<p>My DD, who is returning back to Fl on Wed., is making a yummy cheese, barley and broccoli soup with fresh baked bread. Hubby is supplying a nice merlot! Can’t wait, I was even ushered out of the kitchen! Looking forward to this nice treat.</p>
<p>Bunsen, my answer is no, I don’t have the recipe but my friend Liz out in Berkeley does make this and it is ridiculously good and I emailed her . . .</p>
<p>Not quite what you’re looking for but we buy fresh croissants, slightly slit them and push in some good quality chocolate, wrap lightly in foil and put in the oven for 10-15 till warmed and chocolate gooey but not fully messy. D’s creation!</p>
<p>D has requested homemade calzones tonight - frozen pizza dough and filled to eat family members tastes! Veggie on the side and dinner it is!</p>
<p>Cheese soup was very tasty, but I dare not have my cholesterol checked tomorrow! Will try the smashed potato recipe and roast beef with baked cauliflower for tomorrow evening.</p>
<p>Thanks sewhappy (and abasket, too)! I have a younger friend who loves them so much that she would eat 5 chocolate croissants a day and that’s it. She dared me to bake them “tasting as good as they do in France” LOL, I hope I can meet her expectations. She once dared me to bake the traditional Russian Easter bread, and I executed the task perfectly following a recipe I found on the internet. But I think I need tried and proven recipe for croissants… If I can bake her some croissants that she likes, I will become god-like role model for her, LOL!</p>
<p>BunsenBurner, are you already doing puff pastry with turns? Or would this be a new start for you?</p>
<p>If it’s new to you, I would start with Julia Child.</p>
<p>I’m so hungry after reading this thread! I made some minestrone soup the other day and it came out sooo good - and I didn’t even follow the recipe. I didn’t have any of the spices on hand after all so I just used salt and freshly ground pepper, some garlic too. I used pinquito beans - a local delicacy. Do any of you get those in your stores? They claim they are only grown locally but they are so good they have to be available everywhere so I’m suspicious about the “local” claims.</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of those beans in Ohio!</p>
<p>Never heard of them in CT either.</p>
<p>Dinner tonight: Store-bought rotisserie chicken and bagged salad. With bottled salad dressing. </p>
<p>Can you say, Easy??</p>
<p>I figure I’m allowed some slack. We’re moving in a week and everything is packed up.</p>
<p>Not only that, DH took care of it all. :)</p>
<p>We had a great dinner today. Ropa Vieja (brisket with olives), a little steamed broccoli, sweet potato pancakes with chiles and scallions from a new to me cookbook called [Plenty:</a> Vibrant Recipes from London’s Ottolenghi: Yotam Ottolenghi,Jonathan Lovekin: 9781452101248: Amazon.com: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Plenty-Vibrant-Recipes-Londons-Ottolenghi/dp/1452101248]Plenty:”>http://www.amazon.com/Plenty-Vibrant-Recipes-Londons-Ottolenghi/dp/1452101248) and one Mark Bittman’s Pear Salads from this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. <a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/magazine/10-pear-salads-to-make-you-forget-about-apples.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/magazine/10-pear-salads-to-make-you-forget-about-apples.html</a> (though the link to the recipe is currently broken.)</p>
<p>Massive thick grilled pork chop with my Middle Georgia style (thin, vinegary) barbq sauce and Cat Cora’s spicy broccoli slaw.</p>
<p>Turkey Dinner tonight…It’s Canadian Thanksgiving! So glad to be a dual-citizen household and have T-day twice a year :)</p>
<p>WOWW: mmmm …mushroom bisque and crusty roll. Do share the bisque recipe.</p>
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There’s a store here that once a week does a “5 buck cluck” - a whole rotisserie chicken for $5.</p>
<p>It’s a regular feature at our house.</p>
<p>^^^ it’s our featured main dish (spiced with BBQ sauce) on Costco shopping days.</p>
<p>Interesteddad:</p>
<p>My mouth tends to drool every time you post your dinner menu…I’m coming to your house tomorrow night! ;)</p>
<p>Btw: those crash hot potatoes have become a regular in our house now…so easy…and using new potatoes really are the best because of that buttery consistency…</p>
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<p>Tomorrow night might be the extra pork chop I grilled tonight. Or, I may save that for Wednesday. Tuesday is fish delivery day at my grocery store, so I might do some salmon or something.</p>
<p>My dinner tonight was off the charts. These pork chops had to be two inches thick, bone-in.</p>
<p>Fabio visited the wrong place… He should have gone to the idad’s house! LOL</p>
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<p>Chicken and Dumplings tonight. A family favorite</p>
<p>Chicken on the grill, red cabbage and going to try the hot smashed potatoes! </p>
<p>Fr those of you who have made the potatoes, what herbs/other toppings have you used after smashing and while baking? The recipe I saw talks about fresh rosemary or chives - anything else with success?</p>
<p>Salad: tomato, cucumbers (both from farmer’s market), avocado, feta cheese, then munching whole evening on fruit fresh and dried, nuts and a bit of beer. I might forget to have some of it if I get busy though. Craving this salad already, have had it every day for few days, yummm.</p>