What are you cooking or baking today?

Good grief. I make a cream cheese/walnut/garlic spread for stuffing celery. Usually it’s better on the second or third day. It tasted bland, I added more garlic powder on the second day and more the next day. Still bland. Possibly because I’d opened the powder in 2018. Good thing I write on opening dates; it would be better if I read them.

It’s still cheaper for me to get my spices at Costco. I’ll share some of the new batch with a friend or two.
 

For brunch today I had homemade, from scratch, baked beans with bacon, macaroni with cheddar cheese and potato salad with gourmet dill dressing. Note- was larger portion than I usually have.
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Note: Normally I add dill to my potato salad but Bicks has a gourmet dill dressing that really livens up the potato salad.
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There is an easier way to make apple pie. Don't peel the apples. My stepdaughter does not peel the apples in her delicious pies, and I did not notice it with the first pie she made. I was set up to begin peeling apples for her next couple of pies, when she stopped me. I was astonished, especially since I rarely make apple pies because I greatly dislike peeling apples. I had decided to attend to this loathsome task simply because I love her, and I am capable of doing it.

I have graduated to the next step: Asking her to make apple pies about twice a month. She even makes her own crusts -- another task I dislike, but she enjoys it. Meanwhile, our fridge is well-stocked with refrigerated pie crusts in case I decide to make a quiche or a pie.
 
Jules said:
@PeppermintPatty Last year you and someone else mentioned the type of premade burgers you really like from Costco. Do you remember what type they were. Regular, Prime, Angus?
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The Costco burgers are made by Kirkland, so are their own name brand. Kirkland Signature Frozen Lean Sirloin Ground Beef Patties are made from 100% sirloin beef and are 15% lean. This 2.72 kg package contains 18 Homestyle patties of 151 g (5.3 oz) each.

They are super yummy.
 
Toddler grandson was asking for pizza when he was with us last weekend, but my freezer stash was down to lemon artichoke w/provolone and no tomato sauce. Delicious, but that very picky two year old would have for sure turned his nose up.

So I quickly defrosted some ciabattas and sliced the tops in half horizontally, making 3 pizza bases. Whipped up a sauce and defrosted some mozzarella. Baked them in the toaster oven and voila, lunch was served.

When he was here yesterday he started asking for pizza again, so I repeated the process, but this time cooked them in a lightly covered frying pan, which was faster and added much less heat to the house.

Sometimes good enough is good enough. Especially on a 103° day.
 
I threw about 5 frozen chicken thighs into the pressure cooker with chicken broth, a 28 oz can crushed Italian tomatoes, a few bay leaves, s&p, and a bit of smoked paprika.

I will use up last nights quinoa and veggies with some of the chicken and sauce for supper. Doggy will have some rinsed off chicken.

Can eat more chicken tomorrow w/ a *small* potato salad and baked asparagus.

My DGS might drive down on Sat, with the baby. DGDil working. Since he loves meatloaf (not even kidding) I may pick up some ground beef tomorrow and make one. Have frozen shoe string French fries and frozen broccoli I can bake in the oven, too.
 
StarSong said:
Toddler grandson was asking for pizza when he was with us last weekend, but my freezer stash was down to lemon artichoke w/provolone and no tomato sauce. Delicious, but that very picky two year old would have for sure turned his nose up.

So I quickly defrosted some ciabattas and sliced the tops in half horizontally, making 3 pizza bases. Whipped up a sauce and defrosted some mozzarella. Baked them in the toaster oven and voila, lunch was served.

When he was here yesterday he started asking for pizza again, so I repeated the process, but this time cooked them in a lightly covered frying pan, which was faster and added much less heat to the house.

Sometimes good enough is good enough. Especially on a 103° day.
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ANYtime is time for pizza!
 
PeppermintPatty said:
For brunch today I had homemade, from scratch, baked beans with bacon, macaroni with cheddar cheese and potato salad with gourmet dill dressing. Note- was larger portion than I usually have.
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Note: Normally I add dill to my potato salad but Bicks has a gourmet dill dressing that really livens up the potato salad.
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I do like sour dill pickle relish (not the sweet kind) in potato salad sometimes.
 
Made a large bowl of Greek Salad. Early(ish) this morning I walked to the grocery store for green peppers. None available. Of course, I bought other stuff and now still need to make a trip to another store. This is how I spend too much money; I can’t walk out with just one thing.
 
Made a no-bake Cherry Cheesecake for my friend’s birthday tomorrow. We’re going for lunch and coming back here to celebrate.

Yesterday I made Broccoli salad. It’s a monster sized bowl. Just as I was mixing the ingredients together, I realized I should have made half the recipe. I added that comment to my notes.

It’s finally corn on the cob season. We’re having that every day.
 

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