What are you Cooking the Week of Decembe 28, 2025?

[Mike Nolan]

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[BakerAunt]

I made yogurt on Sunday. I really missed my homemade yogurt when we were in Florida.

For dinner, we had pork tenderloin sandwiches on the rolls I baked today, along with a salad. I let Scott finish the applesauce.

[Joan Simpson]

My friends daughter smoked us some wings and we had coleslaw with a vegetable tray

[Joan Simpson]

I brought home wings yesterday so that's my supper tonight.

[BakerAunt]

We repeated last night's dinner of salad and pork tenderloin on buns.

[Joan Simpson]

I had baked ham,green beans and coleslaw.

[BakerAunt]

Dinner on Tuesday was pecan coated roasted salmon, leftover mashed potatoes, and microwaved fresh broccoli. It was an easy meal after our big shopping trip to the larger town about thirty minutes away, where we dropped off the recyclables, shopped Aldi's, Walmart, and Kroger, and did a run by Ross and Marshall's. After lunch we shopped our local grocery store. We had hoped to find a turkey, but not a single store had one, so we have settled on a chicken to roast for New Year's Day.

[skeptic7]

I did Mapo Tofu based more or less on the recipe in Splendid Table. I'm deliberately making a fairly mild recipe. I've tried the recipe with real Szechwan peppers and chili oil and it was much too spicy for me. I did boil the Tofu before adding it to the meat sauce and that made it much firmer and get it from breaking apart as I stifrred it.

[BakerAunt]

For New Year's Eve dinner, I made pea soup, using a hambone from the freezer. We had it with some scones I baked. We had snow on Sunday to Monday, then a break before more snow Tuesday night and today. It may not have been a snowy white Christmas, but it will be a snowy New Year's Day. Earlier, for lunch, I made curried butternut squash soup from the rest of the puree I made last week.

[BakerAunt]

I roasted a large chicken, about 6 ½ lbs. for New Year's Day dinner. I also made Pepperidge Farm dressing to go with it. (I bought two extra bags at Thanksgiving, so we are set.) To make the broth for the dressing, I pulled out some bones from chicken breasts that were in the freezer. Annie was beside herself, as she had been smelling chicken all day, but her reward awaited her. We also had microwaved fresh broccoli. Dessert was pumpkin pie.

[Mike Nolan]

I picked up a 1 pound package of Italian Beef at Portillo's on the way home from Pittsburgh, and that's what I've had for supper the last two nights.

[Joan Simpson]

I'm behind posting...New Years Eve I made taco burger meat to make sandwiches, on the side was lettuce,cheese and sour cream.We had chips with salsa to go with it, New Years day we had Christmas dinner from the freezer...no cooking just reheating it was all delicious .Tonight I had leftover Taco burger meat which is sorta like sloppy joe's and leftover sweet potato pie. I gotta get back to normal eating!

BakerAunt I opened the Black Berry jam and had it on an English muffin for breakfast and it's delicious! Thank you again!

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[skeptic7]

I did chicken soup with carrots and celery.

[Mike Nolan]

We went with tomato soup and fried cheese sandwiches on the fresh honey wheat bread, using a Tillamook sharp cheddar cheese.

[BakerAunt]

Joan, I'm glad that you are enjoying the blackberry jam! I love seeing it on your English muffin on your pretty green plate.

We had a scare today when Scott slipped on the icy steps while taking Annie to get the mail. I was making lunch, when a woman knocked and came in with Annie on her lead and asked if I were the wife of the man with the dog who fell on the stairs. They noticed him because Annie stayed with him and barked, and that got their attention as they were driving by. That couple was wonderful. They helped cover him, got him to agree to calling the EMTs, who convinced him that he should get checked out at the hospital. They also drove me to the hospital, as our roads have icy patches, and waited while he was checked, then drove us home. I'm going to bake them something to thank them. Scott did not break any bones, thank God, but he is going to be very sore, and he was not interested in eating much tonight except a little frozen yogurt. His right shoulder, in particular, is painful.

I had some of the leftover pea soup and scones.

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