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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 5:39 pm 
We're in danger of becoming addicted to browned butter sauce. It is so easy, and it adds such a lovely flavor! DS started his second college class tonight, so for a quick meal we did rotini with fresh veggies in a browned butter sauce w/basil instead of sage. We topped it with a bit of Manchego cheese. Totally yummy, and it took all of 30 minutes from putting the water on to boil to eating it!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, January 21, 2012 - 5:11 pm
My husband had a craving for fried catfish so that's what we are having tonight.
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Saturday, January 21, 2012 - 5:33 pm
Wish my hubby would have had a craving for fried catfish cuz then we would have went out to eat. [I don't eat fish, will bake fish for him, but will not fry fish.]
We had leftover chili in the fridge so ended up having chili dogs.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Saturday, January 21, 2012 - 6:59 pm
We tried a new soup tonight: Panang Curry soup. DH and I loved it; DS said he preferred his curry in non-soup form.
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Texasdeb
Member
05-23-2003
| Monday, January 23, 2012 - 6:56 pm
Chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes & gravy, seasoned noodles, asperagus, choc. cake.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Monday, January 23, 2012 - 7:33 pm
Roasted a chicken tonight and made a mushroom risotto. Screwed up the latter, though, when I mixed a bit of Iberico cheese in w/the asiago b/c I didn't have enough asiago. It was edible but NOT a combo I'll repeat.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - 7:05 pm
2 slices of pepperoni & cheese pizza, fruit salad, also 2 clementines & an Activia peach yogurt for dessert.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 5:08 pm
Long post - short version: Got a mole chicken style chili cooking.
If you feel like reading - here's the whole story. 
Our "no sweat decathlon" at school is in the midst of a chili cook-off, and tonight I'm making chicken mole style chili. It has in it:
chicken
pinto beans
two kinds of tomatoes
tomato sauce
chicken broth
sunflower seeds
peanuts
cilantro
roasted poblano and jalapeno peppers
pasillo oaxaca pepper (smoky)
chipotle peppers in adobe sauce
cumin
Mexican oregano
ancho and chipotle chili powder
and dark chocolate with chilis (4 oz)
It smells sooooo good, and we have homemade tortillas to accompany it. Can't post on Facebook, though, because the teams are "secret" and I have a number of co-worker friends who'd then know I made it! (I actually have one friend who has had my mole before, so she may identify it by that tomorrow.)
WHEW - just had to get that off my chest! THANKS! LOL
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Texasdeb
Member
05-23-2003
| Monday, February 06, 2012 - 6:26 pm
Chicken stir fry (had a bunch of dif. colored bell peppers I needed to use up), just happened to have a jar of stir fry sauce I bought some time ago in the pantry & a cpl bags of Asian vegies in the freezer. Also, I whipped up a boxed Mongolean Beef dinner I spotted in the freezer that I couldn't remember when I bought at Sam's. Made some rice & we had dinner.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Monday, February 06, 2012 - 7:22 pm
Blue cornmeal cornbread w/white chili.
Slow cooked a whole chicken today, so the meat was literally falling apart when I got home. We used less than 1/2 of it, I roasted a poblano and a jalapeno then mixed in all sorts of spices and northern beans. I'm ready for more winter weather!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, February 06, 2012 - 7:49 pm
I saw your blue cornbread on Facebook. It looked very interesting. I've never had blue cornbread before.
We had baby back ribs that we never grilled yesterday so we made those tonight. We also had some stuffed jalapenos that never got grilled yesterday so they were cooked up too. We just had way too much food during the super bowl to get to it all.
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Northstar
Member
09-29-2008
| Monday, February 06, 2012 - 7:53 pm
Tuna and some steamed broccoli (similar meals in the future since I'm 1/2 way to goal weight, yay!)
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Tuesday, February 07, 2012 - 4:30 pm
Mamie - it looks lots better after it's cooked! LOL It tastes exactly like regular corn meal. We use the medium grind so there's some texture to it, but if it were a blind taste test, you wouldn't know which was which.
Tonight is sirloin steak (YAY for organic beef in the freezer!!) and cheesy potatoes. DH and I are going no processed foods for Lent so we're doing one "bad" meal this week and another next week. Cheesy potatoes are this week's naught food.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, March 19, 2012 - 3:16 pm
My son has been asking for crab and shrimp enchiladas for a while now so I am making them tonight. I am going to stuff those suckers to the max! I bought two different sizes of shrimp and some lump and claw crab meat.
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Gidget
Member
07-28-2002
| Monday, March 19, 2012 - 3:47 pm
Drooling!
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Monday, March 19, 2012 - 7:58 pm
Yummmy!!! What do you do for the sauce? (I'm thinking this may need to be on our menu for next week! )
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Monday, March 19, 2012 - 8:04 pm
Oh my, now I won't be able to sleep thinking about it.
I showed up here because I want to make split pea soup in the crock pot again this week. It turned out wonderful last time except I wasn't happy with the tiny amount of meat that came off the smoked ham hocks. I need more smoked ham bits than the hocks can supply and I'm not sure how to get them. To me, the concentrated smoked flavor from the ham hocks is what gives split pea soup its flavor, so it's weird to me that some people make it with regular ham bones where the ham hasn't been smoked. That would be so bland.
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Romarr35
Member
02-16-2009
| Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - 10:37 am
Naja-I add smoked pork butt to my split pea soup.
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Whoami
Member
08-02-2001
| Sunday, April 08, 2012 - 9:42 am
Spiral-cut ham, scalloped potatoes, slow-cooked fresh green beans.
Taters and green beans are in their respective crock pots as we speak. Ham will go in later. I'm nervous about the taters. I've never done my own scalloped taters from scratch before (I've done a lot of the boxed variety, LOL). I went back and forth debating whether to do them in the oven, or the crock pot. Crock pot won out, cause I didn't want to wrangle the ham and the taters in the oven during the same cooking time. Hope they come out ok!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, April 08, 2012 - 11:35 am
My husband is grilling the ham. We are also making ravioli, baked beans, green beans, dinner rolls, salad. I tried my hand at a vanilla custard pie, which is chilling in the fridge right now. I hope it comes out good!
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Auntiemike
Member
09-17-2001
| Sunday, April 08, 2012 - 11:42 am
Who - there is nothing better than homemade scalloped potatoes. Just make sure they are baked long enough to be well done and not crunchy. Much better than boxed varieties and less salt to boot!
We always have ham. This year it's a baked brown sugar glazed ham, scalloped potatoes, asparagus, rolls and applesauce. I love decorating the table and putting on my Easter tablecloth.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Sunday, April 08, 2012 - 1:41 pm
Had ham, homemade scalloped potatoes, and green beans at my sister's. Sounds like there are many of us traditionalists here!
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Sunday, April 08, 2012 - 2:45 pm
Goldenrod eggs and mixed Italian vegetables.
I am not a traditionalist this year.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Sunday, April 08, 2012 - 3:58 pm
Too much food - not enough family.
Out of a DH's family of 3 kids and dad, only 1 sister came w/her 4 kids. Her DH was working (construction), FIL got sick, and other brother bailed b/c his wife's family was getting together.
FIL was going to bring a ham and I had a roast. When FIL called yesterday to say he was sick, SIL said she'd bring a ham. I got home, found this out, and had DH call and say - NO ham. I have a pork shoulder roast we can use.
Soooo -- we have 7 lbs. of meat cooking for what we thought would be 9 people. SIL shows up WITH a ham but no DH! LOL
We ended up shoving the ham in the freezer, eating the roasts (w/leftovers), had about 7 lbs. of mashed potatoes (leftovers), green bean casserole (leftovers), coleslaw and bread. SIL also brought 2 pies and I made a mandarin orange cake. Had we had all 14 of the family it would have been perfect. Now - neither the SIL nor us has to cook tomorrow! LOL
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Whoami
Member
08-02-2001
| Sunday, April 08, 2012 - 7:35 pm
Taters came out great! Nice and tender. Everything else was wonderful too! Yay! Now if only we'd had more people to eat it. Don't know what I'll do with all this food if Sis doens't stop by and take some home.
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