What are you Cooking the Week of September 29, 2024?

[Mike Nolan]

No plans here yet. Probably leftovers for supper tonight.

Spread the word

      

  

  

[cwcdesign]

I bought a small can of tuna, a ripe avocado, lettuce, triscuits, some Kerrygold cheddar(a splurge) a couple of chocolate bars on sale and 2 bags of ice for my freezer. The freezer is empty - I'm now going to use it as a cooler and the fridge is nearly empty.
Does anyone know how long after the power goes off you can keep fresh eggs. What about things like relish and mustard?

[Mike Nolan]

Fresh eggs should be good at room temperature for a week. Some types of mustard don't need overnight refrigeration, so they should stay good for several days as well, not sure if that's true of relish, may depend on the type.

[BakerAunt]

I roasted two bone-in chicken breasts for dinner on Sunday. I also made another farro stir-fry with broth from the freezer, green onion, red bell pepper, celery, half-cut squash, and kale. We have planned overs to have for dinner tomorrow.

The last time we had a major power failure of about a day, we kept the refrigerator closed, and everything did ok. However, once it gets past a couple of days, I would probably toss relish, etc. I hope that you get power back soon, CWCdesign.

[Mike Nolan]

We did have leftover pizza for supper tonight.

[Joan Simpson]

I had a frozen dinner, been eating a lot of sandwiches.

[BakerAunt]

My husband managed to collect almost a pound of green beans from the garden, He keeps telling me that the plants are slowing down, but that does not appear to be the case. He asked if I would make the Green Bean, Cherry Tomato, and Feta salad again, so I did. We had it with roasted chicken breast and farro stir-fry from yesterday.

[Mike Nolan]

I picked one big tomato and several slightly smaller ones, so we had tuna melts on tomatoes again, might be close to the last time for this tomato season. :sigh: I also picked enough tomatoes for a batch of sauce, and I'll probably pick enough for another batch tomorrow or Wednesday. I think I'm at about 150 pounds of tomatoes for the season, which isn't bad for garden that's about 15x20.

Our cat apparently got into a fight last night, he showed up at the back door with a bloody nose and a big cut beside his left eye. At first we wondered if he had gotten hit by a car, but there don't seem to be any injuries other than on his face.

He went to the vet this morning, he's got one eye that still looks bad but Diane thinks it is looking better than last night or this morning, the vet wasn't sure if it had been punctured or scratched. They did a stain test, it wasn't positive for eye fluid leaking out, but it certainly bled into the eye so I'm hoping he's got the cat equivalent of a shiner. He's got a followup appointment on Wednesday, but even that might be too soon to know if the eye is permanently damaged.

He slept all day, woke up around 5:45 HUNGRY, which is a good sign. He got most of a can of his favorite food, a little at a time, and then a bowl of water from the tuna fish. Now he's taking another nap, with occasional snuffles but his breathing seems pretty much normal now. He hasn't expressed any interest in going outside, which is not something he'll be doing for a while.

[cwcdesign]

I made chicken Caesar salad with rotisserie chicken, romaine, tomatoes and avocado with homemade dressing. We had garlic toasts with it.

Sorry about your cat, Mike.

[Mike Nolan]

I'm hoping he'll mend OK, and maybe this will teach him to be less interested in the neighborhood fauna. Our last male cat took to chasing squirrels, two or three trips to the vet after the squirrel nearly chewed his tail off finally convinced him that they weren't fair game. Jack has been getting too much attention from the foxes, for the last week or two every time he went outside except in the middle of the day, they'd bark at him until we let him back in.

[Joan Simpson]

I could have had anything today and chose 2 hotdogs go figure 🙂

[BakerAunt]

Whatever says comfort food to you, Joan, is the way to go.

We finished off most of the roasted chicken breast, farro stir-fry, and green bean salad. My husband will have the rest of the farro and chicken for lunch tomorrow, and I will have the green bean salad.

I made chicken broth on Tuesday, using the bones from the chicken breast I roasted on Sunday, along with another batch of bones from a previous chicken breast and a whole chicken that I had in the freezer.

I also made pizza sauce by cooking down 2 cups of tomatoes, the last major batch from our garden. I was disappointed not to have had more regular tomatoes this year, although we did well with the cherry tomatoes.

[chocomouse]

We had BLTs for dinner, probably our last for this season as the nights are cold, in the low 50s, and the tomatoes are ripening slowly and not looking so good. I've made 16 quarts of sauce, and tomorrow will make a bucket of tomatoes into salsa, probably yielding around 8 pints. Sorry you didn't get a great crop of tomatoes, BakerAunt. Tomatoes are the only thing that did well in our garden this year - except for lettuce/greens and beans on the deck.

[Mike Nolan]

I had a tomato and salami sandwich, Diane had some of the left-over tuna melt from yesterday.

I picked enough (mostly small) tomatoes today to do another full batch of sauce (10 pounds of tomatoes), but this might be one of the last batches this season, as things are winding down. It was pretty cool today, a high around 70. Supposed to get warmer tomorrow, then cool off, then one (probably last) blast of 90's on Saturday, which is Homecoming for the Huskers.

[BakerAunt]

On Wednesday, I made yogurt. For dinner, my husband pan-cooked some boneless pork, which we had with roasted potato chunks (the last from those my husband grew) and microwaved fresh broccoli.

[Author]

Posts