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USCHO Cooks: Open Your Mystery Basket.

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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
For starters, it's a member of the Brassica oleracea species, along with cabbage, broccoli, kale, and Brussels sprouts. So taste and texture are probably similar, and should be treated as such. Bacon probably pairs well. ;) :D
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It probably does. I'll test it this week.
 
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Took today off, I'm making apple walnut bread, cinnamon rolls and scalloped spuds & ham for supper.
 
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consensus from the Christmas cookie crowd: white chocolate raspberry thumbprints again a hit, as well as peanut butter maple (I didn't think anyone else would like them - my brother LOVED them too). my sister-in-law brought 3 more kinds of cookies, so having 17 different kinds of cookies was perhaps a bit much (although I needed that many, since I donated about 45 dozen... and making the same kind over and over does not keep my interest). I ended up making brandy snaps on Sunday, too (definitely a once-a-year cookie).

I do not care if I ever see another cookie again.... although I did stash a few PB maple in my cookie jar. :) least popular cookie was probably the peppermint candy canes.. although they are very festive, my family's not really mint people. I think only my cousin liked them, and they break too easily.

on the non-treat side, I made <a href="http://www.food.com/recipe/kittencals-spinach-four-cheese-manicotti-vegetarian-72308">Spinach Four-Cheese Manicotti</a> for the vegetarian entree, and although I didn't get to try it, apparently it was excellent. I ended up increasing the filling, and making an 8x8 pan without spinach, and a bigger pan with spinach (used the whole box of manicotti that way).
 
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Made sugar cookies tonight and rolled them in Demerara sugar instead of the granulated sugar the recipe calls for. Added a nice crunch.

I have no one to share cookies with, and it makes me a sad panda.
 
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We are having people over tonight and then again tomorrow afternoon (just found out about the latter). While I am recovering from a cold and not in the mood to drink we will be having some filet, lobster tails and scallops tonight and the house will be filled with Thai food tomorrow so it's not all bad.
 
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Making pizza dough and kneading it by hand is so easy; I should do it more often. For that matter, making whole wheat bread is pretty easy too, once I learned that by their nature, whole grain breads are pretty dense.
 
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If anyone is looking for a really good iPad app for cooking check out the app by Nom Nom Paleo. The food can be customized so if you aren't eating a paleo diet and don't want to use coconut aminos instead of soy sauce or use coconut flour instead of regular flour, or butter instead of ghee. It's a very well done app with step-by-step pictures, shopping lists, broken down recipes, and if you are thinking of doing a whole30, there is a whole section with whole30 approved recipes. I think it's like $4.99 or something in iTunes. It is not available for droid or the iphone (iphone is too small to make use of the app's features).
 
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I bought a programmable slow cooker. It also has a meat thermometer that's tied to the timer so it switches to the warm setting when it reaches a certain temp. Can't wait to use it (I couldn't use my other one on a work day, since I'm gone too long to shut it off). It's a little smaller than my old one (6 qt, as opposed to 8), but I don't think it will matter. This question has probably been asked before, but does anyone have a slow cooker recipe they really like? I have a stout and chicken stew one I want to try, but looking for other stuff.
 
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jen said:
I bought a programmable slow cooker.
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I love my programmable Crock-Pot. It is awesome.
jen said:
This question has probably been asked before, but does anyone have a slow cooker recipe they really like? I have a stout and chicken stew one I want to try, but looking for other stuff.
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The first one that I found was a chicken chowder on Better Homes & Gardens. But, I don't actually follow it at all, I just used it as a launching pad. My grocery store doesn't carry condensed nacho cheese soup or Mexican-style stewed tomatoes, so I go with cheddar cheese soup and Italian-style stewed tomatoes, but add in an extra pound of chicken, some taco seasoning, beans (not necessary), and diced green chiles to kick some spice back into it.

The other one is chili. The one I found on Food Republic was pretty decent. Again, just some slight alterations, a pound each of ground beef and Italian sausage meat instead of two pounds of ground beef (I've heard that pork makes an excellent second meat as well), three cans of beans (not all pinto) instead of two, and usually a slightly milder pepper than jalapeno.

Really, I no longer even follow those recipes, I just needed to find the basics of what I wanted in my stew / chili / chowder.
 
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jen said:
I bought a programmable slow cooker. It also has a meat thermometer that's tied to the timer so it switches to the warm setting when it reaches a certain temp. Can't wait to use it (I couldn't use my other one on a work day, since I'm gone too long to shut it off). It's a little smaller than my old one (6 qt, as opposed to 8), but I don't think it will matter. This question has probably been asked before, but does anyone have a slow cooker recipe they really like? I have a stout and chicken stew one I want to try, but looking for other stuff.
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I made a whole chicken using the meat thermometer in mine a couple of weeks ago and it was FANTASTIC. Love the slow cooker.
 
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Made a really tasty, filling winter soup this weekend with potatoes, white beans, Andouille sausage, & kale. Thick! Warm! Enough leftovers for three days! It really was good. :) Served with some rolls right out of the oven. We had red wine with it, but a winter ale would've been great, too. Or apple cider.
 
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Made a twist on cottage pie. Roasted chunks of lamb with gravy topped by peas and arborio rice tossed with small dice butternut squash. The boys won't eat it. More for me I guess. I made chicken couch (divan) for them with the rice on the bottom. I would love to be able to cook for a foodie rather than the meat and potato type.
 
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leswp1 said:
Made a twist on cottage pie. Roasted chunks of lamb with gravy topped by peas and arborio rice tossed with small dice butternut squash. The boys won't eat it. More for me I guess. I made chicken couch (divan) for them with the rice on the bottom. I would love to be able to cook for a foodie rather than the meat and potato type.
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I'll volunteer to be your foodie :)
 
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walrus said:
I'll volunteer to be your foodie :)
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You and Shirtless both live too far away. Lil decided to like the cottage pie afterall so he had both for dinner. There may be hope after all
 
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leswp1 said:
You and Shirtless both live too far away. Lil decided to like the cottage pie afterall so he had both for dinner. There may be hope after all
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In reality I couldn't eat the cottage pie anyway, would like to, I'm sure I would enjoy it but the gut wouldn't like it.
 
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leswp1 said:
Made a twist on cottage pie. Roasted chunks of lamb with gravy topped by peas and arborio rice tossed with small dice butternut squash. The boys won't eat it. More for me I guess. I made chicken couch (divan) for them with the rice on the bottom. I would love to be able to cook for a foodie rather than the meat and potato type.
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What's not to like!? They like meat and starch (potatoes) -- you give them lamb and rice! You didn't secretly put squid and eggplant in there or something, did you? Fess up!
 
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Mr doesn't like lamb. The rice wasn't minute rice. And yes, it did taste bette than the condensed soup thing. It was dam good, in fact!
 
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