What's for Dinner, Tues., June 7, 2016

[NJCher]

Steak salad with blue cheese, red onion, and greens from the garden.

White wine.

Dessert: Watermelon with mint.

Warm and muggy here today. This should be a good choice for such a day.


Cher

[MerryBlooms]

1. Breakfast san- leftover turkey sausage/jalapeno/jack cheese/egg scramble, on toasted whole grain.

[Galileo126]

2. Sweet and sour pork

with green bell peppers, carrots, pineapple and onion. Over white rice.

[locks]

7. Love sweet and sour but

I don't have a good recipe.

[Galileo126]

13. I use Alton Brown's recipe

That is, back before he was a game show host...

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/sweet-and-sour-pork-recipe.html

The only thing I do differently is not to add celery.

[pscot]

3. baked,breaded pork chops, gnocchi

in sage butter and a green salad.

[PennyK]

4. That sounds so good!

I rarely post here, but I look every day.
I'm currently undergoing chemo for Stage 1 breast cancer, and the side effects are unpleasant, but i didn't realize that almost all food would taste so awful! I love food and I love to cook, and this is driving me crazy.
I've been subsisting on my homemade chicken soup...I happen to be Jewish, so I'm good at that (dill, of course). I also found a Chinese restaurant nearby that makes killer won ton soup. Other than that, I sometimes have an Ensure shake (vanilla, sadly, because chocolate, my true love, tastes awful) and a teeny bit of coffee ice cream before bed.

I have a long list of all the things I want to taste when this is over!

[Liberal Jesus Freak]

5. Here's hoping it will be over soon!

And anytime you want to share your recipe for chicken soup...

[PennyK]

9. Not much of a recipe

Some chicken, with bones and skin, a big carrot, celery stalk, a parsnip if you can find one, a bunch of dill, some parsley, a whole onion, and some Knorr bouillion cubes, and a bit of salt and pepper. I just throw it all in, add a lot of water (the cubes are each 2 cups' worth, so do the math. Bring the whole mess to a boil, skim off the crud, and turn down to a simmer. Meanwhile, either cut a bunch of carrots into "coins" (or use babies if you prefer) and dice a few stalks of celery. In a separate pot, boil water and cook whatever kind of noodles you like.
After two hours, I strain the soup and remove the chicken and vegetables (I toss them, but my mother kept and served the cut-up parsnip). Then add your carrot coins and sliced celery. Cook until done to your liking, maybe half an hour. You'll cut or shred the chicken and add it back in. Add the noodles if you're serving the soup right away.
My mother always rinsed the noodles, which were always Goodman's thin egg noodles, in water, and added to the soup just before serving; and I learned that if you are freezing the soup, the noodles get gross, so now I cook the noodles fresh after defrosting a container of soup.
Don't add too much salt! You can always add more in the bowl. This stuff is great for any cold, sore throat, and it turns out, good for cancer too -- and it still tastes good to me. I keep thinking I'll get tired of it, but it hasn't happened yet.

Ironically, my mother, who is going through a very difficult time, is the only person who doesn't know about my health issue...she's 1,000 miles away and my sister and I decided it would do no good to tell her. But I think about her every time I inhale the fragrance of her soup.

[Liberal Jesus Freak]

10. I love the way you cook!

And I'm making this soon. Thank you for sharing

[PennyK]

11. One clarification

I didn't mean an entire bunch of dill; I meant a generous amount. A whole bunch would be way too much!

[locks]

8. That's one of the sad side effects of chemo

but it does get better, at least it did for me. I had a mastectomy but have been cancer free for two years. I try to be thankful for the real progress that has been made to prevent and treat breast cancer as relative to lung, pancreatic etc. Just hope your taste for good food will soon be back.

[NJCher]

12. similar situation from virus

Hi, PennyK, glad you posted; I didn't know chemo caused that effect with the taste of food.

I can imagine how you must feel, though, as I had a friend who lost her sense of taste from a virus. The virus didn't cause it; it was a side effect from it. She couldn't smell or taste anything for almost two years. She, too, loved food and it was a huge loss to her. Very, very gradually her sense of taste came back.

I'm really sorry to hear you're going through this, and I hope it will soon be behind you.

And now you have me hungry for chicken soup!


Cher

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. A smothered pork chop with lots of onions.

Salad.