Gonna be rice 'n' beans tonight...ate out last night...so delish! But definitely need some clean eating after that one!

Chicken stew for dinner tonight. Hotdogs for lunch!!

Nuthin - at 9:23, without a lot to do (and having been late to come here - I'm still in bed)!

(Figure that I need to be careful to get my beauty sleep, ya know)!

O.K. so I should be sleepin', not yakkin to you characters!

((And I've been drug back to the top of the thread a half dozen times, invited to drop in a picture, ditto, invited to leave, got dragged to Google, allow Chrome to copy my pictures, and havole joyfuelled

I'm going to smoke a chicken today. Maybe potato salad and beans on the side, but we'll see.

We were pretty good all week, two nights of beans and greens, one of salad. So this weekend we'll be kinda bad and I've got fresh strawberries to make strawberry shortcake. I also have Italian hot sausage and eggplant and zucchini to put into sauce for pasta. But DH might take me out tonight for a break so it might be seafood at Bonefish. We have gift certs. for it. We don't have much choice around here for seafood unfortunately or I would go elsewhere for it. I'm picky about seafood, I refuse to eat it at just any restaurant. We used to have a New England style place here, not a franchise but it went out of business a few years back. I have a feeling that fresh seafood is too much of a liability to make a profit unless you have a place in an area where the clientele has lots to spend on the best quality food and that's not around here.

joyfulguy, hope you're OK?? You sort of dropped off there.

Apple gallette is in the oven right now ... it's a treat breakfast :-)

Going to grill some hamburgers, frozen French fries & deviled eggs.

Making two meals, lentil soup cooking in crockpot. Cornbread in oven. Spaghetti sauce simmering. Had a second thought and have egg custard pie ready for oven, Dinner will be easy , toss a salad and decide which meal . Love having meals ready for reheating the next day.

Snow storm is coming with 50 mph wind this weekend. Baked a lot of chicken wings last night, just need to make veggie salad to go with it,

Made navy bean soup with ham yesterday and cornbread. Will be eating leftovers today :-) Pot roast with onions over polenta tomorrow.

Have a hankering for something sweet and was thinking about blondies.........we'll see.

Not sure. We went back down to the coast yesterday to buy a load of hay. (Everyone here bales hay, including us....had someone cut and bale the hay here, but the fields were overgrown and too stemmy for my old horses). We got home late, and I have so much to do, I may not cook anything. We bought barbecue at our favorite place down there, so it will be left over barbecue for today. I do plan to make a fruit salad. If I get caught up around here, I will cook something tomorrow. I haven't decided what though. I just had breakfast, and it is difficult for me to think of food on a full stomach.

I'mI'm O.K. - got taken to "in"incognito", back to Google ... then when wrote "ths.g"ths.gar..." ... was invited to sign in to (guess whatwhat) "h"houzz" ... (anybody heard o' them?)

Ahere was I?

Oh, yeah - got messed with ongoing by autocorrect ... and had to rewrite the "au"autocorrect" when it disappeareddisappeared.

Then taken back to my base system ... when I got back here my stuff hadn't disappeared, surprisingly.

Think it's time to go back to my beauty sleep!

Have yourselves a great day, alall.

"day" was "say", repaired it, when clicked to write "a"a" of "all" ... the "d" disappeared, had to replace it ... 4 TIMES!!

'Bye, everyone!

ole (less than) joyful !

Ham, cheese impossible quiche in the oven now. I am hungry, so it is hard to smell it cooking!

I was planning on a caramel apple freeform tart today but my grandkids shared their germs with me so I'm not up to it. Made the caramel 2 days ago (the boil-the-Eagle-Milk-in-the-can kind;) it is in the fridge so I guess it will hold for a couple of days. DH will probably have to settle for canned soup for dinner. :-(

Not much cooking going on around here; we're on vacation. We've been making breakfast, but eating out for dinner. Breakfast today is going to be fruit salad and a pork carnitas taco. Dinner is going to be some sort of seafood at the restaurant that's located at the end of the pier next to the condo we're renting.

Tonight will be baked haddock, tossed salad and roasted red potatoes. Sunday's I try to cook and/or prep for the week ahead's dinners so I will be making Mac & Cheese, stock and carmelized onions for French Onion Soup, a sous vide an eye of the round roast beef with leftovers for lunch sandwiches this week. DD cooks Tuedays nights; Weds we dine out and Fridays are leftover night.

Yesterday I made a pound cake and some crusty bread to go along with some soups I brought over to a friend whose husband is very ill........Chicken soup for him because it was the mildest I could think of, and Manhattan clam chowder for her and her son. Today I am making roasted cauliflower soup and pretty much taking the rest of the weekend off from the kitchen. I bought a cluster of Dungeness crab legs yesterday for me (DH doesn't like them) and DH bought some scallops when he was out, so that will be tonight and there's a leftover half sandwich from lunch yesterday and some cooked chicken in the fridge. Instead of cooking, will be doing laundry.

I plan to bake a lemon loaf, slice, and freeze it before husband can eat it all. I have some homemade Italian sausage defrosting, so I will do something with that today or tomorrow. My 10 year old grandson is coming over while his parents go out to dinner. I will make spaghetti if he comes in time for dinner. Ice cream for dessert.

Today's dinner will be leftovers - Tangy Chinese orange chicken, rice and broccoli. There will still be enough for tomorrow's dinner and tomorrow I plan to make Sweet Potato Peanut soup to augment the chicken and to last for the next couple of days. I had a large piece of carrot cake with cream cheese frosting yesterday, so I'm going light on the desserts for the next few days.

I had mixed greens cooked in a can of French onion soup, with a little Kielbasa thrown in, for breakfast. Now still quite full (which is good - I have been overeating since Thanksgiving!). Will have to see when it is later - I originally had planned on tacos with refried beans, salsa and avocado, but now not sure.

Stay at home rainy day: sausage and toast

A gift for the road, his roommate, his ride, whoever he wants to share it with. He goes back to school tomorrow.

https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/cinnabons-cinnamon-rolls/

Turned out pretty good

This week it was pot roast and homemade biscuits, a big batch of beef and mushroom tomato sauce w/ farfalle pasta, broiled lamb chops and roasted green beans, a large salad with home grown tomatoes, & oven braised lemon chicken breasts, roasted beets with lime, and roasted winter squash, not exactly in that order, though. Also, banana & walnut semolina 'pudding' cake.

Hmmm, I did a lot of cooking this week! Everything but the sauce and some chicken is gone now too.

Planning on using the leftover sauce to make some lasagna tonight.

Made soup and bread yesterday. So will heat that up for dinner tonight. Probably will have some brown butter ice cream I made for something sweet along with some peanut butter oatmeal cookies. The ice cream is so rich, can't eat much of it. The bread I made yesterday is really good. For the first time in a long time, I decided that instead of using the dough cycle on the breadmaker, I would just do the full run of mixing, rising, and baking. The crust is wonderful.

I'm taking a cooking break for a couple days. Tonight we're sharing an American Flatbread pizza. I'll add a few sliced peppadews. Maybe I'll make a salad, but that's not cooking.

I haven't been feeling well and not sleeping at all lately. I made a big casserole of a ground beef and rice with mushrooms and onions etc. last night. Tonight we will be having leftovers.

Hope you feel better soon, raven. Ground beef and rice is what we give our pups when their tummies are upset (we leave out the veggies).

I have chicken wings in the smoker. Will throw some cole slaw together and plan to make some cheese biscuits to go with them.

Raven, sure hope you get to feeling better real soon.

coping with the storm ... have not been out since thurs nite ... been catching up on sleep. Made a couple of tasty peanut butter/rasp jam on crunchy wheat toast ... simple and sounded good, and was

Hope you feel better soon Raven.

Sue

Raven, feel better. Sue, french toast does sound good!

It's 4am, can't quit thinking about the stupid kid that's my NEW insurance agent. Need to fire him. :0) He can't get anything straight on the new policies. Crap!

Made a pot of green chili. Now, inspired by Rob, have the bread machine making Cinnabon dough.

Wow Shambo, that looks delicious and probably something that my family would like. I will have to try that.

Feel better Raven.

I had bought a waxed carton of chicken broth a while ago and stuck it in the cabinet. Since my cold is not going away and now DH is coughing too I thought I'd make a quick pot of chicken noodle soup. Got the carton out and opened the twist-off lid. Met no resistance and when I took the lid off, someone had punched through the protective liner and then put it back on the shelf. Why do people do things like that? From now on I will test the lid before putting the carton in my cart! Anyway now I'm not sure what we are going to have :-\

Hope you're feeling better soon, Raven.

Those look delicious, Shambo.

Today, we will be making snacks to eat while watching the big 49er vs Packers football game today. We are having spicy red pepper hummus and tabouli purchased from the local farmers market. They will be served with pita chips. We also have tortilla chips and salsa. Some of the leftover pizza from the other night is going to be cut up into squares and crisped up on a cast iron skillet. I am calling these pizza bites. Along with that, we will have a small fruit platter (apple, cherries, raspberries, pineapple and avocado.

Not only are the above snacks for the game, they are also going to be considered our dinner.

ediej, I doubt your broth was tampered with. I always purchase boxed - not canned - broth and so far, regardless of brand, they all come with what they call an "easy open cap". Right on the carton top next to the lid is this statement: "EASY OPEN CAP - NO PULL TAB! Twist to break inner seal and tamper-evident ring". The protective liner 'self destructs' as the cap is twisted. If you twist the cap to test in the store, YOU will be breaking the seal!

Most boxed soups ( I usually purchase the Pacifica brand) also have this easy open feature.

Gardengal, thanks for the info. I usually make my own broth so didn't realize about that feature. Now I know but I pitched the container already. :-( Oh well I found a pork steak in the freezer so at least DH will have dinner tonight. I'll probably have scrambled eggs and the rest of the orange juice.

I'm going to make my favorite sausage and potato and cheese soup. Jody wanted broccoli added to it, so will do that.

ediej,

They make the carton that way nowadays. Read the labeling?

i pulled the carton out of the trash to look. The only thing on the carton was "do not use if tamper-proof ring is broken." Obviously I must not have looked very closely when I picked it up. I don't buy it but once in a blue moon. I still much prefer my own homemade.