Kitchen

[PA Mom-mom]

@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

[Winifred]

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.

[Keybra]

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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 ? 

[Winifred]

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.

[Bird mama]

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. 

[Winifred]

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!

[Pooky1]

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.

[Keybra]

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.

[Pooky1]

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..

[Keybra]

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