Whats for Dinner in this December 2014?

Imelda HL wrote:Everybody's Christmas dinner meals sound good and delicious... we spent our Christmas with my in-laws.. she cooked ham, green bean casserole, some salads, fresh baked rolls.. not much, because it was only the 5 of us and they have to watch their diets..

today I went to buy a big chunk of ham, now I'm baking half of it, and boiling the other half with bone, I'm going to add some bean on the soup.. for tomorrow

for our dinner, today I made some fresh Ravioli with cream cheese, spicy sausage, green onion and chive, boiled them and baked them with Ragu sauce.. it turned our so so good, I bked 2 loaves of Italian bread to eat with... I packed the leftover in 2 individual bags and freeze them.. for my DH while I'm away for my vacation.. I'm going to visit my Mom next month

Niagara Visitor wrote:
 My sister had given me a care package yesterday of some of her delicious spanakopita, and two pieces of French Canadian tortierre, both delicious!

Imelda HL wrote:today I went to buy a big chunk of ham, now I'm baking half of it, and boiling the other half with bone, I'm going to add some bean on the soup.. for tomorrow

for our dinner, today I made some fresh Ravioli with cream cheese, spicy sausage, green onion and chive, boiled them and baked them with Ragu sauce.. it turned out so so good, I bked 2 loaves of Italian bread to eat with... I packed the leftover in 2 individual bags and freeze them.. for my DH while I'm away for my vacation.. I'm going to visit my Mom next month

bethk wrote:Dane wanted traditional bean soup so that's what I made.  But I wanted to switch MINE out a little so after the soup was done I took about 1/3 to a smaller pot and added a large bunch of washed, chopped kale.  You know I've told you I like the kale.....since 'he' doesn't, I don't add the kale to the whole batch.  He must have thought it was OK because he ended up eating FOUR bowls for his lunch of the traditional.  Sure hope he's not down with a 'stomach flu' tomorrow from overdoing it!

Oh, and I made Barb's Cornbread Casserole to go with it....easy and yummy!

do you think black-eye peas soup good with kale too? I like one pot soup, so I don't need to cook in or wash another pot/pan

and how about the cornbread, care to share the recipe, I don't like it but Dirk loves it

thank you

Niagara Visitor wrote:I had a yen for spaghetti for today.  Made a big pot full, I had mushrooms, peppers that needed to be dealt with, so they are in there, along with some celery and onions. I like my sauce nice and chunky, so I used canned tomatoes, both chunky and crushed.  

Son and daughter-in-law like it too, so some is for them.  I had meatballs in the freezer.  Easy, peasy!  

bethk wrote:Burgers sound good, Jimmy.....with a pile of Tony Packo Sweet/Hot or Wickles Pickles along side!!

We're having leftovers.  Whatever you can find and looks good, well, we each get to warm up what we want.  He wanted to eat an hour ago.  I'm thinking of something in about half an hour.  I don't know how we got our stomachs on a different schedule today.

NormM wrote:Charlie and Cassie gave me a gift card to Olive Garden so that is where I went for dinner tonight.

Bugster2 wrote:I haven't been able to taste the stock yet because the pot is still losing pressure but Jimmy, if it tastes anything like how it smells, it will go down the drain. I know what you mean: that pullet, dirty chicken smell.

bethk wrote:Sounds like a fun time, Jimmy.  Tell GD Happy Birthday from all of us!

NormM wrote:Jimmy, I have had some good food there before but not so much this time. I didn't care for the tomato sauce taste and there was too much of it.  The next time I have lasagna, I will make it myself.