October, 2021 What's in the kitchen now?

We had Gumbo for lunch.  It was frozen in a boil-in bag.  Charlie could tell right away that I had not made it.  I seldom get prepared soup because it always disappoints.  What is so difficult about making soup?  Also I remember reading that if you get a bowl of gumbo and it has rice in it, it isn't gumbo.  It is served with rice but not cooked with rice.

Leftover meatballs with spaghetti. Shrimp as a side, and garlic toast as a pusher. Chocolate bark with nuts. for dessert. ( cashews )

We had Tina's shepherds pie.... It was good.

From Lore:


"Dinner Tonight. Sweet potato, red cabbage and a London broil."

I shred the cabbage, sautee a half a Spanish or Vidalia onion in a bit of oil, add cabbage and about a cup of water, start that simmering, peel, chop a couple of apples, add them to the pot. Add a fair amount of black pepper, a bay leaf or two, a couple of cloves, some salt and simmer until it tastes good to me. Simmer until it's done, about 35-45 minutes. Apples in red cabbage are a real "German" thing. I have cheated and used a can of applesauce. It works great. JUst make sure you check occasionally that it's still got moisture. Burnt red cabbage is NOT GOOD! LOL

Soup.... Chicken soup. Tina made it the way I do N O T like it.
Why ???... cuz the carrots were whole, and way way too soft.
Celery was whole ribs. And the onion was whole. I like my stuff cut up bite size.
Oh, and the celery had to be cut up in order so the long strings would not gag me. She did pick the strings off but missed a few.

UNCLE JIMMY wrote:Soup.... Chicken soup. Tina made it the way I do N O T like it.
Why ???... cuz the carrots were whole, and way way too soft.
Celery was whole ribs. And the onion was whole. I like my stuff cut up bite size.
Oh, and the celery had to be cut up in order so the long strings would not gag me. She did pick the strings off but missed a few.  

I'm pretty sure I wouldn't like that soup too much either. I like my veggies cut up in soup also. But then there is an invention called a knife to cut things up! LOL.

Cookin Lore wrote:

UNCLE JIMMY wrote:Soup.... Chicken soup. Tina made it the way I do N O T like it.
Why ???... cuz the carrots were whole, and way way too soft.
Celery was whole ribs. And the onion was whole. I like my stuff cut up bite size.
Oh, and the celery had to be cut up in order so the long strings would not gag me. She did pick the strings off but missed a few.  

I'm pretty sure I wouldn't like that soup too much either.  I like my veggies cut up in soup also.  But then there is an invention called a knife to cut things up! LOL.

Wha Wha What??... that's too much work!

UNCLE JIMMY wrote:

Cookin Lore wrote:

UNCLE JIMMY wrote:Soup.... Chicken soup. Tina made it the way I do N O T like it.
Why ???... cuz the carrots were whole, and way way too soft.
Celery was whole ribs. And the onion was whole. I like my stuff cut up bite size.
Oh, and the celery had to be cut up in order so the long strings would not gag me. She did pick the strings off but missed a few.  

I'm pretty sure I wouldn't like that soup too much either.  I like my veggies cut up in soup also.  But then there is an invention called a knife to cut things up! LOL.

Wha Wha What??... that's too much work!

I made chowder today. It had corn, potatoes, ham and bacon. I made creamed corn with whole corn kernels because the last time I got a can of creamed corn, it was pieces of corn and didn't look or taste as good as I expected. I added ham to the recipe so it would be a more of a meal.

Today was our Thanksgiving. Kids came about 4, and are gone again.  I made a turkey breast, a goulash, the Strudel pasta dish and potatoes that I talked about some time ago, red cabbage, corn straight out of the can, homemade cranberry sauce, and extra oven roasted potatoes.  Kids took basically all the leftovers, no one wanted the cranberry sauce.  They all said they don't eat it, so that's going down the toilet.  Son Danny said mom you can freeze it.  I said "sure, then I will give it to you again at Christmas so that you can say "no thanks" again???

DIL Lisa brought pumpkin pie and whipped cream for dessert.  Lisa took pictures, I'll try to forward them.  Fun day.  Tomorrow I'm meeting a friend from my B&B days for lunch.  She lives in British Columbia, but has been visiting her daughter near Toronto, so I'm driving there to meet her for lunch.

Tina made a big pot of beef stew. Carrots, potatoes, and button mushrooms.
It was great!

I found some Kalbi in the freezer and it got grilled. The hot dog was incase we ate all the ribs and were still hungry. There were leftover kalbi.

I had a naked burger, and grilled zucchini for supper.