pot roast ... err beef burgundy ... bah one of the two!

I made a pot roast yesterday that came out very good. I didn't get any pictures because 1) my camera was low on battery and 2) i forgot. The basic recipe is the same one I use for pot roast most often. Chuck Roast, seared with saltnpepper, onions and broth with a couple bay leaves and a few random spices into the oven at 350 for an hour with a cover, remove the cover for an hour and then add veggies for the last hour covered. Veggies included carrots, potatoes, rutabaga (yellow turnip), and mushrooms. Remove everything, fish out the mushrooms and set aside ... strain the juices into a pan and reduce and thicken slightly with corn starch then reintroduce the mushrooms to the finished gravy. The variation this time was I seperated the potatoes out of the veggie mix after cooking and mashed them to serve under the gravy and serve like a beef burgundy rather than a north eastern pot roast dinner. I also went down the burgundy line by adding about 1/3 a bottle of pinot noir to the broth to begin with and another 2/3 cup during reduction of the sauce. As a bonus I served the remaining wine with dinner (to michelle who will actually drink wine, I won't) and she liked it( doublt odd is that it's a red and shes not fond of reds in general).

cookies.... more cookies .. and did i mention cookies?

Since Thursday the thing to do around our house has been .. mix, roll, buy ingredients for, cool, bake, package, sample, burn (my fault there) and decorate cookies. I think we are approaching 20 types... not dozen but types and usually atleast 2 or 3 dozen of each type. Here are some pics.


Cookies cooling (some biscotti on the bottom there)


Some finished in a box waiting to be divided amongst the shipping containers.



Just so the doggies aren't completely left out these were leftover spritz cookies that Michelle put carob drops on and baked. Lu and Gideon can't be left out of the cooking ya know!

so umm maybe i need to update this more... Green chile turkey stew

I seem to be having issues keeping this up to date....

After having had a couple of thanksgiving meals (a small one i cooked at home for just us and one at a friend's house) the thought of turkey was starting to get old but I still had some turkey meat leftover. I decided to make some stew.

Green Chile Turkey n Dumplings
the recipe isn't real exact .... potatoes, carrots, onion, green beans, chicken broth, leftover turkey, salt, pepper, bay leaves, thyme, parsley, Bisquick... umm some other stuff if you have it ...




Green Chile Turkey N Dumplings


A single serving