I cooked 2 lbs. Great Northern beans with 3/4 pound cottage ham. I baked an expired Jiffy cornbread mix, and it baked up as flat as I expected. But it still tasted good. Tomorrow, I'll package for the freezer the beans left after lunch.

I had half a head of cabbage left over from a recipe earlier in the week so I made Connemara broth from the Simon Pearce cookbook. It's a soup I really like and it's been cold here for Georgia - high 30's-low 50's. It was a nice dinner with the brown bread (see Baking thread).

On Sunday I made a canned salmon mac and cheese casserole, I'll be having the leftovers tonight.

A quick meal tonight -- fish fillets and french fries, all from the freezer and just needing an air-fry. All I had to do was make a salad!

Dinner on Tuesday was Baked Carnival Squash stuffed with a mixture of ground turkey, vegetables, and bulgur that I had frozen a couple of weeks ago. I used the countertop convection oven. Previous squashes have not had any sweetness to them, so I drizzled with maple syrup after roasting for 45 minutes at 400F, then stuffed them before returning them to the oven at 375F for another ten minutes. That made for a delicious entree.

I pulled a couple of stuffed peppers from the freezer and cooked them yesterday and had one for dinner with pasta. The second one will be tonight's dinner.

I also made butternut squash soup. I don't remember where I got the recipe from, but it's pretty easy. Sautee one celery stalk, some onion and a carrot or two until the onion is translucent, add about a pound of cubed squash, half pound of potato and 4 cups of water. Simmer until the vegs are soft, wait for it to cool a little and transfer to a blender in batches to make it smooth, or if you have a stick blender just do it in the cooking pot. A little salt to taste and it's done. I didn't have potatoes so after I blended it I added some instant potato flakes, a little over half a cup gave me the thickness I wanted. I also threw in a pinch of cloves and 2 pinches of allspice. It came out nice. Now I have soup for my lunches, perfect for this really cold weather.