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@Norm MatthewsThat Korean chicken looks delicious @liuzhouAs usual the shrimp look just out of the ocean --so fresh Of course, the holidays are responsible for making us cheat more on the not trying to eat a lot of carbs thing sigh. I'm trying to get back on track-ish lol. It's really hard, especially in the winter with no garden, to think of new dinner ideas. I'm wearing out google lol. Venison meatloaf, low carb brown gravy over mashed cauliflower and canned beans Salad and vegetable soup Cabbage going south so an Asian-ish salad Along with @JAZ's Ramen with Pork and Snow Peas from her Super Easy Instant Pot Cookbook My apologies to Janet, I had to change it a bit because I had no snow peas so I subbed broccoli and I had a yellow bell pepper going south so I used that too. I used carb free noodles that were added at the end after cooking. Good stuff! Oh and I also over cooked the eggs sigh.

That's too bad I know how much you love a good mango. When is mango season over there or is it all the time or? Very happy you're doing a blog--I was hoping you would Can't wait for more. OH and I'm so glad you guys enjoyed a non getting sick vacation!

I can't believe it's already the 7th of January. Time is flying. My mom and stepdad sent us a delicious ham for Christmas so we had that on NYD for dinner along with Brussels sprouts and the hopefully very lucky RG BEP's. I absolutely had to have pizza. The low/no carb thing is only something I can take for so long lol. Salad to go with. We were prepping and bracing to lose power during this huge icky ice/snow storm . Thankfully we didn't but I had made a huge pot of venison chili for dinner which really came in handy for lunch yesterday during all of the shoveling and plowing in the bitter cold we had to do. I had also SV'd a pork loin and threw it in the fridge to heat up on top of the stove if we lost power so I reheated it in the SV bath for last night. Salad and roasted asparagus on the side

Me three. I'd love to have something like that available. That's super cool.

UGH I'm so glad he didn't have to go to the hospital but I'm sure he's super sore . I think Chinese food sounds so good. If I could order take-out I'd do it in a heartbeat.

We debated about starting the grill but it was dark and cold so opted just to use the cast iron screamingly hot with butter.

We had a very nice evening.....shrimp cocktail, salad, the most delicious tender steak I've had in a long time time We needed more sweets like a hole in the head, but I wanted to something special--it was also our 25th wedding anniversary. Trying to cut carbs so I made a cheesecake in the IP using Splenda. The cherries had a few carbs, but hey, it's better than using regular sugar. Turned out really good--even though it looks ugly! Ronnie gave me beautiful roses (a huge treat as I rarely get flowers) I gave him an engraved pocket knife along with this card: Happy New Year everyone!

I'm so jealous!

I love this We went to Sam's in the big city today which is now the only place to get king crab legs...or any crab legs...or any lobster tails at all. None to be found. We are disappointed. I couldn't order online because you guys wouldn't believe the shipping backups. FedEx, UPS and USPS terrible. I wasn't going to take a chance. Anyway we ended up buying choice beef filets. We had prime rib on Christmas so ....I really wanted seafood but ...ok. It was on sale for like 36$ for 4 steaks --about 2 lbs of. meat. Sigh. I dunno what I'm going to do for sides. I'm really wanting pasta. Ronnie will want potatoes. Maybe both lol.

Bumping this thread up because it doesn't have date limitations. Feel free to the people in charge to make a new thread for this year It's our 25 year anniversary on NYE. We've had so much good food over Christmas week that I'm not sure what to make. We will be staying home, as always. I kinda want to splurge on crab legs--would have to go to Sam's for the best/only ones around here. I don't want to order any online due to the horrific delivery problems we've had for the past month. FedEx had been HORRID as has been USPS. UPS was two days late on some things but better than the other two. I digress. We've been trying to be low to no carb for meals so pizza....lasagna....etc. sounds maybe even better for NYE but we will see. What is everyone else doing?

The steam vents are on the inside on the right side. I don't know how often you steam clean your CSO but they could be clogged. I'd use a small brush like I used to clean the gunk out and poke it in the vents and brush around. As for the clips I used a pair of pliers to squeeze the clamp and it slips right off. Squeezing it enlarges it so it can come off easily.

Not exactly the same but it's worth a shot to clean that tube--and also make sure your steam vents aren't gunked up in there too.

Hi @InFrom! Welcome to EG! I had the same problem and few years ago I decided to take it apart and see if there was gunk in the tubing and documented the process. For me this process solved the problem. Click here: How To Disassemble and Clean CSO Tubing

Christmas Dinner--prime rib, simple baked potato, balsamic mushrooms and a bit of leftover broccoli salad Dessert Along with a glass of @ninagluck's eggnog

No. I just used 2 30 oz. bags of frozen shredded potatoes, thawed overnight in the fridge. The water that you add to the soup mixture is enough.

Cheesy Potatoes Super easy. I omitted the onions due to grandkids not liking them (I think lol). If they weren't coming I'd def. do the onions. My slow cooker takes longer than what the recipe says (it also gets hotter on the left side than the right but sigh it still works so I'll not buy another one yet). The day before I cooked it on low for 3 hours, stirred and then did 2 more hours and put it in the fridge. At 6 in the morning I started it on low again for 2 hours. Stirred. Added more cheese to the top. Let it go another hour then turned it on warm. Worked like a charm.

I'll do that! I just did a mix of 2 TB OJ and 1 TB honey.....I bet the sour cream would do the trick. Thank you! And yes, I use the reg. Ghirardelli mix always--I can't make them from scratch any better either! I was just so surprised that the GF was so good lol. You'll LOVE it. It ships with dry ice--mine was delayed by two days and it was still frozen solid. Mine always comes UPS which, for me this year, has been the more reliable method over FedEx.

No --it's a splurge I buy from Phil's Fish Market through Goldbelly. I think I've done this for at least three years now. Here in KS I'd be hard pressed to find decent seafood anywhere around here to make my own......and this is so good. And after a big day yesterday I was thrilled to have something already made that I could just heat up

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MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! Hope to have a very calm and quiet day today. A small prime rib has been seasoned and in the fridge for a couple of days so that will be dinner along with whatever sides I feel up to making. Yesterday I had Ronnie's two kids, two grandkids and one daughter's boyfriend over for brunch. We had a really good time. It's been a tradition for years that Ronnie and I buy scratch off lottery tickets and we go in rounds --people can steal other people's tickets etc. Lots of fun. One of his daughters eats GF so I tried to be very mindful and have tons that she could eat. Purchased some new Christmas glasses--I loved my old ones but I hand washed them last year and all of the gold and the Christmas trees came off 😮. I forgot that happened until a couple of days ago. Thank you Amazon for delivering my new ones in time for yesterday. Hard to see but these have holly etched in them. Fruit salad--dunno why I make this. I think only two of us ate any lol Broccoli salad (GF daughter loves this and took a bunch home) The usual cheesy potatoes --I did those the day before in the slow cooker because they never seem to get done if I start them the day I'm having the brunch. GF daughter took a huge ziplock of these home too lol. Ronnie--bless him--cooked heaps of sausages and bacon in the garage which saved me from a huge mess in the kitchen. I used 20 eggs and made just cheesy scrambled eggs which everyone seemed to like a lot more than the breakfast casserole I usually do (grandkids don't like a lot of veggies). No pics of all that. Charc. board. Bottom bowl had GF rice crackers that are actually pretty good. Cookies I made along with two boughten cakes. The cakes have M&M's and sprinkles inside--just something fun. The surprise of the day was the GF brownies I made from a Ghirardelli mix. I made them the day before and had a little taste and I was like wow these are really good. One grandkid declared them the best brownies she'd ever eaten. I gotta get more of that mix. I also bought some delicious GF macarons. Everyone hung out for several hours and then had to leave to go to jobs or another Christmas. So, two dishwasher loads of dishes later (all while drinking wine lol) I heated up our usual Christmas Eve Cioppino--I love this stuff. So, I consider that kinda like the Feast of Seven Fishes Hopefully I don't screw the prime rib up tonight.........

That's so nice! You just can't beat a good pear and I bet they are delicious.

I know I am! Can't wait to see what you get up to with this!

Well this looks fun!!!

LOVED this. Helped me get a little more into the Christmas spirit. Safe travels home!

Made a couple different cookie doughs earlier this week and baked them yesterday. They are all in the downstairs freezer so that I don't eat them. Ronnie's kids and grandkids are coming on Christmas Eve for brunch so I'll get them out the day before. Double Chocolate Crinkle Cookies and Christmas Cookie Sparkles (I love these they have a hint of cream cheese) Just got home from the big city grocery store. It was brutal in there. Packed. Going to put away groceries and then figure out what I'm going to make for brunch lol. Glad I have a few days to figure it out.