What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[mjmjr25]

I made Scotch Eggs for dinner on Friday night - used pork sausage on some, bacon on the others. Wow - so good. Can't believe i'd never heard of them. Was really nervous I wasn't doing it right, the rolled out pork sausage wasn't really wanting to wrap around the egg, but slowly it did, and after it cooked, it really formed a nice bond. I think the main difference in taste between this and just eating sausage and eggs is the yolk of a warm hardboiled egg has a totally different taste then when eaten at room temperature. Very good.

Last night we had pumpkin soup - something my wife makes once a year:

-Pre-heat oven to 350
-Hollow out a medium sized pumpkin (save the lid, but notch out one small hole)
-Saute 4 chicken breasts, one onion, 2 carrots, 2 celery stalks
-Add one can of cream of chicken, one can can cream of celery soup, and one can of water
-Dump everything into the pumpkin (a pumpkin w/flatter base is best) and put the lid on
-Put in the over for 85-90 minutes
-Remove from oven, remove lid, wait 3 minutes and serve, salt and pepper to taste
-You can scrape the pumpkin walls as it will be very soft and can be added to the sou- (it tastes like potato in a soup, actually)
-Be careful you don't go over 90 minutes, at about the 100 minute mark the pumpkin will become too soft and cave in on itself
-Serves 6-8

[Luke]

Last night we had pumpkin soup - something my wife makes once a year:

That has got to be one very, very thick soup. Interesting.

[BoringSupreez]

Last night we had pumpkin soup - something my wife makes once a year:

That has got to be one very, very thick soup. Interesting.

I've made pumpkin soup before too, though I used canned pumpkin instead of a whole one. It's decently thick but I've had thicker potato based soups.

[Luke]

I know the pumpkin will provide some moisture, but four chicken breasts, about two cups of veggies, two cans of cream 'o' soup, and one can of water doesn't sound very soupy. I'll have to try it out one day.

I do love pumpkin "meat" though. It's great to fry for treats, scrape for soups, and I like to cube pumpkin meat for shish kabobs.


Smile: A day of football followed by ribeye steaks on the grill, followed by having friends over to watch the Walking Dead.

Frown: The inevitable rise in cost of candy.

[BoneSnapDeez]

posts like all these make me wish I could cook.

[Luke]

My friend who lost his wife a couple years ago just called, and he is engaged. Super happy for the guy and I'll be standing up at the event.

[mjmjr25]

I know the pumpkin will provide some moisture, but four chicken breasts, about two cups of veggies, two cans of cream 'o' soup, and one can of water doesn't sound very soupy. I'll have to try it out one day.
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It is really thick when you put it in the oven - after 90 minutes, it pretty close to the consistency of your traditional definition of soup.

[BoringSupreez]

: No hot water in my dorm all of a sudden. If there's any small thing that gets on my nerves it's cold showers/shaves.

[dsheinem]

Lou Reed. Fuck.

[Stark]

Lou Reed. Fuck.

Yeah that's quite a loss.