Tonight the wife and I are eating chicken salad sammiches with a side of salt and vinegar potato chips.

Sounds delicious, Shadowlander! I'll be over in an hour or so.

With the return of spring comes the return of one of my favorite modes of preparing food - cooking over an open wood fire. Yum! It's hard to beat that kind of flavor.

The season's inaugural fire came earlier this week, and I cooked up some Johnsonville brats. Mmmmm.

^aah I love cooking over a campfire! We had a taste of that this past winter b/c our friends have a fireplace at their house so we made hot dogs in their fire...yum!

I was thinking of the boxed kind. But I don't like the made-from-scratch kind either. It's like goulash right? With cooked tomatoes and hamburger meat and such? *shudders* I HATE cooked tomatoes

The kind I make is not like that at all! (I don't like tomatoes ) Mine is very plain. Ground beef, cheese sauce, corn, and pasta noodles (usually bow ties) is all that I use. Sound better?

Oh I need to make granola too. My mom's been bugging me about it for days

Haha! I had never made it before and my family hasn't had it recently, but I found a recipe and really wanted to try it.

When I think of Hamburger Helper, I think of the boxed kind so that is what I made last night. I try to keep down the number of times I make things out of a box. I prefer making things from scratch when I have the time. I do make other recipes with hamburger that I don't use a box for. When we buy hamburger, we cook it all up at once and freeze it for use in recipes. (We make it into 12 oz packages and use that instead of a pound in recipes). That way we don't have to worry about the hamburger going bad before we use it and we can just grab a bag when we need it.

Okay.
We do that with our meat too! It's very helpful for if you need meat for a recipe and have it cooked beforehand.

I don't think you sound nosy. I'm trying a new recipe for Pasta Primavera tonight.

Oh, good! I don't think I've heard of that. What is it?

Tonight the wife and I are eating chicken salad sammiches with a side of salt and vinegar potato chips.

Ooh, I love chicken salad sammiches (or sandwiches )! Were they good (if I even need to ask)?

That sounds really tasty, stargazer! And, I love brats!

Oh, and update on the granola: It turned out good!

~Djaq

With the return of spring comes the return of one of my favorite modes of preparing food - cooking over an open wood fire. Yum! It's hard to beat that kind of flavor.

Amen brother! That wood smell smoke infused with the scent of roasting meat....*drools* There's nothing in the world like it!

Ooh, I love chicken salad sammiches (or sandwiches )! Were they good (if I even need to ask)?

They were pretty good. I dice up some celery and green onions (scallions I think they're called too) and mix it in. Toast some white bread, smack down some chicken salad, and top lightly with salt and pepper, serve with chips. Awesomeness for the mouth.

The kind I make is not like that at all! (I don't like tomatoes ) Mine is very plain. Ground beef, cheese sauce, corn, and pasta noodles (usually bow ties) is all that I use. Sound better?

aah yes, much better. Very tasty-sounding actually *yum*

Haha! I had never made it before and my family hasn't had it recently, but I found a recipe and really wanted to try it.

I like making it, it's fun. But the recipe my mom likes isn't my favorite...

is this the hamburger helper, meal you are talking about http://images.google.com.au/images?hl=e ... a=N&tab=wi

if so it looks gross.

Ooh lovely rice crispies!

Does anyone have a really good recipe for soft and chewy cookies? I tried one and it turned out to rather floury.

^what kind of cookies? I have one for soft chocolate chip cookies...and i think i have one for sugar cookies too...

SnowAngel, have you decided what kind of dessert you'll be making for the church dinner?

Well, sort of. I had pretty much decided on plain vanilla cupcakes and frosting them with green frosting in a big swirly. (A nod to St. Patrick!) But it didn't matter, because I didn't get to make anything since I had cold (for like the fourth time this winter ) and didn’t get to go to church.

I really want to bake something, but need to want a couple more days for my siblings to get healthy. My Mom got The Cake Book by Tish Boyle from the library recently and I really want to try her Chocolate Coconut Cupcakes with Milk Chocolate Coconut Ganache. Mummm, now I'm hungry for some chocolate...and I know right where our stash is. Must. Exercise. Restraint.

I just finished eating a fresh out of the oven whole wheat roll. Delicious! My Mom made them and she's a great cook. You can ask Scarlet, if you think I am baised.

SnowAngel

I haven't made cookies in quite a while, I used to have a recipe that always came out really chewy and soft but I lost it

I haven't done as much baking lately, I did make some chocolate chip cupcakes but I was pretty unhappy with how they came out (the recipe called for whipped egg whites which made them come out with an almost meringue-like shell). I topped them with chocolate ganache though which was wonderful, I'm toying with the idea of tweaking that recipe to make some truffles

I made another batch of red velvets for my friend, I think she's addicted

Used a slightly different recipe this time, they came out very nice but could perhaps stand to be a bit denser.

Is that part of the cake that you sprinkled on top? What ever it is it looks real pretty.

Well, Ello everyone.

Hehe, food is a favorite of mine. Looking at alot of the pictures here, I think I'll be getting a snack real soon. I've just been venturing into the cooking world and have whipped up a few stuff.

So far, I have made Meatloaf (which I don't think is so fabulous, but my family loves it), this casserole thing (I called it Mac 'n Cheese Leftovers), Chicken Pot Pie, and Boston Cream Pie. May I say that the Bostom Cream Pie was a loverly little dessert.

I wonder, has anyone made "gumbo" at all? I searched up a recipe and really want to try make it. Ah, that and a keish (sp?) or quiche as some recipes spell out.. Fancy fancy.

~CSLN

*wonders if he should share his family's sacred secret recipe for crepes*

Well if you share it, it won’t be a secret anymore. But I do love to be in on secrets (as long as they are good ones – a secret recipe sounds like it would be a good secret).

Tonight the wife and I are eating chicken salad sammiches with a side of salt and vinegar potato chips.

Wait a minute, I’m confused. Doesn’t chicken salad contain mayo?

is this the hamburger helper, meal you are talking about http://images.google.com.au/images?hl=e ... a=N&tab=wi

if so it looks gross.

Yes, that is the Hamburger Helper meal we are talking about.

We do that with our meat too! It's very helpful for if you need meat for a recipe and have it cooked beforehand.

That is cool.

I don't think you sound nosy. I'm trying a new recipe for Pasta Primavera tonight.

Oh, good! I don't think I've heard of that. What is it?

Well, I think “Primavera” simply means vegetables. I have several different recipes that have “Pasta” and “Primavera” in the title. Usually there is some kind of a sauce as well. Sometimes it includes meat. This recipe had a sauce made of cornstarch, pepper (it was supposed to be white pepper but I used black pepper. I don’t know what white pepper is), evaporated milk, and Parmesan cheese. The vegetables were carrots, onion (I used dried minced onion because it is easier), broccoli, and green pepper (it was supposed to be red pepper but we were out). It was supposed to have fresh garlic, but I just used minced. Oh and the pasta was spaghetti.

My friend and I made Easter cookies yesterday. See the pictures below. I’m sorry but you can’t eat them unless you are a Spare Oom mod or the Modess of Cereal since they were part of my sacrifice. (You’re in luck, Shadowlander. How long have you been a mod anyway? It’s been pretty recent, right?)

Wait a minute, I’m confused. Doesn’t chicken salad contain mayo?

Yes. Yes it does. I'm also something of a tuna salad junkie too...the trick is to put just enough so that it binds the chicken/tuna together. I run into problems when people start scooping the mayo in with serving spoons. Blech! Plus the scallions and celery mask the mayo taste as well. I'm a weirdo.