May, 2020 What's Cooking in the Kitchen?

Bugster2 wrote:I have passed 3 within the last 4 days. My urine is brown and test strips show it is loaded with blood. Got to give the doc another call.

bethk wrote:Happy Anniversary, Michelle!  (You're just a little over 10 years behind US.....LOL

Cookin Lore wrote:Congratulations on 41 years!  And the flowers.  My hubby was so good in so many ways, but flowers were not his thing.  We had a neighbour years ago who gave his wife flowers every Thursday.  Sometimes he picked them in their garden, sometimes at the side of the road, sometimes he stole them (with our permission) from our flowerbeds.  And, if he was away on business, he had a single rose delivered to her on Thursday.  I asked him why Thursday???? he said that people do special things on the weekend, and Thursday is a sort of lost day.  He died way too early only a few months after retiring at 65.  

UNCLE JIMMY wrote:Happy 41st anniversary Michelle. God bless you both!

NormM wrote:That's only two years longer than I have been divorced.

Crybaby wrote:

My goodness, Imelda, your mom's funeral was like nothing I've ever SEEN before -- the flower arrangements -- you called them "flower boards" -- were immense and so pretty! The funeral home seems huge, too. I'm so glad you posted those photos for us to see; please post more if you have them as it's really wonderful to see how your culture celebrates the life of someone you loved! A choir every night, too -- sounds like it was so beautiful! Your mom must have been some kind of a lady to have so many friends -- especially friends who want her family to see how loved she was. What a beautiful celebration of your mom's life, Imelda! I'm so glad you were able to get back for it. Thanks so much for sharing some of it with us.

Thanks, yes, we have different culture, tradition and way to celebrate the lives of our love ones. D was sorry he could not make it, my sister and her family arrived a day later, the flew from Texas, her husband and daughter stayed for 3 nights then had to fly back to State due to their job and school.  And here are some pictures of the flowers we got for my mom's funeral.
The flower boards are made of styrofoam with some plastic and fresh flowers added, the more the fresh flowers added, the prices are much more expensive. usually, after the funeral,  the flower shops employees come and take back of the boards, they use them again for their next orders    

The funeral home is a big building that divided to bunch of 4 m x 10 m rooms, we rent 2 rooms, every room has it's own bedroom with 2 bunk beds and private bathroom for family member who stay for the night

Crybaby wrote:Wednesday was our 41st anniversary -- though I always get flowers from Brian, I knew THAT was impossible this year. But I was wrong! Brian began calling our regular florist the week before last and they told him they were planning on opening Wednesday -- they let him place the order on Tuesday. So I got a big surprise Wednesday morning right after we finished the blueberry pancakes I made him for breakfast when the flowers came.

I adore flowers and the ones Brian sends are always pretty but this time, the bouquet was one of their prettiest ever -- a huge arrangement containing light pink roses, salmon colored tulips, several huge white Casablanca lilies that smell divine, some yellow cala lilies, a few stems of green Bells of Ireland -- just chock full of flowers with a couple of branches of fresh pussy willows. I'm going to try to remember to take a picture of them!

Neither of us wanted a big dinner Wednesday night which always happens when we have a big breakfast. So last night we made two of those delicious prime ribeye caps steaks from Costco. They were cheaper than the last time my BIL picked them up for us; this time they were $15.49 a pound instead of $19.99 a pound. The pkg. he picked up had three steaks in them so one went to the freezer. I made macaroni and cheese to go with the steaks (thinking of Charlie, Norm!) and though we had leftover green beans with potatoes and ham shank I'd planned to serve, neither of us were hungry enough to go past the 'roni and cheese. I took the bigger steak but neither of us could finish our steaks, which is good for tonight. They were just medium rare so they have enough room to reheat perfectly for tonight!

I prefer those steaks to any other steak but Brian said he still prefers Gourmet Butcher Block's ribeyes with their seasoning on them. He has a problem with the cap steaks having some silver skin on the edges. Me? I eat the whole steak!

NormM wrote:I was trying to decide whether to mow the lawn or go to the Asian Market to get ingredients for a spicy fish stew that Charlie asked me to make sometime but when I went to the window to water my new plants, I saw it was raining outside so I guess it the market for me.  The azalea has around ten flowers and a few buds waiting to open and the Chinese Elm is growing. I have even had to prune back some branches that got too long in the wrong places.