Chicken and dumplings....have been craving it all day!

Rain.

Ziti bake with a salad for hubby. Dessert was a caramelize upside down apple cake

We are going to our friends house for their Christmas dinner. We do this every year. They used to live nextdoor to our flood house. Now we have to drive instead of going down the path from our house to theirs.

She said she would have a ham. I made my potato salad and a bunch of boiled shrimp for appetizers.

No idea what else but she is a wonderful baker so I think we are going to enjoy the desserts.

Rain on the menu for all day. I had my rainy day special: Lean Cuisine spaghetti with meat sauce, my favorite. You would cringe if I told you how I eat it. NO company to watch and groan, so I'm happy and satisfied.

With all the recent discussion, I am making Coq au Vin :-) It just sounded too good, I haven't made it in ages and beef is on the menu for the holiday so wanted something different. With crusty bread to sop up the gravy! The leftovers will get me through until Christmas eve.

Meatloaf and potato pancakes

The last of the pot roast tonight. Mon - Wed, it'll be leftovers and whatever needs to be used up in the fridge as we are leaving town on Thursday and wont be back until January 1. I'm getting pretty good at planning grocery buying and meal prep so that we don't end up having to throw out a bunch of food when we go out of town for a long period of time.

Glenda, "how" as in in front of the TV with your jammies on or with a peanut butter sandwich, which my husband likes with spaghetti or chilli? ;-)

I made a seafood chowder for us on this dark and rainy day. It's easy to pull together and will go well with a couple of the homemade rolls I made today by the dozens.

Salisbury steak, mashed potatoes and gravy, some kind of veggie.

Yes, also rain for us here in SoCal...and likely for a good chunk of the week. Dinner tonight will be DH's grilled ribs with my horseradish coleslaw.

Spinach salad with miso dressing, 2 clementines, and a honey bran muffin.

Taco soup in the slow cooker for us!

Beef tacos in corn shells. Mmm.

ETA: and pansit! An early Christmas present from Lola and Daddy.

Patty melt and fried potatoes with onions for SO. Burger patty with cheese and a salad for me.

Leftover chicken & rice, and cranberry cookies for dessert.

I have some lamb chops in the meat drawer calling my name.

Meatloaf and mashed potatoes.

Shepards’ Pie..... if it gets done soon enough, But there is also Chicken soup with noodles if we get hungry before the stew is done. It will be better tomorrow anyway.

Oyster stew made with fresh oysters from Cedar Key, Florida. It was very very good.

A sort of boeuf bourguinon (sp). Kind of a B- effort but oh well.

And whatever I nibbled during two brief appearances at neighborhood Christmas parties: I recall ham, salad, scalloped potatoes, etc.

Left over chimichangas.

We had our country supper tonight. Cornbread and milk. Hubby uses buttermilk with his cornbread. Growing up our large meal was at noon and always cornbread and milk for supper.

Bagels, nova lox, egg and tuna salad and latkes. Finished off with a homemade ice cream cake roll. Anyone here remember the Honeymoon ice cream cake roll? Used to be popular about 50 years ago...this one tastes similar.

Getting ready to head out to get some things to make chicken noodle soup. Been having stomach issues since Thursday when I ate an open roast beef sandwich from a local diner. Not sure if it is a virus or that meal, which was horrible. Could have been just a coincidence that I got sick within an hour of eating it. I didn't even finish half of it because it was way over salted and the green beans were all pepper. You couldn't taste the food for the salt and pepper. Awful.

left over turkey from last night

Bought some roast pork with apricots at a gourmet carry-out yesterday. Also, mashed potatoes. Had it last night and again tonight!

Falafel, pita, tomato, hummus, cucumber & green onion; blackberry cake for dessert. My son made latkes (potato pancakes) for lunch which we had with cranberry sauce or apple sauce and yogurt. The hummus was store bought, the rest was made from scratch.

Cloud, I am craving falafel and am not near home where we have really, really great falafel. Your meal sounds perfect.

We had shepherd's pie and See's chocolates for dessert.

I want Cloud Swift's dinner! But I did get home before the torrents started. Just couldn't stay away all day because o the coming rain. We had restaurant delivery, homey East Coast Italian with a great, modern salad.

We had turkey chili, applesauce and sliced pears.

Lkgrace, Cedar Key is my husband's home town. He is getting ready to go back to visit, a couple of days after Christmas. His half sister and her husband were caretakers on Seahorse Key, owned by the University of Florida. There is a lighthouse there and 10 room house. A favorite memory of mine is visiting them there back in the late '60's and eating fried oysters that his sister cooked for us. (That and the masses of squirrels that came to meet our boat, and the treats that his sister brought for them.)

I had turkey chili that I made. It will have an encore as my lunch for the next 3 days at work.