What's cooking today....November 2009 - Page 2

ms.frannie · 2 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by Norm

I am going to make Caramel Baked apples today, also cut and sugar strawberries for short cake tomorrow. Got some deli fried chicken and wings with Buffalo sauce. Will make some sugar peas and (probably) oven baked fries.

Norm, Did you make the Caramel Baked Apples?

Fran

Retired Italian · 2 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by sob8864

THAT looks really good, Norm. THE OTHERS won't eat it.

sob "The Others"
That's funny!

You have "THE OTHERS"
And I have "THE THEYS"

Maybe we should produce a Movie..... "The Others, the Other Day, Had the the Theys Over for Dinner!"

NOW...Say that 5 times fast..

Tongue get stuck???

Norm · 2 Weeks Ago

I can almost see the rabbit but the ears are not so easy to make out. We all had a good time with it today.

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Originally Posted by ms.frannie

Norm, Did you make the Caramel Baked Apples?

Fran

I made the baked caramel apples yesterday. They were very good and I got some toffee ice cream to go with it. The cookie topping did not get crispy like a cookie but spread out and stayed soft like a cobbler topping. Very good indeed. It took about 25 minutes in the oven but my oven seems to cook slow most of the time even though the thermometer I put in there confirms the temperature is what it's supposed to be.

ArrrTea · 2 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by BethK

duties. But do yourself a favor and buy yourself one of those apple peeler/corer deals I reviewed....you would NOT have ended up with an injury!

Yes, I know... but the gratitude will go on LONG after I have healed...

PS... the crowd of hens ate all the apple and artichoke stuff... and only half the pate'...WHEEE again! Silly girls ;{)

BethK · 2 Weeks Ago

Last night the kids came for supper of beef stir fry over rice. GS complained of the mushrooms - but tried them anyway since that was the only vegetable he got to help cut up with his table knife. I made a pumpkin roll for dessert (1 1/2 X the original recipe and baked in a half-sheet pan) so half could be sent home with DD's fiance to share with his mom, dad & brother.

hlburi · 2 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by Norm

I am going to make Caramel Baked apples today, also cut and sugar strawberries for short cake tomorrow. Got some deli fried chicken and wings with Buffalo sauce. Will make some sugar peas and (probably) oven baked fries.

Norm...the caramel baked apples sound really good. Do you have a recipe that you can share?

BethK · 2 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by hlburi

Norm...the caramel baked apples sound really good. Do you have a recipe that you can share?

hlburi - check the recipe exchange thread. Norm posted the recipe there. It does look very tasty (and easy, too).

hlburi · 2 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by BethK

hlburi - check the recipe exchange thread. Norm posted the recipe there. It does look very tasty (and easy, too).

Thanks Beth!

Norm · 2 Weeks Ago

It is no problem for me to post it again. Here it is.

BAKED CARAMEL APPLES Megan Garrelts executive pastry chef of Bluestem in Kansas City. From KC Star Oct. 2009

Coat shallow roasting pan with unsalted butter and sugar. Set aside

In a bowl, combine

1/4 C. apple cider
1/8 C. brandy or substitute more cider
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
pinch ground cloves
4 Tbs.. unsalted butter, melted
1/4 C sugar
1/2 C. brown sugar

Mix well

4 Braeburn apples, cored, peeled and cut into 4 wedges

Coat apples with sugar mixture and place in prepared roasting pan. Pour remaining sugar mixture into pan to cook into caramel sauce. Dot apples with dough from a pre made sugar cookie tube so that the apples are 3/4 covered.

Lightly brush cookie dough with heavy cream (1/4 C.) and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.

Bake 350º until cookie dough is golden and apple sugar begins to bubble. Serve apples warm with butter pecan ice cream, or other flavor of your choice. (I think I’ll use ice cream with chocolate toffee bits- Heath bar ice cream)

Old Pa · 2 Weeks Ago

With the onset of colder weather, yesterday was declared meatloaf day. Meatloaf is another big batch preparation for me, as it's actually better after the first time (which in the case of this meatloaf recipe is really saying something). Here, in my big mixing bowl, over twelve pounds of ground round, ground pork, ground turkey, ground lamb, bread crumbs, chopped white onion, minced garlic, lightly beaten egg, seasoning salt, fresh cracked black pepper, worchestershire sauce, lemon juice, sweet paprika, ground smoked chipotle pepper, oregano, rosemary, and Herbes de Provence get aquainted and await being well mixed by hand (literally; the only way).

After being weighed into equal four pound portions, the meatloaf mix got shaped into three "young footballs" and put into a 350F oven for their two hour bake with tonights russet potatoes. The house smelled wonderfully.

Glazed with barbeque sauce for the last twenty minutes, here are two of the finished meatloafs. I generally freeze them in individual halves, each half providing two future meals for SWMBO and I.

The finished plate. Served with steamed dressed green beans with toasted almonds and a loaded baked potato with a glass of cab. Very well received. IMHO, other dinners may be as good, but none are better. Yes, the spaniels scored.

BethK · 2 Weeks Ago

Very, very good looking, Old Pa. I also make multiples when mixing up meatloaf. However, I freeze mine prior to baking and also shape some of the mixture into patties to be cooked as "Salisbury Steak" that gets finished w/red wine, cream of mushroom soup and beef stock. It's 6 yr. old GS's "favorite, best-est" meal, usually served with mashed potatoes and broccoli.

I freeze my meatloafs in the loaf pans but turn them out on a lined sheet pan to bake so I get as much of the crunch on the outside as possible, plus I think more of the fat from the sausage renders off.

But I gotta agree with your statement (as I'm sure many others from this forum are shaking their heads in agreement), "other dinners may be as good, but none are better"!

ms.frannie · 2 Weeks Ago

Tonight it will be chicken and cornbread dressing. I know I'm jumping the gun before Thanksgiving, but my friend who is going through chemo told me last week that she was really hungry for cornbread dressing. Hopefully she will feel weel enough to enjoy it this evening. E-mailed daughter to offer dressing for dinner, and of course the answer was yes!!!! So she and her family will be joinging us. Will also serve candies sweet potatoes, and Leseur English Peas, not sure what else.

Fran

Retired Italian · 2 Weeks Ago

Well..it happened.
DW was over my shoulder late last night, and she saw Norms Delectable Lasagna..and then there was a Scream!...( I want that tomorrow she said)
SOooooo! I just made little teeny weeny meat balls..(They like that0, and they are cooking in the sauce. DW is going to attempt to put the lasagna together as soon as I get the cheeses from the downstairs reefer.

BTW...I was out this morning with a carrot on a string trying to attract a rabbit, but instead I caught a skunk. so I guess its skunk meat in the lasagna! LOL....LOL....

ann senecal · 2 Weeks Ago

I haven't shopped yet this week, so tonights dinner is a hit or miss.

I'll slice a kielbasa on the bias.
1 small sliced onion
1 sliced gala apple
sliced cabbage leftover from making galompki's
2 medium sized red potatoes, chunked

Saute the onion in butter, add potatoes cook for a while, add apples and cabbage.

add a tsp. caraway seeds, a couple of juniper berries and 1 cup or more chicken stock or beef stock??? I can't decide on which one I'll use. Nestle the kielbasa in the pan, cover and cook until the potatoes are tender.

Maybe i'll add a little apple cider vinegar to get the zing that would come from sauerkraut.

I make something similar using sauerkraut and different varieties of sausage and smoked pork chops.

Ann

BethK · 2 Weeks Ago

This morning I grabbed a couple rib eye steaks out of the freezer (have to use them 'cuz I didn't re-wrap, just threw the grocery wrapped into the freezer when they were on sale). I cut some yukon golds into 1/2" - 3/4" slices and pan fried to make my "pan roasted" potatoes (crisp on the outside, creamy on the inside), great w/a dollop of sour cream and some green beans with Penzey's Parisian spices (oh, so good). DH can have the rest of the pumpkin roll from yesterday. (DD said she thought he wanted more last night but tonight - same as always - he says he had enough with one serving last night that he probably won't have anymore.....he's not a sweet freak, that's for sure).

lilbopeep · 2 Weeks Ago

I loved wagon wheel pasta when i was a kid, I loved when my mom made them for me.

One of my comfort foods - Mini wagon wheel pasta topped with meat sauce (cubed bottom round roast browned then simmered in burgundy wine till tender, then "pulled" and added to red gravy) and grated Italian cheese.

Retired Italian · 2 Weeks Ago

Looks Like It was Pasta Night at Jimmy and Peeps tonight.
Goodness Gracious.......DW put this Lasagna together tonight. I haelpt. I cut the cheese slices for her, and formed her favorite baby teeny weeny meatballs. Actually they were only seasoned with salt and pepper.

I went for that, because I don't like Lasagna with meat sauce. This way I could just flick the M-Balls out. I like plain cheese Lasagna, and I eat the meat on the side as a side dish.

One thing DW did, was to not cook the flat noodles. I was happy with that I hate pasty noodles.

She just added Xtra sauce, and wrapped it totally with foil wrap, and it absorbed the sauce beautifully. It looks like water in the pic, but it is the shine from the pyrex bakeware pan.

DIL stopped by to take some for Son Jimmy. He's in Connecticut today and tomorrow at School, and he will be back tomorrow night. He Loves Lasagna.

lilbopeep · 2 Weeks Ago

beautiful Lasagna!!

sdmom · 2 Weeks Ago

Last night was leftover lasagne from Halloween, and the rest of the garlic bread. I had another piece of lasagne for lunch, and I'm tired of it. The rest is goin in the freezer.

Tonight is going to be rice, roasted veggies and teriyaki sauce. simple, easy, and not filling.

I am trying to figure out how to not cook such a heavy meal at dinner. We eat between 7 and 7:30 most nights, and it's too much food to sit around on if I cook a meat, veg, potato, a sauce of some kind, you get the idea. Trying to think more along the lines of salads and soups - if the weather ever cools down enough to eat soup - I had the A/C on again today for a few hours to cool the house down.

sdmom · 2 Weeks Ago

Oh and Norm, you crack me up!