What are you Cooking the Week of November 10, 2024?

[Mike Nolan]

I'm making a big batch of French Onion Soup today, so I just peeled and sliced 10 pounds of onions.

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[Joan Simpson]

I had chicken noodle soup.Ramen noodles with added rotisserie chicken.

[BakerAunt]

I made yogurt on Sunday.

For dinner, I roasted three bone-in chicken breasts (rubbed in oil and coated with Penzey's Justice blend). I also roasted two sweet potatoes after cutting them in chunks and tossing them in olive oil. I was able to buy fresh broccoli at the farmers market yesterday, so we microwaved some of it as well.

[RiversideLen]

I roasted a pork tenderloin and potatoes. Had it with sauteed mushrooms with green beans and carrot.

[Joan Simpson]

I had a repeat of last nights Ramen chicken noodle soup with rotisserie chicken added in.I've never eaten Ramen noodles until last night.

[Mike Nolan]

I made a pizza for supper tonight.

[BakerAunt]

Like Joan, we re-ran last night's dinner, which gave me time for other endeavors. However, we did add some applesauce.

We drove to our favorite orchard on Friday and came home with a half-bushel of Ever Crisp, which is our favored eating apple, a half-bushel of Winesap, which is my favored baking apple, and two half-bushels of seconds that were on sale and recommended for applesauce or apple butter. From the seconds, I selected a bag of Newtown Pippins (a variety that Thomas Jefferson had in his orchard), and Razor Russet, which was discovered in Kentucky in the 1970s. I made applesauce on Monday, using about 5 ½ lbs. of apples, divided evenly between the two. The Razor Russets are a sweet apple, so I added only ½ cup plus 1 Tbs. of sugar. I froze one container and put the rest in a bowl for us to have with dinner tonight and tomorrow. I like the blending of these two apples.

Here's a good site for apple varieties:

https://www.orangepippin.com/varieties/apples

When I made the applesauce, bits of the skin were getting through my food mill yet again. I went to the Pleasant Grains website and looked at tomato-apple processing. (I had looked at it last summer in connection with blackberry processing.) I have ordered a Westen Deluxe Tomato Strainer and Sauce Maker, which can be used for applesauce and for berries. I looked at another hand-crank model for which one could buy a motor adaptor, but I think that the Weston, which is not a clip to the table model and has the motor as part of the unit is more of what I need, not just for processing my apples but for processing blackberries next summer. I will pause my applesauce making until it arrives.

[RiversideLen]

I'm having a rerun too, pork tenderloin with green beans, carrots and mushrooms. Might make a noodle instead of potatoes though.

[Joan Simpson]

I had no idea they're that many apple varieties.

[Mike Nolan]

I've seen a list that had over 1000 apple varieties worldwide. But there are only about a dozen that show up in the grocery stores. The local orchards do carry a few other varieties, such as Winesap, but I haven't found anywhere to get Cortland apples, for example. English/Irish cookbooks often mention the Bramley apple, but nobody seems to be growing it in the USA.

[Joan Simpson]

My sweet neighbor brought me over a big plate of smoked ribs, thigh and leg quarter, baked beans and potato salad. I'm full as a tick and it was delicious .

[BakerAunt]

What a great neighbor you have, Joan!

For dinner on Tuesday, I roasted the only three honey nut squashes our garden produced. It was a disappointing harvest numerically. One squash was the expected size and the other two were much smaller. However, the flavor of the squashes--cut into chunks, tossed in avocado oil, and roasted for 30 minutes at 350 F in the countertop oven--was excellent. We had it with leftover roasted chicken breast and microwaved frozen peas.

[Mike Nolan]

We had onion soup for supper, plus a salad.

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