Names

Finally officially “met” our new neighbors last night, all both of them and the little one on the way. He’s a restaurant manager, she’s from Knoxville, we talked for a long time.
I can only remember our neighbor-to-be’s name.

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Casserole 3

Apparently, it’s casserole week at our house. Tonight, I made a broccoli-rice-chicken casserole from imagination.

2 chicken breasts, semi-frozen
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 can cream of mushroom soup
herbs, spices to your liking
1 head broccoli, chopped up
rice to fill (again, 3/4 cup before cooking)
Cheese

Cut chicken into reasonable chunks and brown in a skillet (I added paprika [...]

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Doughy

I took a class on Whole Grain Bread last night at Cook’s Warehouse. It was interested, though I thought it would have focused more on the grains and less on the bread-making techniques. (The whole-grain aspect was a demonstration of putting the wheat in the mill and turning it on. Then we used the resulting [...]

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Casserole 2

Feeling confident from last night’s success in the casserole dish, I decided to try again with the bits of stuff in our fridge. My goal: some kind of taco casserole.

1/2 lb beef
1/2 large green pepper, chopped into largeish chunks
1/3 can of corn
taco seasoning (or facsimilie thereof)
rice, cooked (3/4 cup before cooking, or however much you [...]

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Combinations

Tonight, I wanted to use the kielbasa we’d thawed, but didn’t want to go to out usual “kielbasa with peppers and tomatoes over pasta” dish. (though it’s very tasty.) And I’ve been jonesing to try out my dollar-store mandoline, hoping that it would do better than the dollar-store-ness implied.
After much searching, I decided to combine [...]

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