So...whats for dinner?
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And Happy B-lated Birthday bedo♥ 0 -
Tomorrow DH and I are going for a long deserved grocery shopping. I am old mother hubbard.
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Apple,
Your friends sound like very special people... I am so sorry to hear about the situation their foster daughter has put them in... I hope things get better for them soon!
Thanks for the recipe for the Chicago deep dish pizza! Years and years ago when we moved from NY to MN, we passed through Chicago and spent the night in Elgin... We ordered take out deep dish pizza and when we picked it up I remember looking at it and thinking it was so small for the amount of money it cost... Well, each of us could barely finish 1 slice... I remember feeling like I was going to just pop...lol
We saved the rest in our hotel mini-fridge and it was our first meal in our new apartment (eaten off of paper plates while sitting on a blanket on the floor because our furniture was not being delivered until the following day)! Lots of time has passed and we have since moved back to NY but, I haven't forgotten that pizza!
Funny thing but, Frugal Gourmet was the first cooking show that I remember watching... It was on PBS on Saturday mornings... I even own all of his cookbooks including, Frugel Gourmet Cooks American! Thanks for the reminder to take a peek back through them... Going to try a deep dish pizza for sure!
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Apple, my sister and her husband have been through similar experiences. They've taken in 3 kids who needed homes. One of them, a girl, was in an orphanage. They legally adopted her. She pulled the same trick when she was about 16, accused my b-in-law of sexual abuse. All it takes is the accusation to cause a tremendous upheaval in the family. The girl told the police and a judge that she had made up the charge but they didn't pay her any attention with this version of her story. Authorities always want to believe the worst.
Bedo, happy birthday. How wonderful that you got a job.
Momine, I'd like to come over and have some bread and butter at your house! You sound like an experienced baker. I made a loaf of 7-grain wheat bread in the breadmaker this afternoon, but I've been reading The Italian Baker by Carol Field and am itching to try my hand at some crusty peasant bread.
Laurie, here's Mary Ann Esposito's recipe for pizza dough. It's very easy. If you have a Kitchen Aid, you can use it. I mixed it by hand in a large mixing bowl with a wooden spoon.
3 cups unbleached flour (King Arthur is her recommended brand)
1 packet pizza crust yeast (I found it at Walmart's)
1 1/4 cups warm water
1/2 tsp salt
1 T. honey
1 T Olive oil
Directions: Place 1 cup flour in a large bowl or mixing bowl of stand mixer with dough hook. Add the yeast, water, salt, honey, and olive oil. Mix until blended. Add additional 2 cups flour and mix until the dough comes together. Transfer dough to floured surface and hand knead for a couple of minutes. Cut the dough in half.
Preheat over to 450 degrees if using a stone. (Place stone on lowest oven rack.) Otherwise oven temperature is 375 degrees for a baking sheet or pizza pan. Place each piece of dough on a sheet of parchment paper. Roll or pat with your hands to form a 12 in. diameter. Place the dough on the parchment paper onto a pan or onto a peel if using the stone.
Top with your choice of toppings. Bake on the stone for 10 to 12 min. Or on the baking sheets or pan for 15 to 20 min until edges are brown and bottoms are crusty.
I used half of the dough and refrigerated the other half. The next night I made two calzones with the leftover dough.
If you don't have parchment paper, you can sprinkle corn meal on the peel and the stone so that the dough will slide.
Tonight we had grilled lamb chops, baked sweet potato, and steamed broccoli. The broccoli was locally grown and was delicious. Normally I'm not a big broccoli fan.
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Bedo: Here's my Mom's whole wheat bread. No kneeding It's dense and best open face. Even better hot out of the oven with honey.
Hearty Whole Wheat Bread
3-1/2 cups milk
2 TBLS Sugar
1 TBLS Salt
3 TBLS Fat (Crisco)
2 TBLS Molasses
Scald together. Pour into a bowl & cool some.
Dissolve 1 yeast cake in ¼ cup warm water. Put ¼ Tsp sugar in with the yeast. Add to milk mixture above.
Measure 6-1/2 cups whole wheat flour (or more). Can substitute white flour for some (2 cups?)
Add three cups at time to the liquid. Add the last 3 cups one cup at a time.
Divide into 2 well greased pans & Cover. Rise approx 45 minutes - dough doubles
Bake 400 for 10 minutes then reduce heat & Bake 350 for 45 minutes to an hour
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Well - I ran across my favorite recipe when I was looking for the bread. Best part is you make a batch & it keeps in the fridge for 4 weeks so you have hot muffins any time you want. I'd rather eat bread & butter than dessert.
PEG'S BRAN MUFFINS
Pour water over cereal and set aside - 3 cups Allbran Cereal; 1 cup boiling water
Sift and set aside: 2-1/2 cups wheat flour; 2-1/2 tsp baking soda; 1/2 tsp salt
Cream: 1/2 cup Crisco & 1-1/4 cups sugar
Add: 2 beaten eggs & stir
Add: 2 cups buttermilk & stir
Add dry ingredients & bran mix
Stir in: 1/4 to 1/2 cup raisins or chopped dates
Grease muffin tins or use muffin cups Bake 25 minutes at 350 degrees
Keep extra batter in fridge for up to 4 weeks
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Will be away for the next couple of days and wanted to wish you all a Happy and Healthy New Year!!
With Love, Seaside
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Seaside- Have a wonderful time wherever you go
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Frugal Gourmet cooks American is where tht recipe was first published (Seaside).
We had a marvelous evening with our friends.. Beef Wellington for 10~ ! We also invited Leo, a 93 year old architect.
It's funny, Harry the dad, has been in my life since i was a child. I used to be a springboard diver and Harry was my first coach. He is blessed with extraordinarily good looks and is soooooooo kind, gentle and loving. He told our team he was leaving for school and i swear it was the worst day of my life. At 13, I suppose i was a bit in love with him. I cried for weeks. I remember my mother laughing gently at my sorrow and her befuddled looks.. 'how do I help her?".
at about age 23 Harry and I coached a team together when i came back to the states and then i lost track of him... I saw him about every 5 years,, popping into him at garage sales and such. In the meantime i became really good friends with Lois, who I met at a garage sale, and we just hit it off. Boy was it funny when I found out they were married. When i was a kid we lived about 5 blocks apart and now we live about 5 blocks apart and Lois is really my only and truest friend. They adopted 8 kids altogether and their youngest 3 are the ages of my kids. HArry is now my daughter's coach.
Dinner was awesome.. the meat was a 'little' overdone, and served messily, but all in all it was a good success... could have been better, but only i knew that.
Dessert was one of my favorites.. frozen mixed berries in a strong jello solution with sugar free and sugared jello.. super easy because it gels instantly with the frozen berries, and is absolutely delish with real whipped cream.. The boys (da boys, my boys) had a lot of fun helping me cook.
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Apple, sounds like a wonderful meal. There's nothing nicer than sharing food with good friends.
The traditional New Year's Day menu in south Louisiana features black-eyed peas and cabbage, which are supposed to bring good luck and prosperity. My dad always said the black-eyed peas are for coins and the cabbage is for greenback dollars. DH and I normally cook this dinner along with cornbread, but we're invited for dinner tomorrow at the home of a couple who are from WI. They're serving standing rib roast, and who can turn that down? LOL. So we're cooking the cabbage and black-eyed peas today, a day early. Yesterday I bought a hambone from Honey Hams and I'll use some of the excess ham in the smothered cabbage and the bone will cook in the peas. I trim off as much fat as possible.
Happy New Year's eve to all.
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Just a quick "Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year" to all my friends! We are staying in Milton MA with our good friends Ann & Jack, and will be going out tonight for a gourmet dinner to celebrate the end of this god-awful 2011! Not all bad - moved back with my family, met some wonderful new friends and gained a sister- Joyce! But I'm glad this one is over and looking forward to a much more pleasant 2012!!!
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Apple- I love that story you shared, does lois know that you had a crush on Harry when you were younger LOL!
Carol-Your cabbage and peas sounds delish! My friend from ky always cooked that and cornbread when we went to dinner. It dosnt go over well with my friends here on the west coast but i love it.
Michelle-Have a fun and safe trip out of town- Heres to a good year in 2012 (toast)
I will be going to the casino tonight DH got me a band to wear which gets me into all the parties going on there he will be working but i will get to kiss in the newyear with him.
Everyone have a safe and happy new year see ya in 2012!!!!
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Happy New Year everyone! I hope everyone has fun whether they are having a quiet evening or out and about with friends. The meals sound wonderful! We are just going to a neighbors house for dinner and to have the kids play for a bit. We are having a nice steak, homemade lobster mac n cheese and salad, we'll be sharing all of our food and seeing what they have. Plan to be home by 8 to put the kids to bed and resume a quiet night.
I truly hope 2012 brings us all good health and happiness. Love to you all.
oh- PS- Apple- I want to know if Lois knows you had a crush on Harry too. And WOW! A diver!!!
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We are staying in like we always do on New Years Eve, it has been many years since we went out. I will cook up a Prime Rib with baked Potato and cole slaw and DH will have baked stuff shrimp, that is about as exciting as it gets here.
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No stufffed shrimp, prime rib, filet mignon, or Korbel.............................it was a grilled cheese sandwich, and a cup of Kauhla coffee from my Keurig...........................didn't feel like being bothered.............cooking for one is boring, and eating alone is even worse, so the grilled cheese was fine..................I'll be glad when its all over.....................
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((((Ducky)))) I know how you feel. New Years is one of my least favorite holidays. I was a bartender for years, granted years ago, but still always worked it and now I hate the pressure to have to "do something". I would have happily had grilled cheese with you, but I would have added tomato soup too. As of 9:15 ALL my boys were asleep, DH and both kids. Happy New Year and I am thinking of you too.
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Happy New Year! Laurie, that was very well said, I also wish all of us a happy, healthy 2012! I am with you on ushering 2011 out Michelle.
Wow great ideas for pizza and breads. I am going to give them a try, but like you Bedo, I am not much of a baker. I wish I were better.
Just got home from new York about an hour ago. I always wanted to be there for the ball drop, but not any more. I am a city girl, always thought I loved crowds and excitement, but it was so crowded, it was scarey. I was afraid we would get separated and wouldn't be able to find each other again. I know my DD was nervous too. But we had a great time, and it's nice to be home sipping a glass of wine and watching it on tv.
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Kay I am watching it on tv too! You couldn't pay me to be there. There were too many people at my neighbors house and dinner got nutty- I didn't eat much. Just had a ham, egg and cheese sandwich
Listening to the snores rattle through the house and Dick Clark's rocking New Years-yet I haven't seen Dick yet- no pun intended- well maybe;P0 -
I have to wait until 9 for my DH to pick me up and take me to the casino and thought i would pop in real fast- Laurie- I laughed so hard at your post, your too funny!
There is no parking at the casino so have to wait for DH im getting tired just waiting
Ducky- tomorrow is a new day! Im with you, there is so much hype and woud of been just as happy to stay home! ((((hugs)))))
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thanks ladies...........I appreciate your thoughts...............this time of the year is always tough..........my husband died from Pancreatic cancer, and we found out about it Christmas day 1988, and on NY's eve 1989, I was sitting on a chair next to him in the ICU of the hospital . He entered the hospital for testing, and they had to put a rod into his liver, to take out the bile, it had consumed his whole body, and it didn't show till xmas morning. He wasn't even sick.................he turned "jaundice" xmas morning.............they kept him in the hospital, and on January 3rd. they did "Whipple surgery" which took 7 hours...........he was in the hospital for 5 weeks, and came home in FEbruary...............
So these holidays are always bittersweet for me.................He died 2 years and 9 months later in 1991..............At least I got a little more time with him............It is hard to believe it is 20 years...............but time and life go on...................
And yes tomorrow is a new day, and a New Year................let's pray that it is a good one for all "cancer" patients....................hugs ladies.
Tomorrow it will be sauerkraut and pork tenderloin with my family at my son's home........and the Philly Mummer's Parade..............doesn't get much better then that................
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Ducky, sorry about the loss of your DH. I can see how tough the holidays are for you. Enjoy your dinner at your son's.
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i don't know that we'll have a big dinner, but are having fruit, crepes, berries and whipped cream for brunch.. maybe a quiche too if I get on it.
happy new year ladies.
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Oh apple, can I come to your house?
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Sounds delish Apple, I had half of a bagal with orange marmalade, a banana, cup of OJ, and coffee. For supper will be left overs. The rest of the Prime Rib, baked potato and cole slaw. DH will finish his baked stuffed shrimp I made him.
Wishing everyone a Happy Health 2012♥
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apple crepes sounds yummy have not had them in years and dont really know how to make them. Would you like an adopted daughter...cause you sound like an amazing cook....I am good at the clean-up.LOL
tonight will be ham with scalloped potatos and some kind of veggie.
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Hi! What a nice thread ... Today, I cooked with my two sons – 20 and 25 – and my daughter in law. (Or what do you say when they aren't married? Daughter out-law doesn't come out right
... OK, his girlfriend.) I made a thai style soup with coconut milk, red and green peppers, kale, salmon, onions, garlic, ginger, curry, lemon grass, lime and coriander. The kids made a great salad with rucola, cocktail tomatoes, black beans, garlic, feta cheese and a big bowl of guacamole. It started out with my idea of the soup, but when we were shopping, we found cheap avocados, just enough ripe to eat, and then the kids wanted a salad with guacamole. We couldn't decide, so we made both. I wasn't sure the dishes would match, but they really did!
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ducky and Laurie, New Year's Eve is not a big party night for us. In my younger years I did the parties, drank too much and felt awful on New Year's day. Not a good way to start the year, I decided. DH and I had a couple of glasses of wine before dinner, enjoyed our dinner and were in bed by 10:30. The sound of fireworks began before 8 pm. There was undoubtedly a crescendo of racket at midnight, but neither of us heard it despite a window being open in the bedroom and in the adjoining bathroom.
Today is a pretty day. Sunny. Mild enough for open doors and windows. We're watching the Saints and the Patriots on tv. At 4 pm we're invited to the home of friends who live about 3 mi. from our house. Looking forward to some good wine and dinner featuring standing rib roast. It will, unfortunately, be overcooked for my taste, but I'll enjoy it nonetheless.
2011 was good for us. Hoping 2012 was be just as good. Thank you all for your generosity in sharing recipes and cooking ideas.
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