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So a good question for you would be, what do you eat when you do not have time to cook? I think that many of us are often too busy too cook. Its always interesting to know how others handle days (or weeks) like that.
Our fallbacks: fritatta quesadillas burritos grilled cheeze w/soup So what is everyone having for Thanksgiving? We will be going to my parents the day before and probably do steak/shrimp for ourselves on the actual day. I did ask honey to make her yummy stuffing though-- she uses turkey green chili sausage, water chestnuts, herbed bread, onions, celery, and stock-- and I'm sure other there is more-- I'm hungry. |
I just put in the oven a pan of blonde brownies with chocolate chips ...
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Just made homemade split pea n ham soup. :hangloose:
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Can you upload some of those brownies for us when they are done? Thank you! |
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Thanks for the welcome here, I ,m trying to decide what cookies to start making for the holidays, pizzelles and Italian anise cookies, and rainbows , .. I don't know. But will start this week I think after turkey day! |
Love this thread!!
Especially now. Since April of 2011, i have been working on a healthier relationship with food.. It's been a lot of ups and downs, with recovery and the challenges of working on a healthier lifestyle. Mtn and i love to cook together, create new, healthy meal ideas and have dinner dates as often as possible. Eating disorder, food addiction, stress eating, emotional eating, i have been in a very unhealthy place with food over the years. With my weight loss this last year and a half, i have been rediscovering my love of cooking, trying new foods since my tastes have changed tremendously. It feels amazing to be able to look at food the way i do now, and to be comfortable in the kitchen again.. Look forward to participating in this thread and getting as many ideas as We share ideas too!! |
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Welcome to the thread :) I believe that so many of will be able to relate to being in an unhealthy place with food at some point in our lives. That is one of the things that I love about this community, we can post that we need support or help with this or that tough issue and several people will be right there to respond. You will find lots of positive energy in this thread and we have many delicious ideas and cooking styles being discussed here. Such a nice group of talented cooks! One of the things that I always tell friends who ask me about developing a healthier relationship with food is, try to get a good start to your morning like steel cut oatmeal, make sure you are well hydrated, have fresh fruit if you can..blood sugar issues, get those lean carbs in there. When we eat well, we FEEL so good. Looking forward to reading your posts! |
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Delicious People! Happy Sunday to you all So what is everyone up to today? Are you cooking? Eating? Watching someone else cook? Shopping? Staying at home and doing nothing? Finding green chilis to send to me? Going out for a fish taco? Oh wait, that would be me, if I ever get there. Whatever is on your agenda or lack of, today, I hope that this day is a beautiful one for you and that you experience something delicious. |
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* runs back in..* *taps microphone* Is this thing working? Good Morning Yall!! *keep forgetting I am in the south* |
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My household will be grocery shopping for the rest of thanksgiving day meal. maybe catch a football game...I might lose my computer so Audree can play her gardening game, dora games and or hello kitty games...:) I think the skies are clear today... |
No cook here.
Last time I attempted cooking the Pillsbury rolls (the kind you roll up) I rolled them up backwards....oh please.:seeingstars:
However eating fine food is something I look forward to, French cuisine with its dainty, rich portions! mmmm. Thank goodness Golden Corral will be open on Turkey Day, I have to go to St. Louis to work. I sure appreciate the chemistry of cooking, and the folks who magically make it happen!:sushi: |
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Pillsbury rolls..lol..that is cute. You just reminded me that Pillsbury has a cook off every year. A recipe contest. I would love to see some of the great cooks in this thread entering contests and posting about that process. What fun. Classical French food is always interesting to me as well. The French gave us a roadmap for organized kitchen production so I am grateful for that. Golden Corral..oh wow I have not thought about that place in a long time but have fond memories of driving cross country years ago, being beyond hungry...like delirious..needed to stop for food. I was driving across Texas and not much was nearby. I recall looking through a AAA guidebook and finding a Golden Corral in Midland Tx and driving way off the road to go find it. I was so hungry and my memory is that the food was so good. Thinking that I was driving for way too long that day and needed to stop and eat hours earlier. It was a great find. I also appreciate the folks that make good food happen. It is a labor of love for many. |
Planning my contributions to Thanksgiving at my youngest daughter's house. She is having 10 for dinner. Her boyfriend, his ex-wife, their 17-year-old lesbian daughter and her girl-friend and other friends.
This year, we will have turkey with all the trimmings. Last year, in Georgia, at my oldest daughter's house, we had ham. None of her kids or husband like turkey. It felt more like Easter than Thanksgiving for me, I will bring fresh yams with a brown sugar and OJ glaze and topped with marshmellos. "Mom, pleaase bring your yams". So, I always do. I am also going to make a pumpkin pie with no crust and two parts of egg white to one part of egg yolk. It is basically a pumpkin custard that tastes like pie without all the fat and calories. Any other specialties that everyone always makes for Thanksgiving? |
Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a giant Thanksgiving feast with all our friends and chosen family here at the Planet!! How much fun would that be!!
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Wow yams and pumpkin, two of my year round favorites. I love your pumpkin pie/custard idea. That would be right up my alley. I might have to sugar coat the top and torch it if I made that, just for fun, and I like any excuse to break out the blow torch. Specialties for Thanksgiving, for me are usually sauce oriented. I like to make a gravy, but my favorite is a very simple fresh cranberry orange sauce. Everyone in my family seems to prefer the canned cranberry sauce so not sure what that says about my sauce lol. I also like to make a Port Wine Cranberry sauce. But really my favorite part of the holiday is having what other people consider their specialties. It is nice if I have a break from cooking and I love sampling the creative dishes of others. |
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Hi Novelafemme! Yes that would be a lot of fun. We may have to settle for a virtual Thanksgiving/Native Day feast here on the Planet. |
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There is a Hello Kitty game? I did not now this? See all of the things that I am missing out on by not having small children of my own? *sigh* A Hello Kitty game..that has to be insanely cute. Last year I was at Epcot Center in Disney World and photographed a huge Hello Kitty in Japan. She was so cute. People looked at me as if I had lost it but who cares. Cute is cute. I am big on cute. Bring the cute. lol |
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Well since my gram and mom are no longer here on this earth, and I've always enjoyed the holidays and traditions we had as a family when I was a young one I would have to choose a Thanksgiving and a Christmas please with my family like it used to be. I wish ! Another I always think about is my current love and some places we met and based our friendship and then dates on. And that is just hanging out at Starbucks having coffee and talking and laughing. A couple other places near and dear to us are Buffalo Wild Wings sharing Chicken Nachos while watching my beloved Broncos :p She had so much fun with all the loud, rowdy sports fans while wearing my tshirt. heh. We laughed and laughed and talked about football! Some of our first dates were also enjoying Panera Bread. So I would say picking some of that up and enjoying it at at this lake park sitting together after a stroll. With her, it can be anything! A piece of pie? while chilling' on the couch together. :) |
Tacos !!!!
We all love tacos!
Geez there is so many ways to make them and have them! Mash Potato tacos Sun? Never heard of them. Doesn't sound appealing to me but then again, I will try it ! .. and I'll probably end up liking them cause I do like some fried potatoes in flour tortillas. :p Anyone ever have Tacos with spaghetti in them ? or how about Tacos with ketchup as a condiment instead of salsa? I'm not a fan but have known people that like this stuff. Like I said, you can have tacos anywhichway! |
Hello everybody! Wow, this thread is active! woohooo. Food! Nice to see new and familiar faces here. Makes me happy, like food! haha. :)
(remembers making tortillas as a kid with my gram .. and making all the states too! Hey they tasted good and I enjoyed it so that's all that matters. :)) Fried chicken talk, Bojangles, Church's, Popeyes, KFC. mmm mmm. One of these days I'm gonna go to each of these establishments and have a taste test. LOL! :) I know these restaurants are here. My mom's fav used to be Church's. taco talk, and now steaks!! What is your favorite steak people and how do you like it ? How do you cook it ? I love me a good ribeye cooked medium well! .. and I usually make my own. The best restaurant I found to make it is Texas Roadhouse. I also love a lil steak sauce on it like A1 or 57. Quote:
Well today I'm enjoying the rest of my hot and spicy chicken wings I got from Publix, a local, popular supermarket deli. They have wonderful chicken! Hell I may take the meat, put with some cheese in a tortilla for a variety. I will also have a slice of crumb crust apple pie my darling bought from there also this morning. Sun, are you going after your fish taco? |
Sun, it's Football Sunday and you should be asking what some are snaking on during their game watching, lol.
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Tacos... I've had potato taco's, seasoned cubed potatoes as the main filling in corn tortillas, delicious! I do adore the variety of ways to make tacos. yum...
Okay Mexican food makes me very happy. It could be that I miss home very much right now and so foods from home are very much on my mind. Today The General and I were at the grocery store. We noticed a granola chip made in Oregon. I gasped, she questioned why. We had to buy them. Well because it is food from Oregon The General says in that sassy valley girl way she has developed (at 6 1/2 she is very mature you know). Approaching holidays reminds me of cooking with my mom.. I'll make that a separate post. What I came in here to say was.... just put a pumpkin bread in the oven. I told The General I was going to make it and she said.... better add raspberries mom or I won't eat it. And since she picked brussell sprouts for her dinner vegetable I am going with it (seriously? brussell sprouts? who knew). So it has raspberries instead of nuts. Should be yum! |
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We enjoy Golden Corral almost at least once a week. We love the variety and it takes care of several cravings. LOL |
pumpkin and cream cheese truffles, pumpkin cookies, fudge, pie's, veggie and meat trays....chli n cream cheese dip....thats just the beginningins and the deserts to follow....
I so cannot wait for thanksgiving ! On the way home from the store Audree saw a tree in a truck and stated "Oh my god do they not know its thanksgiving first? " her tone of voice and her shock was adorable however even she gets it and she is only 6 |
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I know that feeling of seeing something that reminds you of home and getting excited about it. Very cool. Oregon has the best berries that I have ever had. Several friends grew up there and now live elsewhere and have to mail order berries in. Sounds like you have a little Chef in the making. Good choice! Raspberries in the Pumpkin Bread. How did you cook the Brussell sprouts? You must do them very well for a young one to enjoy them that is one tough vegetable to get kids to try! |
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*Hands Wolfy the microphone* Wait..I think you already did ask. lol |
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My favorite steak is a rib eye or Porterhouse. I do a few marinades but really like A1 steak sauce. Beef in general, If I am cooking Chinese food I want to use flank steak. If I am having Mexican, I will go for Carne Asada. Eating out, Japanese, negima yaki. NY food..brisket. Lucky enough to be getting real BBQ - Beef ribs. Rare these days that I eat a good steak but I do like one now and then. At Epcot I did not see a Chinese restaurant just a quick serve place. Where is it? The French restaurants were fun. No fish taco, I had a lot to do today and have to allow myself a few hours between the travel time and all but I am going to try to get there tomorrow. lol The fish taco better be good I sure posted enough about it. |
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Want to ship me a care package? Speaking of that someone offered to send me jam in a rep comment and now the comment is gone :( I did not reply right away and the comment got repped right out of there. You have such a charmed life with those adorable little ones. Lucky you. I need a little one, or two, or three. lol Oh well maybe someday. What kind of pies are you making? |
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At certain times o'the year we get Wagu...yes it is delicious. |
It's our first Thanksgiving in the new house, and it's the first one where it will just be me, my son, GHB, and his father. Usually I get together with my parents, my brother and his family, cousins, etc..for Thanksgiving, so it's gonna be a quiet holiday this year (and I am so looking forward to it! It's going to be so nice to just be able to eat dinner and relax at home). I've cooked for the holiday before because when I was younger my parents would host Thanksgiving for the family...20 people or more...and when my mon started working nights, the cooking fell to me. I have the menu for this year all planned out. I'd love to know what everyone else is cooking for Thanksgiving. Do you have any traditional or cultural dishes that you cook for the holiday? If you are cooking turkey, what are some of your favorite side dishes? Are there any unusual/"non-traditional" dishes that you serve? (I am a total foodie, and love learning about new dishes and recipes! :) )
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I bought a turkey but it went right into the freezer. You just can't argue with meat for 89 cents a pound. But I think we're not going to do the big traditional meal. Even though I do celebrate it as First Nations Day--and I'm sincere about that; as a gardener I truly appreciate the work the First Nations Farmers put into developing these foods!--Gryph cannot get past the "Thanksgiving" part of the day or the meal, and without my own oven it's just too hard to deal with something that causes him unhappiness.
So last night I put pork, onions, red potatoes and sauerkraut in the crockpot. I used country-style pork loin ribs this time because they were on sale, but in the past I've used just about every cut there is. It was done this morning, so I pulled out everything but the onions and broth and then put in the rest of the pork, taters, and sauerkraut for another batch. I saved the bones for bone broth; has anyone made this before? You cook the bones low and slow until they crumble, then sieve them out. It takes a couple days. The broth is supposed to get very dark and be loaded with minerals and concentrated flavor. |
Good Morning delicious people!
How are you all doing today? Lets hear some foodie stories from the weekend. I made a big pot of chicken soup yesterday now I realize that I am going to have to pack some up and give some away. Way too much of it. So I will be on the lookout for some people who are feeling under the weather and surprise them with some soup. That is something that I have always appreciated when I am sick. Does anyone make soup to go with the upcoming holidays? Also, I am interested in knowing what your favorite pies are. Pie freak here, I really like most fruit pies and rarely ever make them at home. I hope that whatever you are doing today, your day is bright and beautiful. Sun |
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I bet you could do a heck of a job on one. You have a lot of great experiences and information to share. |
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What is on your menu for this year? I am not cooking which is a nice change because I was part of a team that cooked for 2300 last year. Cant tell you how long it was before I coold look at turkey again. lol Growing up my Nana did Thanksgiving dinner and always had Italian food woven into the meal. I was a teenager before I understood that most people did not serve a turkey AND a lasagna. Who knew? My grandparents were just trying to bring some of their family favorites to the table but I still crack up every time I think about the huge crowded Thanksgiving table, the extra banquet style table, packed with food and a big lasagna. Then there was Italian pastry table for desert. Pumpkin pie was never a centerpiece because the pastry was so good. |
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The history of this holiday is something that deeply concerns me since history was so twisted but I have over the years tried to make the holiday a totally different kind of an event more of a "gratitude" circle. Not having an oven is tough if you want to cook a turkey. And you were looking forward to the stuffing! Aw..well you can always do a turkey another time. Your pork dish sounds great. I love sauerkraut and anything made with cabbage really. Especially kim chi which I can not find lately. So that means it is time to make my own. |
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Sour cream lemon Apple Blackberry I'll be making my first pecan pie this holiday. Dear Stoney is earning one. Not in any particular order. I am a pie person. Not so much into cake. However, The General prefers cake. Gotta come up with some cute chocolate cake recipe for Thanksgiving. I am cooking away from home and in a new "family members" house so I am anxious about having needed supplies. I'm making my to pack list now. Just in case. |
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Pecan pie took a whole new twist for me when I had a sweet potato pie that had a layer of the pecan filling on top. When baked the pecans became caramelized and crunchy on top, finishing off with a crackle glaze. A really nice combination of flavors and textures. Chocolate cake is something that I love. You can always get a small pan and make a mini cake. |
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We will have pumpkin and apple and im not sure what else. I agree i am blessed to have them in my life. I believe we are having ten or 12 people come for dinner. ps. If you make it to a brunch you will have a chance to meet them :) speaking of Tacos....and stuff Im wondering how many people here to enchilada's with their turkey leftovers? we do them every year...My son inlaws mother also makes turkey tamale's from scratch after ...we find all kinds of creative ways to work with the left overs. Enchiladas are my favorite though for left overs. |
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The menu this year is gonna go the more traditional route (if only because I'm just cooking for the four of us :) ). Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potato cassarole, brussel sprouts, cranberry sauce, and Nantucket pie and reverse caramel apples for dessert. |
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