That sounds really, really good. Did you make it? Recipe?Quote:
Originally Posted by pinkytoe
Printable View
That sounds really, really good. Did you make it? Recipe?Quote:
Originally Posted by pinkytoe
okay----I'm not necessarily having this for supper, but I wanted to mention that at the deep-discount damaged salvage reclaimed grocery store, they have these gallon-sized bottles o' hot sauce, made in old Mexico for just $3.99. Well, I use a lotta hot sauce anyway in those littlbitty bottles for $1.29 or whatever, so I figured I'd by the gallon, and open it just to refill small bottles and keep it refrigerated till I use it up or it doesn't taste fresh. But yeah--label says it has preservatives. So, that's good. I will let you know when I've used it all up. Yup.
Made an awesome jambalaya today.
Tomato sandwiches
Turkey sandwiches and apple pie.
I have been extremely delinquent in cooking dinner lately. May just do a simple pasta and meatballs for tonight.
okay------maybe I shoulda had "lockered beef" or "iowa chops" fer dinner(it's the American Way) or maybe a "Rorisserie Chickikkin', but instead, I had rice with littlebittybits of vegetables mixed in. Yup.
Busy day already so I threw together a chicken stew in the crockpot. Will only have to thicken and season. Also have some sourdough rolls rising.
okay----more rice. What the majority of the world has for supper.
96 peppers require stuffing (well many of them.)
Attachment 6059
That's a lot of peppers/stuffed peppers!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
Dinner is zucchini patties/burgers and left over corn on the cob.
It has been a "food prep" day. I've had fresh product sitting on my kitchen table all week. Well, today was the day. I have two different cauliflower dishes, roasted broccoli, more zucchini patties in the freezer, two different squash soups in the freezer, used up bananas and made oatmeal banana bars (half in the freezer), homemade sourdough rolls and cucumber salad. I think that is everything - LOL. Feels good not to have this stuff sitting and rotting. (sadly that is what usually happens.) So, I'm starting the week with several dishes/side dishes ready to just reheat.
Did I mention I'm really tired? :laff:
Bravo Happy Stuff! Last night we had jarred alfredo sauce over Italiamo tricolor Fusilli Pugliesi from Lidl grocery store. It was the best pasta for the Alfredo we've had. It absorbs the sauce. I put cut up chicken sausage sund fried tomato in mine, husband had his plain. We were both quite satisfied.
Thanks, nswef. And Yum on the Alfredo sauce. Way back when - when I had occasion to have a meal alone, I would sometimes buy a jar of alfredo sauce, add some mushrooms and eat it with some good italian or french bread. For me that was very decadent. LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by nswef
Not dinner. At least not tonight. But I got 12 lbs of tomatoes from our favorite farmer and turned them into paste. Maybe 1 1/2 pounds of it? I'll freeze it tomorrow in ice cube trays so that I can use small batches of it in pasta sauce and such as needed. Tastes sweeter and gentler than the canned stuff.
Tomorrow we'll be using it for dinner. Eggplant Parmesan. Made sauce from tomatoes from the same farmer a few weeks ago adding in garlic and some basil we've grown ourselves. Will use a bit of the paste to thicken the sauce.
The container is roughly 6"x6"x2"
Attachment 6082
Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
As I've never made tomato paste, I have to ask. How do you make it versus sauce? Just let it cook down more? It does look yummy!
Will be having a "cooking day" today and plan to make chicken and dumplings for dinner. Reserve for the week will be personal pizzas and maybe a bean soup I'll do up in the cp today.
You start the same way on the stove, but then after using the blender you transfer it to baking sheets in the oven. (I used 275 on the convection setting). The increased surface area and only indirect heat allow it to boil off water quickly but without burning. Took about 3 hours and only had to stir it every 45 minutes or so.Quote:
Originally Posted by happystuff
To keep it you add a little lemon juice and can freeze it. I'll do that today. New ice cube trays arrived yesterday.
Sometimes the simplest things are the best! Made tacos on tortilla chips.
Thanks! That sounds pretty easy.Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
chicken thighs Oven Fry mixed with 1/22 tsp of curry powder. Really good. Baked potato from the fruit stand.
A big vat of vegetable soup, so have lots of containers to go into the freezer, and dinner tonight as well. That's the only good thing about fall (well, other than the color of the trees), an excuse to make and eat lots and lots of soup!
I agree 100%!!! Love me some soup!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
I joined a soup Facebook page and every day there’s a delicious looking soup posted.
The only good soup I make is chicken noodle. I’ve learned to use odd bits of package ends of various kind of noodles and it makes it more interesting.
I bought a pasta making book and bought my daughter in law a pasta making attachment for her mixer for Christmas. I think I'll let her try it out, although I am tempted to get one for me now.
A food pantry in the area has a fundraiser every year featuring a meal composed of fixings from local restaurants - soup, sandwich, and dessert. The bag also contains a pottery bowl hand-made by a local potter (for the soup!). I will be going to pick up our meals and that will be dinner tonight. Yeah!
Chicken all’arrabbiata. A friend forwarded the recipe from The NY Times.
I am going to try a no churn ice cream recipe so guess that is what husband will be having for supper. I will try it, but chocolate ice cream is not really my thing. But it looked so cool, I wanted to give it a go, and then can branch out into other flavors if it works.
Sounds interesting! How did it turn out? If good - recipe?? LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
Just finished it and it will take 8 hours to chill. Not totally convinced it is going to work. Don't think I got enough volume in the whipped cream. But it's a cool experiment and if it works I will post recipe, which was from Country Living.
DH brought in a clump of red beets, the last of the season. I foolishly cooked them and made a salad of them and we ate them.
I said “foolish “because I should’ve use them to make borscht. I’ve been having a yen for even though I don’t really know how to make it, but there I had the main ingredient and didn’t take advantage.
Chocolate fudge ice cream was a hit and did turn out looking and feeling like ice cream.
Recipe:
1 14 oz can sweetened condensed milk
6 T dutch cocoa powder
2 t vanilla extract
1/4 t salt
2 c heavy cream
1/4 c brown sugar (I used dark because I like it but recipe called for light)
Whisk in a big bowl the condensed milk, cocoa, vanilla and salt. (do this by hand)
Whisk until stiff peaks the whipping cream with the brown sugar. (did this in my kitchenaid)
Whisk a third of the whipped cream mixture into the big bowl. Then fold in the other two thirds. (I did this by hand.)
Spoon it into a 9 x 7 pan. I bought a new pyrex one for this purpose because I thought it would be easy to clean and I don't like non stick metal pans but recipe showed a metal one.
Wait 8 hours.
We waited 9 and it was definitely ready. I tried it and liked it--extremely rich and I don't like chocolate ice cream that much but it was good--more like fudge than ice cream. Husband ate a big bowl. A little would go along way. It's back in the barn freezer so he can eat it as his leisure.
Want to try a vanilla now and a butter pecan, and maybe a mint chocolate chip or a peppermint chip for Christmas.
Thanks so much, Tybee. Sounds yummy and the recipe looks pretty easy!
Since we had thanksgiving at home, just the two of us, we have a lot of leftover turkey even though SO managed to find a bird that was only 12 1/2 lbs. I made broth from the carcass yesterday and today will use 6 cups of that for a Thai red curry turkey soup. Yesterday was turkey quesadillas.
I’m trying to come up with stuff more exciting than repeat repeat repeat thanksgiving dinner until it’s all gone. I would tolerate that but SO would be done tolerating it after a couple of days.
NPR had a feature today about making gumbo from the carcass. They said most people throw it away and made it sound pretty special for a gumbo stock.
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/30/nx-s1...ss-cajun-gumbo
What about just freezing turkey for later?Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
Have to admit one of my favorite things with leftover turkey is hot open face sandwiches with turkey and lots of gravy.
I’ll put whatever’s left on my salads this week for lunch. But wow. The soup was amazing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tradd
Went to the grocery store today and saw small fresh turkey breasts. They had no price so asked and was told I could have the 3 remaining for $3 each. I took one because I have no more room in my freezer. Such a deal!
Sounds like a win! Maybe I’ll go to the store tomorrow and see i can do as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by frugal-one
After ten days on the road and eating bad restaurant food now and then, I am ready to spend some time in the kitchen cooking from scratch again. Tonight, butternut squash curry on brown rice with salad.