Saturday H.D. had soccer practice at 8:30 am. We got up, made a delicious energy shake from the South Beach cookbook which had plain yogurt, silken tofu (dark chocolate), vanilla soy milk, and pistachios in it. It was soooooo good. My prediction was REVOLTING, boy was I wrong. Even H.D. liked it.
After soccer Emily and I went to the farmers market where I bought Zephyr squash, eggplant we will refer to as Eggie from here on out, and sweet red peppers. It was crazy busy down there, but was such a good time. I love getting to hang out with her whenever we can...so nice having your oldest and closest with you more than once or twice a year.
We went out to Jane and Tom's (Emily's folks) and I raided Jane's little garden and brought home a couple of green peppers, some tomatoes, another squash and some fresh basil. Jane's Market was good to me.
We ran a couple more errands and then back to the house where Emily worked on the internet, and I made mustard crusted steak for our dinner. We watched most of Mamma Mia and ate a yum meal, and H.D. and I walked Lena after Emily left.
Sunday was cooking day. Eggie watched me cook; and I cooked ALL DAY! The following is a list of dishes that I prepared and froze in ziplocs against my recycling and hippie nature (unless I can figure another way of doing it next time). I think I am going to wash and reuse the ziplocs to make myself feel better.
2. Spicy Broccoli (7 servings) Broccoli sauteed with olive oil, anchovy paste, and crushed red pepper. Sounds nasty--tastes DeLICIOUS.
3. Fresh Green Beans (6 servings) steamed.
4. Oven Roasted Veggies (6 servings) yellow squash, zephyr squash, sweet peppers, sweet onions, red onions, asparagus, garlic, and a little olive oil.
5. Kabobs (6 servings) beef, sweet peppers, sweet onions, red onions, tomato, and mushrooms (on some).
6. Pesto Chicken (3 servings)
7. Pork Chop Scallopine (2 servings and 1 plain PC for H.D.)
8. Ginger Chicken and Snow Peas (3 servings)
9. Mustard Crusted Steak (3 servings)
10. Grilled (9) Sirloin Burgers
That was my day. Scott made a Turkey Caesar Salad for our dinner, and lunch was burgers (sans bun for us).
After the cooking extravaganza, we took Lena on her nightly walk and since Scott was home Bij got to go too. She is getting so old and bad. We found another NEW tumor on her back behind her incision from the removal of the camel hump. It has just appeared within the last week and looks to be growing pretty fast. We made the decision as a family that we will not put her through any more surgeries as she has (4 that we can see) tumors and her back end is failing. It really took her a long time to get cooled down after the walk. Poor Old Girl.
Scott and I watched True Blood and I tried to get back on to a normal schedule and went to bed at 11:00. School starts tomorrow. :o)
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