Posted on 02/01/2018 3:07:23 PM PST by Jamestown1630
When we came home tonight, my husband smelled cooking coming from a neighbor’s place, and said it reminded him of a childhood favorite, Tuna Noodle Casserole. He hasn’t made it in a long time, but grew up on a recipe that used the typical canned-soup approach.
On the food network site, Pioneer Woman Ree Drummond has a from-scratch recipe that looks a lot better:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ree-drummond/tuna-noodle-casserole-3634226
Another recipe from prepared items that we used to make was Corned Beef Hash, using canned corn beef and mashed potatoes. But if you are having corned beef for St. Patrick’s day, here’s a more interesting recipe for your leftovers, from the Happy Money Saver site:
https://happymoneysaver.com/homemade-corned-beef-hash/
-JT
We have 5 dogs( 3 pugs and 2 Swedish Vallhunds) and 5 cats. They shed, so everyday I am cleaning/mopping the dark hardwood floors as every hair shows. I didn’t consider this when we bought the house. I had all tile before and wanted something different. LOL! I will look into the tile you have. It looks great.
Do they believe it’s related to diet, or what?
The grocery store near us has (relatively) cheap ducks for sale from November-January. I live for these months because not only is roast duck delicious, but duck fat makes everything so much better. I use it to roast potatoes (sliced potatoes tossed with duck fat, rosemary, garlic and parmesan) and brown aromatics for soup.
There are photos, you can tell which ones are my loaf, but the one that drew me in was that alfre something's short puffy loaf with sesame seeds, looks like a puffy pretzel.
http://www.geniuskitchen.com/recipe/easy-no-knead-challah-bread-390530?photo=cGhvdG8tMzA2OTg2
I don't like the way the pages look now. They have a bad habit of consolidating, redesigning, etc. I guess it must have been food com because that's the only one I ever posted photos to.
That would make one marvelous gift. My backstory is I went to a Jewish wedding complete with the pavilion-like enclosure and the smashing of the glass. Anyway, it was a sit-down dinner, and they had these wonderful boneless whole chicken breasts, think they were sitting on a bed of stuffing and topped with a pineapple slice and cherry in the center to make them pretty but not sweet.
I liked them so well, I asked for the recipe from my friend, the groom's mother, and she graciously obliged. I boned my own breasts, clumsily, but it worked. The stuffing consisted of Challah (and I wrote it phonetically and didn't know what it was like halah which I didn't know what it was back then) butter minced garlic, English walnuts (left those out), onion, celery (all chopped fine), think that was it. And I just stuck them in the oven, don't remember pre-browning the chicken or anything.
The second ones I made because I loved them I got sick and never made them since (might have been a coinky dink or I didn't handle the chicken right, am much more careful these days). It didn't have all the spices like we do our Thanksgiving sage stuffing.
I dug the recipe out and scanned it just as it's been, kinda funny. Let's see if I can figure it out my old shorthand. I think it might have been "dictated" over the phone. 1970's.
That is season with salt, garlic powder, Accent and paprika. I'll try to get back to you and finish later, have to tend to something.
Nice cat, I like the flooring too - ash??
Thanks for the extra info on the time I will definitely try it.
Always try to have some dandelion salad in the spring when the early leaves come out. Just with hardboiled egg and vinegar and oil dressing. Grew up with it.
That does sound good on this snowy day! :)
Sometimes I add bacon. Dad did not do that but it’s a nice addition.
Grew up on creamed tuna which is simply a white sauce, seasoned to taste. Serve on toast. Delish!
I like creamed chipped beef on toast; and sausage gravy and biscuits.
Do dandelion leaves taste like the yellow flowers?
(My FIL made dandelion wine once. I wanted to like it - I’m a Ray Bradbury Fan, and that’s one of my favorite books - but it tasted like grass in rubbing alcohol. Might have been better, but he tended to make really powerful wines.)
I never ate the flowers. If you pick the young greens when fresh they are not bitter. Just a mild green taste nothing strong. Lots of vitamins and minerals. I’ve also made a soup with chicken broth and greens thrown in at the end to just cook quickly then eat. With some scrambled egg added - like egg drop soup.
I’ve never had duck or anything cooked in duck fat, but I sure hear it raved about on food TV
The stuffed chicken sounds good.
I noticed the link to the Challah bread recipe makes 4- 1 pound loaves. And each loaf has a three strand braid. So do you think if I wanted to do the six strand braid I would use half of that recipe? A 2 pound loaf?
I’m so relieved now , Corduroy – the cat in the picture, was begging for some turkey. For a couple days now he hasn’t felt like eating. And as you could tell by looking at him, that doesn’t happen often! I’m always ready to rush my animals to the vet at the first sign, even if I sound silly saying that he’s just acting differently… But he seems to be OK now.
Actually I don’t know what kind of wood the flooring is supposed to be. It’s actually tile! I love wood flooring, but we have a lot of wet weather here so we ended up putting that tile in around the doors That get the most use.
I haven’t had duck often, but I think the best was in a Thai restaurant, and used that special Thai basil; sort of like this:
https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/thai-basil-duck-50031764
Wow!
I might want to try the chicken breasts again. They were really tasty.
The other shorthand is use salt, garlic and Accent for dressing. The rest is sloppy but not too hard to make out.
Impressed with your zeal for cooking and bread making especially. I used a bread machine but find the other process too involved except for something I really am hungry for.
Had no inkling but on my phone messsages was a call from a fire chief, a shed burned down on my farm this morning. Now I have to deal with that. Luckily no people hurt but the tenants lost a lot of chickens which they were warming behind it; wind was bad. I had no idea that's where they had a chicken coopf, behind the shed.
Roast duck is awesome as a holiday meal, and if there’s an Aldi near you, they sell them for about 2/3 the price of other stores. If you make duck soup from the leftovers, it’s *almost* budget-friendly, and the soup is easy and tasty.
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