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Home › Forums › Cooking — (other than baking) › What are you Cooking the Week of February 19, 2023?
Mike Nolan.We had grilled cheese and fries.
Will's making chicken fried rice - it smells so good!
Tuna sandwiches!
Hamburger steaks with onion and mushroom gravy, mashed potatoes and leftover butter beans and squash.
Dinner tonight was salmon on the grill, baked potatoes, and roasted mixed veggies.
We had chili again tonight.
Eggs, anyone??
Dinner was meatloaf, whole kernel corn, and broccoli.
Dinner on Tuesday was large lima beans cooked with a meaty ham bone from the freezer. I added 1 Tbs. dried onion and 1 tsp. thyme, along with some black pepper after the beans were done. I removed the bone, cut off the meat and put it back in with the beans. I cooked brown rice separately, and I sauteed separately chopped orange bell pepper and celery in olive oil, then added kale and a little bit of turnip greens, along with more olive oil. I mixed it all together in the pot with the beans. I added 2 tsp. of cider vinegar to balance the greens. We have at least four more dinners from tonight's meal.
We had fried cubed pork, mixed greens and potato salad.
I made my "Every Six Days" batch of yogurt on Wednesday.
I use a candy thermometer for the temperature of the milk. I have to bring it to between 112-120F and keep it there for ten minutes in the first step of the process. The markings are coming off of the candy thermometer, which I clip to the side. Does anyone have a suggestion of a thermometer that would not have these issues, and that I could leave in the milk while heating it and for the ten minutes of keeping it at temperature?
I recently bought a Thermoworks ChefAlarm to replace my CDN candy thermometer. Like many digital thermometers, it has a clip that allows the probe to hang on the side of your pan without touching the bottom. (And it came in purple.)
I've used it a few times for cooked sugar candies.
It comes in a nice pouch that makes it easy to store in a drawer without the cord getting all tangled up.
I love my ChefAlarm (mine's green). I use it for everything - the pot clip is useful. I even use it to manage my cooking in my fast slow cooker.
cwcdesign, regarding use in your slow cooker: Does the ChefAlarm probe fit into the meat to let you know when the meat is done?
I have a problem with my new slow cooker in that it cooks meat faster. I don't like removing the lid to check temp with Thermapen, because the cooker takes a while to get back up to temperature.