We got some on sale and we both liked them. This week I made Easy Red Lentil soup. It had cumin and cayenne pepper so was quite spicy and warm. Another soup to add to the rotation.
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We got some on sale and we both liked them. This week I made Easy Red Lentil soup. It had cumin and cayenne pepper so was quite spicy and warm. Another soup to add to the rotation.
I am not a cook, but I really love making soup, and I'm pretty good at it, if I do say so myself. Today we're on Day 3 of a locally-sourced, grass-fed roast: day 1, regular meat and potatoes; day 2, "stew"; and day 3, barley, mushroom, beef soup.Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetana3
I feel good about myself because DH is a great cook, but I definitely know more than he does about soup.
Catherine’s mention of roast remind me that earlier this week I put a pork shoulder roast in the oven. I’m trying to use up things in our freezer so we will have fewer things to move. It was a little overdone, reminding me of my mothers Sunday roasts that were always overdone which reminds me why I never put roasts in the oven. When I cook hunks of meat it’s usually in the slow cooker.
My brother and I laugh about our mothers Sunday roast and how nearly inedible they were.
I can't remember if your mother has English/Scottish/Irish ancestry but my MIL also cooked the heck out of her roasts. When she would order steaks in restaurants and they asked her how she'd like it she always said "cremated."Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
I tried it tonight. I like it. Thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rogar
That's me! I like my meats "very" well-done! LOL.Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
A tabletop spiralizer is easy to use and may be a good investment for you???Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
Chicken kabobs yesterday and made twice baked potatoes that will be topped today with bbqed pulled pork and steamed fresh green beans on the side.
Received a gift card to a favorite Korean restaurant so the entire family is finally able to get together tonight and go! I'm being "mom excited" just to have everyone together.
No but thanks. I’m will pay for somebody else to do that work.Quote:
Originally Posted by frugal-one
Well, my "mom excited" has been diminished. One of the children is suffering the effects of their booster shot, so will not be joining us. Still proceeding with the dinner, as it has been too long and too hard to schedule a get-together with the other child and SO. I'll take what I can get!
Enjoy your outing using your gift card, Happy stuff.
Supper was leftover roast beef with vegetables and strawberries (from last summer) and cream for dessert. it was so good. I think about going more vegetarian and then taste really good roast beef. I am inching in that direction though even if I never completely arrive there.
Pesto pizza with garden pesto stored in the freezer. Onion, red pepper, and black olive toppings.
Spinach and bean quesadillas.
Greek recipe for cut up chicken breasts with lemon, garlic and olive oil - ok there are 1000 variations of cooking chicken with these ingredients, but it was just so so, this recipe. Served with chard and with rice which were also not terribly exciting. It was okay.
I don't go out to eat at restaurants now (I often cook anyway but just saying it's off the table so to speak), unless it was outdoors, don't invite anyone over but bf. Because omicron surge >:(
I made chicken tenders in a lovely sauce with turmeric, ginger, cayenne, garlic, flour, lemon juice, bullion, and olives. After baking it it was way too spicy (think it was that I chopped the garlic rather than leave it whole) added heavy cream and voila- perfect. I happened to have the lemon and heavy cream from a Christmas recipe. Very happy!
I made a small brisket in my pressure cooker last night using this recipe: https://www.myjewishlearning.com/the...t-pot-brisket/
I'll reheat it this evening and boil some small potatoes and roast some asparagus.
Venison round steak, marinated and broiled. It was delicious with Vermont Cheddar Idahoan instant mashed potatoes and salad. Looking to have more venison from my sister and brother and law!
Sounds great! I haven't had venison in many years!Quote:
Originally Posted by nswef
I was just talking to DH the other day about wild game and how to get some. I don't know anyone anymore who hunts. I would love to get ahold of some venison, or duck, or pheasant. My ex and I used to hunt together many moons ago, and now I don't even own a shotgun.
I don’t know about the rest of your mother’s cooking but my mom was capable of cooking good food from scratch but rarely did so. She’d grown up in a small town in the 30s/40s and when she moved to the big city discovered the center section of the grocery store. She’s been gone 16 years but my sister and I still laugh about some of the things she thought were great. Salsbury steak TV dinners anyone!? 😃Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
My mother wasn't particularly interested in cooking--what she made was always palatable--but I used to joke that she had a rotating menu of about five meals--typical fifties' fare. Steak, fried chicken, fish, a baked potato and vegetable. She'd have much rather been stripping furniture or trimming her rose bushes than cooking. I come from a line of adamantly non-domestic women.
We used to have canned vegetables with dinner every night and canned fruit as "dessert". One day when I was maybe 13 or 14, to express my annoyance, I removed all the labels from the cans of veggies in the cabinet. (my point being that they were all equally bad and it didn't matter what we had on any given night). My message was completely missed because my mom thought it was great fun that we would be having "mystery veggies" every night for dinner for the next month.
I think part of the reason mom liked the packaged food was that it was easy to have dinner on the table at EXACTLY 5:30 on weeknights and 6:00 on Saturday*. The box would tell you exactly how long it needed to sit in the oven so she just had to work backwards.
*sunday was her "day off". She was a housewife but on sunday she didn't do any chores and didn't cook dinner. Either my dad went out to get mcdonalds or some other fast food or we went out to a sit down restaurant of some sort.
Chicken! (Picked up a two pack of whole chickens from Aldi's this week. Put one in the cp to cook overnight and have the second one in the cp now. Will do the normal picking clean, saving broth, etc.) Not sure what I'll make with it, but chicken and dumplings is sounding really good in the cold spell we are in. Or just some easy chicken soup.
We are having a seriously cold day with brilliant sunshine so not complaining as my walk with dog was enjoyable with the right clothing to break the wind chill. But will make some split pea soup for supper with leftovers for tomorrow. Nothing better than a solid soup on a cold day.
Finger food: sharp cheddar, truffle cheese, deli turkey and salami, olives, and marinated artichoke hearts.
Eggplant parmesan casserole and salad
Oh yeah Salsberry steak was a thing back then. And salmon patties —how I hate salmon patties. The salmon of course was ground up salmon from a can.Quote:
Originally Posted by JaneV2.0
my mom always bemoaned her cooking skills, and unfortunately that mindset is kind of come with me, and I’ve learned more about cooking from my husband than I ever learned from from my parents.. But I also know that my cooking skills are entirely mediocre because I have friends who are super good cooks.
My mother was a good, functional cook. I think most women in the 50s and 60s were that. (jp, your stories of your mother really hit home). This is how it went down for my mother and MIL:
My MIL: same weekly routine: one night mince, one night stew, one night chicken, one night fish 'n chips, Saturday night out to eat at Le Gai Penguin in White Plains--everyone got steak of course.
My mother: unfortunately all too often when she was dealing with my dad, dinner was cereal or eggs. She wouldn't eat with us, and of course, neither would he. But when she remarried, she orchestrated a nightly routine that coincided with my stepfather's return home from his job as a draftsman at an asbestos plant nearby. DH actually thought we were "rich" because I told him that our Friday fish night, as Catholics, was swordfish. To him that was "la-di-dah"--but it was just normal to us. We certainly weren't rich.
My mom was actually a good cook, especially considering the size of the meals she had to make AND try to please everyone! The "try to please everyone" ended up meaning the meals were bland/unseasoned as we all had to do our own seasoning to our own tastes. The result being that I tend to do the same and everyone must season their own portions - LOL. The other result is that I always ended up cooking LARGE meals, but leftovers have never really gone to waste. I am learning to scale back and use spices. Always something to learn. :)
At our house, fried chicken was a special event and was not weekly. That might have as much to do with the trouble it took and mess to cook it as how much it cost.
Fish and chips? Well we had fish sticks. That was what we were allowed with fish and the pre-mentioned salmon patties. All perfectly awful.
I see small children these days seemingly endlessly eating little chicken nuggets and I wonder if they will grow up with any palette at all.
I remember the first time I had fried rice from a food booth at a international fair type place. It was a revelation. It was probably the onion in the garlic that got to me and I’ve been a huge fan ever since. I certainly can’t blame my mother for not having food in her repertoire that vaguely resembles Third World, but did everything have to be so bland?
Oh wait, I do remember occasional Saturday night spaghetti nights where she used hot peppers in the sauce and that was sublime!
Mother made spaghetti occasionally, too--she got the recipe from our neighbor at the beach (Thank you Mrs. Barr!) Onions, garlic, green peppers, garlic bread...Like you said, sublime. I've been wary of bland food ever since.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
My mother worked full time while I was growing up so there were quick but odd meals influenced by her Depression era upbringing. Pinto or lima beans on white bread with ketchup. Chipped beef from a jar on toast. A bowl of hot white rice with butter, sugar and milk. In the 60s-70s lots of Friday fish sticks with mac n' cheese.
Rice with soy sauce, garlic powder, and onion powder.
OMG! My mom used to make chipped beef on toast! The jar of beef was torn into pieces, added to a homemade white sauce and served over toast. I actually loved it! Made it for my kids and they liked it as well. I haven't thought of that in decades! Thanks for the memory reminder. LOL.Quote:
Originally Posted by pinkytoe
I hated the creamed chipped beef on toast, but I loved those little jars the beef came in as wildflower vases. :)
If memory serves, mom used them as orange juice glasses. Too funny!Quote:
Originally Posted by herbgeek
Edited to add: It was in a military mess hall that I first saw creamed beef on toast made with actual ground beef (at least, that is what I think it was - lol). It looked so different from mom's that I never tried it. LOL
Dinner update: Tonight will actually be spaghetti squash casserole.
Haven't thought about that in a while but it was a breakfast staple when I routinely ate in mess halls. I really can't say whether they used ground beef in it, my gut says no but I may be wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by happystuff
I think they actually may have had it available at every meal. :0! When I pulled mess duty, they actually put me on the door - never back in the kitchen or on the line. Yes, I was VERY lucky! But I did look it all over. Interesting choices. LOL.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan