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WEIGHT WATCHER FOODIES - WHAT ARE YOU COOKING? PART 6
Here I am, shamefully sneaking back again-I'm the poster that created this thread originally. I'm beyond thrilled that it's gone on so long, and am excited to start reading through to get motivated. Girlfriends and I all joined up this week, online only, and I was initially discouraged to see that my point allocation has dropped three from last year. However, it was great incentive to take advantage of our first nice day in a while and get out for a run and long walk (I'm working up to a 4 mile dirty dash mud run this summer) with the kids. Nothing is a greater incentive to get me running that knowing I can earn a glass of wine :). I've been pretty good today, but am facing dinner with small children tonight while my husband works late. Pizza is normally very tempting on these nights.
Roasted Chestnuts
Someone used to sell them from a cart at Pioneer Courtyard around Christmas. Been years since I've been there then, though.
Help with bourbon & cider cocktail
Bumping this old thread to say thanks, guys! We had a huge amount of cider on hand, so I made boiled cider with a little more than 1/2 a gallon if it; just boiled it, then reduced the heat to a bare simmer and cooked for hours, stirring often, til it was syrupy. It's a gorgeous thing-full of sweet tart intense apple flavor. Last night, after making and canning 4 gallons of applesauce, my husband and I stuck the kids in front of the TV and sat down with a cocktail: 2 oz Maker's Mark, 1/2 oz boiled cider, on the rocks. Fabulous. We've decided this will be our new winter cocktail this year.
What have you canned this season?
That's how I'm feeling, plus I've realized that, with a few exceptions, the things I most want to have in my pantry are simple things that I can use in recipes. I've done a little jam, and the above-mentioned zucchini relish that we love, but right now am focusing on things like plain applesauce, canned tomatoes, peaches. Not fancy, but I tend to use these a lot more than I do jams and chutneys. I would do more in my freezer, but we've had freezers fail twice in the past, causing us to lose a bunch of food that I'd labored to preserve. Plus, canning is better preparation for the zombie apocalypse :).
Today, picked all the tomatoes I found in my garden-only about 8 lbs-and did 5 pints of canned tomatoes. Not a lot of work-I had 'em picked, prepared and bubbling away in the canner in an hour-and didn't completely trash my kitchen like most sugar based canning tends to do :). Earlier this week, I made a triple batch of Marcella Hazan's tomato butter onion sauce; ate it for two nights and put some in the freezer.
What have you canned this season?
It should ideally be in a thread about horrible ingredients that we use anyway, like cool whip or something, since it uses Kool Aid :). You basically make cubes of any huge zucchini, boil 'em in a sugar syrup with koolaid for color and flavor, then dehydrate them. They turn out like gummy candies, slightly less unhealthy. My kids love 'em and couldn't guess they were made from a vegetable, and it gives me something to do with the monster zukes.
Here's the recipe, which I found on gardenweb:
Zucchini Candy
10 cups peeled diced zucchini 1/2 inch cubes ( I use "worms" about 3 inches long and 1/12 inch thick and wide. The little dice would be good in muffins, though.
3 cups water
2 pkgs. unsweetened Koolaid
2 1/2 cups sugar
Peel zucchini,
diced, removing seeds. Mix the liquid syrup together. Add zucchini. Bring to
a boil and them simmer for 25 min. Drain. Put on dehydrator trays. Dry 14
hours at 125 degrees. Turn pieces over and dry another 4 hours. This will
feel dry and not sticky when done. Store in jars or other tightly sealed
containers.If you dip in sugar when you turn them, they will be more like
"gum drops" on the outside.
You can do the same thing with the zucchini
but use 48 oz. pineapple juice
2 T. pineapple extract
2 1/2 cups sugar
1/4 cup lemon juice
What have you canned this season?
I went and googled that recipe and I'm very curious about. The method sounds intriguing and easy but I'm concerned about safety, as there is no acid added. Any feedback?
http://www.cookingchanneltv.com/recipes/laura-calder/anne-willans-home-canned-tomatoes-recipe/index.html
What have you canned this season?
Zucchini relish is one of our favorites-used everything we made last year so have done about 16 half pints so far this year and need to do a bunch more. My husband loves to have it with brots and homemade mustard.
Done some peaches so far-need to do a bunch more, as they are a big hit in our house. I've also done plum jam, a bunch of plain applesauce, and dried some peach leather, plus frozen a bunch of peach slices. The tomatoes are just starting to come on, so I need to do something with a counterful today; probably sauce for the freezer, and will start canning later this week when I get the big quantities in. Husband grew a bunch of sweet corn, too, so will freeze that in our favorite way (corn from 36 ears, 1 pint half and half, 1 pound butter, roasted for an hour in two bit roasting pans, then frozen). Three huge zukes on my counter today, too, so I think I'll make some zucchini candy in the deyhdrator and maybe another batch of relish.
What are you baking these days? September 2011, part 1 [old]
The fabulous oatmeal scones from the New Best Recipe for breakfast tomorrow, and then a peach upside down cake with cornmeal from Martha Stewart last night for a friend's birthday last night. The cake was easy and pretty and went over well; I loved the texture and it held up well today. However, it has lavender in it, which I normally like; I think it was just a little too much lavender, as it had a medicinal taste to it-other folks disagreed, but I still think I'd lcut it back next time.
Still have most of a box of peaches left, but now am thinking of ice cream and canning with the rest :)
Generally scorned products that are madly delicious -- in certain applications
How about Russian Tea? My mom used to make it for Christmas every year, and I whipped some up last year and it was so yummy-felt very holiday-ish, and the kids loved it. It has many offenders:Powdered Tea! Instant Lemonade! (and the best of all.....) Tang!
And we love the sausage balls made with breakfast sausage, bisquick, and cheese.
My mom's great make-ahead strawberry daiquiri mix uses frozen limeade.
Generally scorned products that are madly delicious -- in certain applications
My cake is similar: I sub pineapple juice for the water in the recipe, then add rum if there's not enough juice. I swear, this is one of the dishes I make that people rave the most about-it's the requested birthday cake for several friends.
Generally scorned products that are madly delicious -- in certain applications
I love it, too, and always eat it camping.
Generally scorned products that are madly delicious -- in certain applications
I agree. I use the CI recipe for stovetop mac'n'cheese from the ORIGINAL The Best Recipe....it's not in the new one. It uses egg and evaporated milk and I usually add part American Cheese to the rest of the sharp cheddar. Gives an incredibly creamy sauce.
Generally scorned products that are madly delicious -- in certain applications
My mom makes fabulous crackers using a jar of Old English. And I love the Velveeta dip.....took it to work recently and it was a huge hit.
Generally scorned products that are madly delicious -- in certain applications
Yep, turkey sandwiches must have white bread and Miracle Whip, not mayo. It's the law.
What is the point of no-knead bread?
I love the way this bread turns out-it as others have said, it's so beautifully crisp on the outside. IT's also fabulously inexpensive (I think I figured out that it cost me about a quarter a loaf). Main reason, though? It takes me 3 minutes to mix up, including cleaning the bowl. I love to cook, but I have a job and three children, including a toddler, and often don't have time to devote several hours to bread-making, and end up with a trashed kitchen to boot ('cause I'm a very messy cook).
What to do with a 6 lb zucchini?
Google "zucchini candy"-great for kids. Boil cubes in sugar syrup with koolaid-dry in dehydrator. Kids love em-reminiscent if gummy bears-and have no clue it used to be a vegetable.
Waldport + - 50 miles
-Chowder Bowl in Newport-best fish and chips and chowder, easy place to take kids.
-my folks like a new place in Yachats-Uva? Something like that.
-I'd search some old threads for Newport, Lincoln City, etc
You can't really get anywhere that I can think of 50 miles inland.
Best Mexican in Eugene
We love Lonches to Go, little taco cart not too far out river Road.
Weight Watchers Foodies: What are you Cooking? Part 3 [old]
Holy Cow! I am the original creator of this thread...think I started it back in November or so, when I was working on losing some weight for a Christmas trip to Maui. Kinda fell off (tumbled? plummeted?) the WW wagon after that, but am thinking about it again as spring arrives and great produce appears. Right now, making a huge batch of swiss chard with a little white wine, parm, lemon, and some olive oil/butter, plus a can of white beans. Could probably drop the butter, but I'm easing back in here...So glad to see so many folks have thrown great ideas out on this subject!
ChowFamily's visit to Uinversity of Oregon
Cafe Yumm is very good, for a chain/fast food restaurant. They have several in Eugene, including near campus. BOwls with rice, beans, other veggies, and the mysterious Yumm sauce. Healthy and fairly inexpensive.
Eugene, Oregon
We loves Adams, though think the name is incredibly stupiid :) Anyway, very good food at very reasonable prices.
Favorite Pioneer Woman Recipes
Hmmm, so it would probably be easy to make them into a caramel roll instead: add brown sugar and a little corn syrup to that butter melted in the pan, and flip after cooking. I'm not a huge fan of maple flavored desserts, which has been my (no pun intended) sticking point about this recipe.
Dessert Idea: St. Patrick's Day Progressive Dinner
Shoot, saw this after our event, which was last night. I used this recipe:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/cooking-live/english-sticky-toffee-pudding-recipe/index.html
Which was easy and excellent. I love the idea of the tea in yours. Thanks!
Great Irish Dessert?
I ended up making this recipe last night for our dinner:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/cooking-live/english-sticky-toffee-pudding-recipe/index.html
It was very, very good. I haven't had such a unanimously happy reception to any dessert in a long time. I made two for our crowd of 8 adults and 6 kids, and had about half of one leftover. I did add some salt to both the cake and the topping, as I think it's an essential part of that toffee/caramel flavor.
Favorite Pioneer Woman Recipes
I've heard her cinnamon rolls are incredible; anyone here ever tried them? My husband just requested that I make some this weekend and I thought I might give this recipe a go (I'm more of a caramel roll/sticky bun girl myself).
Dessert Idea: St. Patrick's Day Progressive Dinner
I've made this once, and it was really good. Hmmmm.
Great Irish Dessert?
Someone just suggested sticky toffee pudding in my thread requesting a dessert idea for our neighborhood Irish progressive dinner. Last year, I did chocolate Guiness cake, and Guiness ice cream...both were fabulous.
Dessert Idea: St. Patrick's Day Progressive Dinner
Love this idea! Very different than last year, and I've always wanted to try them. Thanks so much! I'm going to go check the Irish Desserts thread I just saw, but this may be it. Any specific recipe suggestions?
after swim protein snacks - could use some help
Peanut butter smoothie-a couple TBS PB, blended with a cup of chocolate flavored almond milk, two scoops protein powder, a tablespoon of honey. Add a frozen banana and ice cubes. Awesome. I hate milk but love this.
