What are you cooking?

[DaveNV]

I'm still so sick of cooking.

There aren't many alternatives.

Dave

 

[WinniWoman]

There aren't many alternatives.

Dave

We could have gone to the Woodstock Inn and Brewery for Thanksgiving dinner (no reservations required) or take out up the road from Harts Turkey Farm (unfortunately no indoor dining for Thanksgiving this year) or even go to the supermarket for a take out Thanksgiving dinner.

But I felt guilty as it is our first in our new home.

 

[Quilter]

I’m getting very sick of cooking.

I'm loving it! DH is challenging his brain by making new recipes too. Last night he made a pork tenderloin with a wine reduction sauce. Potatoes, sweet potatoes and broccoli.

Still, we have finally found a take out for those times we're just tired and hungry. Veggie grape leaves from a mediterranean chain, Red Olive. 6 in the side order. We also liked their Greek salad but I've now found a Greek dressing from Ina Garten that is just as good: https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/greek-salad-recipe-1948517

The best part is ordering a side of garlic sauce on the side.

 

[Quilter]

My BIL is the only one coming for Thanksgiving. He is focused on the side dishes so we all agreed a roasted chicken is fine. I told him I have ground turkey in the freezer so the next day we'll have turkey meatloaf with the leftover sides.

 

[Quilter]

Ok so I said I’m loving cooking lately. Grocery shopping doesn’t score as high.

Just admitting that brings guilt. I’m grateful to be able to buy what we want. My sister lives near Winter Park, CO snd doesn’t have the options I have.

I’m uncomfortable in the larger stores since Covid. Today I went in a mid-sized market hoping to find everything in a single shop. Didn’t get far and could feel a coughing fit coming on. Uncomfortable feelings make me get warm, sinuses drip which gives me nasty coughing/sneezing fit. I considered leaving my cart and making a dash for the door. Instead i saw restrooms sign close by and ran there. Fortunately I was only one in there. After it passed i washed hands and found my cart. Had to stifle a couple leftover sneezes. Tried getting back to shopping but had to return to restroom to blow my nose again and wash hands again.

This market is fairly new to me so I had to go round and round looking for the right location. Some products sold out so we have one more shop to do.

I was spent after loading the car. Wanted to get home. Thought how grateful I was to be able have good food.

 

[clifffaith]

Just remembered I need to call my Italian friend -- there is no way she's not cooking a turkey on Thursday and I'll ask her to freeze the carcass and/or call me when they're through picking at it and I'll run over and collect it. Swore two years ago it was just too much effort to ever make stock again, best turkey minestrone recipe in the world be damned! But since covid has pushed me into a cooking mode, might as well make stock and soup this year --probably in mid-January. I'd always made the stock one day and then the soup the next to make the process easier, and several years ago discovered it was far easier to freeze some leftover turkey and then just deal with the larger pieces of meat that come loose when boiling the stock -- standing at the sink, stock dripping everywhere, while picking through the dregs of the cooking process for meat is just one big PITA I can do without. I think that was about the same time I realized I no longer had any cats who made a fuss over turkey because usually there'd be turkey dregs -- but the current crop of cats are indifferent to it.

 

[Ralph Sir Edward]

Just made some cinnamon rolls.

 

[DaveNV]

Ok so I said I’m loving cooking lately. Grocery shopping doesn’t score as high.

Just admitting that brings guilt. I’m grateful to be able to buy what we want. My sister lives near Winter Park, CO snd doesn’t have the options I have.

I’m uncomfortable in the larger stores since Covid. Today I went in a mid-sized market hoping to find everything in a single shop. Didn’t get far and could feel a coughing fit coming on. Uncomfortable feelings make me get warm, sinuses drip which gives me nasty coughing/sneezing fit. I considered leaving my cart and making a dash for the door. Instead i saw restrooms sign close by and ran there. Fortunately I was only one in there. After it passed i washed hands and found my cart. Had to stifle a couple leftover sneezes. Tried getting back to shopping but had to return to restroom to blow my nose again and wash hands again.

This market is fairly new to me so I had to go round and round looking for the right location. Some products sold out so we have one more shop to do.

I was spent after loading the car. Wanted to get home. Thought how grateful I was to be able have good food.

Sorry to hear you had such problems trying to get your groceries. Maybe next time have someone with you to help collect things as you go?

I feel your pain about having to search for what you want. My small town here in Nevada has two grocery stores - a Kroger-owned Smiths grocery (nice store, well run, basically like a Safeway.) They have most everything I might want to get. But if they happen to not have what I need, the only other option here is WalMart. I don't like shopping at WalMart, for a hundred reasons, and avoid it when I can. But every now and then, I have no choice, so find myself shopping there. The next closest option is driving about 45 minutes to St. George, Utah, where they have everything, including Costco. Today was one of those days - we drove to St. George and gave Costco more of our money. But we got everything we needed for our T'day dinner. And then some. It's Costco - those cookies and breakfast pastries aren't going to eat themselves!

The struggle is real.

Dave

 

[Sea Six]

Tonight we had portobello mushroom caps stuffed with Philly Cheese steak. So good, without all the bread.

 

[geist1223]

Last Thursday Evening after I stripped the meat off the Turkey I boiled the bones in water with carrots and other vegetables for several hours. I threw away everything but the Bone Broth. It has been sitting in the Frig in the garage.

Tonight I took about 8 cups of the broth, chopped up 2 red potatoes, a large carrot, bunch of Turkey Meat, several celery stalks, some herbs, several cloves of garlic, and brought it to a boil. Earlier I made Buttermilk Dumplings from my Meta Given Cook Book. They were pretty simple. Flour, Baking Powder, Baking Soda, Buttermilk, and a little salt. I rolled out and cut the Dumplings. I let them set for about and hour. When the soup was about done and at a roiling boil I added the Dumplings.

Even if I say so myself it was pretty darn good. I will freeze the rest of the Turkey Bone Broth.

Tomorrow it will be Goop.

 

[GetawaysRus]

Goop? Maybe I'm ignorant, but that's one of my favorite adhesives. I fix a lot of things with Goop.

Is Super Glue a food too?

 

[geist1223]

Goop is a dish from leftover Turkey, Mashed Potatoes, Dressing, and Gravy all mixed together and baked.

 

[Glynda]

Goop is a dish from leftover Turkey, Mashed Potatoes, Dressing, and Gravy all mixed together and baked.

My 98 year old mother uses that word to describe her cleaning out the refrigerator and making Goop with whatever she find in there. Her Goop is soup though.

 

[klpca]

I baked rolls on Thanksgiving, my first time ever. They turned out great. The dough was much wetter than the video that I was using to see how its done, but I muddled through and they were actually quite good.

I have now checked baking bread off of my covid to-do list (close enough).

Last night I made turkey pot pie. Excellent! But I'm ready to move on from the turkey leftovers.

 

[Brett]

a lot of turkey leftovers this year

 

[Beachclubmum]

White chicken chili tonight, except the chicken is leftover turkey breast. Will serve with tortilla chips for the kids.

Our last turkey meal from Thanksgiving will be turkey enchiladas but not for a week or two. I froze the last of the diced up turkey meat today.

 

[clifffaith]

Last night I made turkey pot pie. Excellent! But I'm ready to move on from the turkey leftovers.

We picked up a carnitas burrito since we were out, and will reheat it for dinner. I needed something that was not turkey and not made at home!

 

[geekette]

sausage balls. easy, quick, yummy. we're getting Winter, which causes me to want to cook. tomorrow a pork roast.

 

[geekette]

Sorry to hear you had such problems trying to get your groceries. Maybe next time have someone with you to help collect things as you go?

I feel your pain about having to search for what you want. My small town here in Nevada has two grocery stores - a Kroger-owned Smiths grocery (nice store, well run, basically like a Safeway.) They have most everything I might want to get. But if they happen to not have what I need, the only other option here is WalMart. I don't like shopping at WalMart, for a hundred reasons, and avoid it when I can. But every now and then, I have no choice, so find myself shopping there. The next closest option is driving about 45 minutes to St. George, Utah, where they have everything, including Costco. Today was one of those days - we drove to St. George and gave Costco more of our money. But we got everything we needed for our T'day dinner. And then some. It's Costco - those cookies and breakfast pastries aren't going to eat themselves!

The struggle is real.

Dave

yeah, it's going to be a different world for me moving to small town from 'everything 10 minutes away' life. I don't do Walmart, either. We have Meijer, I did my grocery run 1/2 hour before closing on Thanksgiving. The nice thing about 'distributed family' is I can do my holidays my own way.

 

[DeniseM]

Instant Pot Ham & Split Pea Soup - so easy!

*4 cups water
*2 cups broth
*1 envelope dehydrated onion soup
(or 6 cups broth - I had to improvise)
2 cups dried peas
1 T. minced garlic
1 chopped onion
1 cup chopped bell pepper
1 cup shredded carrot
salt and pepper to taste
1 lb leftover ham - OK if it's frozen

Dump everything together in the Instant Pot except the ham and stir to mix.
Add the ham.

Pressure cook 18 min.
Do a 15 min. natural release.
Remove the ham and shred, then stir back in
Spoon over a generous amount of crackers or corn bread:

 

[amycurl]

Christmas Eve dinner/Feast of the Seven Fishes
Homemade Cheesy Pull Apart Christmas Tree Rolls
First Course: Salmon cake over lightly tossed greens with homemade balsamic vinaigrette
Second Course: Homemade bouillabaisse with sea bass, crabmeat, scallops, langostinos, shrimp, and mussels
Dessert: Homemade sweet potato pie

Nomnomnom!

 

[clifffaith]

I wonder if there is much difference between cioppino and bouillabaisse?

I got my lasagna ready and in the fridge. Hoping that my tin foil "lift" invention works tomorrow when I go to transfer some of it to another baking dish so Mom can bake if fresh, rather than having pre-cooked leftovers. Realized that running the noodles width-wise rather than lengthwise might help with the lift too. We'll see if I came up with good ideas or just made a mess!

 

[dioxide45]

Christmas Eve dinner/Feast of the Seven Fishes
Homemade Cheesy Pull Apart Christmas Tree Rolls
First Course: Salmon cake over lightly tossed greens with homemade balsamic vinaigrette
Second Course: Homemade bouillabaisse with sea bass, crabmeat, scallops, langostinos, shrimp, and mussels
Dessert: Homemade sweet potato pie

Nomnomnom!

Glad you like it, but that is one Christmas Eve dinner that would be leaving me hungry at the end.

 

[amycurl]

cioppino and bouillabaisse?

One is Italian-American and one is French. I think the "classic" versions of each involve different seafood and different spices, but, yes, they are basically different takes on what was an ancient Phoenician fish stew dish. Bouillabaisse also involves cooking things in a specific order, but I do mine in a slow cooker, so that's definitely not classic. But still mighty tasty.

 

[bizaro86]

My wife and I made a variety of compromises over the years that resulted in the following yearly food schedule.

Dec 24th: prime rib, roasted baby potatoes, roasted brussels with bacon
Dec 25th: roast turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, steamed cauliflower/Brussels with cheese sauce
Dec 26th: Ukrainian food - cabbage rolls, pyrogies, nalysnyky, and a few other things I still haven't learned how to spell. We made mustard pickles as a pandemic project.

After Boxing Day I may not eat until the new year.