Anonymous wrote:This will sound strange, but smoothie makings. My kid doesn’t like hot chocolate but loves a smoothie, so I make sure to have those ingredients on hand as an afternoon treat after sledding or shoveling. And I will prep some sort of cookie dough in the morning and then bake a tray during my lunch break to have some warm cookies in the afternoon.

Potato leek soup and other creamed soups are winter smoothies.

Potato soup (with extra bacon) today

Anonymous wrote:La Madeleine tomato soup and grilled cheese for lunch tomorrow. Bo ssaam for dinner.

Where is there still a La Madeleine? They had the best tomato basil soup.

French toast and waffles, lasagna and nachos, hot chocolate and snow ice cream are the staples here

We actually walked a mile and ate at a restaurant for lunch. Dinner? Let me think about that. Maybe just some soup and bread since I don't like walking in the dark when I can't see if it's black ice or the asphalt.

I was going to make some apple cinnamon bread from a NYT recipe, but got my dry ingredients together and realized my apple sauce had mold in it.

Thinking about heading to the store to get more, but the roads are not great out there. Agree with OP that a good bolognese would be yummy -- if I got to the store might get the stuff to make NYT "Sunday Sauce" which popped up as a suggestion for me as I was looking at the apple bread recipe.

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Anonymous wrote:Abuelita hot chocolate is the tradition in our house

There’s a syrup now. We made fried ice cream and put it on top. Swoon worthy!

An Abuelita syrup? Hmmm 🤔. I’m intrigued.

^^immediate PP

I also baked peanut butter swirl brownies that are to die for. I have to control myself when I’m around them.

Over the course of the no-school week, snow-day highlights have included the following:

French toast, Belgian waffles for breakfasts
Creamy loaded potato soup for lunches
Shredded beef barbacoa, lasagna, butter shoyu chicken for dinners

I don't always make something specifically for the snow day, but last night I told DH that I thought this would be good to make for a snowy Friday dinner:

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/8941/slow-cooker-chicken-and-dumplings/

I definitely don’t normally do this on snow days, but we had covid and didn’t do our Christmas baking this year, so we’re going to use this 3 day weekend to bake and deliver goodies to some friends and our neighbor who shoveled our driveway.

Anonymous wrote:Abuelita hot chocolate is the tradition in our house

There’s a syrup now. We made fried ice cream and put it on top. Swoon worthy!

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Anonymous wrote:I've been cooking a lot lately. Veggie chili, chicken Tinga, bolognese, enchiladas, pizza, brownies and cookies and apple pie, grilled cheese and tomato soup, sweet and sour eggplant, fresh salsa, pancakes. Gosh I am tired of cooking actually.

How do you not gain weight eating like that?

I think you’re in the wrong subforum

Anonymous wrote:I've been cooking a lot lately. Veggie chili, chicken Tinga, bolognese, enchiladas, pizza, brownies and cookies and apple pie, grilled cheese and tomato soup, sweet and sour eggplant, fresh salsa, pancakes. Gosh I am tired of cooking actually.

How do you not gain weight eating like that?

Homemade brunch foods. Usually I make pancakes but someone gave me English muffin mix and pans, so I'm trying that today. With eggs and bacon.