fact youd live in at least a duplex, if not an apartment complex. i think america will always be an innovation powerhouse because of our lack of red tape. if you want to build a product here and need a factory, get the permits and hire a bull dozer. its almost that simple.. central indiana fields are loaded with wind turbines. slouchers , were not.