What are you Cooking the Week of November 9, 2025?

[Mike Nolan]

No dinner plans here yet.

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[BakerAunt]

I made turkey and butternut squash chili on Sunday for lunch from a recipe I adapted a couple of years ago. I made a double batch, which was almost too much for my 6 ½-quart Le Creuset pot. For the doubled recipe, I used 2 tsp. chili powder, 1 tsp. cumin, 1 tsp. allspice, and 1 tsp. Penzey's Resist blend. I also used three cans of Del Monte chopped tomatoes with Hatch chilies, so that is just enough heat for me. Scott, of course, is not eating this chili. I also used a can of chopped tomatoes and a can of tomato paste, and a cup of chicken broth from the freezer. I used two medium-sized butternut squash, two long red bell peppers, celery, and onion, as well as 30 oz. of black beans and their broth that I cooked yesterday. I had some for a late lunch, and it was wonderful, especially as we are having the first snow of the year, and it has been heavier than predicted. I froze six one-cup servings for future lunches and put the rest into a container for lunches during this week.

For Sunday dinner, I roasted two bone-in chicken breasts, seasoned with Penzey's Justice blend. In the countertop oven, I roasted two, cubed honey nut squashes. We had some fresh cauliflower from a previous farmers market, so Scott microwaved it to go with the dinner.

[RiversideLen]

I made a (4 lb) chicken in the Instant Pot. On the bottom, I put a celery stalk, carrot, half an onion and several pieces of garlic, then covered it with a cup and a half of water. The chicken was seasoned with salt, a little garlic powder and paprika. Pressure cooked for 30 minutes and let the pressure natural release after it finished cooking. The chicken is soft and kind of bland (I probably should have reduced the cooking time to 25 minutes) but the broth it made is excellent. It's given me an idea on how to make chicken soup in it. Except for making soup, I probably won't make a whole chicken in it again.

[navlys]

I'm making breakfast for dinner. It will consist of a 3 egg omelet made with a 1/2 tsp of sour cream, folded with bacon bits and american cheese. This will be served with an English muffin and a hash brown patty. Back in the day (40+ years ago) my husband would object to the idea of breakfast food for dinner...and now it's one of his favorites.

[Joan Simpson]

Navlys I love breakfast for supper. I had more chicken soup.We're getting our first really cold weather tonight.

[cwcdesign]

I made chicken piccata meatballs with mashed sweet potato and roasted broccoli. I have several more meals this week.

[RiversideLen]

I made a stir fry with broccoli, carrot and some leftover chicken. Had it with rice.

[BakerAunt]

Len, I once cooked a chicken in a regular pot and was disappointed. Roasting just gives it better flavor.

We had leftover roasted chicken on Monday, but I roasted potato chunks to go with it. We also microwaved the rest of the cauliflower with the rest of the broccoli. We had more lake effect snow, and Scott had to knock the snow off of some of the tree branches as some trees still have a lot of leaves.

[Joan Simpson]

I had the rest of the chicken soup and probably will make more tomorrow .Good thing I don't get tired of the same food a lot.I was very cold here this morning, got down to 27 and felt like 20 with wind chill.

[BakerAunt]

Joan--I think that your weather was colder than ours!

I made yogurt on Tuesday morning. For dinner, I used the leftover roasted chicken in a rigatoni pasta dish. I used most of our last cherry tomatoes in the sauce. I sauteed red bell pepper, green onion, sliced celery, carrots, and mushrooms in olive oil. I added ¼ tsp. of Penzey's Ozark Blend and some garlic granules, along with freshly ground black pepper. We had an open container of crumbled goat cheese, so I stirred it in at the end. Scott and I both liked this creation, and we have enough for leftovers tomorrow night. Like Joan, we do not get tired of eating the same food.

[Joan Simpson]

BakerAunt it was so cold, now for the next week we're suppose to not be below freezing.

Tonight I had a steak and baked potato with onions and mushrooms.

[BakerAunt]

I made chicken broth on Wednesday from accumulated bones from chicken breasts.

We had leftovers from last night, as well as a few leftover roasted potato chunks from the night before.

I'm glad to hear that your weather is now above freezing, Joan!

[Joan Simpson]

I had yogurt and fruit for supper tonight .

[Mike Nolan]

I am making a big pot (24 quart stock pot) of beef stock today.

[BakerAunt]

For Thursday night's dinner, I made pecan coated boneless pork slices. I also cut up a honey nut squash, cut it into chunks, tossed it with olive oil, then roasted them in my countertop oven. We had microwaved peas with the meal, as well as applesauce, from last year, from the freezer. It was an easy meal, which was needed, as we did our big shopping run to the very small city about 30 minutes away, then in the afternoon, took our dog Annie for a walk.

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