What did you cook today?

hard shell tacos

 

Spaghetti Bolognese,using the very cheapest pork and beef mince but it tastes great.Jar of readymade sauce,sprinkled with grated hard cheese from a carton.

 

Veg pizza with fermented hot yellow peppers. I shredded some smoked cheddar on top, it added a great flavour.



And since it was a bitterly cold rainy day, I decided to bake bread. No-salt breads are ridiculously expensive, even if you can find them.

One was a sweeter egg bread. I sliced it up, wrapped the slices individually to prevent sticking together and put it all in a bag, ready for the freezer.



The other was a multigrain... ​whole wheat, amaranth, rolled oats, wheat germ and sunflower seeds.
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I liked both of them, but I preferred the multigrain with the seeds.

 

Yum i need to make some bread

I am waiting on a crockpot roast with potatoes and carrots to finish cooking

 

I made a dill Classic French omelette this morning. It's been a while, I forgot how to make it! As you can tell by the misshapen mess. But it tasted good, with blackberries and homemade multigrain bread.

 

Cheerios

 

Beefburgers and sweet potatoes fries.

 

Lunch today. Open faced sandwich with tomatoes, red onion and cheddar cheese with fresh basil.

 

When you make a meal like this it looks elegant and sophisticated

When i make a meal like this it looks like I made it for preschoolers lol

 

lol Just throw a lot of garnish on, it fancies anything up. And hides a multitude of mistakes.

 

pork chop (center cut) and I fried up a giant bosc pear

 

Hubby wanted the shrimp we've had in the freezer.

I made a rice with some Adobo and Garlic for seasoning.

I made Shrimp, with Onion, Bell Pepper, Garlic, Sazzon, and Cayenne to go over the rice.

I almost forgot...A little queso tops all that.

 

Every time I see you mention frying or grilling a pear, I want to try it. I have to get some pears.

I had a Christmas tree omelette today. Not intentionally. lol I used fresh dill and tarragon. I was really craving tarragon and it hit the spot perfectly.

 

I made manicotti yesterday. It's the first time I tried it in the crockpot. The lasagna had come out so well, I figured manicotti would be just as good in the slow cooker. I cooked it for 2-1/2 hours on high but it was a tad too soft. 2 hours would have been sufficient.

The recipe called for cheese filling only (ricotta, mozzarella and parmesan) but I added chopped zucchini and boletus mushrooms (I buy dried mushrooms and reconstitute them in water just before cooking. Dried have a stronger flavour than fresh mushrooms and you can always have some on hand, they keep so much longer than fresh mushrooms.) It was a delicious combination!




In my slow cooker 16 manicotti shells made 2 layers of 5 and 1 layer of 6 (my cooker is wider at the top than the bottom).




I froze meals with 3 manicottis per container, sprinkled a bit of mozzarella on top. They're going to be a nice treat.

 

zapped a couple of sausages and some mushroom risoto (frozen from tj's) in the microwave.

nothing difficult or fancy.

had some watermellon bits and a crusant with them.

may zap a vac packed turkey, stuffing and gravy later
if i don't hoof it to one of those free holiday dinners
which as time continues to go by,
seems increasingly unlikely that i will.

 

I made cranberry sauce and deviled eggs for my family's thanksgiving meal. I still sit at the kid's table so i'm not assigned anything more difficult to cook

 

cooked some potstickers....and then on the first bite i remembered i bought these same ones last summer and they were gross....


so in the garbage they go....


and if youre a starving kid in africa thats too fucking bad you were born there....but if you can fly here youre welcome to eat my garbage

 

I bought some sausage from a lady at work whose family raises pigs

I didnt know what i wanted to do with it, but I was craving something with colombian aji (hot pepper) sauce.

So i made a batch of aji sauce

And for the sausage, i made a casserole of sorts with sausage, potatoes, tomatoes, green pepper, onion, and tomato paste to pull it all together.

I baked it then poured aji sauce over it and ate it with toast

I have no idea what I concocted but it reminded me of sloppy joes with a colombian twist so i've been calling it sloppy joses. Next time i make it i'm going to buy a loaf of fresh baked bread from the colombian bakery down the street to eat with it.

 

Interesting.

 

I'm having pesto for (late) dinner