Tonight is just whole wheat spaghetti with spicy chicken sausage.
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Tonight is just whole wheat spaghetti with spicy chicken sausage.
We had a repeat of last night's dinner, which was from the One Pot cookbook my dad used. You put everything in a dutch oven. This one was a layer of turkey steaks, topped with cranberries mixed with marmalade, lemon juice, and walnuts. You pour chicken broth over that, then put sliced sweet potatoes, then green beans, then a sprig of sage. It is supposed to taste like Thanksgiving. While it didn't exactly, it sort of did and it was incredibly good. Every recipe we have tried from the book has been outstanding!
It's called Glorious One Pot Meals.
The chicken marbella is incredible, also the fish florentine.
I LOVE one pot meals! Thanks for the book title, Tybee!
What is a turkey steak? I don’t know where you would get that.
https://hannaford.gsnrecipes.com/Get...FHpxabNkVq/yOxQuote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
It was what they called it on the package at Hannafords. Basically slices of turkey breast but they looked like pork chops.
thank you. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen that in a store before.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
Tonight is a yes cook dinner since it only got up to 77 today so it won’t turn the house into an uncomfortable mess if we use the oven. SO is making a Mexican/Italian fusion pizza. We had a little bit of homemade pasta sauce in the fridge and a slightly larger amount of ranchero sauce (tomato and jalapeño sauce with some Mexican spices). He decided to combine the two and use that as the sauce for the pizza. I expect it will be delicious because I LOVE spicy stuff.
I actually felt like cooking today so I made a big bowl of my spicy Moroccan shrimp on couscous. More shrimp than usual as I finished up a bag. Man was that good. Only five minutes cooking time, so quick, too.
Vegetable eggrolls and mozzarella sticks. (Gifted and need to be eaten)
Just put some chicken and two cans of black beans into the crockpot - should be interesting. Have a head of cauliflower I can roast to go with it; maybe make some rice as well.
We have buckets of tomatoes rolling in which is great, so I’m cooking them down into tomato soup
and freezing that. Also, I’m freezing bags of tomatoes.
We had stuffed peppers for dinner a couple nights ago that included these things from our garden: peppers, tomatoes, onions. These were cooked with beef to stuff, the peppers, be from my brother in law’s farm. He raises a few beef cows along with his herd of goats.
Our growing season has been so slow because it hasn’t really been hot except a few days here and there. Our tomatoes are still green. Our neighbor finally harvested some and left three as a surprise yesterday! OMG the Caprese salad I made with one was amazing! Since it’s hot today we have a friend coming over and we’re just going to grill some turkey burgers and make another Caprese salad with the remaining tomatoes.
Beans and greens with fried lima beans and spinach. Finally a cool day for some real cooking. It was a first time around for this and it was pretty good. It probably would do well with more garlic and some red pepper flakes.
Weather here in early summer was so cool that everything in the garden is going to be late and sparse.
Bought some green chiles since mine aren't growing well. Smoked 'em on the pit along with some chicken and made stacked enchiladas with both. Served with cilantro lime rice and salad.
Corn from the farmstand and our first potatoes.
Bacon and eggs, Earl Grey tea.
Neighbor just gave us 4 more tomatoes! Another delicious Caprese salad is on the menu tonight.
DH is so good at creatively figuring out how to use what we have. We started with chicken thighs, which he deboned, and then rolled them up with sprigs of rosemary from my garden, and garlic and onion powder. Then he put them in muffin tins and baked them for 40 minutes. Meanwhile he sautéed zucchini and squash from the garden and added stewed tomatoes left over from breakfast and added a little jar tomato sauce. I cooked spaghetti. It was delicious.
Tonight is tilapia filets since they looked great and were half price at the store today. Most of the online recipes to pan fry them are the generic salt/pepper/flour and then fry, finished with lemon juice and butter, variety. Which is fine. One of the comments suggested adding parmesan cheese to the flour. That sounds like a great idea so I will try that! Side dish of steamed cauliflower that we need to use up and we’re good to go.
Frozen pizza tonight. I'm too tired for anything else.
Ice cream cones at the farmstand.
My kind of dinner!! Enjoy!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
Fabulous Fried Rice from the Seeds of Change website.... excellent!
Summer hours have ended and this is my last Friday off, so a little bit special dinner. Put some wings in the cp. Will take them out later, put some BBQ sauce on them and bake them, along with some roasted cauliflower and maybe some wheat berries.
Tonight... I have no idea! :laff:
Chicken in a Korean sauce with rice and Brussels sprouts.
I'm trying to stop exaggeration. I believe exaggeration is the culprit of most things. I believe most things aren't really bad, you just overdo them. If you're going to eat chicken, eat a little bit of chicken, so tomorrow, you won't be bored with chicken. I have to start eating less, I eat mostly vegetables and organic things, still, I don't lose weight.
Ice cream again since our favorite stand by the lake is only open through Monday. Agh! They close the stands so early here, compared with Michigan.
There are melon growers not a huge distance away and my local produce market has yellow watermelons, seedless, small personal watermelons, and regular ones. I have an opinion that regular seeded are the best, but got seedless due to the mess. They also have honey dew mellows canary melons, and possibly a few others I've missed. Locally grown and shipped near ripe with some traces of a bit of field dirt. I got the traditional cantaloupes. So I'll be having melon with two meals a day for a while. My dad had a way of determining watermelon quality using a finger thumping method I've never quite understood, but part of the melon choosing ritual.
Just got one of those Rocky Ford watermelons and it is quite good. Din tonight is smoked spareribs, sweet potatoes and spinach salad. The garden is yielding an enormous amount of cucumbers and summer squash so trying to eat some of those every night.
I also scored on a couple bags of roasted chilis, some organic Palisade peaches, local sweet corn, and a couple of Grand Junction tomatoes since my garden tomatoes are puny due to the cool spring and early summer. I do have a bumper garden crop of eggplant and and good bunch of peppers. It's a good season for eating. Being mostly off meat the variety is refreshing.Quote:
Originally Posted by pinkytoe
Dinner is grilled tomato, cheese and green chili sandwich, sweet potato fries, and melon.
I made Butternut squash soup and what seems like the 100th batch of spaghetti sauce. I am very close to giving away tons of tomatoes, I cannot keep up! It has been a banner year for tomatoes, and quite decent year for peppers. i have stuff a bunch of green peppers.
I have a bazillion tomatillos so I guess we'll be making green salsa. I didn't expect them to be so prolific.
Cornish game hen with garlic, lemon, olive oil. Served with this zucchini dish: https://www.olivetomato.com/one-pot-...zucchini-rice/
I bought a crockpot after a friend wrote an article about crock pot shredded chicken for the food network with the idea that you cook up a couple of chicken breasts on Sunday and then use it all week for various things. We didn’t do that but we did cook up a bunch of Drumsticks with some garlic, onions, carrots, potatoes and spices. A good friend is coming for dinner in a few minutes. It smells fantastic and SO says the chicken is falling off the bone so I think we have a winner.
We also have more of old lady neighbor’s tomatoes since she still is t home to eat them and they keep getting ripe. So I made another Caprese salad.
Putting a chickpea soup in the crockpot.
Nice idea on the shredded chicken! We tend to use dark meats, too, because they are more flavorful.Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
My DS has a great recipe for shredded pork--you put the pork shoulder in the pot with a can of Dr. Pepper, I think... can't remember which soft drink he uses! It comes out great! then you can just finish it off with your favorite barbecue sauce.
I make bone broth in the crockpot all the time. I love making a good broth or stock from bone marrow bones, oxtails, and with a couple of short ribs thrown in... When it is done and has chilled, I LOVE how gelatanous it gets!! I just believe it has to be SO much healthier than boxed broth. It's a super base for so many soups an stews.
Chicken and rice.
This reminds me of “proposal chicken” a recipe sworn to bring a proposal from one’s boyfriend for the poor ladies waiting for such on The Wedding Bee.Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
Put a whole chicken in the crock pot with…was it Pepsi? Some kind of soft drink anyway. Cook. Service to boyfriend. He proposes.Everyone lives happily ever after.
I hope you meant serve to boyfriend?