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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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cw - should be good for toast!
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Thanks Hothouse!

Golden - the bread turned out okay, I got two loaves out of it so I froze one for later. Unfortunately I got distracted and over baked it so it's a little dry.
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cwillie, here it is:

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1024492-italian-wedding-soup
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Oh, yes! Definitely soup days.

cw - agreed breakfast for supper is great. That was a ton of very tasty calories. How did the bread turn out? At one point I got pretty comfortable messing around with bread recipes. It was fun.

Hothouse, the Italian wedding soup sounds awesome. Very generous of you to share it with family. I have done that when we were closer together.

I brought in the last of the turkey soup from the outside freezer (balcony) and will probably throw a few extra veggies into it. I've got some spinach that needs to be used.

Tacos last night. An easy meal when you have have the cooked spiced beef in the freezer.
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Care to share the recipe (or a link) Hothouse? Soup seems like just the thing after over indulging yesterday.
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Italian wedding soup tonight. . I found this recipe recently, it’s a keeper. I made enough for my daughter and grandkids. The soup got rave reviews from them.
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Breakfast for dinner, my favourite!
Featuring sausages, bacon, home fries with onions and peppers. And of course PANCAKES, smothered in maple syrup and blueberries.
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Sounds good, cw. Enjoy!!!

Fresh salmon and salad for us today. R had fritters with sour cream too. One of our favourite meals.
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It's still a work in progress Golden, I had bought some candied fruit to make stollen at Christmas but never got it done so I'm making a version of that. With all the fruit, eggs and butter (plus my cold kitchen) the dough was very slow to rise (I really should have had 2 packets of yeast) but I left the dough to rise over night and shaped it this morning, I'll probably be baking this afternoon.
I've also got a loaf of sourdough going, which always takes overnight to rise. Purists would be horrified at my methodology as I make my bread in a loaf pan and don't follow the recipe or all the fussy prep that is so commonly posted on line. I don't care about amazing oven spring and hard crusts, I just want a nice loaf for toast and sandwiches 😜
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cw -so what did you make with the yeast???
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I've had a package of yeast floating around in my cupboard that expired 2 years ago and today I got it out and proofed it, fully expecting to confirm that it was dead so I could throw it away without guilt. It's not dead, and now I have to make something with it lol
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Margaret, I love your strictly defined division of labor. Sounds very efficient.

My husband and I both love to cook but we have a one person kitchen so we have a strict rule that if one of us is cooking the other is banned from the kitchen or else. It simply doesn't work and can be dangerous.

He makes all the Italian dishes. I cook mostly vegetarian, I'm not much of a meat eater these days.

I'm in charge of doing laundry. He actually likes to clean and I happily let him.

We've each found our niche.
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My DH and I have a strict division of labor. He is an engineer, he does the outside (including hanging out the washing if I ask). I do all the indoor cooking and cleaning up from it. I’m an ex-lawyer, so I do a bit more than the washing up if business trials are appropriate – and he does a lot more outside than hanging out washing. He does breakfast, puts it on the table, clears it up, and feeds me coffee before breakfast is ready. I’m happy to be waited on then, and I’m off duty for all of that. I do lunch and dinner, cooking, serving, clearing up, and the washing up. I have a two drawer dishwasher, but bending over it kills my back, so I do it old-fashioned way in the sink (actually on top the kitchen sink in a container).

It doesn’t matter what you each do, as long are you are both happy, and both feel it’s fair and you are cared about.
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Send, A truly great salad requires a lot of time and effort. It’s nice that you do this together with your husband.
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The thing about making a salad is that my husband and I are developing a routine for preparation that involves cooperation, and slow timing. I take breaks and walk out of the kitchen often.

Working together in the kitchen, then eating together has improved our daily lives.
He tolerates when I rinse and drain everything; I try to tolerate that he puts things away before I am finished with it.

It doesn't matter that salad is not my favorite, but add chicken to that and I'm okay with it.

If he's in a mood or intolerable, I don't return from my break. We've had some really late night salads.

But the salads are a work of art, not even needing dressing.
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Cold chicken and raw veggies. I need to clean out my fridge. I miss cheese!!!
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It turned out really well too newbiewife, I just left a little pasta water and stirred it in!

(on another note - adding salad to my list...)
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Cwillie, what a great idea to use boursin cheese as the basis for an Alfredo sauce. I have several kinds of leftover cheese from entertaining some of my neighbors for our weekly cribbage get-together. Probably will make mac and cheese with leftover cheddar. I'm trying to eat down the contents of my refrigerator because I'm leaving for a two-week trip in early March. I have some elderly apples so will possibly stew them up to have as a side dish with pork from the freezer.
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What is in your salad tonight?

Curly Lettuce
Iceberg Lettuce
Radishes
Purple Onion
Mushrooms
Avocado
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Lately I have more things on my "want to make" list than I have days in the week, I'm also trying to discipline myself to eat from the freezer and pantry instead of buying new things.
Yesterday I did a sweet and sour pineapple chicken with rice, and since I am alone of course there are leftovers.
Tonight I can't decide, but I have some garlic and herb Boursin cheese I'm thinking of turning into some kind of an Alfredo sauce so maybe that with sheet pan roasted frozen broccoli and cauliflower 🤔
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I made a roast with baby red potatoes and carrots in my Dutch oven..... So good and enough leftovers for lunch tomorrow! I vowed to be better in 2026 to prepare more enjoyable dinners for my family.
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I am having so much fun with my new carbon steel wok! Last night was fried tofu with hoisin sauce, peppers and onions. Needed ginger I would say. Otherwise pretty much as good as Mayflower Motherwell Chinese takeout in Scotland (I think), one of my favorite Facebook sites.
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I made porcupine balls for dinner tonight in the pressure cooker with green beans and cornbread as the sides.
I guess it turned out ok,it was edible~
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For Christmas my husband made Greek shrimp with tomatoes and feta cheese. It was delicious. A big tomato is cored and more feta cheese is placed in it. We also used lobster bisque to make the sauce creamer. 3 generations including 5 and 7 year old grandchildren cleaned their plates. Not always an easy task with them. Sometimes the 5 year old makes me laugh when she says she can't eat all her food yet she did that night. Hope everyone had a nice Christmas.
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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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