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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!! @Kim Shook

Thank you so much to each of you. I can't decide if I'm dreading it more this time because I know what's coming or what. I'm definitely taking this week to prep. I didn't do much of that the first time and I regretted it. Going back through the dinner thread during the time period of the last surgery it seems like I mostly made the same foods as I always do but added in something that I could eat. I'm going to make something like a lasagna to have for the first day so Ronnie has something and I don't have to cook because I won't feel like it. I mostly survived on wine I think LOL. Ronnie bought some on sale Boar's Head mortadella the other day. No pistachios, just black pepper corns. I didn't want it to go to waste so google to the rescue. Anthony Bourdain's Mortadella Sandwich --I browned the meat like the recipes says but did the rest on the panini maker. And I added some decent sliced cherry tomatoes. For dessert Mae Dawson's Hoosier Sugar Cream Pie a recipe I ran across that @Ann_T posted back in 2019.

I don't remember the price--maybe 2.99/ lb? --nothing majorly cheap. No, the sale price was before St. Pat's.

Beautiful fish, @Ann_T. I need to clean the top of my stove but before I do you've inspired me to fry some up too. Life is once again throwing things at me. Long story short the bone loss that was occurring in my mouth did not benefit from the painful and expensive laser surgery that I got a few years ago and I'm now having to get another tooth pulled and another bone graft. Eventually after it heals for many months I'll be having a post put in and then eventually a tooth. I'm so upset and frustrated I can't even express it. This week I gotta peruse old threads and write down ideas for foods I made back then and was able to eat. So the next several days I'm gonna eat what I won't be able to eat for a while. Arrrrgh!!!!! On to food: SV'd pork tenderloin Bierocks Avocado salad, quesadillas and RG beans Ronnie smoked a chicken. Been craving that. Scalloped potatoes and salad to go with Pepperoni pizza for Pi day Smoked chicken paninis Fried chicken (lotta chicken going on again) Chicken taco salad with stuffed poblanos SV'd papain free corned beef. 24 hrs at 155F @Mmmpompsroasted potatoes and the usual vegetables Reubens Roasted chicken and pasta Venison spaghetti red

Well I sure wish this had been around when I was in school! Learning how to clean and butcher and cook --invaluable lessons. Thanks for sharing this.

🤣 We need to come up with a cooler name like Moose Farts...... If I remember right @Kim Shookmade this too and liked it. It's really refreshing on a hot summer day.

This is in the same genre of the mock apple pie ...kinda....but I've made this a lot: https://food52.com/recipes/77731-j-kenji-lopez-alt-s-ten-minute-lime-cracker-pie

It's PI day!!!! Does a galette count?

What an awesome picture of the launch!!! You could win an award!!

@Maison RustiqueI'm thinking of you (((hugs))) @HonkmanBeautiful pork SV'd beef steak, @Mmmpomps's roasted potatoes and tomatoes and green beans done in the IP Turned leftover tomatoes and green beans into veggie noodle soup with ham and Swiss toasties Pepperoni, mushroom and olive SV'd lamb chops Ham and beans with cornbread. Blueberry/strawberry galette for dessert Ronnie said he felt like eating fish for dinner yesterday. I didn't want to fry it....and we just had fish piccata ....I remembered I had some leftover broth from cioppino last time so I rummaged in the freezers. I found mussels, halibut pieces, scallops and squid. I get nervous doing squid. Ronnie doesn't much care for it unless it's fried--and fried well, not fried rubber bands. I ran across a recipe for doing it in the IP. Saute onions and garlic. Add squid (cut into circles) and tentacles (sorry mom--she does not like things with tentacles lol), salt, pepper and a some red Chile flakes. Cook for 4 mins. Add half a jar of my canned tomatoes. High pressure for 22 mins. QR. SO tender. I wasn't going to put it all in the stew, but I did and Ronnie loved it. Garlic cheese toast to go with \\

Wow! I'm having some envy over here. I'm not peopley either so that looks heavenly to me. And, I've never seen lobster in guacamole--tucking that in the back of my mind if I ever get the chance to have it!

Yes. It works perfect for small amounts.

My fries were only children and learned how to play by themselves 🤣

I'd love to see pictures of what you have. I do a cottage cheese layer just like you described. Ronnie doesn't care for ricotta cheese so that method works nicely. When you already have the sauce etc. made like you do, putting a lasagna together is much less daunting.

Thank you so much! That dish is absolutely perfect for a lasagna for the two of us. It used to be my Grammy's. A search of the W logo tells me it's a McKee GLASBAKE 1940's+ Westinghouse clear lidded oven-refrigerator dish. There are several listed on EBAY. I don't know if I have ever had, or seen the lid. It's 3 1/2 inches deep and 8 inches long.

I'm really far behind posting--not that anyone is dying to see what I eat every night 🤣. My MacBook is SO old and I'm having keyboard problems along with other stuff. I have a brand new one sitting beside me. In it's box. I'm not looking forward to setting up a new one after all of these years. UGH. Anyway, on to the food: Venison cheeseburger pizza and salad Potato salad, wings and beans Blackberry galette for dessert Ronnie came home with another cheap rotiss. chicken so I was looking for something new and exciting to do lol. Came across buffalo chicken "pizza". Base of blue cheese dressing. Topped with chicken mixed with melted butter and Frank's Hot Wing Sauce, crumbled blue cheese, mozz. cheese and green onions. I told Ronnie not to think of it as pizza.....he seemed to like it. I bet he doesn't ask for it again though lol. Venison chili cheese dogs Chicken quesadillas, beans and rice More wings with Mac and cheese and asparagus. Misfits has had good asparagus for a few weeks. Had leftover beans so did kind of a huevos rancheros thing with an avocado salad Haven't made lasagna in a while Bass piccata with mushrooms and salad Corned a couple of goose breasts. Did those yesterday SV at 179F for 6 hours. Made for a really good reuben. Salad and fries to go with Another galette --blueberry and raspberry. I know I make these a lot but we enjoy them and it's the perfect size for two of us.

I need this

Stunning!

I've been so hungry for a fattoush salad but.. I was too lazy over the summer to make it. Ugh. What I would give to eat your leftovers right now I also love the signs...especially the women are always right and your opinion wasn't in the recipe. I might need those in my kitchen lol.

Trust me when I say that they are not super similar to real tamales lol. Yes, meat filling surrounded by masa and each tamale is wrapped in wax paper. And yes, already cooked. You just warm them up.

@Norm Matthews Beautiful bread! Chicken broccoli Alfredo with a Caesar salad Ribs with spinach and hatch Chile macaroni @Smithyhas been talking about using packaged foods for convenience over here . I've been doing that for a bit, too. Sometimes I use jarred Alfredo sauce instead of making my own. Bertolli's sauce tastes just as good to me. There are just some nights I don't feel like thinking lol. Some things like spaghetti sauce I can throw together in my sleep. Other things like curries make me have to follow recipes...dig out ingredients that are buried....etc. I ordered this off of Misfits. It's good. I see the salt content is high though. Quick and easy to add already cooked chicken. I also did a couple egg rolls that I previously made and had in the freezer I came across a can of tamales in the pantry. I love canned tamales. Ronnie does not. He thinks the meat tastes weird. I have tried to explain to him that he shouldn't think of it as "meat" per se. Think of it as a .....canned tamale but that hasn't worked lol. Anyway I thought about @Kim Shook's dish that she would make when her and Mr. Kim were first married. I searched but I could not find on EG where she posted how she made it so I winged it. Most recipes online showed covering them with canned chili but I didn't have any so I just did tamales sprinkled with sharp cheddar, onions and Fritos baked in the oven until bubbly. I loved it. Ronnie did not lol. Quesadillas to use up leftover steak and beans to go with. Ronnie got one last goose before the season closed. Brined it for a couple of days. Seasoned and stuffed with lemon wedges and fresh thyme After roasting scalloped potatoes and asparagus to go with Last night venison spaghetti red and blueberry bread for dessert

Ours was the same as it has been for a few years. Muffuletta and instead of King Cake I did cinnamon rolls again.

I could definitely see making bacon in a panini maker like this. Mine slopes downward and came with a little plastic tray to catch grease, juices etc. but it's a pain an never quite caught everything.

You're inspiring me to try making kraut again. I made it the first time using the recipe in Deep Run Roots and it was wonderful. Since then I've tried two more times and it's ended up smelling terrible and off and I've had to toss it.

Heartily agree