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Given the holiday, I suppose I should cook some hearts, but we're fresh out, so I'll make the next closest organ that we do have: liver (chicken, from these good folks). Mushroom sauce w/demi-glace, cognac, and cream. Some sort of potato thing that doesn't require much work -- maybe just steamed, w/garlic butter, parsley, and Maldon. My semi-famous gluten-free torte-like brownie w/Fabbri Amarena cherries. Wine(s) TBD.

I feel the same way. Add-ins for me just don't give chicken salad enough flavor. If it's poached chicken or rotisserie chicken I try to go with a very Tangy dressing but I prefer to prepare the chicken in a way that it has more flavor to begin with. The other day I marinated finally diced raw chicken breast in soy sauce, hoisin sauce and rice wine vinegar. Sauteed it just until it was done and let it cool. Dressed with a light Sesame ginger dressing and used it on an arranged dinner salad. It was delicious.

Here is my dessert for our "Not Quite Valeentine's Day" dinner tonight. Chocolate ganache tart. The top is normally covered with raspberries but I got the vapours when I saw that they were 5.99 Cdn for 6 ounces, so just strew some over the top and will glam it up with some raspeberry coulis ans whipped cream and no one will every know!

I'm going to try that next time.

I have my personal “classic” tuna salad and egg salad, both just like my mom used to make. I rarely make chicken salad but when I do, it’s always something different, no “classic” there. Restaurants in my area commonly offer a range of salads that can be “upgraded” with the addition of sliced, grilled chicken, steak or salmon. That’s not what comes to my mind when I think of “chicken salad” but I guess they are.

Simple grilled banger with a side of Spanish imported white beans. Chimichurri and hot mustard on the side.

All else hasn't failed. There's eGullet. I have read the instrucions. I asked here thinking that folks with experience in these matters might be able to share their own experiences ... something along the lines of "This worked for me, try this tip, such and such never worked for me, etc." I'm almost totally ignorant of such matters, and asking questions has often resulted in good information and a positive learning experience. My experience with instructions, with things with which I'm familiar, has often been that there's another way to do something. As with many things in life, there is frequently more than one way to accomplish a task.

I lean towards curried chicken salad, with some finely chopped green apples, or honey-mustard-mayo with celery for crunch. Chicken being rather bland, I like the dressing to have some punch.

Unless you live in Costa Rica and you are continually faced with this situation. All imported products have to have a Costa Rican translation sticker. They love to put it right in the middle of the instructions. They do give the instructions in Spanish but they are so small that you need a 10x triplet magnifying glass and many times they are just plain wrong. I used to spend lots of time peeling off the label but now I just ask Mr Google.

Seared zucchini and shrimp with roasted chile Poblano, white onion, serrano and Holland chiles, and a light lemon-cream-garlic sauce. Finished with feta and Mexican oregano

When all else fails….read the directions!

Got darker as it cooled in pan.

This is what Pillsbury says to do. Prep Instructions REMOVE PARCHMENT PAPER FROM CRUSTS BEFORE FILLING OR BAKING. TO MAKE A ONE-CRUST BAKED PIE SHELL (For filled pies like ice cream, chiffon or cream pies): 1. HEAT oven to 400°F. 2. LET 1 crust thaw 10 to 20 minutes. PRICK bottom and around side thoroughly with fork. 3. BAKE on oven rack 9 to 11 minutes or until lightly browned. COOL. FILL as directed in your recipe. TO MAKE A ONE- OR TWO-CRUST FILLED PIE (For one-crust filled pies like pumpkin, pecan or quiche OR two-crust filled pies): 1. PLACE cookie sheet on oven rack. HEAT oven as directed in your recipe. POUR filling into 1 frozen crust. 2. ONE-CRUST FILLED PIE: BAKE on cookie sheet as directed in your recipe.

Had a follow up with my surgeon this week. Asked her if there was anything I shouldn't eat and was told that I could eat anything as long as it didn't bother me. Which was the answer I was hoping for because so far, I have been testing out what I can eat and so far no problems. Except once and that was just a few days after the surgery and I grilled Greek style baby back ribs and served with rice and a Greek Salad. I've been having butter on toast, and on vegetables and sandwiches with no issues. I've had eggs twice without an issue. I hadn't had any fried foods so I decided to make one of our favourite dinners. I roasted a chicken and made hot chicken sandwiches with gravy, homemade fries and peas. I figured if something was going to be an issue it would be the French fries. But no problem at all. So Wednesday night I grilled Italian sausages and served sliced up in penne with a tomato basil sauce. Again no issues at all. Yesterday I baked my decadent brownies. The ones with 20 oz of chocolate. Moe had a banana split/sundae with chocolate and vanilla ice cream and homemade caramel sauce, topped with whipped cream. I didn't feel like ice cream so I just had a brownie. I'm thinking of trying chicken wings tonight. Started a sourdough on the Feb 8th and baked on the 10th.

I hope @blue_dolphin answers soon, because her answers so far have been much better than mine would have been! My advice is to see what the package instructions say to do, if they say. My guess is that you don't need to let it come to room temperature first, but it's too long since I tried using a frozen pie shell for me to remember how I did it and what happened.

Today is the day I put the quiche in the oven. I have one further question though: should the premade crust come to room temp before blind baking?

Dried cranberries (re-hydrated).

Basque Cheesecake out of oven. Mi esposo got some traditional burnt top. Recipe suggested making day in advance.

It happens to be my honeys birthday so we don't celebrate Valentines day, we celebrate the birthday. And NEVER by going out! About a month ago he asked for lobster tails "at some point". So that's on the menu, with undecided sides. Roasted Potatoes? Mashed? Roasted sweet potato? No clue.

Our take is chicken, mayo, green onions and celery, salt and pepper. Period. Oh, I chop the chicken finer than my husband does.

This topic might help a little... As might this one:

I don’t celebrate any of the Hallmark holidays, so have no special meal planned. Ideally, I will come up with something to use up some the massive amounts of potatoes, carrots, butternut squash, and cabbage I have in the house from my CSA right now.

Chicken, broccoli, cashew and bell pepper stir fry with scallion rice

Yes, but many of the flavored ones are in envelopes rather than cans.

Some of BC's Stellar Bay brand oysters are being recalled for norovirus. At present they're only known to have been sold in BC, but as always that may change with future updates. They were sold to consumers and also through hotels/restaurants, so something to be aware of if you're in BC and have recently had oysters during an evening out. https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/certain-stellar-bay-shellfish-brand-oysters-recalled-due-norovirus-0