So...whats for dinner?

April, I guess we both did stuff with thin dough. I made 8 small turkey pot pies tonight and also made the pie crust. They are all in the freezer now.

I had 3 cups of chicken broth that I'd made up midweek last week, so I used that. I had simmered the bones so long the cold broth was like chicken flavored Jello. I think someone mentioned saving the chicken bones in the freezer...that's what I do until I get enough to make it worthwhile to make the broth.

For the pot pies, I tried the pie crust in a pie book that was given to me. The crust is pretty much standard except for putting the dough in the freezer for about 5 minutes before rolling it out. This was the least fussy crust I've made. Hopefully it's a worthy pie crust.

Lacey, our Thanksgiving "crowd" started at seven and is now down to four. I'll need to learn to scale back on the stuff that can't be frozen.

Special, I hope the soreness is going away so that you are feeling well for Thanksgiving..

Hi to Red, It's good to "see" you back. It's been awhile..and thanks for the PM condolences. I hope you feel better in time for Thanksgiving.

Today I was going through more stuff and came across another trove of Kodachrome slides. I need to get a *GOOD* slide scanner.

April - thanks for posting about Stephanie's transition. She certainly did teach all us and the boards will be different without her presence.

Totally snowed in here...12in this morning and still snowing. they have closed the roads in our county to necessary travel only. No work for me today, I am still in my jammies (yoga pants)

Queen... I am a very simple cook here on this thread. I use the no-yolk egg noodles,can of tuna, can of cream of mushroom soup or cream of celery (whatever you have on hand, pats of butter and some sour cream. top with buttered cracker crumbs and bake...sometimes I will add peas and seasonings of your liking.

As far as the wine conversation, I am, of course, partial to our finger lakes wines which can be found in all price ranges. We are Reisling people here. For some reason the reds mess with me and make me sick, although I like them. We can literally hit a winery every 1/2 mile along all these lakes...BIG industry here. The wine tours are a great way to try lots of varieties to find your favorites. We drink a lot of Doobie Blues from Swedish Hill wineries. Unfortunately when we travel or staying in our NC home, we do not see NY wines in the stores or restaurants.

Hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving, although I know it will be tough for lots of us here that have lost loved ones. Blessings everyone!

Carrie - oh my, already 12"... And it isn't even December yet. Do you generally go to NC in the winter to escape the snow? Or in the summer to live on the beach?

That recipe is much like my Mom's except she used the canned, crunchy, La Choy Chow Mein noodles instead of soft noodles & she added chopped celery (and onions if my Dad wasn't watching). It's the very first "home made" recipe I made on the very first night I cooked when I first got married a hundred years ago.

I am eating the last of the Rotisserie chicken and the Yukon potatoes. Still have plenty of mashed sweet potatoes, which I probably won't buy again.....did not' care for the overly smooth texture. Still have pimento cheese spread and tomato basil soup in the fridge. Still coughing--it is not getting better, just moving from my head to my chest. They gave me 40 mg of prednisone for 5 days and a z-pack to pick up if I wasn't better. Starting to hear a little rattle in my chest so will check tomorrow to see if that is the green light for the antibiotic.....

Thanksgiving will be first this year---at the Nursing home with Dad. I have stairs at my house and the last time he was here, we discovered he couldn't negotiate the bathroom with his 4 wheel walker. He has problems now with stairs. It is a tight maneuver for two people also. So, whatever they serve at noon, he and I will be enjoying it in a private conference room. I had not been for two days because of my temperature. He was ok, but apparently had slid out of wheel chair or something yesterday and they charted they had called me, but I didn't get a call. He was fine. He was concerned when I started coughing bad during our visit. I had a bottle of water with me and when I started drinking it he told me he wanted me to get him some bottled water "the reverse osmosis kind" as he didn't care for the water they bring them at the nursing home....so I went to the store and made sure it said that on the label.......They have two kinds of hot chocolate there-one is sugar free and one is regular and it is in a machine dispenser. He is diabetic but he wants nothing to do with the sugar free hot chocolate......At 89, I am inclined to let it go.

I hope all of you have a wonderful thanksgiving, with food you enjoy and people you love and memories that you will cherish. I know I will.

Oh Nance, I feel for your poor sweet dad. It is so hard to see them realize that things have changed to that degree. I know how hard it is on you too. Hugs!

well we ended at a final total of 27 in! Good thing is the 40 mph winds finally settled making it easier for the snow plows to keep the roads clear. They have opened the roads up for travel today, but I think I will stay put and clean the house for arrival of son and DIL. I am planning on going south for the winter after Christmas, but right now my SIL (my brother that committed suicide, wife) is living in our house until she buys a new home and I don't want to infringe on her space.

Tonight we will clean up the fragments in the crisper bin and try to put a salad together...don't want to add to the fridge space with any leftovers just before all the turkey cooking.

OMG, Carrie—I guess upstate NY has cornered the market on Snowmageddon. (Chicago’s advantage is that it’s upwind of all the Great Lakes except Superior--which has MI’s U.P. and WI as a land buffer). We just have raw chilly weather (cold rain, possibly mixed with sleet, by late tonight). Amazed that my chives are still green & growing!

So Friday I started with a pain in a back molar that already has a crown. By the middle of the night I took a Tramadol left over from some surgery or other. (and I have a REALLY high pain threshold) By Saturday I called the dentist and he put me on antibiotics. I was going to tour a Conservatory senior living place that was having a "nutcracker sale" with a friend. That turned out to be more of a craft show - homemade jewelry & plants in decorated OJ cans. The only thing I could eat was soup so we went to a Chinese place she likes & I had egg drop. The last few days have been really soft stuff - mostly more soup. I went to a new "pastry cafe" for lunch Monday and they had a soup/quiche special. The soup was Italian Chicken noodle - creamy base & full of mushrooms & linguine noodles. I'd love to have that recipe. The quiche was spinach so soft enough to gum instead of closing my teeth. And I got a couple of raspberry swirls to dunk in my coffee - wonderful shortbread rolled around raspberry jam & sliced thin.

Unfortunately the dentist tells me I need a root canal (& there may be 3 roots in one tooth) & I have to go to an endodontist since the roots are not straight down but curvy. Ugh!!! So here's the mystery ... will the antibiotics work enough for me to cook the pork loin & bought for Thanksgiving? Or will I freeze it? Will I be able to eat anything except scrambled eggs? I can still make the dressing/stuffing since that's soft. I prepped the asparagus and the spiralized zucchini today. I wonder how soft I'll have to cook them? More UGH!!! At least the plan was to go to friends houses or eat home and I didn't have plan for a house full. Sounds like my choice will be me & myself for a dinner of something soft.

Uggh, Minus. I hope it will work quickly enough for you to eat more or less normal foods on Thursday.

minus - what a bummer! Some of the worst pain I have ever experienced was an abscess under a crowned tooth that had a root canal about 30 years earlier. I had to see an endodontist also, there was an additional root there that had gone unseen due to the technology of the time. I had to wait 24 hours before I could be seen and my dentist was kind enough to inject me with numbing agent in the morning, then again at the close of business while I waited.

carberry - I lived in Rome, NY for 4 years - it really snows in upstate NY - a lot!!!

Tomorrow DS arrives, I have to pick him up at the airport, but am hoping that since it will be early - he arrives at 9 am - it won't be too crazy yet. DH came home tonight from seeing his parents in SC - my FIL is now on hospice, they will switch to 24 hour assistance in a week or so as he is not doing well at all. He has to work half a day tomorrow, then will be off until Monday. We are having Thanksgiving with friends, at their home, and there will be 14 of us. I have to cook tomorrow, side dishes, a ham, desserts. Looking forward to all of it, but am only 2 weeks out form surgery and am struggling a bit with stamina.

minus - I will pace myself, I promise! I def don't want to go backward at this point - it has taken too much to get to this point!

Carrie, I hope your family can work out Thanksgiving as planned despite the snow. It just seems waaaaay to early for such a deluge, even up north.

Minus, I hope you can get relief from that terrible pain....I suspect such distress is the only motivator one might have for getting a root canal. Good luck

And I concur with the other "mother hens", Special. Please try to take it easy so your body can fully heal. You have been through so much.

So yesterday I got most of my shopping done, and made cranberry sauce and cooked up the sausage and onions for the stuffung. While I was out, DH cleaned up my mother's silverware (which I have never even touched since she passed seven years ago), and organized and set the table for tomorrow. I almost passed out with surprise. Yay DH! So today, another trip (Trader's) to pick up cheeses, flowers, then cooking everything that I can finish today. My next door neighbor loaned me her ricer, so I'm a bit less worried about making terrible mashed potatoes.

Have a good Thanksgiving everyone.....

You are right about that Sandy. I was born in upper WI and it can get really cold and snowy there. Hubby remembers when he was in boot camp for the Navy in Great Lakes back in the '80s and they wouldn't let them go even to chow one day because it was so cold there.

Tonight was a quick dinner of spaghetti