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ohJude, you are in a pickle!!! Does your Mom like shakes....ok ok...I know folks may be saying "oh no, enough with the ensure shakes already"...but truly if she would at least drink one a day...and you can blend it with things like peanut butter, applesauce, extra vanilla, maraschino cherries, fresh fruits, etc...make them fun and flavorful..I even put sweet potato and spices in one for Mama around this time of year and I swear it tastes like a pumpkin pie...you can tweek them, and of course watch what you add based on any health issues or allergies...but yes, I am plugging my shakes again..sorry folks...I think I have lost my mind..Maybe I could write a recipe book for these things....Sadly Mama has to live on ensure now and so I have had to find a lot of creative things to do to bump up the calories and make them tasty at the same time...sometimes they can be a little on the thick side...so I add a lot of ice cubes and that gets some extra fluid in them :) ok, enough of my shakes...but just throwing that out there.... :)
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Well Im looking for ideas for any meal right now. Currently Mum doesn't like eggs fish cheese or meat and she can't stand veg and she doesn't like milk, won't eat a salad and the bread isn't like it used to be oh and she has gone off soup. Hmmmmm now this is going to be tricky unless of course I give her just dessert at which point she will eat it all. So what does she want to eat I hear you ask. Well when I ask her if any of the above is OK, she says oh yes. When I place it in front of her it is a different matter. And have I cooked anything she likes in the last week? Dear god not one thing. Is your toast and marmalade ok? I don't like the toast its brown (funny that!!!) Where did you get this marmalade? Its not like the one we used to have (well actually its exactly the same and I know this because it the 4th in a batch of 5 I made) She wanted a cheese and pickle sandwich but didn't like the pickle (you might call it chutney) or the cheese or the bread!

Time to have a moment to me I think oh wait I am doing its 6:00 am here so I am going to have yet another long long day
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Too bad you don't have Jeanne G for a neighbor, she would cook it for you. It is easy to tell she is a good cook.
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Not far in advance, but the stores that do a thanksgiving meal to pick up cooked and finished at home often cater this way before the holidays. Or, just add up all the costs of ingredients, time, stress, in a small place and actually have it catered?
People are, more and more, just going out. Return home for the dessert?
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Why Sendme, would he eat you out of house and home?? My bro had a pair of Irish Wolfhounds, now THAT'S what I call big!!!

Anybody out there ever made the holiday turkey in advance?
I'm not sure if there would be any real advantage to this, but I have a tiny kitchen and it is open to the dining room, so entertaining this weekend is going to be a challenge.
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All I know is, if I had a dog as big as this (50-60 lbs. @26" tall, ) we would no longer be having dinner, ever!
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We had pot roast made in crockpot, rice and steamed broccoli. The pot roast was done with ranch dressing mix, Worcestershire sauce, garlic, beef broth and let cook for 4 hrs on high. Thicken sauce for gravy, yummy
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I made guinness beef stew today for the first time,, we loved it in Ireland. Served it with mashed potatoes like they did.. It passed the Mom test!!
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There is any easy Garlic Shrimp recipe over at 'onceuponachef' site. I usually add a little more garlic and cut down on the shrimp since I only cook for 2, but they make nice leftovers.
Helps to have a heavy gauge baking pan...
1 lb shrimp fits very nicely in 1/4 heavy duty baking pan. 2 lbs, probably a half tray.
oven @ 350 degrees
1 lb shrimp, cleaned, shelled, deveined
tbsp and half olive oil
2 or more garlic cloves run through a press
little salt and pepper
2-4 tbsp butter softened

Mix oil, garlic, s&p on pan.
Dry shrimp on towel, dump in pan and toss with oil, garlic, s&p.
Bake for 6 - 12 minutes depending on size of shrimp. (You will have to experiment a little.)
Just about a minute before it is done, drop some of the butter on the pan.
Take it out, stir it into the shrimp, then scrape into a serving bowl.
Have it with toast, noodles, rice, etc.
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Sendme, Tonight I didn't use elbow macaroni, but a tightly twisted pasta. I boiled it for the 9 minutes they suggested and drained it and ran cold water over it to stop the cooking. The cheese sauce was completely ready before I added the pasta. I divided the mixture into 2 casserole dishes, topped with buttered crumbs and a little paprika, and refrigerated them both. Tomorrow my friend and I can each bake the casserole about a half an hour.

I've been looking up recipes for haricots (French green beans), which will be the side tomorrow.
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Oh, I wanted to ask, when boiling the large/extra-large elbow macaroni, do you cut the cooking time to only 7 minutes after it starts boiling? This allows the cheeses to be warmed on the stove-top and it doesn't get over-cooked. Or, do you bake it, boil it less?
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Guess what I really am needing to eat is steak.
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Hi Jeanne, its 12:42 a.m. here. I didn't get the wok, but a wide deeper frying pan from smartnfinal. It's a little heavy, and about 14 " across, non-stick, but not too smooth. I've had 16" deeper pans, but this one looks bigger for some reason.
Holds everything, like if I needed to saute spinach and kale it would fit.
Keep cooking, Jeanne! Sounds delish, so nice to share. Looked on the roku/tv tonight, seems like all the good cooking shows cost extra to view now. Just needed healthy ideas, in between the comfort food which I love.
How are you tonight?
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Sendme, I must have missed it about your big pan. Is it a wok?

It is 2 am here. I'm about to start tomorrow's dinner. Bistro Mac & Cheese -- multiple kinds of cheese, sour cream, cream cheese, garganzola -- oh yeah, it is good.

I'll share this my friend whose husband has cancer. It is an easy dish to heat up any time you are ready.
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We had a healthy stir fry added to the rice. Sugar snap peas, frozen peas, red & yellow peppers, carrots, celery, zuchini, mushrooms, and forgot to add onions and the fresh ginger. Did add the soy sauce. Used the big pan, works great.
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I can feel fall in the air. We even had a few raindrops here in Los Angeles. Perfect weather for good, homemade, minestrone soup!
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What! No one here wants my recipe for Chaiken Soup?
That's okay, it does not exist.
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Thank you Cwillie! Bought a huge pan for that purpose, but would not have thought about rice pilaf! Don't know why this last year I've even forgotten what to cook or buy. There are more choices now that I can go more often in the car. It's when I want to lose weight that all gets onfusing. I once owned a book "Diets don't work" and took away from it the teaching not to eat everything on the diet and then cheat and have what you wanted in the first place, but to have what you wanted, just less of it. Then, someone else taught, EAT LESS, MOVE MORE! That was the whole diet plan.
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Chaicken soup.
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Sharadale, so funny, he might believe you. Or, he might have just believed the message? My husband was just being sarcastic (coarse joking) when he said that he is not a promise keeper, but he is a promise breaker-that's why he needs
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Send me, you need to join Pi Teresa and discover a treasure trove of recipes you can try! I have used my crockpot so much more now!
Tonight was church night and since hubby agreed to start going to church with me again, we decided to have dinner out with Mom and a couple we are close to that just got married. We had a wonderful dinner and the message of the service was how to be a Godly husband! I told my husband that I called ahead and special ordered the topic!
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All I want is french fries,,or steak fries.
Really, really upset....it is real minor, and probably unimportant to all of you excellent cooks out there. Fell asleep last night with my dark chocolate candybar unopened. Today, found it between the pillows, squished, melted. I should save it for halloween, ha..
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Sendme, you mentioned rice, why not a nice pilaf? Saute some veggies...onions,celery, corn, grated carrot or whatever else you like, brown the rice, add in some broth if you have any or a bouillon packet. Have a little fish or chicken breast to go with it, or go meatless and toss in some beans or tofu, and have a nice salad on the side.
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Suggestions readily accepted here....
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Thanks Sharadale, it does sound good that way.
We have a phatn'juicy burger place that recently opened nearby, now advertising Loisiana fried chicken just today. Never ate there, but just cannot place my trust in such a diverse menu in such a tiny shop that just failed to sell boba lollicup-somethings.

My husband called what I made tonight Chili-mac, hoping I never remember how to make that again. Saving money on grocery is just not worth it.
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Send me, chicken and waffles is a southern dish. They take waffles and put chicken, usually fried, on top of the waffles and then drench with maple syrup. As a Yankee, there's been a few things that I have learned here.
Tonight it was very late when it was time for dinner and I had nothing prepared, so it was take out. Mom and I split a calzone and hubby asked for a QP with cheese and French fries. I don't like doing that but there are times when I would just like to sleep through it.
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This is the question I dread everyday - "what's for dinner?" I guess mom has few things to look forward too and just wants to know what she can think about. She may ask me this 2 or 3 times by 9 AM....and the more she asks the less I am apt to plan something...(am I being difficult now?)

We are having take out tonight from the Fried Clam place that does Gluten Free!!! YAY!!
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My mom puts the chicken and gravy over the plain, hot waffles. I am not a waffle fan... only eat them this way! Kind of like bisquits and gravy...
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BTW, It was 106° here today!
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Gee, Pamz, what do you do with the waffles? Are they dessert with syrup? Or some other kind of waffles, because I only know to make eggs, bacon, and waffles /w syrup. With chicken, how is that done? Interested....
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