What's cooking at your house?

[Bucky]

Lunch today:  Progresso Vegetable Classics - Minestrone, on sale at the store for 69c for a 19 oz. can!   Yum!!!

A fall day with the sun shining on our maple trees as they shimmer in the sunshine with the pretty reds.  Looking out the dining room window there is a mix of yellow (color was waaaay too bright for the eyes to highlight it in yellow on this forum  ) and orange trees in the woods.  Ahhhhhh, fall - love it!   

Have a good weekend everyone!

Bucky

[A66eyroad]

Lunch today: Leftovers!

1/2 baked potato
slice of pork roast, shredded
small handful of shredded cheddar
teaspoon of sour cream
barbecue sauce

Pop it in the microwave and voila!  Delicious!

[irish]

Meld, We think alike. I made home made potato soup on Wednesday and it was so good. Had a the last of it for lunch today.

I make mine with boiled potatoes in a dutch oven--then I mash up half the potatoes with milk and butter til almost on the thin side. I cut up the rest of the potatoes and add to the potato base. I then add minced onions, slat and pepper, dill weed, parsley flakes,etc and whatever else I am in the mood for.

That day I had some cooked up bacon in the freezer and I cut it up in pieces and added it plus when the soup got warm I added the shredded cheddar cheese. I usually shred up a carrot and nuke it till done and then add that to the soup and later on add the frozen peas. I cook it on the stove in the dutch oven and cover it making sure to stir it often. Even on low the soup will want to come to a boil and need to prevent it from burning.

When it is almost done I will taste it and add some sugar which kicks it up a notch!!!! This is the gluten free way of making potato soup. I also have made cauliflower/broccoli soup this same way. Really is good and a much different flavor from the other potato soups.Irish

[4Kids]

I am making a prime rib roast, mashed potatoes and broccoli and carrots.

Pretty much a classic lazy meal here...

[Patze]

Wow 4Kids, that sounds so yummy!!! 


Patze

[4Kids]

It was really good! They have been selling rib roasts for dirt cheap around here and so we have been enjoying them often 

[Scottietottie]

Tonight - homemade lentil soup and home made bread. 

[Meld256]

Mmnn...lentil soup, Scottie. 

Irish, I guess we do think alike. I love making potato soup a few times when it starts getting cold outside.
I boil potatoes and drain them; add some milk, chicken broth and half&half.  A chunk of Velveeta cheese and some canned cream of celery soup. Chop some green onions, and throw in some cooked bacon or the real bacon bits in a jar.
I keep some of the potato chunky, and then when serving, add a dollop of sour cream and more green onions. Maybe a bit of shredded cheddar.  It ain't low-cal, I'm sure, but it is soooo good. 

A green salad and a piece of Italian or French bread and we're good to go.
I haven't cooked much in the last week, so today I'm working on some lasagna!

Our 23-yr.-old daughter is pregnant and had major morning sickness. I feel so badly for her. I never dealt with that.  She's given the cooking over to her husband because she can't stand to look at or smell food cooking.  Her sickness got so bad she couldn't keep anything down, and I was getting really concerned for her.

At her ob/gyn appt. Thurs. they put her on promethazine, thank goodness.  She had gained 7 pounds from her 5 weeks-9 weeks appt. and now lost 10 pounds at her 13 weeks appt!  And she was thin to begin with. 
The first pill she took helped.  She's been trying to eat so healthy but she wanted pizza so bad and was able to eat some yesterday.  She said it was "awesome greasy goodness".    She's tried so hard to do everything right with her pregnancy; let's hope she can begin to get enough food and liquids in her again!

[Chickpea]

Hi Joe and other 'bangers and mash' fans

I can't believe that people from the UK are asking for our national dishes of bangers & mash and bread pudding when they're visiting you!  Surely they want to try your food?  There are a few secrets for the perfect bangers and mash: 

make sure the sausages are well cooked so they're browned and maybe a little split open;

the gravy is best made with lots of fried onions which are sprinkled with flour.  Then you add beef stock with a little red wine, and simmer for a few minutes to thicken;

the mash should be made with floury old potatoes, boiled and then mashed while warm with butter and lots of black pepper. 

There are restaurants here in the UK that serve only bangers and mash with lots of varieties of sausages, gravy and mash.  Great food for teenagers!

Here tonight we're eating spankopita (spinach pie), potato and sweet potato bake, beetroot salad ... followed by apple and raspberry crumble with custard.  My daughter's home from college which explains the feast!

Loving this topic.

Chickpea

[Joe S.]

Jan made brand muffins with blue berries this morning... very good.

[irish]

Joe, Just a quick note here concerning Jan. I take it that she is getting along ok following her surgery. At least I am assuming she feels pretty good if she is able to make home made muffins. Just hadn't heard much on her condition lately. Hope you are both doing well. Irish

[engy]

Steak fajitas last night. Made it out of flank steak. I also found a good tomato & zucchini casserole for our veggie but was so good we could have had it for our main course!

[Narablueeyes]

Pecan encrusted talapia and long grain and wild rice.  Thick, moist fish filets that were sooooo good, didn't get much rice in my system they were so filling.  Tonight, jamaican jerk salmon. 

[Joe S.]

We just got a hard dumpling recipe from my cousin. I am hoping for chicken and dumplings. The fluffy dumplings that most make just do not taste right.

[A66eyroad]

There's a girl in my office who's a fabulous cook. She makes us lunch -- for all of us! -- about three times a week.

Today she is making roasted pumpkin soup. Yum!