Chicken with gravy, mashed potatoes, and broccoli 11/15/25

Posted on November 16, 2025 by Beebamom
Chicken with gravy, mashed potatoes, and broccoli

This is our chicken comfort meal. I wish I could say it is what I ate in my childhood but my mother would have just thrown a chicken in the pressure cooker and the result would be over-cooked chicken with awful flabby skin, and a thin, watery, chicken broth. I shudder to even think about it.

This is a fine use for a rotisserie chicken breast, some jarred or packet chicken gravy, fresh broccoli, and your favorite mashed potatoes. It is chilly and rainy tonight and this is a dinner that warms and fills us up.

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Kung Pao Shrimp. 11/14/25

Posted on November 15, 2025 by Beebamom
Kung Pao Shrimp with rice

Our Kung Pao shrimp turned out great! We followed a recipe by Jet Tila which you can find here-https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/kung-pao-shrimp-7112947 The cooking goes really quickly so it is important to have your mise en place ready when you begin cooking. Although there were just the three of us eating we made the entire sauce part of the recipe but only used 18 of the 21-25 shrimp. I would not have wanted less sauce. I think next time we are going to try the recipe with tofu.

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Pasta with sausage and kale. 11/13/25

Posted on November 14, 2025 by Beebamom
Pasta with sausage and kale

This is one of my favorite meals that Sarah makes. She uses spicy Italian sausage with various shapes of pasta and usually kale. It is so good! Yum!

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Chicken enchiladas. 11/12/25

Posted on November 13, 2025 by Beebamom
Chicken enchiladas

After a few weeks without buying a Costco chicken we succumbed to its low-priced convenience and bought one. It is such a good deal—still only $4.99 for a rotisserie cooked, good-sized chicken. Sarah took it apart separating the dark meat from the breasts and saving the skin and bones for cracklings and stock. I shredded one of the breasts which yielded enough meat for 13 enchiladas and I have the other breast for classic chicken later in the week.

We made a casserole dish of the charred tortillas stuffed with shredded chicken, onions, cheese, and enchilada sauce and topped it with additional enchilada sauce, onions, and cheese. It cooked for about 40 minutes in a 400F oven. The three of us ate most of them but John still has two left over for lunch.

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Spaghetti and meatballs. 11/11/25

Posted on November 12, 2025 by Beebamom
Spaghetti with tomato sauce and meatballs

I had a lazy cooking night with Rao’s spaghetti sauce, Barilla spaghetti, and Rosina meatballs. It tasted great and there were no complaints.

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Hot dogs etc. 11/10/25

Posted on November 11, 2025 by Beebamom
Hot dogs, sauerkraut, and beans

Other than these Nathan’s hot dogs being too skinny and my over-seasoning the beans with chipotle powder, this was an all-American dinner. The hot dogs were advertised as spicy which they were not. They were also “bun length” which made the tubes of all-beef meat skinnier. Between the bun and the condiments it was hard to find the dog! However they were on sale for $2.50 so I guess I was willing to overlook their skinny selves when I bought them.

I boiled the hot dogs and warmed up the beans on the stove with a can of Rotel, cumin, and too much chipotle powder. I fancied up the canned sauerkraut with some sauteed onions and garlic, caraway seeds, and a dash of sugar. John toasted the buns in the oven. It was a summertime kind of meal which fits in with the weird weather we have been experiencing. The temperature’s high yesterday was 83. What is going on? We are in the second week of November!

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Simple pasta dish. 11/9/25

Posted on November 10, 2025 by Beebamom
Spaghetti with spinach, olive oil, and Parmesan cheese

Although Sunday is supposed to be breakfast for dinner night I was just not feeling like it. Instead I boiled up 3 ounces of thin spaghetti and drained it by putting the spinach in the bottom of the colander and pouring the spaghetti and the hot water over it. Then I mixed it up in a bowl with some olive oil and Parmesan cheese. Seriously, I could eat a dinner like this every night.

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Weekly Menu. November 10-16, 2025

Posted on November 9, 2025 by Beebamom
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Meatloaf, potatoes, and snow peas. 11/8/25

Posted on November 9, 2025 by Beebamom
Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, and snow peas

Now that John has the green light to eat what he wants again he chose meatloaf. I have not made meatloaf in a long time except for dabbling in trying to make it with oatmeal once last year. Saturday’s meatloaf turned out kind of tough. I used my mom’s method for making it—ground beef, an egg, some breadcrumbs, onion, Worcestershire sauce, salt, and garlic powder. It just did not turn out quite right. Sigh. I think I will email my sisters to get the proportions right. All in all it was just an okay dinner.

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Salmon with mustard sauce, rice, broccoli. 11/7/25

Posted on November 8, 2025 by Beebamom
Salmon with mustard sauce, rice, broccoli

Usually I am just so-so when it comes to salmon but last night’s was really, really good. We went to Costco and bought a package of six really nice pieces. We would have three for tonight and freeze the other three. It worked out that the salmon cost about $10 for our dinner. This was Atlantic farm-raised salmon and I know that a lot of people think that it is inferior to wild caught but this salmon that John cooked in the oven for 12 minutes was silky and delicious.

John made some rice and I cooked the broccoli and made the mustard sauce. It was an outstanding dinner!

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