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Open Thread: Thursday Night Menu Edition

by Anne Laurie|  November 6, 200912:55 am| 23 Comments

This post is in: Cooking, Open Threads

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Your weekly soul- and tummy-warmer, thank you Bad Horse’s Filly:

it’s always good to have a soup recipe on hand for when the cold weather returns. And there’s nothing better on a cold night than Creamy Potato Cheese Soup.

On the board tonight:

(1) Cream of Potato Cheese Soup
(2) Orange-Walnut Spinach Salad
(3) Pear and Sour Cherry Crisp

Click the blue text for recipes and shopping list. Mmm, taties & cheez!

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  1. 1.

    Yutsano

    November 6, 2009 at 12:59 am

    OH MY GRAVY I’m hungry again and I just ate like two hours ago! Plus I had a really crappy chowder from a can (don’t judge me!) and that just sounds wondrous.

  2. 2.

    IndyLib

    November 6, 2009 at 1:03 am

    Sounds scrumptious.
    BHF, how many servings does the soup recipe make?

  3. 3.

    ellaesther

    November 6, 2009 at 1:09 am

    Wow, and holy crow. I don’t usually get wrapped up in this sort of on-line food extravaganza, but — wow. And holy crow!

    I do believe I’ll be printing all of this out!

  4. 4.

    r€nato

    November 6, 2009 at 1:27 am

    soup? LOL it was 93 here today. It’s at least a month from soup weather here in the Sonoran Desert…

  5. 5.

    Linkmeister

    November 6, 2009 at 1:32 am

    Here’s something fascinating: go over to Little Green Footballs. You’ll discover that the top two posts are 1) a photo from Hubble and 2) a tech review of Apple’s Magic Mouse. The third and fourth posts pertain to the Ft. Hood shooting, but are confined to facts as reported by the MSM. Facts later proven to be incorrect (3 shooters; shooter dead), but that’s not LGF’s fault.

    A while back there’s have been frothing at the mouth coming from Johnson’s pages. Maybe he really has grown up?

  6. 6.

    Yutsano

    November 6, 2009 at 1:39 am

    @Linkmeister: Seeing the light can sometimes be a hallelujah moment (a la John) or some get there in small incremental steps. I doubt I’d recognize the place if I went over there now.

  7. 7.

    Snark Based Reality

    November 6, 2009 at 1:48 am

    Apologies if this has been posted already but…

    http://www.theonion.com/content/video/victim_in_fatal_car_accident

    “Victim In Fatal Car Accident Tragically Not Glenn Beck”

    This. Is. Awesome.

  8. 8.

    slag

    November 6, 2009 at 1:54 am

    @Snark Based Reality: I generally don’t appreciate humor about people dying, but they mastered the art on this one. I laughed in spite of myself.

  9. 9.

    apistat

    November 6, 2009 at 2:03 am

    I know this is true about nearly everything, but a little bacon in the soup (sprinkled in your bowl, not cooked along with it) makes it 10 times better.

  10. 10.

    Yutsano

    November 6, 2009 at 2:06 am

    @apistat: I was thinking either bacon or beer or even both!

  11. 11.

    freelancer (itouch)

    November 6, 2009 at 2:33 am

    @Snark Based Reality:
    I saw this last week, but it’s worth reposting.

    Anyone see wednesday’s FNL? The genius character writing of nascent characters in the show gave us a great moment where the head coach of Texas Tech plays a batshit football nut who tells Taylor that he “needs to find his inner pirate”. Just awesome stuff.

  12. 12.

    Yutsano

    November 6, 2009 at 2:58 am

    I think this is a blind squirrel/acorn moment (see what I did there?) and it’s possible this is romanticized, but I found this article compelling and touching:

    http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/11/05/neda.mom.speaks/index.html

  13. 13.

    MBSS

    November 6, 2009 at 3:30 am

    what’s some good food to make with a broken hand?

  14. 14.

    freelancer (itouch)

    November 6, 2009 at 3:37 am

    @MBSS:

    What’s good to cook blind?

  15. 15.

    kommrade reproductive vigor

    November 6, 2009 at 6:12 am

    The Republican Governor’s ad is cracking me up. 2 states down, 37 to go!

    Sure guys, dream big. Christie big.

  16. 16.

    Comrade javafascist

    November 6, 2009 at 7:03 am

    Yes, bacon on top of a potato cheese soup is sublime. I make mine a little differently, boiling the potatoes separately. In the main pot, I saute onions, celery, garlic in olive oil and butter. Add the flour and spices to make a roux. Add white wine and reduce (used to use beer but found it left a bitter aftertaste. Probably just needed to use cheap crap beer.) Add chicken stock and milk. Boil. Add potatoes. Blend thoroughly with a wand mixer. Add cheese. Serve.

  17. 17.

    R-Jud

    November 6, 2009 at 7:40 am

    I am enjoying some jambalaya made with leftover Bonfire Night sausages. Personally I find potato and cheese soup a bit heavy. Potato and leek with lemon and dill? That’s more like it.

    The salad, however, sounds fantastic, and I’m totally going to try it.

  18. 18.

    namekarB

    November 6, 2009 at 7:43 am

    @MBSS:

    First debone the hand . . .

  19. 19.

    someguy

    November 6, 2009 at 7:49 am

    Nice recipes, but if they don’t turn out right, can we blame the Moose Limbs?

  20. 20.

    Svensker

    November 6, 2009 at 8:10 am

    Oooh, I have an excess of taters hanging around. Sounds like a good football Sunday recipe.

  21. 21.

    Kirk Spencer

    November 6, 2009 at 11:22 am

    @Svensker: If that’s your case, make crispy potato skins.

    Bake the potatoes to not-quite done. Scoop out and save the filling for another meal (lots of options). Start up the deep fryer, and cook the skins till they’re crisp. Salt them as soon as they come out.

    Use them as big potato-chips or as boats. For boats fill them with, well, you can go healthy or you can go for true couch potato mode. If you want to get unusual do something with the potato you scooped out, use it as the base for a dip/filling (mixing it heavily with things like cheddar cheese and/or sour cream and/or onions and garlic and minced jalapenos and/or bacon…) There’s one time I filled them with sloppy joe mix and another I filled with Q’d pork.

  22. 22.

    AJ

    November 6, 2009 at 11:54 am

    Unless I missed it, it does not mention the number of servings you get from this recipe. I’m guessing 4…? Anyone…?

  23. 23.

    AnnPW

    November 6, 2009 at 1:43 pm

    Yum! A friend of mine recently made a wonderful cream of potato-cheese soup but instead of cheddar he used English stilton, and also substited leeks for the onion. It was to die for.

    You would probably want a different salad with it, though. I’ve been on a grapefruit and avocado binge lately.

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