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RiversideLen.I had a tuna salad sandwich on fresh sourdough bread.
For Sunday dinner, I roasted chicken thighs rubbed with olive oil and sprinkled with Penzey's Justice seasoning. I roasted potato chunks tossed in olive oil separately in the small convection oven at 400 F for 50 minutes, and they came out well. We also had microwaved frozen mixed vegetables. Dessert was Butternut Squash Cake with Maple Glaze, which is delicious! We had temperatures in the teens for a high today, and we are having yet more snow.
Hurrah! Joan's pictures are back. Your bread looks yummy. Your little doggy is clearly interested in the meal!
For lunch today, I cooked a batch of black beans, then made Black Bean and Pumpkin soup. I adapted this recipe from Smitten Kitchen, and Deb adapted it from Gourmet. I like to make it every year, and it lasts me for over a week unless I freeze some of it. This time, instead of using the food processor to puree the black beans and diced tomatoes, I put them in my deepest metal bowl, along with some of the black bean broth, and used my stick blender. That worked well, and I did not have a food processor to clean!
We repeated last night's dinner except that we had microwaved frozen peas as the vegetable.
BA your cake sounds delicious and Joan, your dinner looks yummy!
I baked some chicken meatballs by making the ones for piccata and subbing in Greek seasonings. I served them with sautéed zucchini and the end of my spinach arugula mix and tzatziki sauce (Boar's Head). I have some more for tomorrow and I froze the rest of the meatballs for future meals.
We had hot dogs while watching the Miami-Indiana championship game.
I roasted a chicken breast which I marinated with oil, vinegar and spices. The spice I used peculiar to Florida (I think) was "Everglades". The spice is also known as "Monkey Dust"! It's mostly salt with a little msg, papain and spices. I roasted the breast for 20 minutes @ 450 and then topped it with a little honey mustard. It was perfect. I had marinated green beans to which I added roasted cherry tomatoes, feta cheese and chopped basil. Not having a toaster oven has been a real challenge. I did have to purchase a grill pan and small sheet pan. Oh well I will have something to look forward to when we go back April 1. The weather is an improvement over home.
The forecasted lows for Lincoln NE for this week include sub-zero temperatures and a high of 4 on Friday!
I had leftovers from the Mexican place we went to a couple days ago.
BA, Cwcdesign and Navlys all y'alls chicken dishes sounds good especially the chicken meatballs!
Mike all that cold weather sounds terrible to me!Nooooo!
Will says it's supposed to be -13 tomorrow in Chicago.
For us it's been cold with temps dropping into the 20's at night - my biggest problem is that I don't have all the warm clothes I used to have at home - it would make it easier, but I'm acclimating and walking again.
We are having very cold temperatures. We made it into the upper teens today after starting at low single digits. It was 9 F when we did our grocery store run in the later morning. Scott estimates our snow total since a week ago at 12 inches.
I made my faux lasagna that uses spaghetti squash in the place of pasta for dinner on Tuesday. I added some chopped sautéed celery with the sliced mushrooms.
Earlier in the day, I roasted the last two of the pumpkins with the basketball textured skin because I thought that they might be starting to go bad, but they turned out to be fine. I have some pumpkin recipes in mind for this batch of fresh puree, but I have also frozen some of it.
Navlys--I don't count on rental places having sheet pans, based on past experience. I have a medium-sized one that I bought on our first vacation in Florida, and it goes with us whenever we travel and plan to cook. It has also turned out to be very useful here at home.
No supper for me today I was with friends all day and we ate a late lunch.
We had more of the Spaghetti Squash Lasagna for dinner on Wednesday, along with some pumpkin whole wheat rolls that I baked.
I made pizza and chicken veggie soup. The soup had celery, carrot, green beans and some red lentils. The lentils give the soup an added layer of flavor.
