What are you Cooking the week of December 22, 2019?

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December 22, 2019 at 12:01 am #20005
Mike Nolan
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Christmas Eve, Christmas Dinner, Boxing Day, Bowl Games, lots of reasons for holiday cooking this week. What's on the table?

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December 22, 2019 at 12:44 pm #20025
BakerAunt
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We will have our wonderful leftovers from last night that should last another two days.
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December 24, 2019 at 8:18 pm #20055
BakerAunt
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For dinner on Tuesday (Christmas Eve), I roasted two chicken thighs. We ate them with the rest of the butternut squash, barley, and kale, with additional mixed vegetables on the side.
December 25, 2019 at 8:33 am #20061
chocomouse
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We had our family Christmas gathering last night, Christmas Eve. The dinner menu was ham, potatoes au gratin, whole kernal corn, fresh fruit salad, broccoli salad, and frosted rolls. After sharing gifts and lots of memories and laughs (a group of five college age grandkids is a riot!) we snacked from the cookie trays.

Today we'll have dinner with my sister and her husband. I'm bringing appetizers (shrimp, a cheese ball, assorted sliced cheeses, crackers, olives, and a few other simple "open the jars" foods) and wine - so no real cooking happening here.
December 25, 2019 at 4:35 pm #20064
Mike Nolan
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We had our traditional oyster stew and chili dinner for Christmas Eve. I also made another batch of the Finnish cinnamon rolls to go with the chili.
December 25, 2019 at 6:52 pm #20066
BakerAunt
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For Christmas dinner, I roasted cubed sweet potatoes tossed in a bit of olive oil, adding maple syrup for the last 15 minutes. My husband roasted the turkey.
December 26, 2019 at 12:37 am #20070
RiversideLen
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I made a beef strip roast, whipped sweet potatoes and broccoli.
December 26, 2019 at 11:23 am #20075
BakerAunt
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On the day after Christmas, I'm making broth from the turkey bones.
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December 26, 2019 at 1:18 pm #20076
Mike Nolan
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Christmas dinner was ham, potatoes, DGBC and a relish tray.
December 27, 2019 at 5:25 pm #20100
Joan Simpson
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We had baked turkey breast,baked ham,dressing from the freezer that I'd made Thanksgiving,mixed greens turnips and mustard from freezer,sweet potato souffle with marshmallow topping,cranberry sauce,watergate salad,rolls and lemon pie frozen Mr.Edwards the next best thing to my Mothers pie.All was good,we had our dinner Christmas Eve as our grandchildren and son had to leave Christmas morning around 10 a.m.to drive to Jacksonville Airport son going back to Texas and grands going to New Jersey to spend time with their Mom's family.We had a great time but sure was sad to see it end.Christmas day we just chilled out all day now my husband is sick with cold so it's quiet here.No appetite for him so I'm trying to keep him hydrated.I just got caught up around here and I hope you all had a great Christmas.Looking forward to next year.
December 27, 2019 at 5:56 pm #20101
Italiancook
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Okay, I ignored my best medical knowledge. All the talk about sauerkraut made me hungry for it. Previously, I had noted an Allrecipes recipe for Slow Cooker Sauerkraut and Sausage. It uses, as I read it, sausage in the tubes. One reviewer had made a small version using kielbasa. I had a can of sauerkraut and kielbasa in the house, so I pulled out the slow cooker. Easy prep recipe. It was delicious, but oh, my, way salty. So now I'm chugging water. But I enjoyed every bite while I was eating it. I served it without mashed potatoes, which was a good thing. I love sauerkraut on top of mashed potatoes. I put a pint in the freezer, but I won't use it for at least a year or more because of the salt. But it sure was good.
December 27, 2019 at 7:33 pm #20105
Mike Nolan
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One of the reasons I want to make my own sauerkraut is that I think commercial ones err on the high side for salt content. You can always rinse sauerkraut off, and I'll do that when I put it on hot dogs or on a Reuben.
December 27, 2019 at 7:50 pm #20106
BakerAunt
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On Friday, I made “muddled” mashed potatoes (roughly mashed) and gravy from some of the turkey drippings I had saved to go with leftover turkey and microwaved frozen mixed vegetables.

Joan--How nice that you had your son and grandchildren there!
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December 28, 2019 at 6:36 pm #20119
Italiancook
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I made blueberry pancakes for the freezer.
December 28, 2019 at 9:40 pm #20124
RiversideLen
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Italiancook, that sounds delicious, but my weakness is to put it over noodles.

Tonight I made a stir fry using leftover roast beef, with red onion, carrot and broccoli. Served over pasta.
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