November, 2013 - what's cooking in the kitchen?

yum chili looks great.

Jimmy no time for that, I was outside for maybe 3 minutes for the pic,another 80` day.

I got so hot in the grocery store , I know I must have forgot stuff. Got in the auto & put that air on full force till I cooled off.I carried in bunch of bags tossed it all on the floor by the door, took of my shirt lol turned on the fan & then got cool, put away the stuff. laid down..then 2 hrs later I remembered I left bags of grocery's in the back of auto.. Lucky for me it was can's & sweet potato's.Non fridge stuff.
so then maggie wanted out, there sat on top of my freezer was the turkey I took out yesterday!!!!!!!!!!well duh..........still frozen but if I had not seen it.ghezz what a numbskull. 

looks good imelda. I have 4 big green peppers in the fridge,only due to the price of the bag that had 2 red ones & 2 yellow was so cheap.However I do not the green ones.  

so I guess I might just chop some & slice some & stick them in the freezer.

NormM wrote:Yesterday I made cheese fondue for lunch.  For dinner Cassie made stuffed acorn squash and Charlie made Bahn Mi sandwiches.

I ador Bahn Mi sandwiches, Norm, and have had a hankering for one lately. Mmmm!

Ground meat has been high here, too. But lately if you buy the "family pack," which is usually four or five pounds, it's only $1.97/lb. So that's what we've been doing and separating it into one pound and two pound packages.

Brian made a meatloaf on Thursday night and it was the biggest meatloaf I'd ever seen. Yesterday, he cut it in half and froze half of it "for later." We'll have the leftover meatloaf on sandwiches today for a late lunch.

Today I'm going to make the Cranberry Orange Sauce for Thanksgiving so I at least have one thing done. I'll also make the sausage/puff pastry rolls and pop them in the freezer so all I have to do is slice them and bake on Thursday.

pork chop with roasted cherry tomato's over pasta.

Michelle, the ground beef here is in the $3.50 - $4.35 / lb. price range. Outrageous.

Barb, your meal looks wonderful. How clever of you to leave the tomatoes on the vine....looks SO gourmet!

Lyn, Barb & I went to the Farmers' Market this morning and got some vegetables to have for our shared supper. While we were there we ran into Barb's brother & sister-in-law who just bought a house here as well, a surprise for Barb who wasn't expecting them until tomorrow and even more so to run into them at the market! So, they joined us for supper. Lyn hosted the dinner at her large home and just let me cook whatever I want. We ended up with baby back ribs on the grill (pre-cooked in the oven), pasta salad, packet potatoes, green beans, red beets and pound cake with Vanilla Greek Yogurt & raspberries and blueberries. For a meal on the fly it was delicious and we all had a wonderful time.

It's so nice to cook for people who really appreciate what you fix and, although not expected, it's nice to hear the compliments. I don't think it's all that special but if you don't like to cook I suppose it is impressive to have a meal prepared without a whole lot of preplanning.

Lean ground beef $2.97/lb. yesterday.

Cousin is coming for a visit from British Columbia, so we're having Spaghetti and meatballs tonight. Son and Daughter-in-law are coming too. I haven't decided on a dessert yet.

Good to hear from you, Niagara. How's your husband doing?

And have you moved into your condo yet? I've thought of you often....

I thought about making a pot roast today.I have no carrots.That is out.

I did buy huge bag of green beans.looks like mess of beans today..cornbread to go with.. 

Green beans, baby potatoes, chunks of ham.....maybe a bit of onion.

Oh, man, my mouth is waterin' and I don't have anyone to cook it for. But Dane will be here next week so maybe that'll be a "fill yer belly & take a nap" meal.

bethk wrote:Good to hear from you, Niagara.  How's your husband doing?

And have you moved into your condo yet?  I've thought of you often....

Thanks for asking. Hubby is doing as well as can be expected of a disease for which there are no treatments, no cure in sight. He has what they gently call "settled in" in the home. He is pleasant, the staff all love him. Aggression, which can be part of many of these debilitating diseases is, according to the research rare. I sincerely hope so.

There have been two relatively serious bouts of aggression by one poor old soul toward me in particular. I think I remind her of someone in her past, when I have taken hubby out into the hallway I think she thinks I am taking her husband away. I don't take it personally. She doesn't show any aggression toward hubby when our son is with him, so it's me, unfortunately.

I have had many discussions regarding the elderly with my sister a retired psychiatric RN, who worked with the elderly most of her nursing life, so I am probably a little more informed about some of these things than many.

No, I have not moved into the condo. I take possession on Tuesday, Nov. 26. Took a final walk-through with the real estate agent on Friday, just to make sure that everything is the way it is supposed to be. I am even more pleased with it than I was at first. The company that did the renovation from two bedrooms to a one bedroom unit did a fabulous job. There is lots of well placed storage room. The place is immaculate.

I have not sold the farm, but am expecting an offer any day now. A family has been here three times now. They really, really want the place, but were having some difficulty with finances. They came again yesterday and said that their financing is now in place and they will give me an offer. I just hope that they do not think that I am desperate just because I have purchased a condo. As I have said to my agent "I really would like to be out of here, but the proverbial financial wolf is not howling in the yard, or circling yet!"

I took Charlie and Cassie out last night we went to a place we hadn't been to before. Zio's Italian restaurant. I had chicken alfredo lasagna. It was delicious. Charlie and I go to my nephew's church for Thanksgiving dinner tonight. Cassie is working. We will have turkey and dressing here on Wed. when both of them will be home and I will be at my sister's on Thursday so I'll probably will be getting a little tired of turkey by the end of the week.

Well, come 4th of July I'm going to ask Barb to ship each and every one of us a turkey out of her freezer.....we can have Thanksgiving in July.

Perhaps by then, Norm, you'll look forward to the bird again.

 

Nice meal, Imelda! I really like thin tortillas. Those look almost like browned up egg roll / spring roll wrappers.

I wanted to clean the floors today ~ go figure, Beth as a Mrs. Clean....

But I was pooped when I got done first cleaning the tile floors, then steaming them, then vacuuming the carpeting. I don't understand why the physical activity of just moving my arms can be so tiring...

Anyway, supper was a couple chili dogs & chips:

Company coming for a visit has been delayed because of flight attendants being ill, so they had to get more crew for the flight, and were put on another flight. Arrival will be three hours or so later, so I ate. Meatballs are the best I have ever made. I made them larger than I normally did, and instead of browning in a pan, I put them in the oven for about a half hour. They are moist and not hard like they have been sometimes. Yummy!

Aw, Barb, you're just MEAN !

Boy, that looks like a "eat out of the pot" meal for sure. YUM!

Lyn made French toast and yogurt/fruit for breakfast and we went to the Thai restaurant for Chicken Cashew Nut w/vegetables & rice for a late lunch. I'm not hungry at all so I'm skipping supper.

Tomorrow is Lyn's birthday so I'm making one of her all time favorite meals for breakfast ~ sausage gravy w/biscuits & scrambled eggs to take over. Then Barb & I are taking her to a luncheon fashion show and we'll top off her evening when her husband takes us all out for a celebration birthday dinner at one of the country clubs. She's mentioned before that she's never had an entire day of celebration for her birthday before (her daughter was mentally retarded but always loved to celebrate Mom's birthday but Lyn had to bake her own birthday cake and make her own birthday dinner.....). So Barb & I decided to devote the entire day to her on her birthday tomorrow.