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[mbday630]

well, I have quite a few butternut squash growing and my daughter sent me this recipe and I was wondering if anyone has tried something similar and if it is any good. ? I hate wasting cream cheese if this tastes crappy.

3 tablespoons chopped onion
2 tablespoons margarine
3 cups peeled and cubed butternut squash
1-1/2 cups water
2 cubes chicken bouillon
1/4 teaspoon dried marjoram
1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/8 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper
1. 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese In a large saucepan, saute onions in margarine until tender. Add squash, water, bouillon, marjoram, black pepper and cayenne pepper. Bring to boil; cook 20 minutes, or until squash is tender.
2. Puree squash and cream cheese in a blender or food processor in batches until smooth. Return to saucepan, and heat through. Do not allow to boil.

[draclvr]

I have no idea, but it sounds pretty good. How is it supposed to be served? Kind of like mashed potatoes?

[mbday630]

i guess it is supposed to be a soup. Hubby says he won't try it no matter what. Just wondering if it would be worth a go. or if anyone has any other good butternut squash recipes. so far, I have just been baking them, putting on tons of butter and some salt and pepper. that's my favorite way.

[LadyKestrel]

My sister made a mistake and bought two thick pork chops meant for stuffing instead of the regular boneless chops we usually get. Does anyone have an easy idea for stuffing them?

[draclvr]

If you want plain and simple, I love chops stuffed with dressing. I usually just buy the boxed mix in pork flavor. I brown the chops (I usually use the thin ones because I'm too lazy to stuff the thick ones!) and put into a casserole dish. I spread the prepared dressing mix over them and add another layer of the thin chops. I usually do this many so I have leftovers. Then I add 1/2 cup of water to the bottom of the dish, cover and bake at 325° for about 45 minutes. Add more water if necessary. While it's baking, I add a can of cream of mushroom soup and 1/2 can water to the pan drippings and heat to make a mushroom gravy.

This one also looks good where you add chopped apples.

http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/appl ... pork-chops

[LadyKestrel]

Mmmm. They both sound good. Thanks for the ideas, Drac.

[draclvr]

Oh, boy! Oh, boy! I just made the best Sweet Chili Sauce ever. Even though it's smoking hot, the flavors are just amazing and I can't stop eating just another tiny spoonful. I'm just going to post a link to the website I found. It has a bunch of home made chili sauces including one for a beautiful bright orange Fatalii chili sauce which Carmella has been talking about in another thread. I used some of my Peter Peppers for this one, a pint of tomato sauce I canned this summer and some of my own smoked sweet pepper powder.

Sweet Chili Sauce

[Diat60]

I'd be grateful for recipes for my new CrockPot slow cooker. I've tried a pot roast with chuck, a whole chicken and a stew which turned out well, but last night's flank steak was just stringy (although it fell apart) and we landed up throwing out most of it. Any other suggestions?

[Rosaboobie]

There are a load of websites for your slow cooker Diat - Instead of cooking daily, I mostly "batch cook" in my large slow cooker, and freeze what's left over - You can cook most things in a slow cooker, but they do say only use the cheaper cuts of beef etc though.

[mbday630]

Drac, did you use Garam Masala? I have never heard of that. I can't say that I ever heard of smoked paprika either. Are those hard to find? the sauce sounds really good.

[Carmilla]

Draclvr!!!!! I love that recipe (and surely the others that I didn't read yet). Thanks so much for posting the link!
I have all ingredients but Piri Piri and smoked paprika, and I'm going to prepare it tomorrow using a different kind of red peppers, but I'll have to renounce to the smoked powder. Anyway, I'm sure that nothing I could find in a shop could compete against your own. I love smoky flavours as well... yummy!
I feel already in paradise even before tasting it

@ mbday630, Indian Garam Masala is a very aromatic blend of spices as cumin, coriander, cardamom, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves and black pepper (and maybe something else). I do like it a lot, but of course it depends on individual tastes

[draclvr]

Yes, I did, mbday. It has all the things Carmilla mentions - I had all the spices in my cabinet already, so I just put them in my spice grinder and made my own. I believe it also had dried hot peppers which, of course, is one of the things I'm making right now. This is the recipe I used - the one thing I didn't have was fennel seed. There are lots of other ones out there.

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/garam-masala-spice-blend/

Carmella, the recipe for the Fatalii Hot Sauce used pears to compliment the fruity heat of the peppers. That one sounds wonderful too!

Diat, just do a search for slow cooker recipes. There are gazillions of them out there. I have one for a teriaki pork loin that my grandkids just love. I think I also have one for cashew chicken. But there are entire websites devoted to nothing but slow cooker recipes. I've trolled them for years!

[Carmilla]

The recipe for Fatalii with pears sounds delicious as well, thanks draclvr!
Pity that I wasn't able to make any sauce during the week end... too many things to do and time that keeps running and running, while I'm becoming progressively slower.
I printed some of the recipes and hope to be able to prepare them soon, so as to open heavenly doors to my kitchen too

[draclvr]

It will make your kitchen smell like heaven too. I'm giving my friends small jars of the sweet chili sauce and they are all raving about it!

[draclvr]

Diat, I got this feed on my Facebook page today. I've used the 12tomatoes.com website before. This is a bunch of slow-cooker recipes. The teriyaki chicken rocks as does the beef stroganoff.

http://12tomatoes.com/top-5-slow-cooker ... s?ref=omsb