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I'm torn between making Moroccan ratatouille over rice, or pasta with black kale and fire-roasted tomatoes.
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Going to a church potluck. Drew cold salads for my dish. I’ve made Amish Broccoli Cauliflower salad and BLT salad.
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MumsHelper....Chicken salad sandwiches are one of my favorite things.Your'e a good cook!
Today,I'm going to make a little easy cheesecake,a kit I found on the baking isle yesterday.
I hope it's edible.
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We had roast chicken, tossed salad and mashed "potatoes" (cauliflower).
Looks like tomorrow will be chicken salad sandwiches 👍
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I made a roast for sandwiches. I love salmon! Yum.
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Grilled salmon, cole slaw, roasted broccoli
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AliBoBail,

Frozen veggies are not the best thing to roast in the oven for a long period of time. Frrozen veggies are blanch in hot water then freeze. However, I have a side dish that I make with frozen veggies in the oven, but I defrost or heat the vegetables up in the microwave until most of the ice is gone or until they are warm this will cut the extra moisture out therefore making the veggies roast in the oven better. They will firm up nicely in the oven. I hope this helps for your next cooking frozen veggie adventure if you should ever try it again:)


PS: Don't cook frozen vegetables if they have been in the freezer for 5 months or longer.
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I pulled the chicken and green beans out after 40 mins @ 350º and I'm surprised how raw chicken is in the middle. Will frozen veggies make the chicken take longer to cook? I'm figuring this out... But the beans taste good, have good texture. 👌
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The only difficulty with roasting frozen veggies is that they will likely release a fair amount of moisture as they thaw so they might not be the texture you are expecting, on the other hand I like to cover with foil and oven steam some kinds of veggies - I made green beans and garlic to go with the christmas turkey and I thought it was fantastic.

PS, I probably would have used those sad frozen veggies in a soup.
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I threw out those veggies because they looked gross, but I have frozen bags of other veggies, some nice whole green beans. I can just use those in my dish, then? My concern is overcooking the veggies, I think. I'm actually not sure what my concern is except that I've never used frozen veggies to bake in oven before and there's no advice on that specific topic online -- nothing easily found, anyway -- and that makes me think it's quite uncommon to use frozen in the oven.
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Frozen veggies expire in 8 to 10 months so I wouldn’t eat them if they are that old. They won’t taste good.

I have roasted frozen veggies before and it works out if you don’t have fresh but don’t cook those.

Just cook the chicken.
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Question for anyone here who wants to give input: I've been wondering if I can use up some bags of frozen mixed veggies that have been in the freezer forever... seriously they are at least a few years old, so either I use them or throw them out. Can I put them in with some chicken pieces and some small amount of seasoned cooking stock and bake in the oven?

I know you can roast veggies, or make them in the oven different ways, but I've never thrown bags of frozen into a casserole dish before and baked them.

I figured someone here would know about this. I can't get a straight answer from online research. I don't see the harm in throwing in the veggies but I don't want to ruin my dish from too much water (coming out of veggies), or burnt veggies, or whatever else. Thoughts? :-)
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I was just video chatting with my little toddler great nephew, little one have such a different energy and even when they are bad they can leave you feeling energized instead of drained - especially when you can hand them back to their parents at the end of the day 😉. How great to have a meal all ready when you got home, sounds perfect!
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Babysit my grandkids today. From 8am until 6:30 pm. 3 yr old granddaughter and 8 yr old grandson. 3 yr old had 3 meltdowns and I mean melt downs because she didn't get her way.
So when my daughter's mother-in-law brought over dinner for us i was sooo grateful! Once I get home I'm too tired to cook.
So I had smoked chicken breast, slaw, and baked beans. All made at their church kitchen for a fundraiser.
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Lots of great cooks on this site. Good ideas for short cuts if we are tired, whatever...

I generally cook from scratch because I like real ingredients and it’s how my mom, aunt and grandma cooked.

I love doing veggie soup if I am stressed. Chopping veggies can be therapeutic!
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I get it! Me too. A break from it all.

I love eggplant lasagna! I am such a wannabe Italian! I married one, though 😊.

Not to brag but I am a great southern cook! New Orleans! Does it get any better? Haha. I do all the traditional southern cooking but I also do vegetarian stuff as well, such as eggplant lasagna, spinach lasagne, mushroom omelette, etc.

Tonight, meatballs and spaghetti though. Tomorrow will be roasted chicken and veggies. All about balance. Seafood on Friday during lent.
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As ya’ll know, we moved to the Puerto Vallarta area. We looked around for stoves and found a good deal at one place. I paid in full (no financing). They said it should be delivered on Saturday (last week). Then changed to Monday and now I’m told it will be Wednesday (tomorrow). (One needs to have an extraordinary amount of patience to live in México).
Im tired of sandwiches and “cooking” things in the microwave. We could eat out more but not good on the calories or the budget.
If my stove doesn’t come tomorrow, I will cancel the order and buy it somewhere else.
They say it’s in the same city that we live in but the delivery guys can only deliver on certain days. Sigh 😕
For now, just dreaming of a home cooked meal. 🥘🍷🧁
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I had to google cholent BB, do you make yours in a slow cooker?
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It's funny to think... that *all of you,* and caregiving life, made me a better cook, a decent cook. I get around a kitchen much better in general, since caregiving life and interacting here about this topic. There's pretty much nothing I wouldn't attempt at this point, but so little reason to do so, with only me to eat it and I work at a restaurant in a city of restaurants! So... there's no reason to cook. But I'm getting over the last of this lingering sinus/everything infection, so I'm cooking at home. The sausages and kale was a nice thrown together meal.

Eta: See, Send...? This is helpful. I get feedback about my methods and I learn something... in a way that reading a recipe card wouldn't accomplish. ;-) Thanks! I thought it was "braised," but you usually only hear that term when it comes to meat preparations, or at least that's the way I'm used to seeing it.
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You are correct Ali. The vegetables are sauteed first, then covered and "braised"
to finish cooking.
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Spinach and feta chicken sausages (thank you, Aldi) and braised kale. Twas good.

I think "braised" is the right word for when I throw a big bunch of kale into the oiled skillet, then cover and steam until it's soft. It works as a cooking method for fresh kale. I'm liking it, seasoned with my all-time favorites of Worcestershire and minced garlic, and I hated the stuff as a kid. It was the worst. If my mother had made it like this, I think I would have eaten it.

Taste buds do mature, sure, but my mom didn't season or soften it nearly enough imo.
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Bbq chicken, baked beans, rice, and homemade lemon pound cake.
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Grandma1954 - it all sounds very good 😊

as does lentil squash soup. I love soups.

I am thinking of trying a roasted cauliflower and butternut squash soup. Haven't gotten around to it yet.

Making cod in marinara sauce for supper again. it is becoming one of my standbys.
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Golden23, my Grandma made Yorkshire Pudding as well, A favorite when we had a beef roast.
My Grandma was originally from Canada but she had married a man from Scotland when she married again she married an Englishman. So way back in the 50's and 60's I was eating things that my friends never heard of. Yorkshire pudding, curries, custards, Pilaf's I know I am forgetting some.

Well tonight, I have 2 grand kids over and one is sick so home made Chicken noodle soup.
Just took a pan of Grand Prize Coconut Caramel Bars out of the oven. They are for a Support Group on Monday and I will also be making the Irish Soda Bread for that. I will bring both. The Grand Prize Coconut Caramel bars are just like the Samoa cookies. (Recipe at King Arthur Flour)
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Cholent.
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I've been hungry for a good squash or pumpkin soup but I haven't made any because I don't find them to be very filling, but pairing lentils and squash in a soup should give it some staying power. I've been looking up recipes and came across one from epicurious for curried squash and lentil soup with basmati rice... Hm, I have some leftover curried rice...
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Home made lentil squash soup, salad and grilled cheese sandwiches (trying to be good I ate way too many cookies this week)
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Chicken teriyaki
soba noodles and rice
romaine salad
chocolate cupcake - cause you know, it's Friday night
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Olive on a toothpick 😂😂😂😂
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Salmon burgers and green beans. I put on a few lbs around the time of mother's passing I am back to my low carb regime and taking it off.

I use online myfitnesspal as a means of recording my weight, food intake and exercise. It does more than that, but that is all I am using. I find it very helpful. Research shows that writing down what you eat helps you to eat less. It didn't work for my oldest son. He was shocked at how little he needed to eat to lose weight so he stopped using it - too discouraging. He has lost 20 lbs anyway. Good for him. It was stopping smoking that put the weight on for him. He used to be an over 6 ft tall toothpick. Now there is a large olive on the toothpick. 😉
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