Friday 29 September - Change of Season Dinner?

[Jade Emperor]

Yiros

 

[dragnlaw]

Into the oven I popped some frozen French Fries and on either side of the pan plopped 2 frozen Schneider's Original Jumbo Juicy Wieners. They were exactly that, jumbo and juicy. The fries and wieners cooked perfectly at the same temperature and took the same length of time. A great one pan meal!
A little side dish of ketchup to serve.

 

[Aunt Bea]

A pork chop, creamed cabbage and a baked potato.

 

[dragnlaw]

Never thought of creaming cabbage. Aunt Bea, how's it go?

 

[Jade Emperor]

I would be interested to know also @Aunt Bea ?
I have done the creamed spinach that seems very prominent in US cuisine, but I didn’t like it. (love the taste of spinach, still looking for a way to cook it without it losing its green vibrancy)
Cabbage or even broccoli or cauliflower might be nice with a “creaming” recipe?

 

[Aunt Bea]

Never thought of creaming cabbage. Aunt Bea, how's it go?

Last night’s version used a wedge of cabbage leftover from my boiled dinner earlier in the week.

The cabbage was already cooked so I just ran a knife through it and added a cup of cream sauce. I baked it for 30 minutes in a 350f oven until bubbly.

This version has appeared in many church cookbooks and is very good.

When I make it I usually start with a bag of pre shredded coleslaw mix and top it with a can of French fried onion rings.

It’s a nice casserole to tote to family gatherings and potlucks, good warm or close to room temperature.

These days it’s dinner at my house.

Old-Fashioned Cabbage Casserole

Old-Fashioned Cabbage Casserole is a southern favorite with a creamy cabbage filling topped with buttery cracker crumbs and cheese.

spicysouthernkitchen.com

 

[Aunt Bea]

I would be interested to know also @Aunt Bea ?
I have done the creamed spinach that seems very prominent in US cuisine, but I didn’t like it. (love the taste of spinach, still looking for a way to cook it without it losing its green vibrancy)
Cabbage or even broccoli or cauliflower might be nice with a “creaming” recipe?

You could use the same technique for creamed cabbage that you use for creamed spinach but the cooking time for the cabbage will be significantly longer than for spinach. I would steam the chopped cabbage in a wide shallow covered skillet with a minimum of water until tender, remove the cover, increase the heat to drive off the remaining water, reduce heat, add enough heavy cream to coat, remove from heat, stir in a knob of butter and maybe a small handful of grated cheese.

 

[dragnlaw]

Sounds wonderful - Working my way thru a head of cabbage so I will definitely be trying this.
Thanks Aunt Bea.
Jade, that is also pretty much how I do my creamed spinach. Just a white sauce with maybe a hint of onion and nutmeg. I don't think it overwhelms the spinach at all. The colour is still vibrant as after you add it the heat should now be off. I leave it in the pan and on the burner till serving One of my favourite ways to have it.

 

[Jade Emperor]

Thanks very much @Aunt Bea @dragnlaw - I will certainly try your suggestions!

 

[Andy M.]

Penne with the last of the pork ragu that was sooo good I wish I'd written down the recipe. Green beans on the side.

 

[GinnyPNW]

I used a new-to-me recipe for Smothered Hamburger Steak - HOWEVER, I read the recipe over and over again and realized, the author left out an important step! Cooking this raw burger with the sauce for 10 minutes will NOT produce a cooked burger! Glad I read it thru completely before starting dinner!

I used another new recipe for Baked Potato Wedges as a side. They were good...all, in all, a good meal. Oh, and there was a Caesar's Salad too.

 

[taxlady]

I was on my own for supper. I had a ham sandwich on wholewheat sunflower seed toast. Then, I had 'shrooms on toast.

 

[dragnlaw]

taxy - How did you fix your mushrooms for the toast?

 

[taxlady]

taxy - How did you fix your mushrooms for the toast? Oh, and seasoned with salt and pepper when I put it on the toast.

I just cut them up and fried them in butter and EVOO.

The mushrooms that I got for that ramen noodle vegi dish I finally made had gotten a bit past their prime. They needed triage. Since I only needed half of the 'shrooms in the container for that recipe, I took the bigger pieces for that dish and put the rest aside for me to have on toast. I fried the funny looking bits first and put them in a mis-en-place bowl and then fried the nice half for the recipe.

 

[dragnlaw]

Thanks taxy.

 

[taxlady]

Thanks taxy.

You're welcome.

I just noticed that I made an oops when editing. I added the bit about seasoning with salt and pepper into the quoted part of your post, at the end, instead of the area where I am supposed to write.

 

[Xocolatl]

Orange season is coming so, here's butter chicken, garlic nan and rice