I’ll be starting a pot of meatballs and sauce mid morning. DH wants lasagna so that will be dinner tomorrow evening. Tonight we’ll probably have roast chicken breasts, mashed potatoes and roasted Brussels sprouts, going to be very rainy and raw today so perfect day to stay in and cook.

German chocolate cake, we have guest coming . Alex Trebek mentioned his love for this cake this week. Lightbulb went off as I have not made in last 25 years. Our guest love all sorts of desserts, so hopefully they will eat all of it. Hubby will cook everything else on the grill while I toss a salad.

Homemade Chili!!

Fried catfish. DH hates catfish so something else for him. Salad, baked potatoes, and hush puppies will be on the side.

Today is Chinese New Year, so we will be making chicken stir fry with frozen egg rolls.

By special request from Jody....red beans, sausage and rice.

Calico bean soup is in the crockpot right now.

I have beef strips marinating and will put them in the slow cooker around noon or so. I'm making " Slow Cooker Garlic Sesame Beef" and will have it with rice.

I'm making spicy grits this morning, with chocolate Habanero chili, red bell pepper, herbs, cheese, Italian sausage, and cheese. I make enough for four servings, as it reheats nicely. I guess I should be making Chinese food for the Chinese New Year, but I have the ingredients for grits, and my brother prefers that.

We are checking out of the rental condo and hitting the road this morning, so we are cleaning out the fridge. Breakfast is fruit salad, yogurt, English muffin and half a cupcake. There is also half an avocado left which I will have later for a mid-day snack.

I'm going to make myself a pancake this morning, even though dh doesn't want one. I'm in the middle of dental work and need to eat softer foods.

Hall, German chocolate cake is my favorite food but since no one else in the family likes it, I request not to have it for my bday as I'd be eating it all by my lonesome--not good.

Chili here, too. We eat low carb, so no beans, and we use a recipe that calls for curry. It's the best chili we've ever had, so low carb or no, it's really delicious!

Soon I will have veggies and cream cheese on half a bagel for lunch. Later, because it's so icy outdoors, DH and I will head off to Ikea so we can comfortably do some walking. and then we will have dinner there, likely meatballs for DH and salmon for me.

I was given a sous vide for Christmas, so today I finally opened the box and will attempt chicken breasts and then a quick sear to brown before they hit the plate. My kids have had a sous vide machine for a couple of years and love it, we'll see how much mom does :)

Stay home kind of day: brunch will be two soft boiled eggs over rye toast and bacon

Ohiomom's fish chowder.

Chili and cornbread.

We had a girls get together today at my house. All three daughters and 7 grandkids were here. I made a keto chicken bake that was wonderful. I fixed riced cauliflower for the keto eaters and rice for the others along with a green salad. Even the kids went back for seconds.

Will be warming up a soup and make garlic bread from the last of a loaf I made this week. Made two different loaves and one is already gone.

Meatloaf, sweet potatoes and asparagus!

My sister gave me a delicate squash to try, so it is in the oven. I will have half for a late lunch today and the other half tomorrow. I also baked up a batch of Never Fail Popovers too.

peanut brittle

Cheeseburger and fries for SO. Hamburger patty with cheese and a small salad with ranch for me.

We're in a clean-out-the-freezer stage right now (too sick to go to the store.) I found a small freezer bag of - something - with ground beef in it. Had a 1 in 3 chance of manwich, spaghetti sauce or taco filling. Well it was manwich but of course we don't have any buns. So I made a little bit of minute rice adding some chili powder to the water before boiling it. Mixed it with the manwich stuff, dumped some hot sauce on it and it actually made at least edible burritos. Yay for convenience foods sometimes.

I’ve been making up for months of not feeling well enough to bake. So, I made rye bread and cottage cheese cornbread yesterday. Today I’m making bran muffins. We had a two hour power outage today, so I didn’t get as much baking done as I’d have liked. If all goes well tomorrow, I’ll make date quick bread and possibly cracked wheat yeast bread.

Lars, I saved your baked grits recipe to try but am unsure about reheating it. Do you warm it in the microwave or oven or steam? It sounds really good.

in a bit I'll pressure cook a sweet potato for my pup. after that'll I'll hard boil some eggs for her.

DH made me a breakfast sandwich of a fried egg with bacon on a bagel. I never ate lunch. Dinner was pork chops in the oven , cheesy rice, sautéed kale, and salad. I made some sugar free jello with sliced strawberries for later. Optional Cool Whip Lite.

Sometimes I don't cook much but yesterday I made sausage calzones with dough from my bread machine and today I made chili.

I plan on making a ham casserole. Sliced baked potatoes, onions, white sauce and ham slices. Last night I grilled salmon.

Split pea soup in the crockpot for DH. I have some eggs hard boiling now. I was going to make polenta, but I can't find my cornmeal. It should be in the freezer, but i think MIL relocated it.

Sheila, I love all types of squash but Delicata is one of my favorites. I rarely see it in the groceries around here but buy it whenever I see it. I'm going to grow it myself this year.

I made ginger beef stir fry yesterday, always a favorite with steamed broccoli. Today, it's chilly and dreary outside so a big pot of a warm soup or stew is in order, I think. Or maybe a roasted chicken.

I am frying the potatoes I did not fry yesterday, have browned two very large pork chops and they are on top of the potatoes and onions cooking. That will make 4 meals for me, plus I have coleslaw and fresh strawberries, black berries and banana. Don't forget iced tea too.

Sue

A call for recipes, please!

I'd love the recipe for Slow Cooker Garlic Sesame Beef!

Nothing really in terms of a "dish". I'm on a mission to use up fresh and frozen (heat/cook and eat) items this weekend!

We're having acorn squash, oven roasted chicken thighs and frozen peas/pearl onions. Easy-peasy!

Stir fry and basmati rice, and for dessert, cranberry streusel cake with the last of the frozen cranberries.

Suzieque...Slow Cooker Garlic-Sesame Beef

6 green onions, sliced

1/2 cup sugar,

1/2 cup water

1/2 cup reduced sodium soy sauce

1/4 cup sesame oil

3 tablespoons sesame seeds, toasted

2 tablespoons all-purpose flour

4 garlic cloves, minced

1 beef sirloin tip roast (2 lbs.) thinly sliced & split

Additional green onions and sesame seeds for garnish, if desired.

In large resealable plastic bag, mix the first 8 ingredients. Add beef, seal bag and turn to coat. Refrigerate 8 hours or overnight.

Pour beef and marinade into a 3 qt. slow cooker. Cover and cook on low for 5-7 hours or until beef is tender. Serve over rice.

i used a N.Y. Strip steak that was 3/4 lb. as I had it already. It was enough for two meals for me. Hope you like it, I think it's very good :)

Heating up a slab of rare roast beef I made in the Instant Pot ((IP) and froze (going to heat it in the IP on Warm setting), some mashed potatoes with some leftover horseradish sauce stirred and mixed well in them, some green beans, and dinner rolls (Rhode's frozen rolls that are rising in the other IP on the yogurt setting).

@marylmi, my goodness that sounds like a great beef dish. I do have one question, it says mix the first 8 ingredients, then add beef. I see only 7 ingredients listed before the beef is listed. Was that a typo or is one ingredient missing, please.

Walnut creek, thank you for catching that! I left out the 1/2 cup of water. I just fixed it. :). I had it last night and tonight instead of rice I has buttered carrots with it. I also saved a little bit for lunch tomorrow. It's from my Taste of Home Slow Cooker book and it's a keeper...will definitely be making it again.

Whole Roasted Herbed Chicken tonight. Due to the oddest winter so far that I've ever been through I am SO very lucky that my thyme, sage, and rosemary plants are alive and thriving, so the chicken will be good and flavorful. Oven roasted new potatoes and a tossed salad. DH still has some S.F. butterscotch pudding, I pretty much don't eat dessert any more. Not for any dietary reasons it's just that in my old age it doesn't take much to make me full. And to think I used to laugh at my parents getting those "blue plate specials" when eating out. Serves me right! :-\

Tonight we're having home made burgers. I might make fries to go with them.

I have yellow squash with tomato cooking. Some fresh broccoli steaming. Pork chops with onion, mushrooms and garlic sautéed, and a thick sauce.

Tried baking a gluten free Spanish Almond Cake just for the heck of it. I saw them baking it on America's Test Kitchen and thought I'd give it a try. Boy, almond flour is pricey! I emailed the recipe to my youngest who has a friend(s) who avoids gluten and has presented a challenge for dinner invitations. I liked the cake, which is just one layer, but I still think I love my gluten laden cakes better.

Thanks, Mary! I've printed it and will likely try it on Tuesday. Yum!

Well, tonight I had one of those, for me, quite rare flashes of brilliance. I was getting ready to make my roasted chicken in my graniteware roaster like I have hundreds of times. Problem with it is that even when I spray it and then put in olive oil, chicken inevitably sticks. So I was getting the chicken out of the fridge and happened on a bunch of collard greens I meant to cook a week ago. They were a little dried out but not too bad. Light bulb - I lined the bottom of the roaster with the greens. Not only did the chicken not stick but the greens tasted pretty darn good!

Bluebell66: Would love to have your chili recipe!

Tonight I made a Buffalo chicken casserole. It's in the oven right now. This was right before going into the oven.