Not much cooking lately but I did make some Spanish rice from scratch yesterday to go with some hand made Tamales that I had in the freezer.

As I mentioned on your breakfast thread I am smoking a brisket flat and a slab of St. Louis style spare ribs today for a small football watch party I am going to this afternoon for the Chiefs vs. Buccaneers. I think I will also throw a bag of chicken wing drumettes on the grill just because I have them taking up room in the freezer.

I'm going to make some chile or ham and beans sometime this week. Not sure which yet.

I made a boiled dinner yesterday and it will be eaten again today.

Not really, but today I'm making turkey soup.

Only thing left is a small amount of turkey, So we ordered Chinese last night. So today we have left of Chinese today. I do want to bake some cookies later.

I am making chicken and dressing. I also want to make some soup. I like soup for breakfast and lunch, when I have it. I made chicken, mushroom, artichoke hearts and wild rice soup last week. I am going to make a similar one with sausage, rice and mushrooms. I went back down to the coast last week and brought back sausage from my favorite place. I never particularly cared for sausage until I found this. I mean, I ate it, but it was nothing to write home about.

There's only a little turkey left, so tonight I'll make turkey pot pie or something to use that up. Otherwise have been eating leftovers since Thanksgiving.

No! LOL

Nope! Been grazing on leftovers, mine as well as from other family members. Have frozen at least half of Thanksgiving dinner (turkey breast, dressing and a side) for a repeat at some point not too far down the road.

Plan on making sausage rolls today as I much prefer a stash of savory treats for the holidays rather than cookies or candies. Next week I'll make mushroom tarts and baked martinis. Made Chex mix last week.

With all that rich food for Thanksgiving, I plan also on making some soup but not sure what kind....maybe French onion or tomato bisque.

gardengal - thanks for reminding me to pick up the Chex mix ingredients next time I brave a trip to the grocery store! I had totally forgotten about that holiday tradition. My father used to make several batches a year. I started making it myself again a few years ago.

LOL! Chex mix is addictive! And it makes a BIG batch. I shared with my sister but I have still managed to put a significant dent in the remaining batch all by myself :-)

I forgot I also made Boursin last week. Savory appies and a glass of red wine can get me through the most trying times!! And any other times as well. 🤗

We had gotten Cornish hens for our two drive-by-drop-off dinners, sort of like mini-turkeys, but they didn’t thaw in time so we shared our own turkey instead. Of course, there were no leftovers, so we made the now-thawed Cornish hens on Friday to have with the leftover potatoes, beans, and stuffing. And the leftovers of the hens on Friday! Today it is back to normal.

Today, blackeye peas, cornbread, grilled chicken. Sugar free black cherry jello.

No. I did go shopping & bought pork chops, a beef roast, tenderized beef patties & a steak. Froze everything for next week....and beyond....

Today I’m macerating fruit for a variation on Alton Brown’s Free Range Fruit Cake.

yes

I bought some large frozen shrimp on impulse before Thanksgiving. I love shrimp in restaurants, but rarely cook it at home. However, I haven't been in a restaurant in over 9 months and the prospects of dining out in the near future aren't good. I haven't cooked shrimp in so long that I had to look up how to do it.

I wish the thawing process didn't use so much water, but the end result was excellent--a delicious dinner of shrimp with linguine and broccoli.

If I don't cook - I don't eat!

And Thanksgiving here was a bit over six weeks ago, so turkey's become mainly a memory.

I did make a stew of chicken leg, potato, onion and mixed veg. last night.

I live about 10 miles from the nearest restaurant: don't know if they're doing take-out, but Bake'n Take or Save the Dishes don't provide much safety for the wallet, at such a distance! I haven't verified but have heard that a taxi ride from our city about 15 miles away costs about fifty bucks.

I hope that you're having some good contacts as this isolation proceeeds, and aren't having major financial problems. I'm thankful to have been on gov't. and private pension for about 25 years, so few recent variations in financial issues.

ole joyful

Yes, leftovers.

I just made another pumpkin pie - I didn't want to waste the 2nd frozen pie crust ☺️ I made the first one with 2 tablespoons of southern comfort and condensed milk, which is the 'modern' recipe on the Libby can. Whoo! So good. This one is the traditional recipe with evap milk and sugar.

I made turkey soup yesterday and thought it was quite good; I usually don't care for turkey soup. This time I added some flower to the vegetables, after they'd sauteed for awhile, then cooked the raw taste out before adding broth.

Marilyn Sue, you say you keep bread dough in the fridge, if I read that correctly. For how long is it good in there?

Chex mix is NOW on my list, thank you!! DH has surgery tomorrow and will love it.

Pasta w/brown butter and fresh sage, (yikes - $2 for a single sprig - "but it's organic" fuuf - all sage is organic - nothing eats it so no pesticides needed and -- dirt is dirt that everything grows in.).

I told my sister 2000 miles away that I would make Grandma's sugar cookies and send them to her. That is if I don't eat them all myself.

Last night I took the leftover roasted root vegetables from thanksgiving, which was turnips, parsnips, sweet potatoes, rutabaga, fennel, broccoli, and carrots, and then added sauteed onion, zucchini, plantain, mushroom, lemon drop peppers, and shishito peppers and smoked sausage for an amazing vegetable melange.

Back to normal in my house. Breakfast everyday is a cooked one. No cereal or granola bars here. And simple cooked dinners on nights I don't work, even simpler ones thrown together on nights i do. Tonight I made cheeseburgers and homemade hand cut fries. Will use the leftover ground beef for something tommorow. Maybe tacos.

Neither one of us are leftover people. We ate the food I cooked for Thanksgiving Thursday and Friday then gave the rest away to friends of his who asked for it when he said we would likely give it to the doggies. It was appreciated. Next year we should just split it up on Thanksgiving and deliver it so we don't have to have it languishing in the fridge for a couple days.

My refrigerator yeast roll dough will last a week in the fridge. It is a very old recipe and makes at least 3 dozen rolls. I used two thirds of it for Thanksgiving and saved the rest and baked it up yesterday. It is similar to Angel biscuit dough but no buttermilk. It is a soft dough and must be handled as little as possible no kneading.

Refrigerator Yeast Roll Dough (Westinghouse Betty Furness Cookbook)

1 quart of milk

1 cup sugar

1 cup of shortening

Heat the above till dissolved and let cool to lukewarm.

Dissolve 1 package of dry yeast into a half cup of warm water. When the milk mixture is cool, add the yeast mixture. Stir and to this mixture add.

7 cups of all purpose flour, stir well, cover and let rise until double. This can take a few hours. When double add the following,

2 T. salt

2 teaspoons of baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

Mix in and add another cup of flour stirring well. Additional flour can be used if necessary when rolling out. Do not use right away but place in the fridge overnight or longer before using. Put in a tightly covered container or zip lock bag. Then roll out as a jelly roll using portions not the whole amount of dough, butter the dough and roll up. Put in greased muffin pans, butter the tops, let rise till double and then bake in a preheated oven for probably 20 min. or till done. Temperature is 400. If you use too much flour they will be dry and tough. This book was I believe copyrighted in 1952 I think. I don't have it handy to make sure but I have had the book since 1j953. That book has such good recipes in it and was my very first cookbook after I was married.

Sue

That sounds like an interesting recipe. Do you think it would be okay to halve it? How do you mix such a large amount of dough? If you do it by hand, you must be very strong, MS.

also, could one use butter instead of shortening?

We grazed on leftovers for a few days. I had some planned leftovers from Weds. as well as T-giving leftovers. Tonight we are having turkey soup with lemon, risotto (arborio rice) and spinach.

Eight Fruit Cakes, cooling, prior to spritzing.

Have not cooked since Thanksgiving Day. However, tonight I plan to cook a pork chop, garlic spaghetti, and Brussels sprouts. Also will have a sliced Roma tomato, as well as English Muffin Garlic Bread.

The yeast dough is not that thick like bread dough, it is more of a sponge. I suppose you could halve it. I never tried it. I usually use a small stock pot with lid to heat the milk and mix it all in then let it raise. Then add the other ingredients and then put in a Rubbermaid or Tupperware container with room to raise . You could try the butter or even lard, never tried it.

Sue

Think I am going to try quartering your recipe for refrigerator rolls, @Marilyn Sue McClintock. But not until there is room in the refrigerator.

We had fish last night and are having roast lamb tonight. We finished everything but the turkey on Saturday, and decided to freeze the remaining turkey breast. I can only eat so much turkey and once the stuffing and cranberry are done, I am over it.

Already tired of turkey so froze what was left of the meat. Right after baking the turkey I froze the carcass and drippings from the turkey in the freezer for soup in a week or two. Came home from a mini shift at work tonight and was craving sushi. Instead of stopping to pick up some, I made some rice and put some seaweed/sesame seed mix on top. It didn't help the sushi craving. lol

I did buy some stuff to make one of the recipes from Hello Fresh, one pot quinoa. It's probably my favorite recipe from those boxed meal kits I used to get. The avocados I got from Walmart today just aren't ripe yet so will have to suffer until one ripens before I can make this dish. I like it because it is pretty healthy and tastes so good.

Made Spicy Italian subs for dinner tonight. Couldn't find the Pepperoncinni's anywhere! I KNOW we just bought some. The sandwich isn't the same without them. Putting laundry away, on my way to bed, found the new jar of Pepperoncinni's in the linen closet! Blaming this one on hubby. (I put away downstairs groceries, he puts away upstairs stuff.)

DH had already tired of turkey so we had a steak and baked potato last night. This afternoon I made a big pot of split pea with ham soup. With cornbread. Our turkey stuffing was not cornbread.

Angela, I've found some things put away in strange places but never pantry items in the linen closet ;0)