BRRRR, November, 2023 rolling in! Time to do the rib stickinng goodies!

Happy Thanksgiving Day/weekend to all! From chilly Niagara.

Cookin Lore wrote:Happy Thanksgiving Day/weekend to all! From chilly Niagara.

Happy turkey day to you and all. ENJOY....

Happy Thanksgiving to all.. Still reading everything.. just not logging in...

Today, it was just me and Geoffrey for Thanksgiving.

I purchased a new Ninja 12 in 1 oven, a few weeks ago, because my oven is really horrible. When you live in senior housing, they do not expect you to cook, so they give you the cheapest stuff. This stove is a mini-stove, the oven door does not even close evenly. I gave up trying to
deal with it.

This will be the second time I am using the 12 in 1.  It has 2 ovens. Both small; the top one is tiny, but works well as a toaster oven and broiler. The bottom oven is a bit larger, air fries, air crisps, air bakes, etc.
The smoke detectors do go off when I used it. I found out, through a couple of sources, that I can cover the smoke detectors with shower caps, to keep this from happening.. so this morning-- I did just that.  Surprisingly, it works!! Now, to remember to take them down.

I decided on a non-traditional T-day. Since it was just me, and I really wanted to see if I remembered how to cook, I decided to do so. I do not care for turkey.
A couple of years ago, I made a chicken thighs in a cranberry chutney type of sauce.
I decided to do the same today.

It was stove top sautéed chicken thighs, with a cranberry type of chutney sauce: Whole fresh cranberries, onions, white wine, water, orange zest, fresh orange juice, light brown sugar, S&P..and then placed in the oven to cook further.

My Ninja worked great!! Smoke detector did not go off!!

I tried some air fried green beans - failure-- but win one, lose one. I still ate some.

Sides were Basmati rice with a spring of fresh thyme, and cooked in chicken broth.
And low sodium Stove Top Stuffing.
Pumpkin pie for dessert, with whipped cream.

It all came out good. I guess I have not lost my cooking touch!!  

Clean up was a pain. I did try to keep up with it as I went along..but I am tired.. No dishwasher..
I used paper plates-- easier and pretty on the table.

here are a couple of pictures:  one before the meal.. one with the meal.
I have leftovers... I swear I like the side dishes better than the main course.  I always did.

My food post..

cookingirl wrote:My food post..

We ate on real plates, but I refused. I just love the paper plates; and the plates we have, are the same plates you have for the fall meals. We are also using the 4th of July plates we have left over.
BTW..... your meal looks and sounds great.

stir fry of Calamari rings, onion, red and yellow pepper with cream, over some egg noodles and a bit of spaghetti, 'cause the egg noodles weren't enough! No picture, but you've seen it before! LOL

From Lore:


"Dinner Tonight. London broil from my favourite market, baked potato and veggie mix. Now, I have to admit that I have been on the “I only use fresh veggies” bandwagon, but I have realized that I have been wasting $$$ and throwing veggies away. So, I bought some frozen mixed vegetables and had some tonight. They are a little overcooked for my liking, but I can deal with it. So, I’m willing to try with frozen more often."

A few days ago we had on Charlies request, Swedish Meatgalls. Today we had chili but didn't take pictures.

bethk wrote:I didn't have a clue of what to cook for supper.  Nothing looked/sounded good.

I finally looked at HIM and said, "It's up to YOU to come up with an idea for supper."

HE sat for a full 5 minutes and finally came up with "Order a pizza".......

That would be a good idea, normally, but I'm tired of them not offering the toppings we like and when we do get the pizza it's cold....well, warm, but not the way we like.

So, I came up with the brilliant idea of picking up a thin crust cheese pizza, just par cooked and not cut.....and then I could add the toppings we like and it would bake in my preheated oven in about 5 minutes.

What a plan!

And it worked!  Yes, I could have made a pizza completely homemade ~ but I didn't want to.

I did fry up a bit of chopped bacon.  I sliced some onion.  I sliced a bunch of green olives.

(Alright ~ together now, say, "Ewwwwwww!")

What can I say.  That's what we like ~ Thin Crust, Mozzarella, Bacon, Onion & Green Olives.

YUM!          ((  And I did something I only do probably once a year ~ I had my pizza with a beer.   ))







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What, no pineapple or anchivies? That's not a reall pizza!

The store had these two steaks in one package for $!0. and I just put new burners on my grill. Too good an opportunity to ignore. We had a salad and twice baked potatoes too.

I had leftovers of my Tuesday night dinner. Some beef rib with gravy, potatoes and a particular rolled pasta that my mom used to make. Trying to "Eat out of my freezer" as they say. Tonight it will be a stuffed pepper that was lurking in the bottom of my freezer.

Leftover lasagna rollups for me tonight. Shopped in my freezer again for tonight.