What are you Cooking the Week of August 8, 2021?

[Mike Nolan]

Cooking plans?

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[cwcdesign]

Not sure what I'll put in it but I'll be I'll be making pasta

[kimbob]

Just made my husband a hotdog. Today I'm prepping for a colonoscopy tomorrow. I was supposed to get one 10 yrs after the last one and it's been 12 years. The doctor snagged me, darn it.
This is the last one I'm doing!

[BakerAunt]

Sunday dinner was stir-fry using leftover chicken, soba noodles, celery, carrots, onion, garlic, red bell pepper and snow peas (both from our garden), mushrooms, and broccoli. I did not have any drippings to add, so I used a bit of soy sauce to enhance the flavor.

[chocomouse]

We ate hamburger steaks cooked on the grill, leftover Cheesey Squash Bake, and steamed green, yellow, and purple beans, our first from the garden this summer. We then went to a nearby ice cream stand for soft-serve, a treat we indulge in once every summer. Black raspberry -- so good!

[Joan Simpson]

We had hamburgers on light bread with home cut fries.

[Joan Simpson]

Tonight I baked the rest of the pork tenderloin,thickened potatoes and green beans.

[chocomouse]

We had chicken patties, french fries, and summer squash and zucchini.

[Mike Nolan]

I flew to Philadelphia last Wednesday for the US Chess business meetings, because the person who took over as Parliamentarian after I retired in 2016 passed away earlier this year, at only 59. (I don't think it was COVID related.) Originally I was planning to drive, with my wife accompanying me, and she'd stay with our son and granddaughter in Pittsburgh while I went on to Philly. But since she's supposed to start work back at UNL full time next week, she didn't want to wear herself out traveling just a few days before then.

Early Thursday morning, my wife was getting out of bed and tripped, dislocating her right shoulder against a set of doors. Fortunately, she was able to reach a friend by phone who has a key and she helped Diane up and then called 911.

I was scheduled to come back today, but shifted my reservation to Sunday, then ran into weather issues in Chicago and didn't get home until after 2 AM. This afternoon I took her to the orthopedic specialist to find out what treatment regimen she needs, since there are some bone chips in her upper arm. So far, surgery isn't indicated, but they'll look at her in a month after she has some PT. She might eventually need a shoulder replacement, but we'll see how it goes. She's still hoping to start work next week, but from home (like she's been doing since March of last year) until she feels her arm is healed enough to drive.

Anyway, tonight I made macaroni and cheese, trying the suggestion to use some Greek yogurt instead of milk. It totally changes the flavor, and we won't be doing that again. Fortunately, I only made about 1/4 of it that way.

[Joan Simpson]

Prayers for your wife Mike sure hope she gets better soon.

When I make macaroni and cheese I use sour cream instead of milk.

[chocomouse]

Mike, please tell your wife I send my best wishes for a quick recovery with no surgery needed. Shoulder issues are so painful and debilitating.

[Mike Nolan]

Yeah, I may try sour cream with some of it next time, the Greek yogurt was just too sour.

[cwcdesign]

Mike, I'm sending healing thoughts to your wife - shoulder/arm issues are no fun. I'm just glad she was able to get help quickly.

We've watched High on the Hog on Netflix (highly recommend). The recipe for macaroni and cheese that came from Jefferson's household is interesting in that you cook the macaroni in milk and water. I gather it gives a whole new flavor to the macaroni.

For my pasta dish the other night, I adapted a one pot pasta dish that I thought looked delicious. My version came out so well, I'm creating a recipe of the basics because it could be adapted all kinds of ways.

Saute garlic, herbs, whatever in butter, toss the pasta in the butter and then add chicken or vegetable broth (I used vegetable). When the pasta was almost done, I added leftover eggplant, peppers and onions from the pizza and some capers chicken sausage. Let that cook for a few minutes and then add (recipe called for ricotta) some whole milk Greek yogurt and some cream and cheese and stir until melted. It was so good! In place of the ricotta, you could also use sour cream, cream cheese or anything else you can think of with a similar profile.

[Joan Simpson]

Cwcdesign your pasta dish sounds very good.

Tonight we had fried chicken,blackeyed peas,rice & tomato gravy and I made corn bread.I use sour cream in my corn bread also.

[BakerAunt]

I wish your wife speedy healing, Mike, or at least the patience to deal with the process for healing.

I made my turkey-zucchini meatloaf with peach-Dijon glaze for dinner on Tuesday. Given the heat and humidity, I was glad to be able to cook it in the countertop oven.

For a side dish, I used our beans to make a Green Bean Salad, using a recipe from a seasonal magazine, Edible Michiana (Summer 2018). The magazine used to be free at the grocery store. I found the recipe I used online here:

https://ediblemichiana.ediblecommunities.com/recipes/green-bean-salad

We have plenty of green beans from our garden. The recipe uses garbanzo beans, which my husband dislikes, so I substituted black-eyed peas. (He also does not care for black olives, but I just have him throw those my way.) I used a bit of dried shallot and replaced fresh oregano (he dislikes it) in the dressing with some Penzey’s Salad Sprinkle. We liked the salad, and I will make it again.

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