What are you Cooking the Week of December 29, 2024?

[Mike Nolan]

I had leftover chili, Diane had a salad.

[Mike Nolan]

Georgia made too many mistakes and Notre Dame took advantage of nearly all of them.

Interesting that all 4 of the teams that got automatic byes lost this week, wonder what that'll do to next year's playoffs. There's already talk of expanding to 14 or 16 teams.

[BakerAunt]

Joan--Nothing is sadder than having great snacks with a disappointing football game. 🙁

On Friday, I made yogurt. I also made hummus from chickpeas that I had cooked and frozen a couple of months ago.

For dinner, we finished the pork loin roast with barley, butternut squash, and kale. Leftovers always give me time for other projects!

[chocomouse]

Our dinner was shrimp alfredo on linguini, and a nice, big green salad.

[Mike Nolan]

It was pizza night here, and I had a salad too.

[Mike Nolan]

I am trying a new recipe for supper tonight: cock-a-leekie soup, using a NY Times recipe:

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1022930-cock-a-leekie-soup-scottish-chicken-and-leek-soup

The main ingredients are chicken and leeks, but there's also celery, carrots, bay leaf, thyme, parsley, star anise, rice (or barley) and prunes. (I left out the garlic, of course.) The chicken and leek greens are just starting to get to a boil, and it smells interesting already.

We're in a winter storm watch, with anywhere from an inch to 10 inches of snow forecast, depending upon the latest update. Right now it is just flurries, but it's a good day for a nice warm soup.

[BakerAunt]

I made my final batch of applesauce on Saturday. I am very happy with the Weston Deluxe tomato press. It has made making applesauce so much faster and easier. While I had hoped to use it for blackberries in the coming summer, after reading a review, I do not think that it will work well to remove the seeds, and that reviewer said that trying to use it for blackberries ended up cracking the auger. So, it may just be for applesauce unless someone gives me a lot of tomatoes.

We had snow on Friday and a little bit more overnight. The temperature high this Saturday was 2 1 F, after a morning low of 13 F, so I did not go to the weekly farmers market. I made pizza this evening, which is good for such a cold day.

[Mike Nolan]

The soup was good, but I think I'd do it a bit differently next time, I don't think it reduced enough and as a result it needed more veggies. The star anise adds a subtle flavor to the soup that is more of an after-taste. I tried it with some bread, with oyster crackers and with saltines, all 3 worked well.

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