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John finished his a few days ago.....he's on to smooch and chicken noodle soup...and chicken salad...and meatloaf sandwiches. Though he has asked for salmon burgers or flounder for dinner tonight. We'll stop at the fish store after the dentist so he can decide. Also made some coleslaw with my great grandmother's cooked dressing recipe for me and some gluten free macaroni salad for John.

At Picatinny Arsenal where John worked for many years we called it reveille or retreat. Working on soup for John for later today but I am craving meatloaf so that is what is for dinner tonight with mashed potatoes, some frozen zucchini shreds and onion and mushroom gravy.

Got a batch of chicken stock going. Chicken noodle soup for John later.

half a BLT and 1/4 of a cappacola and provolone grinder.

Inter library loan?

One book I have read that may meet your needs is Shojin Cooking: the Buddhist Vegetarian Cook Book by Keizo Kobayashi. I haven't looked at it lately but I'm wondering if there aren't some recipes in one of the Tassajara books that might suit your needs.

He was the guest chef on CBS channel 2 in New York's The Dish. Food looked wonderful but would have liked him to talk a bit more about the shrub......course Anthony Mason's had gin in it.

small glass of spicy tomato juice, ham salad on marbled rye with a couple of sweet mini gherkins.

Nah....... how do we learn if we don't share info.......... and I DID laugh when I read it.

Can't do much about the butter with the corn BUT... there are things you can use besides fish sauce and there are vegan mayos.......

Right now my favorite is a tomato fennel soup. Love roasted cauliflower steaks. I do a vegan pad thai that I just add sautéed shrimp or chicken to for Johnnybird.

will do.........

I identify with you..... loved celery when I was younger but by my late 20's it gave me problems so now it is no longer in my life.......I miss you green crunchy stuff.............

John has developed TMJ while going through oral surgery and having appliances constructed. So........now he has gotten home from Aruba trying to make soft soft soft food he can eat without pain. Ham salad, the split pea soup, soft cooked pasta. Will be baking some bone in chicken breasts to throw into the mini-pro to make chicken salad. Eggy potatoes. Tonight is baked flounder filets, steamed and sautéed zucchini and steamed baked potatoes for John; the flounder, zucchini and some coleslaw for me. Any suggestions are appreciated...........

Pasties are a big thing around here in Wharton, NJ because of the history of the folks who moved here. First time I encountered them close to 30 years ago Rocky's served his beef pasty's with a side of gravy....

Along with some Bisto beef gravy??????

I wish I COULD eat it but causes a bit of a heart arythmia in me.....totally Abbey Normal ("I put an abnormal brain in a 7' monster!!!! - sorry my favorite line from one of my favorite movies). Was introduced to pimento cheese by a dear friend who came to NJ by way of Ohio and lives in NC. I make it every few years and enjoy it mightily but since Johnnybird can't really partake it has to be pared down. I prefer to use Cain's mayonnaise and a few shakes of Cholula chili lime and Worchestershire along with shredded pepper jack and aged cheddar. Just me......

@Norm Matthews check out Adriana Trigiani's cookbook .... after a disaster she and her family regularly poached their meatballs in the sauce and since I read it I have, too. My friend, Joyce's mom, also cooked her gravy - beef, sausages and meatballs - in the sauce in the oven.

Ask for it without the cheese.... Whenever I do my once - in -a -while Whopper Jr. I always ask for heavy on the pickles since they have to make them to order. I don't want cheese on my fish.......just saying.

John is off to Aruba with a former co-worker. Made some ham salad with some leftover ham slices and gave him two sandwiches on gluten-free bread for the plane ride. I ate mine with a nice green salad. Between the slices, salad and split pea soup I am pretty much hammed out!

Friday we celebrated my brother in laws birthday with a spiral ham that he had requested. Also had cooked a turkey breast (as Johhnybird will not eat ham). Added a simple green salad, baked mashed sweet potatoes, store bought potato salad and some Mr. Ron's coleslaw(a regional thing up here in PA/NJ Acmes and for me the best coleslaw I have ever eaten). Not bad since I only have 2 of 4 burners of the stove and a microwave to use at this point. The next day BIL's girlfriend had made a couple of pans of sausage, peppers and onions for a function and she was kind enough to give me a small container. Incredibly good!!! I love FINALLY having another person who actually is a good home cook to talk to and work with.

Brother-in-law whose actual birthday is today requested spiral sliced ham for his birthday dinner we did last Friday. I was smart enough to keep the bone and enough of the unsliced ham to get a pot of split pea soup with ham on the stove right now. Came up to add the chopped carrots to cook down and prep the red potatoes that will go in in about 30 minutes. As we have snow showers and it is around 40 F it seemed like a good idea.

Don't rush back toooooooo early. The weather hasn't quite decided if it is spring yet.

First dinner for John was gluten free pasta I mixed with a sauce of avocado and pesto then topped with some chopped shrimp. Second dinner was a western sandwich. Planning fried rice with sweet and sour meatballs and smashed cucumbers for dinner.... Second dinner will probably be more of the pasta.

both..... husband is getting in first and would love to free range but doesn't want to be far if the friend gets in from the states a little early friend is getting in later in the day and they have a few hours before getting picked up any suggestions are appreciated.