276090 Sun Jan 23 13:43:31 -0800 2005 18 31 Home Cooking 0 1455757 did you plan ahead or are you cooking out of the cabinet? Sun Jan 23 13:43:31 -0800 2005 0 edinaeats 1 1455759 I will never run out of food in this house,many things are purchased and forgotten, leftovers tucked away in the basement freezer. Look forward to these sort of days. I decided not to make winter fare, but yesterday had Sausage and Peppers and potato salad. The bread and produce were purchased Thursday and all is well. Today I plan on finishing up our Christmas Eve seafood that is in the freezer. Sun Jan 23 13:56:16 -0800 2005 1455757 0 ValL 1 1455764 We are eating comfort foods today. Started the day with bacon, scrambled eggs, home fries, toast and juice. That gave us the strength to begin the big dig out. After a few hours outside ( thankfully, we bought a snow blower last year), came in and enjoyed some great beef stew, along with a loaf of home baked french bread. Started the stew early this am, and it was great. Just a basic stew- baby potatoes, baby carrots, baby onions. Browned the beef in butter, olive oil and a bit of worsterchire (sp?) sauce. I had some homemade beef stock in the freezer, so I threw that in the crock pot, along with some garlic, red wine, water, celery and a stick of butter. Just what we needed to warm up. Still only about 10 degress here, and the snow is finally stopping. Have to go out one more time to finish up. Looks like at least 2 feet. Oh well. Then I am coming back in, taking a warm shower, and making chicken wings to enjoy as I watch my PAts beat the Steelers. All in all, a tiring but good day. Sun Jan 23 14:23:13 -0800 2005 1455757 0 macca 2 1455775 Can't relate to being freezed in by the Noreaster, but SO and I caught a mean flu and haven't been up to leaving the house. He was knocked out with Nyquil all day, but I got restless so I made: -Chinese porridge with thousand year eggs, slices of pork, and green onions -Matzo ball soup (notice that our illness requires the comfort foods of many cultures) -A loaf of potato bread -Hot ginger water with brown sugar -Hot lemon water with honey -Frozen potatoes (I like to buy 10 lbs. of potatoes for 99 cents, peel and cube them, blanch in salted water, freeze on cookie sheets, then bag them to use as home fries or mashed potato starter. Way healthier than buying Ore Ida) -Blackberry ice cream (for when we get better!) Also read a fourth of a book and knit a hot water bottle holder. It's amazing what you get accomplished when you stay home all day. Sun Jan 23 15:15:28 -0800 2005 1455764 0 nooodles 1 1455768 I planned ahead and soaked beans last night for US Senate bean soup -- lovely and ham hocky. Ham hockish, whatever. I also have fixin's for meatloaf, my other favorite snow day comfort food. And since there's no place to go.... let it snow, let it snow let it snow! Sun Jan 23 14:35:53 -0800 2005 1455757 0 yumyum 1 1455774 Planned ahead. Made pizza last night, then bread. Right now we've got Marcella Hazan's Beef Braised in Onions in the oven for dinner, and might make a beef stew for later in the week. Will probably make peanut butter cookies with the chowpup tonight. Sun Jan 23 15:12:07 -0800 2005 1455757 0 Chris VR 1 1455776 Planned ahead. Dinner last night: two pizza, one caramelized onions, smoked gouda and spinach on whole wheat crust, the other diced tomatoes, mozzarella and salami on white. Breakfast: pumpkin muffins, turkey bacon, scrambled eggs and cut-up oranges and asian pears. Dinner tonight: chipotle beef stew (from Epicurious) and cornbread. Sun Jan 23 15:20:44 -0800 2005 1455757 0 Buttercup 1 1455779 Made Chocolate Mayonnaise Pound Cake and roasted a leg of lamb yesterday. Today, we'll thaw some Pumpkin and Sausage soup for lunch and have enchiladas for dinner. Nothing fancy, but comfort is the key. Sun Jan 23 15:36:47 -0800 2005 1455757 0 Phoebe 1 1455788 Made baby back ribs with beans and greens for dinner,baked a batch of brownies, chicken soup for lunch with chicken salad(no one here likes the boiled chicken fron the soup). Tonight is Italian sausages with onions, peppers,tomatoes, zuchinni over pasta. I also made a pot of chili for dinner one night. We went out for breakfast before the storm hit because we knew we would have cabin fever. Sun Jan 23 17:15:51 -0800 2005 1455757 0 Eileen 1 1455791 Planned ahead; Bfst; steel cut oats w honey 'n cream, fresh fruit salad, lots of coffee lunch; grilled, pressed ham /n cheddah on french bread w honey mustard, 5 bean salad, tea dinner; chili 'n cornbread (newest CI reccipe), beer snacks for the game; pita chips 'n salsa, popcorn, hot chocolate Sun Jan 23 17:29:23 -0800 2005 1455757 0 Shaebones 1 1455792 Didn't cook too much but still eating well. For breakfast we had Filipino rice pudding (sweet rice cooked in coconut milk and then mixed with a syrup made with water and brown sugar). Lunch was samosas I fried from the freezer and dinner will be Chinese delivery. Had planned fish tonight but Chinese food is so much more warming! Sun Jan 23 17:36:19 -0800 2005 1455757 0 rkn 1 1455793 we had porridge for breafast- simple, because we stayed in bed. lunch was salmon- a staple here and roasted potaotes (w/Maldon and pepper) We also made two types of oatmeal cookie- choc chip and white choc with cranberries and a choc chip cheesecake....the kids had alot of say :-) tonight is a simple lemon chicken and greenbeans with either carmelized oonion or garlic or both Sun Jan 23 17:40:14 -0800 2005 1455757 0 edinaeats 1 1455797 We made this delicious chicken pie with a cheddar biscuit crust that I have had for ages form Gourment magazine. I just found out they have the recipe available on epicurious. It's so good. I have been making it for years! Link: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/11056 Sun Jan 23 18:50:32 -0800 2005 1455757 0 Richie 1 1455800 Planned ahead - last night was Cajun meatloaf (a recipe recommended here on Chowhound), brunch today was banana stuffed rum and cinnamon French Toast, and tonight I'll be making two pizzas - mushrooms with caramelized onions and Fontina, and I'm going to try to replicate Mistral's tenderloin, mashed potato, and truffle pizza. Tommorrow night I'm going to try Richie's (post below) chicken pot pie - it looks great! Sun Jan 23 19:30:56 -0800 2005 1455757 0 Rubee 1 1455805 Went out Saturday morning before the snow hit. Made mushroom barley soup with short ribs and chuck steak for Saturday night dinner. (Boy, did the barley soak up salt!). Fished out the meat, dumped it in a ziploc with soy sauce, honey, garlic from soup, and five spice powder. Blasted it in a 500 degree oven for tonight's dinner (with coconut rice). Also, used up a lot of bulk chocolate making real hot chocolate -- my answer to Chantico. Sun Jan 23 21:17:13 -0800 2005 1455757 0 sbp 1 1455807 the pizzas sound wonderful- would you share the results and the recipes? Sun Jan 23 21:31:19 -0800 2005 1455757 0 edinaeats 2 1455836 Not really a recipe, but... Preheat oven with tiles or stone at 550F or highest temp possible. Spread out one ball of Trader Joe's whole wheat pizza dough on a well-floured peel. Top with shredded smoked gouda, caramelized onions (slowly cooked in olive oil with pepper and thyme), frozen chopped spinach (the loose bagged kind). Bake until done--about 10 min. Mon Jan 24 14:41:58 -0800 2005 1455807 0 Buttercup 1 1455809 Everything was planned - and things worked out fine - including my Honda snowblower - I've had it for about 5 years now, and it is indeed one of the best pieces of equipment I've ever bought! Brunch was a smithfield ham steak with scrambled eggs - also fried up some thin sliced cold cuts (mortadella, capicolla) - I like these like bacon, almost crisp. Dinner was Tonkatsu - deep golden fried panko encrusted pork chops, sliced up, served with tonkatsu sauce. We always mix up some natto beans and take out the various kimchee and tsukemono for any kind of Japanese/rice dinner. Talk about prep - I had purchased spinach with the specific intent of having ohitashi with this meal - but I forgot and didn't have any home made dashi in the fridge. I certainly wasn't about to make this with instant dashi - so I went ahead and made fresh dashi... a) it needs to steep longer than I had time, and b) it should have been cold. So I made the "not fully steeped" dashi and put it in the freezer. I cooked the spinach, rinsed in cold water, then put it in a bowl with the dashi and some shoyu and some dark sesame oil for about 1/2 hour while I finished frying the pork. I should have done this earlier in the day - but I was out playing with the snowblower, and forgot. Still, the ohitashi was good, and the entire meal worked out fine. And now the Pats are finishing off the Steelers... Another td! All is well! Sun Jan 23 21:37:48 -0800 2005 1455757 0 applehome 1 1455833 I planned serious comfort food for Saturday and sunday. Truly fattening and decadent in that 'what mom used to make' way. I can't believe it was worth the trip to Whole Foods, but it was (thankfully there was a liquor store next door!) Dinner Saturday I made spinach salad with maple dressing and chicken breasts with a cornflake and pecan coating, sauteed in butter and olive oil with pasta and a vodka sauce. Sunday brunch we had soft-boiled eggs, toast and uncured bacon (I'm surprised to find I liked the uncured better). Sunday dinner was really filthy but so tasty: hamburgers (organic), fried in bacon grease (and my families secret seasonings) with all the fixin's, and french fries with a homemade cheese sauce. It was the best burger I've ever had. Now I feel a need to detox - but it was well worth it. Mon Jan 24 12:37:28 -0800 2005 1455757 0 krissywats