So what's for supper?

[ACADEMIC]

Do you put tomatoes in yours? I usually add one can petitie diced tomatoes and one can sauce. Yum.

 

[Joykins]

Do you put tomatoes in yours? I usually add one can petitie diced tomatoes and one can sauce. Yum.

Yes, that is exactly what I put in!

Sometimes I use V-8 instead of the sauce, but I didn't have any this week.

 

[ACADEMIC]

Tonight it was grilled T-bone steaks (were on sale for $6.99 lb.), baked potatoes with butter and sour cream, and creamed turnips. Yum.

Sorry if that makes anyone's mouth water too much.

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[MrJim]

Tonight it was grilled T-bone steaks (were on sale for $6.99 lb.), baked potatoes with butter and sour cream, and creamed turnips. Yum.

Sorry if that makes anyone's mouth water too much.

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Oh you are bad, I having leftover Chinese.

Did you grill 'em yourself?

 

[Joykins]

Pan-fried NY strip steaks.

Oven-fried potato wedges.

Steamed spinach (e. coli free, we picked it at the farm).

Yellow cake with chocolate frosting

 

[MrJim]

Well doggone it joykins & academic I didn't know Sunday was steak day? Where's the menu around here...?


...mmm and cake too....

 

[ACADEMIC]

Steak day for us usually only happens when it is on sale.

I will also buy Chuck Eye Steaks whenever I see them (there are only a few cuts of the portion per cow, so that is not too often), which are excellent and cost about $4.50 a pound. Also, I buy a huge 12 - 15 lb. hunk of sirloin roast for about $2.50 a pound and cut it into various portions for the freezer. I sometimes cut some pan steaks from it.

I fire up the grill usualy once per week. I enjoy grilling and just love grilled steak.

 

[MrJim]

yum...

 

[PeppermintTea]

Tonight I had fried chicken, biscuits, sweet potato casserole and veggies. It was great!

 

[MrJim]

Tonight I had fried chicken, biscuits, sweet potato casserole and veggies. It was great!

Fried chicken is good anytime!

Hi PeppermintTea

 

[MrJim]

Pasta night at our house

Pasta always makes me think spaghetti, the obsolete pasta. Yup, heard it here first so mark it down.

Why would anyone put up with something so hard to eat when there are many different shapes that are more efficient and less messy than spaghetti strings? We like the rigatoni, the radiatore, ziti, shells, and guess what-don't cost any different and sometimes less.

So join the the 21st century and put those strings on the shelf with the PEZ dispenser, the slant-6, and the conestoga.

 

[ACADEMIC]

Chilidogs with chopped onions made with grilled Nathan's Famous hotdogs, and Stouffer's macaroni and cheese.

 

[MrJim]

Chilidogs with chopped onions made with grilled Nathan's Famous hotdogs, and Stouffer's macaroni and cheese.

That's it I'm comin' over to your house!

 

[ACADEMIC]

Pasta always makes me think spaghetti, the obsolete pasta ... Why would anyone put up with something so hard to eat when there are many different shapes that are more efficient and less messy than spaghetti strings?

But Menno, it is incredibly fun to get a big spaghetti spoon and use it to twirl them strings in a nice roll around your fork!

I like mixing the varied pastas in Cavatini.

Linguini and White Clam Sauce - so easy to make, so good, my favorite pasta dish.

 

[Joykins]

My kids like the spaghetti. They also like the Pez dispensers.

I roasted a turkey today.

Due to poor planning on my part, and false claims of "fresh turkey" (clue: It ain't "fresh" if I have to thaw out the cavity with hot water for 30 minutes in order to extract the neck) it was not done until 9 pm. After the kids' bedtimes. I gave them stuffing, veggies, and bacon (I put bacon on top of the turkey when I roast it) to eat.

We had a nice turkey dinner after the kids went to bed.

Then I made soup.

Then I spent an hour and a half picking little bits of meat out of the strained stuff. Then after about 5 containers full I said, "forget it" and threw the remaining (practically unidentifiable) bits of meat/veggies/spices/bone/cartilege in the trash. I surrendered to diminishing returns.

I am beyond tired. I have spent nearly 12 hours on that darn turkey.

And I am going to my mom's for Thanksgiving

 

[MrJim]

Well mine wasn't as exciting as joykins by any stretch.

It was Wendy's tonite-15 hours working today-fast food driving on the way home, sure like those chicken strips.

I was in a house in Maryland today-selling price $5.2 million buckaroos...

 

[ACADEMIC]

Fast food tonight, too, Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Over the past some years, since PepsiCo bought KFC, it has gotten MUCH more expensive and not as good. They are even cutting corners on their famous cole slaw. Here is how to make it the way they used to:

Pre-PepsiCo KFC Cole Slaw
8 cups finely chopped cabbage (about 1 head)
1/4 cup shredded carrot (1 medium carrot)
2 Tbsp minced onion
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1/8 tsp pepper
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup buttermilk
1-1/2 Tbsp white vinegar
2-1/2 Tbsp lemon juice

 

[Joykins]

Last night - leftover turkey.

Today - turkey soup with dumplings

Dumplings

1.5 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
dash salt
3 eggs
milk
1/4 tsp cloves and/or allspice ( more if desired)

stir together flour, baking powder, spices and salt. Add eggs and stir in enough milk to make a stiffish dough. Stir up dough until mixed. Drop 1/2 tsp-sized balls of dough into simmering soup. Cover and steam for 5 minutes or until all dumplings are floating for a few minutes..

 

[Adara]

Mmm, dumplings!

Baked basil chicken, butternut squash and steamed spinach is on tonight's menu. Question is, will the cook be up to putting it all together? (I'm a little under the weather with a cold. )

 

[ACADEMIC]

Tonight my mom took my family and I out to eat at a BBQ place.