“Stuffed an eggplant with moussaka lamb sauce.”

Looks great! I don’t have a pic but I made pastitsio this week using a recipe from Joanne Weir. Her recipe didn’t call for cinnamon. I know it’s traditional but I can’t handle it in savory dishes.

This is our Canadian Thanksgiving weekend. Iroasted a turkey with dressing nd potatoes, and put half an acorn squash in my air-fyer. It looks dark but wasn't burned at all.

I can never take good photos of a roasted chicken meal, it always comes out blah, but there it is.

Yesterday (holiday Monday) was a gorgeous day. It was cool in the morning but sunny, (6 C) so I hung a load of laundry on the line. Then I washed my car. A friend called and wanted to go for a walk, so we did, for an hours. Another friend left v/m saying she wanted to go for a walk (they're on the outs with each other; I'm caught in the middle), so I went for one with her as well. Another hour. Took my phone and took some pics of the trees.

I was pooped when I got home, but I still wanted to make my apple pie, which I did.

I made squash soup today from a butternut and the other half of the acorn. It's pretty good! I've never made one before. LOL

Love seeing those Autumn trees Jasdip. Soup and pie look pretty good too.

This week's meals have been comprised of leftover turkey. The final bit went into wild rice soup. A roll ( not pictured) and the obligatory glass of wine since it's the weekend.

Coated drums with spices then air-fried them. Made a glaze with hoisin, gojuchang (sp), some hot chili sauce, honey, garlic, lemon juice.

Prior to cooking the drumsticks I air-fried potatoes carrots and onions.

I had cooked wild rice left over from my soup and I always have cooked white rice in the freezer. I made this salad which I haven't made in ages. It tastes so good and I have a large bowl that will last a few days. I can't wait for dinner!

jasdip, we have matching trees! This one is in my front yard, right next to the driveway:

And this is the view from my kitchen window yesterday:

But this morning, um....

Yeah, well, it IS October. Today I took Mother to her doctor's appointment, so I was gone all day and had leftovers for supper.

Last week we had some local apple cinnamon bratwurst with the last of the corn, some home packed sauerkraut and a delicata squash from the garden:

Yesterday we had smoked tri tip, fried green tomatoes and baked potatoes, all from the farm.

Some BBQ'd ribs, baked potatoes and those fried green tomatoes, making the most of the last of the garden.

We also had some red beans and rice,w hich I didn't take a picture of because it's not pretty, just delicious.

STeak tips with sauteed onions, mashed potatoes and more corn, another farm to table meal here:

And although I did not take a picture of the apple brined pork roast, I got a picture of the freshly pressed cider ready to go into the freezer, LOL.

We got our new internet hooked up today and it's blazing fast. When I tried to post a picture before, I'd wait 10 or 15 minutes for it to load. I timed it, 4 seconds! It's amazing. Now if I just remember to take the picture, I'll have no excuse not to post them.

Annie

Annie, we don't have snow yet but got a brief but heavy hailstorm yesterday afternoon. It's only going to a high of 6C today. 42F

Jasdip, it was 37F yesterday when I took Mother to her doctor, and today it was the same, rain mixed with snow. It won't get above 40F tomorrow either, but then it's supposed to be up in the low 70s this weekend. Go figure, it's Michigan.

Tonight we had steak strips in pita bread for supper after getting our flu shots and the Omicron COVID booster. Elery is tired and achy and, as usual, I feel fine, LOL. We figured we might as well get them both over at once with the election coming up.

Annie

Annie we've got the same weather. LOL. Going to hit 19C (68F) for the weekend.

People all around me are getting or have had Covid in the past few weeks. Several neighbours and friends. It's still out there. I'm reluctant to get the Booster. I have 3 shots, and so far I've been able to avoid getting it even when I'm around (not knowingly) people that have it.

We are up to date with boosters and flu. Best if around the eldery since so many are letting their guards down. Appears to be a nasty flu season ahead.

Our internet is spotty for some reason. We both need to log in every time...even the NYTimes. Often multiple times while reading.

I've not let go of summer yet. Lots of salads and sneaking in a few soups with cooler temps. Roasted a couple chickens and make some stocks.

Just had another BLT and see another in the near future. Squeaking in one last harvest having not a frost yet.

This was a winner last week. Kafta. A lamb mince Turkish spiced meat on a stick/skewer.

I'm back in the Misfits game. They have excellent lamb. Works fine with beef. All about the spices.

So good we hade it two nights in a row. I had planned to freeze the second batch for maybe soups or another roti later....I changed up the side sauces.

Misfits last week. Back to every three weeks.

Helps to continue my fresh salads.

Had a meatless meal last night, not planned. Bruschetta, under all that. I usually know the names of my garden tomatoes but this one (arrow), is a Spanish 'long keeper' variety i've saved seeds for a half dozen years. I'll harvest this weekend and they will hold through the holidays.

I started a Fall crop of summer squash and greens early August that did well. Lots of flowers this week for stuffing.

The lavash and börek recipies

Wow, sleevendog, you've been busy. It's about time for me to get back into the Misfits delivery too, although I'm still using leaves from the hoophouses and leeks and greens from the garden.

I have a package of ground lamb in the freezer that I need to use up, and Elery might like that kafta instead of the meatballs I was thinking about. I don't care for lamb, but Elery loves it.

Annie

^she has a video using beef for her Kafta. And someone in the comments used gluten-free flour for the lavash.

Made a crowd favorite last night... Japanese Chicken Curry

I like her recipes. Completely adjustable using what is in the freezer/pantry. I roasted a couple whole golden beets, potatoes and carrots. A head start while i built my curry broth and made a big batch of her... Curry Powder. Enough for a few more batches for the winter months.

I've never bothered making the roux. I just mashed one of the small potatoes for a thickener.

Mr Sleeve made more lavash

I only have pints of master stock with some mixed beans included---black, white, and chick peas but that was a nice addition. Can't believe i'm out of freezer stock but i'll put in an order of bones with the next farm share.

It's good to see you posting again Sleeve. I got a box of fruit and vegetables delivered today. I've cut back to once/month. I may stop altogether for the winter. Some of the produce wasn't great.

I've been wanting to make shrimp and pasta, so here it is.

Yesterday WM had chickens on for $1.99/lb. Even though I had a turkey 2 weeks ago a roast chicken sounded good. I made it in the air-fyer. And an apple crisp for dessert.

Just took a chicken out of the freezer for later this week. Our third roasting this Fall. Just goes so well with Fall vegetables. Always a couple meals, then stock and some soup.

Some friends canceled yesterday. One of their teens woke with a fever. Nice meal was planned but easy to simplify for just the two of us. Saturday sous vide 4 nice thick pork chops, made ramen eggs, two nice avocadoes. Fresh fig/proscuitto app. A tiered bamboo steamer of various dumplings to the table. Slices of furikaki pork plattered with other add-in like a 'hot pot'. Marinated tofu. Watermelon salad. They called early enough that not much effort was taken yet. Dumplings still frozen.

Scrapped all that. Froze the extra pork. Just made a pork/veg/dumpling miso bowl.

Always good. Shared a sliced pork chop. A few dumpling in the broth.

Thanks for that, sleevendog. I made Elery some lamb kofta today, but formed it into a patty. He liked it a lot, but the picture was terrible. That's too bad about the friends, the menu sounds delicious, especially the fig and proscuitto appetizers and the dumplings.

Jasdip, the chicken looks perfect, but as always, it's the mashed potatoes that whet my appetite!

So, what's for dinner? Elery had the above mentioned kofta, and I had a nice rare piece of rib steak and some maple glazed carrots and golden beets:

Last night we had Italian sausage, cabbage, a bean mixture with carrots and celery, and whole wheat bread:

Before that, of course, was the corned venison hash:

I made an apple pie, but forgot to take a picture. I also dehydrated some leeks and have beef stock cooking overnight, I'll can it tomorrow. We have to pick up our processed beef on Friday, so I've been trying to clean the freezers.

Annie

Hash looks so good. Not had that in eons.

So what's up with golden beets turning brown when roasted? Does not bother us because i know they are firm fresh but family thinks they are rotten when i make a couple sheet pans of roasted veg for holidays. Solved it by rooasting whole or big ones cut in half. Cut side down, then quartered/cut after roasting just before plating.

We are loving the brocollini. I should try and grow it. This bunch looks dead but started blanching/steaming to preserve the color. So i solved the beet issue but still have no idea why. I know un-peeled pickled carrots get ugly overnight. I should take a few beet slices and add acid-vinegar/lemon, rub in olive oil, etc and see if it is a reaction with acidic. You can see the one little triangle chunk going brown...

Cod cakes i've not made in a while. Sauce would be better in ramikins put they were put away wrong weeks ago.

Chili crisp, horseradish, yogurt remoulade.

I used half salt cod and half fresh from frozen. Froze 2 dozen mini for a holiday app.

Our last BLT this season? I hope not. We have had first frosts in years past as early as 6 weeks ago. Took a change and started a Fall crop of greens and summer squashes. Poked in a half dozen seed early August. (seeds are cheap) Half dozen squash still growing and another small harvest of tomatoes still on the vines. Summer squashes about the size of a fat thumb. Another batch of corn for the freezer. Seems another week of no frost.

Made a quick remoulade sauce.

An unplanned meatless light meal. DH took a chicken out of the freezer hump day night for a saturday roasting. Not. Said he did. Thought he did, 😂😜

No biggie. Had a big tomato tasting with mozzarella and a side watermelon/cucumber/red onion/mint/arugula/feta salad. Garlic rubbed toasts.Some pesto.

Mies an place

Way too much food so i'm making a harvest lasagna tonight.

Really nice lasagna. Not a big extended family affair. Just a small batch Fall harvest for the two of us. Lots of veg.

The vegetable layer was great using a big leek, red onion, lacinato kale, butternut squash...three cheese, fresh tomatoes, olives topping final roasting layer.

Silver Palate’s Split Pea and Ham Soup.

That is a nice recipe for split pea.So good. I make that one and a few other winter soups and chowders that are 'fluid'. Not so thick a spoon stands up in it. Same with tomato soup. Fresh roasted garden tomatoes with good stock and lots of roasted vegetables cooked down and blendered or stick blendered.

We had taco night. Pulled pork kimchi tacos. White corn tortillas.

I was given a bag of beets today. The gentleman thought he was buying red potatoes! I split it with a friend.

I haven't had beets in years! And they are so good. Steamed with butter, s/p. Air-fried a sausage and potatoes.

I wonder if I could have wrapped the beets in foil and air-fried them as well. The take a long time steaming.

Cabbage lasts a long time but not forever. Today was a good day to make cabbage soup.

My home smells amazing. Chicken with 40 cloves of garlic for the win! I always add carrots and potatoes, and this time I threw in some Swiss Chard as well.

Chicken here as well. Spatchocked and oven roasted. With smashed/mashed potatoes. and cucumber salad and kale. Split a half being a tiny local paturered bird.

So good we had the other half next day. Different sides. A new to me recipe--bean confit.

Managed a small back burner stock. Made just 2 and one half pints but much easier to manage than the recent big master 18 hr stock.

Sleeve, still wonderful cooking going on with you and same with you Jasdip ... never tried that 40 garlic cloves chicken.

Still cooking very simply. This was rice with spicy pork mince and soy sauce. I would have had more lettuce cups but we didn’t have any and as it was I only had Cos lettuce not Iceberg. .. perhaps they have different names in other parts of the world. It’s not traditional to add the carrot but I did it because... well more veg

That looks good. I just ordered a couple lbs of lamb mince. DH is still talking about the Kafka i made recently.

Coz is Romaine here. Another variety we use for wraps/cups is BostonBib. Or butter crunch.

Made some shrimp rolls last week and have been thinking about scampi ever since.

Shrimp cooked in leek, shallot, garlic, white wine and butter. Lots of lemon.

Shrimp prices have remained pretty steady. Good wild caught Gulf shrimp. I get about 5-6 meals out of a 2 lb bag.

We've had amazing weather all fall, now the temperature is falling with snow flurries. Snow tires are going on Monday and this is a good weekend for some comfort food. Good old breaded pork chops and mashed potatoes with beets.

It was 70º here yesterday. Cold is around the corner but still no frost.

Beets! love them. Still the gifted ones that were thought to be red potatoes? 😂

Beets were one of my childhood dinner table lessons. We all loved them. Mom would roast in foil with butter. Cubed and served warm with brussel sprouts. One of Dad's 'you are what you eat' lessons. "your pee will be dark pink tomorrow". And stink from the sprouts. I don't recall a stink but the pink pee i've never forgotten.

Nice meatless meal. Loong time since i've made falafel.

Soaked and uncooked garbanzo beans in the food processor. Then cooked beans for humus. Then cleaned the bowl with a bit more tahini, more lemon, rice wine vinegar, and olive oil for a dressing with chopped cucumber. Lots of leftovers so a bit of a re-peat meal tonight. Humus will go into the speed blender tonight for a smoother texture but a bit grainy was fine.

Crispy fried calamari rings with salad/ salsa. Very simple meal.

Sleeve, yes, that was the end of the beets that were thought to be red potatoes! I very much enjoyed them, it's been years!. Of course I did a double-take when I went to the washroom the next morning!🤣

Unpresidented to have a tomato harvest mid-November. I have garden journals that have had first frost late August. Novenber 15th this year BLT. Frost last night so those days are over.

Lots of blush and greens in a tray cold storage.

Crazy weather.

Although our little cabin in the country was safe from the floods we’ve been having...in the area/paddock/field right next to us, a billabong ( (Aussie word for swamp but maybe a little deeper but not as deep as a pond)

has formed. DH has had to dig a small channel to drain the billabong towards the road. Still lying water brings mosquitos and frogs and frogs bring snakes.

This was corn and crab meat (frozen) soup.

Everything looks good, but especially Neely's calamari. I love calamari and seldom have it here.

I also like beetts a lot and grow both red and golden beets. The golden beets I often cube and roast and then use the leftovers in breakfast hash, they are milder than the red ones, sometimes so mild they could pass for potatoes in hash.

Here we're in the middle of that big snowstorm, we got about a foot here. I've been making Christmas cookie dough for the freezer and Elery and I will be going to his middle son's house for Thanksgiving, about 3 hours away. I think it's the second time we've done that since we were married. Our Thanksgiving with my family will be this weekend sometime as Makayla is working on Thanksgiving, Dave and Amanda are going to his parents' home and I think Ashley is going to her Dad's family before his parents leave to go south for the winter.

We had nachos for dinner with leftover chicken from last night's roast chicken, and before that we had lasagna with garlic bread. Amanda has been having some health issues and so is spending the days here with me while her husband works, then he picks her up at night. I always have supper ready, so we've had beef stew, meatloaf, that lasagna, cabbage rolls, pork tenderloin and not one single picture. Yes, I'm bad, I know it.

Annie

Crazy weather all over. NewEngland is buried in snow. Florida still recovering from the hurricanes. We had our first frost so just a bowl of cherry tomatoes ripening and a few golfball sized.

We also made a big braised beef stew last week after too many meatless low carb meals. Over a mixed grain

Next night stuffed a new to me variety of spagetti squash. Called 'sugaretti'. A hybrid of delicata/spagetti squash. Not as watery as spagetti and a bit richer like delicata. Stuffed it with the grain and stew. A few olives.

This is actually Martha Stewart’s Salmon with spicey tomato sauce over spaghetti. I wanted a tomato based sauce for the piece of salmon so instead of winging it I looked up ’ salmon tomato based sauce on the net... and this was the result. It was pretty good.

I don't take photos of my food much anymore. I've had to eat rather austere lately due to economics (inflation is kicking our food budget's butt!) and also add weight loss and IBS management in the mix.

Neely I envy you your seafood! Even most fish is out of reach of our budget right now . . . we get panfish from friends in the summer. I do eat shrimp once in a blue moon, but it isn't much a part of my diet anymore for calorie and cholesterol reasons. Lately can't even get good prices on salmon and even tilapia. I won't eat Atlantic salmon but sometimes we get it from Iceland or Chile. Not lately. I can't afford fresh Pacific salmon. We eat salmon patties made out of canned Pacific salmon. Crab I can only dream about . . . We do have good Lake fish here but I relegate that mostly to summer when I am up by the Lake and can get it fresh. Lake Michigan is "the Lake" around here.

The best food to come out of my kitchen lately was pumpkin cheesecake that hubs made for Thanksgiving. His secret recipe apparently. Great breakfast of buttermilk pecan waffles that I made because hubs weekly home made yogurt turned out watery.

https://younggoodsandeats.com/buttermilk-pecan-waffles/

We are also enjoying Thanksgiving left overs and Missing Egg Salad for lunch, made with tofu and yellow mustard, tumeric and my green tomato hot dog relish.

Tonight's dinner was really good, brussel sprouts were on sale at Aldis so I made braised sprouts and served them over shell pasta, taking my inspiration from Chef Jacques Pepin. I am actually a person who thinks brussel sprouts are a treat, when sauteed. I'm linking to the recipe, but I used vegetarian Italian sausage, not meat sausage in mine, and also dolled up the sauce with sauteed onion, some Mrs. Dash garlic herb seasoning, lite soy sauce for salt, and a couple dashes of white wine and pasta water plus Parmesan and Romano cheese to make it creamy. Yum!

https://jp.foundation/video/medley-of-brussels-sprouts-sausage-and-beans

Sausages, cabbage and baked potato.

I love brussel sprouts as well lpink... sounds like a good meal.

I made Nigella Lawson's chicken in a pot with lemon orzo. I didn't think to take a picture. I've made it several times now. It's an easy, economical, one pot comfort food meal . Don't be put off by the apparent length of the recipe. She just likes to explain things thoroughly and give options.

Chicken in a Pot with Orzo

Cool recipe Nekotish. I might take this to a potluck tomorrow. I was already planning on maybe hamburger stroganoff kept warm in the crockpot . . .

I have done lemon turkey meatballs with orzo, this sounds easier than making meatballs, although when I make even the turkey dish, I just saute the ground turkey, I am a minimalist. I would have to just use sauteed chicken bits but something like that with orzo would be a bit unusual so folks might go for it. I could actually just go back to the ground turkey and just mix it in with the orzo, instead of the baked chicken. Or not, hard to tell. But I would not mind the left overs. I have to remember LindaC's maxim that people don't like unusual dishes at a potluck. I usually want to make something unusual because whenever I make a big recipe for just hubs and I, it's "Revenge of the Leftovers" for the next ten days . . . can't share anything unusual with dad . . .

I think tht it is something that would appeal to a lot of palates. I used two lemons as I love lemon, but there is enough great flavour just from the chicken, onions, garlic and carrots that you could certainly dial back the lemon. I'm sure thighs would work just fine, breast may be come a little overcooked with the long cooking time. Between my husband, my nephew and I, there wasn't a ton left over, enough for luches for DH and DN but if you have leftovers, it would be easy to turn into soup. My Dad was much like yours, although he was a kind man, he had very particular plebian tastes, so I feel your pain in trying to cook for people who are not the least bit adventurous.

I took a 'winter' lead and started another 'what's for dinner post'. Holiday Edition. I have not had much time and my 'space bar' was stuck for a couple weeks. 😂. Start a post and a long connected incomprehensible posts. One long post without a space bar.

It seems to have corrected itself now...like my back favorite left gas back burner that stopped working...cleaned, dried, cleaned, gently cleaned....went on for two years since lock-down. Now works like a charm being patient and good study. I've not had any service for any apliance ever. Trouble-shooting via y-tube.