November Baking/Cooking/Crafting/Home Improvement Thread

fitzfizz · November 2020

What are you whipping up this November?

optimisticoctopus · November 2020

This was much needed comfort food for failed IUI/CD1 yesterday: jalapeño corn dip!

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acleverusername · November 2020

MH mastered smoked gravlax and I’m the lucky benefactor. Also, this ends up being SOOOO much cheaper than buying it at the store!

chindimples04 · November 2020

I made stuffed pepper soup today and it’s delicious!

mouseymotherpucker · November 2020

Made a wooden sign for MH for our 5yr anniversary last week. First time using vinyl as a stencil on wood, pretty happy with how it came out.

fantasyflyte · November 2020

Oh goodness, working on so much stuff. Masks, just got Christmas fabric. Making little ugly sweater ornaments right now. Want to make flannel shirts for Christmas, just started sewing properly like 2 months ago.

fitzfizz · November 2020

Sort of TW, gift for someone else’s LC

For my toddler nieces, felt ornaments that Velcro on to a felt Christmas tree. Just meant to be fun decor for their room. They can move ornaments around and feel like they have their own tree to decorate. Hopefully they like it!

grogu · November 2020

Distracting myself with sewing projects for my little. She's grown a few inches in the past few months and I'm over the flood pants.

Up next are Christmas pjs from baby yoda fabric

@fitzfizz I made one of those last year for my LO. They are going to love it!

inthewoods23 · November 2020

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**Bread with butter highly recommended. That shit is delicious dipped in the soup**

Makes 12(?) servings. DH and I easily get 4 meals together out of this recipe depending on whether we have 1 or 2 bowls each meal.

INGREDIENTS/TOOLS NEEDED:

-Large pot with lid (I use an 8qt)
-Medium pot (I use a 6qt)
-Medium or large bowl and/or cutting board
-Small metal strainer
-Tongs
-Pasta strainer

-Water
-Whole cut up bone-in chicken (if you can't find that, a package of chicken breasts and thighs works)
-3-4 carrots (cut in half or quarter pieces depending on the girth)
-3-4 celery ribs (cut off the leafy end if you buy a whole stalk and cut in half before slicing)
-1 large onion (large diced)
-3 bay leaves
-15-20 pcs whole allspice balls (highly recommend a tea infuser ball to keep them contained if you have one)
-Couple TBSP/spoonfuls chicken soup base (Penzey's or some other brand like Better Than Bouillon; pretty sure I use more than what the packaging suggests)
-Kluski egg noodles (New Mill brand is our preferred)
-Salt and pepper to taste

Note: I tend to chop/dice the vegetables to be pretty chunky so they don't disintegrate from simmering, but you can chop them however large/small you want. Add more or less veggies to your liking. I think the original recipe called for 3 carrots and 2 celery ribs.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Lay the pieces of chicken in the pot. Fill pot with enough water to cover the chicken + a little extra. Bring water to a boil
2. Dice and slice up the carrots, celery, and onion. Put together in a large bowl if you'd like; bowl is useful later.
3. As the water begins to boil, you'll get a scummy foam at the top of the water. use the small metal strainer to scoop out as much of it as you can and discard in the trash.
4. Reduce heat to a simmer.
5. Add the carrots, celery, onion, bay leaves, whole allspice balls, and chicken soup base.
6. Cover and let simmer for 2 hours.
7. Take chicken out of the pot and let cool in the bowl used for the veggies or on a large cutting board
8. [Insert steps to cook the egg noodles while performing step 9. Strain the noodles in the pasta strainer when done]
9. Peel the skin off the chicken and start removing the chicken from the bones. Shred the chicken up a little bit (I also tend to go a bit chunky here, especially with the breast meat) and return chicken to the pot.
10. You can add the noodles to the soup pot or leave them separate when you're ready to serve (we like to keep them separate for customization of noodle to chicken/veggie ratio

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11. Salt and pepper your bowls to taste

Enjoy!!

kiki047 · November 2020

@grizzlymama86 that sign gave me goosebumps when I read through it (Wash and Zoe

!!) and by the time I got to the Always I was dying. I love it!

@baby_yoda1986 just a gentle reminder to please remember to use *TW* and spoilers when mentioning LC in any of the threads outside of TFAS. But on that note, do those pants come in grown-up sizes? lol they're super cute and look so comfy!! I wish I could sew.

grogu · November 2020

@kiki047 Ugh, my apologies. I'll remember for next time.
They are seriously the comfiest pants. I've been keeping an eye out for a harem style for adults. Only problem is fabric is $$$ so adult stuff ends up costing a small fortune.

kiki047 · November 2020

@baby_yoda1986 I found some harem-esque maternity pants on Amazon that I had ordered a few months ago and never got to wear, but I'm at the point where I might just wear them around the house even if they're miles too big and have a full belly panel

they are SO comfortable.

grogu · November 2020

@kiki047 I would wear them! I make all my pants "pull on" style. I hate the feeling of regular waistbands

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