FOOD What's cooking today?

onmyown30

Veteran Member
Made a big family pack of chicken breasts in the instant pot, shredded it all. Tonight we had chicken, beans and rice. Tomorrow I’ll freeze a bunch into small packs so I can add to soup or rice for quick meals. Tomorrow I’ll make chicken rice soup with some of it also. Just the 2 of us now for dinner so doing this will make it easier to cook for me later
 

Hermantribe

Veteran Member
tried a new recipe- cauliflower rice with mushrooms & spinach. A little garlic, cooked mushrooms, added rice and then spinach. It was ok. I'm a type 1 diabetic, and just about everything raises my blood glucose. I'm hoping this only raises it a bit. Tomorrow I think I'll try a coconut cauliflower rice recipe. I don't mind eating the same thing every day usually, but I'm a bit bored. And I have a bunch of riced cauli in the freezer I need to use.
 

TerriHaute

Hoosier Gardener
We had French onion soup today too, it snowed on and off all day. I add canned evaporated milk to it so that it's more like cream of onion soup. I get one of the $1 loaves of French bread at Walmart and turn the whole loaf into homemade croutons. Ladle the soup into oven safe bowls, cover the top with croutons, cover the croutons with a layer of mozzarella cheese and a few tablespoons of coarse grated parmesan and put the bowls under the broiler for a couple of minutes until the cheese melts all over the croutons. It's one of our favorite cold weather meals.
 

Thinwater

Firearms Manufacturer
We should put up pictures to give people ideas of what to make. Trying to figure out what to make each night can be a challenge.

I promise an awesome picture at least 5 days a week if this idea takes off.

Grilled chicken on a spinach salad, pepperoncini peppers, hard boiled egg, fresh mozzarella, feta, roasted red peppers, bacon, olives, red onion and avocado.

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Signwatcher

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Today Marie Callender stayed in the freezer as I finished up the rotisserie chicken. Added mashed potatoes, cole slaw, two sticks of celery, French Onion Sun Chips with French Onion dip and four minnie brownies. I only eat once a day so I load up.
 

nomifyle

TB Fanatic
Made a big family pack of chicken breasts in the instant pot, shredded it all. Tonight we had chicken, beans and rice. Tomorrow I’ll freeze a bunch into small packs so I can add to soup or rice for quick meals. Tomorrow I’ll make chicken rice soup with some of it also. Just the 2 of us now for dinner so doing this will make it easier to cook for me later
that reminds me I need to dig a package of chicken out of the freezer and put it in the crockpot to cook over night. Chicken for us and some of the bones for the don.

God is good all the time

Judy
 

Esto Perpetua

Veteran Member
We weren't too hungry today. I made cornbread to go with some doctored up home canned lima beans. Going to have some tea and finish the curtains I'm making for the bathroom and work on my table runner.

If I'm feeling ambitious tomorrow maybe I'll make some potstickers out of the leftover canned ground beef I used in last night's cheeseburger pizza.
 

Ping Jockey

Inactive
15 bean Cajun soup with bits of sautéed onions, fried ham and sausage slow cooked for six hours then poured over crumbled up fresh corn bread.

Eat for a week.
 
We are starting to use some of our non-perishable preps, just to keep them in the food rotation. The white rice will keep for a long time, but I've had old dried beans that wouldn't cook up, so I'm focusing on those.

Kathleen
I was thinking of grinding the beans up to a powder to cook them. I read online NOT to add any tomatoes until the beans were all soft and cooked. The tomatoes keep them hard.
 
We had French onion soup today too, it snowed on and off all day. I add canned evaporated milk to it so that it's more like cream of onion soup. I get one of the $1 loaves of French bread at Walmart and turn the whole loaf into homemade croutons. Ladle the soup into oven safe bowls, cover the top with croutons, cover the croutons with a layer of mozzarella cheese and a few tablespoons of coarse grated parmesan and put the bowls under the broiler for a couple of minutes until the cheese melts all over the croutons. It's one of our favorite cold weather meals.
I love can milk. I use it in my cocoa and tea and also oatmeal cuz i never drink milk. I know, i'm cheating.
 
I made in the crock pot Italian Pasta Fazool....fagioli.....2 cans white beans, one can garbanzo beans - drained out the salty water and rinsed them out. One can green peas, rinsed too, can crushed tomatoes low salt, can tomato paste, Organic chicken broth a friend from here sent me, couple boullion cubes, celery, carrots, rosemary, thyme, parsley, oregano, and garlic pd oh and cut up onion. Do NOT add the pasta or will be all mushy in crock pot. I boil on stove, drain and keep in a plastic bag in fridge and add a handful to my bowl. I don't think i left anything out. Real good. It's my second batch this wk. Or instead of the pasta can add barley to the crock pot. Or brown rice. What i do is when the water level goes down i add more water and another bouillin cube. In a pinch add ketchup.
 

Freeholder

This too shall pass.
I like simple, one-dish meals. Today I took a one-pound chub of hamburger (local beef purchased from a neighbor) and crumbled that up and fried it along with about a pound of frozen broccoli. When both were done, added a little salt, tossed all together, sprinkled a couple of handfuls of shredded sharp cheddar on top and let that melt. That's it -- four ingredients, one pan (my big electric skillet, which I've been using a lot lately), and about half an hour cooking time. Tasted pretty good! You could add more seasonings if you want, but since we stopped adding a lot of seasonings I'm finding that my taste buds are learning to appreciate the plain flavors of the food again.

Kathleen
 
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