So...whats for dinner?
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Rhonda, I'll have to write that recipe on a card and try it. Thanks for posting it.
Dinner was unimaginative and satisfying. Roasted chicken thighs and leftover mashed potatoes and brown gravy. I skipped the gravy. Condiment was Major Grey Chutney, which is good with chicken. I found some recently and bought two jars.
The mashed potatoes we have eaten in recent weeks was from Sam's Club. DH bought it, two large containers packaged together. It turned out to be quite good. I don't know the brand since dh removed the cardboard covering and threw it away. I assume it was a good price. The down side. A lot of mashed potatoes. LOL.
Wally, glad you have good neighbors and glad your dh felt up to eating out at a restaurant.
Maggie, if I lived in the neighborhood of the hospital, I would probably buy meals from the cafe, too. Great price and a variety of meals.
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Another sourdough bread baking day.
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DH's dentist left us eggs by the front door this morning; we'll have scrambled eggs with baked beans and spinach.
I think most are Guinea hen eggs. Love the colors!
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Carole, I use Major Grey chutney when I make curry so I always have a spare jar of it in the pantry.
Wally, How nice of the dentist to leave fresh eggs. The light ones are from Guinea hens. We had a Guinea hen in AR since the people who previously owned the house could not catch her. The only time I had contact with her was when I freed her after she got stuck in the bumper of the pickup. She was a great watchdog, squawking loudly when anyone approached the house. We never had to feed her since she went to a neighbor’s house to eat with his barnyard chickens.
Eric, I am imagining how good your house must smell today.
It is snowing again. Hopefully it won’t amount to much.
Dinner tonight was chicken and asparagus.
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yes….. :-)
Tomorrow is Pi day (3-14), so in honor of that, I'll be doing some more apple pie practice. :-)
This time the bread took twice as long as normal to rise and only rose to 2/3 of the normal amount. The bread was not dense, and (due to the long rise time) was quite tangy, so…it's okay.
The only thing I changed was the brand of flour.
No snow here. It was 70F degrees today. Right now it's 40F and it's expected to be below freezing by morning.
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Wally, what a nice gift!
Eric, sour dough bread envy.
Dinner last night was one of our favorite (easy) meals. Steak fajitas without the tortillas. Sautéed onions, red bell pepper. Seared thin ribeye strips. Black beans. Guacamole. Sour cream, grated Mexican cheeses.
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I agree with the egg envy. My niece raises chickens but she's 4 hours away from Houston by San Antonio so I don't often get a bounty.
Eric - I too have sour dough envy. I ended up throwing away the last "bake it at home" loaf I bought. Must be time for a trip to San Francisco again. It will be interesting to hear what you decide is the "best" flour,
Dinner is chicken salad from Chicken Salad Chick - and I'm eating with wheat crackers as I type. They have so many delicious varieties.
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There is a local rivalry between Bob’s Red Mill and King Arthur flours for baking sourdough bread. The King Arthur mill and bakery store is near the hospital up north so I sometimes stop there for bread. They recommend milling your own flour but I don’t know if I would put the time in.
Eric, I hope the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of your apple pie was pi and it tasted good.
Carole, I would prefer a tortilla-less fajita.
Minus, For lunch today I made chicken salad with diced celery, dill and the chicken leftover from last night.
Dinner tonight was chicken enchilada casserole.
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I got behind today doing other stuff and Sharon made an awesome chicken dish that needed oven. I didn't feel like heading to the garage to use the #2 oven, so I waited (well worth it).
The pi(e) is in the oven. It's not too bad looking. I still don't have that scalloped edge done well…so the "practice" will continue. :-)
Our friends that visit both LOVE blueberries….so I may give a blueberry pie a try and do the lattice top crust. That way when they come up it's not a complete "experiment".
Normally I use the "blue bag" King Arthur bread flour for the sourdough. This time I used the Gold Medal all purpose flour and it didn't turn out well. The problem may have been a slow starter as when I fed the starter after using it for the bread, it didn't froth up as much as usual.
The Gold Medal all purpose flour was perfect for the pie crust.
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Special K - Just a repeated thank you for the One Step Chocolate Cake. Because I live alone, the last time I made a 9x13 pan (December I think), I gave 1/3 to a neighbor, ate 1/3 and froze the last piece. Yesterday I took it out of the freezer. YUM. Just as good as fresh. Thanks again for the recipe. Hope everything is OK with you & your family.
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Duck breasts in the air fryer (YUMMMM!!). I used Muscovy breasts. I think I prefer them to the Magret. Sides were cooked cabbage and I made the mushroom stroganoff that Carole mentioned from the NYTimes. My only change would be less dijon mustard…and I love dijon; it just cut into the creaminess of the sour cream. Still, very delicious and a repeater. Thank you, Carole.
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Good meals all around. Minus, I would like to be your neighbor when you make the chocolate cake. Wally, glad the mushroom stroganoff recipe worked for you.
We had pork steak, breaded with Italian seasoned bread crumbs and pan fried. Side was yellow squash.
Today I'll get out the Instant Pot to cook a corned beef brisket. Cabbage, potatoes and carrots will be cooked on the stovetop, sliced corned beef added.
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Our annual corned beef and cabbage dinner is postponed until Saturday because our friends can’t come until then. My friend promised to bring a lemon meringue pie. Yay!!
Tonight is quasi Salisbury steak - a ground beef patty in onion gravy with mashed potatoes for DH and brown rice for me. There will also be peas.
Not looking forward to the two days of frigid weather with the possibility of snow coming. Then back into the 70s. Such is spring in Missouri.
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Dinner was fried cabbage. I had a bag of precut coleslaw that needed to be used. Sauteed with onion in olive oil & butter with garlic & bacon & sunflower seeds. Since I can no longer find Hidden Valley Ranch Coleslaw dressing, it was a good way to use the bag of cabbage.
I'll eat the leftovers on St. Patrick's Day.
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Eric, King Arthur and Bobs both used stone grinding wheels from Europe in their factories. I saw them delivering one from a 19th century Belgian mill. They said that different wheels change the characteristics of the flour. I love blueberry pie. I used to pick blueberries that grew wild in a large park near my grandmother’s house and bake with them since they were small but sweet.
Minus, I am afraid to make chocolate cake since I know that I would eat too much. I also hope that Special and her family are doing well.
Wally, Duck breasts in the air fryer sound quick as well as delicious.
Carole, DH wasn’t happy when I mentioned I might try baking the next corned beef brisket since he loves the potatoes boiled in the water with the corned beef fat. He would give Wally fits over the amount of fatty food he eats but his cholesterol numbers are perfect.
Nance, The lemon meringue pie is worth waiting for. We are also getting more snow but no 70 degree weather. This March has been all lion and no lamb.
Dinner tonight was meatballs in Rao’s on spaghetti.
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Last night's corned beef dinner was very good. Everything was perfectly cooked. The corned beef, pressure cooked in the Instant Pot, came out tender but not falling apart. I strained the liquid to remove the seasoning mustard seeds and poured it into a large pot to cook the onions, carrots, potatoes and cabbage. on the stovetop. Condiments were mustards.
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Carole that’s exactly how I fix corned beef and cabbage.
Turns out perfect every time.Tonight is baked cod, Trader Joe’s mac and cheese and applesauce.
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Maggie, I love fat and do not agree with all the low-fat ideals that were in vogue years ago. It is how we were trained but I always thought it was wrong. I've been vindicated :-)
I have begun to boil my corned beef, so that a lot of the salt can be diluted.
Not sure what dinner will be; DH's healthy side of his jaw has started to separate from the gum and bone protrusions have begun. I've been crying waaay too much. He's not in pain, which is a gift.
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Dentist is beyond sweet…offered to come to our house when DH is having tenderness (drives past us to get home). **sob** so kind. I am going to have a lunch catered for the office for their kindness and our gratitude. Maybe the local BBQ place.
I made frozen pizza with a fried egg on top (the way the french do it). YUM.
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Carole, It’s good your corned beef dinner turned out so well.
Wally, I’m sorry your DH is having gum issues but glad there is no pain. His dentist is exceptionally kind. I have never had French pizza with an egg but like the Croque Madam which inspired the pizza’s creation.
Dinner tonight was pan fried tilapia, sautéed zucchini and tater tots for DH.
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We had corned beef and cabbage a week ago so I decided to make something different for dinner. Since neither of us can drink any more I didn’t want to buy a six pack of Guinness. We had a bottle of Sam Adam’s Boston lager left from when our children visited so I used that to make beef stew with beer and paprika (from the Pioneer Woman.) I substituted parsnips for the carrots, added celery and decreased the amount of beef broth but followed the rest of the recipe as written. It was delicious.
La Fheile Padraig sona daoibh! ☘️
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I had intended to make meatloaf, but the beef I took out of the freezer two days ago was still solid in the center. So I defrosted it on the counter this afternoon and then prepped with onion & bread crumbs & etc and packed in the loaf pan to cook tomorrow. Not to mention that I had not one but two fillings at the dentist this afternoon. Since my mouth was still numb, I decided soft food would be better. Tonight I had the last of the chicken salad and more of the left over fried cabbage
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We had a repeat of the St. Patrick's Day dinner with the leftover corned beef and vegetables plus some freshly cooked potatoes and cabbage. I mulled over making a hash but couldn't develop any enthusiasm.
Minus, it's 39 degrees here this morning.
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Tried to use up leftovers for last night (cabbage, stroganoff and threw in some eggs). Tonight, I'm thawing my ragu with penne.
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Wally…even more hugs. That is so incredibly nice of the dentist to make a house call. Still, the feeling of helplessness…is the worst feeling.
My brother is back in the USA, but will be returning to Dubai in a month. Hopefully things will have settled down by then. The chances of something bad happening to him while there, even when things are at the worst, is fairly low…probably a lower chance than being killed in a traffic collision.
Having said that……our neighbor, age 34, was killed March 5 in a traffic collision.
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Minus, Dental work always seems to interfere with eating. It's fortunate that you had some chicken salad in the fridge. Dinner tonight will be easier since all you have to do is put the meatloaf in the oven and you'll have tasty leftovers for a couple of days.
The bridge I knocked out in a fall eight months ago which was recemented then needs to be replaced for the third time. It's in the osteomyelitis jawbone which has been debrided to almost nothing so it will be another ordeal and expensive. However I'm grateful the problem is confined to a quarter of my mouth unlike Wally's DH.
Carole, It's good that you kept up the St. Patrick's dinner tradition. I have a piece of corned beef I bought on sale waiting in the fridge for sometime later.
Eric, You must be relieved that your brother is out of Dubai for a month. Hopefully things will settle down.
Dinner tonight was leftover stew.
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Only bad news is that I forgot to mix in the egg with the onions & bread crumbs before adding the ground sirloin. The meatloaf was OK, but didn't hold together well. I can probably get a sandwich or two, but too bad since it was 2 lbs of Nolan Ryan Angus beef.
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I had a hamburger for lunch yesterday with my exercise friends. It was soooo good, along with sweet potato fries. For dinner I made dh a large hamburger patty with sauteed onions. His side was Bob's mashed potatoes and gravy.
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I'm making the corned beef we bought days ago.
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Have been so busy at work and my side projects have expanded… so not cooking much, love the Chinese restaurant near us they have a special diet menu which means everything steamed, even the shrimp and chicken. I’m in heaven, love the simple meals with sauce on the side. And I cheated with an egg roll.. omg fried dough and tiny pieces of pork lol… so glad I’m not a purist.
Wally hugs for all you are going through. I love egg on pizza, we have a place here that serves a breakfast pizza with fried eggs and Brussels sproats on top. Yummy.
Vicariously loving everyone’s cabbage meals..reminds me of my childhood.
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Wally, Corned beef for St. Patrick's day is really an Irish/American tradition. The closest thing to it in Ireland is boiled bacon and cabbage, a shoulder cut of pork which is much more like lean ham. When I lived there it was a holiday when people went to church and wore shamrocks. After I moved to AL my MIL caused consternation by mailing us shamrocks she had pulled out of the ground: they are subject to FDA clearance. Now they have parades since it is a way of increasing tourism. Going to pubs and live session music is just an everyday thing.
Eric, On that note Sharon would love the music there. I saw Ricky Scaggs and The Chieftans play together featuring Cotton Eye Joe. As long as you can adapt to the style they welcome any instrument. At a pub in Co. Westmeath we used to frequent there was someone with a banjo who showed up often.
Minus, It's too bad that your meatloaf was missing an important ingredient. Everybody does that occasionally. I learned the hard way to check that I have all the ingredients I need when I once opened the fridge to get the Worcestershire sauce and there was none.
Carole, A really good hamburger is a satisfying meal. Sweet potato fries are the only only type I like.
Rhonda, A Chinese restaurant for healthy takeout is a great help in juggling your busier schedule.
Dinner tonight was Tuscan garlic shrimp on farfalle.
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