What are you Cooking the week of December 20, 2020?

[Mike Nolan]

I made our potato leek soup for tonight using the vegetable stock I made and froze a few weeks ago, normally I use chicken stock. It made a subtle difference in the flavors, a bit lighter and I could taste the tomato that was in the stock, I don't use tomato in chicken stock.

I made some minestrone once using Trader Joe's vegetable stock, which I thought had an odd flavor that affected the soup. My home-made vegetable stock was good enough by itself that I could have seen serving it like a consomme. I need to make more.

[Joan Simpson]

Tonight we had BBQ pulled pork, coleslaw and baked beans.

[kimbob]

Per mom's request, Christmas dinner is lobster tail. I'll make clarified butter, fries, and coleslaw.

[cwcdesign]

We had delicious salmon with a maple mustard glaze for dinner last night with roasted broccoli and brown rice and some of the maple apple cake for dessert

[Joan Simpson]

Christmas supper for us was just a regular meal, we had meatloaf, macaroni and cheese and greens that was already cooked from the freezer, lemon pound cake and cookies our neighbor gifted us.

[cwcdesign]

The salmon was for Christmas Eve. We had eggs Benedict for breakfast with homemade English Muffins. Dinner was a charcuterie board with Wills sourdough baguette and some sparkling Cava

[BakerAunt]

For Christmas dinner, I made maple-glazed pork tenderloin and mashed potatoes, which we had with some of the applesauce I made earlier this week. We also had microwaved frozen peas and carrots. Dessert was pumpkin pie.

[Joan Simpson]

We had taco salad today.

[BakerAunt]

We had leftover pork tenderloin and mashed potatoes, accompanied by frozen broccoli that we microwaved. I keep frozen broccoli around to put with cooked noodles, etc. I do not really like the taste of cooked frozen broccoli alone, but we are low on vegetables.

[Mike Nolan]

Cooked frozen chopped broccoli actually goes fairly well with macaroni and cheese.

[skeptic7]

I wanted to try something different for Christmas. I had been thinking about this recipe for awhile.

Chinese-Style Spareribs

I cooked one rack of ribs with the spice mixture as shown. I left out the salt to get a salt-free spice mixture. I also had Baked Lentils -- this is supposed to be Lentils with a baked bean flavor. It was tasty enough but a lot more mild than a true New England baked bean recipe. However it cooked in about 2 hours on the stovetop as opposed to all day like real baked beans. Also the recipe said DO NOT use the little French lentils, but that was all I had. I'd like to do this again but with more molasses and mustard and other baked bean seasonings.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/recipes/barbecue-baked-lentils/17495/

I had this with kale and sweet potatoes.

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