This is the recipe for the conchiglioni (jumbo shells). I don't recall what pasta brand the recipe came from, but it's better than the one on the Barilla box. I use cottage cheese instead of ricotta cheese, which is from a family recipe in my faulty memory. It's fine without parsley, or can use chopped basil. Duh it says right in the recipe, it was a Ronzoni box! But any brand will do. They are in short supply here now.
Nachos and board games for today, after I finish moving some snow. We had turkey dinner for my daughter in the fall, and I froze two meals from it, so that will be tonight.
Fried dumplings, and also vegetable soup. Using up "bonus portions". I prefer that name to "leftovers". I made a batch of refrigerator roll dough. The dough is allowed to rise, then refrigerated for later use. Makes tasty and nostalgic dinner rolls, will cook tomorrow.
Wow you guys are very inventive with your meals…glad to see your posts. Helps me think of dinner ideas. still trying to decide what’s for dinner tonite? I don’t like Turkey.. so may just have a big hardy bowl of chicken taco soup loaded with spices three beans , corn , chicken , & topped with Mexican crème .. side of fresh avacado dip and …wait for it… yummy home made Margarita’s … with just a tiny touch of the best of the best tequila-Patron! I make it with fresh lime juice, sparkling water -flavored lime bubbles and a touch of Splenda… now I’m really thursty!
Pacnorwest, that sounds great, you have what you want, our son doesn't like turkey anymore so he has roast beef or something else.
Yesterday we had a traditional Norwegian Christmas dinner: steamed sheep's ribs, pig ribs with crispy, crunchy skin, rutabega mash, red sauerkraut, white sauerkraut, potatoes, and gravy for dinner. Dessert was rice cream with red sauce and an almond somewhere in the bowl. Whoever finds the almond wins a prize, usually a marzipan pig. We all went into food coma for a while, then we opened the presents. Today we're having halibut, cucumber salad, sour cream dressing and potatoes for dinner. Cloudberry cream and krumkake - a sort of waffle cookie but rolled up like a cone for dessert. After that we'll make coffee and put out the Christmas cookies, and maybe some of the cured meats we like to nibble on in winter.
Today we've had traditional Christmas dinner. Turkey, stuffing, pigs in blankets, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, boiled potatoes, carrots, peas, sprouts, cabbage and gravy. Champagne that was on offer at Morrisons, it was£10. After the first lockdown they gave coupons for teaching staff and hubby is one of them.
@Melody Mc. those were Chinese dumplings. They are also called Jiaozi or potstickers. They are constructed almost exactly the same way as pierogies, except instead of a mashed potato filling, the filling is a mixture of finely chopped vegetables, fried egg, and fried tofu. I like them with Sriracha, soy sauce and a bit of sesame oil. These were nontraditional because the vegetable was shredded pumpkin, which I thought was quite tasty,
Yesterday, Santa Claus brought another gift - a tortilla press. How thoughtful, Santa knew just what I wanted! But where was the recipe book? Did Rudolf eat it? I need to send Rufus, the blacknose reindog, who has a very shiny nose, out to find it. Unfortunately, Rufus was outside licking the inch-thick layer of ice. The tortilla press was heavy cast iron. That's good, but I don't want to crack or scratch the countertop with it. So, I made a heavy mat, using the rope / zigzag stitch technique (they say if you give a man a hammer, he goes looking for nails. Now that I learned this craft, it works sort of like that and I look for excuses to sew rope mats). Then I made flour tortillas. They came out small and thick, instead of big and thin. I might have kneaded the dough too much, and I didn't let it rest to relax the gluten. Next time. The filling was black bean chili, rice, and cheese, which I liked. The tortillas were good, but had to be folded like a taco because they were too small and thick to use as a wrap. Not a bad start. I have much to learn, but Tenochtitlán (the Aztec city where Mexico City now stands) wasn't built in a day.
Had the Christmas pudding with whipped cream and cranberry sauce. Don't have it straight away from having the dinner because we get too full up.
We had a nice and calm x-mas supper. We had saved a marvellous piece of salmon that our northern pals brought to us this summer. The ingredients: With it’s clothes off: We laid it all out on the table, turned the streamer on and “lit” the candles. Salmon loin with own beans and parsnip purée. We ate slowly to prolong the experience. After the meal, we took a break then returned for pud. It was blueberry cheesecake.
