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My oldest sister and I are both dedicated Foodies with extensive cookbook collections. We are now on a project to exchange cookbooks, two at a time, and try making a few things out of each book before returning them. We live an hour apart so we don't casually drop in on each other. We both visit our mother weekly and that has been our drop-off point so far.

This is really fun!

From one of her books I've made in the last week a wonderful Eclair Dessert, a Chili Relleno Casserole, something called Pasta Genovese, and a hot dish called Chili Strata that I LOVED (with a base of Fritos soaked in egg). I'm also going to make Fainting Priest (eggplant dish), potato soup, and a pumpkin dessert from that cookbook before I move on to the other book she loaned me.

One of the books I loaned her is of Mexican cuisine and she is planning to use three recipes this weekend.
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rosmarin, I did a new recipe for cabbage this week. I don't know WHY we don't have cabbage more often. It is inexpensive, very healthy, and we all like it.

The new recipe is simple but a nice variation:

Shred the cabbage. I used 1/2 a medium head. Put it in a kettle with milk and simmer until the cabbage is done as you like it. (1/2 cup of milk worked for that amount of cabbage.) When the cabbage is almost done, add golden raisins and caraway seeds. Add salt and pepper as desired.

I had some leftover cabbage tonight. Just as good reheated.

Another way I love fresh cabbage is in fish tacos!
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I told you before, I can't eat with the turkey ghost staring at me.
Glad is so hungry, she stuck her avatar in the sand.
Jeanette can't eat because the spiders have been poisoned and all she has left are scorpio spider friends.
Gershun, don't remember what she's having for dinner, but an elephant never forgets.
But, there is always HOPE! What's for dinner Hope?
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Jacket potatoes oven baked for an hour or so served with delicious cheese butter and coleslaw from the deli. Very quick when exhausted as I am! Soup could be served as a starter. Homemade of course. Love it !!!!!!!!!!!! Husband with poor appetite ate it all.
Does anyone know how to make cabbage appetising?
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Shara, you are doing great without a working stove!
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Tonight's dinner was barbecued skinless boneless chicken breasts, broccoli, and Bushes baked beans, dill pickle spears very yummy. Had to cook on the grill because oven is still out of commission, but the weather here is lovely. We still have our windows and doors open.
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Cookies anyone? The cookie monster has them now!
All rights reserved, what belongs on aging care stays on aging care, and is the property of aging care. Guess we can't have any, but we can share them. Here's your hug!
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Hubs texted me at work that he was making corned beef, cabbage and potatoes! This irish gal is loving it!! And he told Mom he would have leftovers for her!!
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Tonight it was salmon on the grill since my oven is still waiting for a part. Salmon, rice asparagus for Mom snow crab for me and hubs. Mom is allergic now. Poor thing.
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Rascal - That apple cake! I feel so envious- must make one tomorrow with those poor neglected apples in the garden. The rest of your menu sounds delicious.
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Hope 22. I am just a veggie not a vegan - though several of my friends are. They are better cooks than I am! I love cheese I am afraid and husband needs first class protein including meat. Good for you loving veg, and I know all about the weight problem.
Munching on chocolate - comfort food!
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Thank you for asking this question!! I love all of the answers! We're going to have braised chicken with autumn vegetables and mashed potatoes for supper. And I just made an apple cake for dessert! (Let's skip right to dessert....!)
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Yall have gotten me craving cabbage now. I love it...why don't I cook it more!!! I even love it just shredded and stir fried in a little butter with lots of onion..I can make a meal off of that anytime...

Rosmarin..so you are a vegetarian? I have been trying to change my diet more towards that direction but there are a lot of things I don't know how to do without...like cheese...I think I could live on cheese .....but for the most part I love veggies so much, I should be able to do it ....I have a few good recipes for making veggie burgers with black beans and onions and peppers....reading this thread is making me want to cook...especially with this coolish weather..Fall always seems to make me gain weight...not eating..but Fall......yeah, that's it...
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I have on my menu for this week gumbo and chili.

My future experiment is stuffed cabbage rolls. A recipe found on AllRecipes
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The tomato and red pepper soup is something my husband will love, cooking while he takes his Sunday nap 2:00 p.m. to as late as 5:00 p.m., I will love cooking it, looking it up now, thanks Rosmarin.
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Rosmarin, here, a meat lover married to a husband who claims to be a vegetarian, but wants that steak whenever we have one. Confusing to be the cook.
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Sounds terrific! Would suit my husband a meat lover married to a vegetarian( poor man) I now give him meat whenever he wants it even though the dietician said go easy on the carnivore stuff. What the hell now.
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OMG - love it when I hit one out of the park. it was truly came from - what can I do with this... was cleaning out the deep freeze and accidently left out a tube of italian sausage, pork chorizzo, and liverwurst pate; end result, the most delicious meatballs and penne ever! I would have never thought of using that combination but man did it ever score.
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Yes it IS very depressing because we are all going through hell!
I agree we now need some positive comments. I am going to make a lot more soup now the weather is cooler. I can do this while husband naps in the afternoon and its healthy and easy to eat with some lovely cheese and good bread. Yesterday made tomato and red pepper spicy soup from recipe on net.
Great with Ciabatta bread and feta cheese! Husband has very poor appetite but it went down well. He usually says my soup is tasteless but this was approved!
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jeanne I love cabbage - I cook it then when its drained toss in chestnuts and crispy bacon chips and a knob of butter not slimming but very scrummy
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In-n-Out burgers, no fries, no coke, because I am following Timbuktu's example, as best I can. Made it to traderjoes, power greens, greek plain yogurt, rice milk, and stuff. We ate early, about 4:30 p.m.
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Had leftover steak and a slice of lasagna that I bought at the Italian market last week. We all had some steak and some lasagna. My hubby said my lasagna is better, which I took as high praise. I have been complimented many times for my lasagna, but it takes a lot of time and prep,and my oven is out of order right now. That really is a problem when planning dinner because I use it quite a lot and I bake for my hubby as well.tonight since I had gone grocery shopping and had to put away groceries, I didn't feel like cooking, so I ordered pizza and a sub for hubby. I just realized that I will have to heat my leftover pizza on the gas grill since the oven is out. Sent a text earlier to try to find out when the part and repair will be done. No answer yet.
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I had an amazingly good dinner tonight with 3 new recipes out of 3 different cookbooks.

We had shredded cabbage cooked in milk, with golden raisins and caraway seeds. I don't know why I don't do cabbage more often. It is super healthy, inexpensive, available year-round, and we all like it.

Also pork tenderloin medallions with lots of garlic, diced sweet potatoes, green onions, and a glaze of honey and soy sauce. Definitely a keeper recipe!

We were too full for dessert, so I'll finish making that tomorrow. It is choux pastry (cream puff) baked in a sheet (done that part) and then spread with a pudding/cream cheese mixture and drizzled with chocolate. Doesn't that sound good? I'll let you know tomorrow. :) I didn't want the filling to soak into the crust overnight.

I wouldn't make a company meal with more than one new recipe, but for family -- live dangerously, right? Besides, all the ingredients are wonderful. How could the outcome be totally inedible?
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pamzi, that sounds delicious! I will add chocolate chips next time.
I made two extra mini loaves and gave one to the instructors at my exercise and sent one with my son to give to his dad (my ex) and that whole gang.
It's so nice to bake yummy stuff in the oven when the weather cools down.
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Yoga, I make banana bread alot, and take the extra loaf to work. I throw a handful of chocolate chips in. I have Dr;s who would pay me for this! Try it, it's sinfull... :)
I baked a spagetti squash today, and hubs cousin is here making homemade pizza... there goes the diet!
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He loved the banana bread this morning with my good coffee.
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Jude, thanks for coming back and answering about placebo candies! Hoping you are also looking out for your own health.
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My son is coming to visit for the weekend, and I had a fruit bowl full of overripe bananas so I made banana bread! I just took it out of the oven and the whole house smells good.
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Glad to see you back, Jude. :-)

Meals are becoming spartan affairs here. I'm trying to avoid eating a bunch of junk when I get too busy to cook, so I haven't been buying much in the way of groceries. Looked in the fridge tonight and realized there wasn't much to work with. So it was homemade egg drop soup with some spinach tossed in. Pretty darn good, even if it was just simple.
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Im sorry I haven't been around - Mums been in and out of hospital with a whole host of things that aren't actually wrong with her, the purchaser dropped out from our sale, mother had a fit and life was unbearable for a few weeks. Fortuitously meds have now kicked in and we are back on track. I feel like I live on a ship currently - on the poop deck!!!!! But apart from that all is well with the world
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