Recent content by notjustamom

Thanks for the suggestions so far! Those sound like great ideas.

For Christmas we bought a huge slab of filet mignon, and cut it into individual steaks and grilled it. All the leftover small bits and pieces I threw in a bag and froze it. What's a good recipe for these leftover pieces of meat? I was thinking of sauteing them with something, but thought...

I was wondering the same thing at Thanksgiving, when I went to make pecan pie. I still had a bottle of corn syrup left from last Thanksgiving. It had turned a bit yellow. I went to the Karo website, and it said something about corn syrup storing indefinitely, and that it would yellow with...

I wanted to brine my butterball, and I just saw on another thread here where someone said you could brine a fresh butterball, just not a frozen one. Anyway, my dh doesn't want me experimenting on the turkey since people are coming here. Instead, I plan to use a mixture of butter and herbs, and...

Yep, seasonings! You could also add a dash of lemon juice.

I cooked a fabulous turkey about five years ago, so moist, how I wish I'd kept that recipe! I am pretty sure I started it out on it's breast, and flipped it over partway through the cooking. I didn't cook it on it's breast the whole time, because I wanted it to brown. I also remember pouring...

I came here looking for just such a thread! I found both Alton's and the below recipe promising. Instead of brining in a bag, I was going to try a large pot, or more than likely a cooler. Since it's cold here (about freezing at night) I was going to put the turkey in the cooler, and put it in...

Yep, I've got a houseful of ugly old things, I have a liking for primitive country antiques myself. That copper pot was too primitive for me, though. I know it's value was because of it's age and ugliness, which is why I bought it for a couple of bucks in the first place. I knew it was...

Hmm, well, I guess I will keep it and try it out, thanks! I used to sell a lot of estate sale finds on eBay, and once I sold an ancient copper pot. Seriously, it was so old my husband said it looked like something Jesus would have used, lol. It was handmade. I sold that ugly old thing for a...

About 20 years ago, my MIL gave me a large oval copper casserole dish, and it hung on our kitchen wall for many years. Eventually I stuffed it away in storage. I've been thinking about our upcoming Thanksgiving dinner, and the fact that I need more casserole dishes---suddenly I remembered the...

My father can't tolerate onions since he's had his gallbladder removed. He comes to visit every summer for a week, and since we cook everything with onions that's a rough week for us!! I use chopped chives, it's not as oniony, if it bothers him he doesn't complain.

Yes! Although I'm no expert, we've only had a convection oven for a few months. Every thing we have baked has turned out wonderfully, though. It does seem to cook a tiny bit faster, I'm still learning to get used to it. The directions say to set the temp 25 degrees lower than the recipe...

We don't like stuffing in our family, either. We always have a wild rice dish with mushrooms and pecans or walnuts. There are a lot of stuffing threads here, I think this is the third one I've posted on. I feel like I'm really complaining a lot about stuffing today!!

I've tried about 4-5 recipes in our crockpot, and only about one dish did we really like. It's definitely a different flavor, we ordinarily grill a lot of our food. I think soups and stews do best in crock pots. Large cuts of beef like a roast, yes, it can be dry. My MIL gave me a slowcooker...

Those look DIVINE, I am definitely trying your recipe!! Probably tonight, TFS.