Sorry to say, but this site has been so depressing for a few days. I thought I'd ask an average, everyday question....to make us all feel a little more normal today.
I made Eggplant Lasagna, and my BIL and SIL are coming for dinner. They leave for Cali tomorrow to see their beautiful grand daughter.
Sorry, sometimes we just need some REGULAR conversation.......or at least THIS caregiver does.
I had baked beans and a grilled cheese.
Yesterday I had gone grocery shopping so I had lots to make, but I just did not feel like cooking again! So I had potato salad, corn on the cob and already fried chicken, all I had to cook was the corn on the cob in the microwave because it only takes two minutes per ear.today I went for another drive to the same town where we used to live and passed a really awesome Italian market and bakery.I bought one piece of cheese lasagna, one piece of meat lasagna, one piece of bracciole which you can't easily get in Florida. I also got a cannoli, a Napoleon,and a chocolate eclair. Well when I got home my hubby reminded me that he had a bit of lasagna from Olive Garden still left and he would finish that. Mom and I had a third of the cheese lasagna piece and a third of the bracciole. Hubby wanted his eclair right away but Mom and I will wait till later for dessert. So tomorrow I think we will have steak and bake potato with steam asparagus. I may give mom the lasagna and bracciole for lunch and use the fried chicken for chicken salad. Leaving the other piece of lasagna for the freezer.
It's getting dark now.
One had a recipe for Cutie Pie Cake. It is flourless, uses finely ground almonds, and clementine oranges. I happened to have a bag of awesome clementines so I tried it. You boil the whole oranges for a couple of hours, drain, mash up in a food processer (skins and all), add eggs, and the almond flour, and some sugar. I divided the batter so I could make one little cake for my friend and keep one. Very good!! Especially with whipped cream. I'll be making it again.
Now, doesn't that justify buying those used cookbooks? :)
Tonight we did pizza ! Selfish!
Tonight was stuffed peppers made in the crock pot, Mexican-seasoned pinto beans, and cheese biscuits.
Each of these meals was shared with my friend whose husband has cancer. Her daughter came and picked theirs up, which worked well.
My friend and her daughter painted a small porch this weekend. Their house is on the historic register and the exterior has to be authentic and approved and they had a heck of a time getting the paint color right this time. The husband LOVES that house and I think all their effort at maintaining it does him good.
So my cooking while the women ran around getting the paint color right contributed to the husband's happiness. Make sense? :)
and dressing for lunch, a costco pumpkin pie piece, that is it for Sunday brunch.