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Well it seems finally (praise the Lord)hot and humid weather for our area is gone. Has been chilly all last week and forecast evening temps beginning Sunday though much of next week shall be down in the 40F to high 30F.

Having avoiding cooking anything really heavy and or that required using the oven for the duration, it's now time to get out those recipes and enjoy foods that warm the insides.

Steak and kidney pie.

Marconi and cheese

Pasta fazool

Chile con carne

Beef stew

Pot roast

Cassoulet

Anyone else?
 
Shepard’s Pie,
Chicken Pie,
Roast Pork,
Pork Chops and Sauerkraut,
Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup
Swedish Meatballs
Lasagna
Pork Chops and Apple Stuffing
Sweet Italian Sausage with Mashed Potatoes
Minestrone Soup
Sauerbraten with Potato Pancakes and Sweet and Sour Red Cabbage
Tamale Pie

Eddie
 
Y'all are making me hungry!! LOL.

Love the CrockPot, esp. in colder weather.

Hot & Sour Soup with fried noodles and egg roll.
Chicken Pot Pie
Homemade Clam Chowder with oyster crackers (my favorite)
Chicken in wine sauce over noodles.
Oven Swiss Steak (another favorite)
Swedish Meatballs over Noodles or Rice
Mashed Potatoes
Cornbread Stuffings
Red Beans & Rice
Ham & Pinto Beans with homemade Cornbread (served with sliced onion)
Salmon Patties
Shrimp Gumbo
Fiesta Rolls
Pork Chops (fixed a thousand different ways!)

Don't forget the deserts:
Buttermilk Pie
Fudge
Cinnamon Rolls / Monkey Bread

Laundress, what is Cassoulet?

Barry
 
I cannot relate to relegating foods to certain outside temperatures.  I made two different pork roasts this summer.  I took a week of staycation two weeks ago and made a pot of chicken noodle soup to have for lunches for something different as well as cheesy cornbread and cheddar whole wheat biscuits to go along with said soup.  Last night made a meat loaf.  And baked pork chops last weekend.  And a baked pasta and meatball casserole while off two weeks ago too.  Earlier this week made a pot of beans for another source of protein dinners.  My partner and I both enjoy chili or soup made any time of year, even the summer.  Baked cookies for work function in early September. 
 
my winter favoritess...

Old school classics and old school calories!

Boeuf Bourgignon ala The Way to Cook recipe

Beef Stroganoff, my own recipe

Chicken Divan, ditto

Lobster Newberg or Lobster Thermidor

Crab Imperial

for seafood old '50s/60s Baltimore Sun Seafood recipes by Virginia Roeder
 
Greg

So many of these dishes sound absolutely wonderful.
But you caught my attention with mushroom soup chicken in the Crock Pot.
We both work full-time, and never seem to have time or energy to make anything creative.
I'm imagining that as something that doesn't require a lot of prep time.
And I love things with mushroom soup!
Can you share the recipe?

Little story about mushroom soup.
Growing up, it was known as "white sauce" in our house.
My mom did all of the cooking, and used mushroom soup over meatloaf, spinach pie, and a couple of other dishes, I believe.
My dad loved it.
But...he wouldn't touch a mushroom.
If he ever found out that he was eating mushroom soup, all hell would have broken loose!
And he would have never touched it again.
So, until the day he passed, it was "white sauce!"

Barry
 
Bust out two pressure cookers

Make your favorite legume (split peas, lentils, red or black beans) in one but leave out the meat. Combine the meat in the other pressure cooker with 2 cups of brown rice, a quart of beef broth, an envelope of onion soup mix, 2 heaping tablespoons of garlic powder and 2 tablespoons of olive oil (extra virgin preferred). Bring to pressure and hiss or jiggle for 20 minutes followed by a natural pressure drop. Dump the rice into the legume and there’s a meal in a bowl.

Thin the leftovers with more broth. It really tightens up when it cools
 
Split peas: thinly sliced smoked sausage or Polska Kielbasa (assumes the shape of tiny Saturns) or diced ham; red or black beans: same two sausages; lentils: cooked and coarsely chopped Italian sausage,  some Italian seasoning and a couple 8-ounce cans of tomato sauce.

 

Pound for pound, match the meat to the legumes.
 
M-m-m-m-m-m.....

Beef Stroganoff
Spareribs and sauerkraut
Pot roast
Minestrone and/or pasta e fagioli
Chicken and dumplings

Just made split pea (with ham) soup the other night from the ham bones I boiled down after Easter. Made beef stroganoff with a side of thyme/rosemary carrots before that. Bring it on, fall/winter!

Chuck

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"How about some chicken noodle soup and a grilled cheese sandwich? Simple but good."

Sometimes simple is great! I like tomato soup with either grilled cheese or BLT! Trader Joe's has a very good tomato soup in a carton! This time of year we generally have 1-2 cartons of it in the cupboard.

Chuck
 
A couple of things:

- Big pot of Sunday gravy with meatballs, sausage and pork chops (not a big braciole fan). Will use that gravy on lasagne di Carnavale (the southern Italian kind with little meatballs in the layers
- Chicken soup, a lot of which will be frozen for the upcoming Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. No meal is complete without starting with a bowl of that soup again with little meatballs and escarole or spinach
- Nice batch of chili with beans (apologies to anyone from Texas - but this is the family recipe that originated with my aunt from Puerto Rico)
- Lentil soup
- Escarole and beans (escarole was on sale for $.79 per pound this week at Shop Rite.
- Baked and glazed ham - been wanting to try the Julia Child "braised and baked method". Keeps the meat moist since it is heated in liquid, and I was able to bone it, break the ham down into "lobes" so i could trim all that extraneous fat, glaze the lobes individually and so much easier to slice... Bonus - big pot of ham stock flavored with wine, carrots, onion, thyme, parsley, etc. Will freeze along with the bone for the next batch of split pea soup
- Finally, a batch of Ina Garten's macaroni and cheese. Mostly testing to see how well it holds up to making in advance. So far making it a day in advance has been fine. So one less thing to make Thanksgiving morning. I can make it the day before...

What I SHOULD have been doing is covering patio furniture - I guess that can wait until next week...
 
Chocolate Cobbler

3/4 stick butter

1 cup self-rising flour

3/4 cup sugar

3/4 cup milk

1 1/2 T cocoa

1 T vanilla

Preheat oven to 350F

Melt butter in 9x13 pan (I just put the stick in the pan and let it melt as the oven preheats).  In a bowl, mix flour, sugar, cocoa, vanilla, and milk together.  Drizzle this mixture over the melted butter but DO NOT STIR! 

In a separate bowl, mix another 1 cup of sugar and 1/4 cup of cocoa.  Sprinkle this dry mixture over the butter and batter but DO NOT STIR!  Now pour 1 1/2 cups of boiling water over the top of it all but DO NOT STIR!  Bake 30 minutes and serve warm.  Great with vanilla ice cream or by itself.
 
Greg,

Any chance of hearing more details on the mushroom soup chicken in the Crock Pot?
Sorry for asking again. I'm hoping maybe you just missed the first post about it.
Thanks!

The other Barry
 
Some of my favorites:

Winters can be very cold and hard here in Minnesota. I keep plenty of "Old Standbys" in my recipe arsenal:

Beef Stroganoff
Lasagna
Spaghetti with meat sauce
Tater Tot Hotdish (It's a MN thing. Just ask if you want to know about it)
Italian Meatballs with Penne Pasta
Swedish meatballs
Beef Stew
Turkey Dinner
Pot Roast
Meatloaf
Chili con Carne
Hamburger Gravy over mashed potatoes.
Beef Burgundy
Chicken Noodle Soup
Beef Barley Soup
Cream of Chix Wild Rice Soup
Clam Chowder
Ham and Bacon Chowder
Hamburger Goulash
Cream of Tomato Soup
Baked Rigatoni With Meat Sauce
Thanksgiving in a bowl "Turkey Rice Soup thickened with roux and leftover gravy added"
I have more but that's all for now. Comfort food recipes are a must up here just like a good snowblower. LOL!
WK78
 
Some of my cold weather favorites
Beef stew
Hamburger pie
Beef burgundy
Pot roast with onions and carrots
Stuffed cabbage with mashed potatoes
Stuffed peppers with mashed potatoes and creamed peas
Vegetable soup
Baked ham with bourbon glaze or raisin sauce
Meat sauce with meatballs and percatelli #12
Porcupine balls
Chicken cacciatore
Chicken paprikash with grated noodles

And of course the stuffed cabbage soup that is cooking away in my 6 qt electric Presto cooker

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@ The Other Barry

Crock Pot/slow cooker chicken with mushroom soup is one of those staples that evolved along with that device.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=mushroom+soup+chicken+crock+pot

As such there are many variations but two main staples; cream of mushroom soup and a crock pot/slow cooker. What happens afterwards is only limited by one's creativity.

IIRC mushroom soup chicken may have been one of those original recipes for "busy housewives", working mothers and anyone else seeking a fast and easy meal that made use of the new kitchen gadget, the Crock Pot.

On a very basic level you just take some chicken, a can of cream of mushroom soup, and water. Dump the lot into slow cooker and set then forget.
 

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