Cooking & Baking
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The RG picked up sushi from his favorite sushi chef. I know there's volcano roll (my fave) and salmon, but I can't remember the others. We are also having "lobster bites," which is sort of like a stuffing only in little bite-size pieces.
Watercress salad with sliced pear and cheese.
For tonight's meal, I wanted to test, so I broke out a bottle of the blueberry-ginger kombucha I brewed last week and was thrilled to see the nice fizz! It was so fizzy I had to rush to the sink because it overwhelmed my bottle! Kombucha drinkers--we live for the fizz!
Dessert will be the cookies I baked last night, white chocolate-macadamia. Ginger tea.
brokephibroke
(1,883 posts)Whole wheat pasta and an arrabbiata sauce.
FoxNewsSucks
(10,429 posts)and some leftover drunken beans
Tanuki
(14,918 posts)tomato, radishes and harukei turnips
forgot all about that kind of turnip. That goes on my shopping list right now--going to grow that.
Desert_Leslie
(131 posts)Sous vide thick-cut pork chop seasoned with paprika, coriander, and cajun seasoning.
Braised cabbage.
Roasted carrots.
PJMcK
(22,035 posts)I had a serious business issue and needed to retrieve documents from my office so we drove into the city this morning. Donning my mask, gloves and haz-mat suit, I went to my office and got the statements and affidavits. When I got back to the car, the Landlady(!) had called the Chinese restaurant around the corner and ordered a bunch of food to go. They delivered it curbside and we drove back to the Catskills.
Hot & Sour soup
Egg rolls
Egg Foo Young with brown sauce
Chicken Lo Mein
Moo Shu Pork
Fresh Oranges and Fortune Cookies
I really miss take out food!
elleng
(130,895 posts)How's the weather in the Catskills? How'd the City look?
P.S, not a decent Chinese restaurant within ??? miles of where I am!
PJMcK
(22,035 posts)We had torrential rain yesterday and last night with winds up to 40 mph. It was quite exciting and frightening. I was really glad I had a few trees cut down last week! This morning it's gray and still and wet but kind of beautiful anyway.
New York was an amalgam of experiences. We drove down the West Side and there was very little traffic from the GW Bridge all the way to Canal Street. I met my colleague in SoHo and drove through Chinatown. We miss the food and the culture and the shopping! There's a seafood market on Canal that we've often gone to in the past but it's gates were shuttered.
Then we drove up the East Side to check on our apartment and go to my office. The parking rules have been relaxed and I've never seen so many cars parked on the streets. As I was taking care of my business, the Landlady(!) was calling our favorite Chinese and Japanese restaurants to see if we could order take out. 4 out of 5 were closed. I fear for the restaurant business in our country. It's a marginal-profit business in many cases and their recovery will be difficult.
Driving through the city, there weren't too many people on the sidewalks and almost everyone was wearing a face-covering of some sort. As with our drive downtown, the ride up Third Avenue was an easy 15 minutes and we hit only two traffic lights from Houston Street to 97th Street, (about 7.5 miles). We both miss New York.
In the mountains where we are, there are a number of good restaurants, many of which are closed now. We've often speculated if a Chinese/Japanese restaurant would work up here. Since the area is a weekend destination for many, it seemed like a viable idea until COVID-19 changed everything. Other than Italian, there isn't a lot of international cuisine in this area. Many restaurants offer game meats on their menus such as venison, rabbit and bison (not really a game meat, I guess).
NJCher
(35,662 posts)reminded me of NYC and told me what it must be like now.
Re the 40 mph winds, I was working in a greenhouse around 4-6 p.m. and the winds shook that little greenhouse! It was just a little scary. But it's nice to have a greenhouse so I can work in inclement weather.
elleng
(130,895 posts)I'm concerned about restaurant business too; I visited some, more often in the past, when I lived closer to DC (60 miles away now,) more recently others out here in ExExurb. Have contributed a few $ to a favorite patisserie in a DC suburb. Few good restaurants here, some along the river 5 miles south in 'vacay/tourist' town, will run down there asap.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)Have had a box of elbow macaroni in the pantry for ages - I've been cutting carbs and my husband bought this a while back. I figure I should use it so I found this recipe. Even with the cottage cheese instead of ricotta, it's great. I did find that mixing softened cream cheese with the cottage cheese was a pain and I ended up pulling out my immersion blender - I got the perfect consistency without breaking my wrist!
Recipe: https://thesaltymarshmallow.com/one-pan-macaroni-lasagna/
No dessert for me, just a cup of hot chocolate made from a no sugar version of Alton Brown Hot Cocoa Mix. I leave out the chili, sub Stevia in the Raw for the powdered sugar and use a one quart packet of powdered milik. These days I am using Milkman powdered milk I bought from Amazon since there has been none of any brand in the stores for two months. I Milkman is finer and mixes better than either Carnation or Publix so I may keep buying it long distance even after things settle. https://milkmanmilk.com/
thanks for the milkman tip. Going to check that out.
I got a smile from your cocoa description where you left out the chili, haha.
We had trouble getting milk at first but they straightened that out.
edited to add: some good recipes at the milkman site!
csziggy
(34,136 posts)But I got sort of addicted to a hot cocoa every night. The off the shelf choices with low sugar at not very good here - in the UK there was a Cadbury one that was fabulous. Plus, I use the same mix as the beginning of a home made diet shake - 2 scoops of the coca mix, 1/2 cup vanilla yogurt, a scoop or two of ice, all blended together - that I have for lunch.
I didn't check out the recipes at the Milkman site - thanks for the tip!