What are you Cooking the Week of November 7, 2021?

[BakerAunt]

Thank you for the good wishes for my husband, Joan and Chocomouse. He is impatient with injuries, so he probably overdid it the first day. He has been hobbling around the house and even raking leaves. He thinks that he can drive tomorrow, so that we can go get apples.

I had noticed that another one of my smaller butternut squashes had a bad spot, so on Thursday, for lunch, I baked a recipe that I created last year, Butternut Squash, Kale, and Cheese Savory Tart, starting from a Splendid Table recipe for Butternut Squash Galette with Gruyere. Oil crusts do not work for a galette, but I bake the recipe in a 10-inch Emile Henry ceramic tart dish, and it is every bit as good as I recall. Leftovers warm up well in the small convection oven. For the crust, I used olive rather than canola oil and cut the salt by another quarter teaspoon.

I had to substitute pre-grated low-fat mozzarella for the cheddar I used last year because the bag of pre-grated 2% cheddar that I opened yesterday had green mold in its midst. (Note: expiration date is Dec. 25). It would have been present when I used some of the cheese yesterday for an omelet. I had thought it smelled slightly off, but I did not see anything then, and as it was newly opened, I went ahead and used it. Today it went into the trash.

[chocomouse]

This morning I made 2 large pots of soup: clam chowder for my husband, and mushroom for me. There will be plenty left after dinner to put into portion sizes and then into the freezer for busy or lazy days.

[BakerAunt]

For dinner on Thursday, I made the Crispy Oven Fish and Chips with Dill Tartar Sauce. We had it with leftover coleslaw.

[RiversideLen]

I had leftover meatloaf, red cabbage and baked sweet potato. No more leftovers, I'll have to cook tomorrow.

[Joan Simpson]

We had char grilled chicken breast,thickened potatoes and fried okra.

[navlys]

In the past I noticed that bagged shredded cheese would go bad quickly once you opened the bag. But then in the last few years it seems that they did something to the cheese to make it last longer. Maybe you got a bag that expired Dec. 25 2020? Ha ha.

[navlys]

I made chili for our community chili contest. I volunteered to enter because I thought it would be cancelled. My neighbor makes great chili ( as my husband told all the tasters) so I knew I wouldn't win. There were 10 of us cooking. I decided to use a recipe a friend gave me a few years ago since I heard she was a good cook. I was supposed to make 8 quarts!!!! My crockpot holds 6 so that's what I made. After following the recipe I tasted it and found it to be tasteless so I opened my spice cabinet and went to town. I knew it was a crap shoot that I would win and of course the winner was...... MY NEIGHBOR! I did get a lot of compliments however and I was just glad it was edible because we have alot left in our freezer.

[Joan Simpson]

Navlys maybe your neighbor didn't give you all the ingredients,but now you've got chili for the freezer.

Today we had hamburger steaks with sauteed onions and fries.

We went shopping for a few things today and everything was well stocked.

[BakerAunt]

I roasted eight chicken thighs for Friday's dinner and for the next several nights. Tonight, we had it with Oat Wheat Flax Buns and more leftover coleslaw.

[Mike Nolan]

My wife's stepmother's 'football chili' is easy to make but never wins chili contest awards, in part because it doesn't fit into the usual categories for judging as it does not have any chili peppers in it and it has both meat and beans.

But everybody always wants a second bowl of it. It is tasty and mild.

I'm making a pot of it tonight, it is better the second day so I'll cook it for 3-4 hours tonight then put it in several large containers.

[Joan Simpson]

My husband requested tuna salad sandwich and pork-n-beans so that's it today.

[BakerAunt]

On Saturday I made my first of what will be about five batches of applesauce from apples sold as seconds. I froze two 1-cup containers of unsweetened applesauce for baking.

For dinner, I roasted cut-up red potatoes tossed in olive oil and Penzey’s Mural of Flavor. We had the potatoes with leftover roast chicken thighs, applesauce, and microwaved fresh broccoli.

[Mike Nolan]

We had the chili I made last night, it was great. And there's still about 6 quarts of it left, half of which will likely go in the freezer.

[chocomouse]

We had leftover soups and gougeres. Tomorrow I will freeze the leftover leftovers - probably 2 bowls of each kind.

[RiversideLen]

Last night I made a some broccoli/cauliflower soup. I simmered the vegs in about 10 ounces of chicken broth, once tender I blended it with a stick blender in the pot and thickened it with a little potato flakes. Had it with an Italian sausage sandwich.

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