Oh, God I LOVE Vietnamese spring rolls. Love Vietnamese coffee, too.

Chicken & D's.

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Originally posted by bald1:

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
Can't say as I've ever had those. Do you eat the wrapper too...like an egg roll? And what is the sauce?

Those look to be Vietnamese style (Gỏi Cuốn) spring rolls using rice paper for edible wrappers. Dipping bowl contents could be traditional red peanut sauce.
They are absolutely delicious!

not sure what the greens are other than some basil,

we buy them every time we go to a farmers market in town, there is a nice little Asian lady with a booth , and her's are fantastic,

most everything she cooks there is fantastic

This thread id dangerous, and addicting. My grocery list, and list of things to try keep growing!

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Ah! So true!

If you have a chicken and dumplings recipe, throw it away and use this one instead.

I've made chicken and dumplings for decades and always thought it was pretty good. But, I got a wild hair today and thought I'd look around for a better one and I found it. Wow this was excellent. I did tweak the dumplings a bit to make them more like mom's, and I added mushrooms, but otherwise followed it exactly.

5/5 stars.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
If you have a chicken and dumplings recipe, throw it away and use this one instead.

I've made chicken and dumplings for decades and always thought it was pretty good. But, I got a wild hair today and thought I'd look around for a better one and I found it. Wow this was excellent. I did tweak the dumplings a bit to make them more like mom's, and I added mushrooms, but otherwise followed it exactly.

5/5 stars.

I am going to try this. I love chicken and dumplings, but only the one I make. This recipe is more work as I always used canned biscuits, but also sounds really good! My wife doesn’t like them, but maybe she will like this.

I too intend on trying this. Fast chicken and dumplings. I've always made chicken noodle soup (-noodles), cornstarch slurry, biscuits. Soup takes forever to make, but you get shreddy chicken and when you're ready it's only 15-20 minutes to make dumplings. Interested to see how it is with this method.

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Originally posted by StorminNormin:
This recipe is more work as I always used canned biscuits,

Canned biscuits? In chicken and dumplings? You southerners are weird!

These are really good IMO. They're a northern much more dense dumpling. And, I used AP flour and kneaded mine a lot to make them more dense (I like 'em that way).

The recipe looks a bit time consuming and complicated but it really isn't. Once you get your veggies cut up it throws together pretty quick (assuming you have everything else on hand).

Hope you guys like it, I surely did.

Good Carne Guisada & Tortillas

I’m not a biscuit fan. I’d much rather toast a small loaf of French bread, or something similar, break bread and load with butter!
After watching a Sam the cooking guy video where he used Pillsbury layered biscuits, baked on a smoker in a cast iron pan with butter, parsley, garlic, and pepper, I decided to give it a try.
I’d smoked a Boston butt. Well I made sandwiches with these biscuits, pulled pork, coleslaw, pickles, and a BBQ sauce with a slightly apple cider vinegar tang.
Definitely the best smoked sandwich I’ve ever had, maybe the best sandwich!
It was so good, the next morning I made another one and added a fried egg to it!

Weekend comfort food. 5 pound meatloaf!
Here just popped into the oven.



Meatloaf:
3 lbs 80% ground beef
2 lbs pork sausage
2 eggs
salt
fresh ground pepper
several large onions diced
several garlic gloves diced
red/yellow/orange bell peppers diced
white mushrooms diced and slightly sauteed
Worcester sauce
parsley
yellow mustard
smoked paprika
Plain bagels cubed and soaked in milk

Glaze:
ketchup
brown sugar
small can tomato paste
apple cider vinegar
onion powder
garlic powder
salt
pepper

Chinese carry-out. It was a lot of work!

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Originally posted by bald1:
Weekend comfort food. 5 pound meatloaf!
Here just popped into the oven.



Meatloaf:
3 lbs 80% ground beef
2 lbs pork sausage
2 eggs
salt
fresh ground pepper
couple large onions diced
couple garlic gloves diced
red/yellow/orange bell peppers diced
white mushrooms diced and slightly sauteed
Worcester sauce
parsley
yellow mustard
smoked paprika
Plain bagel cubed and soaked in milk

Glaze:
ketchup
brown sugar
small can tomato paste
apple cider vinegar
onion powder
garlic powder
salt
pepper

You my good Sir…are a man after my own heart…I’m now as hungry as hell again…those Taco Bell taco supremes just ain’t cutting it

{Not pictured} caprese salad with tomatoes and basil from my garden

Thick-cut pork chops with Dizzy Dust

Corn from my garden which represents 3 firsts for me – first corn of 2023, first time ever growing corn, and first time ever eating the new Sh2 super sweet variety of corn.

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Hate to disappoint, last night dinner was popcorn!

Dessert last night, strawberry shortcake on a donut. Way better than whatever those yellow puck things are.

Tonight will be a large pork country style rib.....seasoned with my rub for 24 hours. It goes on the grill with seasoned okra and large onion plant from my garden. A baked potato with butter and sour cream....and pita bread. Have this while I watch my recorded F1 race from Canada. Life is gooooood!!

Last night was a lazy dinner. Heated up a frozen Luby’s fish filet, roasted garden fresh Serrano peppers, and steamed garden squash. Sadly vegetables not from my garden, but a friend’s.

We just took 2 dozen huge beef and chicken kabobs with lots of shrooms, onion, and pineapple. Camper potatoes, fresh green beans and fresh picked strawberries and homemade short cakes.