So...whats for dinner?
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Minus, your post reminded me of the end of the movie "Christmas Story". :-)
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A little Thanksgiving humor
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Sounds perfect to me Minus.
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Can't remember who was looking for something creative with pork. I cut out this recipe and think it sounds good. Bourbon Roasted Pork Loin from Parade.
Cut a shallow crosshatch pattern in a top layer of fat on a 3 lb boneless pork loin roast - taking care not to cut into the meat. Mix 1/4 cup bourbon, 1/4 cup grainy mustard (preferably French such as Maille), 2 Tbsp brown sugar, 2 Tbsp honey, 1 tsp fine sea salt, 1 tsp siracha & freshly ground pepper to taste. Rub over pork, covering all sides. Set aside while the oven pre-heats (or put in a covered container and refrigerate up to 8 hours - then let stand at room temp 30 min before cooking.
Preheat oven to 400 with rack in center. Heat 2 Tbsp olive oil in a Dutch oven or other heavy high sided ovenproof casserole. Add 2 medium onions thinly sliced, and 2 apples such as Gala or Fugi, unpeeled, cored and cut in 6 pcs each. Season w/ S&P. Cook stirring regularly 10 minutes until onions are translucent & apples are starting to soften. Center roast, fat side up, on top of apples & onions. Pour in any remaining rub & liquids that have accumulated.
Roast pork uncovered 45-55 minutes, basting a couple of times until meat thermometer registers 135-140 degrees F. Let roast stand a few minutes before slicing & serving with onions, apples & pan juices.
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mommyof2 I laughed out loud 😂😂 !!
Minus Chinatown sounds like great fun!
Happy Thanksgiving to all!
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Yes, Nance, Sikeston is the town. Dh and I cash all three of our free drinks for one cocktail, martini or old-fashion. We have to help the “bartender” with the drink making procedure.
Happy Thanksgiving 🦃 to all.
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Happy thanksgiving to all y'all! Thankful for you!
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Happy Thanksgiving to all.
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Chinese Thanksgiving at the East Wall. It's BYOB so I took a bottle of 1000 Stories Zinfandel. The corkage fee was $1.00 - yup, one - but only my nephew & I imbibed. More than full.
Seaweed soup with white fish & Cilantro - and tofu - couldn't find a good replica since most recipes I saw had egg drop, but close enough
Ginger Chicken - Imperial Princess Chicken with ginger & green onion shoots (really poached whole Cantonese chicken chopped up in hunks w/bones, skin, etc.)
Bean leaves (stir fry w/garlic & onion) - "In the Orient leaves from the long bean are frequently used in curries, stir fries and soups. The taste is described as similar to arugula with an undertone of citrus."
Triple mushroom stir fry - with pea shoots (button, shiitake & oyster mushroom. Pea shoots were like broccoli)
Curry rice vermicelli w/BBQ pork strips - Singapore style noodles
Honey walnut Shrimp
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Wow. I guess everyone is still in the throes of a turkey coma.
DD had to work yesterday and she is heading right into final exam-term paper-final presentation "season", so we'll have a 2nd Thanksgiving (that the semester is over?) dinner when she can be here.
So, yesterday it was Sharon, MIL and myself. I found a 9-1/2 pound turkey and baked it. The side dishes, mashed garlic potatoes, sourdough dinner rolls, cubed baked butternut squash, stuffing, cranberries and homemade pumpkin pie were all done in tiny amounts to avoid a huge quantity of left overs.0 -
Oh Eric, the leftovers are the best part. That's the only thing I miss with the Chinese dinner.
A friend told me there is a turkey breast that you bake frozen in the bag for 2-1/2 hours and it comes out deliciously moist. I need to find out more.
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It is "planned overs" for the six of us tonight. I roasted two 4.3 pound turkey breasts, made smaller amounts of gluten free and regular dressing, raw and cooked cranberry sauces, sweet and white potato gratin, purple sweet potato casserole, store bought rolls(I'm less likely to eat them than ones I make!) and green salad with pumpkin walnut and pumpkin pie for dessert. Clearly enough for repeats!
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I noticed the recommendations for the "cook to" temperature for turkey has been reduced from 185F degrees to 165F degrees. I did this turkey to 170F degrees and it made a huge difference in the meat's quality.
I do miss the left overs, but perhaps not having so many left overs will help with me not having to run so much to keep my weight at least constant. :-)
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We had a fun day, but I’m tired! I undecorated the fall stuff and started the Christmas stuff - only got as far as the trees up, unadorned except for lights on the big one I cooked my sides on Wednesday, for the most part, along with two larger turkey breasts - one for us and one for our friends. Yesterday I did the dressing, a 15 lb turkey, did the mashed potatoes (with butter, cream cheese, and half and half - don’t tell!!!) and then put them on warm in the crockpot (whoever provided that hack is a genius!), and then made pan gravy in the big turkey roasting pan. I have now realized standing non-stop and cooking for two days is harder every year! The saving grace was I got to hold our friends newest grandson, one month old, while everyone did the dishes!
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Anybody still as full as I am? Lunch was less than a cup of leftover Singapore Noodles. Dinner was a cup of corn nuts.
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For the first time in a very long time I ate the Thanksgiving dinner like a sane person...and not like our Yellow Lab dog. :-)
Now that it's "cold" (for Phoenix), I go running in the late afternoon when it's in the low 60F degree range and that seems to make me less hungry for several hours. So, I'm blaming my not being hungry for dinner on the running.
I'm not sure what is for dinner tonight. Right now the oven is busy with being a warm spot for the sourdough. I leave the oven light on and it keeps the oven warm enough to make "everything happy". In another hour or so, the dough will be ready to put into loaf pans and go through the 2nd rise. The 2nd rise takes about 2 hours and there is about 30 minutes baking time, so we will have warm bread for whatever dinner we cook.
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Dinner last night was Kroger Private Selection Petite Potatoes with Hatch Chile Ranch dressing. Served with Nolan Ryan prime beef patty sauteed in butter and two glasses of Mina Mesa Cabernet Sauvignon from Paso Robles.
Tonight might be salad. But it's cold so it might be macaroni & butter. I just can't get excited about cooking - or eating for that matter.
Interesting Eric that the running seems to divert your hunger. Oh am I jealous of the sourdough.
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That sourdough does sound delicious Eric. Great accompaniment to any meal.
Tonight we has Sausage Tortellini with Rao's three cheese sauce and a mixed green salad. Today was busy so I told the hubby he'd have the promised beef burgundy or stew on Wednesday.
Macaroni and butter sounds delicious to me if I were not trying to up my protein intake!
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Eric, yummy for the sourdough!
Tonight was our standard homemade pizza for the two of us. DS1 and his family are off for a couple of days visiting DS2's family.
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I used the Instant Pot to make turkey stock over the weekend, and used that to make Rick Bayless' Sopa Azteca, a light, brothy version of tortilla soup. We had that for dinner last night and there's enough to have it another night this week.
Tonight will be leftover turkey and stuffing, with shredded brussels sprouts on the side.
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We've been turkeying a lot here too. Sunday night was omelets but last night was Saturday's leftover turkey chopped up and mixed in with the gravy, served over the leftover mashed potatoes and dressing. Leftover green bean casserole and cranberry chutney added color. Tonight, the turkey breast carcass is going into turkey and noodles. The whole bird carcass is in the freezer. There is enough leftover turkey for tonight and a package frozen for a future pot pie. The rest went home with the kids. Eric, where do you find those little turkeys?!? I got a 12½ pound one and that was a miracle.
Tomorrow I'm venturing out to finish Christmas shopping. I've managed to do a lot of it locally and a fair amount online. Just need a few small things which shouldn't be a problem. It's supposed to be a beautiful day tomorrow in the 50s so I'll take advantage of it. The hardest thing will be not spending on myself. I'm not in a holiday frame of mind but I'm in a redecorating frame of mind so as my DH says, I'm "on the hunt." (My best shopping bud's DH refers to our outings as a "safari" lol.)
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It (the tiny turkey) was "just there". It looked like the turkey selection was fully picked over and all that was left was the 9-1/2 pound turkey and ones in the 23-25 pound range.
I, too, made turkey stock (broth?) and put it in the refrigerator so I can skim the fat off...except the fat layer was nearly non-existent. So, the next step is the canning phase. Tomorrow, when I get the Christmas stuff out of storage, the pressure canner will be coming out as well.
I keep forgetting to get a picture of the dogs sitting by the oven door when I'm baking sourdough. When Jessiecat was alive, he would also join them by the oven. I never could decide if they were guarding the bread or hoping they could open the oven door and run off with the bread.
I use the Bluebird brand flour (the favorite flour among the Navajo Fry-Bread makers), which comes in 5 pound and 20 pound cloth sacks. I've been getting it in the 5 pound sacks, as that amount fits easily into a repurposed 1 gallon glass pickle jar. I'm using 4 pounds of flour per week and the 20 pound bag is only twice as much money as the 5 pound bag. So, yet another errand on my list is to find a container that will hold a bit more than 20 pounds of flour.
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Eric- your bread sounds so good! Glad the running is allowing you to eat it.
It is chilly and windy here. Made a big pot of chicken noodle soup on Monday and have been having it for lunch so far this week.
Roasted chicken thighs with carrots, potatoes, onions, turnips and parsnips last night. We had that and a tossed salad for supper. Made enough to have again tomorrow night. Tonight will be lasagna from Olive Garden that my sister brought by with more of the tossed salad.
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Dinner was Rao's sauce with sour cream added and Flame Broiled Meatballs from Trader Joe's. Last time I opened a bottle of Raos I split in thirds and froze two portions. Just the right amount for a meal and the rest of the bottle doesn't get moldy sitting in the back of the fridge until I'm in the mood for pasta sauce again. The meatballs come in a package of 12, so that's four meals of 4 for me.
My BFF raved about the Jennie-O Frozen Turkey Breast that her Thanksgiving hostess cooked. It goes directly from freezer to oven and cooks in less than 3 hours. Plenty of pan juices to make your own gravy so they didn't use the enclosed packet. Seems like an ingenious way to get turkey for sandwiches or salads or soups if you live alone. And/or had an alternative meal like I did.
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We arrived home yesterday afternoon. Everything was ok. We unpacked and were settled in our chairs, enjoying HOME, by cocktail time. Dinner was a take out pizza with thin crust. I overruled dh's plan for Subway.
Tonight will be a home-cooked meal, possibly pork tenderloin with baked sweet potatoes. It is so good to be back home.
DH made a bunch of Christmas ornaments so I guess we will put up a Christmas tree. Not a big venture since we have a skinny tree in the attic.
I saw on the news that people do not wish to keep about 50 per cent of Christmas presents. Really makes you want to get out there and buy Christmas presents, said my Scrooge inner person.
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Carole - I know you're glad to be home. It would be fun to see some of your DH's ornaments if you could post a picture. I agree about only 50% of Christmas gifts being keepers. I'm moving more & more towards gift cards or a food gift for the whole family - with one little token thing for small kiddos to open.
Edited to add, my Mother would be horrified. She spent so much time & effort with her selections we were obligated to "love everything". She thought gift cards or (heaven forbid) money was crass. I remember being newly married and scratching for money for groceries and getting all these over the top gifts when $50 would have been very welcome. (she wrapped each sock of a pair in a separate package so there would be more to open). WTH - even $25 at the time would have bought most of a week's groceries.
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Welcome home Carole. I'm empathizing with your inner scrooge. Since I've spent the last year getting rid of things, DH and I have reached the point of having absolutely nothing on our Christmas list. We, as have our close friends and family, decided gifts from now on are to be consumable. (I'm a big fan of Amazon gift cards because I read a lot of books.) All that being said, I did finish the Christmas shopping yesterday, thankfully.
Tonight will be beef stew along with the last of the thanksgiving dinner rolls. I may start some Christmas baking today - breads for the freezer.
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No place like home, Carole.
We, too, have spent a lot of time purging and paring down...we tend to do gifts of time or consumables as well.
Supper tonight will be a chicken and root veg stew over rice with a salad. We will see who is home to eat it....last night, none of my curent crew was here to eat until around 10 and I was already in bed.
I have discovered the "Express Lane- grocery pick up"- at our local grocery store, Harris Teeter. Since I cannot get out in crowds this is such a wonderful thing! Usually, the cost for them to do the shopping and bring the bags to the car is $4.95 but this month, on Thursdays, it is $2. Worth every penny so that my DH or DS1 don't have to shop on top of work and everything else. If you haven't tried it- and could benefit- or know someone who could- I highly rec it. (seems most chains do this) Plus, keeps impulse buying in check if you have an issue with that.
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Minus - my spatchcocked 14lb turkey cooked in about 80 minutes, with juicy white meat and delicious crispy skin. Used the backbone to make gravy while it cooked. I no longer cook poultry any other way.
We had the rest of the tortilla soup for dinner last night, with a bit of yogurt stirred in. Not sure about tonight's meal.
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