What are You Cooking Today?

[aurielle]

Not sure whats for dinner tonight, but last night I made some really good chicken adobo with brown rice and broccoli.

[GRITSinMS]

A chicken stew with leg quarter I got from the angelfoodminitries meal pack (and some of it is cooking for dumplings) and stuffed baby eggplant from the farmer's market.

[My English Castle]

It's Portugese bean soup with sausage and kale from the Farmer's market.
And a few things from the "clean out the fridge" pile!

I'm always inspired by this thread and impressed with how many good 9or at least good-sounding) cooks are on the list!

[mom-from-missouri]

For dinner tonight, I went thru my Old Order Amish recipes. (Some where my Grandma's and others I gatherered while doing genelogy in Indiana).
For tonight:
Home made bread (made it yesterday-I bake 2x a week)
Potato soup
Fried Green tomatoes
Apple Grunt

Todays lunch was using up leftover salad and chili-so we added baked potatoes--you could have chili on a potato with salad, or as I did, made taco salad with a potato on the side.

[My English Castle]

That's about it--leftover chicken, rice, eggs, and veggies.

I'm roasting a turkey for a project at church--the meat and juices go to the shelter, but they don't want the bones--so tomorrow--Turkey soup!

[Aleta]

Thanks for the reminder because I almost forgot to take the meat out of freezer. I'm going to make Piccadillo , white rice, fried sweet bananas, bread, and salad.

[Aleta]

Wednesday, I started making cultured cabbage juice. It takes 3 days the first time you do it. You have to leave it outside in a bowl and covered up. I don't know how many of you have made this, but I hope it taste's better than its aroma.

Last year, my husband had a perforated duodenal ulcer that burst and went into perotonitis. I thought that we were going to lose him. So, I've done alot of research and even spoken to a couple doctor friends of mine and they approve of the CULTURED CAGGAGE JUICE. Has anyone out there tried it. He's also taking the DGL tablets.( Licorice). I think alot of it is stress and I know that he hasn't been expressing his feelings about our son that just moved away.

[Joan.of.the.Arch]

Aleta, they approve of cultured cabbage juice to accomplish something, or just as a food that he can eat? Do you have to make the juice at a certain temperature range? When we make saurkraut it comes out different partly dependent on what the temps were, because temp is one of the things that can favor one microbe over another. Sorry I don't know anything about the cabbage juice. Are you supposed to pasteurize it after it is made? Sometimes other organisms than the one you want can grow. That's something that makes me nervous about preparing foods (drinks) such as this without having an experienced maker at your side....One time I made this incredible Chinese sauce using collected gingko nuts and tofu I fermented for a month on my back porch. I was kind of scared of it, and it certainly smelled scary, but it was awfully tasty. It would have been better to make it with somebody who knew what they were doing, but I didn't know anyone---I just had the cookbook to go by.

As for today's cooking in this household, we made a pot of chicken & rice soup with carrots. I had it for lunch and have already eaten it for an early supper.

Tomorrow I will make some chicken salad (bought a lot of chicken) and use up the homemade mayonnaise from last weekend. I will put a lot of vegetable matter in that salad--probably blanched carrots, celery, a sprinkle of fresh garlic chives, maybe some cucumber, and possibly a sprinkle of bulghur if I cook it ahead of time. The chicken will be relatively scant. Come to think of it, I should go chop the chives into the mayo now so that it will be more throughly flavored tomorrow. A splash of lemon in it might be good, too.

[marvholly]

Today is petsto + a salmon fillet. Local veg market had a LARGE bunch of basil on sale $0.99. Will have pesto for multi servings left over.

Also on the food schedule for the next week are:
Roast Chicken + roasted veggies (mushroom. bell pepper, potato, onion, cauliflower) = 6-8 servings from the chicken of assorted recipes.
Chineese BBQ Pork and fried rice
Pumpkin Pie (can pump0kin in my "stock")

[Joan.of.the.Arch]

Ketchup! Just made it for the first time. Don't know if it is a frugal thing to do; I haven't figured the cost. I used a "Heinz" imitation recipe found on on internet recipe search. I wonder how much it cost to simmer on the lowest flame possible for 20 minutes. Oh well, the heat is not wasted. It stays in the house which I am heating anyway.

[LivingAlmostLarge]

Nothing. I am sick. I ate a scone this morning and even then I don't feel well. I skipped lunch and am lying here half asleep.

[Aleta]

Today is going to be the leftover Crab and rice dish that I made on Saturday. Have been sick so this is perfect for us today and all I have to do is just heat it up, make a salad, and serve.

[WhiteAl]

Tonights dinner is (was) one large, 32 inch diameter sized supreme pizza. Mmmmm... They say this stuff is unhealthy, but its good!

[mom-from-missouri]

BBQ chicken legs (baked), scallopped potatos, raw veggies-onion, pickles, green pepper & raddishes with dip, homemade bread, pears and sweat tea.

[Flybutter]

I think I am going to make something simple since it is only me here maybe just a pizza.

[mom-from-missouri]

roast, onions, potatoes, carrots, homemade bread, peaches, gravy and sweat tea.

[Broken Arrow]

Eggs.

[howk055]

Our turkey was free...at our local supermarket they give you a free turkey if you spend over 300. dollars over a 6 week period prior to thanksgiving.

[mom-from-missouri]

salad, bread sticks, shrimp and crab legs.....

We got shrimp New Years Eve and they messed up our order (shorted us big time-the clerk threw ice in it and weighed the ice also... and charged us for it-so instead of 2 lbs of shrimp, we had like 1 of shrimp and 1 of ice). So tonight the grocery store made it right. Got part of it free, and part of it at $2 off a pound.

[My English Castle]

They're saying snow tonight, so it seems like a good time to make a pot of soup. It's a vaguely Italian vegetable (aka clean out fridge), but if I start it now, the house should smell good by dinnertime.