What are you Cooking the Week of June 4, 2023?

[chocomouse]

Skeptic, you must be getting some of the smoke at your place, too. I can smell it in the air here, but we're sort of on the edge of "OK not OK". I'm very sensitive to smoke and will be happy when it clears out. The weather folks keep pushing that time-line ahead, but hopefully by the weekend. My plants definitely need some sun!

I love making the baked pancakes - it's so much easier than scooping and flipping them on the griddle. It's the same recipe, same flavor, same texture.

[skeptic7]

Chocomouse; I'm in Lexington Ky currently so haven't experienced any smoke yet. I'm hoping that the wind patterns never bring the smoke this far West.

[BakerAunt]

In north-central Indiana, we are having some haze from the fires.

[chocomouse]

Dinner was chicken salad wraps.

[navlys]

Our wine club theme this month was Austrian wine. I had to find something to make ahead as I had to host samba from 1 to 5. I found a pasta recipe that called for Black Forrest ham and I thought "close enough"! I cooked the bow tie pasta ahead and stored with a little oil in a bag on the counter. Then I chopped plum tomatoes , cubed ham, diced red onion, chopped sweet gherkins, sliced radishes and swiss cheese. Then I defrosted some peas. The sauce was mayo, sour cream and pickle juice. I topped the dish with herbs (basil, chives and parsley)before serving. It was a concoction I ultimately made up and it worked. I received several compliments.

[Mike Nolan]

At last weekend's family reunion, my wife's cousin brought a pasta salad with diced apples and pineapple in it. It was quite good, I'll suggest she ask for the recipe.

[navlys]

That pasta salad sounds good too!

[Mike Nolan]

We had burgers on the grill, plus 4 bean salad.

[RiversideLen]

On Tuesday and Wednesday, I made big salads for dinner with slices of left over pork roast.

Yesterday I made a sirloin steak on the BBQ and had some with chicken veg soup. For tonight I think it's going to be a steak sandwich with chicken veg soup.

[BakerAunt]

On Saturday, I made my black-eyed peas with a combination of brown and red rice, ham from the freezer, yellow bell pepper, celery, kale, thyme and some fresh black pepper. We ate the rest of the leftover potato salad on the side.

[chocomouse]

We had ribs on the grill, asparagus, and Greek orzo salad.

[Mike Nolan]

We had tacos. And got about 3/4 inch of rain in maybe 15 minutes this evening. Hardest I've seen it rain in quite a while.

I made over 2 quarts of chicken stock from the bones of the rotisserie chicken we had a few days ago, I'm planning to make a chicken pot pie tomorrow, the high is supposed to be only 75.

[Joan Simpson]

We had steak and potato.

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