What are you Cooking the week of February 24, 2019?

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February 24, 2019 at 10:20 am #14841
Mike Nolan
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Here's a thread for the week's cooking.

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February 24, 2019 at 10:16 pm #14843
Joan Simpson
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We had breakfast for supper tonight-sausage,eggs and grits.
February 24, 2019 at 11:01 pm #14844
Mike Nolan
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We had tuna salad sandwiches.
February 25, 2019 at 12:53 pm #14846
navlys
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I signed up for Home Chef meals to try it out and to shake things up in the kitchen. So far the turkey burger with guacamole and roasted sweet potatoes was very good as was the sweet chili pork lettuce wrap. I will make these again. I think you can see the recipes without being a member. I used groupon .
February 25, 2019 at 1:18 pm #14847
Mike Nolan
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Our older son has used a couple of those services, although he's a pretty good cook from scratch.
February 25, 2019 at 10:06 pm #14851
RiversideLen
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I pulled a couple of meatballs from the freezer, browned them in the convection oven and finished them in a cup of low sodium beef broth. Served them over pasta.
February 25, 2019 at 11:01 pm #14852
Joan Simpson
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We had chicken pot pie tonight.
February 26, 2019 at 2:21 pm #14856
BakerAunt
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I cooked a package of black beans on Monday after soaking them overnight. They took a long time to soften while cooking. I later realized the package stated: “Best Before Aug. 2013.” However, the beans did eventually soften.

On Tuesday, I made a big batch of black-bean chili, using leftover cooked ground turkey and leftover crushed tomatoes from the pizza I made last week, orange bell peppers that were a good price at the store, broth I made last week from a rotisserie chicken, a bit of tomato paste, onion, 4 cloves garlic, part of a package of frozen corn kernels in the freezer, 2 tsp. chili powder, ¼ tsp. cayenne, ¼ tsp. ground cumin, and black pepper. I ended up with about 5 ½ quarts. I froze some of it. I also froze 3 cups of the black beans. The remaining chili will provide lunch for the rest of the week.
February 26, 2019 at 4:01 pm #14860
Joan Simpson
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Tonight I made cubed pork,thickened potatoes and green butter beans.

BakerAunt I don't know why but I've found dry beans take a lot longer to cook than before,even the frozen green butter beans I cooked tonight takes a long time to soften.No telling what goes in our food we buy,fertilizers,fast growing stuff etc.We have lots of vegetable farming around in our county and it's amazing to see how fast they grow bell peppers and other vegetables,then all that water is going in the ground.
February 27, 2019 at 3:42 pm #14872
Italiancook
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Lunch was kielbasa with broccoli. Dinner will probably be tuna salad sandwiches.
February 27, 2019 at 6:56 pm #14877
Mike Nolan
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Dinner tonight was Kraft macaroni and cheese. My wife likes it plain, I add ground beef and mushroom soup after dishing hers out.
February 27, 2019 at 9:33 pm #14878
Joan Simpson
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We had chicken tenders,mashed potatoes and garden peas.
February 28, 2019 at 1:50 pm #14881
BakerAunt
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I like to add freshly ground black pepper on top of my macaroni and cheese, something to which my college roommate introduced me!
February 28, 2019 at 5:21 pm #14884
Italiancook
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When I was growing up, my mother made mac 'n cheese way too often. It was horrible. Dry, with terrible taste. I could only tolerate her mac 'n cheese during the summer when fresh tomatoes were in the garden. A fresh tomato on top of the macaroni made it tolerable.

Because of so many bad experiences, I've never tried mac 'n cheese as an adult. Once, I made Ina Garten's Four Cheese Penne (or is it 5 Cheese?), and it was good. She has a mac 'n cheese with tomatoes under the bread crumbs that looks good, but my aversion to mac 'n cheese is so strong I probably will never try it.
February 28, 2019 at 5:26 pm #14886
Mike Nolan
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Something like beef, macaroni and tomato might work for you.

This is kind of a long-standing family joke. My best friend in college (and best man at our wedding) used to work as a short order cook at a Hot Shoppe on the New York Thruway during the summer. We were roommates for a while, too.

He once offered to make his beef, macaroni and tomato recipe for us. It starts by browning 25 pounds of ground beef. 🙂

Long time Lincoln residents tend to reminisce about the baked macaroni and cheese that they used to have at the cafeteria at Miller & Paine, a department store later acquired by Dillards, but now gone. The local Runza restaurants have what they say is the original Miller & Paine recipe, but I don't think it's quite as good. They also have the Miller & Paine cinnamon roll recipe, which does appear to be pretty close to the original. Of course, Runza pairs it with chili, as EVERYBODY in Lincoln eats cinnamon rolls with chili.

But I was raised on the Kraft version and still like it, though I like to add things like ground beef. We used to add a package of frozen chopped broccoli, it was nutritious and relatively cheap back when that was a major issue. (We tried adding tuna fish to macaroni and cheese once, it was not a big hit.)
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