What are you Cooking the Week of January 31, 2021?

[Joan Simpson]

I agree on Len's soup,sounds so good.This is soup weather.

Tonight we had fried chicken,rice and I cooked dry lima beans and tomato gravy.

[chocomouse]

Tonight we had blueberry pancakes with sausage links. I used the new maple syrup dispenser I bought at KABC. It works, it does not drip!! woo hoo! It does have a slow drizzle, as many of the reviewers complained; you have to be patient. But I feel that is not a big problem. I'm very happy with it, and recommend it.

[BakerAunt]

Thanks for the report on the syrup dispenser, Chocomouse.

On Tuesday, I made broth from the bones of the chicken I roasted the day before.

For lunch on Wednesday, I made Curried Butternut Squash soup, using most of the squash puree I made on Saturday. I whisked it with chicken broth to the desired thickness, added 1 tsp. of Penzey’s Now Curry, and put in about a Tablespoon of leftover full-fat yogurt. I had enough for another two days.

For dinner on Wednesday, I made stir-fry, using soba noodles, the rest of the chicken, celery, carrots, red bell pepper, green onion, broccoli, and mushrooms. I also put in some small chunks of roasted sweet potato. I had bought sweet potatoes at Kroger and did not notice until we got home that four of them had been badly smashed. (That is one reason I do not like pre-bagged produce.) I was able to rescue half of three of them, so I roasted them and put them in the stir-fry. In the future, I will carefully inspect each one through the bag.

[RiversideLen]

Chocomouse, for the cream soup, I put it in the blender and give it a ride until it's smooth. Then I return it to the pot and put in some instant potato flakes, I do that last to determine how much it might need, heat it up a bit and let it rest, then add a very small amount of half and half if I have it, otherwise it will be a creamless cream soup. I've made soups with all those veggies leaving them in chunks too. You gotta have variety :).

Tonight I made bow tie pasta with meatballs. Veggie was cauliflower and carrots.

[cwcdesign]

Last night Will made one of our favorites - 30 Minute Butter Chicken Meatballs from Half Baked Harvest - comfort food curry dinner. We use Penzey's garam masala and half each their hot curry powder and sweet curry powder - if it weren't for me, he'd probably use all hot! he also adds spinach to it. We serve it over Alton Brown's baked brown rice - the easiest and best brown rice recipe we've found. We have enough for leftovers the next nights - it gets better the next day.

I don't know who's going to be happier when I can start cooking again

[Mike Nolan]

We were supposed to get a lot more snow today, it wound up being only an inch or two. But the cold weather is coming, they're forecasting a week of sub-zero lows starting Sunday.

I got some vegetable beef soup out of the freezer for supper tonight, and I'm planning to make onion soup over the weekend and probably a batch of chicken stock as well so I can make potato leek soup next week.

[Italiancook]

I made slow-cooker Irish oatmeal for six day's worth of breakfasts.

[Joan Simpson]

We had cubed pan fried pork,baked sweet potato and macaroni and cheese.

[kimbob]

Used up misc fish in the freezer. Grouper, yellowfin tuna, and shrimp with fries and salad.
Whenever we have pancakes, I put maple syrup in my fireking glass measuring cup and warm it up in the microwave. Keeps the pancakes nice and hot.

[Mike Nolan]

It was pizza night here. I added some oil to the dough, that's supposed to make it tear less and a bit crisper. Maybe I was in too much of a hurry and didn't let the gluten relax enough, because it tore a lot at first, but it was nicely crisp without being tough or hard. I'll try that again, maybe a bit less oil next time. I also made the dough a bit wetter, which is also supposed to help with stretching it. It did stick down more than last week, not sure if that was due to tears that I didn't get patched or something else.

Next week I'll probably do the pizza on Thursday, because Friday is my 2nd eye surgery.

[RiversideLen]

I made chicken thighs and had it with brown rice and broccoli and carrots. I thought about breading and frying the chicken but after working on snow removal I didn't feel like going through the additional effort. Especially since I also wanted to make a batch of sandwich buns too.

[Joan Simpson]

I used all the leftovers from the lima bean supper and made lima bean soup,adding a carrot,rib of celery and some onion and chicken stock.

[chocomouse]

My husband had a meatloaf sandwich with potato chips. I had leftover tomato-veggie soup and cottage cheese with blueberries and pineapple. Easy meal. I also made Chex Mix, a Super Bowl snack for Sunday.

[cwcdesign]

Chocomouse - meatloaf sandwiches are one of my favorites!

[Joan Simpson]

We had roast and gravy from the freezer over mashed potatoes and fried okra.

We love leftover meatloaf sandwiches also,I had one this morning for breakfast and I like it cold.

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