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 Another easy week night dinner.  Pepperoni rolls.  You must serve pizza sauce on the side! Recipe previously blogged.

Costco's Greek Gyro Kit strikes again.  This time I made some rice on the side.  I did have to shred my own lettuce.  The lettuce in the kit is never good!  The kit make 6 gyros and is ready in minutes.  I highly recommend it for a week night meal.  The cost is around $20.  

When the weather gets cold this soup always makes an appearance.    Recipe previously blogged.

It is officially fall and we like to head to Gaver Farm to pick pumpkins and to have apple cider donuts and apple cider slushies from the donut hut.  This year they have added soft serve ice cream to the mix.  You can have soft serve with apple cider slushie topped with a hot donut.  It is so good.  Do yourself a favor and drive out there before the season is over!  

 I was able to throw together this applecake in 30 minutes on a Friday after work!   Fresh Apple Cake Cream Together in Stand Mixer: 1 cups sugar 1 cup oil 2 eggs 3 tablespoons vanilla Sift Together in a Bowl: 3 cups flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon cinnamon Add the dry ingredients into the creamed mixer in the stand mixer. Cut up 2 apples (2 cups worth of apples) into a small dice and fold them into your mixture.  It will be thick! Press into a well grease bunt pan.  Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour.  Let the cake cool before turning it out onto a cake plate.

All of us were supposed to go to Hershey Park.  It rained all day and Hershey actually closed 2 hours early.  I cancelled our trip and invited everyone over for beef stew instead.   2 lbs stew meat, rolled in flour seasoned with salt and pepper.  Browned in a large pot with oil. 4 carrots, diced. 3 stalks celery, diced 5 red potatoes, cubed into about 1 inch pieces. 1 can of green beans, drained 1 onion, large dice 1 large clove of garlic, diced 32 ounces of beef stock.  I also added a little water to help cover all the ingredients. 1 teaspoon worcestershire sauce 2 bay leaves 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon sugar 1/2 teaspoon pepper 1/2 teaspoon paprika dash allspice Place all of the above ingredients in the crockpot and cook on high about 6 hours. Do not toss this in the crockpot yet! 2-4 tablespoons cornstarch. Mix the cornstarch in a measuring cup with some of the hot broth.  Add the slurry into the crockpot and let it heat through and thicken slightly....

So, I don't really go to the grocery store.  I have been doing curbside pick up for groceries ever since covid hit in 2020.  This was a substitution that I wasn't sure was going to work out, but ended up very tasty anyway.  Originally I was trying to order a chuck roast to make my crockpot Italian Drip Beef sandwiches.  The shopped substituted the chuk steaks when they couldn't find a chuck roast.  Then the shopper and I texted back and forth about the bread substitution and then I got home and there was no bread in the order :(  I usually don't have issues with grocery pick up at all.  This just was a bad week.   I made these chuck roast steaks the same way as the Italian Beef in the crockpot, but without rolls I put it over some mashed potatoes and added some microwaved peas.  It was very yummy and those two chuck steaks were eaten.   2 chuck beef steaks 1 packet of Good Seasonings Italian 1 can of beef consomme Some liquid a...