MaryIsobel

Going to make my take on these tonight: https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/shepherd-s-pie-twice-baked-potatoes/ I thought it was a brilliant presentation for cottage (because I will use beef, not lamb) pie. I will add mushrooms and do my own gravy-type sauce. While I have the oven on for an hour, I'll roast some beets to have with and probably throw in an apple crisp whlle I'm at it. Perfect fall dinner.

That looks great - II'll have a look at that recipe. I've always made angel food from scratch (cuz my Mom did) and don't find it difficult to make with a stand mixer. Years ago we had short notice for unexpected company so I bought a store-bought angel food cake to serve with fresh local strawberries and whipped cream. One of my daughters, about 10 years old at the time said to me after dessert "Mom, what did you do to the angel food cake - it tasted gross!'

Usually spinach. I mentioned that I live in a pretty small town and things such as esacrole, raddicio, mustard greens, etc are just too durn fancy for our stores!

Italian wedding soup and same-day foccacia. I like to use ditalini in wedding soup but didnt care to leave the house this blustery day so fine noodles it was. No complaints.

Oh - I wan't aware that they were lumped together. I'm sure you will do a stellar job of lessening the salt in your and Moe's diet. My daughter's fiance is a type 1 diabetic and I enjoy the challenge of working around a menu with lots of low carb things that he and everyone else can enjoy.

Do you have an aversion to MSG or a reaction? It gets a bad rap but it's in so many things that you wouldn't dream it was in as it goes by many different names. I keep some on hand as I find a pinch or two helps when whatever you're making just needs a little somethin', somethin'!

I would love that keg set-up as I am well known in our circles for asking "does anyone want to split a beer?"

Dinner is over and the S&B chicken went over well with my husband and my nephew - just a "I haven't had this in years" kind of dinner. The apple crisp and smoked gouda mac and cheese made completely from scratch went over just as well. My Shake and Bake craving has been satisfied and all the eaters were happy.

Goodness, my post wasnt meant to debate the best way to make "homemade" Shake & Bake, but rather a comment on how every once in a while I get a craving for something completely ersatz

I don't use Lawry's - as it tastes like not much more than salt to me but I did contemplate some additional seasoning but decided that I would be taking away from the original which was what I was craving. As I mentioned the craving was out of the blue. Thankfully I am far enough on the path of life that I could rule out pregnancy!

About a year ago I sent my husband (off-leash ha-ha) to the grocery store and though it wasn't on my list he came back with a 2-pack of Shake 'n Bake because it was "on sale." It got tucked away in the pantry until today. It did have the shaker bag. I have to admit that I couldn't leave well enough alone and while doing dinner prep, I added some panko, some parm and a couple of spritzes of olive oil to make up for the extra breadcrumbs.

Happened to me a couple of days ago. Craving Shake 'n Bake chicken. Yup the processed, salty stuff. I probably haven't had it for 20 years - it was an quick after-work dinner when my kids were small and I knew it was something they would eat. I couldn't stop thinking about it and when whole fryers were on sale at the grocery store today (2.29/lb) I decided that's what we'd have for dinner. I have homemade smoked gouda mac and cheese, fresh green beans and apple crumble for dessert to redeem myself!

I tried the low carb approach to weight loss and quickly decided it was not for me. I had brain fog and muscle spasms for as long as I eliminated most carbs. I decided just to be mindful about how many and what type of carbs and that was worked best for me.

I'll admit, I often smell things that other people don't. That being said, a lot of packaged meat smells weird to me when I open the package, but after a few minutes, the smell goes away. Can't say that I've noticed a sulphur smell but I may well be immune to that as our well water has a sulphur smell right out of the tap, but is fine after it sits for a few minutes. (And yes, we have a purification system and get our water tested every couple of years.)

Browned Butter Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies from Sally's Baking Addiction; https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/brown-butter-pumpkin-oatmeal-cookies/#commentform I made a double batch and will send most with my daughter to take to the break room in the ER where she is an RN.

My pleasure - it makes the most amazing toast!

I make this recipe regularly in the fall and winter. It's the first recipe I'd seen using "old dough." There is a lot to wade though to get to the recipe but I am too lazy to type it out. https://www.farmgirlfare.com/2006/11/oatmeal-toasting-bread-baking.html

No, at 63 I am not pregnant but was just reading an article about pregnancy cravings and how weird they can be. I was pregnant just once, with twins, at 35 (thank you IVF) I suffered little from nausea, other than when brushing myy teeth and one time I cooked a turkey dinner and had to sit outside on the deck while the rest of the family enjoyed it. My main cravings were Welch's grape juice and commercial chocolate milk. I was supposed to drink something like 1 litre of milk per day and had never been a milk drinker but the commercial chocolate milk was more like a dessert treat. One of the things I read was dill pickles dipped in Nutella - talk about gagging! Anyway, what did you or your significant other crave?

I love a good Negroni. So does Ryan Reynolds apparently. https://www.google.com/search?q=ryan+reynolds+negroni&oq=ryan+reynolds+negroni&aqs=chrome..69i57.8769j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:22ee5406,vid:LaXPxnntOOk,st:0 ETA: the video has some profanity

That looks absolutely incredible - the perfect sandwich in my opinion.

I will never again attempt to grate a garlic clove on my brand-new-out-of the-box microplane without using my cutproof glove. Gochujang meatballs with knuckle meat anyone? I was grating into the saucepan with all the other ingredients, it is just for family and the sauce boils for 5 minutes so not about to throw it all out. The knuckle scraping was nothing that a bandaid couldn't fix.

Brava! Sounds like you dodged that bullet. When I was a kid, our family took a two week vacation and came home to a dead deep freeze full of meat. That smell is permanently imbedded in my brain's nose!

I suppose in some people's view it has been so I guess should retract that. I should have said that the Snoop Dog thing seemd very contrived and desperate.

I really don't believe that Martha is any more of a chef, master gardener, farmer, landscaper or home decorator than I could be with a staff of hundreds. I do believe that she is very good at marketing herself (well, except for the SnoopDog thing...)

In lieu of the entire amount of melted butter.