What are you Cooking the Week of November 2, 2025?

[BakerAunt]

Oh, that looks yummy, Joan.

Our weather has been reminiscent of September or October. Wednesday had a high of 60 F, after an overnight low in the 30s. While that is not exactly beef stew weather, that is what we both wanted for dinner, so I made beef stew. I used stew meat and red potatoes from one of my favored vendors at the farmers market, as well as some of the rosemary from a plant I bought from that booth. A yellow bell pepper came from another vendor. Carrots and mushrooms were from the local grocery store. I thicken it with ground oats. We had it with dinner rolls I baked.

I also made yogurt today.

[RiversideLen]

Joan, your steak dinner looks delicious!

Tonight was more of the same, a stuffed pepper, sugar snap peas and cauliflower and some pasta.

[Joan Simpson]

Thank you BakerAunt and Len my steak was so good.I had an eye appointment today so I had salami, cheese and tomato sandwich, thanks to Mike I now love the salami shaved also.

[cwcdesign]

Tonight was my second night of having tuna with romaine lettuce and a piece of focaccia from the freezer (it came from the bake shop at work).

I went to Vero Beach over the weekend to see my brother and SIL. With the time change and the long drive I started feeling the effects of a cold on Tuesday. Fortunately I'd taken my ginger chicken vegetable soup out of the freezer for dinner that night and a little for last night. With the help of Mucinex, I think I'm keeping it in my head

[Mike Nolan]

We had spaghetti with meat sauce and cheese toast made with Banh Mi rolls.

[BakerAunt]

I hope that you feel better, CWCdesign.

We repeated the beef stew and the rolls for Thursday night's dinner.

[BakerAunt]

We finished the stew on Friday. Most of the rolls are gone. I will need to cook again tomorrow.

[RiversideLen]

Wishing you a full and speedy recovery, CWC.

This afternoon I made rye pizza dough, enough for 3 small pizzas (1/3 each of rye, semolina and bread flour, hydrated with milk). So for dinner, I had a sliced meatball pizza with a side of green beans, cauliflower and carrot.

[cwcdesign]

Thank you BA and Len - I seemed to have turned the corner this morning ~ I may even make bread tomorrow.
Len, your pizza sounds delicious

[BakerAunt]

CWCdesign--Nothing says feeling better than contemplating baking bread!

I did not get the bone-in chicken breasts out of the freezer and into the refrigerator until yesterday evening, so they were not ready to be used for Saturday night's dinner. Instead, I pulled out a recipe that I printed from when I subscribed to the Washington Post, "Orzo Skillet with Salmon, Peas, Dill, and Feta." The recipe called for 1 ½ lb. salmon fillet cut into 1-inch chunks. That seems to me a waste of a salmon filet, which I did not have anyway. I decided to make a half recipe and substitute a 14.5 oz can of salmon. I had a little less than the cup of fresh spinach that I needed. I deleted the onions for Scott but used 1 tsp. dehydrated. I think that green onions would have been a better choice. We have some dill in the freezer that we have been using for pickles, but now that pickle season has ended, I used some of it for this recipe. The recipe comes together fast and only uses one pot, which is always a plus, but the result was an okay fast meal but not an impressive one. Maybe that is because I did not use the fresh salmon, but as I said, I can think of other uses for a large salmon fillet. The recipe makes just about three servings. Scott will happily eat the leftovers for lunch tomorrow.

Earlier in the day, I cooked a large pot of black beans. I refrigerated 30 oz. with some of the liquid, and 25 oz. which I froze with the broth. I also cut, peeled, and chopped two butternut squashes, which I refrigerated until tomorrow, when I am planning on making chili with them and the black beans.

[RiversideLen]

I had pizza again, this time with mushrooms, a few Greek olives and some BBQ pork tenderloin that I took from the freezer.

I have enough dough for one more pizza, I decided to roll it out and freeze it for another time, I have something else in mind for tomorrow.

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