Stay home day for most in area. Schools closed due to weather. So I treated myself to leftovers: baked sweet potato with green chiles maple syrup sour cream, my favorite Alaskan cole slaw, and kalua pulled pork. All gone! And a nap!

Working today but off in less than an hour. I made up some beef stroganoff the other day and saved it for tonight. Glad to have it all done, just need to add sour cream and warm it up when I get home. It's bitter cold here so a warm dinner will be good.

I am making something in the aroma cooker. It has ground beef, onions, purple Carrots, Sliced potatoes and shredded cabbage once sauted add ragu double cheddar sauce, cream or mushrooms and a splash of milk and simmer till done.

Pot of Pinto Beans and skillet cornbread.

roasted potatoes with onions, garlic and rosemary and then Italian sweet sausage cut at an angle and roasted them after removing fat by placing them in frying pan and cover with water, boil gently and all the fat rises to the top, rinse them off, toss them with the potatoes and onions until everything is pretty much carmelized. Roasted veggies on the side. Yum

I roasted a chicken, but was also hungry for potato soup, so I had both. Had to add cheese to the soup to help the flavor. I guess with it being so cold here in Ohio, I just had to have hot soup.

Italian sausage, onions and peppers. We made the sausage about a month ago - half sweet, half hot.

Made some crusty bread and had leftover meatloaf for delicious meatloaf sandwiches. Sooo good!

Thawed a container of chili to have on this cold, snowy night. Shredded sharp cheddar and white corn tortilla chips to go with it. Lots more snow on the way...

We had the last tub of veggie soup from the freezer, crusty rolls from the little in town bakery with butter, and lemon pound cake topped with a tiny dollop of whipped cream ( mine had a large dollop) and fresh from the grocers produce, lol, red rasberries.

I need to get veggie, chili, and chicken noodle soups made soon for the freezer.

Marilyn, I LOVE Cream of Wheat, and I only eat it with whole milk, I like a few small lumps in mine. Yum

Tobey is grilling bone in pork chops. and he's having mashed taters, with creamed corn on top, and salad. I am siding it with just salad. I've been cleaning the computer room, and so not all that hungry. Been sitting most of the day.

Marilyn, LOVE cream of wheat !!

Had two doctor's appointments in Fort Wayne today. So, we picked up Arby's sandwiches on the way home. Quick in and out!! Took us almost 8 hours from the time we left and got home. Long day. Good reports.

We had chili that I had in the freezer. I too love cream of wheat and I also love cream style corn on mashed taters. When I was growing up we had that when DM didn't have anything to make gravy with.

I found frozen macaroni and cheese made with Hatch chiles at Trader Joe's so we had it tonight with our grilled chicken and kale salad. It was delicious, but has too much fat/calorie count to be anything but a special treat.

Another special treat here for supper -- homemade French toast with real maple syrup and crispy bacon followed by homemade apple crisp. Yum! And not to be repeated for at least four months... <g>

I like a few lumps in my Cream of Wheat too, Mamapinky! I must try it with whole milk. Roxanna - I love homemade apple crisp, preferably with ice cream.

Suzie, good news on your good reports--such a nice feeling, huh?

We went to dd2's house which she shares with 6 roommates, so dh could meet her roommate's father, who went to the same school in India as he, at approximately the same time. They didn't remember each other, but it was fun. Dd made veg lasagna and it was delicious.

Fun2B--I like that mac and cheese too, and will eat it for lunch when I need something to hold me for a long time. It's very good.

I ate cream of wheat for years early in my adulthood and haven't wanted any since. :)

We had frittata. I used up the zucchini that was lingering in the crisper along with some carrots and a bit of grated Romano cheese.

Dh sent me a TED talk on becoming a weekday vegetarian for environmental reasons. So I'm trying, though with a picky dh and one picky kid (the other kid is a lot easier), I'm struggling to come up with five vegetarian meals per week that people like and aren't too repetitive.

Cream of Wheat was one of the staples on our breakfast table as children in the snow belt of central NYS. That, and Cream of Rice, Wheatena, Maypo, Ralston hot cereal, oatmeal, MaltOmeal, and some sort of chocolate Cream of Wheat were often options on the table to help stoke the internal furnace before we headed out the door on a long walk to school. Yum...healthful comfort food.

ANYway, it's cold here, too! I made Ina Garten's seafood chowder (more or less) for us last night with homemade stock, shrimp, scallops, and cod. My version is full of vegetables, too....so good.

It's going to be colder today and I think that I might do chili in the slow cooker to eat on all afternoon. Maybe the sprites and my neighbor will want to come over for some fireplace time. The girls are getting much better about letting the adults chat together while they entertain themselves in our midst. I can clear the central coffee table and put out a new jigsaw puzzle for them.

I made a big pan of vegetarian baked spaghetti, with lentils as the 'meat', and a spinach/leaf lettuce/red cabbage salad. I'd made a couple of pork loins for New Year's Day, then we had left overs for a couple of days, including a delicious shepherd's pie, made with cubed pork, peas, carrots, onions, celery, and left over mashed potatoes--perfect for the cold weather. So, anyway, I thought a vegetarian meal was in order.

I'm babysitting today, so I hope there is enough spaghetti left for tonight.