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Post by wtfhayleygeez on Nov 21, 2016 22:02:21 GMT
since i'm usually the one cooking for everyone in my house i'm starting to feel a responsibility to make sure they at least eat some vegetables, sometimes... seth's idea of eating veggies is scarfing down a couple handfuls of dry spring mix as quickly as possible as if that will somehow make him healthy. if i left maria to her own devices she would just eat porridge for every meal.
so if anyone has any go-tos for veggie dishes or meatless meals in general that they wanna share that'd be sweeeeeet. i'm tired of making the same 5 things!
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Post by wtfox on Nov 21, 2016 22:38:10 GMT
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Post by rayne on Nov 22, 2016 6:29:33 GMT
stir fry for sure. also you can make chicken Alfredo with broccoli. Plus I secretly love the Pioneer woman. I like the tasty videos on Facebook too. They're interesting.
We're doing a pot luck at work on the 16th and I'm trying to figure out how to keep perogies warm for 2.5 hours at least.
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Post by muttismycopilot on Nov 22, 2016 15:23:52 GMT
When I make something like spaghetti or lasagna, I grate a bunch of veggies and cook them into the tomato sauce. Yellow squash, zucchini, carrots, and beets (so pretty!) are all good contenders. You can also use spaghetti squash instead of noodles.
Substituting crumbled cauliflower for rice, or long thin strips of peppers and cabbage for noodles, are also good ways to pack more veggies into meals.
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Post by wtfox on Nov 22, 2016 19:45:02 GMT
stir fry for sure. also you can make chicken Alfredo with broccoli. Plus I secretly love the Pioneer woman. I like the tasty videos on Facebook too. They're interesting. We're doing a pot luck at work on the 16th and I'm trying to figure out how to keep perogies warm for 2.5 hours at least. She is the best! /no shame Seriously, when I was first learning how to cook I cooked my way through her first cookbook. It was a great starting place and I learned so much. I have all of her cookbooks.
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Post by zombitastic on Nov 22, 2016 20:03:56 GMT
stir fry for sure. also you can make chicken Alfredo with broccoli. Plus I secretly love the Pioneer woman. I like the tasty videos on Facebook too. They're interesting. We're doing a pot luck at work on the 16th and I'm trying to figure out how to keep perogies warm for 2.5 hours at least. She is the best! /no shame Seriously, when I was first learning how to cook I cooked my way through her first cookbook. It was a great starting place and I learned so much. I have all of her cookbooks. I would love to get one of her books which one would you suggest to get first?
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Post by wtfox on Nov 22, 2016 21:35:49 GMT
She is the best! /no shame Seriously, when I was first learning how to cook I cooked my way through her first cookbook. It was a great starting place and I learned so much. I have all of her cookbooks. I would love to get one of her books which one would you suggest to get first? It depends on what you need, and how experienced of a cook you are. Her first book, The Pioneer Woman Cooks; Recipes from an accidental country girl, is very simple. If you don't cook or own any cookbooks this may be the best place to start. It has a bunch of classic american recipes like pot roast, chicken pot pie, lasagna, enchiladas and mac and cheese. It has a few breakfast recipes like pancakes and few simple egg dishes. In the desert section, it has chocolate cake, red velvet cake, and few cookies. If you own a lot of cookbooks or a cook a lot, it's going to be stuff you already know how to make. But I got this cookbook when my first kid was born and I wanted to start making dinner every night. I cooked every recipe in the book and by the end, I could cook. It's not overwhelming. There are enough recipes to make it worth the price but they're all simple. The Pioneer Woman Cooks; Dinnertime, is a great place to start. This book isn't just recipes. It has a lot of information about how to manage a home kitchen. It has suggestions for how to shop, how to prep food, how to freeze food. In fact, it has a whole section of freezer foods and foods you can make ahead of time. It also has a section on 16 minute meals. It does have a breakfast food section, desserts and dinner sides. There's a lot of cross over with her first book. If you're looking for something a little more in depth this a good choice, but I can see how it would be more information and recipes than some people need. The Pioneer Woman Cooks; Food from my Frontier, is just a cookbook. It's a good cookbook and if you know how to cook and have other cookbooks it a good addition to your collection. It's got breakfast, lunch, soups, party food, dinners, sides, desserts and even a few canning recipes. It's still very accessible if you don't have a lot experience in the kitchen, but it's "fancier" food and has less basic information like how to chop an onion or freeze chili. The Pioneer Woman Cooks; A Year of Holidays, is structured around holiday food. Since it even has recipes for mother's and father's day it has a lot of stuff you could make anytime. But it's useful because it tells you how to do stuff like cook a turkey and it gives timelines of when you should start making things and how to prep to serve a big meal to a large group of people. I love it for it's Xmas cookie recipes.
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Post by zombitastic on Nov 22, 2016 22:39:50 GMT
When I moved states a few years ago my boyfriends mother got me the Joy of Cooking and its been very helpful with learning the basics for many things. I do love the recipes I've tried of the Pioneer Woman but I don't cook as often as I would like to. Thanks a bunch for the suggestions and descriptions!
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Post by katiecardigan on Nov 23, 2016 0:41:01 GMT
I made myself cheesy hashbrowns for dinner and they were probably the best food I've ever made myself (apart from cookies).
I do not know how I made it for almost 27 years without knowing that hashbrowns were something you could just ... make.
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Post by bluebananaeater on Nov 23, 2016 0:53:33 GMT
Ubereats saved me from cooking... I was going to order pizza but the one place that delivers generic, chain pizza isnt accepting orders tonight... I am not going to pick it up if I can get something better delivered.
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Post by justine on Nov 23, 2016 0:58:16 GMT
I do not know how I made it for almost 27 years without knowing that hashbrowns were something you could just ... make. That cracked me up. I love having food revelations.
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Post by weregoat on Nov 23, 2016 2:04:14 GMT
I had that same realization recently too!
i love cookbooks and i'm totally asking for Alton Brown's Everyday Cook cookbook for christmas.
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Post by justine on Nov 26, 2016 5:17:29 GMT
So the porter cupcakes were a fail. All I could taste was beer. I made chocolate coffee cupcakes that were far from my best but still pretty good. I went with a chocolate buttercream to save time and it came out pretty awesome!
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Post by rayne on Nov 26, 2016 6:41:18 GMT
This is like the time I discovered mayo in my teens.
"Mum, what's this special white sauce on my sandwich? It tastes sooo good" "Its mayo....." "Are you sure? I don't think it's mayo." "No... Its definitely mayo." "No mum I don't think it is. This is too good to be mayo" *she can't stop laughing at this point* "Its mayo, dear." "I don't think so, but I'll eat it anyways."
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Post by rawrchicken on Nov 26, 2016 7:15:59 GMT
Made most of this thanksgiving meal... A friend helped out a bit.
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