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[Smurfette]

I decided to use up as many leftover items in my fridge as I could (chicken, broth/stock, eggs expiring soon, lemons have been here a while...)
Time for Avgolemono (Greek egg-lemon chicken soup)

It was really easy and tasty too.
I had a $5.00 rotisserie chicken from Wegmans that I had been making stuff out of all week. I picked a couple cups meat off the carcass to finish it. I find shredded chicken is always more moist than cut. I don't know why. This was shredded because it was the last of it too.

So about 2-3 cups shredded chicken
2 lemons (I think it could have used more) yielded about 6 TBS juice
a cup dried orzo
3 eggs
3 cups chicken broth or stock

make the orzo, while that's making add broth to a stock pot to heat.
after you start that cooking beat the eggs. REALLY BEAT THEM don't just mix them around. Use a whisk. slowly incorporate the lemon juice. Beat those for like 5 minutes. Really. It will get all frothy. Add a cup of the hot broth slowly to the egg mixture.

Orzo is now done, drain it.
add orzo to hot broth in pot.
Let it heat up together for a moment.
Now slowly add egg mixture to soup in pot.
Let that heat up and incorporate mixing frequently.
Last, add the chicken just enough to heat it up. It doesn't need to be cooked, it is cooked.

Serve. Drool. Enjoy.
So easy, so good on a cold day, is pretty hardy and uses no cream, low in fat. I am bringing it to work tomorrow in my thermos. My office is freezing.

Must add, I made Darkvibe's ginger/garlic beans last night. They were INCREDIBLE. They will be a new staple for me.

[BULLDOG]

After watching a few cast iron dutch oven recipes on you tube I am going to Gander Mtn. & buying one to make some of the nice recipes that I can do outside on either hot coal's or wood chips, check out the you tube for these cast iron dutch oven recipes, Nice. Chicken, pot roast's , Venison , pork ribs, & other stuff to make in them.

[Noodles]

Don't get the opportunity to eat well too often, lately, but there've been some pretty good meals here. Can only safely eat one of these every six months or so.

[Phlyan Pan]

I made a pot roast that came out really good last night. I don't really use recipes so I'll try to remember how I did it.

I used about a 3 lb chuck roast
coated it with adolph's meat tenderizer, paprika, garlic powder, and black pepper

Next rubbed it down with flour.

heated a little bit (1/4 cup maybe) of canola oil in a pan and browned the meat on all sides.
remove the meat and put it in a roasting pan.

Into the pan put a sweet onion cut into wedges and 3 cloves of garlic diced. Once the onion and garlic are browned up, place them on top of the roast and deglaze the pan with red wine ( I used the bully hill one with the rooster on it) and added a few teaspoons of Worcestershire sauce and some beef bulion.

Put about a cup or two of celery in the pan with the roast

Then pour the wine mixture over the roast and add enough red wine to cover about half way up the meat.

Cover with foil and put in the oven at about 350-375 and cook till it falls apart (took me about 3 hours), flip the roast half way through to submerge the other half in the liquid.

[Gunner57]

Flour rub downs and red wine... just had a flashback to my college days! Wait, I think it was Ripple though and not Bully Hill...

[nosdog2]

Chipotle Lime marinated Elk steaks on the grill tonight!! Can't wait.

[Dennis]

i,m thinking liquid dinner tonight it has been a week from hell here in my life
then tomorrow go and waste some lead.

[sdb3023]

i,m thinking liquid dinner tonight it has been a week from hell here in my life
then tomorrow go and waste some lead.

Funny, I am thinking the same thing!

[Evild]

just made a brasciolle

[Tifosi]

I made these, but if I told you how the sauce is produced I'd have to kill you for even my own family shall not know the secret of the mighty and uber universal 'pig sauce'.

[Smurfette]

I made these, but if I told you how the sauce is produced I'd have to kill you for even my own family shall not know the secret of the mighty and uber universal 'pig sauce'.

But I promise I won't tell *flutters eyelashes*
those look amazing.

[Smurfette]

Don't get the opportunity to eat well too often, lately, but there've been some pretty good meals here. Can only safely eat one of these every six months or so.

That actually scared me. Dare I say you found something with pork that didn't seem like something I would want. The cheese fries on the other hand, want.

[demerson]

.... apple brined bone less chicken cut into fingers/nuggets .....dredged in super fine ground almonds ... run through an egg bath then coated in semi course ground walnut and into the deep fryer ..... we dip those in a habanero/pineapple/cranberry dip ..... mmmmm

[Noodles]

That actually scared me. Dare I say you found something with pork that didn't seem like something I would want. The cheese fries on the other hand, want.

That was our 9/11 dinner. The idea was that everything had as much pork in it as possible. We even added some sausage to the hamburger inside the bacon turtle dog to enhance it's evil haram powers.

And the poutine, with pork gravy, was quite good, too!

[Smurfette]

That was our 9/11 dinner. The idea was that everything had as much pork in it as possible. We even added some sausage to the hamburger inside the bacon turtle dog to enhance it's evil haram powers.

And the poutine, with pork gravy, was quite good, too!

ROFL, it's a turtle. I didn't catch that, I have changed my mind because it's hilarious. I make octo-dogs for my friends kids.

I hope someone served pigs in a blanket. We had a pork themed valentines day. center cut pork chops stuffed with gouda, pigs in blanket, bacon cheddar biscuits. I wonder if there is a pork themed drink we should have had.

[MAVX]

tonight:

80/20 ground beef
my "house" seasoning (kosher salt, pepper, granulated garlic)
lettuce
tomato
onion
kaiser roll
cheddar
mayo
ketchup

sometimes simplicity is amazing.

[Tifosi]

But I promise I won't tell *flutters eyelashes*

Sorry, while I appreciate the thought, you gotta do better than that by a wide margin.
My wife puts out and I won't even let her in the kitchen when I'm building the sauce.

Perhaps in the future when I make another run I could be convinced to send you a bottle as I'm not adverse to sharing the final product, just the manufacture there~of.

[pigmagnet]

wife made mac and cheese tonight. she even cut up some hot dogs in it.

[Smurfette]

wife made mac and cheese tonight. she even cut up some hot dogs in it.

OMG, I wish I was at your place. I was on a date that was seemingly going really well. Until he mentioned he's vegan.

[Tifosi]

<--- raises finger to say something moderately obscene, but thinks the better of it and wanders off to make a sammich instead

[Smurfette]

<--- raises finger to say something moderately obscene, but thinks the better of it and wanders off to make a sammich instead

you mean like how I won't eat meat if he doesn't?
There, I got that out of my system. Now gimme your secret recipe.

[Tifosi]

Actually I was thinking of the other way 'round but you do raise a valid point.

[pigmagnet]

OMG, I wish I was at your place. I was on a date that was seemingly going really well. Until he mentioned he's vegan.

vegan, you couldnt tell by looking at his horrible build? the lankieness? vegans are bad people.

[Smurfette]

vegan, you couldnt tell by looking at his horrible build? the lankieness? vegans are bad people.

LOL. ok, so yeah. Here's the thing, he has a neurological disease so he walks with a cane. Which obviously is no deal breaker for me that I saw the cane when I met him and realized it was for more than a ski injury or something. I figured maybe the lankiness was disease related, from muscle wasting...who knows. But when I heard the lankiness was self inflicted I thought "check, please." For some other girl, a great guy. Good conversationalist, nice, not a left leaning wackjob...which is kinda surprising. This girl happens to really enjoy cooking for people and can't wrap my head around eating veggies for the rest of my life. Dietary restrictions are one thing, but that is waaay too extreme. I am guessing he hopes by doing something so extreme it will help him physically. He's happy with that, so I am happy for him. But I reaffirm my "check, please" stance. I am sure he equally feels my eating meat is going to kill me and finds that unattractive.

[demerson]

vegan, you couldnt tell by looking at his horrible build? the lankieness? vegans are bad people.

Just hold a light up behind them ...... if it shows through run away