Cassie’s Ruminations

Pumpkin Steel Cut Oatmeal

This is a great warming breakfast for a winter’s day. The snow is softly falling and this was a great way to start out my morning as I worked on baking pumpkin pie and making some of the other sides for the Thanksgiving meal 🙂 A couple pieces of bacon added some protein.

Pumpkin Steel Cut Oatmeal
Serves 4
3 cups water
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup steel cut oats
1/4 cup packed light brown sugar
1 cup pumpkin puree
1 tsp cinnamon
1/8 tsp allspice
1/2 tsp nutmeg

Bring the water and salt to a roiling boil on a burner over medium high heat. Add the oats and stir to combine. Bring back to a boil and then reduce the heat to medium low. Simmer for 15 minutes then stir in the sugar, pumpkin, and spices. Cook for a final 5 minutes. Serve hot.

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Chili

For dinner, I made my crockpot chili. It simmers all day and is quite wonderful, especially on a frigid night like tonight!

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Katsu Chicken

For lunch today, since we were iced in and not going anywhere, I made some katsu chicken, using thinly sliced chicken breast instead of pork loin in tonkatsu recipe. The chicken was just a bit thicker, so I needed to microwave the pieces for a minute at the end, but the panko stayed impressively crispy.

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Snow for Emma

Last night it snowed here and we got about 3 inches accumulation. The roads are all iced over, and the northwest’s “new and improved” snow plans are pretty much just as lousy as before. We took some pictures as it was coming down, and let Emma loose along the side of the house. She had a blast, and had more fun today, but I didn’t take more pictures in the sun thanks to continuing to forget my camera inside 😛

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Barbecue Beef Brisket Sandwiches

I needed a quick dinner tonight that I could hold indefinitely on the stove since I had no idea how long it would take Shaun to get home tonight. Seattle does not deal well, or really at all with snow. It’s been dusting all day, with accumulations of up to a couple inches in a few places, but there are wrecks all over the place and the roads are iced over. Here’s hoping for their snow plan to work better in action than in prevention, which, to be fair, they really didn’t get to do much because all the weather forecasters insisted it wouldn’t be snowing today except way south toward the Oregon border. So, I warmed up some leftover beef brisket with about a cup of water, a tablespoon of beef Better Than Bouillon, and about 1/2 a cup of our favorite Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ Sauce.

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Broncos Socks

Last year for Christmas my folks got me some spiffy Broncos socks that I often wear on game days. In honor of Monday night football and the fact that my Broncos are actually sorta playing for at least these first few minutes, I’m posting them 😀 As usual, Emma has to be in the shot!

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Tonkatsu, redux

Dinner tonight was some tonkatsu (Japanese breaded pork cutlets) with Bunashimeji, aka brown beech mushrooms, stir fried in a little sesame oil, and a little green salad. A nice balanced meal 🙂

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Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

Another fall tradition, I made pumpkin chocolate chip cookies this evening, as Shaun wanted some. We were talking about how the highs are only going to be a bit above freezing this weekend and that maybe we should make some chili or some homemade chicken noodles, and then the talk drifted to desserts, and these came up quite quickly. Shaun said that he wanted them but that I didn’t have the ingredients , to which I replied “wanna bet?” and to which the response was, “if we have ingredients, why aren’t we already making them?” and thus, cookies 😛 Some of them are going into work tomorrow, so bonus extra baked goods for the coworkers 🙂 They’re going to start thinking that I have an baking obsession.

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Some of what we’ve been eating

I’ve been making a lot of our go to meals recently. Overtime makes for less creativity and time to experiment 😛

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CSA Winter Box Week 4

Another great box this week 🙂

Winter Squash-Sweet Dumpling
Pears-DAnjou
Apples-Honeycrisp
Apples-Honeycrisp
Free-Range Eggs
Lettuce-Baby Heads
Arugula-Cut
Potatoes-Gold
Potatoes-Gold
Carrots-Orange
Broccoli
Broccoli

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