Anonymous
Post 01/25/2026 14:28     Subject: Re:Snowed in - what will you cook?
Foods that we only made because we're snowed in:
2 loaves of oatmeal sandwich bread
chicken pot pie tonight
yeasted cinnamon rolls for tomorrow morning

Stay on, power!
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2026 11:38     Subject: Snowed in - what will you cook?
Chicken noodle soup
Thai green curry beef pot roast
Chicken Tinga tacos
Banana cake with cream cheese frosting
Anonymous
Post 01/24/2026 18:11     Subject: Snowed in - what will you cook?
Also mainly planning normal meals. We did a big late grocery shopping last week due to the holiday, so we will just cook up the stuff we haven't made yet- spaghetti and meatballs, pizza, gochujang tofu with broccoli.

We did go to the store because we needed flour and salt though. I made a couple loaves of sourdough today for room temp food in case of power loss. And I'll make some pizza dough that we can cook in the outdoor oven if necessary.
Anonymous
Post 01/24/2026 18:06     Subject: Snowed in - what will you cook?
Anonymous wrote:I have so much work to do I don’t know about any real baking or anything.
I’m planning on roasting a chicken with root veg (potatos, carrots, parsnips) tomorrow, assuming we’ve got power. If not, I guess I’ll try it on the grill?
I did also get some hot dogs in case we end up grilling more! The good applegate uncured one. I guess if we loose power I will just be grilling up a storm of stuff before it defrosts (especially if air temps above freezing!), so will probably do some grilled fish first, then move on to the sausage and chicken wings. We have a lot of frozen prepared food. Our freezer is really stocked right now so I’ll be bummed if we lose power.

I did learn a trick last time — if you put melted ice cream into your ice cream maker to churn, you can just refreeze it and it’s perfect!


You can just put frozen stuff outside in the cold if you lose electricity.
Anonymous
Post 01/24/2026 17:59     Subject: Snowed in - what will you cook?
I have so much work to do I don’t know about any real baking or anything.
I’m planning on roasting a chicken with root veg (potatos, carrots, parsnips) tomorrow, assuming we’ve got power. If not, I guess I’ll try it on the grill?
I did also get some hot dogs in case we end up grilling more! The good applegate uncured one. I guess if we loose power I will just be grilling up a storm of stuff before it defrosts (especially if air temps above freezing!), so will probably do some grilled fish first, then move on to the sausage and chicken wings. We have a lot of frozen prepared food. Our freezer is really stocked right now so I’ll be bummed if we lose power.

I did learn a trick last time — if you put melted ice cream into your ice cream maker to churn, you can just refreeze it and it’s perfect!
Anonymous
Post 01/24/2026 16:55     Subject: Snowed in - what will you cook?
To be honest I'm just planning normal meals. I'm making some muffins right now but I'd be doing that anyway.

My kid's birthday is on Tuesday and I made sure I had all the stuff for his cake and his favorite dinner, in case we're still stuff in. I'm making some brownies ahead of time so we have something sweet on the off chance we don't have power.
Anonymous
Post 01/24/2026 16:49     Subject: Snowed in - what will you cook?
Braised chicken
Some sort of long-simmered beef stew, haven't picked a specific one yet
Chili & baked potatoes

First loaf of fresh bread is in the oven now. Planning a pie for tonight and cookies tomorrow.
Anonymous
Post 01/24/2026 16:48     Subject: Snowed in - what will you cook?
Broccoli and cheese soup
Chocolate chip cookies
Anonymous
Post 01/24/2026 16:42     Subject: Snowed in - what will you cook?
DH is from Louisiana so he makes all of the Creole favorites, plus some dishes from places all over the world that he lived in the Marines.

I change it up all the time. When the kids lived at home, it was their requests. Now that it is just the two of us, it’s often whatever we can make 2 servings of.

It’s too close to Christmas for me to crave any soul food except cornbread. I am making chili for tonight’s dinner so we will have cornbread then.

We had frozen Jonah crab from NYE so I made green curry seafood soup for lunch.
Anonymous
Post 01/24/2026 16:25     Subject: Snowed in - what will you cook?
Anonymous wrote:you're all lying. you are making lasagna. everyone is making lasagna.

Amazon fresh is out of every single brand and size of ricotta AND all jarred sauces and the safeway I just went to had 4 ricotta containers left in the entire store.

I'm actually making stuff shells, but basically a lasagna in shell form?

You're also all eating a crapload of strawberries and bananas.


Bananas were gone at my store. Didn't look for lasagna boxes or strawberries! I should have.
ALL hot chocolate mix was gone! There were a few forgotten jars of ovaltine and that's it. Lots of produce was wiped out, so that was probably a supply and shipping timing thing for produce in general. Plenty of milk bread and eggs at my store, so the hot choc. mix was the only weird thing.
Anonymous
Post 01/24/2026 16:17     Subject: Snowed in - what will you cook?
Anonymous wrote:Big decisions: chocolate chip, sugar, or gingerbread cookies?


chocolate chip what about chocolate chip cookies or brownies?
Anonymous
Post 01/24/2026 15:39     Subject: Snowed in - what will you cook?
Variety of chips & dips
Spaghetti & meatballs
Oxtail soup
Pulling out the bread machine for later in the week
Brownies with my leftover cranberries in them
Anonymous
Post 01/24/2026 15:38     Subject: Snowed in - what will you cook?
Bought ingredients for 3-4 of my staples and it will be a game time decision based on what everyone wants.
Anonymous
Post 01/24/2026 15:13     Subject: Snowed in - what will you cook?
Anonymous wrote:Big decisions: chocolate chip, sugar, or gingerbread cookies?


Nothing like a warm chocolate chip with a glass of milk in cozy pajamas.
Anonymous
Post 01/24/2026 03:17     Subject: Snowed in - what will you cook?
Chicken noodle soup
Chili
Cornbread
Peanut butter cookies
Chocolate chip cookies
Stuffed shells
Beef burgundy
Grilled cheese
French toast