What are you Cooking the Week of August 23, 2020?

[Mike Nolan]

Still hot here, so not a lot of cooking planned.

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[Joan Simpson]

I'm cooking spaghetti and meat sauce with garlic toast.

So after I get spaghetti made my husband says he's not hungry,snacking this afternoon,so spaghetti is in fridge for later on this week and I had leftover pizza,husband had cereal and a sausage sandwich.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by Joan Simpson.

[RiversideLen]

I had leftover rice from yesterday's stir fry, so I made fried rice with mushrooms, zucchini, peppers and leftover bbq pork. It came out pretty good.

[Joan Simpson]

Tonight we had meatloaf,mashed potatoes and green beans.

[RiversideLen]

I had a bbq pork sandwich and a salad.

[BakerAunt]

For Monday dinner, I roasted chicken thighs, rubbed with olive oil and sprinkled with Penzey’s Tsardust Night. I also used the first Table Queen acorn squash from our garden. I cut it lengthwise, scooped out the seeds, rubbed it with a bit of olive oil, then roasted it cut side down on parchment paper at 400F in the countertop convection oven for 40 minutes. I then removed it and filled each squash with a mixture of cooked bulgur (left over from another night) that I had combined with sautéed chopped celery and red bell pepper (from our garden!). I added a bit of dried sage and onion powder. Once I had the squash filled, a sprinkled a little 2% pre-grated (only form in which I can get low-fat cheddar here) over it, then returned to the convection oven at 375F for 20 minutes. It came out very well, and I like the taste of the Table Queen more than other acorn squashes that I have tried. My husband liked it too, which is good, because there are a lot more Table Queen squashes out there.

[BakerAunt]

To go with leftover roast chicken thighs, I made that Penzey’s Summer Quinoa Salad (the one with broccoli) on Tuesday. There are leftovers for another two nights. Win!

[chocomouse]

Tonight we had BLTs.

[Joan Simpson]

Tonight we had a beef roast cooked in crock pot with mushroom soup and some dried onion,it was OK,rice,cooked carrots and I made carrot salad with the last of the carrots,I had 2 boiled eggs in fridge so that was made into deviled eggs.

[RiversideLen]

Today I made a quart and a half of pasta sauce from my garden tomatoes. I put in some meatballs I had in the freezer and had it with bow tie pasta. It was pretty good.

[BakerAunt]

On Wednesday afternoon, I tackled the increasing pile of tomatoes from our garden on the counter. I cut up enough to overfill a 2-liter measuring cup/bowl. I cooked them down, after initially sautéing minced garlic in olive oil in a 4-quart sauté pan. I added 1 tsp. sugar. I let them cook down to make 2 cups tomato puree, which will be used on two future sourdough pan pizzas. I will freeze on and use the other near the end of the week, since it is supposed to cool down enough for baking pizza.

[Mike Nolan]

I picked a small bowl of tomatoes yesterday, probably 2-3 pounds. I could probably pick another bowl about the same size today. In a week or two I should have enough to consider making sauce or something else with them.

[chocomouse]

I picked a 5-gallon pail of tomatoes, Romas and Celebrities. Tomorrow I plan to make ketchup (first time making that) and salsa and tomato sauce - all for the freezer. I also made zucchini brownies, and froze 2 pints of shredded zucchini for the winter. I also froze 5 pints of broccoli. This broccoli is side shoots from the original heads that I picked in July.

Our dinner was ribs, cole slaw, and summer squash.

[Mike Nolan]

We've tried making ketchup a couple of times, it is never as good as Heinz, though. I could make some tomato relish, but I've still got several quarts of it from the batch I made 3 years ago (it lasts nearly forever in the fridge because it has a lot of vinegar in it.) Most of what's left is the batch that got over-cooked a bit, though.

Something I've never tried making is salsa for tacos, maybe I'll try that some time. (No cilantro, though, my wife has the gene that makes it taste like soap.)

[Joan Simpson]

Today we had homemade Sloppy Joes on top of bread.

I never liked the homemade ketchup either,my grandmother & mom made it.

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