Seafood caldo. Don't know what I'm doing but it tastes good so far

I had a nice 30.82 mile bike ride, and was VERY glad I had food in the freezer to nuke for lunch. Mexican casserole! YUMMY

I was to hungry to actually cooks something.

Moni

One of my favorite easy desserts, particularly since I'm totally out of eggs.

I use the shortbread type recipe that's from my lemon bar recipe. Butter, flour & powdered sugar. Bake that in a 9x9 Pyrex pan til brown & set. Then fill with a great canned cherry pie filling that comes from Michigan that I found at Dollar Tree for a dollar (bought lots). Chop up lots of almonds which I soak in pure almond extract for awhile, cover the cherries with the almonds, & bake again. Sometimes when it cools, I sprinkle powdered sugar overall, but not always. Goes fast.

I've been working on puff pastry this afternoon, but I probably won't bake any of it until tomorrow. The kids all left for the night, so I think I'll have some angel hair pasta with left over tomato sauce and mushrooms.

Chicken. Bread. Good food. Not exciting. :)

making taco salad. I've been craving it lately

We have had a beautiful day today here so my husband and kids spent the afternoon cleaning our back porch while I was running errands.

After spending all day outside they wanted to grill so I picked up the stuff for burgers and dogs. Yummy!

We always look forward to the first grill of the year.

Not much cooking for me today. I fixed hamburgers for lunch and a Bertolli skillet dinner for supper. Today I finally got started on the new chair cushions I have been meaning to make for several months. Spent most of the day on that project. The prototype is finished though and pieces for the other 5 are all cut out. Should go fast now.

Hamburgers for dinner. Today I swept the garage, clipped around the yard, took the dog for a long walk.

What's a Bertolli dinner? Something with the jarred sauce on it?

I plan to bake a custard today. I like to have that every now and then, and I often call it my breakfast. I love puddings and custards.

Everything sounds delish! I may have to avoid the cooking threads for the next couple of weeks unless I can enjoy the tasty goodies vicariously.

We have begun to remodel the kitchen and out went the cabinets, counters, and the appliances today. All good but it led to a moratorium on yumminess here. The last supper the other night.

today I made 2 loaves of banana bread. The recipe came from UTUBE. The name of the video is Easy banana bread recipe Super Moist by Bakelikeapro. I was very easy and is very moist. I added a little cinnamon to it and of course chocolate chips. It is really good. I also had some caramel in the freezer and I took a tube of Pillsbury biscuits and put the caramel in an 8 in pan. Then I put the biscuits on top. I got the recipe from Kraft foods website, except I used my caramel. They turned out very good. I couldn't tell they were biscuits instead of bread.

Socks, Bertolli is a brand and I think they started with spaghetti sauces and have extended to diff fresh made noodles (tortellini, etc) and now complete meals. Good for when you don't want to slave in Kitchen and not too bad for you nutritionally

A skillet dinner comes frozen. There is usually pasta, veggies, meat and sauce in a bag. You dump the bag in a skillet, cover and heat about 15 min.

Grilled chicken on romaine...big whoop. ;-). I will be doing some baking for Easter in a few weeks and I did a bit of baking for Valentine's Day gifts.

There are some good sounding meals on here. We have our grills going year round, even in the snow or rain.

Sue

We do, too, Sue! Well, not in the snow or rain, but all year round.

Yesterday a friend had a late Mardi Gras Party. I made a large crockpot full of Feijoada, a black bean stew with pork and linguica. People at the party ate a fair bit of the Feijoada, but the rice in the rice cooker was virtually untouched. So today I may try to make rice pudding.

Pot roast and pineapple upside down cake. My husband's favorites.....old home style food.

No baking here, will just pull one of the 1/2 dozen or so different kinds of sweet breads from the freezer that daughter made and always shares with us. Dinner last night was hash brown potatoes, turkey sausage links and scrambled eggs jazzed up with a little salsa and pepper jack cheese. The eggs, given to me by a neighbor, were fresh laid by her chickens that lay blue eggs. The yolks were the deepest yellow/orange color. Very tasty!

Today, I have a pork tenderloin wallowing in a chipotle seasoned marinade for dinner. Sweet potatoes will be part of the meal but don't know what else yet.

Most of my time will be taken up pampering the Granddog. Her parents are in Washington DC for a long weekend. Had their getaway train trip there scheduled weeks before the death of Judge Scalia. It will be interesting to hear how it went.

Mmmm, Bob_cville, I love rice pudding and never make it now. Wish I could stop by and share.

I've never made rice pudding, and am not even sure that I've ever eaten it or that I'd like it. I just need to figure out something to do with that much already cooked rice.

You can freeze the rice for future use. I myself would make rice and raisins. You just pour cream over the warm rice and add cooked raisins and sweeten to taste. When I made it at work I would use dry creamer, and of course cinnamon to taste

Rice freezes beautifully...I will probably do bread...

I used to love rice pudding.... but rice cakes, seasoned and fried up in butter are super delicious. Well worth cooking too much rice just to have the leftovers.

I love to use a vanilla bean and whole milk. Something about the cooked cream that doesn't work. Maybe the additives that are now added to most creams?

A friend of mine came over yesterday and I am teaching her how to cook and bake. She is 40 years old and never really learned. We made ricotta and smoked mozerella ravioli, grilled chicken alfredro for dinner. I do not eat carbs so her and my son enjoyed this. Then I made garlic chicken and veggies for today and tomorrow. Packed that in containers gave her a big container and put the others in the fridge for later. My son will have rice with his chicken and veggies and I will just have the chicken and veggies. Then we made Oatmeal raisin cookies for her to take home and to take to a game night she was attending last night. Was a fun day.

In April her mom which is like my 2nd mother is coming and her and I are going to cook and bake all week together. Her mother loves to cook and bake and I am not sure why my friend wont learn from her but her mom likes to come do it with me lol.

Have a big, bone in, ham slow roasting in the oven. Will make a big pot of green beans and baby red taters to go with. One of husband's favorite meals.

I made 2 loaves of bread, 2 dozen butter tarts and a coconut cream pie, by noon today. They were all made from scratch.

Dinner is going to be pork chops with sauteed cauliflower, roasted asparagus and boiled potatoes.

I never never make just enough rice for one meal, I always make too much. It freezes beautifully and I always have a container or two in the freezer. It's easy to thaw and warm up as a side dish, or a stir fry. I also make rice pudding, which we love.

My grandson and his bride are coming to visit. They requested pot roast. Also making mashed potatoes, glazed carrots, broccoli in cheese sauce, and his favorite--Watergate salad. The leftovers go home with them....

that was supposed to say you can freeze it. I don't know where that ' came from

Jasdip, I had to look up butter tarts! Apparently a Canadian term, perhaps? Looks yummy, that's for sure.

Speaking if yummy, weren't you the one who complained about the price of cauliflower a few weeks ago? We all did, as I recall. Anyway, the price is way down now at my stores, with a big head costing about $1.20 each. And the orange variety is around $2.50. I bought a head of the orange to steam tonight.....I'm curious to see if it tastes as different as reported.

Simmered pork steak, potatoes with butter and sour ceam, mixed veggies, peach tea.

I baked part of my puff pastry this evening, in a mushroom, onion, and cheddar tart (section on the right without onions), and left over dough was made into parmesan sticks. I made a roast pork loin and while it was resting, I popped the pastry in the oven, and son-in-law made a leaf lettuce and tomato salad.

Rhizo, butter tarts are decidedly a Canadian delicacy! There are a lot of variations, using pecans, walnuts, raisins, or just plain. I put a few raisins in the tart shells then the filling. (butter, brown sugar, vanilla, eggs and a touch of cream).

I often make butter tart squares, as there's no fiddling with making a pastry.

I was hysterical a month ago when cauliflower was $6/head everywhere. I've been able to find them for $2 now.

I did make some rice pudding, flavored with vanilla extract, cardamom, and blood orange zest. After cooling I think it was thicker than it ought to have been, but what do I know -- I've never made it before, and I'm not sure I've ever eaten it. Many of the recipes I found called for adding raisins, but I don't particularly like raisins, and more importantly, didn't have any in the house.

I never add raisins to the rice pudding, Bob. Hubby loves raisins in it, so if he wants it, he adds it to his portion.

Rice pudding thickens upon cooling, so if it was thick when you took it off the stove, it will be very thick when it's cold. You can warm it up and add more milk to it to thin it.