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What's For Dinner Wednesday?
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We haven't had a WFDW in a while, so I thought I would see what everyone's been cooking up this week!
QOTW: Describe your favorite summer salad.
QOTW: Describe your favorite summer salad.
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Re: What's For Dinner Wednesday?
QOTW: I love a spinach salad with strawberries, blueberries, feta cheese and walnuts in the summer. With a little raspberry vinaigrette dressing - yum!
Me - 30, My wife - 31 , Together for 10 yrs - Married August 2012
5 medicated IUIs w/ RE (March - July 2013) = BFN
Fresh IVF Cycle in September 2013 resulted in 18 mature eggs, 16 fertilized, 12 made it to day 5. Transfer of 2 Grade A blastocysts on 9/15/13, and 10 embryos in the freezer! *****BFP on 9/25/13 - betas: @10dp5dt = 232; @12dp5dt = 465; @15dp5dt = 1,581 *********William George born June 4, 2014*********I did make these lentil tacos (with a few modifications) earlier in the week, which were pretty tasty (https://ohsheglows.com/2014/06/17/ultimate-green-taco-wraps-with-lentil-walnut-taco-meat-vegan-gluten-free/).
Last night we ate a roasted/grilled vegetable salad with seasoned chickpeas. Oh-my-yum. I've been roasting or grilling a lot if the veggies we have been getting from our CSA and combining with raw veggies and a veggie protein to make huge salads and they have been so good. Last night's salad had grilled eggplant, roasted potatoes, fresh vine and cherry tomatoes, cucumber, avocado, and seasoned chickpeas w/ this yummy vinagerette (Bobby Flay recipe) - so easy and so good:
1/4 cup red wine vinegar
1 tablespoon honey
1 tablespoon mustard
1/2 cup olive oil
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
QOTW: I think I described it above! I also love a good kale salad - this one is a favorite of mine - https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/aarti-sequeira/massaged-kale-salad-recipe.html
I think we'll have falafel's, hummus and tabouli for dinner tonight. I also have artichokes I want to cook, so maybe a couple of those as well (with yummy butter).
QOTW: OMG, my favorite thing is so simple - crab, avocado and preserved lemon salad on greens. It's so easy - 1/2 c. crab meat, 1/2 c. (or more) avocado, 1 tsp. tiny diced preserved lemon on top of your favorite salad greens lightly tossed with olive oil, salt and if you want a little vinegar. J just asked "when are we having crab avocado salad?" the other day, so it's on my list for this week!
Me (43) and J (45) - same sex couple. And we don't feel 40+!
June'12 - First RE Visit
Sept. '12 - Tubes removed
Dec. '12 - Donor Egg/Donor Sperm IVF Cycle - 4 good embies!
Dec. '12 - Fresh transfer, BFP! EDD 8/29/13
Mar. '13 - Missed m/c at 16w1d, baby boy stopped growing at 15w4d
Loss due to umbilical cord clot...baby was perfect.
Jul '13 - FET#1 - c/p
Sept. '13 - FET#2 - BFN
Dec.' 2, 2013 - FET#3 with our last chance embie - BFP!!!
Dec' 26, 2013 - hb!!
EDD 8/20/14 with a baby girl!
Little S was born on 8/21/14 - 8lb, 14 oz and 20 inches long.
We live in Seattle and used SRM for our donor egg IVF cycle
QOTD: I need to find a good dressing I like. But I love a salad with fruits and candied nuts.
Hot Dogs and KD.
You’re jealous… I know. :P
As for summer salad; I just love the staples.... My Dad’s homemade tuna macaroni salad and potato salad. I know they are not the leafy green salads, but they were the best, and always reminded me of summer.
I'm 35, DW is 33
Together since Dec 2007
Married since 18 June 2011
TTC #1
1st IUI - trigger, 9 July 14 at midnight, IUI - 11 July 14 at noon - BFP!!
10 Dec 14 - Lost our Baby Girl to Hydrops & Cycstic Hygroma due to Turner Syndrome
TTC #2
2nd IUI - hoping to try for our Rainbow in the Spring
Cheese on toast with (something green)) on the side
QOTW: Really basic side: Lettuce, s'corn, peppers (at least two colours) and cheese - sometimes we throw in some home made croutons. Funnily enough, I've never liked dressing on salad.
Me: 30 DW (aka C): 29
Together since 2/15/11 ~ Legally married in NY on 9/29/12
***CP mentioned***
We've been working on baby #1 since July 2013 using Open ID donor sperm. 8 IUI attempts with 5 actual IUIs and one chemical pregnancy. We have one fresh IVF cycle under our belts as well as a FET. I have endometriosis and a uterine septum that was corrected via surgery in November 2013.
11/14/14 - Second HSG shows that tubes are still clear and ute is looking good.
12/6/14 - Started BCPs in prep for IVF #2
12/22/14 - Saline u/s and endometrial scratch (All was clear and OUCH!)
1/2/15 - Began stimming for IVF #2
****All Welcome!****
We are Mommas to four fur babies - 3 dogs and 1 cat.
Ha. When I picked up the kids from camp, they were an exhausted, sweaty (the a/c on the field trip bus broke down and the heat index was 102 yesterday), starving mess. Rather than driving the 30m back home and then spending 30m making dinner, I took them (and me!) for burgers. I left the restaurant with much happier kids.