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I had a hamburger, leftover mashed potato and broccoli.

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Last night I had a hamburger, broccoli and mashed potato. Tonight will be a repeat as I have leftover potato although the veg might be different.

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I'd have more appliances if I had the space.

I have a Frigidaire refrigerator and it's gone through a number of defrost timers. It must be on number 4 or 5. The last time I needed one, my brother told me to buy 2 of them, to keep one on hand. That was good advice. Fortunately, mine is fairly easy to access through the console on the ceiling of the fridge, where the temp controls are, so I've been doing it myself (thank you, YouTube). It's been about 3 years since the last replacement, a record for this fridge! I've taken the old ones apart and saw that the gears are plastic. I think that plastic gears become stubborn over time.

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Tonight I made pizza in the toaster oven, I par baked the crust on parchment for 3 minutes and then topped it (sauce and cheese only) and baked it for 10 minutes and then switched it to convection for a couple of minutes to brown the cheese. It came out perfect. Had it with a side of mushrooms and sugar snap peas.

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That's a yummy looking steak and onions, Joan!

Yesterday I made steak, mushrooms and sugar snap peas and a simple salad.

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I bought a new toaster oven, it claims to have 7 functions but I think some of them are the same function with a different name. For instance, what is the difference between the convection and air fry, or bake and roast? Anyway, one of the things I want to do is be able to make pizza without heating up the entire kitchen as would happen with the regular oven. So I debated between a pizza stone or pizza pan sized for the toaster oven. Since a stone would require pre heating I opted for an 11 inch pizza pan. The pan has holes in it so I know I can't just put raw pizza dough on it as it would imbed into the holes. So, I cut out a parchment circle and par baked the crust for 5 minutes. Then I removed it, took out the parchment, returned the crust to the pan and topped it.

in the oven

Baked for about 12 minutes at 450 (the maximum temp) and then switched it to convection to speed up the browning of the cheese. It came out pretty good; the bottom of the crust came out a little north of golden brown and was crispy but just a tad dry. Next time I will switch to convention at the 10 minute mark so I can remove it just a little sooner.

This was a test pizza so I kept it plain

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That's a plethora of veggies, BA, it sounds yummy!

I made pasta sauce yesterday. Yesterday and tonight I had pasta and a large salad.

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I had an Italian sausage sandwich with sweet peppers and a large salad.

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Tonight I made a stir fry with leftover pork tenderloin, sugar snap peas, carrot and broccoli.

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That sounds like a good time, BA.

Yesterday I roasted a pork tenderloin. For dinner tonight I had a large salad and pork tenderloin tacos.

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Good luck with the dental surgery, Mike.

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Lately I've been living on store bought bread so today I decided to make a batch of my rye/semolina/wheat sandwich buns.

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Yesterday I made meat sauce for pasta. I browned some ground beef, with diced carrots. I added 2 large Roma tomatoes that I chopped, then a half can of tomato paste and enough water to make the right consistency. A little bit of fresh garlic and enough oregano. Also added some Greek olives.

Had it with a simple salad. I have enough for tonight and tomorrow.

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I made a salad and an Italian sausage sandwich.

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Joan, your strawberries look good, I bet they would go good on waffles!

Tonight I had a leftover porkchop, a salad and sugar snap peas.

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