September 2023; What's Cooking ?

bethk wrote:As I said yesterday, tonight was a Steak Salad with the leftovers.

I'm not a fan of leftovers (hmmmmm, have I ever mentioned that???  LOL) but I will eat them if I morph it into something completely different.

Last night's steak into a salad, leftover chicken turned into creamed chicken & vegetables, and.....gee, I can't think of anything else right now.  That's because it doesn't happen often.  

bethk wrote:Sometimes I get so disgusted with myself....failing memory lapses drive me nuts!

I stopped at Walmart this afternoon when I was on an outing with Lyn ~ she needed a couple things and I said we might as well stop since we were just down the block from the store.

I mentioned to her I had picked up some red grapes yesterday specifically to add to some chicken salad.  So, when we were at the store I picked up one of their rotisserie chickens so I wouldn't have to thaw & poach some chicken when I got home.  

Jimmy ~ the rotisserie chickens I get at our local Walmart are cooked completely ~ so much that even YOU would eat them.  I won't buy the one's at Sam's Club....they use chickens that are too large and they do NOT get cooked done (or over-done as we prefer).

Anyway, when I got home I let the chicken cool a bit on a plate and then started to pull off the meat.  I use the breast meat for HIM to slice and make a sandwich with if HE wants and all the rest, especially the dark meat, gets chopped up for my chicken salad.  The bones, skin, 'too dried out' bits, etc. gets stuck into a quart deli container until tomorrow when I'll simmer it all up for chicken stock to have in the freezer.

After my chicken was broken down I chopped some celery, minced some carrot, toasted some nuts and tossed it all together with the chicken.  I mixed up my dressing and stirred everything together.  I scooped it all into a deli container and thought to myself that it wasn't as much as I usually get from a rotisserie chicken.

Then, when I was putting things back into the refrigerator I noticed the little bag of red grapes ~ the ones I mentioned just a couple hours before that I was going to add to my chicken salad!  So, the container of chicken salad I just stashed in the deli container got emptied in the washed mixing bowl and I cut up the grapes to mix in.

And when I re-filled the deli container it was filled to the top ~ as it usually is when I make it from a rotisserie chicken......



((   sigh   ))


This getting old stuff is pretty irritating at times.........

bethk wrote:I offered to pick up some old neighbors last Tuesday when they took a bus from Orlando Airport to The Villages after a few months at their home in the Chicago area.  Then, on Saturday, I met them for pizza in the evening because Dane was busy.

Sunday morning I got a text from her that her symptoms of what she thought was a sinus problem caused from her daughter's dogs in the car on the ride to the airport in Chicago, had gotten worse overnight and she had just taken a Covid test......and it was positive.

It was nice she let me know so I didn't go about my usual 'all-around-town' trips.  No sense in starting another huge outbreak.

So, since I was first exposed to her a week ago and then again 3 days ago, I decided to do the prudent thing and test myself this morning.  I've had my usual allergic symptoms but they could also be Covid symptoms.  

Fortunately, my test came out NEGATIVE!

I am relieved, but I'll re-test on Thursday, just to be safe.  I can manage to stay around the house until then.

I was really hoping to get my Covid booster and know if I tested positive then I'd have to wait 6 weeks to get the shot.  I also want to get my regular fall flu shot ~ I know I'll be in bed for a day or so with that but it's normal for me to have the reaction so I plan for it.



Oh, and Jimmy, remember how we've talked about vinegar for muscle cramps.  For years I've tried to get Dane (who suffers regularly from leg cramps in the middle of the night) to drink a tablespoon of pickle juice to relieve the cramps.  He kept poo-pooing my suggestion.  Well, apparently he was tired of being awake most of the night with curled toes and painful legs and he started eating the pickles ~ which isn't as much vinegar as just slurping some down but it looks to me like he EATS a lot of pickles.  He admitted to me this morning it's really reduced the pain he's in.

Surprise ~ Surprise ~ Surprise !

After 5 or 6 years he FINALLY gave my suggestion a try.  And, yes, he's tried the quinine water (tonic water) but it doesn't seem to do as much as the vinegar.

UNCLE JIMMY wrote:Haven't had or made Meat Loaf in a long long time. Ummmm ..... ok BUT....I had to be careful to not let one piece of onion on DD's special NO ONION Personal meatloaf.
Pain in the @$$ for sure. I also had to re-mash the ground round to accommodate Tina's stomach issues. The best thing about home cooked meatloaf, is the next day slice meatloaf sandwiches with good German mustard. Hot meatloaf sandwiches is a leftover I will eat; with gravy, and on white pullman bread.