Meatballs and sweet red pepper tomato sauce - it’s a real favourite of mine

Artichokes..dipped in butta..
N ..left over ..pepperoni n onion extra cheese pizza...

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Artichokes..dipped in butta..
N ..left over ..pepperoni n onion extra cheese pizza...

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Oh boy, they're a favourite of mine - a genuine hard work but worth it meal.  

Parogies ..n sauage..

Eat yer heart out ..Slammer...! :0)

Chicken and sausage cacciatore pizza--roast chicken breast, Italian sausage, red and yellow bell peppers, onion, and some Thai red meanies with Trader Joe's pizza sauce. Very loaded! I used herb pizza dough from Big Y (they were out of beer dough, which I think is better) and pre-cooked it for a few minutes before putting on the toppings.

No cooking for me for a few days. We’re in Illinois for a wedding and won’t be home till Tuesday. Already had the worst, and I mean the worst Gyro of my life last night and it was from a Greek family restaurant that we love to go to and get carry out. Won’t be ordering that again, but their French fries and pork tenderloin sandwiches are the best!!!
Slammer!!

I have several Chinese chestnut trees. The burrs have been dropping, so I've been making soup for the winter. Some plain, some with heavy cream. Made about 5 quarts today.

Peppers have been a bust this year, but I made some paprika. Unfortunately, not enough to last till next year's harvest.

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I have several Chinese chestnut trees. The burrs have been dropping, so I've been making soup for the winter. Some plain, some with heavy cream. Made about 5 quarts today.

Peppers have been a bust this year, but I made some paprika. Unfortunately, not enough to last till next year's harvest.

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That is all cool stuff.  I would like to have energy to put a few pounds herbed butter, with thyme, basil, parsley, chive etc from our herb gardens. We have a lot. I also have a ringed herb drying rack I made years ago.  I hope to load it as well.  Brad

I’ve NEVER had any dish with chestnuts or have eaten one. No clue what they might taste like.
Slammer!!!

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I’ve NEVER had any dish with chestnuts or have eaten one. No clue what they might taste like.
Slammer!!!

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I have done several meals at Christmas time with chestnuts.  All good.  Everyone liked the chestnut soup. Brad

We took a day trip on Saturday that included a visit to a long time local meat market and ranch about an hour away. I took a cooler and filled it, including a fresh not frozen or injected 3.3 lb chicken. Got home and roasted chicken on a bed of potatoes and carrots with a lot of out garden rosemary and thyme, onion and a friends homegrown garlic. Roasted at 450F for 20 min or so. Then dialed back to 425F a while. The juices were incredible! Fresh made sourdough bread from another small town on our route.Brad

A couple of years ago I bought some Italian chestnuts in a store to roast. Yech. Might been because they were kinda dried out, but I think I scored and soaked them prior to roasting.

Horse chestnuts are poisonous.

rinemb
Brad, that sounds like a good day trip to me, but you had me at “juices”. I love when I get great ingredients and it makes a great meal. Pan juices and gravies done well make the meal IMO . That’s my kind of meal!!!
Slammer!!!

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rinemb
Brad, that sounds like a good day trip to me, but you had me at “juices”. I love when I get great ingredients and it makes a great meal. Pan juices and gravies done well make the meal IMO . That’s my kind of meal!!!
Slammer!!!

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I forgot about revealing the secret ingredient. I lightly spritzed the finished chicken with a lemon. Brad

Brad, that chicken potato & bread combo sounds absolutely fantastic!

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I’ve NEVER had any dish with chestnuts or have eaten one. No clue what they might taste like.
Slammer!!!

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If you like potato soup, you would love chestnut soup.  They're very similar in the fact that they bothe taste bloody awful if you bite into a raw one, but once cooked, they taste a word of difference.  I am pretty sure you'd love them Dale.

More from our day trip. Ribeyes from a smaller town farm/ranch with their own meat market. And, fresh milled and baked sourdough bread from another town a few miles south.  I would like to have bought one of meat market's prime tomahawks about 3” thick, but decided 200.00 would be better spent elsewhere. Brad

Steak ..poppers.. n seizure salad...

Oops...

Carnitas , Sopa , Cuban black beans and tortillas. It didn’t suck!!!
Slammer!!!

Bus bergers n beans...

Taco..Salad ??...

Pretty good.. :0)

Croc pot beef stew..with a twist...

Minimum tadders in the stew..
N a bucket of mashed tadders..
To use as a gravey bowl...

Mebee some corn bread too..