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Sorry to say, but this site has been so depressing for a few days. I thought I'd ask an average, everyday question....to make us all feel a little more normal today.


I made Eggplant Lasagna, and my BIL and SIL are coming for dinner. They leave for Cali tomorrow to see their beautiful grand daughter.


Sorry, sometimes we just need some REGULAR conversation.......or at least THIS caregiver does.

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Newbie--the seafood newburg sounds amazing.

Breakfast was---gluten free waffles with butter and blueberries (from Chile) a bit of a splurge but it is Christmas Eve
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I'm getting ready to make our family's traditional Christmas eve meal--seafood "newburg" served in puff pastry shells. It's not technically newburg since it has no eggs and is basically a fancy cream sauce with a little sherry. For seafood it's lobster, shrimp and scallops. I'm having over just my brother and sister in law as the local "kids" are busy, but I'll see them Christmas day. We're in Maine so lobster isn't as expensive as elsewhere, but is still a luxury this time of year and scallops are super expensive. I bought live lobsters and have cooked and picked them myself, shrimp from the supermarket, and got the scallops at a local fish market today. The market was packed, as we have snow moving in shortly so I think people who might have ordinarily waited until tomorrow were there today. We'll have salad with it, and if the snow gets cleared off enough I might venture out tomorrow and get some pastries for dessert from a European bakery. It's quite a rich meal so I'll look for something fruity for dessert.

Tonight I'm treating myself to a small sirloin strip steak, baked potato, and some kind of green veggie. It was marked down 30% and I've had a beef craving.
What's kind of funny is that it's really hard for me to splurge on food after a lifetime of being careful with expenditures, even though I can well afford it.
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Turkey sandwich.

That is it....going out into traffic to get some BBQ meat.
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Golden .
I only made a small 8X8 cake this time . 1/2 the recipe so only 2 cups of apples. It was still a lot of peeling and chopping .
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send -that must be a big pressure cooker. I bet the turkey is delicious. I love cooking but get tired of the clean up.

way - swedish meatballs!!! Aaaah. I used to make them regularly. Must have been a wonderful dinner. The apple cake with 4 cups of chopped apples sounds similar to the one my friend made. It wasn't a spice cake but a spicy, as in cinnamon and nutmeg, apple cake with raisins in it.

cw - so easy to overdo it at a buffet. Years since I have been to a Chinese buffet. Hmm., Thoughts for the new year.

brandee - always a great supper

Pam - asian food again giving me ideas. I got one grocery order in this evening and will get another one in a few days, then that's me done for a while.

I resuscitated some pork chops that I had brined too long and cooked and were salty. They went in the oven in a baking dish covered with foil, with some water on low heat for nearly an hour and came out as tender as can be and less salty. It was a win!!
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as Christmas is this week,and the fridge is already filling up, I got 2 asian carry out meals while running errands today. That will do us for the next 2 days and then on to the holiday leftovers!!
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Gluten free pasta with meatballs and red sauce and a small side salad.
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Yesterday some of the family got together for lunch at the Mandarin (Chinese buffet)😋, today I'm contemplating starting a diet
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Swedish meatballs , whipped potatoes , carrots and green beans, dinner rolls . Apple/cinnamon cake .
Actually it’s all leftovers from dinner I made and brought to my nephew and sister yesterday.
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Cooked a 12 lb. turkey in a pressure cooker.
You end up with just tender falling-off-the-bone pieces with no viable or darkened skin. It comes out of the pressure cooker in pieces. Fine with me.

I made fresh turkey soup for two, added some dressing on top which was made separately yesterday.

We ate well, and stored the rest in the refrigerator, until I decide if I will freeze the turkey pieces. We don't want turkey every day for a week.

Clean-up is ongoing, lots of work. I will remember this if ever I cook a turkey again.
I think this is the last one.
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Leftovers - my fave supper and what I had tonight too
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Sorry, I had two artificial meat corndogs, and my husband had some leftovers. Not a great day over here. We hope to make lasagna and have tamales for Christmas Day.
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More Peas on Earth!
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Meatloaf with mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans and corn. It's one of Dad's favorites.
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Meatloaf with mashed potatoes, green beans and some corn for dinner tonight. It's one of Dad's favorites.
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Swiss steak for dinner tonight. I found some chuck steak in the freezer. it is oh so tender and mmm good!!! Great cold weather food!
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@Alva

Thanks for tonight's dinner. It's going to be the chicken, gnocchi, and sun-dried tomato soup.
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Riverdale - sounds awesome. Turkey soup is a favourite of mine.

Alva - your Wok adventures sound great! Cheaper is a real advantage.

send - the pizza sounds good, your plan too.
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Pizza will arrive in 30 minutes.
1/2 creamy garlic chicken; 1/2 vegetarian combo.

Someone broke their promise to go shopping today, and I waited too long.

My plan is to be much less angry at everything, and more self-sufficient.
It is working.
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Thanks for the recipe, Alva. I am going to be making this. It sounds wonderful.
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I have made them by scratch, but don't much anymore, Burnt. I buy mine at Whole Food who makes the best, their 365 brand, and the cheapest imho.

This recipe is so very easy.
Oil in a heavy soup pot. Fry up two chicken breasts that you seasoned SO WELL you cannot see chicken (powdered sage, tyme, smoked paprika, Italian herbs, whatever you want). Remove from pot and die or shred, set aside.

Add a bit more oil and fry up a few diced scallions and some garlic and cook to soft and sweet. Loosen and keep all that stuck stuff from the chicken.
Add in two big tablespoons of tomato paste.
Add in half a jar of sun dried tomatoes (whole food again). I use more.

Mix to a paste and add in one of the big boxes of chicken broth. Book for about 20" on low, and then add in cream (heavy) to taste. Cook another 10 to 15" on low.

Put shredded chicken back in pot.
Add gnocchi and cook until they float to the top and are done to your tooth.
Throw in some hands-ful of chicken.

I saw this recipe on FB thrown together without amounts; to taste, and it's pretty much how I do it.
The sun dried tomatoes are the secret to the sauce! Such a great tomato-tang.
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@Alva

I love gnocchi in soup. I make them homemade and they're the easiest thing in the world.
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Lately for me it is having fun with a carbon steel wok and cooking chinese food from scratch. Who knew that the hunan chicken and string beans with its hot chili and black bean sauce is so EASY and CHEAP when I was paying 20.00 for an order of it. Or Mu Shu pork (the pancakes are a problem). I am loving watching videos and cooking away, and because it's mostly veggies I don't have to feel guilty. Usually for me it has been great vats of Italian sauce and building meal around it.
I also have found a recipe for the BEST BEST soup I ever had which amounts to sun dried tomatoes, broth, heavy cream, gnocchi and spinich.
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Golden, we made a wonderful turkey soup making a stock and adding cut up leftover turkey and lots of vegetables. We ate if for days and it never tasted tired.
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Peas on Earth!
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Homemade chicken soup, more chicken soup and even more chicken soup. It was mainly broth and very comforting.
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Ham, egg and cheese grilled sounds great, send. So does the burrito, I like to have some beef too.

cw - the cheese sounds heavenly and so does quiche Lorraine. But I would opt for cheese and crackers and savor the cheese flavour.

I think the food I most miss (due to allergies) is cheese. There are so many different varieties and I like most of the ones I have tried. I especially miss the Norwegian gjetost (brown goat cheese - the cheese is brown. I don't know the colour of the goats lol).

Supper was left over pot roast. I carved off a thick slice and sopped up gravy with bread. Mmmm good!!!
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I impulsively bought some Jarlsberg cheese because it was on sale and my plan is to use it in a quiche Lorraine. I'll need to make pastry which is something I really don't like to do, but the shells I used to buy are now ridiculously expensive. Not to mention the cost of the bacon.
It's possible I'll just eat the cheese on crackers.
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Taking a small bit of ground sirloin and repackaging the rest, I added beans to the pan, wrapped it with a flour tortilla, added cheese and it was a quick burrito, finished in 35 seconds in the microwave.

Not a calorie-safe meal, but filled me up. (Tortillas are higher in calories).
Absent was the good stuff like onions, fresh parsley and cilantro, and the time to do it better.

Easy was priority one.
Getting some beef was the second priority.

I would love a ham sandwich, on any bread. How about ham, egg, and cheese grilled?
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Me again!

Supper for me was 1/2 a ham sandwich (gluten free low carb bread) with mustard and lettuce, a few grape tomatoes, and a few berries. Finished up with a cup of decaf.

Anyone else?
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