Tag: kitchen

Christmas Traditions

Every Christmas my family has a mushroom-sauerkraut soup.

We made a huge spread. . .

  • Soup
  • Mashed potatoes
  • Sweet potatoes
  • Sweet potatoes fries
  • Ham
  • Turkey
  • Gravy
  • Rolls
  • Green Bean Cassarole
  • Balalki
  • Seafood Salad
  • Smoked white fish
  • Sauerkraut balls
  • Two types of stuffing

Desserts

  • Oatmeal cookies
  • Apple pie
  • Pumpkin Pie
  • Cherry pie
  • 5 Chocolate Brownie (*that is blog on itself.)

 

Thanksgiving food

This Thanksgiving I was very grateful for . . .

1. A roof over my head

2. Good family and friends

3. Kitchen to cook

4. So much awesome food.

Zero, turtle and I took over the kitchen and cooked so much.

We had so many sweet potatoes.. .we baked some as wedges and made sweet potatoes fried with cinammon glaze. We also made sweet potato skins.

We made two stuffed turkeys

We made dark forest and punkin cakes.

We had a huge spread.

  • Turkey
  • Stuffing
  • Awesome gravy
  • Mashed potatoes
  • Sweet potatoes in three different ways
  • Green bean casserole with bacon
  • Cream corn casserole with bacon
  • Baked beans
  • Cranberry sauce
  • Rolls

It was a very nice holiday.

Busy Weekend

Theme: Bacon

Zero, Turtle and I got another change to work in the huge kitchen again. Saturday we made so much. It was a really nice night, and we accomplished so much.

Zero made Mayo and BBQ chicken  with homemade mashed potatoes.
The mayo chicken was creamy and really good with some black pepper over those mashed potatoes.

mayo Chicken.jpg

Then we got out the bacon. . . 

Zero made two meatloaves . . . Plain BBQ glaze and cheesy stuffed bacon wrapped one.
 I personally loved the bacon wrapped meatloaf just a bit more. (It was even better the next day.)

bacon meatloaf 2

 

Turtle made a roasted chicken with bacon and green pepper stuffing.
It was really good and very juicy. I also didn’t realized that green pepper was that good in stuffing. I learned a few things this weekend.

roasted chicken with stuffing and bacon

We also got a bag gruyere cheese from a friend as they have extra. We took the cheese sauce with thinly sliced potatoes and of course bacon and made our own homemade au gratin potatoes. 

 

gruyere augrutin potatoes

We also made bacon saute yellow squash and french fries. 

We had so much food left over. I didn’t have to cook on Sunday. We had left over for dinner and still some left. Yay.

It was nice that we put down the Internet and the phone and just focused on the food. Sometime we need to forget everything around us and focus on what in front.

By the way, I love bacon!

Simple Biscuits

Zeroman and went shopping last Friday (so we could what I posted about Soupy Saturday.)
We got store brand cheap biscuits, but all he did was melt a bit of butter and made biscuits that would have costed us two dollars of more a roll.

There are only a few things I will buy that are name brand
(soda: I’m a Pepsi or 7up girl, Tide, I love the smell and it doesn’t make me
itch, and usually coffee I love Maxwell house.)

Growing up, I didn’t usually use too many fancy stuff. We would add things and make things look fancy.

A simple roll of biscuits can do many things.

We had sausage gravy over the same buttery biscuits.

You can make dumplings, mini pizza, hot dog rolls, semi-homemade cinnamon rolls. (All you need are just a few extra ingredients).

I couldn’t believe we just paid sixty-nine cents per roll.

Soupy Weekend

Out kitchen situation is very complicated. We got an opportunity to be in a kitchen large enough for all three of us to cook. So Saturday (March 9th) we decided to make stew and soups.

Zeroman made Stew. It was extremely peppery and favoriful. It should be sold in diners. It was a bit thin on the first day, but it thicken up by the second day. I forgot to get a picture.

Turtle, Zeroman, and I made cheesy broccoli soup and Clam chowder. They were awesome and lasted almost four days. We also made biscuits and fish with it.

Cheesy Chicken and Broccoli Soup. It was very creamy and rich. I had hold myself back from over eating. I enjoyed the larger chunks of broccoli and chicken.

Clam chowder. It was full of clam and had amazing rich and flavorful creamy broth. It was a bit thinner than I want. However it turned out awesome for our first try at Clam Chowder.

To end an awesome Soup and Stew Saturday,
I even made a fruit cocktail yellow dump cake.
It’s simple empty a can or two of fruit cocktail on the bottom with the liquid. Then make a yellow cake mix and pour over.
Bake at 350 just as cake box suggests.

You can serve with ice cream or whipped cream.

Sunday (March 10Th) Turtle and I took left over biscuits, some ham, 3 minute eggs, and then drizzled the left over cheese soup over all of it. It was our simplified Eggs Benedict for breakfast. . . it was awesome. I almost just as good as a hollandaise sauce.