I’m totally craving this today:
Greek-style Scampi
1 teaspoon olive oil
5 garlic cloves, minced
½ c chopped fresh parsley, divided
2 (28-ounce) cans diced tomatoes, well drained
1 ½ pounds large shrimp, peeled and deveined
1 cup crumbled feta cheese
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
¼ teaspoon black pepper
Cooked rice (or spaghetti)
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees
- Heat Oil in large Dutch oven over medium heat. Add garlic, sauté 30 seconds. Add ¼ cup parsley and the tomatoes. Reduce heat, and simmer for 10 minutes. Add shrimp, cook 5 minutes.
- Pour mixture in 13×9 baking dish, sprinkle with cheese. Bake at 400 for 10 minutes.
- Sprinkle with remaining parsley, lemon juice, and pepper after removing from oven. Serve with rice or pasta.
And maybe with a glass of white wine from beautiful New Zealand?
What are you having for lunch today?
But no din din for me tonight. So I’m stocking up on a big lunch (PST) of a grilled chicken (free range) big ass burrito with my hubby and cough cough cough kid.
Never know if they’ll zip tie you and leave you on a bus for 12 hours… so gotta eat, but won’t be able to.
I have been up front with Mr. Ex-Military Husband. So he’s cool, supportive and rather mellow — but it’s still hours away. He’ll soon start “quizzing” me I’m sure about “know your exits” as does my daughter Danni does, too.
All I can say is, I know my photo will be taken for some file. But this time no license place and no towage! Thank dawg for public transportation :
I will be upfront with the Mr. if anything happens to me or around me… not that I “ever lied” I just never wanted him to worry. That way I can be safer and he can be more supportive.
He found out about the lit cigarette tossed at me… and flipped out. Can’t blame him really… But he did approve of how I handled it. I waited till the “I heart Gitmo” fat ass went into the post office and I picked up his still lit cigarette of about an inch and a half and tossed it into the backseat of his pimp mobile. 🙂
Um… I gotsta to admit it’s a Democrat… but I still have butterflies in my tummy. Portland has their RoboCops brigrade. Lack of rights due to the Patriot Act…
tough times when you have to be worrieed about “greeting” a Democrat. 🙁
It’s so good to know you’re out there ‘acting up’! You go girl!
There’s a quote along the lines of
Silent women never changed history (?)
They want to shut us up.
That’s my bumper sticker! Well behaved women rarely make history. Which is as close to being an activist as I can manage, bless my wimpy little heart.
Thanks for being so damn brave and refusing to shut up. I’ll be right there with you, sweetie! In spirit of course, but still.
“Which is as close to being an activist as I can manage, bless my wimpy little heart.”
Bullshit!
You’ve written letters to the editor that were so freaking excellent they made me cry with pride, “right on” and gratitude that you are in my life.
You’re raising children to be thoughtful, compassionate, socially actve and empathetic.
In a time when truth is their enemey, just speaking and living in the light of truth is being an activist.
Otay? 🙂 I love you!
Back atcha. And if you need bail money, just ask!
I did not have a local contact number from CodePink.
Emailing them now
I hope everything goes well.
Kick ass, Janet! We’re all proud of you! And shameless diary pimp that I am, go recommend Janet’s post now appearing on the recommended list! (Soon to be at a theater near you.)
Had a yummy breakfast of bacon and potatoes this morning….and hot chocolate since it was raining here in No.CA.
Been busy whacking trolls at dKos….see you all later…during happy hour probably!
I’m so ashamed. I went grocery shopping while hungry and had a sugar/salt panic attack. So my lunch (eaten in the car) was a chocolate donut and a large handful of Baked Lays. Bad, bad, bad.
Mmmm, potato chip donuts…
Are you sure Homer hasn’t been washing down Quaaludes with beer?
Hey now, at least they were Baked Lays. :::hangs head in shame:::
It’s so life-affirming when other people’s vices don’t happen to match up with mine so I can be all virtuous and go “oh I would never do that.”
Well, I can’t wait until menopause hits and I lose this frantic sugar/salt/sugar/salt/sugar/salt craving that rules my world one week out of the month.
I have plenty of other vices waiting to take center stage when that one goes away.
That’s funny — I went in for my annual doctor’s visit last week and I asked WHEN I could expect menopause, couldn’t it start TODAY? I think she was really startled. But she pulled herself together and told me that the average age is 52 so I had a ways to go. But really, if you’re not planning to have any (or any more) kids — why not just get on with it.
Against research on menopause-on-demand.
If you could order up menopause on command, mine would have started in my mid-twenties.
I always got the munchies with my period, too but it was never for sweet stuff. But then I’ve never had a serious sweet tooth, even as a kid. Good cheese and bread, OTOH, and I’m done for — and menopause didn’t cure that.
It’s a curse, really. I am ruled by it. If I didn’t fear my metabolism slowing down even further and growing a mustache I’d opt for menopause on demand.
I haven’t had any change in my metabolism but then mine was never doing me any favors anyway (I’ve spent my whole life as the “fatty” in the family of skinnies but I gave up — mostly — caring a long time ago).
I had a monster bar from New Seasons’ they’re like magic cookies you make with grahamn crackers and sweetened condensed milk.. and the sucker was HUGE!
I reasoned it was ORGANIC so was okay to much on 🙂
But…. their desserts are FANTASTIC and so much better than anything I’ve eaten. You can’t eat a whole slice of their raspberry cheesecake. It’s so sweet. Probably because it’s fresh, and isn’t poisoned)?)
You know if I don’t pay real close attention to what I’m reading, posts are so much more entertaining: “I reasoned it was ORGASMIC so was okay to munch on”
Indy’s turn.
I’m too tired to be dirty. 🙁 I have to go and rest, actually, so I’ll see all y’all later. I hope everyone has a fun and safe weekend!
Have a good rest, dream filty dreams, and think about coming back for FRT.
Sweet dreams!
I meant to type ORGASMIC but had a typo 🙂
Hey, all the naughty things I love in life are totally organic!
Sex
A good laugh
Sex
Monster Bars
Alternative Insomia medicine.
(((Andi))))
You forgot to mention sex.
Sex
and pond hockey!
sex in pond hockey?
another use for the penalty box – sin bin 🙂
I’d regret taking the goalie last night… 🙁
Sending you best wishes for tonight…maybe you can hang some pink tassles from your umbrella! 🙂
Tuna salad with a little olive oil instead of mayo, plus lots of sweet pickle relish and some other bunnyfood munchies stirred in. Carrots, tomato, no bread but some reheated veggies and wild rice from last night.
Puget4 has spent two weeks negotiating with 3M to try to find some friggin’ sandpaper. We’d been getting it from a big area yacht marina but last time in they didn’t have it and didn’t know when or if there’d be more.
As a long-ago sailboat racer I couldn’t imagine an entire urban marinaload of yachtsmen, many of whom are notorious for loving to mess around with their boats, wouldn’t be using wet/dry sandpaper at a regular clip. –Year-round, in this mild climate. Even if the owners are all becoming superrich, you’d think the Help would need it.
Trying to make things in this economy is quite a challenge as everything physical from raw materials to parts & fasteners etc. changes quality or features without notice–instantly nationwide–or disappears altogether.
I’ve been trying to do 4 round trips (4x) on our narrow over long (17 instead of normal 14 steps) stairway. It’s fairly aerobic especially since I don’t do exercise much. Well….Gooserock just did part of it for me. The UPS truck came and he dashed downstairs to meet it. He came back with my new Dr. Weil’s Healthy Aging book!!! He ran to help me have healthy aging. I love it!!
I need my energy to fax Senator Salazar again.
A quesadilla, perhaps. . .
squeal like a warpiggy
(idea and pix totally stolen from my hockeybuddy JimmyP) 🙂
OMG! Awesome!
That guy has socially redeeming value.
Bush is the guy behind Ned Beatty.
Late lunch today — lots of documents to draft. But they are all now with the word processing staff and I can break. Kansas must have inspired me last night — I’m putting out lots of (really boring) words today.
I’m really looking forward to Happy Hour.
But .. for lunch I’m having minestrone soup and a cheese sandwich.
How very healthy of you. I’ll bet you’re feeling mighty virtuous in light of my donut and Lays lunch.
Congratulations on your many boring words. I think.
I purposely did not publish my lunch menu in your thread above because I didn’t want it to sound … however it sounds.
If it makes you feel better, I had a donut yesterday. A chocolate longjohn. (Although not for lunch).
That does make me feel better, thanks. I’ll try harder to have a healthy dinner. That shrimp recipe looks good, minus about half the feta cheese, which my kids call feet cheese.
Maple Bars!!!!
We have a Krispy Kreme place just donw the road. I’m afraid to go into it LOL
I’m eating a HUGE burrito for lunch/din – it so FATTENING!!! but… it’s organic! 🙂
They have Kripy Kreme in some of our grocery stores. Fortunately I’m not a big fan of KK, too much glaze.
We have donut day once a week at work. You sign up and bring the donuts once a year. If you don’t sign up — you can’t eat the donuts each week. Talk about temptation. The only blessing for me is that I recently moved floors at work. My old floor (which I was on for 12 years) had donut day on Fridays. This floor does it on Thursdays. So I eat fewer donuts — because I always forget to go looking for them on Thursdays. Then on Fridays I realize with disappointment that I missed donut day.
But I remembered yesterday 🙂
I agree about Krispy Kremes having too much glaze. They’re real big down here in the South™ and it’s very hard to find Dunkin Donuts. It’s also a dead giveaway that you’re a damn yankee.
I rarely allow myself a donut. They just leapt out at me at the totally wrong time this morning.
Not eclairs–same size & shape but filled with ordinary white filling rather than the fancier custard or whatever.
Back in the 60’s my high school used to have a 15 minute midmorning break where one of the clubs sold Krispy Kremes. Having had a solid breakfast 3 hours earlier, I’d eat 6 of these every midmorning along with a pint of chocolate milk. That was 90 minutes before lunch.
Then usually a mid afternoon chocolate shake before supper.
Those were the days. If I ate more, I merely spent more time pooping it out.
I finally returned to that same weight, though still a bit wider due to the age-driven muscle-to-fat conversion. But I can’t do it on the same diet!!!
the regular kind. For one thing, the custard, if you get the eclair from a “fancy” bakery, is going to have less sugar, unlike the KK and other eclair wannabes that have more oreo type filling that is almost all sugar.
Second, real puff pastry contains a lot of air, as opposed to the “dough” used by the cheapo wannabes. The puff pastry if made right, has no sugar in it at all, whereas the dough usually has a lot.
Third, the fancy eclair is going to have real chocolate, with only a little sugar, while the wannabes will have artificial flavor, a bit of chocolate, and lots of sugar.
Now puff pastry, and custard and fine chocolate are not diet foods, but they are less bad for you and contain more actual food elements than the cheapos.
So, if for whatever reason, an eclair is an occasional treat food for you, go ahead and spend the extra dollar to get a real one, since nutrition and sugar content aside, they taste a squillion times better!
(Of course, I’m sure that you, Gooserock, probably have developed a very low fat and nutritious one made with mackerel) 😉
I anticipated your last line DF. Mmmmm, mackerel eclairs.
Hi everyone, not much to say, just hi, feeling blah here in socal and can’t wait for the meetup..
Hi Diane, it’s a blah time of year. Hope you start feeling more like your old self.
Thanks Laura, I feel like I have PMS but I am past that age and then with my regular ‘morning sickness’, I am a mess. My daughter who is now pregnant says I have to stop saying ‘morning sickness’, as I am surely not pregnant, but what else can you call sickness you have in the morning.
I think I now understand what it’s like to go through a remodel while living in a home, same sort of thing, but not inside so much just all around me, workers everyday doing something, now it’s electrical for the whole yard, next it will be blacktopping, then who knows what. I just want all these people gone and back to my empty (during the day) place.
How’re you doing Laura?
You’ve been through so much stress with the move and all the work you had to do to get the place ready. I’d have collapsed with frustration weeks ago! I wish I could come to the SoCal meetup to meet you and Shirl and the crew and give you a big hug.
I’m doing okay. Not half as busy as you are! Hope you start to feel better now that the stress of moving is over.
I wish I could come to that meetup! It sounds like it’s going to be a lot of fun.
I wish you could all come, but then it would be so big we could never talk to everyone I guess.. I am still shocked that so many are going to do this traveling, cause as you may know I don’t travel well. Used to, but not anymore, not like Shirley who can just jet all over the place and she is really old.
at that “really old” line…wish Shirl was here to read it… 😉
Can’t wait to see everyone there in a couple of months! Has anyone done a roll call? So far, I’ve got:
Leezy (of course)
Me!
Sally Cat
Diane
Shirl
Shermanesqe
DJ (tentatively)
ManEE (I think)
Lost track as to who all is coming…
OK — that’s it for me for the week. Is it Happy Hour?
I found a CD full of pix from my last trip to the GC, and lo and behold, the blue dot appeareth!
Clearly, you are a genius. But we always knew that, didn’t we?