Still staying home -“cooking” maybe not so much. Tonight is Costco rotisserie chicken and I made a corn caprese salad and a blueberry cucumber goat cheese salad. Maybe some of the leftover gazpacho. Warming some farmers market bread. Just simple toss it together items.
@abasket that looks good. I browsed that site and it looks like some delicious recipes. I think I’ll try the Lebanese chicken with charred cauliflower this week. I have all the ingredients. I’m trying at the beginning of the week to take an inventory of what I have on hand and to try to reduce food waste.
We’ve been overcome with laziness lately, so very little real cooking going on here. Still doing no-contact pickup from Walmart for groceries except for a once every 3 - 4 weeks quick run into Publix. Splurged on take-out meals (no-contact pickup) three times this month; that’s as much as the previous five months combined.
Walmart carries frozen peeled and deveined Gulf shrimp in various sizes. We use a lot of it for salads and soup or over zucchini noodles. I order one of each size just to try to get something. Usually I’ll get at least one but have never gotten all.
Today I learned that Fresh Market is doing curbside pickup. Once I see what we actually get from our Walmart order, I’ll give it a try. FM has a good deal on baby back ribs. When we first stopped using sugary BBQ sauce we missed the flavor, but now we enjoy ribs without any sauce as long as they’re cooked low and slow.
@Silpat we fell in love with Jones BBQ sauce https://www.jonesbbqkc.com/
It is black owned business that was featured on Queer Eye so DD decided to try it. It is sweet but also tangy.
Had take out last night- that probably only about the fifth time or so.
It was cool and rainy all day so I made a quiche for dinner tonight.
We’ve been doing more take-out dinners than we’ve done since March because we have a huge crop of Habaneros. We’ve spent most of the weekend and today making habanero peach jam. We live in a part of MA where there are lots of fruit trees, so we’ve used local peaches and habaneros. We’ve been experimenting with low sugar pectin for several batches of the jam (the amount of sugar in most recipes is huge). This is the second year we’ve been making the jam and it seems easier. A local cafe (my daughter’s partner’s dad owns it) has started using our jam for several entrees and it is apparently a huge hit with the customers. The chef thinks we should sell it, but that would require a cottage kitchen license and that’ more work than I want to do.
^^ OMG I’d buy some!!!
Thanks for the tip! I checked it out and the carb count is reasonable. It also has no HFCS.
Last birthday in August was for our D (junior year HS) . Individual beef Wellingtons with green peppercorns sauce. Served with a nice Rioja. Dessert was key lime pie.
I would totally buy some of that jam! One year we had an abundance of hot peppers and made a peach and pepper jelly. It was so good, on crackers with cream cheese and especially as a glaze for pork loin. Yum, now you’ve got me thinking I should go look at my canning supplies…
Still staying in a lot here and still cooking. Last night we grilled; H and the kids had bratwursts and I had a salmon patty. Served with a side of cowboy caviar.
@mom60, you’ll see me post a lot of recipes from Half Baked Harvest. I seriously love her cooking style. I’m made many, many of her recipes and can only remember one that I made that I thought I wouldn’t rush to repeat.
I picked up some flatbread when I had my mom at Aldi this weekend so I’m thinking Flatbread Pizzas for tonight. Quick and easy.
@abasket - D likes a lot of recipes from Half Baked Harvest.
Made fried chicken cutlets with angel hair pasta tonight with fresh garden salad and homemade garlic bread. Always a favorite
QUESTION: After breading chicken, the left over breadcrumbs and eggs are mixed together and then fried. What is that called???
^^^^ I’ve never heard of doing this?!!!
@abasket Did you see the HBH recipe/post for homemade nutterbutter cookies? Those look awesome! 
Is it like this?
http://www.anitaliancanadianlife.ca/recipes/pitticelle-di-pane
@doschicos Yep, that’s them. Pittiduci, Couldn’t remember name. Thanks
@abasket you are living a sheltered life. Lol. Try it next time you’re breading, you’ll be hooked?
Wow, I have never heard of that! I do always feel wasteful tossing the extra breadcrump mixture!
@doschicos OMG yes I saw the nutter butter cookies - wow!
Never tried to make mole —always figuredit would be too difficult. Last night, we decided to do Mexican food and H got a recipe for chicken mole. It wasn’t hard and tasted great. This is the recipe: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/213733/chicken-mole
Served it with Texmati rice, warm corn tortillas and a cucumber/tomato salad (both from our garden).
@Bromfield2 I have to admit that I am a mole snob. I grew up enjoying my grandmothers mole that she painstakingly made from scratch (she was Mexican national from Oxaca). Sadly, I never learned from her how to make it and I have never had anything that was exactly right. But, I did run across a fairly simple recipe that featured mole as a component in a really great tasting burger. This burger recipe is really good, but you can just make the mole, add roasted chicken an have a great meal. It’s a little more complicated than the recipe you listed, but I venture to guess it will deliver much greater depth of taste. Give it a try if you can…