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September, 2019 ~ What's your meal plan?

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UNCLE JIMMY
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bethk
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UNCLE JIMMY

UNCLE JIMMY

Tina made stuffed peppers.... Still cooking in the HOT oven.
Electric was $333.63 last month...... I could imagine this month $$$ with ovens on while A/C is on.
It does smell good in here though.

bethk

bethk
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NormM wrote:I was planning to make a breaded and fried piece of pork or beef and then I saw Lore's post about Hunters schnitzel and it sounded good so I made that for dinner with a German style potato salad and cucumber salad.  I thought about making spatzel but chickened out and made egg noodles instead. Charlie loves those noodles and I was not sure how he'd take to spatzel.  

Boy, don't you just love it when one of our forum members helps with inspiration for a meal?

Yours looks fabulous ~ and really, homemade noodles are just flat spatzel. It's that taste that is SO good.

Now you've got me thinking it's time for ME to make a meal with grilled brats and German Potato Salad. Not sure how soon it will be, but it's on my mind now and I have a feeling I won't forget until my hunger for it is satisfied.

It's like one of those crappy songs that get into your head and you can't 'un-hear' it......and all week long, whenever there's a lull in your mind, THAT SONG starts playing over and over again. Hahahahahaha

NormM

NormM

Thanks Beth.

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UNCLE JIMMY

UNCLE JIMMY

I'm thinking of Smoked kielbasa, with potatoes au gratin. Think I seen a pckage in the food pantry. If not, then it will be noodles with butter.
Just cooking for myself. Tina took her uncle to the casino in Bethlehem, PA for the day.

bethk

bethk
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I hope they come home rich!

UNCLE JIMMY

UNCLE JIMMY

bethk wrote:I hope they come home rich!

It would surely come in handy, that's for sure!

Bugster2

Bugster2

UNCLE JIMMY wrote:Tina made stuffed peppers.... Still cooking in the HOT oven.
Electric was $333.63 last month...... I could imagine this month $$$ with ovens on while A/C is on.
It does smell good in here though.

We are very fortunate - we have solar which helps a bit. All new builds out here are going to have solar, along with gas fireplaces that burn with fake logs. Our electric bill for the year was $600. I doubt that solar would do any good where it snows. I would never install it at my age because it takes about $30,000 to do it. It takes years to finally see any return on your investment.

Joe is have his teeth worked on today, so most likely it will be a can of chicken noodle soup for dinner.

My sister found out she has a compression fracture of a vertibra. She thinks she did it lifting something heavy while moving.

UNCLE JIMMY

UNCLE JIMMY

Bugster2 wrote:
UNCLE JIMMY wrote:Tina made stuffed peppers.... Still cooking in the HOT oven.
Electric was $333.63 last month...... I could imagine this month $$$ with ovens on while A/C is on.
It does smell good in here though.

We are very fortunate - we have solar which helps a bit. All new builds out here are going to have solar, along with gas fireplaces that burn with fake logs. Our electric bill for the year was $600. I doubt that solar would do any good where it snows. I would never install it at my age because it takes about $30,000 to do it. It takes years to finally see any return on your investment.

Joe is have his teeth worked on today, so most likely it will be a can of chicken noodle soup for dinner.

My sister found out she has a compression fracture of a vertibra. She thinks she did it lifting something heavy while moving.

Always something.... Hope Sis gets that fracture mended.

We are experiencing a fracture of the Great Granddaughters arm.
The hospital sent her off to a bester hospital because they thought she hd pneumonia from the xrays....
They read it wrong.... ?????? but, the little girl has fluid on her brain...... They will install a drain for now. ..... They don't know if it's from the arm fracture. I have to research that.

It is such a sad situation.




Tell Joe we wish him well. Hoping he gets to heal quickly.

bethk

bethk
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Oh, dear, Jimmy ~ Miranda must be beside herself. And Jim, Jr. & Sherri....not to mention GG Tina & you and Maria. Hopefully the little thing will bounce back quickly, as kids often do. Prayers for her and the whole family to get through this with as little stress as possible.

UNCLE JIMMY

UNCLE JIMMY

Thanks Beth....
They tried to get blood for testing today, but after 4 attempts, they decided to do it tomorrow.
All we can do, is pray right now!

bethk

bethk
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And that's what we'll all be doing.....

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No cooking here tonight. Dane went to his sister's all day today. He hasn't been there in a couple weeks so it was a good break for everyone. He always takes her out to lunch to have a highlight in her week and helps fix things around her house or just sit and visit with her.

I really enjoyed my day of him being gone. I didn't have to stop anything I was doing to fix supper. I basically just putzed around all day, doing a little of this and a little of that. For supper I took the golf cart and rode over to the local Chick Fil-a restaurant and got some chicken tenders and one of their kale crunch salads, a nice blend of chopped kale and cabbage with a light cider vinegar dressing and a pack of crushed almonds to sprinkle over top. It was just right for a light meal.

bethk

bethk
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I want to reheat the greens to use them up so I pulled some boneless pork out of the freezer last night to thaw. It was still frozen this morning (in the refrigerator) so I did a quick semi thaw in the microwave and then put them into my small Crock Pot so they could cook all day without being tended. The last time I cooked some of this pork it was really uneven in how it cooked so I'm not taking any chances that it'll be tough. I was talking with my daughter and said I didn't know what to put on the pork in the Crock Pot and she suggested orange & cinnamon, maybe some orange marmalade. Well, I don't have any orange juice so when I was looking in the refrigerator I spied a couple individual packs of cinnamon applesauce. I don't even remember when or why I bought them. I'm pretty sure it was for some sort of apple cake or coffee cake I made to take to the neighbors. But, hey, why not put that on the pork. Then I had the remainder of the bottle of Coca Cola from when I made the ribs.....since neither of us drinks sodas it's either use it for cooking or toss it out. So, the pork is simmering away in Coke & apple & cinnamon flavors.

As Andrea mentioned to me, this will probably be the best pork EVER and I'll never know how to replicate it again. LOL

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bethk wrote:
NormM wrote:I was planning to make a breaded and fried piece of pork or beef and then I saw Lore's post about Hunters schnitzel and it sounded good so I made that for dinner with a German style potato salad and cucumber salad.  I thought about making spatzel but chickened out and made egg noodles instead. Charlie loves those noodles and I was not sure how he'd take to spatzel.  

Boy, don't you just love it when one of our forum members helps with inspiration for a meal?  

Yours looks fabulous ~ and really, homemade noodles are just flat spatzel.  It's that taste that is SO good.  

Now you've got me thinking it's time for ME to make a meal with grilled brats and German Potato Salad.  Not sure how soon it will be, but it's on my mind now and I have a feeling I won't forget until my hunger for it is satisfied.

It's like one of those crappy songs that get into your head and you can't 'un-hear' it......and all week long, whenever there's a lull in your mind, THAT SONG starts playing over and over again.  Hahahahahaha

I was going to post just that, "Spaetzle" as we Germans are used to calling them are just an egg noodle in a different form. LOL They are the specialty of the region in Germany where we lived. My hubby didn't like noodles of any kind, so I rarely made them. And I have also gotten many inspirations for dinners here.

bethk

bethk
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Well, the good news is I don't have to write down what I did with today's pork so I can do it again.

It was tender after 7 hours in the Crock Pot.....but, as is often the case with pork ((the OTHER white meat)) it was flavorless. I ended up brushing on some Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ Sauce and putting it under the broiler of the toaster oven to dry out a bit.

The greens were still tasty. I ended up boiling a couple potatoes.....just because.

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NormM

NormM

Many years ago in another town, I saw some really white stuff in the meat counter and it said "Pork, the other white meat" and listed some of the health benefits of it over beef but it was snow white and when I looked closer, it was pure pork fat.  Someone was either making a funny or was asleep at the controls.

Speaking of the other town, there was a Chinese Buffet in a town close by it that had Malaysian Chicken that Charlie liked and he asked me if I could copy it. I tried and he said it was close and he liked mine as much.  Yesterday I saw a recipe for Malaysian Chicken and thought I'd try it. It was nothing like the one at the Chinese place and I had to go to the Asian market to get a lot of the ingredients but when it was almost done, I told Charlie to start thinking about eating out because this didn't look all that good. It tasted OK but not enough to make a meal out of it. Charlie took one look at it and didn't even want to taste it.  We ate at another Chinese buffet near by. It does not have the chicken that the other one had but we eat there a lot. I like their coconut shrimp. Charlie likes their pork ribs.

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bethk

bethk
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NormM wrote:Many years ago in another town, I saw some really white stuff in the meat counter and it said "Pork, the other white meat" and listed some of the health benefits of it over beef but it was snow white and when I looked closer, it was pure pork fat.  Someone was either making a funny or was asleep at the controls.


That's like the Kroger store near where I lived in Ohio. It was a suburb of Toledo and at one time all the 'up & coming' young professionals moved there ~ yuppies at that time. Someone got a shipment of pork ears in the meat department. Now, NO ONE was going to buy all those ears. The Hispanic community was small and there were very few ethnic cooks that shopped there at the time.

So, some inventive and creative 'meat-head' decided to put some "GREAT ON THE GRILL" stickers on the packages. Man, what a great idea! They flew off the meat department shelves!!

Until MONDAY......

The complaints started to arrive and the store manager was furious.

I still laugh when I think about it.

UNCLE JIMMY

UNCLE JIMMY

That's a funny story Beth.....

Had fast food today. Between the hospital and other stuff. crazy here.
The baby is ok, and they are at the hospital ready for dishcharge.
The brain fluid is ok. It looked like a problem on the M R I ....NOT
The little one is laughing and giggling.... Thank God.

bethk

bethk
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PHEW !!!

Thank God it wasn't anything. Kids can be scary.

Bugster2

Bugster2

Thank goodness that your GG daughter is ok. Fluid on the brain is not something you want.

Went to PT today and it hurt. Still can't make a fist and my hand won't lay flat. The ortho doc took my hand and forced it into a fist and I almost screamed. He said the pain was all in my head. No, you idiot! It is in my hand!

Von's had a Friday special on fresh salmon fillets - $5/lb. I bought 3.5 pounds and will freeze it.

bethk

bethk
Admin

Time to find a different place for therapy, Bugs.

That sounds just like the place I went to when I broke my shoulder ~ not a terribly horrible break, just something that needed time to heal.

((I had tripped stepping over a 'baby safety gate' at Robin's when I caught my foot on the top of it and went down on her hardwood floor. My arm went up and my body weight landed on my shoulder. Ended up with a crack that nothing could be done with.....just wait for it to heal.))

After some time my doc ordered therapy to restore the range of motion in my arm. After a few weeks of heat, electrical stimulation & motion therapy the therapist decided I needed 'just a little bit more range of motion' so she decided to manipulate my arm above my head. I told her to stop, that it hurt but she continued. She wanted to get to what SHE had decided was the correct placement. Well, the next morning my arm wouldn't move at all. Turns out she had broken my shoulder again.

It took me over a year ~ my shoulder 'froze', no movement at all. Then I had to go through a 'surgery' to have my arm manipulated under sedation so as to break the adhesions holding my arm down. Then another 6 months of therapy at a different place.

But the good news is there are good places out there. You just have to ask friends and relatives for recommendations.....and pray for good results.

Bugster2

Bugster2

Beth, I have had 2 frozen shoulders (different times). The doctor said i would need the surgery to break the adhesions. I did a little research and found that it usually resolves itself after about a year. I waited and it took about 14 months for each shoulder to "unstick". A very painful condition. You have my sympathy. I hope you were able to let that therapist know what she did.

bethk

bethk
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It was over a year for my shoulder to heal from the second break, and by then the adhesions were in need of surgery. I had spent the year going to my sister-in-law, the massage therapist, who worked on my arm and the surrounding area twice a week. Even with the 'family discount' it cost me a fortune and I still needed the surgery.

And, yes, I let the therapist, the manager and all my docs know what had happened. They said there was nothing to do but to wait for it to heal by itself again.

The irony is that the cause was MY clumsiness in stepping over a BABY SAFETY GATE....if I had just taken the time to move it instead of thinking I was some sort of gazelle I wouldn't have had the problem in the first place.

bethk

bethk
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No cooking tonight. Today was the neighborhood Ladies' Luncheon ~ one meal in the middle of the day does me in.

Dane had leftovers.

Bugster2

Bugster2

Hot and dry today - 96. I am making pesto shrimp over angel hair pasta. For me it will be tortellini and broccoli in a parmesan cheese sauce.

bethk

bethk
Admin

I forgot to get a package of English Muffins out of the freezer last night so I went into the freezer first thing this morning to retrieve them.  While I had it open I saw the zip bag with cubed steak and decided, even before I had my coffee, that I was going to make Chicken Fried Steak for supper.  I always individually wrap things like the cubed steaks or chicken pieces so I can take out just what we need for a meal.  The pieces were pretty good sized so after they thawed I cut them in half so they would be easier to manage and turn in the fry pan.  I seasoned them with the Cajun seasoning on the meat and then let them sit in some buttermilk to tenderize for a few hours.  Around noon I took them out and dredged them really well in seasoned flour with a bit of corn starch, pressing the flour into the pieces so they were heavily coated.  Then, on to a rack over a sheet pan and into the refrigerator, uncovered, to dry and let the buttermilk absorb all that flour.  

The rest in the refrigerator to dry out really did a nice job of allowing the coating to stay attached when I fried them.  I put them in a medium hot cast iron skillet that was large enough to allow them to brown without touching one another - used bacon grease and grapeseed oil to fry them in.  This was the very first time that not one piece had the 'crust' fall off or stick to the pan.  I turned them only once.....OK, I did rotate them in the pan so they browned evenly, but I didn't flip them over and over.  

If I'm able to do a repeat the next time I make it then I'll have myself convinced I've mastered the recipe!

Mashed potatoes and cream gravy along with corn cut off the cob completed my meal. Neighbor Jim happened to call this noon and got an invitation to join us ~ he was thrilled it was HIS lucky day!

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