That baked beans recipe does look good. I’ll have to try them sometime.
MCUNE, I’d offer, but I rarely, if ever cook from a recipe. Anything I had to add would look like:
About a 2 second pour of Olive Oil
Coupla pinches of kosher salt
Hunk of butter, but not like a REAL big hunk
Enough garlic so that it looks like enough but not a lot of garlic.
Chopped scallions - maybe a couple handfuls.
Like that.
Woo hoo! Great OP, FCM, congrats. 
I see you found the key to room 304 … the Mumpers Night Shift room. And boy, do they get frisky in there some times. 
I’m certain that will be a source of TMI for future archeologists!
One down, four to go! laughs Loved the story about the goat, BBBBobbio; they can indeed be stubborn critters. My Dad and his brother had a “pet” goat when they were kids and lived out in the country; I love to hear him tell tales about that goat.
It’s rained here all day, cats and dogs at times. Oh well, at least I’m home and dry now. Happy Monday all.
the kids had a kid?
Years ago, I asked a friend for her spaghetti carbonara recipe, and it was like that. Quantities were “Some” “a little” and “not too much” - and when I compared her ingredient list to one in a cookbook, it appeared she’d left some things out. Needless to say, I never asked her for a recipe again.
We got lots done today. Picked up the kid’s car - I told her the fix was her graduation present and from now on, all repairs are hers. But I’m glad we got it done - that car had a few serious issues that are now fixed.
Then we paid for the wedding cake and ordered the ring subs. Then I stopped at a Publix near the house and ordered a sheet cake for the groom’s cake - **FCD ** is going to decorate it.
After I got home, I listed the washer and dryer on Craig’s list. It took all of 5 minutes to get a call on it. The guy is coming over tomorrow to see it. Hope we can be rid of it.
I had me a can of clam chowder for supper - quick and easy. Tonight is another rasslin’ night - RAW is on. woot. :rolleyes: Which means it won’t be quiet here till after 11.
Tomorrow, future SIL picks up his car - it’ll be all fixed and ready to go, so yay for that. Slowly but surely, the pieces are falling in place.
::tearing hair out, runs screaming through the MMP::
What are ring subs? (I am imagining small substitute children for ring bearer etc)
Dinner sucked. How does one make a dry pork roast in a crock pot, I ask you? Apparently I am capable of all manner of things such as this. 
Off to do nothing. I did fold laundry today, so I wasn’t a total toadload.
They call them Meal Wheels - sub sammiches made on ring-shaped rolls. We’re gonna have ham with swiss and turkey with american and lettuce, tomatoes, mustard, and mayo on the side. They get cut into little sammich sections.
More recipes? Y’all are making me hungry!
Believe it or not, we finally joined the 21st Century and updated our satellite service to HD. The installer brought in a box so new, it wasn’t even on the Dish Network website when we placed the order. We’ve now got four TVs all hooked into DVR boxes that can record up to something like 350 hours of regular TV or 50 hours of HD.
What remains to be seen is how badly the customer service supervisor screwed things up. We wanted one two-tuner HD DVR box and one two-tuner HD box - I knew their products better than the stuporvisor - he was going to set us up with the two-tuner HD DVR box, an HD box and a standard-def box, which would have resulted in an additional $5.00 per month for the third box. Instead, we might be paying an additional $5.98 per month for the second DVR, but since it’s not what we actually requested, we’ll call them up and raise hell if they do charge us extra.
FCM-nummy. And as one who dislikes mayonnaise, thank you for putting it on the side.
well, rigs, of course I’d do that. Because I’m nice, dammit. 
How big of a jar of lemon curd? I have seen little ones but I have a big one at home, and this sounds like a delightful way to dispose of it.
There’s been a tornado (possible) in southeastern VA, Suffolk to be specific. I have many family members who live in that area, including a cousin I’m very close to. And there are Mumpers who live in the environs as well. NBC was saying 200 injured, 1 dead, and the pics that they showed definitely looked like tornado damage to me. Houses demolished into piles of debris. 
At any rate, keep the people of the Tidewater VA (and NC too, for that matter) in your thoughts and prayers. They’re in mine.
Another Craig’s List reader is headed over right now to see the washer - it may be gone before bedtime! YAY!
And the bride-to-be got her hair colored - the lady (a teacher from the school where she did her internship) did a wonderful job - it looks really natural! So yay for hair color!
It’s raining here, but no tornado, thankfully. Hope all our mumpers and dopers from SE VA are OK.
{{{HUGS}}} all around, just because.
(on preview) SE Virginia-area Mumpers…please check in. I just looked to see where Suffolk is and it looks like it’s far enough inland that it shouldn’t affect Bobbio and Sean (assuming I’m remembering their general location correctly).
LiLi, I believe you forgot scout, who was something like “your husband who is not a man.” Doesn’t polygamy work too? (as a word, not as a lifestyle, which would be a whole 'nother question and discussion).
Someday, I’ll have an HD something or other. Not sure if I’ll jsut get a set when my current one dies or get a (cheaper) HD-ready set and adapter or what? I barely watch TV and just about only use the current one to watch DVDs. All opinions are welcome.
Mmmm, those recipes sound yummy.
I owe you about 4 million recipes, McUne. I might try to get started on it tonight, but at the moment I’m filled with grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: due to work and am trying to find a distraction to get me back on an even keel.
Back after a bit…
GT
And the washer and dryer are sold and gone. I am impressed with Craig’s list! Yay!
Ok, I promised recipes, so here they be.
Chicken Pie
1 chicken (2-3lbs.) simmered in salty water til tender, then deboned. How much salt is up to you. Wait’ til the chicken cools before deboning, but you already knew that, right?
1 and ½ cups chicken broth (that’s the water you boiled the chicken in, duh!)
1 can cream of chicken soup, undiluted
Cut up chicken, or for all I care just shred the sucker, and place in a shallow casserole dish. Just pick one. You got that whole cabinet full of ‘em. I know you do.
Combine soup and broth and pour over the chicken. Try not to make a mess.
Topping:
1 cup of plain flour
2 tsps. Baking powder
1 cup milk
½ tsp. pepper
1 stick of melted butter. Deal with it! I like butter! So There!
Mix dry ingredients with milk and butter. Pour over chicken.
Bake 35-40 minutes until brown in 425 degree oven.
Sausage and Potato Bake
6 medium potatoes
2 medium onions
4 or 5 tbsp. of olive oil
1 lb. Kielbasa sausage or another kind if that’s what you got on hand and feel adventurous
1 small carton of whipping cream. Oh quit oogyin’! It’s good. I wouldn’t be sharin’ this with people who know my address if it wasn’t.
Peel and cube potatoes into medium cubes and chop up onion any ol’ way you see fit. Pour the olive oil into the bottom of a three quart baking dish. Toss the potatoes and onions in the oil. Use your hands or some kind of utensil, which ever does it for ya. Cut sausage up (we’ll leave it up to you the size of sausage chunks ya want) and drop on top of the potatoes (or should I be sayin’ N.O.T.?) and onions. Cover with foil and bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes. After 45 minutes (use one of those at least three timers I know you have in your kitchen) uncover (the casserole dish, not yourself unless you normally cook uncovered. I’m not one to judge.), pour the cream over the casserole and return the uncovered casserole to the oven for 20 more minutes.
Curried Pork and Sweet Potatoes (or should I say N.O.T.?)
1 tbsp. all-purpose flour
1 tbsp curry powder (or more for you who like life spicy)
¼ tsp. salt
1 lb. boneless pork loin cut into thin strips
2 medium sweet potatoes cut into thin strips
¾ cup apple juice
1 medium green bell pepper (heck, use red for all I care. I don’t judge.) cut into thin strips
2 tbsp. apple jelly
Mix flour, curry powder and salt in a mediumish sized bowl. Add the pork and toss to coat. Or stick it all in one of those zip baggy thingies and shake yer booty all over the kitchen.
Spray a 12-inch nonstick skillet with cooking spray; heat to medium-high heat. Cook pork in skillet three to five minutes, stirring occasionally, until brown.
Stir in sweet potatoes and apple juice. Reduce heat to low. Cover and simmer 5 minutes. Stir in bell pepper. Cover and simmer three to five minutes until bell pepper is crisp-tender. Stir in jelly until melted.
Serve over rice. I leave it up to you to cook the rice. You should know how to do that by now.
Y’all go knock yerselves out!
That’s all I got for now. I’s tahred!
I’ve made dry crock-potted pork roast, rigs.
I’m all teary. I just went and looked at about half of the newborn pictures. Now I’m all emotional. Also, I’m deleting most of the bloody photos from the hospital, especially the operating room. I look awful. Isn’t vanity terrible? But I do. It was four in the morning, I hadn’t slept in three days, and I’d just had (or was in the middle of) surgery. Ick.
My kidlet went to sleep at six-fifteen, and is still asleep. I don’t know whether he’s gone to bed for the night or not. I’m suspicious. I think he’s going to wake up and be grouchy…
Hah! This post is much later than it ought to be because he did wake up, ate, and went back to sleep. And then woke up and wanted to eat again. I think he’s asleep for the night. I sincerely hope he doesn’t decide five a.m. is MORNING
Bother. Baby woke up. I’m going to have to nail him into bed at ten. Anyone got a nail gun? Or should I try rum and opium?
Argh, too sleepy! I really have to start going to bed at a reasonable hour, this is getting ridiculous.
Hmmm, more recipes–here’s one of my fifty gazillion ways to make N.O.T Salad:
Kinda Healthy Tater Salad
Bake a bunch of nice taters, russet, yukon, red, don’t matter. Wipe them down with olive oil, sprinkle with a bit of kosher salt or garlic salt. Chill after they’re all nice and baked. Cube into bite size chunks.
This part is easier if you have what I have, which is a cast iron skillet that has a griddle in the bottom. I heat it up and grill a whole bunch of veggies, especially red bell pepper, asparagus and zucchini–wiped with a schmear of olive oil. Grill until al dente. Let cool a bit, then chop up into small pieces and throw into the tater cubes.
Dice up some scallions and/or red onion, throw that in. This would be a spiffy time to fine dice and throw in some fresh basil leaves too. Or parsley, if you lean that way. Some fresh snow peas are a treat here, sliced up raw. Fresh cucumber if you have it.
Then dice up some pickley stuff–I most prefer home canned pickled beans but regular kosher dill pickle is good and pickled garlic is the best of all. Chop up a whole mess of pickle and toss into the rest of the veggies.
Use light sour cream to stick it all together, seasoning to taste with kosher or garlic salt, pepper, dill weed, a bit of crushed red pepper, whatever looks good, really. Grate in some asiago or parmesan cheese–very hard, sharp white cheddar is good too. Chill and nosh. When it gets hot out I make a huge vat of this stuff and we eat nothing else for days because it’s too hot to cook. The main thing is to put a buttload of different veggies in it, that’s what makes it really good.
Chicken Seizure Sammiches
Heat skillet with olive oil in. Take some boneless, skinless chicken breast, place in skillet over low-medium heat. Cover, cook gently until pretty much done, then slice into thin strips and finish cooking through. Season with kosher salt & pepper.
In a bowl, combine ripe avocado (1/2 per sammich, roughly) with finely chopped red onion, chopped cucumber and a nice quantity of good creamy Caesar dressing (Newman’s Own is the best) then grate in a bunch of asiago cheese. You want this to be gooey but not runny.
Brush hoagie rolls, sourdough rolls, or buns with olive oil or butter, sprinkle with garlic salt and broil or toast on a skillet until nicely browned. Spread with generous amounts of avocado mixture, then add chicken slices. Add shredded lettuce and/or tomato if you wish. Mack out. This is my favorite “too tired to cook” dinner because you can use frozen chicken tits and it will work just fine so it doesn’t matter if you forgot to thaw anything!
Mah Favorite Chicken Cacciatore
Take some boneless, skinless chicken–I prefer thighs but breast works just as well, cut into strips–about half an inch thick or so. Dredge in flour spiced with garlic salt and pepper. Heat a deep iron skillet, add oil (olive is best, of course!) and brown the chicken–don’t crowd the pan too much. Remove when browned, pour off any excessive amounts of oil but leave the brown crunchy bits.
Turn the heat up a bit and add a large amount of diced onions, garlic and red bell pepper (or green, but I prefer red, milder taste and better look) and saute briskly, stirring to get all the chicken residue off the skillet. Let this get nicely done, not quite caramelized but well on the way. Add a large quantity of diced tomatoes–roma is best, and cook them down a bit, adding a couple tablespoons of sugar while they’re cooking down. At this point is a great time to add some fresh basil if you have it (if not, I guess dried will do. Sigh. Heathens,) some crushed red pepper and fresh oregano. Chopped mushrooms are very nice as well–crimini’s by preference. Then add enough Cheap Red Wine to cover the veggies, bring to a boil and add the chicken back in. Lower heat and simmer for at least 45 minutes, a couple hours is better. If the sauce gets too thick and gloppy, add more wine as needed to keep it nice and smooth. Salt to taste. Serve over rice. Don’t forget the garlic bread and salad!
Sorry for the narrative nature of my recipes, but this is really how I cook!