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To honor the first Spring barbecue of the season.... We're having...
Barbecued ribs (with Weez's great sauce recipe) Jillie's famous (in my own mind) potato salad Mushrooms marinated in beef broth w/sauteed onions Avocado & Tomato salad
Pina Coladas in the blender.....
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And explain the mushrooms???? (you take a beef broth and the cooked onions, and put the mushrooms in a bag/pan, and leave em for a bit??? What kind of beef broth?? Home made or a boullion cube do???)
Weezie
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Big 'ol fresh mushrooms, quartered...Can of Campbell's beef broth...
Saute thinly-sliced onions in 1 TBS butter...add mushrooms & beef broth + 1/2 can O' water...simmer 20 min...Ooooh.... Here comes the potato salad recipe.....
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well, supper at my house is: jiffy's southernized saurkraut & chops with mashed potatoes. yum yum. of course, jillie, i'll be there for leftovers tomorrow, ok?
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6 medium potatoes, BAKED for 1 hour, peeled, cut into 1/2" cubes
3/4 C diced Celery 1/4 C minced onion 2 hardboiled eggs, minced 2 small gherkins, diced 2 TBS Dill pickle, diced 3/4 C Best Foods/Hellman's Mayonaise (or more, depending on yer preference) 3 TBS Prepared mustard
Marinade (THIS is the BIGGIE ....and my "secret") 1/4 C white vinegar 1/4 C salad (or cooking) oil 1 tsp Summer Savory 1/2 tsp garlic powder 1/2 tsp parsley dash pepper dash salt Shake up in a jar/tupperware until well-mixed
After potatoes are peeled and still warm, pour marinade over potatoes and toss...cover and refrigerate to chill while you're chopping the other stuff.
When potatoes are cooled, add all other ingredients; chopped veggies, Mayo & Mustard & eggs...toss until well-mixed....Chill for at least an hour before serving...Garnish with sliced hard-boiled eggs and sprinkle with paprika.... HOOOO ha....
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You guys are making me salivate!!! Yummmmmmmmmm, Yummmmmmm, Yummmmmmmmmmmm!!!
My husband and I are going to try a restaurant that has been here for ages but we haven't gone into yet. You see... it is very well known for its burgers BUT... it was also very very well known for its smoking environment, so I never wanted to go in there. Of all the stupid things they did a few years ago, they put in a non-smoking room as was the law then, but you had to walk through the bar and smoking room to get to it - NO THANKS!!!
So, now with the no smoking in any restaurant in NY we can finally try the food there! Yea!!! And... our daughter is over at friends', so it'll be just us.
Those recipes sound really goooooood - gonna have to try them when we are all scheduled to eat here at the same time! Gotta love teenagers, and a husband who is obsessed with his yoga classes after work!
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Yep - we did indeed get to the restaurant. After a 25 minute wait at the bar - not too bad for 7:30 on a Saturday night... we were seated at a teeny table for 2 - the place was mobbed. The food came out VERY quickly - hamburgers are their specialty - I got a spinach mushroom burger - what a MESS!!! But DELICIOUS!!! My husband got a cheddar mushroom - also very good. The most noticable thing was how very HOT the food came out. Often here we have to send the food back because it comes out ice cold - these burgers were sooooo hot that we could hardly bite into them for several minutes - wonderful! The food was very inexpensive too, and the waitresses were bustling around like crazy - my husband left an extra generous tip - we could not believe how devoted they were to their jobs.
How was your dinner? Bet it was delicious!
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I was reading this post this afternoon and started getting SO hungry! Then, I got to the post of "Jillie's Potato Salad". You know, it takes a long time to make this! So, I got started!!!!! Oh, MAN!!! It was so good! Well worth the time!
It's 11 pm right now. Think I'll go have some more!
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Panera Bread for a girl's night out. I got the broccoli chedder soup and half a turkey sandwhich (no tomoatoes, no mustard. extra sprouts). Sidenote: hubby in Pittsburg for work.
Tonight:
Salmon in the oven inside of an aluminum foil pouch. Small red potatoes roasted, green beans, and my very favorite cranberry tea.
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Hey Weezie... can you swing that jet a bit southward on your way west? I'd love to join ya!
Wish some of you would come here and cook for us! If I say PRETTY PLEASE?!?
My mother and I did a needlepoint wallhanging for her kitchen when I was a teen - it said: SCREW HOMECOOKING!
I am not kidding - she has a great sense of humor, but hated to cook! When we lived with my parents when our son was 2-4 years old he would ask her what the picture said and she told him "Grandma doesn't like to cook!" I'll never forget that!
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Mickey d's has cream of broccoli??????? Must be the micro-marketing-thing...We've NEVER heard of it here............have we?? Californians, help me,....am I out of touch with MD's?? Do we get it here???? Gosh, if we do....I'm THERE!
I use Hidden Valley Ranch old-fashioned mix-it yerself original buttermilk style...it's the best!!!
Lynne, I'll come & cook for you, Hun... I've always been "The Cook" everywhere... When my youngest daughter was on staff at a ropes-challenge training course in the mountains at Wrightwood, she got me to go on the course ....and then I stuck around for two more summers as "camp cook" for every group that came through....fun, fun, fun...
Tonight's supper:
BIG "snack plate"
Thin-sliced boiled ham Thin-sliced summer sausage Blue Stilten Cheese Colby Longhorn cheese Cream cheese & celery Sliced black olives Club crackers Sesame crackers
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The Mickey D's here in Pa. has it. And they have the new chicken nuggets made out of only white meat...I swear they've changed the breading on those too because we them!! That's pretty much all that we get there....besides the 99 cent double cheese burgers.
Did anyone see one of the Oprah's last week...she did a chicken recipe. You basically take a whole roasting chicken and cut the back out of it and then put it in a gallon ziplock bag. Put some olive oil in it, salt and pepper, some rosemary that has been pulled apart a little bit, and a red onion cut up. Put it in the frig from 2 hours to 2 days (the longer the more flavor it soaks up). Then you just dump it all into a cassarole dish, cover with foil and bake......voila...dinner. I did that on Monday and it was sooooo good. I cut up some yellow and red peppers with it too. And did some yukon gold potatoes made into mashed potatoes (those make thebest, ya know!!) Its definately a time saver ofa recipe! Oh yeah.....put some lemon juice in that bag too.
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Left over *pizza *Salad with romaine lettuce with mozzerella cheese, green olives, tomatoes, crouton's and a tiny bit of Italian Dressing. *Garlic Bread with butter, garlic powder and mozzerella cheese on the top, done under the broiler or little toaster oven.
Yum~Yum!!!
Weezie
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Chicken breasts baked in the oven, asparagus, mashed yukon gold potatoes (my fav), and salad made of romaine, iceburg, green leaf, and boston lettuces. No dessert unless I feel like making it (which I totally doubt!)
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Man, that fish sounds good! I could eat fish everyday for the rest of my life and not get tired of it! (Especially fresh Walleye!!!) Yummmmm....
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Tonight we went to a Chinese Buffet with a bit of Italian/Amereican food mixed in the buffet line.......
I only eat the mixed veggies with the Broccoli and white rice, but then I tried a couple of other veggie dishes, and I LOVE those hard noodles with the soy sauce...
Hubby and Father~in~Law had shrimp (about 5 different ways), and meatballs, and something on a stick but I don't want to know!!! Something squwishy looking that was chicken and honey sauce or something,... Desserts were fresh watermelon, musk and cantalope, pineapples, and apples, jello, chocolate pudding and of course those fortune cookies!!! (Each one of the fortune's inside HIT each of us right on the button, it was ironic!!)
Oh, My, Gosh, open both sets of doors and roll us out!!! YUMMMMY!!!!
Weezie
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We had a simple meal tonight......fish, and mac and cheese, and apple cobbler.....
But, later today will be a feast. Dennys for my free BD meal in the morning(it's a tradion--and why not, it's free?), BBQ in the afternoon, and dinner at the in laws a little after that.....time for the elastic waisted pants maybe......lol
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Tonight was chicken and salad....although I opted for cereal for some reason. I just didn't feel like eating the chicken that I had made.
Hey Weezie...wanna know the fun thing about fortune cookie messages??? Add the phrase "in bed" to the end of any of them and it makes them halarious!!!
Tomorrow I am making salmon. I don't know how tho. Anyone have an idea?? My father-in-law was in Alaska during salmon season, so we have a freezer full of salmon fillets. Its soo good fresh like that. Not like the stuff you get at the fish market.
So, this week is the last week of "freedom" for us. Next week we plan to start the South Beach Diet. The first 2 weeks of it is no dairy, bread, fruit, sugar.....very rough. But after that its good...they reintroduce all of that stuff then. We really need to loose the weight (and never find it again! ) So wish us luck!
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I am so beat from a long weekend in the garden I do not feel like cooking anything at all....time to order pizza. We have a place called bubba's that has the best deep dish dinosaur pizza I have ever eaten. It has a 2 inch thick garlic & butter crust, fresh green peppers, mushrooms, onion & pepperoni with 3 cheeses....YUMMY, I have gained 5 pounds just thinking about it.
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Tonight, leftover Chinese for us. General Tso's Chicken and pork fried rice for him and Bourbon Chicken with vegetable fried rice for me. Maybe salad too...dunno yet.
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Stuffed green peppers, mashed potatoes, dinner rolls & chocolate cheese cake for dessert...I am stuffed. The weather finally turned around, rain has stopped, so I need to get out in the garden & work this meal off lol
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Jennifer, Did you do those salmon things yet??? I don't do the steaks or anything, but my neighbor used to, and she used to put her's on the grill in one of those tinfoil bags... *I think she made her own bag really*, laid a big flat sheet on the counter top and put the steaks in the middle and pulled the sheet up over the sides!!! I don't remeber exactly what she used to put in them, I should email her and ask! Maybe something just like white wine... I'll repost if she let's me know!
Weezie
(*I do salmon patties with the red~salmon in the can with crackers and egg)
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We had the turkey deli wrap meals from McDonalds tonight.....only because I've had a severe headache all day and didn't want to cook.....They are actually really good....
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For the millionth time I had a build-it-yerself-everything-in-the-world-on-it salad at Cedars-Sinai Hospital cafeteria...with about a half-gallon of Ranch..
I've gained 9 lbs since JoAnn's been sick..
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Jillie, After eating salad for the millionth time, I like to start mixin' my salad dressings as a change!
I mix a little French with Italian (sometimes too with Green Olive juice). A little each of Ranch, French and Blue Cheese. Blue cheese and Ranch.
That way it's like you're eating a different type of salad everytime, and you don't tire them as easily!!
What else they got on the menu at that hospitol?? My mom loves eating at our local one, she says they have some nice selections there.!! (she's been not feeling well the last couple of days either, and went for a doct. appt. and she had to eat dinner there!)
Weezie
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Oh, man, Weez, they have a cafeteria AND a restaurant. Everything and every type of food you can imagine, and it's good! The salad bar was always quicker. I love the idea of mixing....especially the green olive juice
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Weezie~ we make our own foil pouches too. Its way easy and sooo much cheaper than going out and buying them already done. Side note...I don't think the bought pouches would be long enough anyways. The salmon that was caught in Alaska is about 2 foot long!!! Anyways, Stephen made some sort of seasoning by mixing up a bunch of stuff and rubbing it on the salmon and then fried it up in a pan. I usually put it in a pouch and put some chopped rosemary leaves on it, some salt and pepper, some lemon juice...or thinly sliced lemon....and sometimes some dill. Thats about it.
So you were talking about salad up above and it hit close to home. Since we started our diet (which is a really nice one, by the way) we eat salad EVERYDAY. It goes with everything that we make for dinner. We're not aloud to have any sugar at all(there is sugar in dressings), so its hard for me to be happy with salad because I like ranch (which has dairy in it and we're not aloud to have dairy right now) and I like Italian, which has sugar in it. I'm going to go out and look for sugar free italian. ANYWAYS, I've gotten a little creative with my salads. Lately its been different lettuces, eggs, 1 slice of turkey lunchmeat, no more than 12 almonds, broccoli, chopped zucchini, sliced asparagus, and a home made dressing that really isn't too bad. Oh....and since we started the diet on Monday, I'm pleased to announce that I've already lost 3 pounds!!! We're only supposed to get on the scale once a week...but I HAD to look to see!!!
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Jennifer, Congrat's on loosing the pounds (could you loose a few for me too while you're at it! )
In the summer I love Romaine *which is the best for you, roughage wise and nutrients* and then Apple Cider Vinegar *which is great for loosing weight* and then I sprinkle Kosher Salt. I like the coarseness of it, but not too much if you're watching your salt....
I could eat 10lbs of that salad!!!
Weezie
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I'm not watching my salt...I actually have LOW sodium! I will try your dressing sometime this week or next week. I just have to get to the store and get apple cider vinegar.
The diet is prety easy and I recommend it to anyone who wants to lose. The South Beach Diet. There is a book out that explains all sorts of stuff....but its pretty easy to live with and your never hungry......unless you make yourself hungry!!! The first two weeks are hard, but if you can get through that, then its cake from there.....literally!!
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I need to go on a diet...but I love to eat way too much to ever stick to one. I always cheat lol Tonight for dinner I had a sweet tooth so I made homemade belgium waffles with blueberries, strawberries & whip cream. Yummy!!! Good thing gardening weather is here...I need to get back to eating fresh veggies again...I have been craving fresh green peppers & ripe tomatoes like mad. You just can't buy them in the grocery store like you can get them out of the garden.
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