So...whats for dinner?

Wally, Good to hear your DH has finished rads. My neighbor just blew 6” of snow off our driveway With another 4 inches falling tomorrow afternoon there would be some left for you to shovel, lol.

Carole, Beef, veggie noodle soup sounds perfect for a snowy night (or a winter night in the South.)

Rhonda, Enjoy baking and reading as you watch snow flurries fall.

Dinner tonight was shrimp in a creamy fire roasted tomato sauce on rice.

Wally…hopefully DH's PSA will drop…and good that the rads are over for him.

We had snow early last week and where it is always shaded, there is still snow.

In the garage is a "does everything, including air frying", electric range that is used when we need extra cooking space (and there is electric power). The propane range in the kitchen is a basic "gets stuff hot" unit with it's most useful feature being not needing electricity for any function.

We use our countertop air fryer when we want "crispy", and we do the same with sweet potatoes—microwave oven followed by air fryer. MIL got it for us about 5 years ago as a "I have no idea what to get them" Christmas gift, and it has been used a lot.

The most used (and cherished) cooking "tool" here is the dutch oven that is my avatar on here.

Sharon is at her music jam and I decided to stay at home…and I think I need to practice making an apple pie. :-)

Carole. I'd love to know how to get all the thyme stems in someone else's bowl. I cut stems off of large spinach leaves but not much else.

Eric, In addition to ending up with a delicious dessert that lasts several days, baking an apple pie makes the house smell wonderful. I’m not up to baking but you inspired me to simmer a cinnamon stick in a pan of water on the stove.

Wally, How strange to be mowing the lawn in January. It’s been snowing all day here for the second day in a row.

If I could only have one thing to cook with it would be a 12” skillet with a cover. When traveling if I don’t have a cover I use aluminum foil in its place. That’s a word I now know in six languages. Sometimes you have to buy it at the hardware store. I would bring some with me when I travel but it’s a pain to go through security with it.

Dinner tonight was meatloaf for DH and leftover shrimp for me.

My most used pan is a 3 quart stainless saucier that gets used most every day for just about everything. If I had to have just one pan this would probably be it. Although I would miss my cast iron and omelet pans.

Last night was as always carry out night. My dinner was fried chicken with mushed potatoes and gravy. The chicken, while tasty, was somewhat greasy and gave me terrific heartburn. The homemade mashed potatoes were way too salty for my taste. I suspect the gravy was from a can. DH’s meatloaf was good and didn’t give him any trouble.

Tonight is plain old spaghetti with Raos with the addition of ground beef plus a salad.

The pie is in the oven.

The only issue I have is that I can't get the crust large enough to fit into pie pan with enough "overhang" so I can crimp the edges together. When I try to get the crust large enough, it gets so thin that it splits.

45 years ago, when something didn't go right with a recipe, there would be notes put into the margins of the recipe, "Next time try…." with a list of things to try. There seems to be enough flour already—the crust is quite thick when it starts to split—so "next times" will be letting the dough get closer to room temperature before rolling it out. After that, extra butter and maybe a very small amount of extra water.

The pie tastes good even when the crust looks ragged, so all the experiments are very welcome. :-)

The filling recipe is from https://meaningfuleats.com/gluten-free-apple-pie/ and, since DD isn't here, the crust recipe is from https://www.inspiredtaste.net/22662/flaky-pie-crust-recipe/

Dinner tonight was homemade Chinese. I made chicken fried rice and DH made crab Rangoons, both were pretty good.

Lately, I’ve been eating much better. I am dealing with a a very low appetite (uncommon side effect of omeprezole) but what I do eat does taste good and nausea, vomiting and fatigue have all been better since starting the new med, so I am not complaining.

Carole, Those meals that can be put together easily and quickly are so necessary.

Nance, It's too bad your takeout dinner left you with heartburn.

Illimae, Your Chinese dinner looks yummy. I’m glad your stomach has calmed down and you are able to enjoy food again. I’m on omeprazole permanently and have never heard of the low appetite SE. I eat plenty, just don’t absorb enough nutrients.

Eric, On Pi day my geometry students would come to class asking if they could get extra credit by reciting the approximation of pi to 50 decimal places (seems to have been a middle school thing.) I burst their bubble by telling them pi was an irrational constant which had to appear as a Greek letter and be treated kind of like a variable with the exception you could divide/multiply by it. It was a good gateway into several mathematical concepts. I would much rather have a pie that tastes good than one that looks pretty.

It has been snowing here for three days straight with some periods when the precipitation has been light. I hope it stops soon.

Dinner tonight was homemade pizza, rectangular rather than round, lol.