What are you Cooking the Week of January 12, 2025?

[RiversideLen]

I made a little chicken veggie soup and had it with a burger.

[Joan Simpson]

Tonight it's left over pizza.

[BakerAunt]

We finished up the black-eyed peas, rice, and ham--and yes, we also ate it yesterday.

On Thursday, I made Cauliflower soup for lunch, a favorite recipe since graduate school. I froze one serving and have two servings for lunches this weekend.

I also roasted and processed the two small fairy tale pumpkins that my husband grew over the summer and fall. They did not get very large, and had it not been for the hard freeze not arriving until late November, they might not have ripened enough to use, as happened with two smaller ones we lost. The plants will need to be started much earlier. Between the two pumpkins, I got 571 g of pumpkin puree. I am thinking about what I will bake with it.

[RiversideLen]

Tonight I roasted a pork tenderloin and had it with pasta and broccoli.

[Mike Nolan]

We had a rotisserie chicken Thursday.

[BakerAunt]

I made yogurt on Friday.

For Friday dinner, I decided to try a new recipe for salmon, so I adapted "Honey-Dijon and Pecan Baked Salmon with Asparagus," a recipe from when I subscribed to The Washington Post. I made some changes, as my husband does not care for asparagus, which is not in season anyway. I replaced the honey with maple syrup and deleted the garlic. I used Panko rather than Italian breadcrumbs, and I replaced the finely chopped pecans with some of the pecan meal that I bought in Georgia on our way home from Florida. It was fast to make, and we both agree it should be in our dinner rotation. To go with the salmon, I roasted sweet potato chunks in my countertop oven and microwaved frozen peas.

[Mike Nolan]

We finished off the meat loaf today.

[chocomouse]

Friday night we had a full turkey dinner - with roasted sweet potatoes, squash, Pepperidge Farm dressing, and cranberry sauce.

[Joan Simpson]

Friday I had a chicken Caesar salad.

[Joan Simpson]

I had two big baking potatoes that I needed to use so I made potato soup today. Sure was good on this cool rainy day.

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[Mike Nolan]

I'm doing a sirloin tip roast with wild rice, mushrooms and parmesan cheese, a takeoff from a recipe from the Cook's Illustrated "Meat Illustrated" book, using wild rice instead of barley, which Diane doesn't like.

I also made another batch of custard, in large part to warm up the house. It's about 20 outside and heading down already.

[BakerAunt]

I noticed that one of my spaghetti squashes had developed a soft spot, so I roasted it after lunch on Saturday, then refrigerated the strings. I will decide in a couple of days how I will use it.

Dinner on Saturday was turkey with blue bag Pepperidge Farm dressing, the last of my cranberry-cherry sauce, and microwaved fresh broccoli. I also made gravy with the defatted turkey drippings after deglazing the pan with a couple of splashes of white wine. I thickened it with some flour, but I also tried adding 2 Tbs. of flax meal, which worked very well. For dessert, we had more of the Pecan Pumpkin Squares that I baked yesterday. I like a "Thanksgiving in January" and am looking forward to the leftovers.

If we had done the turkey yesterday, as planned, we would have coordinated with Chocomouse and husband's Thanksgiving in January!

Our temperatures are also heading down. We have three days of subzero temperatures, at least overnight, predicted.

[Mike Nolan]

The sirloin tip roast was a little disappointing, but sirloin tip tends to have several membranes in it, which is why it is often cut up into smaller pieces for some kind of stew.

The sauce with the wild rice was probably the best part of the dish, but I think we would have liked it better with marsala rather than brandy in it.

[RiversideLen]

I made stuffed peppers and had one with a double baked potato and green beans.

[chocomouse]

Dinner here was leftover Duchess soup that I had made yesterday for a luncheon. And a piece of leftover decadent chocolate cheesecake. BakerAunt, we could have at least Faced-Timed the pile of dirty "Thanksgiving" dishes in the sink!!

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