DECEMBER 2019, What's cooking this month??

Imelda HL wrote:I ate too much this last 2 days, we had my Eye round roast, next time I'll go back to my rib roast, I was not satisfied how it turned out, though nobody complained, I should have spent more $50 to buy that Rib-eye roast, I'll post the pictures later, I can't find my camera now. On Christmas day we went to morning mass with my in-laws and breakfast at Coco's afterward, that was a big breakfast for us, for dinner we ate ham, baked potato, steamed veggies, and cherry pies from coco's for dessert

Today we ate light meal after the holiday feast, I made some spring rolls, I stuffed them with steamed zucchini and carrot "noodles", 2 minutes in microwave, seasoned with salt and black pepper only, added some shredded leftover rotisserie chicken and cilantro, it turned out so good and refreshing

NormM wrote:Hope your Christmas was a happy one too Imelda.  I always avoid any roast from the rump or round.  I don't know how to make them taste as good as other roasts.

bethk wrote:

It's a bit harder to use rice wrappers than the eggroll wrappers, we need to soak them in warm water, some small tears here and there, but the wrapper is flexible ( I hope it's a right word to use ), so it's not too hard to make a quick rolls, using zucchini and carrots to replace the rice noodles, surprisingly turned out very good. I like the idea living next door to you, I can learn a lot of cooking tricks from you. I went to my friend's house, she taught me make peanut brittle in microwave, caramel candy and some other candies and cookies, it was fun

bethk wrote:I spoke with my brother.....we're SO close.......he calls me on my birthday (if my sister-in-law reminds him.....) and I call him on his birthday.

She mentioned he had a heart stent put in last week.  (he's fine, apparently)

Yeah, we're super close.....

NormM wrote:I tried making stollen again with a different recipe and changing some things to make it turn out more like I wanted.  It was a lot better.

NormM wrote:OK I have a question, somebody.  Whenever you read a recipe for potato pancakes, it says to soak them in water to remove the starch.   I always thought starch would help them stick together but do it anyway.  Today I was reading a recipe from Fine Cooking.  It says to soak the grated potatoes in a bowl of water. So far so good but then after draining and drying the potatoes, it says

"Transfer the potatoes to a medium bowl and using your hands, mix in the onion, egg, 1 tsp. salt, and 1/4 tsp. pepper. Carefully pour off the reserved potato soaking water to get to the white gluey starch on the bottom of the bowl. Transfer the starch to the potato mixture and mix it in with your hands."

HUH? why remove the starch and then put it back in? What are they doing? Why soak them in the first place if you put the starch back in.

edit. Well, I don't always soak the potatoes and have not noticed any real difference between when I do and when I don't.

Imelda HL wrote:Today we ate light meal after the holiday feast, I made some spring rolls, I stuffed them with steamed zucchini and carrot "noodles", 2 minutes in microwave, seasoned with salt and black pepper only, added some shredded leftover rotisserie chicken and cilantro, it turned out so good and refreshing

Crybaby wrote:A belated Merry Christmas to all of you!

Brian's weekly chemo is normally on Wednesday, so we have to go twice next week (once for blood work on Monday, and once for chemo on Tuesday) like we had to do this week as well. It'll be nice to go back to once a week again, as it's a lot of work for Brian to get in and out of the house. But we've got it down almost to a science now.

We've been "warned" by the gas company for months that work will be done on our block and the work started a couple of weeks ago. They're tearing up the old gas lines under the sidewalks and also the connection to the houses with gas (which connection for us is in the alley to the left of our house) and replacing them with newer lines that will be easier for the company to read. This is stressful for us as I had to make sure they knew Wednesday was chemo day so not to block the alley or I wouldn't be able to get Brian out and to the car. Then, with the change to Monday & Tuesday for two weeks straight, I had to meet with the guys again. They put heavy wood over the two places torn up we have to pass over, both in the alley and outside our gate on the sidewalk, so Brian can get past all that and out to the car with his walker.


Boy Oh Boy! ......always something as you said.
The explanation, and description of the alley and the gate, painted such a great picture for me. Even the slide bolt to affix the gate in the closed position!

Question? ...... Why cannot they do the blood test just before the chemo procedure?     Or is it in another medical facility?

Crybaby wrote:

Mmm, Imelda, your spring rolls look divine! So glad you're back posting again!

Thank you Michelle, they were good, I should make them more often. Today we got invited to a homecoming party dinner at our parish hall, they served Carne asada with corn tortilla, cevhice and lots of chips, they were all good. For lunch I made some roast beef sandwich from my leftover roast beef, I sliced them thinly, spread some horse radish cream on my freshly baked Peasant roll, Dirk loves it



Here are the roast I made for Christmas Eve dinner, I had fun topping the bacon on top of my roast