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Post by chiver78 on Aug 8, 2021 17:30:04 GMT -5
I'm still not feeling all that fantastic. dinner tonight was a small homemade grilled chicken sub.. I heated up some chicken from the pup stash in a frying pan and melted cheese on it.. poured that into to chunk of the baguette on my kitchen counter, done. it's paired with a nice big glass of a strawberry Pedialyte comparable. woof, this stuff is sweet.
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Post by countrygirl2 on Aug 8, 2021 18:03:43 GMT -5
Some frozen tamales, made with pork and hatch chilis. Beans and rice made from a package, cesaer salad, and sliced tomatoes from the garden, about it.
I'm about ready to make a batch of home made tamales to freeze. Makes 5 dozen of them from the package of seasonings and corn shucks.
Hubs really liked dinner tonight. I have to admit for purchased tamales those were good. Made in Texas, sealed in plastic, in a cloth bag. Fresh Thyme has them.
I ate to durn much. The tomatoes were wonderful, first from the garden. Here is what has happened all summer. Was ready to work in the garden again tomorrow when I come home from the city, And hubs shows me a big weather front coming in. that's why the weeds got ahead of me. I hope I can work out there tomorrow afternoon though I bet the heat will be awful.
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Post by Opti on Aug 8, 2021 18:32:15 GMT -5
Tired, so I baked a couple things in the oven. Will make veggies or veggies in potato hash after my walk, Got a couple fish cakes at the grocery store for $1.99 frozen, so $1 for that and then 3 lamb samosas about $1.67. I have a free green pepper I've started on and some zucchini. Plan to put that with frozen potatoes and onions after I walk outside a bit. Less than $1 for that.
Happy it did not rain during the day today so hopefully walking will be dry outside.
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Post by weltschmerz on Aug 8, 2021 22:05:07 GMT -5
DS has been undergoing some disturbing personal issues, so I made one of his favourite meals.....Jamaican Oxtail Stew. Pain in the ass to make, from the burnt sugar to every spice known to man, but he said it was The Best! It smelled really good.
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Post by chiver78 on Aug 9, 2021 11:37:41 GMT -5
hugs to your DS, welts. I have Food Network on for background noise right now, and Sunny Anderson just made this "cheat sheet" meal. the ratatouille looked amazing! I'd definitely season the cod differently, though. that might need to happen tonight.
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Post by Iggy aka IG on Aug 9, 2021 12:39:34 GMT -5
Hi everyone!!!
We ended up grilling half and half burgers last night using locally raised beef and pork. I served them with 4 different vegetables on the side, including locally grown tomatoes and zucchini, along with leftover mashed cauliflower and pickle spears. SO good.
Tonight: Either a ham and cheese quesadilla or omelet, with veggies or fresh berries on the side Wed: Baja tacos, shrimp, veggies Wed: Ground beef enchiladas baked in the Trager, riced broccoli slaw Thurs: Locally raised pork ribs in the slow cooker, veggie Fri: Take out from? Sat: Preseason football munchies, including egg rolls and little smokies in blankets Sun: Grill/smoke something
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Post by countrygirl2 on Aug 9, 2021 18:49:28 GMT -5
DD had a can of spaghetti, hasn't had any for years.
Made hubs fried cabbage, hot banana peppers, bell peppers, with polish sausage. He really likes that.
I had a piece of baked salmon.
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Post by chiver78 on Aug 9, 2021 21:11:41 GMT -5
cool and rainy day here, called for comfort food. pumpkin mac 'n cheese, with some shredded chicken for some protein. there's leftovers.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Aug 10, 2021 13:15:53 GMT -5
Today is going to be the last time I should cook for the next few days, we are going to have weather in the 90s. So today, I’ll pull out the chicken ravioli from the freezer and make a cherry tomato/garlic/Parmesan/fresh basil sauce for it.
Tomorrow is half priced sushi, so will pick some up. Thursday we are out, and Friday I’ll do the smoked salmon app that I poached from a local restaurant.
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Post by Iggy aka IG on Aug 10, 2021 17:40:17 GMT -5
Hi everyone!!! We ended up grilling half and half burgers last night using locally raised beef and pork. I served them with 4 different vegetables on the side, including locally grown tomatoes and zucchini, along with leftover mashed cauliflower and pickle spears. SO good. Tonight: Either a ham and cheese quesadilla or omelet, with veggies or fresh berries on the sideWed: Baja tacos, shrimp, veggies Wed: Ground beef enchiladas baked in the Trager, riced broccoli slaw Thurs: Locally raised pork ribs in the slow cooker, veggie Fri: Take out from? Sat: Preseason football munchies, including egg rolls and little smokies in blankets Sun: Grill/smoke something DH had a brilliant idea of making a ham and cheese omelet quesadilla. I used three types of cheese and served it with blueberries and raspberries. SO good!
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Post by countrygirl2 on Aug 10, 2021 22:44:11 GMT -5
Tonight had salad, a strip steak and a couple small filets with sauteed mushrooms on the griddle, corn from the freezer, home canned green shelly beans, and baked potatoes, we were all hungry as we ate most of it.
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Post by snapdragon on Aug 11, 2021 11:27:35 GMT -5
Tonight is going to be Caesar Salad and Cheese tortelloni to bulk it up.
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Post by daisylu on Aug 11, 2021 13:02:55 GMT -5
Tonight will be takeout - jalapeno popper grilled cheese.
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Post by chiver78 on Aug 11, 2021 13:28:41 GMT -5
leftovers, the painter will be here.
options are: pumpkin mac 'n cheese, turkey burgers w/pepper jack cheese, or chicken and garlic tortelloni tossed with bruschetta. the last one is tasty as a cold dish, too. that one's the lead candidate, I think.
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Post by countrygirl2 on Aug 11, 2021 18:42:19 GMT -5
I ended up cooking sausages and sausage gravy, baked biscuits with it. Scrambled me some eggs and shared the eggs with DD.
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Post by wvugurl26 on Aug 11, 2021 19:06:15 GMT -5
DH picked up a pizza. Last night was super late and I'm tired.
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Post by daisylu on Aug 12, 2021 7:40:29 GMT -5
Wednesday night night was just too hot. Had a ham sandwich and a handful of Pringles roasted jalapeno chips.
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Post by countrygirl2 on Aug 12, 2021 20:44:48 GMT -5
Hubs bought a pizza tonight, I only ate a piece and a half but it was good. I felt some better for awhile. Now after doing very little, folded some clothes, unloaded and loaded the dishwasher, I'm tired. Need to check DD's bed and put the mattress. pad and other pad on it.
Tomorrow if I feel up to it, we are going to the city. Buying DD a new mattress, ordering 14 boxes of hardwood, that was all that was at the warehouse. It will do DD's room and the guestroom. Pickup DD's glasses, glad they got them. Also a few groceries. Hubs is driving.
My feet are feeling better, the heel that was killing me isn't now and I have a foot doc appt on Monday, durn.
Going to read for awhile, may go to bed soon.
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Post by Iggy aka IG on Aug 16, 2021 12:58:33 GMT -5
Hey Iggy - I bought and cooked one of these and the pizza was really wet on the bottom. I need to use a pizza pan when cooking was that the issue? Do you cook it differently? Because I could not even attempt to have leftovers...they were just too flimsy and sticky with moisture for me to eat. Snap~ Hiya, Snap! Ugh, sorry it was soggy. We put ours on a sheet pan covered in foil then put it in our Trager. True, the crust is more tender than a traditional pizza. Have you tried making Fathead crust pizza? Those tend to come out more "crispy" if you will and it's my favorite. There are also recipes out there for homemade cauliflower crust pizza as well as chicken crust pizza.
snapdragon, referencing this post from earlier this year, I have a question: Do you remember what brand cauliflower crust this was? I ask because last month I bought Cauli-flour brand for the first time, and when we baked it, it did not crisp up whatsoever and remained unpleasantly pliable and soggy. We usually buy the Caulipower brand, and the crust turns out nicely.
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Post by chiver78 on Aug 16, 2021 15:51:34 GMT -5
tonight I intend to test the new paint on my cabinets with fryer splatter. I have an eggplant, summer and green squash, and I'll save a BSCB when I break down the packages for the freezer. I'm going to fry up cutlets of everything to make sure I can still easily clean the nearby cabinets afterward.
I don't have sauce thawed, so tonight will probably be a chopped chicken cutlet over a salad. tomorrow I'll build various parmigiana pans, hopefully the sauce will have thawed and I can avoid the microwave for that.
ETA: I'm still cooking, shocking nobody. dinner tonight is snacking on all of the various fried veggies. done. 👍
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Post by daisylu on Aug 16, 2021 17:16:06 GMT -5
Leftover meatloaf sandwich. Yum!
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Post by countrygirl2 on Aug 16, 2021 19:26:55 GMT -5
Started the steroid tonight per podiatrist for foot.
I didn't intend to cook much, but I had a tenderized round steak thawed out for 2 days. Not a big one.
I floured and browned it, then added 1 cup of water, 1 of celery, 1 of chopped onion, and simmered for about an hour. Melted cheese on top, it makes a good gravy. Also had fried potatoes, and heated hominy. We had a SW salad with it. We ate it all, was a good dinner.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2021 5:33:27 GMT -5
Making stuffed peppers today because DSIL likes them and he's off today.
DD has a new instant pot that hasn't been used. Call them what you will, they're merely a 21st century version of a pressure cooker. I do not like pressure cookers. I do not like them, Sam I am. I haven't liked them since I was a little kid and spent many any evening scrubbing the kitchen ceiling of whatever was the residue of the most recent pressure cooker explosion.
Not to mention...my mother loved spare ribs and sauerkraut. She'd put spare ribs, kraut, potatoes all the the pressure cooker together. The result was a pot of gray food. She complained that I "never ate a thing" which wasn't true. I just never ate anything gray.
I will put together the stuffed peppers. DD can be in charge of what to do with the Explosion Machine. This thing didn't come with a cookbook. I don't know if recipes are the same with every brand of instant pot or not. And don't want to know.
DD's cupboards are white. The ceiling in her kitchen is white.
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Post by wvugurl26 on Aug 17, 2021 6:55:31 GMT -5
Most of the recipes are pretty consistent across models. Generally find the high or low pressure setting and use that for the time given. The internet has many recipes. I was intimidated for years by mine due to the no recipe thing. I also use the saute feature.
Once I found out what buttons on mine corresponded to high/lower pressure I was able to use it. The instant pot brand has high low buttons. Mine is a Faberware from Walmart and they are different. I finally found a site that linked my buttons to what the recipes said.
Monday night was grilled hot dogs topped with homemade sauce (chili). I cooked up the rest of the bag of onion rings and DH had his side of potato salad left from lunch.
Tuesday night fresh green beans, corn on the cob and BBQ chicken.
Wednesday fajitas. Flank steak thawing now so I can marinate it overnight.
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Post by countrygirl2 on Aug 17, 2021 9:19:06 GMT -5
Going to make barbecue pork for sandwiches today. Have eggs boiled to make deviled eggs and will have fries or fried potatoes with it, to be seen. Of course slaw would be good too, to be seen.
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Post by Iggy aka IG on Aug 17, 2021 11:22:31 GMT -5
Sunday night was another successful tag team effort. DH topped a salmon filet with homemade Italian dressing and then smoked it in the Traeger on a wooden plank. On the side was Argentine red shrimp, asparagus, yellow squash, and zucchini, all sautéed in butter, olive oil, and garlic. The dish was finished with a squirt of fresh lemon juice.
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Post by Iggy aka IG on Aug 17, 2021 11:26:40 GMT -5
Last night: Cauliflower crust pizza, zucchini fritters, and caprese salads. All of the vegetables were locally grown. Tonight: I'll make homemade tortilla chips using low carb tortillas and turn them into beef nachos. I'll take the opportunity to finish the broccoli slaw, an avocado and some olives. Wed: Dinner out Thurs: Snack plates which generally consist of black and green stuffed olives, pepperoni slices, different cheeses, and various raw veggies Fri: Kielbasa and veggies Sat: Steak and veggies Sun: IDK yet
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2021 15:15:12 GMT -5
I know I'm gonna drop about three and a half miles in y'all's opinion of me, but...DD decided to drive for a while after dropping DGD off at work. It's been a rainy, nasty day, and she's figuring that people are not going to want to bother picking up their own food so she will happily deliver it to them. Let us all hope that they will want to "bother" tipping. A good many people think that the "service fee" and the "delivery fee" on top of jacked up restaurant prices, include the driver's pay. Nope. That's money for Uber Eats. The driver gets precious little pay for delivering unless the buyer tips. Sigh.
Mileage? Um. Yeah. From the restaurant to the buyer's address.
Anyway, that means she was leaving me at home--alone--to deal with making stuffed peppers in the pressure cooker (aka instant pot).
Sorry. I'm scared witless of pressure cookers. The stuffed peppers are in the oven as we speak.
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Post by chiver78 on Aug 17, 2021 16:54:50 GMT -5
sauce is thawed, I'm going to build some parmigiana pans once the painter vacates my kitchen. I only ended up breading half of the veggies I sliced, since it was getting so late. I've also snacked on cold squash slices over the course of the day. the squash pan will be mixed summer and zucchini, I think. and then eggplant and chicken. really hoping I have enough foil pans for this lol...
@missrigby - I am also freaked out by old school manual pressure cookers. I was a little afraid of my IP when I first unpacked it, too. but there are safety devices built into these, that manual ones never had. I hope you can get past this mental block, because there's so much you can do with an IP.
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Post by snapdragon on Aug 18, 2021 10:13:00 GMT -5
Hiya, Snap! Ugh, sorry it was soggy. We put ours on a sheet pan covered in foil then put it in our Trager. True, the crust is more tender than a traditional pizza. Have you tried making Fathead crust pizza? Those tend to come out more "crispy" if you will and it's my favorite. There are also recipes out there for homemade cauliflower crust pizza as well as chicken crust pizza.
snapdragon , referencing this post from earlier this year, I have a question: Do you remember what brand cauliflower crust this was? I ask because last month I bought Cauli-flour brand for the first time, and when we baked it, it did not crisp up whatsoever and remained unpleasantly pliable and soggy. We usually buy the Caulipower brand, and the crust turns out nicely. I know it was Cauli someting so it would not surprise me if it's not the same brand.
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