After-holiday food with friends - and not just for bird-watchers.
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-JT
Yum! Looks delicious! My husband made chicken soup today with baby bell mushrooms, broccoli florets, carrots, vidalia onion, celery, red peppers, and red onions.
He made the stock first with the whole chicken, onion and carrots, holding aside the meat.
Well,,, grossly off topic, but,,,, I had bought myself a nice steak for Monday. I was at the store and thought it would be nice to get something that I, as an old bachelor, wouldn’t make for myself. Bought some Giant Eagle Deli Potato Salad. Tasted great! Was sick for two days! Short shelf life I guess? Steak was great though!
That looks so good. I think I’ll try it when my sunburn heals-feeling the heat enough as it is.
I don’t know if this is off-topic, but I always like to have a list of food-items that I plan on trying, in the short run, to incorporate into my diet. Currently, my list is: butter salad dressing, green curry, and frittatas (or any similar egg-based dish, possibly Spanish omelets).
My parents get together with a group of friends a couple days after Thanksgiving every year for what they call “dab day.” Everyone brings their leftovers, even if it’s just a dab of this or a dab of that. They have a potluck style meal and great time trying out each others’ recipes.
I had something similar at our farmers market, though it was sausage potato kale. Good soup.
I’ve got an eight pound pork shoulder and a pile of ribs going in the smoker tomorrow. Baked beans, cole slaw and corn bread alongside. Come on over.
You do a very good cooking thread! I like your stories and comments. :-)
Thanks for the ping!
I am in the process of cutting back on carbs for the summer, and with all the fresh spinach I have, I'm looking for Low Carbs recipes with spinach.
I am not fond of cooking it - always to mushy. I did try a stir fry Thai recipe and it wasn't too bad, but I am looking for additional ways to use it raw or stir fry or hidden in casserole or something-as long as it is relatively low carb.
I am currently targeting 100g of Carbs. Next week it goes down to 80g of Carbs. Have been busy looking for low carb breading for oven baked chicken, bread, and crackers/snacks.
I have also been stuck with about 4 egg whites a week, and have made a meringue type cookie, and a Strawberry Scrumptious which is basically meringue baked in a cookie crust and topped with cool whip and strawberries.
Both are too high in sugar, so I'm going to add extra egg whites to my pancake recipe this week for my grand daughter, but if anyone has some sort of low carb treat, then I sure could use it.
It's hard to get nutritious food into her stomach. She would eat nothing but Twinkies, ice cream, and Popsicles if I let her.
I dropped by Kroger 2 days ago and hamburger buns were on sale for 50 cents. They must’ve anticipated more people buying them for memorial day barbeques than did!
So I bought 8 packages because croutons turn out great using hamburger or hot dog buns. They torn out light, yet crunchy. Using other breads, croutons can sometimes get too hard. I like to dry mine thoroughly, since I make a big batch at one time and store them for several months.
My husband’s favorite crouton recipe is: 2 T melted butter, 2 T EVOO, .5 tap garlic powder and 1 1/2 tap Italian seasoning. stir together and toss un 4 slightly stale cubed hamburger buns to coat. bake at 325 for about 40 min, stirring once or twice. easy, cheap, and no salt needed in the recipe. you can use all olive oil too. the original recipe called for 1/4 cup butter, but I cut that in half and added olive oil.