What's for Dinner #123 - the Start of the End of the Year Edition - November 2025

Fish sticks and steamed red potatoes with butter.

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Pork chile verde with rice and beans

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Wow.

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A medium rare ribeye with the brie mashed potatoes, and haricots and chanterelles! in lots of butter.

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that looks delish, Ernie

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Mmm-hmm. This is the year of plentiful and affordable chanterelles.

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Seems that a lot of different mushrooms are quite “cheap” in the moment. Even some matsutake were just $12/lb. The only exception were unfortunately fresh porcini

And with mushrooms you don’t need many! I think these chanterelles came to about $2.00, and I have leftovers.

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Right back atcha!

Come to Mama!

Made these chicken thighs using an Epicurious recipe for thighs with lemon, quasi-curry, cabbage and peas (someone had linked their “47 chicken thigh recipes” on a chicken-thigh specific thread).

Pretty good, but not great. I also didn’t exactly follow the recipe or instructions (I think I have a problem with this) so it’s hard to blame them for the “not great” part.

I also let the thighs go closer to 180-185°F vs their called-for 165F, just based on my personal observation that thighs and legs seem to be better at higher temps, as long as the cooking process is relatively slow. The thighs themselves were perfect but I overcooked the cabbage as you can see, and the lemon slices pretty much wholly disintegrated. (Although to be a bit more fair to myself, this is a lunch leftovers photo - I forgot to grab a pic while it was still in the pan - so it’s a bit more broken down than the original.)

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Looks good, at least!

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Tonight I made chicken pot pie stew to use up a pie crust that fell victim to rough handling in the deep freezer. Turned out great!


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Wait, so explain pls. You baked pieces of the crust and then added to the pot pie? That’s what it looks like. And it looks pretty good!

Homemade chili from the freezer and Baked Potato Skins. Not the other kind.:slightly_smiling_face: BPS’s were really good.


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Seared and roasted biso chicken thigh, cream gravy. Corn, onion, baby bells, butter, parsley. Tomato, cucumber, red onion salad, oo & balsamic dressing, basil.

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Zuppa Toscana with parmesan-chive biscuits.

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I baked pieces of crust and used them to top the stew, which itself did not have a crust.

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Lol. I was waiting to see who’d cave on that craving!

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Pork chile verde with beans and tortillas

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