Cookncarpenter, I would be very happy with your strawberry shortcake as my main course.

I love Asian type meals too. Your fried rice looks particularly appealing.

Neely, what a beautiful way to dress up a brownie for Valentine's Day.

Sol, hard to believe that flower is not real. Amazing detail.

Shirl, thank you for sharing your tart technique.

Sleevendog, that is one well fed dog you have. Perfectly cooked steak.

Thanks to Neely, I had a craving for a curry dinner.

If I'm going to have curry, I want more than one dish. So I made a chicken curry and also Aloo Gobi (Potato and Cauliflower curry) with basmati rice and homemade chapati.

Can't have an Indian dinner without Chapati. Love Naan too, but for me it isn't real naan unless baked in a tandoori oven. And since I do not have a tandoori oven I always make Chapati.

Saturday's dinner.

Penne with tiny pork meatballs with olives in a tomato basil sauce.

Baked Saturday night.

This was a same day bread. Mixed up in the morning. No preferment/biga. Just 5 g of yeast in 750g of flour at 68%. Handmixed before I left for work and refrigerated for most of the day. Taken out of the fridge by my son in time for me to bake.

Toasted for breakfast.

Shirl, thank you. I am self-taught, so your comment is appreciated.

I learned early on to always make extra sugar decorations, in case of breakage. But, since the cake was just for the guys this time, I didn't bother.

Although, in their defense, my Kinkajous have always been cautious with sugar decorations made for others . . . which, btw, are kept in a spare room, with a sign that reads: 'None Shall Pass.' And they tend to abide by it :)

Neely, we all have days where we want throw in the towel, so to speak. I tend to feel that way, especially during the hot and withering summer months, when I lose all desire to cook, and eat.

Sol

Ann, the first image that popped on my phone, when I hit 'submit' was your delicious-looking plate of Chicken Curry. And here I am, gnawing on a pretzel.

Sol

Annie, cocktail sauce is all Mike used to like until I made my own remoulade.

Sol, the whole presentation is a work of art! You're incredibly talented.

Neely, I've never made my own Korma sauce. That's one of my "cheats".

Seeds of Change Korma Sauce

Ann, can't believe how much bread you make. You must keep your co-workers and neighbors very happy.

I'm making bread today (second time this year after almost a year and a half of not making any). I still make a version of your Italian using my hand mixer.

Sleevendog both of your dinners look delicious. That green sauce sounds yummy.

Ann t once again Yum for everything and Yes two dishes are always best for a curry kind of meal.

The evolving Korma has run it's course. It became some sort of green thing with the addition of coriander and ripe but green coloured tomatoes. Best forgotten. CindyMac you definitely have the right idea here.

And Sol, the heat, can't wait to cook and eat stews and pies again. But I guess that's what's so nice about cooking seasonal food.

Green thing

Open faced burgers, two cheeses... cooked on the BBQ with a fresh salad

Neely, seasonal is the way to go. We only have burgers in the summer during tomato harvest. Same way with most tomatoes. I will buy cherry/grape/plum tomatoes in the offseason to roast, but rarely eat them fresh at that time of year. They just don't have any taste. Roasting grape tomatoes today for a quick cream sauce tonight.

Sol, that cake with the rose is gorgeous. I was just watching a YouTube video of the making of chocolate roses, and thought of you.

All this Indian food, I should make some korma myself...

Ann T, that's lovely bread, as always, but the chapati looks really good, and Elery would love that pasta with the olives.

Shirl, those tarts are just so darned cute, I'd hate to eat them. Well, not really, I'd love to eat them, but I'd admire them first, LOL.

sleevendog, that steak looks perfectly done, I like mine extremely rare.

Cindy, I remember you making that Italian bread with a hand mixer. I made it with a wooden spoon, if you remember. I only did it once, though, LOL, it was possible but not efficient!

So, what's for supper? I've been helping Makayla paint her room, and we've been working on one wall at a time, since her furniture fills the room, LOL. Elery has been cooking.

One night he made some barbequed chicken, along with a unique mixture of potatoes, carrots and sauerkraut and a side of orange glazed beets:

Another night we had a big pot of Italian Horticultural Beans from last year's garden, cooked with some onion, celery, carrot and a smoked pork hock from the freezer.

We are trying to use up some of the older stuff we dug out of the freezer when we were packing in this year's beef and pork, so Elery made a hash with some chorizo, potatoes and chickpeas, Or maybe it was a stew, LOL, whatever it was we had baked sweet potato and home canned beets on the side. He also had some of the leftovers in this morning's omelette. Not being a morning person, I tend to just have one egg and one slice of toast. Every day. Elery says I'm boring, LOL, but my stomach would revolt if I tried to eat something like that hash first thing in the morning!

I made a loaf of oatmeal bread to go with the beans. I used a new recipe and it was/is very good, but makes one darned big loaf of bread!

Look away, AnnT, I know how you feel about catsup/ketchup. Yesterday I made some venison in the crockpot with a sauce of catsup, soy sauce, worchestershire, garlic, onion, mustard, about a zillion other things. Mashed potatoes with some of the sauce and the leftovers of the potato/sauerkraut mixture Elery had made earlier. Can you tell that I started eating before I remembered to take a picture? Hey, it was a new recipe, I had to test the venison, LOL.

Annie

I forget what a good wrap a slice of bacon can be. Nothing special here. The tacos were great, the tortillas were junk...packaged. Not my homemade good ones that i thought i had some frozen.

Pasta tower

even better the next day as an adult veggie mac-n-cheese.

DH came home with homemade crawfish bisque...from the friends that just had a baby...we give food they give back....he is so in a lack of sleep trance that he cooks, lol.

Sleevendog ... so many good things. Crawfish bisque sounds delish.

And Annie cooking up a storm as usual. I would love those Turkey medallions.

A couple of dinners we've had.

Crispy skin salmon, mustard tarragon sauce, skin on new potatoes, broccolini and yellow button squash.

DH made Bolangnese sauce on pappardelle

Love it when he cooks

Last night: Two pre-made perilla leaf "pancakes" I heated up in the oven that I'd gotten from a Korean market. I want to figure out how to make these myself. They contain these leaves, a little jalapeno, onion, red and green bell pepper, carrot, scallion, squid, clam, shrimp, egg, white fish, wheat, salt and pepper, and garlic. Really nice and tasty!

For all those ingredients, they're not that big, so I also had lamb cheeks that I baked in the oven, with a little salt, pepper and garlic powder. Yes, lamb cheeks. A year or so ago I bought half a lamb and asked for all the odd bits, as I was pretty certain the other half of the lamb was going to go to someone who didn't want any odd bits -- I wasn't going to have room for a whole head, so simply took the tongue and the cheeks (hmmm, tongue in cheek?) Anyhow, nice and tender baked medium rare.

Sleevendog, what is that in the bisque? Doesn't look like stuffed heads.

Dh ate a late lunch so dinner has been scrapped. Instead we had crostini with the bread I made yesterday. Topped with roasted cherry tomatoes and goat cheese. I think I actually like using cherry tomatoes vs. plum for crostini.

sleevendog, that bisque looks amazing, I've not had crawfish bisque, but I love the lobster bisque I can get occasionally at a local restaurant. I'm betting yours is better. And the tacos look pretty darned good too.

Neely, I had to smile when you said you love it when your DH cooks. I like it when Elery cooks too, to a point. Then I want my kitchen back! I spent a couple of hours each day helping Makayla paint her bedroom, and Elery made several meals. Today I wanted my kitchen back. (grin)

artemis, I threatened to buy half a lamb for the freezer last year, Elery really loves lamb. I ran out of freezer room, though. I do have the guy who slaughters my cattle give me the cheeks, and I always have "jowl bacon" from the pigs. Wendell says he thinks I'm the only person he knows that actually asks for those parts, as well as hocks, soup bones and the tongue.

Cindy, I'd like the crostini, I'm usually just as happy with something small and "snacky" as I am with a big meal. I just need a couple of those "snacks", LOL.

OK, so what's for supper?

Elery made pork tenderloin with some of my homecanned apples, and I roasted more of the blue potatoes and butternut squash that we have stored from last year's garden. They are still good, but I'd like to use them up before the potatoes start to sprout. Then they'll be seed potatoes for the garden this year. Elery made carrot and raisin salad as a side, I haven't had that in a very long time, and it was a nice accompaniment.

Bud came to spend the night Friday night after school, his sister was going to a friend's house for a birthday party. All the girls were going to a nail salon for a manicure, then a sleep-over, with breakfast at the coffee shop Saturday before she came home. He'd rather stay with me anyway, especially without his sister. So, since he loves fish, we had fried cod which the local Meijer had on sale. It was wild caught and marked "Product of USA", so that's what we bought. More roasted potatoes because they're "like French fries" and some of his favorite food ever, baked beans. Carrot salad just to use it up. For dessert we made chocolate "no bake" cookies, which I forgot to take a picture of and I sent them all home with him so I didn't eat too many. (grin)

Today we had steak. I marinated a big homegrown grassfed sirloin, made some oven baked brown rice with carrots, peas and celery and a quart of my homecanned chicken stock, and baked some blueberry oatbran muffins. The steak was so big it filled up my entire 10 inch cast iron griddle:

Grilled on a screaming hot cast iron griddle for 3 minutes per side it was perfectly done for me, although I think maybe Elery would have like it a bit more done.

Ah well, they still taste good, they're gluten free and a few of them actually still look like muffins, LOL.

Annie

Annie I would be happy to share that steak with you. Perfectly cooked.

Even your fall apart gluten free muffins look good.

I'd be happy with Neely's salmon and Sleevendog's tacos.

No dinner to speak of last night.

We were out and had a late lunch so all Moe wanted was some toast from the bread I baked earlier in the day.

Sliced another loaf this morning for breakfast.

Topped with Canadian Back Bacon and tomatoes.

I ground up a couple of sirloin steaks and made burgers and homemade onion rings for dinner Sunday night.

I also get what you mean Annie about getting your kitchen back.

Artemis ...Strangely for someone like myself who lives in a country that "rides on the sheeps back" or used to,.. I haven't seen lambs cheeks offered for sale. I guess you can get them at the butchers and I will ask next time I'm in there.

Love onion rings ann t.

This week we had old friends for dinner over from your part of the world, LA to be exact. I've visited them a few times and vice versa.

I cooked Yellow fin tuna which is caught pretty local to where I live. Cooked it very rare, just sealed on all sides. Served with good old vinegrette dressed rocket and pear salad.

Then back to a DH cooked chicken thigh meal for the two of us.

Neely, great picture of the chicken in the cast iron. Really colourful.

Subbed beef for pork in my favourite chile verde recipe and also added black beans and pinto beans.

That looks delicious Ann t. I will look up a chili Verde recipe.

.... Looked up a recipe. I will have to find some tomatillos....somewhere !!!

Neely, If you can't find tomatillos, this dish works just as well with a commercial jar of Salsa verde, as long as it is made with tomatillos and not just green tomatoes. And although it is really good made with beef or chicken, my favourite is made with pork.

Roast beef dinner last night.

Small top sirloin roasted at 500°F . Presalted earlier in the day.

Yesterday's bread.

Two batches. Both with 100g of starter and 4 g of yeast. The perfect combination. The starter gives a little tang to the flavour without it tasting like sourdough.

Sliced this morning.

Moe had some toasted before heading over to the workshop.

Ann, When i was in H.S. my friends and I would often hit a mom-and-pop diner, for their onion rings.

They might've specialized in other things, but we never noticed (and didn't care), because we were sure there was nothing better on their menu. The diner is long gone now, but your Onion Rings photo has elicited many wonderful memories.

Btw, that toasty homemade bread, with tiny puddles of butter has given me carbocidal urges.

Neely, all your meals look delicious and healthy. And, high-five your DH too.

AnnieB., I'd welcome a muffin apocalypse. It'd give me an excuse to eat all the casualties. Btw, the No-Bake Cookies have been a regular treat with my group. I've been cutting back on the old recipe's high sugar content over the years. And no one's complained yet.

I skipped dinner photos. But, eating hasn't slowed down around here.

It's almost March, and we finally got our first 'real' snowstorm yesterday. Which elated Mr. Manpants to no end, as school was cancelled . . . until Monday.

And there was much rejoicing! Yay.

Sol

I have been enjoying everyone's amazing cooking. It would be selfish of me not to take the time to contribute some in return.

Just a few simple recent dishes.

dcarch

Not quite CHICKEN MARSALA,

Sous Vide pork chops on Modernist M & cheese

Sous Vide shell steak

We had seared ahi tuna, risotto and collard greens. Yeah, a strange combination, but good. I forgot to take pictures.

dcarch, what are the round dough balls or whatever with that steak? They look kind of like dumplings. At first I thought flavored butter, but that's just way too much butter (if that's possible, LOL) And mac and cheese? The Monkey Princess would be very impressed! I'd have to eat her broccoli, though...

Ann T. Really. Bread AND onion rings. (sigh) And I like that container your chili is in, it's very interesting and pretty.

Sol, we had a very light snow storm here too, but still enough for the kids to have school cancelled. Much celebrating also happened, and Makayla and I built shelves for her bedroom. Can't get bored, you know.

Neely, that chicken looks good and I like broccoli a lot, so I'd be happy. Your DH did well.

The kids will all be here tomorrow, and spend the night tomorrow night. Amanda has pneumonia, so it's good timing. I'm sure we'll be having pizza and mac and cheese, and probably French toast, definitely bacon.

Annie

Annie, I have a superstition that a diversified diet promotes good health. I always try a variety of ingredients. There is a population of Spanish where the markets are located. Taro roots are always available and many other types of vegetables. Those are mashed taro balls, using mashed potato recipe.

I recommend Modernist's recipe for M & Cheese. Very easy to make. The best M & C you will ever had.

dcarch

Thursday night's dinner

lamb shanks Greek Style

Last night we had my favourite Mexican Chicken Rice soup for dinner. Didn't bother to take a picture.

Baked a Raspberry Cobbler for dessert.

Ann, wow. yum.

dc- sorry we did not have enough snow for you this winter. Good use of your snow baller! lol

I need a new stick blender. Old trusty Braun is not what it was, so sad.

Still delicious! Corn chowder with scallops and salmon...

Sofrito/miropoix with lots of veg and leek. Duck stock, corn, heirloom tomato slices from the freezer...i have a qrt leftover, (without seafood) i'll wiz in the blender for a spicy meatball sauce today.

Great to see dcarch 's so interesting photos and food again. I presume the purple is cooked red cabbage on the Not quite Chicken Marsala, but I may be wrong.

Annie risotto and tuna... favourites of ours Yum.

ann t love lamb shanks anystyle and I may just make a raspberry crumble for us

finally Sleevendog... love your photos are and what a delicious looking soup/chowder.

First up ... yesterday's lunch BBQ lamb sausages eaten "sausage sizzle" style.

A couple of dinners were Fish and chips plus sweet potato chips and a beet salad with a yoghurt dressing

Also DH roasted a chicken with a spicey rub ... he called it Portuguese chicken. We had smashed potatoes, Swiss chard and stuffed tomatoes with herbs, all out of our small garden.

PS . My photos seem to look squished when I submitt. ???? didn't happen before. Perhaps I should hold the phone horizontally instead of vertical. Oh well next time

Wow, what amazing meals!

Neely, your sweet potato fries look good, we've been eating them often as well. I just started doing that, usually I roast them with white potatoes and garlic, or cook one and mash it with white. We love it that way.

Your Portuguese chicken looks so good. Oh, when a Canadian marries a Portuguese, what do you call the kids? Canada Geese!!! LOL

DC, good to see you posting your creations again.

Ann, of all your meals, your Greek ones are one of my favourites.

We've been eating, but haven't taken pictures in a while. I should have taken pictures of the pancakes this morning. It was a new recipe with whole wheat and white flour, oatmeal and apples. They were delicious, definitely a keeper.

Tonite's dinner was a skillet full of vegetables and black beans, flavoured with cumin, RoTel tomatoes and chipotle pepper. I had breaded fish fillet with mine and hubby had his over basmati rice.

I just made another beet, celeriac salad neely. So good and so fresh in our soggy cold NewEngland weather...

I made something delicious that looks like poo.

The drizzle is a cool yogurt crema, lol. 12 tiny meatballs dissolved into the sauce but still yum...3 balls held form.

Sleevendog, is your sauce a tomato sauce? Did you serve it more as a stew than with pasta?

Jasdip, your breaded fish is something that Moe would love. Maybe I should stop by the seafood shop in Cow Bay on my way home from work and pick him up some fresh sole.

Neely, I would be happy with that roast chicken. I really like Portuguese seasoning.

Last night's dinner was quick and easy to make after getting home from work.

Chicken piccata but with lemon sauce and green peppercorns rather than capers.

Looks really good, the piccata.

The spicy meatballs should have gone in the oven to re-heat/bake. (my oven is off and being replaced next week)

We lost half of them due to melting by heating them in the 'broth', tomato based. Became a sauce and pasta would have been nice. The yogurt cream is usually on the side and at the table...to cut the spice. Puppy got the 1/4 loaf of bread that was meant to heat on the griddle...

"Sol, that cake with the rose is gorgeous. I was just watching a YouTube
video of the making of chocolate roses, and thought of you."

Thanks AnnieB. My interest in sugar flowers began in the late 80s. YouTube was not founded until 2003-2005 [?]

Unfortunately, decorators, like me, got short-changed. Learning the art the old-fashioned way, by hands-on Trial and Error. And there was much frustration amid the errors.

Nowadays, anyone can be an expert, or at least, ''sound' like one. Just Google it . . .

Well, I brought both, my Earl Grey and my appetite. Two things NOT to bring when opening this here thread. Wonderful, wonderful eats, everyone.

Ann, I can't wait for my raspberries to make their debut this summer. I've taken note of your Raspberry Cobbler.

I froze all my raspberries from last summer's harvest to use in sorbet recently. Not complaining, as I love raspberries, in any form. But a warm cobbler would be welcomed on this blustery MI. day.

Dinner is still a work in progress:

Sol

Well that raspberry sorbet Sol, looks so vibrant and delicious ... love raspberries.

ann t - I like the way you use green peppercorns. I use them too and I am surprised that more recipes don't use these tender popping dots of spice.

Sleevendog LOL. I'm sure it was tasty. I like the light you're getting into your photos.

Jasdip love all those vegetables with the fish.

So a couple of breakfasts. Mushroom omelette for one and tomatoes on toast for another.

We had traditional roast lamb for one nights' dinner, including gravy and mint sauce. I think I mentioned DH is originally from England and Sunday isn't Sunday without some sort of a roast for him.

I did make a raspberry crumble for dessert while the oven was hot from the roast.

I had some rubbed in butter, flour and sugar in the freezer, but it wasn't enough, so I added some muesli to it and it worked out crunchy as a topping.

Neely, that lamb is perfectly cooked. Love lamb.

My favourite breakfast is toast and tomatoes.

Tonight was Pizza night.

Started two bread doughs this morning. Both basically the same. 750g of flour, 100g starter,68% hydration (510g water) 4g of yeast and 22g of salt.

The only difference is that one had 100g of discarded starter that was fed with whole wheat and the other discarded starter was fed with white.

After the last stretch and fold the both doughs went into the fridge. The one made with the white starter was taken out of the fridge just after 4:00 so it could be used to make pizza tonight. Was in the fridge for just over 5 hours.

A large Greek potato pizza for Matt and two individual size pizzas for Moe and I.

One topped with mushrooms and pepperoni and the

other with just mushrooms.

Enough dough left for a loaf of bread.

Everyone's food looks so good. I wish I could get full just looking at the pictures. That way I wouldn't have to cook. One silly note: Ann, I realized after drooling over your pictures of buttered toast, that I should toast my bread darker. So one evening that's what I made for a snack. Toast with dark brown edges. It made all the difference in my enjoyment.

One night I made a pizza pie meatloaf. My husband loved it, probably because he loves pizza. I made it with all low sodium ingredients, but it tasted really good. I was happy to find another low sodium and quite tasty meal to add to my repertoire.

shambo, your potatoes look so nice and crispy, just the way I like them.

Raspberries everywhere, and they're one of my favorites!

Sol, YouTube is a wonderful thing. Sometimes. I've watched some that were actually helpful and educational. Others not so much. I've also found that you can watch a bunch of YouTube demonstrations but nothing takes the place of practice. You have to actually do it, not just watch. So I keep practicing....

Neely, Elery would love that lamb, it's one of his favorites.

Sleevendog, I could just eat that sofrito and be happy!

Dcarch, I agree. Makayla used to tell me that we should "eat a rainbow every day", and then we'd be healthy. She was very right, I think. Taro balls, though? Never tried those, and I'm betting I can't buy taro here. I may have to look for that next time I'm at an Asian market. I'm getting a pretty long list, LOL.

So, is there a rainbow for dinner? Um.....nope. (grin) Instead we had meatballs, made by my own little personal meatballer. She and her sister were here from Saturday morning until Sunday evening, so we had lots of time.

There was also some cookie baking going on, with the Monkey Princess, both small Princesses and my nephew's daughter, Cadence...

I'm not crazy for pizza, so I had a steak sandwich...

For adult food, Elery made chili, LOL.

So, chili and cookies, what could be better?

Annie

Neely, I've never tried lamb, but I love the look of your roasted potatoes, they're perfect. Your comment of always having a roast on Sundays because your husband is British reminds me of my childhood. Being Canadian there's a lot of British influences because of the Queen. Roast beef and yorkshire pudding was eaten often. I also keep a container of apple crisp topping in the freezer.

Ann, your chicken piccata looks perfect, as usual.

Sleevendog, even your plate of 'poo' looks yummy. :-)

Sol, as always, your food can be framed. The raspberry sorbet is jumping off the page, and I always love a photo of dough rising. So homey and comforting and mouthwatering picturing the final product.

Annie, your days are always fun-filled with the kiddos come over. You're never at a loss of what to do......they little munchkins always have ideas!! I love the rows of meatballs.

I did a new slow cooker recipe last nite. My gosh, it's incredible; roast beef with beef broth, balsamic vinegar and soy sauce, and then turned into a glaze at the end.

We like carrots cooked, then heated with Catalina dressing. I use my homemade copycat version.

Everything looks great, but I'd love your recipe for that roast, please, Jasdip. Most slow cooker recipes taste bland and homogeneous to me, but that one might just have some flavor!

I, too, would love to have the roast beef recipe, Jasdip.

Week two without an oven...fine as i can do without with so many choices...and then i pull something out that needs oven...like a power outage when you turn light switches on and off for hours...oops, no power.

Mini kitchen renovation...scoot the construction boy toy power tools out of the way and off the counters, EVERY afternoon...clean, then prep and cook stove-top.

ham and bean soup...

rare steak, beet greens, smashed potato, quick wine sauce with capers, green peppercorns. ...DH fresh parsley/fetta...

Sleevendog, I prefer a brothy soup over a thick soup so your bean and ham soup really appeals to me. And your steak dinner looks fantastic.

Annie, the girls look so focused. Nice to see them working together in your kitchen.

Yesterday was a screwed up day. We had dinner for breakfast and breakfast for dinner.

I had planned on roasting a chicken on Tuesday night but it got postponed. So I roasted it Wednesday morning and we had a late breakfast or an early brunch, depending on how you look at it.

And then later in the day I baked a batch of Waterford Blaa rolls that Karen from Karen's Kitchen Stories, shared on facebook. They looked so good that I decided to make them. Used the autolyze, stretch and fold method.

Sol, that Raspberry Sorbet looks wonderful and mouthwatering.

Last night we had Pork Fried Rice with Garlic Bread; we loved it. Tonight we are having Baked or Fried Chicken Tenders (have to decide how I want to prepare them), Farfalle with Vodka Sauce, Salad with Garlic Croutons and Italian Salad Dressing.

Sol, you HAVE to share the butternut squash sorbet! What could be wrong with that-- it's a veggie, right? ;-P

Annie, you're running a regular cooking school! I hope Ashley and her hubby had a little getaway while you were watching the girls!

Everyone's dinners look and sound very good . Jasdip that beef does look good. Shambo, we try to cook low sodium as well.

One thing Ann t, those rolls you baked - are they the really soft floury ones. They look like that. I guess they are called different names all over but taste the same. I know them as a Scottish roll called a Bap.

I made a pot of ratatouille which we had with various cold meats and finally as a pasta sauce.

Last dinner was salmon with zucchini pasta with a salad / salsa.

Wildmage1 and Walnutcreek, here is the slow-cooker roast beef recipe. My slow-cooker recipes don't have cream soup in, they're all recipes from scratch. The only thing I did differently with this one was that I didn't add more vinegar and soy sauce to the glaze. I thickened it then added a couple of tbsp of brown sugar. I didn't grease the slow cooker, I've never had to do that with any recipe.

Balsamic Glazed Roast Beef (Let's Dish blog) RECIPE

1 (3-4 pound boneless) chuck or round roast

1 cup beef broth

1/3 cup balsamic vinegar

2 tablespoons soy sauce

2 tablespoons honey

1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes

4 cloves garlic, chopped

1/4 teaspoon pepper

For the glaze

1. 1 1/2 cups cooking liquid (from the roast, strained)
2. 2 tablespoons cornstarch + 2 tablespoons water
3. 3-4 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
4. 1/4 cup brown sugar
5. 1 tablespoon soy sauce
6. Salt and pepper, to taste

Instructions

1. Place roast beef in a lightly greased slow cooker.
2. In a small bowl, combine beef broth, 1/3 cup balsamic vinegar, 2 tablespoons soy sauce, honey, red pepper flakes, garlic and pepper. Pour over roast beef.
3. Cover and cook on low for 6-8 hours or until beef is tender.
4. Remove roast from slow cooker and slice or shred. Cover and keep warm.
5. Remove 1 1/2 cups of liquid from the slow cooker and pour through a mesh strainer into a medium saucepan.
6. Stir together cornstarch and water in a small bowl. Whisk into saucepan, along with 3-4 tablespoons balsamic vinegar, brown sugar and 1 tablespoon soy sauce.
7. Bring to a boil, whisking constantly, until mixture thickens. Season with salt and pepper, to taste. If desired, add additional water or cooking liquid for a thinner glaze.
8. Pour glaze over beef and serve.

Neely,

i think your DH needs to share his recipe for the chicken thighs...looks great!

Thank you, Jasdip. I'm looking forward to trying this!

Thank you so much, Jasdip. I've put it on the menu for next week. Like you, I have never greased the crockpot container for anything.

Jasdip, that roast beef sounds delicious, I've definitely got to try that! I've never greased a crockpot either...

AnnT, that's one good looking breakfast sandwich. Or anytime else, yum.

Sol, I agree with others, that raspberry sorbet just calls out, and I just happen to have raspberries in the freezer.

Neely, I have an orange pot that looks JUST LIKE THAT, it's out in the garage, I'll have to dig it out, I'd forgotten about it.

Ellen, I don't know how much the kids are learning at "cooking school", but they sure have fun eating their work. :-)

WalnutCreek, I like fried rice a lot, whether it's pork or chicken or tofu or just veggies.

I just had some pineapple fried rice on Wednesday, I was spending the night with Bud at his doctor's office while he had an overnight EEG. There was a Thai takeout and they have a lot of gluten free items. Amanda got sweet and sour chicken with white rice and a rice wrapper fresh roll. I had the pineapple fried rice and the second rice wrapper roll. Bud ate his French fries with the chopsticks. (grin) The roll was mostly iceburg lettuce but the chili sauce for dipping was quite good.

I had a mat on the floor for sleeping, so just mostly waited for 6 am when we could leave. We went to a nice little restaurant in Grand Rapids called Anna's House, lots of gluten free items. Amanda got a pancake/French toast combo with eggs and bacon. Bud had two big chocolate chip pancakes and bacon. I had something called Twilight French Toast, which was really a large square of bread pudding sitting in a puddle of crème brulee sauce and served with raspberry sauce and fresh berries. IT was very, very good, almost worth the night on the floor!

OK, so what's for dinner. Elery made some bean soup which we ate in bread bowls. It was very good but too much bread for me. The dogs happily finished up the bread, although I ate all the soup.

I made chicken Paprikash and served it over homemade noodles with some brussels sprouts on the side.

So, that's what's for dinner, and I'm caught up.

Annie

Annie, I really like the soup in a bread bowl idea. And it looks like the bowls held up well with the bean soup.

Sue, I had missed your earlier comment on the toast. I've always loved my toast well done. Hate when restaurants serve "anemic" toast.

A few of our recent meals.

Pan roasted pork chops with fried potatoes, zucchini, tomatoes and mushrooms,

Love the food pics! Here's a couple from new recipes I tried recently, but they're small phone pics and houzz is dithering them. :p

I made my first-ever Monte Cristos. lol! I used ham, swiss, dijon, mayo and served with dipping sauces of homemade elderberry sauce, hot pepper jelly, or real maple syrup. All good!

And I love this kale-apple coleslaw w/ poppy seed dressing recipe I found on Chowhound!