Something Old, Something New

I think we should change food every meal. It'll make us feel interest in discovery the difference between the dish had eaten and the dish hadn't eaten

I'm always throwing things together so it's hard to say what my favorite recipe is in that category. The pork chop meal sounds good. The little thin ones are my favorites. I'm not too sure I would put them in a crock pot though as the cooking times on a corck are 4-8 hours and with meat that thin it might dry them out. You can test them after a few hours or cook them on high for 4 rather than low for 8. I like chicken in a crock pot and meats that are a bit tough are great in a crock pot...the meat just falls apart. May I ask where do you find "cream of rice soup" ? I've never heard of it. Happy cooking!

how did it come out? The last time I throw something together was 3 nights ago, I decided to try a cheese sauce macaroni. I never made it before, I boiled the macaroni noodles, in a bad I melted margarine with floor, then added mozzarella cheese and milk and simmered, I boiled broccoli, a new kind that I got it was rabaholi or something like that I don't know, any how I added the macaroni and the broccoli to the cheese sauce and I loved it it was wonderful

Actually, I haven't used my crock pot lately, as I have been cooking for 1 person. It had been one of my favorite ways to cook, but now it just makes to much food for me. I'm not really thrilled to eat leftovers.

About 36 years ago I made sweet & sour meatballs as sort of an appetizer. Just make up a bunch of meatballs, roll them in crushed corn flakes and cook in a skillet till done. Drain the grease off and then put them in a pot and pour a couple of cans of sweet & sour sauce over them. Nowadays you can use a crock pot but at that time I didn't have one. I used to use Contadina sweet & sour sauce in a can, but I haven't been able to find that brand for years, not sure if they even still make it, but any good brand will do. Add some pineapple chunks. Cover and simmer a couple of hours until meat is done and put it all in a serving bowl with a toothpick in each one. Or you can put them on a platter surrounded by white rice. Whenever we had a casual get together or pot luck with the neighbors, there was never one meatball left.

hello friend, I knew this was your post without looking (reading via email) by sentence three...lol. I throw things together and hope for the best alot- usually due to poor planning and/or time management on my part). It almost always turns out good and usually is a huge hit. Alas, since I just threw things together, I can rarely ever recreate it.

i think you can put anything in a crockpot and it will turn out good. at least thats what the hubby says cuz i don't eat the meat normally. i do love to try new things alot but lately being on the buget we are i won't cuz i am afriad if it turns out bad then i've wasted it. the last time we tried something new it was hotdogs. a friend of our worked at bar s and would bring us hotdogs,lunch meat,ham and what not all the time but it seemed like he would bring us about 10 packs of hotdogs every week. our freezer was so full of hot dogs we had to do something with them. my middle son would eat them right from the frig and would eat them every night if i made them but we still had a ton. anyway we love garlic so i cut a slit down the middle and added some garlic powder and cheese and my hubby did them on the grill. i'm not a big fan of hotdogs but they were very yummy. we also added garlic and cheese to the middle of our bugers and they were just as yummy. we are big on spices so we are always getting new spices to try and then we wiill mix them up and add to differentthings. last week i did rib in the crockpot with bbq sauce lemon juice and some new spice we had gotten and my husband loved them. he said it was the best he had ever had. thats his job though right.lol

It sounds like it should turn out good. I wish you luck in finding the lost recipe...I know it can be frustrating not to know how to make something that you once enjoyed so much. **AT PEACE WITHIN** ~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~

It is better to use new ones. New ones are fresh and would affect the over all outcome of your cooking. Having old ingredients would make your food spoil easily than having fresh new ingredients mixed with the food.

yaa I too have great experience of cooking. Once I had tried to make alluo kri..for my cousin brother. He is 6 years older than me..as I was not used to with cooking but that day I had decided to prepare food by myself.. so as I stared cooking sabji. I know that I hav to fry onions first, I put some oil in pan and then I put onions in it,but that time I forget to heat oil. But leave that then I put some salt and spices in that and mixed well with the stuff. And at last I put Potatoes in pan and left them for 1/2 an hour. After half an hour when i opened pan I found all it had burnt and smelled badly..that was my experience.............ha ..ha..ha..

I believe you are a good cook.Your familiers should very glad to eat what you make.I don't know how to make good meals ,but I love to cook .Even if it will not taste very good ,I like to eat also.Because it is my working fruit,I feel it's significative.

My wife does it all the time. She did something with stewed tomatoes, beans and sausage that just came out really good. I didn't think I was going to like it but it was really tasty, served over rice. But now she can't even remember how she made it.