What are you Cooking the Week of December 19, 2021?

[Mike Nolan]

Just starting the planning for Christmas dinner. I need to find some oysters for Christmas Eve, too.

I've got a turkey in the freezer, but my older son is due here this afternoon and he often does the protein for Christmas dinner. If he'd rather do duck than turkey I won't defrost it. (I like goose for Christmas, but they're even more expensive than duck, if you can even find one.)

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[BakerAunt]

I made panko-crusted chicken cutlets and roasted, diced sweet potatoes for dinner on Sunday. We also had leftover slaw. I followed CWCdesign’s hint and put the chicken in buttermilk before breading it with the panko. It does make for moisture chicken.

For Christmas dinner, I am thinking roast chicken. For Christmas Eve, I am thinking about ham sandwiches on some kind of rye bread--perhaps one that uses some pickle brine?

[Mike Nolan]

If I can find one, we're going to do a goose for Christmas dinner.

[cwcdesign]

We’re still deciding - I’m thinking the savory cranberry and rosemary bread pudding from KAF, I saw a baked gruyere in puff pastry we might try, roasted olives and feta and we might do a tenderloin. I’m going to make penne with vodka sauce from Barefoot Contessa for Christmas Eve. Not sure what else we’ll be doing

[BakerAunt]

I made yogurt on Monday. I was able to order yogurt jars from Lehman's that will work in my yogurt maker, so I can now do six jars again rather than the five I did last time. I had to buy a replacement set of eight, so that will help me get ahead on making another batch of yogurt a day or two ahead of when I need to do so.

Dinner on Monday was beef stew. I bought a pound of stew meat from Armor beef that sells at our local farmer's market (antibiotic and hormone free) for $6.50, only a little more than what I would have to pay at the local grocery and of higher quality. I put potatoes, carrots, and mushrooms into the stew, along with dehydrated onion and my usual seasonings. I add frozen peas near the end before thickening it with ClearJel. It is delicious.

[Joan Simpson]

We had char grill chicken that I marinated in Italian dressing,macaroni and cheese and leftover green butter beans.Our son called last night and said he'd be coming home for Christmas for a few days and we're really happy about that.So I'll be doing more cooking and baking than I had planned...smiling here!

[Mike Nolan]

Change of plans, we're doing prime rib (sous vide) for Christmas dinner.

Tonight we had French onion soup and salad from the Aerogarden.

[RiversideLen]

On Sunday I made some baked boneless chicken breasts. I marinated them in hot sauce infused buttermilk for about an hour and then coated them in a seasoned flour mixture. They came out real tender. Tonight, I used one to make chicken tostadas. I took tortillas and brushed them with a little oil and then baked them at 350 for 10 minutes on each side. Those came out really good. Then I topped them with refried beans, sliced chicken, cheese and then popped them in a 400 degree oven on convection mode.

[Joan Simpson]

Len I've done fried chicken like that before too, sure makes it good and tender.

[Mike Nolan]

Boneless skinless breasts are easy to overcook and not very flavorful, I prefer to do bone-in breasts, even if we don't eat the skins.

[Joan Simpson]

I went to visit my sister it's an hours drive but rained the whole time.I took her fresh baked lemon sugar cookies and some of the chocolate candy I made with all her gifts and we had a good visit.

Cooking here tonight was easy hamburger steaks and fries.

[BakerAunt]

When I went to the farmers market last Saturday, one of the vendors had beautiful bunches of turnips, by which I mean that the greens were also excellent. I had to buy a bunch, then came home and looked for internet recipes. I settled on Turnip Soup with Turnip Greens from Molly Watson at thespruceeats.com

I made the recipe for lunch on Wednesday. It is a mild soup, even with the onion and garlic. I deliberately did not add other ingredients this time because I wanted to taste the turnip greens and turnips. It would be good with some ham added, and the recipe does say optional bacon or pancetta. I could also see it with black-eyed peas or navy beans.

Wednesday night dinner was the Crispy Oven Fried Fish and Chips with Dill Sauce, along with leftover coleslaw.

[Mike Nolan]

Leftovers tonight, plus a salad.

[cwcdesign]

I made a farro salad with chopped kale, scallions, pecans, craisins (that I soaked first), chopped apple and crumbled blue cheese with a maple syrup/apple cider vinaigrette - my best version yet.

[Joan Simpson]

We had oyster stew tonight.

BakerAunt we love turnips and the greens cooked with bacon and I add some sugar and chicken stock or bouillon , My husbands cousin makes the turnip green soup with black -eyed peas and a lot more ingredients in the crock pot and they rave about it,looks good but I've never tried it.

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