Mike Nolan
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December 14, 2025 at 9:12 pm in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of December 14, 2025? #47945
I was planning to do a pot roast but the Nebraska volleyball game went on longer than I expected (they lost in 5 sets to Texas A&M) so we went with takeout pizza/lasagna instead for tonight, I'll probably do the pot roast on Tuesday.
We're having onion soup again.
A former neighbor is the head of the Lincoln Sysco office; he told me that All-Trumps (high gluten flour) was what a lot of pizza and bagel places used here. He brought me a big bag of it, it wasn't very good for bread but it worked well for bagels, though I thought it was bit too strong for pizza dough.
We had some onion soup from the freezer, using some lavash instead of stale bread. Worked very well.
I have a very nice 8" fine mesh bouillon funnel/strainer and I use it frequently, I also have several coarser mesh canning strainers, so they store stacked inside each other for storage.
We had the last of the turkey pot pies for supper tonight.
I think we're having mushroom soup and tuna fish sandwiches for supper.
I'm roasting a couple of sweet potatoes for Diane, supper will be tomato soup with fried cheese on lavosh.
December 6, 2025 at 12:57 am in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of November 30, 2025? #47888We had hot ham and cheese sandwiches.
We had turkey pot pies again.
We had pot pies again for supper. Simple, fast and tasty.
It keeps flirting with above-freezing temperatures and we had some bright sun today, but tomorrow night the expected low is 1.
This time I went with both a bottom and top crust, sometimes I just do the top crust. I used a hot water pie dough (Susan Purdy's recipe except using Crisco instead of margarine), sometimes I've made laminated dough and used that, makes for a really flaky top.
Either way, they're usually very good, light on the turkey, heavy on the potatoes, celery, carrots and peas and lots of gravy.
I'm making 8 4-inch turkey pot pies, just went into the oven. A bit messier than I had hoped but I think they'll taste fine.
Mini pies or hand pies always seem to have a higher crust-to-filling ratio. But I like pie crust, so it usually isn't an issue for me either. I'm thinking about doing some 4" turkey pot pies with leftovers vs a 9 or 10 inch pot pie.
We had hot ham and cheese sandwiches again, I also had a small bowl of soup, Diane had some potato salad.
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