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Pickerel Piccata, Strawberry Spinach salad, and stir-fried leftover rice and mixed vegetables A friend sent me a recipe for Cranberry Stuffing Meatballs. I used twice as much canned cranberries. It was better. Eaten with Pappardelle pasta with tomato basil sauce. Sister-in-law sent home a couple of slices of baked Butternut squash when I delivered some of the second batch of Char Siu I just pulled out of the Big Easy. I have to stop giving away the char siu or I won't have any for baos! 😁

Can't believe the balmy weather we are enjoying at the end of November! Keep trying to do bits of leftover clean-up outside and setting up winterscapes for Xmas. So suppers have been fairly quick. Coconut Curry Chicken Boneless Pork Loin Half was on sale at Co-Op for $1.99 / lb. That's an amazing price for solid meat! I picked up 2 slabs. Cut up some pieces and marinated for 2 days for char siu. It was the perfect day to use the Big Easy = Char Siu! I have more slabs marinating for the next couple of days. Grands want Char Siu Baos! Saved a couple of thick pieces: brushed with Mayo and coated with cracker crumbs. Pan fried then finished in air bake in my Ninja unit. Mushroom gravy, peas, and jasmin rice - supper.

Brunch: Bacon, Mushroom, Onion, omelet with cheese and salsa.

Watercress soup with pork bones: Beef & Broccoli Canned Fried Dace

I LOVE beef ribs, and can buy them at Safeway. I usually roast extra and use it for Beef and Barley soup after I cut off most of the meat. Gnawing on the gristly bits is pure pleasure!

No, just butter on Winnipeg Rye bread, then a squeeze of lime juice on the fish.

Smoked Winnipeg Goldeye on rye bread and watercress.

@C. sapidusThe Campbell's broth did in a pinch. I also have these cubes:

Faux Pho for lunch! No Thai Basil to be found, so had to settle for mint and cilantro. Used Campbell's Pho broth, udon noodles, bean sprouts, bok choy, sliced chicken breast and red jalapeno pepper. Hit the spot as it was a chilly day with snow.

Hope you are only in the hospital for follow-up work and not a relapse. Look forward to the day when you will be back on your feet and cooking!

Chicken Fajita, Spanish Rice, Guac and fixings Dessert: Persimmons! I prefer the Fuyu variety and hubby loves the Hachiya variety.

Some lunches: Clam Chowder with Oyster Crackers added later: KD and creamed salmon Tong Yuen with Daikon. Hubby not a fan of the dumplings so he got wontons All Dressed Pork Congee with Siu Yook bones from the BBQ shop:

Belated Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrated south of the 49th! I've been such a slacker, not in cooking and eating, or reading about all the fabulous eGullet meals, but in posting. Will select a few that have piled up in the folder: Eggplant stuffed with Lamb with Moroccan Spices Pickerel and Bok Choy Stuffed Kobacha Squash Beef & Bitter Melon with Ho Fun Moroccan Chicken: I love the green olives! Lily Bulb Soup, Black Bean Garlic Shrimp, Clean out the veg drawer veg & Udon Noodles Steak & Beef Kidney Stew instead of pie as I forgot to thaw the puff pastry. We have been enjoying the Paratha from the frozen food section - so simple to just toss onto a nonstick pan!

IP Meen See ( fermented soy beans) and salted plums pork ribs. Sauteed baby gai lan with ginger. A friend gave us seasoned salmon fillets that they won at a party. They don't like fish so they were dropped off at our house. Not a salmon fan as I never seem to cook it right! I pan-seared the fillets, added air-fryer sweet potato, and steamed peas. Happy it was only 1 fillet!

After sending all the TG baked ham home with the kids, I really wanted ham! Picked up one at Safeway as we were to have a visitor mid-week. Visit got postponed, so I cooked the ham yesterday with scalloped taters. Sent slices to grandson, and we had some for supper with beets cooked in IP. Made more of @Shelby mustard sauce as grandson loves it too! Got smarter and saved a well=wrapped chunk in the freezer for another craving! LOL! This is the second meal with cured meat, so must get back to simpler protein.

@rotuts: I had to read thru' your TSP several time - SO entertaining. I bet the whole dish got better with each meal. All the soups and chowders sound perfect for our fall weather. Used up the big piece of rib bone from the roasted saddle of lamb to make Scotch Broth. It was pretty thick with barley, turnip etc. and needed a good covering of freshly ground pepper. We had that for supper last night Picked up a small piece of corned beef at Safeway last week and finally cooked it for supper. Used the "slow cooker" function on the Ninja Foodie, and set it on high for 8 hours. Didn't have green cabbage but had red and Napa. They worked fine. Cooked them with chunks of potato with "pressure cooker" function after I took the meat out. That was the best corned beef I have ever achieved - tender and juicy. Ate it with some of the mustard I made for TG, using @Shelby's recipe. It's amazing!

Stir-fried Fun See (mung bean noodles) with Chinese Moo Gwa, Napa cabbage, Chinese sausage, bell pepper, green onion, and sauteed shrimp with ginger and garlic. Had Jasmine rice as well, but I didn't need any with the noodles and veg.

I sent much of the turkey and ham home with the son and daughter. What was left, I made into Turkey pot pie with leftover pastry. Sent half over to the neighbor as he didn't get home for TG. Next day, steamed chicken wings with Shitaki mushrooms, lap cheung, and oyster sauce. Caved and bought a package of Beef Short Rib - outrageous price but so good for stew! Took 2 big chucks with veg to my brother and s-i-l as he always talks about how our Dad would make the best stew with short ribs. Got Lamb Saddle at Superstore with 30% off. Rubbed with whole grain Dijon mustard and fresh rosemary. Roasted @400F for 90 minutes - a bit too long but still tender and juicy. Eaten with Multigrain, veg, and mint sauce. Still enough for a lunch and the bone will be used for Scotch Broth at a later date. Feeling stuffed, so turned to my Weight Watchers "Cook Up Comfort" cookbook and started tracking the points again. Need to take off a few pounds before Christmas! Skillet Moussaka in Minutes with leftover Multigrain and veg. Miss the Bechamel, but it was good.

Finally recovered from Thanksgiving gathering weekend! Don't seem to bounce back the same as a few years back. Had lots of help but sometimes, "orchestrating" is tiring too, other than when it's time for clean up. The kids did that with help from Bosch😆 Obviously, I was too busy to take pictures, and the others just don't seem to know I need specifics. 😅 A few from the weekend with our kids & spouses, and grands,(minus one son & his family of 3 who live in Nfld: The family - a mix of Chinese, Scottish, English, and German (nieces' Dad was of German descent)One is a pathologist in N. Carolina, and the other a paralegal from Toronto. Early in the day, the girls put together the charcutier board for snacking while I put together the rest of the dinner. 11-year-old Granddaughter wanted to host Xmas dinner, so she and I made the stuffing. She got to scoop while I did the gravy. I cooked the Maple Glazed ham and scalloped potatoes first thing in the morning. Perogies were done in the air fryer. Dessert was Pumpkin Pie and a decadent Chocolate Coffee cake made by the nieces. Before my daughter and s-i-l left on Monday, we made baos. The nieces wanted to learn how to put the baos together, with packaged flour and the filling I made with my Char Siu. They need more practice in pleating but they tasted good anyway! The memory and laughter is the best of all! Had them for brunch with Sui Mai, Potstickers, Har gow, the latter 2 from the store. No pictures other than the baos. For supper, we had stir-fries: Beef tenderloin in curry . Onions cooked separately as one niece has IBS and onions are a trigger. Stir-fried mixed veg and jasmine rice for sides. I had a lot of cooked carrots to use up as I had forgotten to add them to our TG dinner! No one complained.😆 I put the bowl into the extra fridge overnight. Next morning, I went to get something, and the bowl fell out! Half went onto the floor. Our granddog Butterbean LOVES carrots, so that was his treat. Took the nieces for their flight home (armed with a doz baos) next day and I slept for a few hours! Supper that night was cake and ice-cream redux!

I have an Ninja Instant Pot that also has air-dryer option. Used it when I first got it, but found the "basket" too small to make fair amount of fries, or sheet pan meals. I then bought a Ninja Flip and find I can do a lot more things in it. I use olive oil in a spray bottle. Just a light spray over any breaded proteins added a nice bit of colour and crispier coating. Haven't done Schnitzel , but have make crispy chicken legs, wings, etc. It's great for frozen fries and perogies. Saves heating up the big oven, especially in the summer.

2 nieces we haven't seen for many years arrived today for Thanksgiving. Picked them up at the airport, and we had wonton soup for lunch. Daughter and s-i-l arrived from the city and we had a simpler supper tonight before the big meal tomorrow with more family arriving. Mixed Vegetables with Char Siu Shrimp stir-fried in spicy tomato sauce I had made the Canadian Cheddar Cheese Apple Crisp last night. It went into the oven to warm up while we ate supper, and we had that for dessert with vanilla ice-cream.

2 supermarkets advertised Prime Rib @$7.99 / lb. For convenience tonight as I am busy getting the house and menu ready for family gathering for Thanksgiving this weekend, I picked up a single rib roast. Started at 500F for 20 minutes, then lowered to 225F for 45 min. Tossed in taters as well. Resting took it up from med rare to med, but still good. Have another meal in some form tomorrow before the turkey and ham! Hubby's plate: And then there's mine!

Thanks, @Kim Shook for the link! I had forgotten using Country Style ribs. Can't get that cut at our supermarkets now. They said it wasn't selling! They were perfect strips for Char Siu. I had bought a crown pork roast a while back, on sale. Cut the thing into chops and ate the last 2 for supper last night: Breaded and finished in the Ninja Flip with Cream of Mushroom soup gravy. Rice always seem to go well with mushroom gravy, in fact, ANY gravy! A friend gave us a jar of Mustard Pickles. It was great with the pork chop! Evenings are really cooling off, and we had rain all day. Made a recipe that brought back many memories of the all-night diner frequented by "entertainers" when we were doing gigs in the Yorkshire area in England: Chicken Chausseur. Enjoyed this tonight with pappardelle pasta. Chips would have been more like at the diner!

@Duvel: Char siu - Chinese BBQ pork.doc Hope this works! I hadn't uploaded to eGullet. Had to search a bit in my documents! I had broken the bars across my old GE oven, so had been cooking the strips on a broiler rack. Then on the BBQ as the racks were a mess to clean. THEN, I got the Bid Easy! They work just like the ovens in Chinese BBQ shops.

Needing char siu for baos for Thanksgiving dim sum. Marinated a bunch of pork butt and one tenderloin, and did them up in the Big Easy. All packaged and into the freezer. Will prepare the filling before family arrive on Sat. Cut a gew slices off the tenderloin, and added them to the joong from the freezer. Hubby loves Lap Cheung, so I obliged by boiling up one to add to the big piece in the joong. Had picked up a piece og beef from a sale at the local Mexican grocery. Didn't mark it so I couldn't remember what cut it was. Thought best to make it into stew in the Instant Pot. 'Twas a good decision! Certainly not like the short ribs we love. Just enough for supper; happy there isn't any leftovers!😁