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Last night M and I (mostly M) put together pasta sauce in the crock pot to be put on this morning.

Except I forgot.  *headdesk*

I transferred it to a pot and put it on just now, but I'm annoyed with myself.

On the other hand, there are butterscotch squares cooking in the oven, to be taken to NYC with us for Christmas.  Tonight or tomorrow I have to make 3 loaves of cranberry bread for the ladies at daycare.

I had so much fun with my photo series of cranberry bread that I did a handful of shots of the squares as well.  I should go shoot one of them in the oven.  And one of the timer.  I hope I don't overdo them - they're very finicky things, so I set the oven about 25 degrees cooler and the timer for 5 minutes too short so I can closely monitor the last bit.

ETA:  The squares, they are perfect.  Yay!

is terribly, terribly tasty.  The meat is so tender that it literally falls of the bone.  It's not too spicy but has a bit of a slow, very flavorful burn.  But the sauce doesn't keep well - it really needs to be eaten hot out of the pot.  Ah well...  It will be a "company dish" for sure.  TRex wolfed it up, too - you can never go wrong putting rice and broccoli (bocki) in front of her, but she ate most of a chicken thigh, too.

And I devilled eggs tonight.  Yummy, yummy devilled eggs.  There was 1 egg that broke... too bad, I had to eat it to put it out of its misery.  And M won't appreciate them.  Oh well, his loss, more for the rest of us.  :^D  (My improvised devilled egg recipe:  11 egg yolks (forgot to cut one - oops), 2 glops of may, 1 glop of dijon mustard, a pinch of cumin (because EVERYTHING is better with cumin), and paprika (both in the filling and dusted generously over the top).)

Saturday night cooking at our house this week included one new recipe and one old.

New: Humble Vegetable Casserole (from The Enchanted Broccoli Forest)
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We also made an old standard, from The Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home: Herbed Pea Soup. ( I'm doing this from memory, so quantities will be approximate )

Warning: this is *so* not approved by ANY weight loss plan that I know of. But it's yummy.

White Pizzadilla
1 tortilla
shredded mozzarella cheese
garlic powder
dried basil and oregano
sliced baby bella mushrooms

Top tortilla with all other stuff. microwave for 1 min. Roll up and eat.

I wish I had remembered that we had a red onion in the fridge, because that would have been a tastytasty addition.

I've been meaning to post about some of our culinary creations for a while, but haven't had time. And now I have time, so here goes.

This weekend's cookery:
( Horseradish Dill Sauce )

( Chickpea Rice )

( Stuffed Biscuits )

Previous weeks' cookery:
( Baked Chimichangas )

And finally...
( Spicy Black Bean & Yam Chili )

So there you have it. Cookery fun in our kitchen. Oh, and M made a lasagna almost entirely unsupervised a couple of weeks ago. I told him what to do at each step, but he did all the cooking himself. It's all in the freezer, so we don't know yet how it came out.

M and I have started a new habit, basically necessitated by our need to get dinner into TRex by 5:30 pm or so. That means that if we don't ALL eat dinner by 5:30, he and I don't eat until 7:30 at the earliest, which is later than we want to be sitting down. So anyway, we've started cooking a bunch of food on Saturday evenings after she goes to bed. Last night I made two veggie lasagnas, 1 1/2 of which are now happily hanging out in our freezers. (baronessmartha, more and more of the deep freeze is going to actual people food as the freezer stash gets smaller and smaller... we're now using milk from mid-July. We also need to sock food away just to have something to put in the freezer to keep it cold!) This also gives us the opportunity to experiment with new recipes! A couple of weeks ago I made some turkey burgers with feta cheese in them, which were also yummy. Anyway, I bet some of you want to know what my lasagna recipe is. ( And if you don't, well, don't click on this link. )

I also made a very tasty carrot soup last night... (which we actually ate for dinner last night). I got it off of the Weight Watchers site years ago but had never tried it. Rob's carrot ginger soup it ain't, but it was still pretty tasty. I used low-sodium broth & it really needed more salt, but that's easy to fix on an individual level. Recipe forthcoming when I look it up.