What's Cookin'?

[Fierce Critter]

Got any meal plans, or something heating up right now? Share meal tips & recipes if you'd like. Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner/Snack/etc.

Today's dinner (and tomorrow's leftovers) was linguine with alfredo sauce, with shrimp sauteed in garlic & lemon thrown in.

[gothicmom]

I made home made pizza on the pizza stone!! It was the best.

Sargento has a new line of Bistro cheeses! (I'm so excited! LOL)

I used a mix of Mozzerella and asiago cheese with roasted garlic.....it was to die for!

Edited October 31, 2004 by gothicmom

[gothicmom]

Last night I made a roast with potatoes carrots and

Corn Pudding

2 eggs

1 c. milk

1 can cream corn

1 can whole corn-dranined

1 1/2 c. crushed crackers

onion

butter

1/4 c sugar

I dump it all into a 2 quart cassarole dish (sprayed with cooking spray) and mix together.

bake at 350 degrees

stir after 20 minutes

bake for a total of 45 minutes or until center is just set.

[Fierce Critter]

I HAVE to try the corn pudding sometime.

What kind of crackers do you prefer? Saltines, or club style?

[gothicmom]

I always have saltines in the house. I thought you would like that one! :

[Jarodaka]

Wild rice, chicken, and some other stuff thrown together to form Wild Rice Chicken Slop.

[phee]

I am making Thai Catfish with hoise peanut sauce tonight for me and my honey.

[Fierce Critter]

I've got the fixin's for stew cut-up in the crock, in the 'fridge ready for slow-cooking tomorrow.

I'll make dumplings to add tomorrow. Not a traditional stew ingredient, I know. But my mother made it that way, and it's the dumplings I'm particularly crazy about.

[Onyx]

quick chili -- a can of ready-made chili, a can each of red beans and black beans, a can of tomato sauce, a bit of chili powder and some olive oil

not exactly gourmet but it was ready fast and was good.

[Fierce Critter]

That sounds good and easy, Onyx.

[Fierce Critter]

Gonna be brewing up chicken picatta - thin chicken filets in a seasoned flour coating, with a lemon/butter/wine sauce & sauteed mushrooms. On the side - wild rice & yellow squash, probably steamed.

I realized I'm out of white wine, so I'm going to substitute Woodchuck Cider. I've used weirder substitutions in a pinch, and they've worked out surprisingly well.

[phee]

(Sounds good Miss Critter)

Last night I made a sauce with peanuts, soy sauce, hot peppers, sugar, rice vinager. And I placed it with some stirfried red peppers, squash, cabbage, bean sprouts, rice sticks, and tofu.

[JaneDead]

^^ sounds good. and you forgot to invite me to dinner!

just had a garden veggie sandwich on a toasted wheat bagel from tim hortons and a cafe mocha.

[phee]

Yeah mocha!

[Fierce Critter]

Damn, Phee. Sounds like you got some cookin' skills goin' on there, Boyo. Sounds tasty.

I ended up motivated to clean the house, take down Halloween decorations & put up Fall/Thanksgiving decor. So too busy for the picatta. Made some pre-made chicken & portabella mushroom ravioli with angel hair pasta & Ragu sauce.

Besides homemade, the only canned sauce we can stand is good old traditional Ragu - meat or mushroom flavor.

Leftovers tonight.

[JaneDead]

"portabella mushroom ravioli"

mmm mmm i want that!! sounds so good! minus the chicken for me though.

i just ate a turkey and roast beef sandwich.

[Fierce Critter]

Dyno - I picked it up from Aldi's. They have them up in Michigan, if you're interested. But it does have chicken in it.

[gothicmom]

No Bake Cookies

melt: 2c sugar

1/2 c. mini marshmellows

1/2 c. REAL butter, not margarine

1 t. vanilla, which I always seem to forget!

1/2 c. whole milk

3-4 T. unsweetend cocoa if you want chocolate cookies

Boil for 2 minutes....do not stir while its boiling-don't worry, it will not burn or stick to your pan!

Completely remove from heat-that means if you use an electric stove move the pan off the hot burner.

Add: 1/2 c.crunchy paenut butter

3 c. quick oats, the kind that cook in 1 minute not 5.

After it's all mixed together quickly drop by spoonfuls onto waxed paper. Let cool by room temp.

Edited November 15, 2004 by gothicmom

[Fierce Critter]

Add: 1/2 crunchy paenut butter

1/2 what peanut butter?

[phee]

Thanks Dyno... maybe we could have a DGN potluck someday!

Just made some Pesto Pasta, with fresh Basil and pine nuts... I was feeling a bit lazy last night.

[JaneDead]

mmm i love pine nuts. they are so pricey tho for some reason. at least.. i think they are.

[gothicmom]

1/2 what peanut butter?

That would be 1/2 GALLON peanut butter! :grin:

I fixed it...

[Fierce Critter]

Thanks, GM! :grin:

Today, cookin' up some chicken apple sausages, fries on the side.

Keeping it simple so I can work on the house some more. Place goes from palace to pigsty over a freakin' weekend.

[gothicmom]

Chinese New Years

We make these during the Holidays. My mom made these, we asked "what are they?" she said, "uhhhh, Chinese New Years!"

Later my brother and I called them Chinese Boobies because some of them had a nipple type shape. HUSH!! We were only like 10 or so. :grin:

12 oz. chocolate chips

12 oz. butterscotch chips

12 oz. Chow Mein noodles

In a large microwave safe bowl melt the chips in 1 minute intervals, stiring until smooth. Add the Chow Mein noodles slowly until most of the mixture is absorbed. Drop by spoonfuls onto wax paper and let set.

As a variation, use the instructions above and

12 oz. chocolate chips

12 oz. peanut butter chips

peanuts

I don't know how many peanuts i used because i used up what I had in the house.

I've also added raisins which is also very good.

Edited November 21, 2004 by gothicmom

[Fierce Critter]

I've seen this recipe before, though without the chocolate chips, just the butterscotch - I believe they were called haystacks.