I haven’t posted in a while because I had a fire and burned my hand and arm; second degree and partial thickness, multiple degrees…of course 🫠. (I’ll add those pics at bottom; not appetizing‼️)
SOOOooo…I haven’t cooked ‘as much’ and when I have, it’s been stuff I already posted. That’s easier for me…when I don’t have to follow a recipe. Along with a lot of salads and ORDERING OUT, some good stuff‼️ Even then it was a couple/few times of Salad and Go ⤵️
Blisters, peeling skin, soot….burned hair 😵Hospitalized at Burn Center…on my birthday‼️🤦♀️⁉️❓️🫣 scraping the bad off…Supplies
At one month
After a month & a half…healing, new skin ✨️ 😍 👌 ⤵️
Stuffing so good 😋 w/celery, onion, hot sausage, seasonings 🌱🍃🌿🥬🧅🧂🧈Candied yams/WHITE sweet potatoes 🍠🍯Mexican Sweet Corn Cake 🌽Gravy 🥣We use a lot of butter 🧈 😋 Potatoes 🥔 Happy Thanksgiving from my daughter’s house 🏡Paula Deen’s sweet potato casserole She makes a GOOD cranberry relish, at top; I don’t know who brought the can 🤭Green was my salad I ate separately 🥗A lot of desserts 🍨 🥧 🥧 🍰 🍮 pumpkin pie, cheesecake, strawberry rhubarb pie, chocolate & whip parfait, etc.,etc..
Stuffed Peppers Spaghetti & meat sauce 🍝 garlic bread 🍞 Cheese love 🧀 Lasagna Chicken and gravy on mashed potatoes & stuffing w/green beans 😋 ChilliSlow cooker roast beef w/veggies 😋 Reubens One pot crispy chicken and rice Spaghetti w/meatballs 🍝 Slow cooker beef stroganoff Homemade pizza 🍕 😋 Chicken fettuccine alfredo w/fresh salad 🥗 Sheet pan quesadilla w/beef barbacoa Bear 🐻 gets the rest 😜 ⤵️More lasagna 😋 Layer….layer….🧀🍅🧀Jambalaya Already made a turkey, the week before Thanksgiving because my daughter absent-mindedly put them (yes 2) in refrigerator instead of freezer 😱 can’t throw them out. Now she has to buy 2 more bc Thanksgiving dinner is at her house 🏡 💓 It’s all good…we’ll take it. I really did slice it better than it looks 😆 Half a turkey 😂 Might as well make all the fixins to go with it 🤷 😋Now I will not only be going to my daughter’s for dinner, but I’ll be making this all over again at home 😳 I got a big butterball in fridge waiting…. I’ll be making a big bowl of turkey salad 😋 I can eat that sh💢t for breakfast, lunch and dinner Turkey noodle soup Making soup with leftover turkey carcass…with a lot of meat left on bones 🦃And more turkey gravy with wings; everyone ate that up 🤭Roast chicken thighs….with veggies, potatoes & stuffing 😋 Sloppy joes & onion rings Chicken cacciatore Beef Birria Salmon patties w/tator tots * spinach Mississippi Roast w/carrots 🥕 Good stuff! New crockpot 😉Crack Chicken 🐔
I used pasta shells instead of elbow; i like either one! Grew up w/my dad always making it with shells…so there’s that memories based “thing”; just like Bobby has with his mum 🥰 In place of the soy sauce in Bobby Deen’s recipe, I use a tablespoon each of Better than Bouillon Roasted Garlic base, Better than Bouillon Beef base, Better than Bouillon onion base, 😍 AND much more garlic; via fresh minced, the bouillon & garlic powder. Delish‼️😋 Sure it might emit through our skin 🤣 but we love that sh💢t and it’s healthy. 🧄 Also, “if” my tomato sauce is too acidic 🍅, I add a dash (or 2…TASTE & TASTE) of sugar, couple knobs of butter & drizzle with some EVOO. Taste throughout to adjust to your liking.
Other changes I did was Hunt’s Diced fire roasted tomatoes w/garlic
I not only double linked recipe, but we use more salad dressing too, or mayo…if preferred, with a little blast of honey mustard, dash of vinegar, salt, pepper, little 🥄 sugar; taste to adjust to your preferences. And a lot of onion 😉
My recipe comes from my dad 🤣 people serve it with pasta and some with mashed potatoes…so I’ve read Our preference, again…probably childhood thing, which, in turn, I created my own kids’ that childhood “thing” 🤭 sense memory stuff? We prefer smooth penne. https://dawnspitfire.wordpress.com/2013/09/08/simple-chicken-cacciatore
Or I recommend following the recipe in video below 😉 … I was too lazy (truth 👉 tired and we’re under a heat advisory – 115°) 😜 to add the parsley 🍃🌿🌱 also, for balance, sometimes more than others, depending on tomatoes (acidity of tomatoes 🍅 especially if you’re stuck with cannned) etc., I add a dollop of butter, pinch of sugar and more seasonings – GARLIC 😍 Taste, taste, taste…throughout. 👉 Remember “salt,fat,acid,heat” 🌶
Thats my mother’s handwriting (she’s gone) & to clarify a couple things…chicken = any parts you prefer. We always did a mix of white & dark meat. Remove skin. Pasta = we always used penne. And where it says “small can of water” = the tomato paste can. Till done = approximately 90 minutes – BTW…me and my sister are in disagreement about mushrooms in it. I clearly remember my dad putting mushrooms in it. She’s adamant he didn’t ….
Can’t go by it not being written down. My mother wrote it, not my dad. *added later- my sister called my twin in Yuma AZ & he said “yes, it has mushrooms”. With my sister being a Taurus. …she’s standing her ground no matter what anyone says.
SO ADD GARLIC & MUSHROOMS
Cacciatore Dish – Cacciatore means “hunter” in Italian. In cuisine, alla cacciatora refers to a meal prepared “hunter‑style”…
There’s been times, I had to make it work in a little different ways. From what tomato products I had …My helper 😍To what pasta I had…And what chicken parts I had; bone-in is BEST; otherwise I have to try to copy the original flavor…like with a LITTLE chicken stock 🤔😁😋
Now…I only make it when I have all the ingredients I prefer 🥰
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