What's for dinner? - 2015

Winchester said:

Well, Monday is Dear Richard's birthday, so we're celebrating today. I have two nice rib-eye steaks in the fridge and we are doing twice-baked potatoes. The very last of the corn on the cob from the garden (I swear we didn't have any left, but Rick found four ears. I think I need a new What's in the Freezer list!). Dessert is a strawberry pie made with berries from the freezer.

I am so grateful for that foodsaver! They say that a foodsaver will keep foods in
great shape for a good two years in the freezer and we have found that to be true.

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Stewball said:

what's a food saver?

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Winchester said:

Judy, a food saver is a small appliance that sucks the air out of plastic bags of food. It's to keep the food fresher for a longer period of time in the freezer. Since we freeze a lot, a food saver has really come in handy for us, especially when I'm freezing for long-term storage, better than using regular Ziploc or Hefty freezer bags or a bunch of freezer containers. Since we got the food saver, I've been able to keep foods in our freezer for a longer time without having freezer burn. I think it works quite well.

For short-term storage (less than two months or so), I'll use regular freezer bags. 

Not sure about dinner tonight. Rick is working some OT and won't be home until later. I may get a container of vegetarian vegetable soup out of the freezer.

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Stewball said:

that sounds jolly good. I presume you have a proper freezer and I cook so little my fridge freezer is fine
mind you I had one of my sleepless nights again last night so I got up at about 5.30am, didn't feel like reading for a few hours, and I baked a plain warm milk cake which came out light and after I'd washed up all that stuff I made mac and cheese. Haven't tasted that yet. Washed up again. Why didn't I use the dish washer? Then I went back bed and got about 3 hours shut eye. I'm tired and my back hurts. Still it was b productive

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Stewball said:

that sounds jolly good. I presume you have a proper freezer and I cook so little my fridge freezer is fine
mind you I had one of my sleepless nights again last night so I got up at about 5.30am, didn't feel like reading for a few hours, and I baked a plain warm milk cake which came out light and after I'd washed up all that stuff I made mac and cheese. Haven't tasted that yet. Washed up again. Why didn't I use the dish washer? Then I went back bed and got about 3 hours shut eye. I'm tired and my back hurts. Still it was b productive

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Winchester said:

Judy, your warm milk cake.....my mom used to a make a hot milk sponge cake. I'm assuming that's the same thing? Her hot milk sponge cake was made in a 13 x 9-inch pan. It was kind of dense, not real light, but it was really good. It's a pretty thin batter, but bakes up well. I have her recipe and I make it often when my sister and BIL come for dinner as it's one of my BIL's favorite cakes. Mom used to frost it with a chocolate icing, so that's what I do, too. 

Tonight we are having spicy shrimp wraps with mango salsa. Mangoes are on sale right now for 50 cents each, so I bought a couple to make salsa. Those shrimp wraps are darn good and we haven't had them in a while. It's basically shrimp and coleslaw in a wrap and topped with the salsa. The salsa is made with the mangoes, some peaches, ketchup, and low-sodium taco seasoning. When I first saw the recipe many years ago, I thought, "Ick." But they are delicious.

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jcat said:

@Stewball You'd probably call a food saver a (vacuum) food sealer. They're a great invention. We not only use ours for garden vegetables, but to break down bags of cat food. Mogli eats so little of it that a medium-sized bag lasts forever, so I divide it up into small portions and vacuum-pack them.

We're having leftover roast beef tonight, with some kind of veggies.

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