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[Ohio Sue]

Recipe sounds great!   Will give it a try.   (So glad the fish and mash were separate!!) 

[Charcoal Sniper P.]

Charcoal's Chicken Soup Recipe (from my half Pennsylvania Dutch [German] and half Russian Jewish family, the roasted bones part courtesy of my fiancée who is a chef)

Day one:  Roast a chicken in the oven.  I rub poultry seasoning  and salt under the skin,  I make my own Poultry seasoning because I have all the herbs anyway but you can buy a mixture if you don't have them all already.  I rub the skin with butter.  I stuff the chicken with an onion that I have quartered, a carrot and some celery.  I also roast the chicken on a bed of these veggies instead of on a roasting rack.  I put a half cup of water in the pan, so that there is moisture in the oven.  Time depends on size of Chicken, I roast my chicken at 325 degrees F.

We have chicken for dinner.  refrigerate leftover chicken with the bones the drippings and also the Veggies.

Day two:
dismantle the chicken.  take the meat off the bones take the good pieces of chicken and put them in the refrigerator covered.  Put the veggies from under and inside the chicken, skin, fat and not so yummy (pieces with gristle...) pieces of chicken off to the side.  I use my hands and tear the chicken.

Toss the bones with a bit of oil or butter.  Roast the bones in the oven until they are slightly darker in color (golden Brown).

Cut up a few additional fresh Onions (quartered), Carrots (large pieces) and celery stalks(large pieces).

Bring 8-10 cups of water to a boil in a large pot (stock pot, or dutch oven).
to the  boiling water add:
just roasted Bones
the previously roasted chicken parts (minus the "good chicken")
both the roasted and fresh Veggies   
the drippings (reserved from when you roasted the chicken) 
More poultry seasoning (tbsp?)
whole peppercorns (like 20)
whole cloves (like 5)
1 Bay leaf

Boil (covered or uncovered, but if you boil uncovered you will need to add more water every half hour or so) for 4 or more hours.  Taste liquid to see if stock is to watery or strong.  If to watery boil uncovered until stock reduces some, or add bouillon or chicken base (we haven't added salt yet so it shouldn't be salty unless you added bouillon or base, both of which are very salty) If to strong add water.  You can also add canned broth, which wont water down the taste and will take on the flavor of your stock  (I sometimes do this when there isn't enough stock to make soup, but the flavor is right so I don't want to add water and water it down)

Remove from heat and strain through a colander (if you want a clearer soup, line the calendar with cheese cloth) into a bowl or another large pot.  Discard everything left in the colander.  Let cool for a while and skim of the fat with a spoon or alternatively use a fat separator to remove the fat.

Put the stock (in a large pot) back onto the stove and bring to a boil.
Cut another Carrot into 1/4 inch rounds (for rustic don't peel it, for less rustic do peel it).

Add carrot to the Boiling Stock.

Add back the reserved "Good" chicken.  (tear it into large bite sized pieces as you add it in)

add salt to taste.

Options:
Add large egg noodles (take 11 minutes to cook in boiling soup)

Add Matzo Balls (take 45 minutes or so to cook in boiling soup)

 I use the recipe on the back of the Manishevitz (spelling?) Matzo Meal container except I increase the amount of matzo meal by half and I add salt and pepper.  I would be happy, if you want this recipe to go look it up, just ask me.

[alt01]

I'm chilling a homemade cherry vinagrette for a bleu-cheese/arugala salad, being the snobby elitist that my Obama supporting self MUST be!

[TRConnie]

It's kind of cool here (nice change) and so I'm giving serious thought to black bean soup and some sort of peasant bread.  My black bean soup is very unorthodox - lots of tomatoes and a splash of cardamon provide a different black bean experience.

Hmmmm, just talked myself into it

Connie

[CzarCaustic]

Tonight:

Grilled Ribeyes (Med-rare)
Chimichurri sauce I threw together in the food processor
Baked Potatoes
Green Salad (ceasar bacon dressing)
Cuban bread toast points
Sweet Tea

It was killer!

[AME]

I made mushroom/barley stew in the crockpot, three kinds of mushrooms with onions, garlic, celery, carrots, black pepper, soy sauce, merlot ... it was gooooooood

[schnauzer]

Chicken Marcella (Macaroni Grill mix) just add chicken, butter and water.

Ummm.

[Kathy]

Cardamon in black beans! MMMmmm. Lots of good veggie dishes here. We had Trader Joe's black lentils tonight, with carrots, onions, garlic, curry, and cinnamon. And brown rice with orange zest, cranberries, and pecan pieces.

Pantry meals, we're going to be eating a lot more of them! Does anybody have a copy of the Tightwad Gazette? If not, get one--it was the recession survival manual of the '80s, and I don't know how we'd get through without it.

[AME]

Hi, Kathy,
I've been a vegetarian for 38 years.
Tonight, almost the entire meal came from Farmer's Market  - made a salad with green leaf lettuce, heirloom tomatoes, grated carrot, sliced cucumber, and falafel balls from the falafel stand!!  Pretty much an instant dinner.  I added some TJ's  Goddess Dressing.

[Deb the SwinePrincess]

Apple Crisp!!! fresh apples from a friend's tree.  Yum. smells great and not quite ready yet.

[A Blizzard of Words]

I've had bronchitis for over a week now, missed all but 5 hours of work last week and have lost about 5 lbs.

But yesterday, I had a real hankerin' (as SP would say  ) for meat loaf and mashed potatoes, comfort food.  Managed to crawl to the grocery store, couldn't find any meat loaf mix so I bought over a pound of nice, fatty chopped beef.  Got the veggies and bread chopped in the food processor and put it together to cook. 

It was delicious, although I have to admit that the mashed potatoes were "prepared" but they tasted good anyway.

~~

P.S. Followed by a good slug of SoCo and lime. 

[TRConnie]

I'm like some animals, when I get stressed I go off my feed. The last 3 weeks have been mind-boggling difficult.   While the good news is I've lost 13 pounds I badly needed to lose, the bad news is this is a not a good strategy for dealing with stress.   And now I have a cold so the lesson has negative, real life consequences (the best way to learn).

So.  I'm starving.  I want comfort food or maybe Mexican food.  The post about meatloaf and mashed 'taters had me drooling on the keyboard.  Then I thought about beef stew with big, fluffy dumplings cooked on top, but then the idea of shredded beef enchiladas with guacamole sounded appealing.  I wouldn't turn down cabbage rolls or a roasted cornish hen either.  Some singapore noodles or maybe a nice szechuan garlic sauce and broccoli.  I'm starving.

I am NOW so hungry that I'll probably do something really dumb like hit Fast Food R Us's drive thru.

Connie

[TRConnie]

I compromised.  I went to a little mom & pop place that specializes in comfort food.  I generally find the food too unseasoned to be anything special, but I remembered they make killer countryfried steak and mashed potatoes.  Along with that, I had cornbread, pinto beans and green beans.  I stared at the cobbler for a bit, but decided I was already in need of someone to help me waddle to the car.

I'm stuffed to the gills and all the food was very good.

Connie

[mimi]

 

A wonderful custardy rice pudding:

3/4 ups partially cooked and drained Basamati rice (nutty flavor from India not the California stuff)
3/4 C Sugar
3 Eggs
4 C whole milk (from your organic grocer or cow)

Mix in raisins, nuts, apples or whatever you like
A little salt
A lot of cinnamon

Set your baking bowl in a pie dish of water

Bake at 350 until you can put a knife in the middle of the pudding and it comes out clean - all the cinnamon will rise to the top but that's just how it is

Most excellent comfort food on a chilly rainy night or in the middle of the winter  Yummy!

[Steve]

I miss you, Starbucks! I miss my pumpkin spices coffee. I try putting cinnamon and nutmeg etc into mine at home but it is not the same.

Try allspice and ginger.

[Snoskred]

Ooh, I might have to make this..

Pumpkin Swirl Brownies

[Steve]

Ooh, I might have to make this..
Pumpkin Swirl Brownies

With canned pumpkin and cayenne pepper? Yuk. Real pumpkin is worth the effort in preparation, and any one or more of allspice, ginger, maybe cloves will give it the right kind of extra zing if you want it. This is an ideological matter, and must be handled correctly.

BTW, chili powder and cayenne are not the same thing. Cayenne is bad enough, chili powder is totally out of bounds. This is serious! Really!

[Snoskred]

No, with real pumpkin - I'd take the cayenne out I was going to ask what a solid pack pumpkin was

I am a big fan of cayenne but not in sweet things. I am allergic to chili, unfortunately.

[Steve]

No, with real pumpkin - I'd take the cayenne out I was going to ask what a solid pack pumpkin was

U.S. terminology. It's cooked pumpkin flesh with no extra juice. Sometimes sugared, brands vary.

I am a big fan of cayenne but not in sweet things. I am allergic to chili, unfortunately.

"Chili powder" is a mix of chile pepper and other spices - I suspect that if you are not allergic to cayenne, you are not allergic to chile but to something else in the mix.

[Snoskred]

I just checked my cayenne herb shaker thingy, ours here doesn't have chili in it, is is made from capsicum It isn't like a death throat puffing up allergy, it is more like what happens for some people when you eat MSG - lightheaded, a bit dizzy kind of thing..