What are you Cooking the Week of November 29, 2020?

[Mike Nolan]

Leftovers today.

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[Joan Simpson]

I made homemade sloppy Joe we ate open face on bread.

[BakerAunt]

Sunday dinner was leftover turkey, microwaved frozen peas, and Queen squash that I halved and roasted, then filled with cooked red bulgur and baked another ten minutes.

[chocomouse]

We took a break from turkey leftovers and I made spaghetti squash pizza. I made the sausage for it from scratch; it was OK, but I'd like it a bit more spicy. Does anyone have a good recipe for what I would call hot Italian sausage?

[BakerAunt]

I also made a third batch of applesauce on Sunday and froze two containers. There are enough of the seconds apples for a fourth batch.

[Italiancook]

chocomouse, several years ago when Rachel Ray had 30-Minute Meals on Food Network, she often made homemade sausage. I just checked their site for her sausage recipes and can find only one. I don't think it's hot Italian sausage. It's unfortunate that her many sausage recipes have disappeared from the site.

Does anyone know how to obtain a recipe off Americas Test Kitchen without signing up to buy their service after a free trial? I want their Turkey Breast en Cocotte with Pan Gravy recipe but can't find any way to get the recipe without signing up for the free trial which leads to buying a service. Is there a work-around to this?

[rottiedogs]

Not sure what happened to my first reply to this so here's hoping this one sticks. Italiancook - i was able to find three links for this recipe. The first one on the attachment is for an Oregon newspaper article, the second is a blog post. The third is a link with that post to the ATK site. The recipe was not behind a paywall and I was able to access it. I copied and pasted into a word document that I can send you if the links don't work.

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[Italiancook]

Thanks, rottiedogs, for your searching effort and the links. The links wouldn't open, but I thought of a do-around around 11 P.M. last night. I watched the ATK video for the recipe on TV. I used the pause and play buttons to write down the recipe by hand. I'm so sorry you spent your time on this but how nice of you. Maybe the link will open for someone else & they can benefit from the recipe.

I have a 6 pound turkey breast in the freezer, and this recipe calls for a 6-7 pounder. So I'm glad to have the recipe. Thanks, rottiedogs, for your help.

[Joan Simpson]

Tonight I cooked BBQ chicken in pot on top of stove with BBQ gravy to go over rice and we had creamed corn.

[BakerAunt]

We had leftover turkey, microwaved fresh broccoli, and a Queen squash, halved, roasted in the oven, then filled with bulgur and roasted a little longer.

Some of our Queen squashes were sweet, and we liked those a lot. However, we have also had some bitter ones. Does anyone know why there might be a difference? While these are getting old (we have one left), we had an older one that was sweet.

[RiversideLen]

I had a hamburger, fresh green beans and a baked sweet potato.

[Mike Nolan]

Here's some information about bitter squash:

Bitter Squash and Toxic Squash Syndrome

[BakerAunt]

Thanks, Mike. Maybe I should throw out the last squash.

Hmm--We've eaten two in the past two days. I have one left. I did note that the last two we ate did not have a lot of "sugar" leaking out when roasted.

We did have a hot, dry summer, so it's possible that the squash at the end of the season did not get enough water. They were growing next to tomatoes and bell peppers.

[Mike Nolan]

Toxic squash syndrome is, thankfully, not common, but if the squash doesn't taste good, why eat it?

The article seems to suggest that volunteers and growing edible squash near ornamental squash are where to watch for problems.

[BakerAunt]

What we ate was not particularly bitter; otherwise they would have been trashed, not eaten. There were three plants, and we are wondering if one particular seed was the issue.

Today I made another batch of yogurt.

I also used the remaining turkey to make a pasta toss, with carrots, celery, green onion, mushrooms, and broccoli. I use the leftover gravy, which did not come out well because the turkey had a great deal of fluid in it, and that's not conducive to good gravy, even when thickened with some Clear Jel. However, it did make a nice sauce for the turkey, vegetables, and rigatoni. It made enough to have another dinner tomorrow.

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