Eating Dinner With My Family

Well sometimes the simplest things really are best. I had my doubts at to how yummy this dish might be. It won't rank among my all time faves, but it will be made again and I suspect often since it was raved about by my husband. What I liked about it: easy (using store bought pie dough), easily vegetarian (just use veggie bacon or a veggie you like like onion or tomato), super frugal (even buying the pie crust I think with the salad the dinner was like $8) and it was great for a cold night since it used the oven and was very hearty. The only thing you must have to make this recipe easy is a mandoline or a v slicer so you can easily make paper thin slices of the potato. The cons, the edges burnt even with the application of foil and the yolk got too brown I just realized now as I am getting the link for the recipe, I left out the cheese!  We were even marveling at the fact that it didn't have cheese and we loved it.  How did I miss that.  The other dev...

Well I started with Alton Brown's Curry chicken pot pie recipe, but while we didn't dislike it, it is one we either wanted to play with or just forget.  Well my husband is not a fan of pot pie.  (me either for that matter)  However, we had chicken left from Thanksgiving, and we needed something to do with it.  I thought it was alright, my husband went back for thirds. (although he ended up not able to eat the last portion) Maybe we will have to give pot pie another try. Chicken Pot Pie Ingredients 4 cups frozen vegetable mix, peas, carrots, corn, lima beans 1 to 2 tablespoons canola oil 3 tablespoons butter 1 cup chopped onion 1 cup chopped celery 1/2 cup leftover green beans cut in 1" pieces 1 1/2 cups low sodium chicken broth 1/2 cup milk 3 tablespoons flour 1/2 teaspoon dried sage 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme 2 tablespoons dried parsley 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon fresh ground pepper 2 cups cubed cooked chicken 1 package puff past...

See the liberal use of hot sauce? Bland! I thought this sounded foul.  I thought it funny that the cookbook that I got this from, Nigella Bites from Nigella Lawson, noted that she thought the same thing but tried it on a whim.  She raves about it.  I''m not sure if it was that she used a raw ham or what, but I didn't get a lot of sweet in this ham.  It wasn't bad, but I didn't get a lot of flavor from the coke.  The corn pudding was disappointing. Bland and just odd. (insert your own English cuisine joke here;) I got the Halloumi recipe that I adore from this book, so I will still be trying more from it.  Ham in Coca Cola Ingredients 2kg mild-cure gammon 1 onion, peeled and cut in half 2-litre bottle of Coca-Cola FOR THE GLAZE: Handful of cloves 1 heaped tablespoon black treacle 2 teaspoons English mustard powder 2 tablespoons demerara sugar Method Serves: 8. I find now that mild...

Well in an attempt to not waste any thanksgiving leftovers, I thought I would give this a try.  It was good but didn't hold together well.  The fry daddy delcared they were tasty but too ulgy to allow a picture.  (snicker)  We had them with a salad an thats it.  Simple and satisfying.  We didn't make all of them for dinner;  the rest we will fry up in the morning with our eggs. Mashed Potato Cakes 3 c  mashed potatoes,chilled or at room temperature 1/2 c  white cheddar cheese (about 2 ounces),shredded on the large holes of box grater 2    medium scallions,thinly sliced (white and light green part 2    medium garlic cloves,minced 1    large egg,lightly beaten 1/3 c  all-purpose flour 2 T  vegetable oil Kosher salt Place all of the ingredients except the oil and salt in a medium bowl and stir to combine; set aside. Line a baking sheet with paper towels; set aside. Heat the oi...

Well I have wanted to try this sandwich for a while, and I got a recipe for it in an email the other day.  Well I didn't keep the one from the email because I wanted to try what is supposed to be the original.  This is from the Brown Hotel website.  I didn't have all Romano so I used some parm.  I used chicken since that is what we had from thanksgiving.  I also used half cream and half 1/2 & 1/2 because that was what I had on hand. Also I used 4 slices of bread and more chicken making 4 open faced sandwiches.  I still had twice as much sauce as needed.  I will also make sure I have super thick bread next time.  I would have liked more tomatoes because they cut the richness of the sauce.  I also think I would like some heat. Legendary Hot Brown Recipe 2 Servings 2 oz Whole Butter 2 oz All Purpose Flour 1 qt Heavy Cream 1/2 c  Pecorino Romano Cheese,Plus1 Tablespoon for Garnish Salt & Pepper to Taste 14 oz Sliced Roast...

Thanksgiving Well because my husband has to work every Thanksgiving, I rarely cook.  All of our family is out of town and can't always make it also, so I often go to a friends house or we have something small.  Well my family was able to come this year! I was so happy to be able to do some of the dishes I grew up with as well as some new ones.  My mom hates turkey; we always have chickens instead.  I made two chickens but unlike her I don't stuff them.  I love, love, love stuffing but cook it outside the bird.  It is true that the inside the bird stuffing does get all those lovely drippings, but I think with a little chicken stock or bullion granules (skipping some or all of the salt if you use the granules) you get some chicken flavor and gravy adds the drippings anyways.  This is the first time making this roasted chicken recipe, but I enjoyed it.  I used sage in place of the parsley since I didn't have much parsley in the herb garden and I ...

Well in the preparation for tomorrow night's Thanksgiving dinner I found it to be a bit too late to be starting the dinner I had planned, so I went with this 'breakfast' dish.  I had been wanting to try it for many reasons.  I think a baked egg sounds like the perfect poach and they have that cute little shape.  I did not serve them right away because I had some bacon I needed to use and was cooking it.  As a result the yolks were not as runny as I would have liked them but it was still really delicious.  I put the eggs on the buttered toast with the bacon.  I also made a bacon gravy for my mom. (who will be here tomorrow) for one of her breakfasts while she is here.  I drizzled a bit of it over the eggs as well. (so did not need it or the bacon for that matter but the bacon was good)  I also deviated from the recipe in that I added  chives as well as basil at the end.   I think chives and eggs are just a stella...