JUNE... What's for Dinner.

I am sick of cooking.   I am sick of cleaning the kitchen from cooking.Carry out sounds pretty good,except I would have to go get it.I am sick of coming up with recipes & what to fix.

The good thing is I do have to put up with anyone's wishes & I do not like that.I do not want that.Oh fix anything I don't care.
Not a fan of frozen dinners . Boxed food.Canned food.So back to cooking.

Wish I could eat a bowl of cereal & call it a day....

Sounds like a cooking 'funk' to me.

Have a couple scrambled eggs and you'll feel better in the morning.

We all get it once in a while.

I've had a crappy bout of allergy for the last couple days. The palms are spewing out all kinds of pollen or something. Some nasal congestion and a bunch of unproductive coughing. Happens about twice a year, only lasts a few days, then it's over. But I got no sleep last night. Every time I dropped off I'd start to cough and then I was awake again.

I can't wait to get tired enough to take a nap this afternoon. I just want a few hours sleep.

I pulled one of my cut-in-half chuck roasts out of the freezer and did a microwave thaw. I seasoned and seared it and now it's in the little crock pot with onion, carrots, potatoes & mushrooms. I want comfort food. But I don't want to mess around. Since it was still a little frosty in the middle I figure I'll just leave it on high until it's well done and everything is falling apart.

And I plan to make gravy! Man, I am SO hungry for gravy poured over it all.

I had to get my strips & some refills on my meds.Cat food,I swear that cat is so spoiled.She will not eat any dry food.I bought publix brand 3oz size,she tried to cover it up lol I had to get some friskies.When I walked in the store so nice & cool.I was not in there 15 minutes & got so freaking hot.I only had english muffins ,I found some with both top & bottom the same size    Buns for sabratt franks & could not find the long ones..
I had to leave.No other food was bought.Dinner????? hot dogs maybe..

UNCLE JIMMY wrote:Beth... are you running the A/C cooling?   That will help

Plus benadril  is good antihistamine to take..

Yes, the a/c is on. Dane hates it if I try to put it below 80° so that's where it stays, but it does take the moisture out of the air. Antihistamines don't agree with me so usually I just try to soothe my throat with ice water. I do end up taking a vicodin when it gets really bad (the codeine stops my coughing) but I wait until I can't stand it before taking it. I just don't like taking meds.

That looks really refreshing, Imelda. Sometimes I make cucumber water to keep in the refrigerator. It's so refreshing when it's hot out.

But last night it was the crappy ice I had in the house. The ice maker in the refrigerator in the kitchen went 'KA-PUT' on Sunday and Dane couldn't get it to work. The water just stopped entering the thing. SO......he ran the water line through the wall to the refrigerator in the garage. Which works well.

EXCEPT the water lines need to be flushed for a while longer before they are clear enough to use. There is no water filter that we can find (the instructions say IF there is a filter it is located inside the refrigerator.....all we have is a plate on the spot and no filter). I ran pitchers and pitchers of water through the line and I still get a small amount of sediment. Ewwwww. Won't drink that. Won't use the ice.

It all tastes nasty.

So, today I went to the store and bought some beautifully clear and clean ice. I should have done that on Sunday.

My cough will stop. It's just because of the pollen. Maybe I'll go burn down a couple palm trees in the middle of the night tonight......

ANYWAY ~ ~ ~ I did get my comfort meal:

I thought I posted this but it isn't here so I will do it again.  I found some Killer Shrimp boiling liquid and shrimp in the freezer so I defrosted them and got some mussels, green beans and romaine.  Charlie hardly ever eats salad but does eat cooked vegetables so I tried blanching romaine leaves in water with oil floating on top and then sprinkling a little tangerine vinegar over it.  At least he ate it. I cooked the mussels in the shrimp boil first then the shrimp.  Fettuccine was boiled. Garlic and red peppers were sauteed in butter then tossed with the pasta.  Green beans cooked with bacon and onions until tender, salted.

Ohhhh, Killer Shrimp w/fettuccini! YUM. And the mussels. Double YUM. A seafood feast!

Did the romaine have much flavor that way? I know we like a wilted lettuce salad made with romaine and a hot bacon/vinegar/sugar dressing. The romaine seems to hold up well in that type of dish.

Wilted lettuce tastes better.

tangerine vinegar oh yum. I have to find some of that.

food looks mighty good around here.  


I buy romaine more often then any lettuce.It last the longest in the fridge.LOVE LOVE grilled R.

tuna (Italian) & white beans.

Meatball subs tonight. Not for me though. Prolly something bland, like eggs.

Went out to eat...had 3 glasses of Shiraz red wine....salad, dressing on side; grilled salmon with dill save on side and veggies, along with a glass of bottled water with lemon and a cup of coffee with milk...
It was soooo good...I just love salmon.....and good friendship...lol!
Leftovers for tomorrow!! yeah!

I had a late lunch after a doctor appt. What a bunch of messin' around. I've been paying for COBRA insurance since Dane retired in February. Finally got an appt. here to have a doc in Florida. I get in to the office and they tell me they contacted the ins. co. and were told I was 'invalid'. WTH ??? I called our ins. agent and he said he'd check it and get back to me. Ends up my membership 'fell through the cracks' but it'll be fixed by tomorrow. Meanwhile, I got to pay for the $150 office call today. They tell me they will refund IF the charges are accepted and they will refund on my NEXT office visit (in 8 - 9 weeks). Then I went to WalMart to pick up my scrips (my reason for going to the doc in the first place) and the pharmacist wanted to charge me $71.50 for a script I've been getting for $20 for the last 4 years. THAT took 45 minutes to correct.

Geesh. No wonder our health care systems are all messed up. No one knows what the right or left hand is doing!

So, supper was a second glass of White Sangria. Good Stuff.

I have a problem with Walmart pharmacy. At least the one in Junction City. It was notoriously bad... In my opinion. It took at least 45 minutes to fill a prescription for a while, then it took over an hour, the last time they said the doctor had to authorize the refill and they'd send the request. Two days later the were still waiting. Three days after that they were still waiting so I called the Dr. and he said he had called it in the same day they called. The dr. called it in again and it still took until the next day to get it filled. That was when I started going to a small individually owned pharmacy and now I use CVS. I have never waited more than 15 minutes at either one.

I am getting ready to pour a glass of brandy. Second one will likely follow.

I was looking forward to going to a doctor but I found out that even with Obamacare, I can't afford it. My DH had a skin cancer removed, The doctors bill was $500. Obamacare, $500. Unaffordable for us.