Summer cooking continued

Funny, Celeste! We're they nice?

Yes, but VERY busy!

Chicken korma over basmati rice, with green beans, lettuce and cuke salad from garden. I cheated and used a packaged Indian spice mix. It was good, but a little too salty, so next time maybe will try to blend my own spices.

ham steak, potato salad, green beans

Meatball sandwiches, salad, fruit, broccoli salad and a birthday cake for my 85 yr old neighbor. Had a few people over.

wrapped chicken breasts with bacon.. poured over cream of mushroom soup and baked.. with rice & peas.. it rocked!!

Nice, Jan

Sounds delish, Allison

That does sound yummy, Allison. Anything with bacon is good in my book. Heehee

Having leftovers with son's family tonight. The teenage neighbor boys didn't eat as much as I thought they would.

Maybe they pre ate?

Crockpot meal....beef rolls with red wine, olives, garlic, celery & onions served with orzo....

Mmm..... Yum!

That's possible, Jen. Hadn't thought of that, but quite possible.

sounds good!

believe it or not.. we were running around buying Christmas blow molds from Craigs list.. LOL.. just stopped at BK tonight

so confused with all this different holiday stuff in the house..UGH.. and this weekend is our time to start crunch time!!!

You guys are something!

something alright

:0

Definitely!

No cooking today....too hot!

Cucumber gazpacho. Toasted Israeli Couscous with Pine Nuts and Parsley for lunches this week.

Is the Israeli couscous kosher?? ;)

left over beef roast and onions over rice and greenbeans

Hmm - I will have to get back to you on that Victor.

I had leftover beef too, prime rib roast that I had to cook or end up throwing it out, I had it defrosting in the fridge but then ended up eating out 2x over the weekend

I bought a jar of butternut squash sauce and used it with pasta and black beans. It was really good, DH liked it though he doesn't like squash. I didn't tell him what it was til after he tried it.

Smart, Debi! I have leftover potato salad & green bean salad....maybe grilled chicken to go with them.....

Anyone make ice cream? I'm looking at recipes and found one using sweetened condensed milk in it, wondered if anyone tried it?

Yes, I have an electric ice cream maker.....I've made peach, lemon, & banana....I make a custard first....eggs, sugar, milk, chill it, then add flavorings & fruit to the mixer....I found you need a lot more flavoring than you think, otherwise it tastes like vanilla. A local dairy tried using Old Barn Farm's blueberries this summer, but they found they couldn't get a strong enough blueberry flavor without adding extracts, which they didn't want to do.....the dairy gave the trial ice cream to my grandkids, they liked it.....

I've practiced with 2 recipes so far, the cooked custard one was much better than just cream and sugar.
I imagine the sweetened condensed milk would substitute for the eggs, but I don't want to try it if it's not good. I'm looking at the ice cream attachment for my kitcheaid mixer. How do you make lemon?

I just juiced 1/2 dozen lemons & added juice , some pulp, and rind to the machine when I had the custard in there....I liked the lemon the best.....Today I'm making eggplant parm from the large eggplant I bought at the fair.....the organic farm that sold it is owned by one of my former students......

After the spring frosts I had planted some Watermelon radishes. Never having grown them before, I was disappointed when they didn't appear to develop as fast as the familiar cherry types, and forgot about them. Today I brushed aside some leaves from an adjoining crop and there they were, as big as beets! They are very colorful and crunchy when cut open. DW put them in a stir-fry with carrots, green beans, amd pok choi from the garden, and enthused about their taste when cooked as well. We also had wild salmon, but they quieted down nicely when sauteed.

We had salmon tonight also, baby limas and a pasta side.

My sister brought me a watermelon radish! They are great.....chicken & noodle casserole tonight.....

ham and mashed taters

Pork chops and fresh mashed potatoes

chicken, mashed potatos and spinich

OK...lots of comfort food in the mashed potatoes! You can tell autumn is coming....going out to lunch today, leftovers tonight....

:)

kids wanted tacos yesterday but I had no bison left, so I'll be going shopping to get some and it's tacos and rice and beans tonight

Randy had a tooth pulled yesterday.. mac & cheese for us today

Hope he's feeling better! Having a tooth pulled is nasty......I had beef stew for lunch, so cottage cheese & salad for dinner.....

Hugs to Randy.

Leftovers tonight

ouch...make him a milkshake