What are you cooking or baking today?

[Bretrick]

Is this canned, pure pumpkin like you’d buy to make a pie? Or do you cook up a squash to get this.

Not tinned. I roasted a 2.5kg Pumpkin. Roasting means no need to laboriously peel the pumpkin.
Then add to soup mix, pureed all.

 

[KSav]

Frozen pizza today, because I've been glued to the PC, working, for two full days.

I do enjoy cooking and trying out new recipes, though. After so many years of cooking kid-oriented food, it's nice to explore new ones. I'm going to try my hand at pasta puttanesca next.

 

[RadishRose]

Got a nice container of chopped, fresh clams and made white claim sauce with fresh garlic, fresh chopped parsley, olive oil and butter. It was so good on linguini.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

Homemade baked beans

 

[Lilac]

We just pulled one of several basil bushes & made our first batch of pesto to freeze. We had some leftover that wouldn't fill the final jar, so we had it over some pasta along with a grilled chicken breast & garlic bread.

Probably will do another batch tomorrow for the freezer.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

Baking bread today

For a tuna fish sandwich

 

[Lilac]

More pesto to be made with the last of the basil. Going to can some dilly beans today, too.

Dinner will be stuffed bell peppers & salad from the garden.

 

[StarSong]

Not yet up to cooking anything beyond breakfast veggie stir-fries. I've been snacking on overnight oats with chia seeds, thawed blueberries & strawberries. If I can work up the enthusiasm I'll make some salad for a late lunch.

 

[Lilac]

Husband grilled a chicken & I made potato salad between baking 8 loaves of zucchini bread. Couple for the vets office, one to eat now & the rest for the freezer. We also managed to clean enough pawpaws to get 7 bags of pulp for the freezer too. I'll make cookies or pies out of the pulp for the holidays.

 

[Jules]

Made a salad using Isreali couscous. The grocery store sells one in their deli, so I copied the ingredients and mimicked it as best I could. Turned out ok.

 

[Lilac]

Kroger's used to make a puff garlic-parmesan spread that you put on top of sliced baguette that puffed when it browned in the oven. It was easy to copy & I'm glad I did because the discontinued it. It was only mayo, parm, granulated garlic powder & salt to taste.

 

[Jules]

Kroger's used to make a puff garlic-parmesan spread that you put on top of sliced baguette that puffed when it browned in the oven. It was easy to copy & I'm glad I did because the discontinued it. It was only mayo, parm, granulated garlic powder & salt to taste.

Looks good.

 

[Lilac]

Yesterday before bed, I put a deer roast in the crock pot. The cooking liquid mixed together was beef stock, whole cranberry sauce, pinch of nutmeg & horseradish. I salt & peppered the roast & laid it in the liquid cooking it until tender. A roux thickened the grave & was used over the roast. Served it with whole grain mustard roasted potatoes & onions.

 

[Lilac]

Tonight is prime rib roast with au gratin potatoes & salad. Potatoes are almost done & roast is in for the browning. House is starting to smell good.

I had cut a whole rib roast down to what we needed at Christmas & froze the small piece for later. Well, now is later . Since the weather started to cool, I've felt more like cooking lately.

 

[dobielvr]

Tonight is prime rib roast with au gratin potatoes & salad. Potatoes are almost done & roast is in for the browning. House is starting to smell good.

I had cut a whole rib roast down to what we needed at Christmas & froze the small piece for later. Well, now is later . Since the weather started to cool, I've felt more like cooking lately.

Hope you have some horseradish to go w/that.

 

[Lilac]

Yes I did, @dobielvr. Can't have prime rib without it!

 

[RadishRose]

Made Chicken Tikka Masala

 

[dobielvr]

Made Chicken Tikka Masala

Me too!

 

[PeppermintPatty]

Baked buns today

 

[PeppermintPatty]

Freshly baked bread

 

[RadishRose]

View attachment 367673Freshly baked bread

You and that bread made me go out and buy flour and yeast, PP!
I'm just waiting now, to use up my bread in the freezer to make my own, no-knead bread.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

You and that bread made me go out and buy flour and yeast, PP!
I'm just waiting now, to use up my bread in the freezer to make my own, no-knead bread.

Good for you RadishRose! There’s nothing quite as rewarding as making your own bread.
We use a KitchenAid to knead the bread. It comes with a dough hook. We have some great recipes for white bread and raisin / molasses bread. We do two cycles of manual kneading before baking

 

[Lilac]

That bread looks so good. Nothing beats homemade.

 

[Warrigal]

I'm planning a madras (hot) beef curry with rice and lots of sambals.

 

[StarSong]

I looked at several Thai Pineapple Fried Rice recipes on line and made some tonight, borrowing guidance from those recipes but adjusting them according to my recollection of eating it in restaurants and personal cooking preferences and experience. Some of the bigger changes - I cut waaay back on the oil, added a bunch of veggies, subbed brown rice for white, and used tofu for the protein.

DD's family was over and all proclaimed it a big success and talked about how it could be even better next time.