What are you cooking or baking today?

Lilac said:
I thought we were out of venison, but I found a couple packs the other day. Tonight we'll have tenderloin, baked cheesy onions (new recipe) & asparagus.
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The cheezy onions.....is that where they're laid flat like a slab of onions W/cheese sprinkled over them or underneath? then baked?
If, so, they look delish.
 

Sounds like the same ... this recipe calls for sweet onions to be sliced very thing & put in a greased baking dish. Season with salt, pepper, garlic powder & Italian seasonings. Put thin sliced butter pieces over the onions & sprinkle on parm or cheddar.
 
Peanut Butter and Pumpkin cookies for Duke

I made them about a week ago, and he loves them... Will be making more this week coming...

1/2 cup of peanut butter (check the in the ingrediants, some peanut butter have bad things for dogs)

1/2 cup of pumpkin (use the canned pumpkin)

3/4 cup of flour, sometimes a little more or less...

2 teaspoons of honey

Roll out, and cut with cookie cutter or roll in a small bowl, and use a fork to push down...

Bake at 300 degrees for 30 minutes...
 
The onions looked good last night, but didn't taste as I thought they would. Even though they were thinly sliced, they were still a little crunchy. I think they needed to be precooked a little & then placed in the oven with the cheese. Now the cheese was good & I ate that off of what was left.

Tonight I got out some ground chicken patties to thaw. I still have some asparagus that I'll do on the grill.
 
Cookies. The rare time I make cookies, they’re a failure. Not to break with tradition, so were these. I found this recipe while reading my old files. They had a strange texture; I don’t recall ever mixing cookies with an electric beater. In lieu of shortening I used 1/2 butter and 1/2 vegetable oil. The only good thing was that I didn’t burn all 3 dozen of them.

DH said he’ll eat them. A friend was here and said he’d give me his honest opinion. They weren’t bad but definitely not the worst he’d tasted. He ate three.
 
Crumby haddock with French fries.

This old recipe, originally from the folks at Ritz crackers, never gets old.

I use whatever crackers or breadcrumbs that I happen to have on hand, change up the seasonings and the seafood but it’s always basically the same recipe.

(2 lbs.) fish filets, shrimp, bay scallops, etc…
1 sleeve buttery crackers (like Ritz), crushed
4 tablespoons butter, melted

Spray the pan/baking dish with cooking spray, add seafood in a single layer and season as desired with salt, pepper, onion powder, Old Bay, etc…

In a bowl, stir together the melted butter and cracker crumbs. Pile on top of the fish fillets.

Bake in a preheated 450°F oven for about 10-12 minutes or until the fish is cooked to your liking.

These days, I usually scale it back to a single serving.
 
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Scotch eggs today with a side salad.

The local bulk food store is having their annual open house today & tomorrow. Even with a misty rain it was packed. I bought 4 apple dumplings from a Mennonite lady along with a slice of cheesecake from another one.

They also had local vendors set selling hand-made wooden crafts, homemade soaps, Pampered Chef, honey & pretzels. Tomorrow they will be making homemade apple butter.
 
Pinky said:
Not so much cooking .. just the rotini, with added black olives, english cucumber, and cherry tomatoes in a balsamic vinaigrette dressing.
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That reminds me of the caprese I made yesterday using some of the last red tomatoes from the garden. I had to buy basil since mine isn't growing any more.

We are supposed to get a hard frost in another day, so I picked what was left of the pink & green on the vine.
 
Yesterday I tried a new recipe, Chicken Jalapeno Popper casserole. The base was tater tots cooked halfway topped with shredded chicken & covered in a mixture of cream cheese, sour cream, garlic salt, pepper, fine chopped jalapeno (seeded & deveined) & mexican-blend shredded cheese. Over that was more shredded cheese & chopped bacon. It was good, but I'm not sure I'll make it again.

Tonight was grilled steak, home-made onion rings & asparagus. That tasted very good & I'll will do that again, LOL.
 
Tonight for the first time ever I used canned potatoes. I was checking my shelves and saw the expiry date was soon so made scalloped potatoes. The flavour was probably disguised by the cream, mushrooms, onions and cheese. Before I made them I nibbled a little bit of potato. Nothing I’d ever buy again; I don’t know why I did.
 
Jules said:
Tonight for the first time ever I used canned potatoes. I was checking my shelves and saw the expiry date was soon so made scalloped potatoes. The flavour was probably disguised by the cream, mushrooms, onions and cheese. Before I made them I nibbled a little bit of potato. Nothing I’d ever buy again; I don’t know why I did.
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I find that rinsing canned potatoes with boiling hot water, and patting them dry, helps to remove some of the tin can taste.

IMO many of the shelf stable dehydrated potatoes are preferable to canned.
 
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