Calling All Cooks... What Have You Made?
 

I am making something today that takes about four hours start to finish. It's on the stove now, just below a simmer, for three hours. It's from Bon Appetite--BA's Best Bolognese. I've been looking at it for over a year, watched the video of Andy Barghani making it--not difficult but I never took the time. I watched the video again twice before starting. We shall see. If I like it, next time I will make it with Beyond Meat. Or maybe we'll be let out of our cages onto the pickleball court, and I'll never make it again.



What have you made while stuck inside (my golf buddies flew the coop back to Canada). Something new? Something you made up (looking at you, Tomwed!)? Something you've made before but didn't have the time till now...?


I'd enjoy hearing about it.:)

I made minestrone last week. I’ve been wanting to do so for awhile and took the opportunity since I wanted to do something different other than reading or knitting. The recipe that follows shows sprinkling Parmesan on before eating, which I hadn’t heard of doing but boy, it was good. I’ve never cooked with zucchini before (I know, right?) but I liked it.
Simple Italian Minestrone Soup | The Mediterranean Dish

I also tried my hand at Churros. I had to use a zip lock bag to squeeze into the hot oil. Two things I will do next time is make the hole MUCH smaller; on my first try, they ended up looking like t**ds. The second thing I will do differently is to make a double batch, as they’re really good!
Churros Recipe - Allrecipes.com | Allrecipes

That's two feces-related comments today, and they both made me laugh out loud.:1rotfl:

I braised lamb shanks in homemade gravy, the same with short ribs, smoked brisket on the green egg and made gravy with meatballs and 2 types of sausage. Basic stuff grillled lamb chops, marinated pork tenderloin, grilled steak, turkey thighs and marinated salmon several times.

Riding a time machine today. Tuna casserole. Married 53 years and probably haven't had one since around year five.

Using leftover marinara sauce, leftover rice, some leftover ground beef from making burgers and some extra peppers and onions. Created one of my favorite soups, stuffed pepper soup. To me it tastes like my grandmothers stuffed peppers but in a soup.

Trying to make some crock pot chili recipes and trying different cornbread recipes. I never tried grinding up some older popping corn for my cornmeal but it worked out just fine when the store shelves were bare!

Really digging the different pizza dough recipes found online! Pizzas, calzones and focaccia have never been easier and more tasteful than in my kitchen!

Also various types of homemade breads and muffins.

Red beans and rice with smoked sausage.

Cheese grits with shrimp!

You guys are better cooks than I am!:coolsmiley:

my wife and I both enjoy cooking and it's been a hobby of ours for years (there was a time that we'd take cooking classes at culinary colleges on the weekends)....

we routinely create a two week menu...which makes shopping easier....so here's what we've been up do:

a week ago my home made Limoncello matured after 80 days...that's now bottled
last Friday we made Choppino (Italian fish stew...8 types of fish)
Saturday we made Chicken Fajitas
Sunday we made Pasta e Fagioli
Today we made Tiramisu...and we're having Pasta Puttanesca for dinner
Tuesday is Porchetta (Italian roast pork with fennel) and baked carrots in ricotta

on Thursday we'll cut up about 20 lbs of pork butt add our ingredients, let is sit 24 hours in the fridge and make sausages on Friday

sometime this week I'm going to make Welsh Rarebit for the first time

next week we're actually making Chateaubriand for the first time...we'll cheat on how we make the demi-glace though and save about 8 hours by using ready made beef stock in the demi-glace recipe

later next week we're making a lamb and okra stew, another night Vongole Bianco (clams and pasta), and bourbon short ribs on another

we don't make an involved meal every day and often there's enough left over for a second meal....and some days it's just one of our many home made soups and a grilled cheese sandwich.

mangia, mangia

My peppers from last year are still producing. Stuffed jalapeño, la Bomba’s and Cajun bells, with Serrano diced in. This Year I got hot banana, numex big Jim’s, sahuaro’s, Aji Rico’s, Mariachi’s, and cayenne for some heat. I also make crushed red pepper flakes from cayenne. We pickle some of them also. All grown in 25 gallon pots.

My wife excellent cook and we enjoy fixing meals we like. So the current restaurant crisis don’t bother us.

Mrs. KC made a great shrimp and sausage jambalaya last night. ������������������������

My son-in-law would worship you!

tonight a pot of chili is bubbling and a cherry pie is in the oven...Pillsbury pie crust cheating.

Will that pie be cooling on a window ledge reachable from the ground by a 6' tall fellow?

Easy to grow in pots down here and they can keep growing for few years and producing. Don’t need much room for pot and little sun shine. Down here white flies will attack leaves in summer and early fall, only thing I have found that limits fruiting.

Lamb chops, bananas foster

I took an Ina Garten (she's great) recipe and used some ideas from a Jenny Jones video to make stuffed cabbage. Easy, peasy and great comfort food. Enough for 4 meals for the 2 of us. Froze half of it.

I can't wait till cherries come in season. I'm going to make Claire Saffitz's cherry biscuit cobbler. Cherry Biscuit Cobbler Recipe | Bon Appetit.

Thanks. I love stuffed cabbage. I looked up this recipe and will try it soon.

Ina Garten has a new cookbook titled Modern Comfort Food. But, alas, the publishing date is in the fall. I wish she would speed it up. Many of us could use it right now.

The info on Amazon tells all about what will be in it — comfort food, for sure. I put the book on pre-order so I don’t forget about it.

Last week I decided to make tuna casserole without noodles to reduce the carbs. Afterwards I realized I had re-invented Tuna a la King.

I've been on something of a corned beef kick; sometimes as a meal but mostly to make hash. I love it with lots of onion and cabbage. I've also discovered there's such a thing as canned chopped potatoes; they have a firm texture and are easy to crisp up before adding to the hash.

I'm stereotypically old and required to eat soup, so make a batch of cream of vegetable (broccoli, zucchini, cauliflower, tomato, asparagus, carrot) a couple of times a week. Sometimes I'll bust out with chicken tortilla, woot!

Toad in the Hole, with peppered Cumberland Sausages.
Shepherds Pie.
Chicken, bacon and leak pie.
Lamb, beef and pork casseroles.
Lasagne.
Chuck it all in fruit cake.
Chocolate muffins.
Gallons of tea.

How did it turn out? If well please share the recipe.

Chicken wings. Mine better than most pubs.

Comfort food of the south

Chicken fried steak and gravy
Seasoned collard greens
Pintos
Fried okra (yum)
Fried or mashed potatoes
Homemade cornbread in cast iron skillet
Sliced tomatoes
Peach cobbler or homemade banana pudding

Love simple

Watch the salt!

Challah bread.

I like to cook, but am not into fussy. I like to keep it simple and use as few pots/pans as possible. Our “corona cuisine”:

We start almost every dinner with a salad, either traditional greens or caprese.

Over the last month I’ve made two rib roasts in the oven, two different BBQ briskets in the crock pot, simple one pot beef stroganoff using ground beef and sour cream, creamy curry chicken with naan, Italian chicken, homemade meatballs with red sauce over pasta, baked pork chops, Italian sausage and farfalle pasta, lemon cream chicken, burritos, sloppy joe. We buy cheap cheese pizzas from Aldi and doctor them up ourselves, and they are as good as what you get from most pizza joints around here.

There are only 2 of us, and these dinners usually make enough for a second or even third meal.

Bon apetit!

1st batch of fresh off the dock Chesapeake Bay crabs!

I have an instant pot and have been making soups (15 bean, pea soup and I varied the way I have made them, adding more veggies). Love my instant pot. I also make my steel cut oats in the instant pot every 3 day. Going to make chickpeas in it later.

We are trying to loose weight so have made many things with ground turkey. Yesterday it was Shepard's pie with a cauliflour mashed potato top and fresh green beans. Today it's pizza with turkey pepperoni, canned tomatoes and low fat cheese.

I took a trip back to my childhood and made one of my favorite meals sloppy Joe’s.

We made - Strawberry Vodka; Strawberry Jam; Mixed Berry Jam; Butter Soaked Biscuits; Peanut Butter Brownies; Chicken Pot Pie; BBQ Ribs; Collard Greens w/Ham Hock; BBQ Prime Rib, Shrimp with Cheesy Grits; Ham & Au gratin Potatoes; Spinach Salad with Hot Bacon Dressing; Tortellini, Spinach & Sausage Soup; Butter Chicken over Cauliflower Rice; Calzones ......

I’ve been making the recipes in the Daily Sun. Really liked the chicken with roasted lemons and capers. It takes time ...well worth it.

Saw a video on how to make one bowl LEMON BROWNIES. I had to try it. Easy and delicious and best of all, I only dirtied one bowl!

I love challah, makes the best French toast, been buying mine at TJs mine does not compare

I'm a challah baker too. A couple weeks ago I made 3 enormous loaves. It's a 4+ hour recipe because it has to rise three times before baking. 5 eggs, 4 cups flour, no bread machine, and I don't own a mixer so it's all done in a big bowl with a wooden spoon, and I knead with my hands on a huge bamboo cutting board, old-style. I leave it on the screened lanai with a moist hot towel covering it to rise.

I've made banana breaad, tollhouse cookies, shrimp scampi, meatloaf, meatballs and sauce over penne, chicken salad. Same as usual.

I have food network live cooking on my 8”echo show, can take the classes anytime, pause, makes anything easy when you can see it in person compared to a cookbook. Everyday the are multiple show, plus the ones you missed

Where did you find Lamb Shanks?

Yummm! You are making me hungry!