Sorry to say, but this site has been so depressing for a few days. I thought I'd ask an average, everyday question....to make us all feel a little more normal today.
I made Eggplant Lasagna, and my BIL and SIL are coming for dinner. They leave for Cali tomorrow to see their beautiful grand daughter.
Sorry, sometimes we just need some REGULAR conversation.......or at least THIS caregiver does.
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.
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?
I've been looking up recipes for haricots (French green beans), which will be the side tomorrow.
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.
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.
People are, more and more, just going out. Return home for the dessert?
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
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.
So far all I've found is a banana...(sigh)
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...
and dressing for lunch, a costco pumpkin pie piece, that is it for Sunday brunch.
Tonight was stuffed peppers made in the crock pot, Mexican-seasoned pinto beans, and cheese biscuits.
Each of these meals was shared with my friend whose husband has cancer. Her daughter came and picked theirs up, which worked well.
My friend and her daughter painted a small porch this weekend. Their house is on the historic register and the exterior has to be authentic and approved and they had a heck of a time getting the paint color right this time. The husband LOVES that house and I think all their effort at maintaining it does him good.
So my cooking while the women ran around getting the paint color right contributed to the husband's happiness. Make sense? :)