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What's Cooking at Your House Part 2

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Well, wr, that was swift. If you get this stickied up we can start the monthly threads.

We're starting hurricane preps now. There is lots of information in the Survival and Emergency Preparedness forum on HT. One thing I stressed to my families when I was working as a hospice nurse was to plan to avoid leftovers since power would be down for extended periods and they would lack the ability to refrigerate leftovers and that would draw varmints and ppests. Which leads me to (thinking about avoiding leftovers) cooking for 1 or 2.
Like many, I cooked for 4+ buddies, andd I had a real hard time learning to cook for 1 when Gfb and I were working in different places. I don't think most grocers are set up for singletons or couples, or if they are, they are set up for the "SUPERSIZE" crowd. It was a wonderful day when I first discovered shopping at Dollar Tree. They sell a 4.5 ounce clams can, a slightly larger oyster can, a a "seafood cocktail" 4.5 oz can containing mussels, scallops, and clams. Also plain chicken, chicken with chipotle and roast beef in small cans (5-6 oz) I did NOT pick upthe 5 oz can of chicken bologna but GFB said he would have tried it.
I've been
 
#8,096 ·
Main dish tonight is a pkg of coleslaw mix, sauteed with a small amount of ground beef, simmered on LOW with a can of diced tomatoes, and seasoned with S & P, basil, oregano, and garlic. For fun and texture, I dumped in a can of garbanzos.
 
#8,101 ·
You would think with a whole day, DH and dad could have organized some dinner. But apparently I am setting the bar too high. So I had some cottage cheese and really sweet cherry tomatoes I got at Sam's. They are called flavor bombs and about the sweetest tomatoes I have ever had.

Supposed to be nice this weekend, hopefully we will burn some charcoal and grill.
 
#8,102 ·
Late night so it was canned rabbit made into rabbit salad on a onion roll low salt chips and to many pickles.
Love canned rabbit! We used to trade homegrown beef for homegrown rabbit with some cousins. Great flavor and melt in your mouth tender. I usually made rabbit pot pie, used the liquid in the jar to make the gravy/sauce.
 
#8,106 ·
May is clear some space in the freezer month here, too. Yesterday I did a re-organize of the fridge freezer and the chest freezer. Today I'm combining a few "almost finished" bags of frozen veggies and chicken into a stew of some sort. Then I'm going to try to make dumplings for the first time. I've heard that one firm rule is to not take the lid off the pan while the dumplings are cooking.
 
#8,108 ·
We are trying to decide what to do for dinner. I have a Dr appt. in Merida at 4:20 and it may take an hour or more. The decision is to eat in Merida or make the hour drive back to Chelem and cook dinner. My vote is to eat in Merida so Susie doesn't have to cook
We did in fact eat dinner in Merida on the way home. We stopped at Hermana Republica for dinner. I had Smoked pork cooked with mushrooms, carrots and onions in a Porter beer. Susie had 3 tacos cooked with Temozon smoked sausage. Of course we had to have some beer.
Friday we Lasagna with Bolonesa and pork
 
#8,110 ·
I think my dinner will be an FFA hamburger. Festival going on in a nearby town. We are supposed to go to demolition derby this evening and the FFA kids do the concessions. Cousins who have a kettle corn business will be there, so dessert is covered too.
 
#8,114 ·
Wednesday evening was a meal at a restaurant for work, so I took one for the team :D and had the french dip sandwich and some fries with brown gravy.

Thursday night we had some ravioli's - some filled with cheese and the rest filled with Italian sausage. They were served with a nice tomato and basil sauce and some garlic bread.

Friday evening ended up being cheeseburger's with some fries and fresh fruit for supper (I'm still going over why Friday was so busy and why the time went so quickly, lol.)

Last night (Saturday), we had more things to do outside the home before going to those, we had fresh sliced pineapple, 1/4 lb. beef hot dogs, and chips.

Yes I realize it looks like there are vegetables lacking with supper. No worries - there have been plenty of vegetables with lunch (and even sometimes with breakfast) all week to balance out the not so balanced meals.
 
#8,120 ·
Todays breakfast was frozen waffles and frozen breakfast sausage. Not home made, but passable when you are in a hurry.
Dinner is Jambalaya leftovers, all those flavors melded together, always better the second day.

Tomorrow I'm going to do something In the crockpot, that sauerkraut meal a few posts back sounds very good!
I think I'll do that with The Brats I have in the freezer.
 
#8,121 ·
I'm putting a large roast in the crockpot shortly. I'll add mushrooms, sweet onions, a bit of red wine, and a couple packages of brown gravy mix, set it on low and let it cook all day. I'll probably shred it, and put some over pasta for Mr. Pixie and cauliflower rice for me.
 
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