What are you Cooking the Week of December 6, 2020?

[Italiancook]

My husband cooked a ham steak with mashed potatoes for lunch. Delicious even though he didn't include a green vegetable.

[Mike Nolan]

My wife is making another batch of black bean soup, she soaked the beans with a little baking soda this time, then rinsed them off several times.

They're breaking up MUCH faster. In addition to some chopped celery and carrot, I put in some frozen celery pulp and carrot pulp from my vinegar batches.

I took the rest of the pulp (about a pound of each) and added some onion pulp, some of the tomatoes that I picked in October before the frost that have been sitting in trays in the garage, some turnip, some left over leeks from potato-leek soup and a bunch of spices, to make a nice pot of vegetable stock.

[skeptic7]

Yesterday I had a Parsnip-Carrot soup which I had made the day before. It was a fairly simple recipe and I ran through a food mill twice to get a creamy texture. It was wonderful. I was surprise as it had very few spices, and looked so bland and unappetizing with whole pieces of white potato and white onion and white parsnips, there were some pieces of orange carrot but that didn't dispell the overall blandness. But it came out a pleasant light orange out of the food mill and it had a wonderful slightly sweet taste. I ate it with my basic cheese pizza.

[BakerAunt]

Your soup sounds delicious, Skeptic.

For Wednesday dinner, my husband cooked some pork, and I roasted the last of the sweet potatoes from the farmers’ market, drizzling them with a bit of maple syrup ten minutes before they were done. Microwaved frozen peas completed the meal.

We should be able to coast on leftovers from last night and tonight through the end of the week. More time for baking!

[RiversideLen]

I pulled the turkey carcass from the freezer and made some stock, something I've been meaning to do for a while.

Dinner will be my last leftover pork chop with pasta.

[Joan Simpson]

We went grocery shopping today Target and Publix so it was easy tonight we had hamburger steak,french fries and green salad.

[Italiancook]

I have a pot roast on the stove. It's for tomorrow's dinner with mashed potatoes, gravy, and vegetable medley.

[Joan Simpson]

Tonight we had a fried pork chop, mustard greens, potato salad and corn bread.

[BakerAunt]

With some trepidation, I roasted our last queen squash on Friday. Before I put the cooked bulgur in and returned it to the little oven, I had my husband taste it. He pronounced it fine, so we proceeded; otherwise, I would have tossed it. While not as sweet as some we have had, they did not have the slightly bitter taste. We had it with leftover pork, leftover sweet potatoes, and microwaved fresh broccoli.

[RiversideLen]

I cooked some ground chicken, added some jar pasta sauce to it and had it over penne.

[Joan Simpson]

We had fried cubed pork,rice and tomato gravy with green beans and apple and banana salad mixed up with a little sugar and mayonnaise.

[BakerAunt]

Every now and then, I miss having moderately spicy food, which my husband cannot eat. For lunch on Saturday, I made soup, using chopped red onion that I needed to use up, a chopped small stalk of celery, 2 chopped carrots, a chopped bell pepper, and 2 large cloves of garlic. I cooked those in some olive oil, before adding a can of chopped tomatoes with hatch chilis (mild). I used about a cup of turkey renderings that I accidentally thawed, 3 ½ cups of frozen broth from last year’s Christmas turkey, and 1 ¼ cups of cooked black beans that I’d frozen. (The beans were what I thought I was grabbing from the freezer last night instead of the turkey renderings.) I seasoned with ½ tsp. Penzey’s chili powder and a couple dashes of cayenne (old so not so hot). My final addition was Christmas shaped pasta. It is just what I was craving, and I have enough for lunches into next week.

[Joan Simpson]

Tonight we had taco salad I had mine rolled in a flour tortilla.

[BakerAunt]

Saturday night dinner was stir-fry, made with celery, carrots, red bell pepper, mushrooms, broccoli, green onion tops, leftover pork, deglazing from when the pork was cooked, and soba noodles.

[Mike Nolan]

I made a small batch of barbecue sauce today and then boiled down my beef stock a bit, portioned it out and froze it.

For supper we had Costco cheese tortellini with tomato sauce plus some cheese toast rolls.

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