@Bromfield2, my grandkids LOVE baked ziti. I’ll try this one!
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(1) We are 100% beans in chili at our house. (Partly because my boys eat a lot, I need to stretch my $$ somehow.)
(2) We are also in the Eat Something Warm And Cozy camp tonight. I’ve got pulled pork in the slow cooker and it is making my house smell awesome. We’ll do sliders with it and I am so ready to start eating…
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We are in the beans camp, too, (although I try to overlook them). DH’s “secret sauce” includes cocoa powder and bourbon for a unique smoky flavor.
This week, we did a crustless spinach quiche with tomato salad and our usual Friday pizza night.
Tonight, DH has steaks in the sous vide to have with creamy cauliflower mash (smoked Gouda, cream cheese, bacon bits) and steamed artichokes. It’s still patio weather here.
ETA: I plan to make @DeeCee36’s Moroccan Harira Soup recipe sometime this week.
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I made chili tonight with beans but also with spaghetti, which we consider necessary!
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I don’t know if I’ve ever had chili WITHOUT beans. Anyone have a recipe they like???
It was Costco rotisserie chicken (cause I went today) that I put in the oven to roast a little more (H likes his more on the dry side) with homemade mashed potatoes and green beans.
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To me, the chilli decision is meat or no meat. I love vegetable chilis. And when I make a more classic " meat" version, these days I use Beyond or Impossible crumbles.
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Like Cincinnati chili?
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We aren’t from Cincy, but we’re not too far away. It’s just how we’ve always made our chili. We also add Bloemer’s Chili base which is a local product.
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Ditto, with portobello mushrooms instead of meat or “meat.”
Same here! My favorite combo is black bean and sweet potato.
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I just made a soup with chicken broth, real bacon bits, chopped onions, various frozen veggies, ramen noodles and shelf-stable spinach gnocci. And a little smoked salmon. Yummy for a cold day.
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Another homemade chicken noodle day here - plus homemade sourdough bread. Will have a salad to round it out.
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Another pot of chili simmering here… White and black bean chicken chili. Below freezing temps and the college football playoffs called for chili and all the trimmings.
(Test bowl below… cook’s prerogative 
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I call my chili “kitchen sink chili” because I put all sorts of things in it. Always beans but not necessarily kidney beans. Corn, carrots, celery, onion. I use diced tomatoes and add some tomato sauce. And good chili powder which was a gift from a friend!
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I made the eggplant meatballs from Skinnytaste linked above. They were okay. Dh liked them more than I did. The flavor was good, but I found the consistency kind of gummy?? Maybe I packed them too tightly (though that was stated in the directions)? I guess I wasn’t sure what to expect in the consistency. I’d give them a 7/10. Dh would likely give them an 8/10.
They were surprisingly filing.
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@DeeCee36 — How did your Moroccan Harira soup turn out? I made it the other day, and DH LOVED it. It’s now on my regular recipe rotation. Really, really good.
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oooh, yours looks better than the one I made. It was good, but not amazing. Overall, I think it was just a little flatter and less vibrant than I thought it would be. I followed the recipe to the letter, since I’d never had the dish before and if I were to make it again, I’d make a few changes (double or triple the spice amounts and used diced tomatoes instead of crushed).
Yours really looks good!
I used fire-roasted diced tomatoes and cannellini instead of garbanzos (which I can’t stand unless in very heavily spiced hummus), but neither of those should have made much of a difference. DH thought the spicing was just right, though I have to say it was better the next day.
We both absolutely love lamb (my BD dinner every year), so we were pre-disposed to like this.
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I think figuring out something interesting to make with the odds and ends I have in the house the day before grocery shopping is one of my favorite challenges. Today I have half of a kielbasa and 2/3 of a head of cabbage that both need to get used asap. So, I’m going to make Haluski Recipe (Fried Cabbage and Noodles) - Belly Full
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Baby bok choy, string beans, scallions, garlic, canola oil, grilled chicken from Costco (comes on skewers, m-m-good!) and a little soy sauce. Just home from to a Chinese New Year party/documentary showing and fundraiser in Ft Greene, Brooklyn hosted by amazing friends who, like I did, adopted from China many years ago.
The dish:
About the documentary:
https://chineseamerican.nyhistory.org/remembering-danny-chen/
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