In a country cooking mood today. Cornbread, oven fried okra, butter beans, ham, strawberry shortcake. Lots of beach walking tonight.

I made homemade hamburgers 🍔. They were very good. I picked up a lemon 🍋 pie for dessert.

raven, ice box or meringue? Man, I miss my mom's home burgers. Hated them at the time, but dang.

Oh how I miss my mom’s home burgers. Brought back memories from our farm days. Also the lemon pies, thick with meringue. Raven, you know I will copy your meal before the week is over.

Breakfast for dinner 🥞🥓...

The pie was lemon meringue and the meringue was about 3 inches tall! Everything was very good.

I have been buying a lot of strawberries since the price is down on them. Huge big juicy ones. I love to dip them in chocolate syrup, that's been dessert a few times lately.

Tomorrow my plan is to cook a small beef roast with red potatoes and sweet onions. Rice and brown onion gravy to go with it. I think I will do this one on the stove. I have been craving my potato salad so in the next few days I think I will make some. My husband absolutely loves it. My mom passed that recipe down to all of us and boy I sure am glad she did.

They had the St Louis pork ribs on sale so I bought a slab. I am hoping my husband will be kind enough to put them on the smoker but he hasn't been interested in going out and cooking. It has already been 100 degrees here. I understand his hesitation!

Today I am fixing food to share with two of my daughters. I will have turkey breast, fixed in the electric pressure cooker, mashed potatoes, gravy, candied sweet potatoes, and home made yeast rolls. They can add to the list of food, things they want. I have potatoes I want to use on from my fall stash, both russet and sweet. Turkey breast this past week was only $1.29 a pound. The yeast roll dough recipe is one I have used for over sixty years and it makes a lot of rolls. The dough can stay in the fridge for a week.

Sue in Central Indiana

@ravencajun Zone 8b TX this recipe for slow cooker ribs from Leite’s Culinaria gives the best results I’ ve ever tasted! https://leitesculinaria.com/84152/recipes-slow-cooker-barbecued-ribs.html

Last night I sautéed cubed summer squash and cherry tomatoes in olive oil and a few red pepper flakes, until the squash had a bit of brown and the tomatoes were soft to the point of bursting. Then tossed it with bits of mint leaf and crumbled feta. It was delicious.

Raven, since you have such good strawberries, do you have any REAL maple syrup? If you do, slightly warm some of the syrup and dip the strawberries in that! Oh, my! My cousin and his daughter make maple syrup on the farm, and we go "help" (mostly visit!) every couple of years. Last time I had taken strawberries to snack on. Emily gave us little cups of fresh warm syrup to sample, and I decided to try dipping a strawberry in it. Needless to say, the berries were gone in no time! Delicious!

I know it's way past soup season but yesterday I made Minestrone with Italian sausage. So since I don't know how to make a little bit of soup that's what we're having again tonight. That's OK, it's delicious. I'm getting weary of coming up with ideas, don't know why, we seldom eat out anyway but I guess I'm just tired of everything at home now.

Ritaweeda, it isn't past soup season for me - I've been on a soup kick for the past week or so, and have made variations on vegetable soup almost daily! It is so quick and easy (cook the veggies in broth with a bit of meat or an egg), but many days I have used some cream of chicken or mushroom for a base and blenderized it all together in my Nutrabullet. It has been my breakfast 4 days out of 5. Fills me up enough that I am not snacking.

Baked biscuits for lunch . Heated country ham for biscuits. Someone gave the idea for Jacques Pepin chicken thighs , was going to cook for dinner . Think we will have a very light dinner after biscuits for lunch and prepare thighs tomorrow. It’s getting tough keeping up my walking with my eating.

I made a rhubarb crumble the other day with fruit I picked up at a county fruitstand. I mixed the rhubarb with small sweet Cdn strawberries and blackberries. I only made an 8x8 square pan so it was gobbled up fast. haha my cousin ate it still bubbling from the oven.

Beef with broccoli plus bok choy on the side last night. All with lots of ginger and garlic.

You folks are giving great ideas for meals. Today will cook Jacques Pepin thighs for dinner. Craving cabbage ,so that will be green veggie, creamed potatoes, and peach cobbler. Thankful to all of you , I have so many new ideas for food preparation. It’s important to us to have good meals during this time. On the other side we are walking more to burn calories. Enjoying our times we are cooking together.

I baked pretzel rolls this a.m., so chicken sausage rolls and salad for lunch. For dessert I baked hazelnut cookies. Tonight, something healthy! :)

Pick up for dinner tonight. Probably wings since that's what hubby wants. I am good with that, no cooking involved! 😊👍🐔

I am going to make blackened fish, with some baked acorn squash and spring mix salad. If I get out for my walk while it has paused raining, I may make a brownie for a treat later.

Having planned overs from the chicken that was roasted yesterday. It is really good.

Swiss Steak tonight. There are enough green beans & yukon gold potatoes left for 1 person so DH will have those. I have Swiss Chard to saute for me (hmmm... Swiss night I guess!)

Mmm Swiss Steak! One of my favorite meals. I rebelled. I've been getting the motor home ready for the season the last 2 days. Of course I didn't get the pans and utensils put in totes for the winter, and the mice had fun, so I have not been having fun, dragging it all in the house to run through the dishwasher. It's all ready to go back out now. So I told DH he was having Long John Silver's for supper. To tired to even reheat anything.

I haven't made Swiss steak in forever edie, I need to put that on the list.

I'd also love to make rhubarb anything but whenever I (rarely) happen to see it in the stores down here, it doesn't look fresh or inviting, your crumble sounds wonderful, Cherryfizz.

We're expecting a lot of rain over the holiday weekend, I'm going to try grilling chicken and ribs early Sat. and hopefully be finished before the rain starts.

I made the crust today for a rhubarb pie which I plan on baking tomorrow!! I can't wait! I love rhubarb!

Can my taste buds live vicariously through yours, ghog? ;)

May not get to grill tomorrow, the plumber has to come by and replace the innards of the main toilet, it's decided to stop filling its tank. Oh well, maybe it won't rain all day Sunday.

No pie, but I did make rhubarb sauce. I’d forgotten that I bought a 2-lb. bag of frozen cut rhubarb right before the restrictions began. I decided it was time to do something with it. As much as I think I’d like pie or muffins, I always make sauce. And I don’t like the rhubarb-strawberry combo at all. It’s my mom’s recipe, and she used Minute Tapioca as the thickener. I know it can be spooned over vanilla ice cream or angel food cake, but I’ve never done that. I like the sauce all by itself.

Shambo, growing up, rhubarb sauce was a side dish just like applesauce. My Dad loved it. There was a dedicated shelf in their upright freezer for just the 2 sauces!

@ravencajun Zone 8b TX I love to dip strawberries in Nutella. So, so good.

Tonight is wings and fries night at my house. Plan to bake a loaf of bread today, also.

lasagna last night [comfort meals for a few days] and salmon tonight with garlic bread.

We have so many leftovers ,using those, so all I cooked today was Mac and cheese. Heated ribs,chicken, DD brought us a wonderful fresh corn soup made with coconut milk ,ginger, ohh so good. Almost forgot boiled peanuts. Quite a combination of food.

I made a penne with veggies, tomato sauce and cheese baked with mozz on top...came out good.

I think tonight is going to be pork chops and stuffing, salad.

ediej, you might want to try this pie crust recipe.

No Roll Pie Crust, or Bride's Pie Crust

1/2 c canola oil 1/2 tsp salt

1/4 c skim milk 1 1/2 c flour

Combine all in 9" pie pan. Stir until dough forms a loose ball. Pat out to form a crust. Fill and bake. 475° F 8-10 minutes.

Note: I use what ever milk I have on hand.

Note: If you don't get the bottom of the crust patted out thin enough, it will take longer to bake. Or just par bake it before filling it.

I use a crumb topping like for apple crisp.

I have a loaf of artisan bread rising since this a.m. Will turn it into bread after dinner tonight. Yum!

My oldest daughter is here today helping me watch my 9 year old granddaughter while her Mother has knee replacement surgery. Her dad is able to be in the hospital room with her mommy. He will come home at nights and she will go home. She will be there two days and two nights. So breakfast early this morning was on my front porch, canned cinnamon rolls, hot tea and hard boiled eggs and fruit cup. Lunch was back on the porch. Lunch meat sandwiches, cherries, potato chips and I baked a banana cake.

Marilyn_Sue, that's amazing they will let him be there. So many hospitals are still on the absolutely nobody in but the patient. So glad for your granddaughter she can be with you!

I'm glad he can be with her for surgery! I am not sure, but I think we are still not allowed anyone in with you at the hospital. Good you can watch your DGD, and that you have help. Saying a prayer for successful surgery, and swift, complete healing.

That looks delicious, Kathsgrdn

It is pretty good!

Baked this last night...will dig in for breakfast. Always amazed at what 1/4 tsp of yeast will do.

Wow what a long thread! Just a suggestion to maybe start a new thread, for May and June, maybe, of what is cooking or baking? I see we have a new thread for cooking or baking this *weekend.* :O)

I made bread this evening. My normal tried-and-true sandwich bread. I made it exactly the same way I always do but for some reason the dough was extra stiff. When I switched to the dough hook the dough kept spinning up into a hard column so after 3 tries, I said "forget this" and turned it out to hand-knead it. It was like trying to knead a bowling ball and truly felt "dead." I went ahead and set it to rise but with no expectation of it doing anything. I did give it extra time. Well, by golly, it actually rose. I made the loaves but for some reason they didn't brown very well. But it tastes like real bread. Wish I knew, though, why it was so hard to handle.

Flour absorbs different amounts of water depending on how dry the flour itself is and what the weather is like. I would have added a little more water.

That's what was so weird... It's been raining all day and the air is sticky-humid.

Are you sure you added the sugar (if included in the recipe). Sugar helps baked goods brown. When something I make often seems different than usual, I start wondering if I remembered all the ingredients.

I've made hamburger buns a couple times recently, from a recipe I found on YouTube. It starts with a roux, or tangzhong, as for brioche, and they are really soft. Had them once for hamburgers, and last night for BLT's. I added a little more whole wheat flour for the BLT buns. I feel like a slacker, but I prefer less whole wheat. ;)

My tried and true recipe for sub buns has been the Challah recipe from Joy of Cooking, but I think I'll try the hamburger bun recipe the next time I make subs.

My first thought was did I miss something but I ran down the list of ingredients and they were all included. Oh well next time I make it I will check before starting the kneading to see if it needs more water.

I've been kicking around the idea of making hamburger buns!

As soon as I get off this computer, I plan to put the ingredients for Edie's Bread into the bread machine and will let it make the dough. I need bread for tomorrow and do like to let it cool overnight.

Having mostly leftover potatoes/onions/carrots left from the roast chicken (chicken in gone). Will do a hamburger patty in the air fryer and maybe a salad - haven't decided yet.

You know I have been self-isolating so long that this week I had to think about what day of the week each day was. I sure hope and pray this we will be safe to go out and do things in the future. I don't want my brain to deteriorate. Have been doing crossword puzzles, sudoko, and other type of brain stimulation, but that gets old, too. Enough. Got to get in the kitchen.

Lasagna is in the oven. A salad of fresh tomatoes and cukes.

Dinner tonight was leftover Korean Beef & Mushrooms (Ritaweed's recipe.) And we still have leftovers from the leftovers. That recipe sure makes enough for a crowd!

I made something today that I haven’t made in years. Fried apple pies. I can see Aunt Maggie ,standing at wood stove frying apple pies when I was a child . Happy moment when I would get my first taste.