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.
2 Big bites (not scoops) of vanilla ice cream.
Sat. nite, we had BBQ tri-tip, baked beans, and chopped salad, and a buttery
garlic roll, to go.
Leftovers on Sunday.
Chopped salad had lettuce, shredded carrots, corn, black beans, grated cheese, tomatoes,
purple cabbage, cilantro, and blue cheese dressing.
Oh, yes!
I can relate to walking everywhere like you did for an ice cream. We walked or cycled everywhere. Were you fatigued by exercise?
I don’t remember ever being overly tired from walking or cycling. We were in shape and our bodies were used to the physical activity.
It’s funny how kids run just for fun! I loved running or holding my arms stretched out and spinning around very fast until I got dizzy.
LOL, kids are so silly. We had fun doing stuff like that. Oh my gosh, I would throw up if I tried spinning around now!
Glad,
That sounds beautiful, ‘midnight sun.’ So very different from our environment.
Dubbed as the land of the midnight sun, Norway is one of the very few locations where sunset merges into sunrise, with no darkness in between. The midnight sun only occurs at certain times of the year and is only visible very close to the Arctic.
https://www.fjordtours.com/inspiration/articles/midnight-sun-explained/
The Polar Night can last days to months depending on your location. On the North Cape, the sun remains under the horizon for more than two months, while in Tromsø the phenomenon lasts for six weeks or so. In Lofoten, the dark period is short, just under four weeks.
https://nordnorge.com/en/artikkel/the-polar-night-is-the-blue-time-in-northern-norway/
Our holiday meals were always 2ish at the latest.
Interesting thought, Golden about early meals in Norway before darkness.
Somewhere over the last week read that Norwegians are typically thin because they are grazers.👵👵😏😏
I didn't grow up eating junk food either. I am a night eater. I think it's because I always worked nights. I eat dinner around 6pm, but have a snack around 11pm or 12 am. I really don't eat much during the day.
need - That's interesting, I have a Norwegian mother and I eat my evening meal early. I wonder if it had something to do with the climate and the light available for working outside. Mind you I eat all my meals early, I am not interested in eating after about 7 pm so no late night snacks I think we had a much healthier lifestyle as kids and teens than young people today. There were hardly any processed foods in my youth. Everything was cooked from scratch and we played outside all the time and walked or rode bicycles to school. I don't remember eating much in between meals - maybe an apple. It wasn't the custom. If we wanted an ice cream cone as a treat we had to walk a mile or so downtown to buy it and that certainly wasn't every day.
I had no idea. It’s Norway. They eat dinner around 4:30. Many people around the world eat dinner much later.
Do any of you eat a midnight snack? I am thinking about The Golden Girls who were always slicing into cheesecake or some other snack late at night.
My mom did let us have an after school snack, one cookie and a glass of milk.
My mom served our dinner fairly early. We didn’t get dessert on weekdays. We were never allowed to drink soda during the week. We had our dessert with Sunday meals at my grandparents house.
Nowadays kids eat junk food all the time. It’s kind of sad. I didn’t serve junk food to my girls. I suppose because I didn’t grow up eating junk food.
I didn’t even have pizza until I went out on a date! LOL It’s a different world now. I definitely think that’s why kids are overweight. Plus, we were so active in our childhood.
I only remember one kid in my class who was overweight. I saw him many years later and he was thin! I didn’t recognize him at first.
We had physical education classes everyday at my school. I walked or rode my bicycle. Kids can’t do that anymore. It sad because it’s isn’t always safe now to do so. I walked many blocks to school starting in kindergarten.
I remember my mother telling me that they had "little breakfast" early so the farmers could go out and work with something in their stomach and then closer to midday they had a big meal to keep them going the rest of the day.
In Britain when I was there my aunt made a big midday meal - dinner, then that would be followed by afternoon tea around 4, and a very light supper later. Another custom in the UK is high tea which is basically a supper meal in the evening. sort of combining afternoon tea and supper.
https://www.rd.com/article/difference-between-dinner-and-supper/
from the web
"Supper was originally a secondary lighter evening meal. The main meal of the day, called dinner, used to be served closer to what is known as lunchtime,"
I tend to eat lighter at night and my heavier meals in the day time -a good breakfast and lunch (or dinner).
Here a topic for discussion. What is difference between supper and dinner? I think most of us have our larger meals in the evening. As such it is supper. Supper traditionally was a midday large meal with dinner smaller in the evening.
I love curry! Sounds like your curry was intense! Can you request that they reduce the amount of heat? Did you eat yogurt to cool down your taste buds?
In order to save my investment tonight I cooked up the leftovers with an onion, potato, a handful each of green beans, red pepper and spinach and it's still hotter than I'm comfortable with, and this dish isn't even one of the ones rated as spicy on the menu. This doesn't make me eager to try something else and that makes me sad because I love the flavours of Indian curries... minus the heat 😞
I am glad that you decided not to sell that cookbook. It’s a part of history! She was a trailblazer and did open the door for women chefs in a male dominated field.