What are you Cooking the Week of November 20, 2022?

[Joan Simpson]

We had meatloaf, creamed corn and green butter beans.

[chocomouse]

I had a green salad, and my husband had baked beans and hot dogs for dinner. I told him he had to finish up the apple pie I made the other day because I need the pie plate for the pecan pie I'm going to make tomorrow. He didn't buy that, he knows I have plenty of pie plates.

[BakerAunt]

My husband cooked boneless pork chops for dinner, and I roasted some cubed sweet potatoes tossed in olive oil. We also had microwaved frozen peas. We also had some of the applesauce that I made on Tuesday. Since my son and daughter-in-law have to leave early Friday morning and will miss leftovers, this way they get the leftovers in advance!

[Mike Nolan]

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Busy day in the kitchen here, with dinner planned for 5:30, but I've got my schedule posted and there are plenty of rest breaks in it, so I don't totally wear out. Right now we're watching the Macy's parade.

I've got the chocolate pie filled and cooling, I'll make meringue once it is a bit cooler. (I'd prefer a Swiss or Italian meringue, but my wife prefers French meringue, even though it has a tendency to weep.)

I tried something a bit different when I was blind baking the pie. I cut a 12" circle of parchment, then made slits around a third of the way in all around so that when I put it in the pie pan the slits folded over each other, which avoids having parchment wrinkles. Seemed to work fairly well. I also chilled the dough after putting it in the pan, that's supposed to reduce shrinkage some.

I read an interesting article online about various ways to blind bake a pie, their preferred way was to use aluminum foil then fill it with granulated sugar and cook it at a lower temperature for an hour. It is supposed to reduce shrinkage and also results in making a batch of toasted sugar. I didn't do that because I don't have a lot of recipes that use toasted sugar, though some might benefit from it even if they don't call for it. (I'd also have to find a place to store it!)

[BakerAunt]

Stella Parks is an advocate of using sugar for blind baking. I think that Aaron started a conversation on it a couple of years ago.

[BakerAunt]

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

The 18 lb. turkey is in the oven. I have some downtime before I need to cook potatoes for muddled mashed potatoes, make the dressing, and then make the gravy. We think that we will be eating between 6 and 6:30 p.m.

[BakerAunt]

Everyone must be in After Thanksgiving Day Mode.

We enjoyed re-running yesterday's feast on Friday.

[Mike Nolan]

Watched Nebraska pull off the upset against Iowa in football, now I'm watching the Nebraska women's volleyball team struggle against Wisconsin, a team they've lost 9 straight matches
to, including the national championship match last December.

Lunch was leftover salad, supper was leftover turkey, stuffing and beans, followed by a piece of chocolate cream pie.

[BakerAunt]

The rest of our pumpkin pie was finished at lunch today.

We had two small boneless pork chops left over from dinner earlier in the week, so for Saturday's dinner I made a small stir-fry with the pork and the soba noodles, deglazing liquid, carrots, celery, green onion, red bell pepper (ripened off the vine on the porch), and broccoli from the farmers' market

[chocomouse]

Dinner was a repeat of Thanksgiving dinner, warmed up leftovers. Just as tasty as the first time around.

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