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Post by brownrexx on Oct 14, 2021 15:34:30 GMT -5
I can make two at a time if I put one under each armpit No thank you.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Oct 15, 2021 15:33:26 GMT -5
Well doggies. I dunno. I have a box of Zatarain’s Red Beans and Rice. That would be pretty easy. I’m mentally and physically drained today. I think I could just go to sleep to be honest. I have days like this.
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Post by brownrexx on Oct 15, 2021 17:09:57 GMT -5
Warm weather today and getting colder next week so I grilled chicken shish-ka-bobs with my last 2 green peppers from the garden. In addition I made a foil packet with some of my red potatoes sliced thin and onions.
Last but not lease a Caprese salad with my very last garden tomato. I brought it in green and it ripened on the kitchen counter.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Oct 15, 2021 23:32:21 GMT -5
Wooo Boy! I might ought to have rethunk the red beans and rice. They may put me outdoors tonight.
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Post by brownrexx on Oct 16, 2021 15:20:38 GMT -5
Cold front coming through dropping the temperature and bringing rain. I made a pot of chicken noodle soup for dinner and it's a perfect meal for a dreary day.
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Post by september on Oct 16, 2021 20:43:39 GMT -5
Meatloaf made in the air fryer. A one pound meatloaf only takes about 25 minutes to bake in the air fryer. While it was cooking, I microwaved two baked potatoes and a side dish of frozen sweet corn, and made a garden salad. Fairly quick supper!
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Post by brownrexx on Oct 17, 2021 10:16:17 GMT -5
september, my brother just bought an air fryer and tried it for the first time yesterday with wings. He said that they were really good but that broccoli didn't work so well and it burned at the edges. I will tell him about trying meatloaf.
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Post by september on Oct 17, 2021 11:54:08 GMT -5
brownrexx , If I do broccoli along with other roasted veggies, I always put them in last near the end of the cooking. The nice thing is that the drawer is so easy to open and check on progress and give it a shake to toss and brown on all sides. I always put carrots in for a few minutes before I add the potatoes.
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Post by brownrexx on Oct 17, 2021 12:04:22 GMT -5
september, I think that like the Instant Pot that the air fryer is a learning experience. I suggested that he try Brussels sprouts or carrots. He does not like cauliflower but I bet that would work well. After you have your shoulder surgery, will your hubby be cooking for you? Does he like to cook? My hubby hates it.
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Post by paulf on Oct 17, 2021 12:07:33 GMT -5
Got out a package of tenderized round steak and DW is making Swiss Steak for supper. Tomatoes and peppers from the garden along with other vegetables. Yesterday we had the final picking of green beans at lunchtime along with tomato and pepper salad with the last zucchini sliced up in the salad. I certainly going to miss the fresh veggies. We need to get to the store for a few more packages of bacon for the last of the BLTs.
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Post by september on Oct 17, 2021 12:31:28 GMT -5
september , I think that like the Instant Pot that the air fryer is a learning experience. I suggested that he try Brussels sprouts or carrots. He does not like cauliflower but I bet that would work well. After you have your shoulder surgery, will your hubby be cooking for you? Does he like to cook? My hubby hates it.
Ha! Jim's idea of cooking is opening a can of soup, or making a frozen pizza! I asked him what he planned to do for me, and he said buy a bunch of frozen pot pies! I'll have to try standing over and coaching him at some point when he tires of processed food! More likely I will have to learn to cook left-handed. There are probably lots of paraplegics that do it all the time, so can't feel too sorry for myself.
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Post by brownrexx on Oct 17, 2021 13:03:35 GMT -5
opening a can of soup, or making a frozen pizza! Yuk, I think that I would learn to cook left handed too!
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Post by pepperhead212 on Oct 17, 2021 20:24:11 GMT -5
It's soup weather! I got my Instant Pot back to use, and, while this can be done as a one dish meal, there is no way to get all that browning in the IP, so I do two things at once whenever I brown mushrooms or meats, or both, as in this delicious mushroom barley beef soup. The broth I used was just 4 c chicken - I'm not crazy about store bought beef broth, but chicken is fine. This darkness is from the browning in the pan, and some from the 1 oz of dried boletus mushrooms - I add those or porcini to just about every mushroom dish I make, except Asian dishes. While sautéing the mirepoix in the Instant Pot, first the mushrooms, then the cubed beef were browned in that wok. While those were all cooking, I squeezed the grit out of the boletus, then filtered the water. All the browning from the mushrooms and the beef, for the soup. by pepperhead212, on Flickr After those were finished, I deglazed the pan with some white vermouth, then that filtered soaking water. I added enough water to make 3 c, plus the 4 c broth, and added to the IP, after cooking some garlic and 2 tb tomato paste the last 2 minutes. I added 3/4 c pearled barley, and the beef, plus a tb of low sodium soy. Then I pressure cooked it for just 15 min., let the pressure release naturally, then added one good sized potato, diced, and the browned mushrooms. It was a little thin, so I also stirred in 1/4 c red lentils. I then pressure cooked them again, for 15 min., let the pressure release naturally, and it was ready! I had to have a second, not quite filled bowl - been so long since I had this, and it was so good! About 2 qts of the mushroom beef barley soup, left in the Instant Pot, after I had my fill! by pepperhead212, on Flickr Mushroom beef barley soup by pepperhead212, on Flickr
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Post by brownrexx on Oct 18, 2021 14:42:19 GMT -5
I have 2 tomatoes that hubby picked up at an Amish farm so I am making BLT's for dinner.
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Post by september on Oct 18, 2021 19:11:12 GMT -5
Another air fryer supper. I hoped to pick up a deli chicken in town, but because it was the middle of the afternoon, my grocery store didn't have any hot cooked chicken available. So I grabbed a couple of pork chops which we don't eat very often. Brown sugar with various spices rubbed in well, 12 minutes total, flipping once. Half a squash microwaved, scooped out and mixed with butter, salt pepper and a bit of brown sugar. Couple of microwaved/baked potatoes and side garden salad. Fast supper.
I still have the squash innards in a strainer in the sink. I like to wash the seeds and oven roast them for snacks. Not really feeling up to standing at the sink picking through for the seeds tonight, so may just put the mess out on the mulch pile for the deer in the morning.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Oct 19, 2021 20:40:10 GMT -5
pepperhead212, I am a soup fiend! I think that’s just about my favorite meal. I’m looking forward to these chilly evenings and a bowl of comfort food. I really wish I could find the exact recipe my aunt used to can. She would have a big bowl waiting on me after school! It had ground beef, potatoes, tomatoes. I can’t remember what else, but I do remember she used bay leaves as part of the seasoning. It also had elbow macaroni, but I think she might have added that later. I don’t think she canned it with macaroni. It was the kind of soup you ate till you were about to bust, but still wanted more! Ahhhhhhh It’s also getting to be cookie weather! I love me some homemade cookies! We had grilled cheese burgers tonight. So good! I like my burgers with bbq sauce. My best friend’s Dad made them like that. I’ve eaten them like that since early grade school. One of my fondest memories of him involve him standing by that small round grill, asking how many we wanted. If you told him 6, he didn’t bat an eye! He knew we loved our burgers!
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Oct 19, 2021 20:55:22 GMT -5
Got out a package of tenderized round steak and DW is making Swiss Steak for supper. Tomatoes and peppers from the garden along with other vegetables. Yesterday we had the final picking of green beans at lunchtime along with tomato and pepper salad with the last zucchini sliced up in the salad. I certainly going to miss the fresh veggies. We need to get to the store for a few more packages of bacon for the last of the BLTs. Oh my goodness! It’s been quite awhile since I’ve had Swiss steak, but it was sure good! There was a cook at the local cafe. She had lunch specials and served Swiss Steak pretty regularly. She was a big ol’ gal standing nearly 7 feet tall and she Kinda looked like Alice the Goon. She was not the kind of woman you gave any lip to either. I don’t think even in my younger day, I’d have wanted to go toe to toe with her. She made me laugh once when I was about 19. I flopped down in my usual seat and when she stepped out of the saloon doors she hollered “C’mere boy, You’re a big strapping boy, help ol’ Sally out. I followed her to the kitchen. She wanted me to lift the milk crate and put it in the dispenser. I had to laugh cause she was well over a foot taller and probably as strong as I was. I did as I was told. I got my meal free that day. Ol’ Sally was quite the gal.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Oct 20, 2021 16:34:14 GMT -5
We had hotdogs tonight with Fries and Baked Beans. Sandman cake for dessert.
Sandman cake is from the 70’s I think. I know that’s when my Mom started making it. Canned pineapple into baking dish, sprinkle cake mix on top, add sliced butter and bake. Easy peasy. We usually use two cans of pineapple chunks and discard the juice from one can. They save that one for me to drink!
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Oct 20, 2021 16:46:42 GMT -5
There’s a funny story about the sandman cake. My Mom showed my wife how to make this simple dump cake. One evening we went to visit an aunt of mine. She was well into her 80’s at the time. My wife told her she would make dessert. My wife started opening the cans of pineapple and she dumped them into a baking dish, then she started sprinkling the cake mix on top. My aunt pulled her to the side and whispered “honey, you can’t make a cake like that, you’ve got to mix it up with eggs and oil. Then pour it over your fruit. My wife tried to explain to her, but my aunt just shook her head. After supper, wife served the cake and my aunt was surprised! She said “I never in my life seen a cake made like that, but darned if it ain’t good.” We all had a big laugh.
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Post by september on Oct 20, 2021 21:02:42 GMT -5
hairymooseknuckles , is that yellow cake mix or white for the sandman cake? I think I made a cherry chocolate dump cake a few years ago, don't remember that much about it, I suspect it may have been pie cherry mix. The pineapple sounds good, Jim loves anything with pineapple in it, maybe he can learn to make that!
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Oct 20, 2021 22:19:55 GMT -5
september, Yes, it’s a yellow cake mix. It probably doesn’t make a lot of difference in taste. We use a good amount of butter. The butter needs to melt all over the mix so it creates the cake crumb topping. I think wife usually uses 1 1/2 to 2 sticks of butter. I also make the dump cakes like your talking about with the pie filling. In fact, I use different pie fillings for different taste. If I use a spice cake mix, I use apple pie filling and a can of root beer. If I’m making one with Cherry Pie filling, I’ll use a chocolate cake mix and a Dr. Pepper. I make those in my Dutch Ovens.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Oct 20, 2021 22:46:40 GMT -5
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Post by paulf on Oct 21, 2021 10:46:05 GMT -5
Bacon-lettuce-TOMATO sandwiches for lunch today. We hope this will continue for weeks. Harvest is dwindling and winter is coming.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Oct 22, 2021 0:26:37 GMT -5
Fried Okra, macaroni and cheese and Pinto beans
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Post by september on Oct 22, 2021 21:31:42 GMT -5
We had sausage and mushroom pizza delivered to us paid by neighbors that Jim did a favor for yesterday! Our elderly neighbors both have to be in a nursing home now, and their kids that live 200 miles away are trying to straighten out past bills. They will phone in a pizza for us. So sweet!
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Post by pepperhead212 on Oct 24, 2021 19:55:42 GMT -5
I made a mixed vegetable kootu, using my smallest butternuts, and the end of my okra, plus a small sweet potato that was sprouting, and a small potato that was sprouting. I made this in the Instant Pot, using slow cook mode, starting out with 3 different dal, and a few steel cut oats (maybe 1/3 c left when I filled the glass jar), some water, salt, and turmeric, for about 90 minutes. While that cooked, I made that raita, I got a couple of things done outside, then I got the seasoning paste ready, and the vegetables peeled and cut up. The okra went in for about 20 minutes, then that seasoning paste, and the squash and potatoes. That cooked another 20 minutes on low cook high, then I added that tarka mix, and let it sit on off about 5 minutes. Served it with some sorghum/rye bread sticks, plus that raita, using some of my last mint from outside. Ingredients for the seasoning paste for the butternut kootu, fresh and dry peppers, ginger, and cumin, followed by coconut. by pepperhead212, on Flickr Ground up paste, after the coconut was added. by pepperhead212, on Flickr 3 dal, plus some oats, cooked for the kootu, after cooking the okra briefly, and adding the butternut. by pepperhead212, on Flickr The tarka for the kootu, cooked in coconut oil, with shallots added at the end, to slow down the cooking. by pepperhead212, on Flickr Finished mixed vegetable kootu, topped with some curry leaves. by pepperhead212, on Flickr Super simple cucumber raita, with just some cumin and mint, with the yogurt. by pepperhead212, on Flickr
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Post by spike on Oct 29, 2021 11:03:59 GMT -5
Take that you fancy cooks . . .
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Post by september on Oct 29, 2021 14:17:09 GMT -5
Ok, tomato blood ketchup I will use, but I draw the line at licorice flavored hot dogs!
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Post by september on Oct 29, 2021 14:34:18 GMT -5
Made chili for supper last night. I find I can use my right hand if elbow is tight to my side and using torso movement to saw the knife back and forth to cut onions and peppers, instead of flexing my wrist. A bit clumsy, but it works. The rest was just opening cans of beans and tomatoes. We don't have an electric can opener, but I can start the cut with my right hand and then do most of the cranking with my left. Chili turned out good, had the rest for lunch today. Jim has been out fishing every spare moment, the boat dock will be coming out this Sunday and the walleyes are biting well. I didn't want to wait around for help. Shoulder is doing fine, very little discomfort.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Oct 29, 2021 16:38:00 GMT -5
Ok, tomato blood ketchup I will use, but I draw the line at licorice flavored hot dogs! You and me both! I don’t like anything licorice flavored! That’s Butt Nasty! september, I bought me one of those electric “safe” can openers. I love it so much! It makes making the Fancee Feeast stoves Sooooo EASY!!!!!
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