What is/was for dinner?

[WriteNow]

good quality chicken) stock

I suppose that rules out Campbell's. LOL

(I'm not sure if Campbell's is recognized ouside North America. They make mass market canned soups.)

I fondly remember the vegetable soup that my mother made when I was growing up. I've thought that one of the reasons that it was so good was because she made the stock for it from scratch.

 

[KaliYoni]

Risotto definitely take more ambition than I have in the kitchen these days. But I have to admit I'm still kind of curious...

If you do decide to have a go at risotto—or a lot of other classic Italian dishes, such as Bolognese sauce, for that matter—a fine place to start is Marcella Hazan's classic cookbook

Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking by Marcella Hazan: 9780593534328 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

One of the most beloved cookbooks of all time, from “the Queen of Italian Cooking” (Chicago Tribune). A timeless collection of classic Italian recipes—from Basil Bruschetta to the only...

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because the recipes are great and easy to follow plus there is a lot of information about Italian ingredients and technique that other cookbooks, including Hazan's later books, don't have.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I suppose that rules out Campbell's. LOL

(I'm not sure if Campbell's is recognized ouside North America. They make mass market canned soups.)

I fondly remember the vegetable soup that my mother made when I was growing up. I've thought that one of the reasons that it was so good was because she made the stock for it from scratch.

I remember Campbell's soups from my childhood and teens, but haven't seen the brand on sale anywhere in an absolute age.

If memory serves, they did a exceedingly good consommé, and a pretty good oxtail soup.

However, I must admit that I never much cared for their chicken soup.

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Campbell's soup, you mean these...?

 

[WriteNow]

However, I must admit that I never much cared for their chicken soup.

My grandmother once opened a can of some Campbell's chicken soup and found a feather floating in it.

My mother sort of laughed about it, because she had heard jokes about them making the soup by waving a chicken over the vat of soup in the factory or something like that.

Chicken soup jokes aside, Campbell's was the only brand of canned soup that I recall ever seeing when I was growing up, although I'm sure there must have been other brands out there.

I remember it served both as soup, say for a quick lunch, and also as an ingredient used in other dishes. One of my grandmothers seemed to use canned soup a lot as an ingredient for various hot dish recipes.

When I began cooking I revolted a bit and made insisted on making soups from scratch. They were so much better! I'll never have a canned soup again! Or so I said. ..

Fast forward more years than I want to think about. I make soup from scratch a lot. Soup is a staple item for me in winter, given that it's a good tool to help battle winter cold! But I also find myself often stooping to the once unthinkable level of using canned soup for a fast, convenient meal. One issue I think is just that I live alone and so it's harder to get much enthusiasm to do cooking. Usually, I go with brands other than Campbell's these days, although occasionally I get Campbell's out of sentiment.

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

Yesterday’s TG dinner was more an early afternoon sup’ around 2:30pm which we served as a self service buffet since we stuff a lot of people & their plates onto the dinner table, thus not much real estate for food dishes.
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Well, a photo would be great but the site is having an “oops we ran into a problem” problem.

Roasted Turkey
Roasted ham
Mashed potatoes
Mashed yam casserole
Herbed sausage stuffing
Green bean ragout
Succotash
Cranberry sauce
Turkey gravy
Green chile turkey gravy
Dads deviled eggs
Green salad
Pull apart rolls
Pumpkin pie
Lattice cherry pie
Pecan pie
Brownies

 

[WriteNow]

Yesterday’s TG dinner was more an early afternoon sup’ around 2:30pm

Isn't that a pretty typical time for Thanksgiving dinner?

When I was young, many, many years ago, my family always had Thanksgiving dinner at standard dinner time. I was surprised when I first tead something that suggested that many, if not most people, did it as more of an afternoon affair.

These days, my Thanksgiving dinner is definitely at a standard dinner time, but then my Thanksgiving dinner is just a regular weeknight dinner. The only thing marking it as Thanksgiving dinner is that I happen to have it on Thanksgiving.

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

Isn't that a pretty typical time for Thanksgiving dinner?

When I was young, many, many years ago, my family always had Thanksgiving dinner at standard dinner time. I was surprised when I first tead something that suggested that many, if not most people, did it as more of an afternoon affair.

These days, my Thanksgiving dinner is definitely at a standard dinner time, but then my Thanksgiving dinner is just a regular weeknight dinner. The only thing marking it as Thanksgiving dinner is that I happen to have it on Thanksgiving.

I don’t know if it is standard for everyone but when I was a kid, yes it certainly was a midday meal in my family, not an afternoon or late night meal. The goal was to finish the big meal before football kickoff which typically was 1-2pm in the Midwest where I grew up. Being a midday meal, if you got hungry at night, my grandmas would break out the left over sliced turkey & ham with cheeses & sandwich bread & have sandwiches with pickles & chips & sodas.

Nowadays, I typically shoot for later than midday as I don’t want to get up & start cooking at 5am haha. It also gives traveling family more time to get here without rushing. A later 230-330 meal works out better for us nowadays than a midday meal.

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

Last nights dinner was red chile pork posole & it was delicious

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Today is a filthy day.

Having headed into town and collected my bread in the French bakery, treating myself to a soothing, warming, comforting and delicious bowl of chicken ramen noodle soup, in a local (recently opened, exceedingly reasonably priced, family-owned and exceptionally good) Asian spot seemed like a good idea.

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

We went up into the mountains to hunt down a Christmas tree so dinner was an easy lift - fish sticks Mac n cheese and broccoli
for the kids and left over posole for us (it’s even tastier on day two anyways).