OT/MISC Quilt Squares or just "What's for Dinner?" Sunday, April 18th, 2021

[Seabird]

It is another rainy and overcast weekend, to my chagrin! God help me, I love it so much. Perfect for a good movie, and getting things done.

Today has been about prepping for a new little autistic boy who has joined my class. He is a sweet little one, but loves conflict, and thrives on getting other children to run from him. As with most autistic children, his social skills are not very good. He is just playing, but the rest of the children are not understanding. We are working on them realizing that he is different in a good way, and learning how to get along. I have seen some growth in them, and in him, but this weekend has been about researching ideas to bring things together.


Dinner will be Chinese: I will be having shrimp in lobster sauce over shrimp fried rice. Not sure what the guys will be having, but everyone is excited for the meal!

Share a Quilt Square or just "What's for Dinner?"

 

[SlipperySlope]

I just put the chicken legs in the oven and will sauce them later with homemade bbq sauce. I'll also fix oven baked mac & cheese and steamed asparagus. I'm making extra for leftovers. I don't cook as much as I used to so I tend to do 2-3 meals at a time now.

 

[Dozdoats]

Another lazy cook leftover day. Taco salads with black bean and lentil chili

Beautiful Carolina Sunday, a little cool and breezy. Good crowd at church this AM and again, lots of kids.

 

[moldy]

Not sure what dinner will be - lunch is home canned hamburger soup and cresent rolls.

 

[greysage]

Probably going to fry some 80% beef hamburger with chopped onion, fresh garlic, add some black beans, topped with cheese, and a drizzle of hot sauce and ketchup. Accompanied by a large cold glass of whole White milk.

ETA: It was good.

 

[mzkitty]

It is another rainy and overcast weekend, to my chagrin! God help me, I love it so much. Perfect for a good movie, and getting things done.

Today has been about prepping for a new little autistic boy who has joined my class. He is a sweet little one, but loves conflict, and thrives on getting other children to run from him. As with most autistic children, his social skills are not very good. He is just playing, but the rest of the children are not understanding. We are working on them realizing that he is different in a good way, and learning how to get along. I have seen some growth in them, and in him, but this weekend has been about researching ideas to bring things together.


Dinner will be Chinese: I will be having shrimp in lobster sauce over shrimp fried rice. Not sure what the guys will be having, but everyone is excited for the meal!

Share a Quilt Square or just "What's for Dinner?"

I don't know how you do it, Peggy. Your patience must be infinite.



It's sort of cloudy and 80 degrees here today, but I think rain is up for a lot of the week. At least it's warm rain.

I think I'll just make spaghetti with meat sauce for dinner, and I have a box of Krusteaz Cinnamon Swirl coffee cake lurking.

 

[SouthernBreeze]

A beautiful, but cool and breezy day, today.

Our home fellowship crowd has just left. We always have a great time in fellowship and studying the Word every Sunday morning. We started a bit late, today, so we went a bit later than usual.

Since the weather is nice, Cary wants to add more brush to the huge burn pile/fire that we have going from a downed tree in our yard. I want to help, so that doesn't leave me much time to cook this afternoon. I have boneless pork chops laid out defrosting for our supper tomorrow night, though.

Tonight, we'll have carry out pizzas, which is our usual Sunday dinner, unless I am really in the mood to cook something, and have time. The little deli owners down the road always thinks something is wrong if we don't call in our usual order for pizzas every Sunday.

 

[coloradohermit]

Just easy hamburger, O'Brien potatoes and some pineapple slices.

 

[IRoberge]

I found some great meat deals at a couple different stores yesterday so I’ve been canning for two days. I finally was able to order a larger pressure canner but it won’t be here until Thursday. So I’m doing yesterday’s haul, 8 pint jars at a time. I might just bake off the last 8lbs of chicken leg quarters to use up during the week. We have officially run out of room in the two freezers, not that I am complaining. I’ll put the pork shoulder in the crock pot overnight and then freeze small portions of shredded pork. Hubby is not a fan of bbq pulled pork, so I’ll be researching recipes.

I’m going to let hubby decide what he wants to go with the baked chicken since he started his day in the ER getting his arm stitched up. He slipped down the basement stairs and into the fishing pole racks on the wall at the bottom. Caught his arm just so on one of the plastic hooks and he snapped it right of when it dug in and ripped his arm.

Thursday he broke a capped tooth and had to have oral surgery to get the rest of the broken bits and the post out. Poor guy has had a rough few days.

Praying this week is better.

 

[Signwatcher]

I thinking veggie "pigs" in a blanket. Sounds good ATM.

 

[AlaskaSue]

Just back from Utah where my mountain-climbing, incredibly fit, former Anchorage/Boulder PD son showed me a couple of his favorite recipes between our fun mountain adventures. I'm making a lovely cabbage/moose-burger soup today and enjoying being home in the north, which is just about to break into real spring-time weather. I only wish I still ate bread because I make a killer sourdough! <3

I love this thread and seeing what all of you are doing. Hope it's a wonderful, lovely week for ya! <3 <3

 

[Cardinal]

Having a rib-eye as I type, with sliced avocado and a few cherry tomatoes sprinkled with lemon juice and salt.
Desert will be home made coffee ice cream, sugar free, for the rest of my life cause I bought an ice cream maker!
Almost forgot, weather is sunny and warm, 70 degrees, not a cloud or chemtrail in the sky.

 

[Raggedyman]

sunny cool and a bit breezy this afternoon. Raggedyann is out shooting the spring landscape with her lady photography friends and I spent the afternoon cleaning up the picnic house.

tonight will be cut-from-the-butt pork steaks about 7/8 thick, cooked over apple and cherry wood, served with Raggedyanns homemade blueberry chipotle sauce, the first fresh sweet corn of the season from Florida (thanx Ingles) and a spinach salad.

 

[TerriHaute]

Fajitas in the slow cooker today for us. I had a bumper crop of bell peppers last year so I am trying to use up the freezer stash.

 

[nomifyle]

Ribs and a salad for DH and I'm doing an egg day.

God is good all the time

Judy

 

[zookeeper9]

Sunny and spring-like in Central Maryland today. What I had planned for dinner (chicken crescent rolls & broccoli) was put on hold because everyone was everywhere else today and wasn't supposed to be around. The menfolk were running a Knight of Columbus food drive this afternoon for the church's food pantry after which started right after the last Mass. One of my 21-year-olds was working a double shift at the Kohl's warehouse and the rest of the girls decided to spend the day with a friend they haven't seen in almost a year. The family showed up at Mass and it was an impromptu play date. They weren't scheduled to be home until after dinner.

It turns out everyone was home by 5. The menfolk had a much smaller food drive than normal, so everything was put away early. Kohl's warehouse was having some technical issues, so my daughter there said I am out of here. The four at their friends decided they were done and headed home.

I told them you all are on your own since I didn't make the planned dinner because you weren't supposed to be here. My oldest son (23) stepped up and is making spaghetti and meatballs with salad and garlic bread. Other than some timing guidance on when to start everything so it all finishes at the same time, he has this. The benefits of having a well-stocked pantry and freezer and training ALL the children how to cook at least simple meals.

I hope everyone had a great day!

 

[Barb]

Brunch instead of lunch today and I tried something new to me. My daughter in law brought some maple flavor sausage strips by Johnsonville. Pretty good.

 

[ReneeT]

Well, supper for me is about 1/4th of a ginormous cinnamon roll I bought yesterday when a group of cousins met at a restaurant. I did do better for lunch - or rather, Hubby did. He made salmon patties, mac and cheese, broccoli, and got out a jar of cinnamon applesauce to go with.

I worked outside most of the day - pulling weeds, cutting off dead branches, putting down mulch, and leveling out the soil in some of my raised beds. I'm think that if I'm smart, I'll probably take a couple of Ibuprofen before I go to bed tonight

 

[moldy]

Brunch instead of lunch today and I tried something new to me. My daughter in law brought some maple flavor sausage strips by Johnsonville. Pretty good.

Gotta admit those look pretty tasty on the commercials. I'm thinking dinner is going to be beer braised brats with mashed turnips, kraut and applesauce. And maybe cherry pie.

 

[annieosage]

Beautiful spring day here. DD and her bestie had a picnic at the park. They made a vegan charcuterie board

I had a late lunch/ early dinner of left over steak and chicken kabobs with zucchini, peppers, and red onion along with store bought macaroni salad. I've really been watching my carbs and sugar this week so also treated myself to a nice loaf of bread made in the Dutch oven. Dessert was fresh strawberries and bananas cut up with sugar free whipped cream. Will most likely be dinner tomorrow too and maybe even Tuesday.

 

[rafter]

Made chicken noodle casserole yesterday. Today is leftovers.

 

[WalknTrot]

A schizophrenic day here in N MN. Started out 60 and sunny, but a creeping mess is dropping down out of Canada, and this afternoon, it turned cold, windy and rain. Made porketta steaks and veg kabobs on the BBQ for lunch. Supper was simple leftover chicken n' gravy on a shingle...perfect comfort food for the colder temps.

 

[marsh]

My middle grandson came over and helped me clean the gutters. Good lad. I asked him directly yesterday when picking him at baseball. Much better results than asking his parents - lol. Now I can rake the front garden, fertilize the roses and dump some mulch chips on it.

Hot today - 85 degrees F

Dinner is Costco Lasagna and salad.

 

[MaisieD]

Hubs made Sam the cooking guy's version of the McDonald's filet o fish sandwich. It was awesome and I hate fish. And we had oven fries and salad. Accompanied by a nice chardonnay.
Have a happy week!

 

[AlfaMan]

We got in from Roanoke, VA a few hours ago. We have been at the Happy Trails cowboy/faith based movie convention there since Thursday. Wife was assistant to Dreema Denver, Bob Denver's (Gilligan of the Gilligan's Island tv show) wife. It was a great time; came home after church services and lunch at the church (Community church of Salem, VA sponsored the event). The church ladies kept everyone well fed all weekend, and it was fun hanging out with all the stars and church folk. All the proceeds of the event go to the American cancer society, and it was a success.
After all the groceries we've been fed all weekend (ladies at the church put on one fantastic spread after another. And real deal homemade banana pudding Friday night-slice of heaven there folks!) dinner tonight was a cup of ramen noodles. That's all, nothing else would fit in our stomachs!

Hope everyone has a great week!

 

[Walrus Whisperer]

I eat late, so thinking about what I might want for dinner. I spent a couple hours in the duckling pen, they are really hinky so I didn't manage to get them at an age where they weren't afraid of me. They are khaki campbells, look like they are maybe 2 weeks old. I held each one for a while and one kept trying to bite my hand. Too young to do any damage, I let him keep pulling my ancient hand skin. It was pretty funny. Doesn't take much to amuse me! They are scheduled to be roast duck when they get feathered
out.
My neighbor saw me transferring them into the pen, he's never had ducks, was questioning why I was holding each by their neck. I told him that that is how you hold young ducklings, doesn't hurt them at all, looks bad, but that's an approved way to transport one.
I'm thinking I mite just open a can of chili for dinner.

 

[Siskiyoumom]

It is another rainy and overcast weekend, to my chagrin! God help me, I love it so much. Perfect for a good movie, and getting things done.

Today has been about prepping for a new little autistic boy who has joined my class. He is a sweet little one, but loves conflict, and thrives on getting other children to run from him. As with most autistic children, his social skills are not very good. He is just playing, but the rest of the children are not understanding. We are working on them realizing that he is different in a good way, and learning how to get along. I have seen some growth in them, and in him, but this weekend has been about researching ideas to bring things together.


Dinner will be Chinese: I will be having shrimp in lobster sauce over shrimp fried rice. Not sure what the guys will be having, but everyone is excited for the meal!

Share a Quilt Square or just "What's for Dinner?"

Do you know explicitly where your student falls on the spectrum? Does he have IEP services such as occupational therapy? What does he love? Yes, as a teacher it can be frustrating to address sped students often unique social emotional needs. Bless you as you find strategies to work out the best educational interventions for him.

 

[Siskiyoumom]

I made noodle, bell pepper, garlic, onion and chicken casserole with a white cheesy sauce. Hubby made a nice green salad. 91 degrees today. A huge unusual temperature for our area of Northern California for April. We finished getting the above ground pool/fire fighting water source set up and are slowly filling it up. Feeling very blessed.

 

[Seabird]

Do you know explicitly where your student falls on the spectrum? Does he have IEP services such as occupational therapy? What does he love? Yes, as a teacher it can be frustrating to address sped students often unique social emotional needs. Bless you as you find strategies to work out the best educational interventions for him.

I teach in a private school, and my little one landed in my class due to the pandemic. I am ESE certified and he does have an IEP, but it has not been shared with me. There is too much stimuli in my classroom with 24 very active children, and the room tends to be very loud due to lack of sound absorbing materials because of fire laws. He should not be in this situation, but that will likely not be addressed until the fall semester. I believe the Lord puts children into my life for a reason, so I will keep loving them through each day. Thank you for asking. I appreciate the input.