What's Cooking?

 It's been fun to concentrate our meals based on the oldest of whatever we have in the freezer.  It also makes me pay attention to what we use more of, or less of, and what other ideas think of.

One idea, was to thaw a pound of ground chicken and try making breakfast "sausage" patties for breakfast sandwiches with egg, and cheese.  

The results?

Bagels were too big for the Sandwich.

Delicous!  We discovered (if I didn't already mention it), that the yogurt bagel recipe (making 4 bagels), makes bagels too big for breakfast sandwiches.  Next time I will make bagel "thins" for this purpose.  Homemade English muffin would be good for these too.

Back to the chicken pattie, that is mixed up with sausage flavorings....so good!  It's a nice change in breakfast meat, and much healthier than sausage and bacon.  It's added to our rotation now.  It does not taste as good as a sage sausage would, but it's pretty good.  It passed my picky husband's taste test too.

Here is what mixed in 1 pound of ground chicken:  Recipe is online free from Lauren from Scratch.  One pound of ground chicken makes 6 breakfast patties.

New vegetable side dish tried - Buttter Bean and wild Rice Salad with Steamed Greens and Roasted Cauliflower.  What's in it?  Green beans, butter beans, wild rice, spinach, cauliflower and red onion (and seasonings, with a homemade dressing in the end).

Recipe is in this book, that I borrowed for the library - The Better Bean Cookbook, by Jenny Chandler.  However, I did not steam the green beans, and I thawed blanched spinach.  I pre-cooked the frozen garden green beans for this, and added it all together in the end.  We loved it, but the curry you put on the cauliflower lingers in the air the rest of the night.  It was a strange set of ingredients to put together, but utilized the green beans and spinach we had in the freezer.  Also, it stated that it's good a salad, but we ate it warmed up as a side dish.

Nothing new here, but we enjoyed crock pot pork chops, simply seasoned, and with an entire freezer container (thawed) of homemade cream of mushroom soup on top.  So tender, so simple, and so good.  One freezer container is equal to a can of condensed soup you buy at the store (only better ingredients). 

What's Cooking?  © November 2024 by Kristina at Pioneer Woman at Heart

Another Fall and Other Tidbits

 Hot Mess Express here to tell you another tale (or two).  I had opened the dishwasher, while standing at the sink to load it, and to set it to wash, when 2 seconds after opening it my mind took a quick turn.  I saw the drain the sink needing to be cleaned, so I had picked it up out of the sink, and turned to walk to the trash.

When the dishwasher door is open and the tray is not pulled out, it is all gray, which is the same color of our flooring.

You probably know where this is going, right?

I hit the open dishwasher door with both legs, flew over the door, landed on the other side on my right knee.  Yes, I have bruises, and no the dishwasher didn't break, but the door needs some TLC (my husband will look at it).  He laughed, and asked if I had it all on video.  It's funny now, but not when I look at my bruises.  Thank goodness for Arnica cream.

What did I learn from this?  Turn on more lights when it's dark and dreary outside, and maybe put a light on the countertop for extra winter lighting.

The other "bonk" was when I was leaning over to sweep behind the dryer (last weekend), and when I stood up, I forgot there was a cupboard on the wall.  Smack!  Yep.  Smacked my head into the bottom of the cupboard.  

Got my dental cleaning off the calendar, and there was not one person in the waiting room.  

I have drained the yarrow infused oil, and just need a day to make the salve.  I at least have the amber jars washed and drying.

I got the chicken coop mucked, and added extra straw.  The weather forecast is not that appealing this coming weekend.  The weather for us, is said to dip into the low 20's at night.

I forgot to share this tidbit about the rechargeable light bulbs.  They come with the charge cord and an attachment to screw onto the bulb, to hang the bulb too.  You can use them camping, or in an emergency (power outage).  We have a small generator that will charge them.

As for the search for the solar chargeable light bulbs, the link to the one shared by another blog poster, is out of stock (and has been out of stock (says "currently unavailable") since October).  I'm still looking for them.

A "ta-da" moment.  First book to borrow from the library since May, and finish reading it before it was due!  I have read many James Patterson books, and this one was definitely different.  I have the next book already lined up, but it's one of my own.  I love that our library gives out free bookmarks.

Another home "project is underway, so I have not had time to write a post regarding the bread baked in the cast iron skillet (featured blog post).  Hopefully soon.

Another Fall and Other Tidbits  © November 2024 by Kristina at Pioneer Woman at Heart