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What's Cooking for October 2019?

Winifred — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 13:14:56 GMT

Hey, I woke up - not sure what the kitchen has in store for me today yet.

Very cold this morning as it was yesterday but yesterday did warm up a bit - today is suppose to be warmer.

I "think" it will be a Pizza day for me. Of course I will get it at Aldi's - theirs are so good and so very inexpensive. Love them.

Have a great day everyone and the days to come in this new month will also be good for one and all.

Re: What's Cooking for October 2019?

RedTop — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 17:41:10 GMT

Ham, baked beans and macaroni and cheese will be on our supper table today.

I envy anyone who might be getting rain today, as West Virginia is extremely dry. Honestly, one carelessly tossed cigarette would ignite the dry leaves and grass, and burn my front yard down to the dirt!

Re: What's Cooking for October 2019?

Pooky1 — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 21:32:22 GMT

good afternoon everyone. knew today was the 1st but when i came on here i forgot intil i saw a new month. welcome october. maria decorated for halloween beginning of september. sunny and 73 today. we took pool down and put it away .next week air conditioners will be coming out of windows. wow fall came in quick. maria made a big pan of chicken soup monday and a hamberger and vegi and shreeded potatoes with cheedar cheese all in a big baking dish. both very good and lots of leftovers. hope everyone has a great day.

Re: What's Cooking for October 2019?

hellie jo — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 03:02:52 GMT

Today I made meatloaf,mac & cheese,and a green salad. It has been raining on and off all day with temps in the 60"s.

Re: What's Cooking for October 2019?

tiny 2 — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 14:41:39 GMT

@RedTop wrote:
Ham, baked beans and macaroni and cheese will be on our supper table today.

I envy anyone who might be getting rain today, as West Virginia is extremely dry. Honestly, one carelessly tossed cigarette would ignite the dry leaves and grass, and burn my front yard down to the dirt!

@RedTop Same here NC!

I have a question for you. Recently you mentioned that you stocked groceries for winter and did not have to go during flu season. How do you manage milk and fruit?

Re: What's Cooking for October 2019?

RedTop — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 19:23:50 GMT

@tiny 2,

We use very little milk, and eat very little fruit. I am allergic to milk, and my husband is the only person here that eats cold cereal. A quart of milk would last a month in this house. Teacher daughter passes 2 Dollar Generals and 2 chain gas stations / convenience stores to and from school, so she can easily pick up milk.

Fruit is not popular in this house at all, and the only fruit I ever buy is apples and bananas. I never buy more than 4 of each. I am allergic to citrus, and only buy a very small bottle of orange juice for my husband in case of a low blood sugar.

We also are not big sandwich eaters; I don’t have to worry about buying lunch meat and sandwich fixings. We do eat a lot of vegetables; carrots, cabbage, potatoes, onions, sweet potatoes, the ones easiest to store long term. Salads with lettuce are not a favorite here.

So really, with the way we eat, it makes it very easy for me to stock well, and have exactly what I need to cook for us daily, and stay out of the grocery store for 2,3,4 months.

Re: What's Cooking for October 2019?

tiny 2 — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 20:53:47 GMT

@RedTop, Thank you. I think I could almost do it. We go through quite a bit of milk (husband) and I like fruit. There are a couple of dairies here that are now delivering to homes. I have trouble with keeping onions for a long time. I always have the freezers stocked well for winter. I have one large freezer and 2 full sized refrigerators with freezer sections.

Re: What's Cooking for October 2019?

Winifred — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 14:46:16 GMT

RedTop, I am with you on the vegetables. I love them and I guess being born in the South and basically raised there, makes sense. But I am also a fruit eater. Am struggling - food wise - to have decent meals since for the first time in my life - well almost - there is only me now. Always have had kids, etc - and am enjoying the peace and quiet but sure makes fixing meals difficult. I have a tendency to cook enough for an army and that just does not work. Have some veggies I fixed two days ago, however, and am still eating them. Fixing them in the WOK just easy and super tasty. Have enough left for lunch today so am glad I do not have to toss any.

Still freezing the the early morning but today it will be 89 - I can handle that super well.

Hope all have a great day.

Re: What's Cooking for October 2019?

RedTop — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 19:53:49 GMT

Just me and hubby here this weekend, and today is the very first cool fall day.

I’m cooking a small pot of yellow eye beans seasoned with bacon, using leftover mashed potatoes to make potato cakes, slaw from last nights chili dogs, along with cornbread and onions. Just put the cornbread in to bake, and the bean broth is just about exactly where we like it. Can’t wait to fill my plate!

Re: What's Cooking for October 2019?

hellie jo — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 23:28:44 GMT

Today I made ham,with parsley fried potatoes,and cucumber salad. It was sunny today and in the 60"s.

Re: What's Cooking for October 2019?

PA Mom-mom — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 23:46:22 GMT

@Winifred My DH is obsessed with delicata squash. He ravenously looks forward to them every fall and brings 5 of them home every week. I roast them with various spices and herbs. Today, I tried roasting them with zucchini and onion, and just salt and pepper and olive oil at 425 for 20 min. The squash and zucchini came out fine, but the onion needed more time

Re: What's Cooking for October 2019?

Winifred — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 00:53:31 GMT

PA Mom-mom, you cannot go wrong with squash - any kind of squash. I truly love them all but I think the white is my favorite. Almost impossible to find any more. Seems people just prefer itty bitty squash so the itty bitty things is all you can find in a store. The great farm near us started growing the white squash the RIGHT way. I had them until they came out of my ears. I sliced them cored the stem area top and bottom, dipped them in batter and headed to the trusty iron frying pan. They are sooooooooooooooo good.. I eat my eggplant the very same way. And the eggplant makes great sandwiches.

My gosh but it got HOT today - 95. Freezing when I went to church and when I walked out the door to come home started sweating. That can be very typical here in Southern Cal.

Hope all had a great day and ate well.

Re: What's Cooking for October 2019?

Keybra — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 15:53:03 GMT

I got very busy from 1:00p.m. Saturday so all I ate, until 1:00 a.m. Monday morning was a banana and peanut butter. At 1:00 a,m had leftover tuna noodle casserole and a chocolate cookie. How is that for fine dining ?

Re: What's Cooking for October 2019?

Winifred — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 13:34:47 GMT

Keybra - are you kidding? That is a long spell with so little food. I have gone one day with only a nibble or so but that was all. Hope your message was indeed a "spoiler."

No big cooking plans for the day. My day should begin with the Gas Company coming to light the pilot light for the heater. Time waiting is sure better than the old days. Use to wait all day, now they have it narrowed down to a five hour wait. That is a lot better.

Now the electric company is getting stupid out here. We have already had two scheduled shut downs for maintenance - one for 5 hours and the other for 6 1/2 hours. They were not great but the time frames were more into the night. They have another maintenance scheduled in a couple weeks and this one is from 5 p.m. until midnight. Now that is STUPID - no nothing during those hours. I did buy a smaller generator that you can hook two things up to it. One of course will be my oxygen concentrator. The other probably the TV. LOL. But the big thing I am trying to figure out is how you get an electric cord from inside the house outside to the generator? Hmn My windows all have screens and the doors have no holes in them - cannot figure it out. Hopefully can find an answer in the next week or so. They should have done this maintenance, etc long before now. The big problem is they do not want any more lawsuits over fires that start out here because of falling lines. They should have done something about it years ago instead of all at once trying to get answers. I think the maintenance is not making their lines safer but how to contact certain areas in a given time to turn everything off when the winds pick up.They shut off one small area last week due to winds and we are on notice again they WILL shut down some areas again in a couple days when the winds pick up again. Welcome to California.

Probably will fix some pizza rolls for dinner - toss in a salad as a go with. Sounds good to me.

Have a great day everyone.

Re: What's Cooking for October 2019?

Bird mama — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 01:07:27 GMT

It's been a long time since I had some pizza rolls Freddie @Winifred I'm going to add them to my shopping list for this week.

Are the screens in your windows removable or permanent? If they are removable, maybe you can select the window you want to use for the oxygen concentrator and TV and just remove that screen. Then you could run the cord out that window and close the window as far down as you can get without squashing the cord. If you are worried about bugs getting in, maybe pick up some foam backing rod and double it and then jam it into the gap.

It looks like this and can be bought from hardware stores or Walmart.

This one is by M-D products. It comes in 1/2 in, 5/8 inch thicknesses.

Or.... and even better, is the weatherstripping foam folks use for air conditioners. M-D products and Frost King makes it. Should be available at hardware stores or online.

Re: What's Cooking for October 2019?

Winifred — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 01:36:11 GMT

Bernie we will do the pizza rolls another day. Got to thinking about that WOK so I tossed chopped up onions, peas, corn and baby carrots in it Fixed a couple pieces of Tyson's Buffalo Style chicken strips - super good. What can I say!

Re: What's Cooking for October 2019?

Pooky1 — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 21:36:24 GMT

good evening everyone. winifred . thats awful losing power like that. while im reading what you wrote i hurd our news saying about your power issues. rainy and windy down here for the next 3 days. maria made a big pan of chicken and rice soup and tuesday chicken fried steak with corn and mashed potatoes and gravy. we went to bjs wholesale club today to buy a bunch of stuff. hope everyone has a gread night.

Re: What's Cooking for October 2019?

Keybra — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 09:26:09 GMT

Hi all. Well last night made up for my self-imposed "fast" and had Chicken Cordon Bleu,

stuffed baked potatoes , summer and zucchini squash and honeydew for desert.

I really, really want some spaghetti but today am making chili. Many years ago I got a chili recipe out of a Mary Beth Roe's cookbook and it is the absolute BEST I have ever had.

Friday night I am getting the Prime Rib from Boston Market. It is so very good and for less than $40 my husband and I can get complete meals and this weekend will finally get my bolognese sauce. Will cook on low and slow for Sunday's dinner.

That is my cooking plans and, if you noticed, not a single banana and peanut butter in the bunch !

@Pooky1 Have you and Maria ever tried the rotisserie chicken from BJ ? They sell out fast around here but , when you can get them , they are the absolute best.

Re: What's Cooking for October 2019?

Pooky1 — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 09:49:26 GMT

keybra yes we have got chickens from bjs. they are very good and there big. they make stop and shops rotissary chickens look sick. there chickens are so much smaller..

Re: What's Cooking for October 2019?

Keybra — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 09:49:47 GMT

@Pooky1 Why are you up so early ? Are you having trouble sleeping because I think I read you have health problems ?