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Salad and smooch(ground bison, tomatoes, onions, red peppers and elbow noodles). Pinto beans are soaking and hopefully we will have electric tomorrow to cook them. Still haven't decided what to do with them tomorrow. I'm craving cornbread and beans so I may do that with some coleslaw for lunch. Between the smooch, bison burgers and sauerbraten I want something without meat.

that is a New Jersey sloppy joe ... not what I was used to when we moved here for sure.

Foodini strikes again

BonVivant Do you have a recipe for your maultashen? They look quite different from mine and I would love to try them.....thanks.

Tonight we will celebrate our Christmas...John has been working on a craft to surprise me with. Have I mentioned I hate surprises? After getting home from a meeting last night made gravy for the requested lasagna. About to assemble it in a bit. Italian bread and garlic paste made...mixed green salad and a simple vinaigrette. Going in with the lasagna are baked oatmeal made with plums and apricots to be reheated for breakfast tomorrow, thin chicken cutlets with olive oil and herbs to go on the leftover Italian bread for lunch while birding tomorrow and blueberry kuchen with toast dope.

Shelby Try a la Ina Garten tying fresh tarragon leaves on the beef before roasting...really good.

ELAINAA, is it too late to adopt me?

SCOOBADOO what time should I be there? Father-in-law is in Palm Harbor; Johnnybird's music partner is in Siesta Key. ANNA maybe a good roast would beat those woody carrots into submission....along with some parsnips and white turnips . Save those sausages for me! It is that "use up what will go bad in the fridge before we go away" night. I also have to take up food for our lunch and dinner tomorrow since the house is uninhabited. I am making Portugese sweet bread, cooking egg noodles so they are easy to reheat, made coq au vin which goes with the noodles in the microwave. I'm taking up some maultashen that I have in the freezer as well as some beef broth. I'm thinking all I want is some soup, bread and iceberg wedge.

a teeny tiny slice of leftover lasagna

I know, Norm, hence the laughing face. I was taught to make bowl of red back in (19)82 when Johnnybird and I spent our first year of marriage in East Texas...Hooks and Texarkana to be specific. Miss Sandy was SHOCKED....nay, HORRIFIED... when I asked her about beans. And let us not discuss what she had to say to me about ground beef. Needless to say she took me in hand and schooled me.

Saturday was another lasagna to replace the one I dropped and had shards of glass in. Same as before but with 93% beef instead of bison. Last night was coq au vin with homestyle egg noodles. One of the best gravies I have done. Leftovers for the next few days........

That oxtail ragu would be dynamite in a ravioli made with your homemade pasta. It would be rich so you would want to make small ones but it would be really good.

Beans in a bowl of red?! Isn't that sacrilege?

eggs Benedict again ... just as good as ever with a runny yolk mixing with the Hollandaise

Very late lunch sandwich....dark toasted whole grain white bread, several leaves of iceberg lettuce, thinly sliced Roma tomatoes, hickory smoked bacon and coleslaw with my new obsession - Cain's mayonnaise. So simple but so full of flavor and crunch.

I wouldn't stuff the pork but also endorse the hearty winter greens with the dressing(simple vinaigrette) separately and also a roasted veg pasta dish. How about some good crusty bread and some interesting mustards or horseradish sauce. Any vegetarians can add the bread to their meal and some of the carnivores can make sandwiches with the bread, meats and the condiments and top with the winter greens... just a thought

Thanks, girl. I thought I was the only one and I am not looking forward to the lecture I will be getting from the husband about how clutzy I am.

Salad and a lasagna that Johnnybird could eat ... a bison ragu and instead of ricotta drained lactose free cottage cheese that egg and herbs were stirred into. Taking the Corning container out of the fridge to heat some up for lunch it slipped out of my hands and now I am minus a lasagna and a glass container that shattered. Dang... that was the third container I have broken in 2 days...WTF? Guess I will use up the sausage dressing and pork chops with gravy.

FABULOUS to both of you....

Hope they talked to Jennifer 8. Lee who wrote The Fortune Cookie Chronicles...she went to General Tso's hometown to track the myth and truth down.

try some of the online stores

Saffron buns for St.Lucia's? Didn't recognize brawn but it's what my mother-in-law called souse. Looking forward to this indeed!