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.
However, dessert was still an option :-) I made raspberry and blueberry ice cream. Yummy! And so satisfying, loaded with fresh berries. Sad to see the end of berry season.
Easy peasy.
Re meat sauces When I was working I used to cook meat sauce in the oven all day. That was before I had a slow cooker. I just threw everything together before I left for work and let it cook at low heat. I couldn't tell the difference between it and other sauces where you sauté onion and garlic first and brown the meat. Electricity was cheap is those days. That same oven had a rotisserie spit in it and I used to do a lamb roast basted with an apricot sauce. Yum!
Your meatloaf dinner sounds absolutely delicious.
about 5-6 hours from now. Simmer, simmer, simmer.
I used to know how to make a good spaghetti sauce, starting from scratch, taking all day. And if you make your own meatballs, that is the beginnings of meat for lasagne! My sister-in-law taught me on a visit to California so many decades ago.
DH was working so I did what was easy. Pull an old sandwich out of the fridge.
Maybe I can bake some corn bread in the roaster oven. Or, just eat some lemon snap cookies.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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https://www.thehongkongcookery.com/2012/07/chinese-radish-salad.html
I made it years ago and forgot the recipe. This one is the closest as I remember it.
The one you show looks good too but I am not a kale fan. This one is so simple.
https://www.oceanmist.com/recipes/fresh-asian-radish-salad
This looks wonderful! I love radishes!
Since I value your input.......I feel better. I will stop feeling guilty.
Enjoy the radishes!
My shopper got me two bags of radishes -double what I ordered so I am eating them and will make a Chinese radish salad (that's Chinese "radish salad" as opposed to "Chinese radish" salad) and also saute some, and roast some. They added a veggie to my meal tonight.
I am sorry you are feeling guilty. No need. You are doing nothing wrong. You are not responsible for anyone else's feelings or behaviours. In short, it isn't your fault!
Monday the 10th is Gordie's birthday. He would be 44. He loved turkey but I am cleaning out the frig and freezer these days so I am probably settling for making something with ground turkey, no doubt accompanied by radishes lol.
My conflict is my family barely communicate. We definitely don't get together for Thanksgiving. My DH's family are unbearable to be around so I won't go there. Even if my DH was to beg me I still wouldn't. So thus the problem. R misses the whole Thanksgiving camaraderie thing. If he were to be honest with himself he'd realize that maybe he experienced that years and years ago and even then..........probably not.
I can't make the day what he wishes for. He's got this totally unrealistic expectation of a happy family sitting around a table singing kumbaya. Maybe, somewhere people are having that. But I can't create that for him, not with the families we were born into. So I'm left feeling guilty.