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I am making a rotisserie chicken as we speak.. really smelling great. So roast chicken tonight, and chicken corn soup in the pot tommorow!. And meatloaf and mashed potatoes was my dad's fav meal. we all love that.. so another idea from Send for this week!
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Last night, we had meatloaf, mashed potatoes, a costco salad mix (was recommended here earlier), it had Kale in it.
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Today it will be a simple roasted chicken along with Parmesan Couscous and fresh green beans topped with roasted almonds.
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Chicken corn soup is the bomb in cold weather... idea for weekend here...LOL
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JeanetteB, I love soup! I make good minestrone, split pea, and broccoli puree. Yum!
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oh YUM!! Soup is about the ONLY thing I like about this time of year.

We should have one topic area strictly for pictures. They can delete them in a few days if they feel it takes up to much of their website...
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My stomach is growling, anything with bacon on top and cheese mixed in has to be good.
So far all I've found is a banana...(sigh)
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Soup's on! I wish we could post pictures. I am the proud creator of a huge pot of creamy, cheesy cauliflower soup topped with a floating island of deliciousness (bacon bits - real ones - and chives). It's awesome!!
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Probably a good thing that I'm adding some creamy ingredients to that soup - I just tasted the broth and the top of my head just about blew off. LOL
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I have pumpkins to process later too....'tis the season.
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I picked up a MONDO-HUGE cauliflower a few days ago - a local farmer sells his produce from the back of his truck in the parking lot of the local 7-11 store (we live in a small town). Whatever he has leftover a the end of the day, he puts inside the store. I walked in and found this cauliflower bigger than my own head for $3 - MINE!

I'm making soup tonight. A peppery, meaty, cheesy, creamy cauliflower soup. Not sure what all's going in it at this point, I'm playing it by ear right now. So far, chicken and beef broth (only because I only had 1/2 a container of each left), water, pepper flakes, dehydrated celery (my own, made just a few days ago), onions, garlic, some Himalayan pink salt, some sliced zucchini and a ton of cauliflower. I have some shredded rotisserie chicken I could put in there, but not sure yet. Maybe ham instead. But for sure there will be some heavy cream, cream cheese and shredded cheddar tossed in at the end, after the cauliflower is mashed up.
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ohJude, you are in a pickle!!! Does your Mom like shakes....ok ok...I know folks may be saying "oh no, enough with the ensure shakes already"...but truly if she would at least drink one a day...and you can blend it with things like peanut butter, applesauce, extra vanilla, maraschino cherries, fresh fruits, etc...make them fun and flavorful..I even put sweet potato and spices in one for Mama around this time of year and I swear it tastes like a pumpkin pie...you can tweek them, and of course watch what you add based on any health issues or allergies...but yes, I am plugging my shakes again..sorry folks...I think I have lost my mind..Maybe I could write a recipe book for these things....Sadly Mama has to live on ensure now and so I have had to find a lot of creative things to do to bump up the calories and make them tasty at the same time...sometimes they can be a little on the thick side...so I add a lot of ice cubes and that gets some extra fluid in them :) ok, enough of my shakes...but just throwing that out there.... :)
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Well Im looking for ideas for any meal right now. Currently Mum doesn't like eggs fish cheese or meat and she can't stand veg and she doesn't like milk, won't eat a salad and the bread isn't like it used to be oh and she has gone off soup. Hmmmmm now this is going to be tricky unless of course I give her just dessert at which point she will eat it all. So what does she want to eat I hear you ask. Well when I ask her if any of the above is OK, she says oh yes. When I place it in front of her it is a different matter. And have I cooked anything she likes in the last week? Dear god not one thing. Is your toast and marmalade ok? I don't like the toast its brown (funny that!!!) Where did you get this marmalade? Its not like the one we used to have (well actually its exactly the same and I know this because it the 4th in a batch of 5 I made) She wanted a cheese and pickle sandwich but didn't like the pickle (you might call it chutney) or the cheese or the bread!

Time to have a moment to me I think oh wait I am doing its 6:00 am here so I am going to have yet another long long day
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Too bad you don't have Jeanne G for a neighbor, she would cook it for you. It is easy to tell she is a good cook.
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Not far in advance, but the stores that do a thanksgiving meal to pick up cooked and finished at home often cater this way before the holidays. Or, just add up all the costs of ingredients, time, stress, in a small place and actually have it catered?
People are, more and more, just going out. Return home for the dessert?
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Why Sendme, would he eat you out of house and home?? My bro had a pair of Irish Wolfhounds, now THAT'S what I call big!!!

Anybody out there ever made the holiday turkey in advance?
I'm not sure if there would be any real advantage to this, but I have a tiny kitchen and it is open to the dining room, so entertaining this weekend is going to be a challenge.
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All I know is, if I had a dog as big as this (50-60 lbs. @26" tall, ) we would no longer be having dinner, ever!
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We had pot roast made in crockpot, rice and steamed broccoli. The pot roast was done with ranch dressing mix, Worcestershire sauce, garlic, beef broth and let cook for 4 hrs on high. Thicken sauce for gravy, yummy
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I made guinness beef stew today for the first time,, we loved it in Ireland. Served it with mashed potatoes like they did.. It passed the Mom test!!
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There is any easy Garlic Shrimp recipe over at 'onceuponachef' site. I usually add a little more garlic and cut down on the shrimp since I only cook for 2, but they make nice leftovers.
Helps to have a heavy gauge baking pan...
1 lb shrimp fits very nicely in 1/4 heavy duty baking pan. 2 lbs, probably a half tray.
oven @ 350 degrees
1 lb shrimp, cleaned, shelled, deveined
tbsp and half olive oil
2 or more garlic cloves run through a press
little salt and pepper
2-4 tbsp butter softened

Mix oil, garlic, s&p on pan.
Dry shrimp on towel, dump in pan and toss with oil, garlic, s&p.
Bake for 6 - 12 minutes depending on size of shrimp. (You will have to experiment a little.)
Just about a minute before it is done, drop some of the butter on the pan.
Take it out, stir it into the shrimp, then scrape into a serving bowl.
Have it with toast, noodles, rice, etc.
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Sendme, Tonight I didn't use elbow macaroni, but a tightly twisted pasta. I boiled it for the 9 minutes they suggested and drained it and ran cold water over it to stop the cooking. The cheese sauce was completely ready before I added the pasta. I divided the mixture into 2 casserole dishes, topped with buttered crumbs and a little paprika, and refrigerated them both. Tomorrow my friend and I can each bake the casserole about a half an hour.

I've been looking up recipes for haricots (French green beans), which will be the side tomorrow.
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Oh, I wanted to ask, when boiling the large/extra-large elbow macaroni, do you cut the cooking time to only 7 minutes after it starts boiling? This allows the cheeses to be warmed on the stove-top and it doesn't get over-cooked. Or, do you bake it, boil it less?
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Guess what I really am needing to eat is steak.
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Hi Jeanne, its 12:42 a.m. here. I didn't get the wok, but a wide deeper frying pan from smartnfinal. It's a little heavy, and about 14 " across, non-stick, but not too smooth. I've had 16" deeper pans, but this one looks bigger for some reason.
Holds everything, like if I needed to saute spinach and kale it would fit.
Keep cooking, Jeanne! Sounds delish, so nice to share. Looked on the roku/tv tonight, seems like all the good cooking shows cost extra to view now. Just needed healthy ideas, in between the comfort food which I love.
How are you tonight?
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Sendme, I must have missed it about your big pan. Is it a wok?

It is 2 am here. I'm about to start tomorrow's dinner. Bistro Mac & Cheese -- multiple kinds of cheese, sour cream, cream cheese, garganzola -- oh yeah, it is good.

I'll share this my friend whose husband has cancer. It is an easy dish to heat up any time you are ready.
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We had a healthy stir fry added to the rice. Sugar snap peas, frozen peas, red & yellow peppers, carrots, celery, zuchini, mushrooms, and forgot to add onions and the fresh ginger. Did add the soy sauce. Used the big pan, works great.
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I can feel fall in the air. We even had a few raindrops here in Los Angeles. Perfect weather for good, homemade, minestrone soup!
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What! No one here wants my recipe for Chaiken Soup?
That's okay, it does not exist.
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Thank you Cwillie! Bought a huge pan for that purpose, but would not have thought about rice pilaf! Don't know why this last year I've even forgotten what to cook or buy. There are more choices now that I can go more often in the car. It's when I want to lose weight that all gets onfusing. I once owned a book "Diets don't work" and took away from it the teaching not to eat everything on the diet and then cheat and have what you wanted in the first place, but to have what you wanted, just less of it. Then, someone else taught, EAT LESS, MOVE MORE! That was the whole diet plan.
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Chaicken soup.
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