Substitute 2 cups frozen cut rhubarb (8 ounces), thawed, for the fresh rhubarb. Prepare as above.


There were two reasons this one caught my eye, because of that still being in my freezer while I wondered just what to use it in. It just didn't work out so well in my smoothies, the skin was tough. Then I didn't remember it when I made my blueberry pear cobbler, though that would have been a good idea too.
Now this though... this sounds yum.
Plus one of our fave pies that his adopted mom makes, especially for Thanksgiving, is a coconut chess pie. Mmmmmnn I fell in love soooo much with that one.
Then last year I got trickered and she didn't make it. Instead she made half her usual pies, and bought others from the store.
I went to take a bite of what I thought was my love, and instead it wasn't coconut at all, it was a plain buttermilk pie.
Which I had also never had before this.
Yeeeech.
I kept looking for the coconut. I wound up trying to shove most of that slice towards my Bear.
But he refused saying he was too full. Though I learned buttermilk was actually one of his fave pies too.
It was a sad sad thing for me.
Chess pies are amazing, I hope this one comes out great!

Second Recipe for tonight is moving on to the whole low carb, diabetic and gluten free friendly idea of using veggies instead. These are a couple of ideas for cauliflower.
Cheesy Garlic Breadsticks

Then here's what the last video made me think of.. i had seen them both before but really needed the reminder to try it more often. :)
Cauliflower Fried Rice
They keep using this for rice on My Kitchen Rules in Australia, and I kept forgetting to try it. Though I've attempted the biscuit and the pizza crust recipes before, this rice concept never crossed my mind before seeing it on that show.
Rice is one of hubby's main 3 staples of his life: rice, chicken, cheese. He can and has eaten it every day for weeks before, I kid you not. He killed our old microwave from cooking rice in it so often, it always had the door and walls covered with sweat and I would try to wipe it down when I saw he used it(and asked him to leave the door open to air out) cuz he surely didn't.
After a month without a microwave, I finally had him trained on using the rice cooker we'd had all along. Right before the diabetes diagnosis I'd talked him into buying an electric pressure cooking that has one of 7 functions to be a much better rice cooker than our dinky little one. It comes out so good, and we can make a whole weeks batch if we want! I had plans for precooking meals, so many plans.
I promised him if we bought this gadget, we would use it everyday and not just once then forget about it.
Ahem.
Not my fault, you had to go on a diet. /whistles
Anywaaaays, the old dead microwave he killed soon was turned into our new Breadbox for storage. But one day I was curious, we would "test it" because it hadn't fully died: it would turn on and say "end" but if you tried to push any buttons it went blank.
So random testing now and then and BAM it had finally dried out enough to start actually working again!
Eventually when the Jew's other Ex moved back to town, we sold the first one to her. And while he's been staying over there most of the past two months, he asked if he could buy the old rice cooker too. I hurriedly took it over to them one day, while we were selling the old PS3 to their other new roomie.
So yay, every thing is finding a place. Out of my way. LOL.
Oh yeah, and there's a third recipe I want to try, kind of in between all of the other ones: it's a pie AND involves a gluten free crust alternative.
Sweet Potato Crusted Spinach Quiche Another idea that seems so simple, sounds wonderful... and I keep not getting around to trying.
I really must do this soon.
But there's even worse ones to try too, and the bad ones seem to win.
Like this darned cinnamon roll cheese cakes I can't stop thinking about. Maybe tomorrow.
Then there's also the whole Periogi Lasagna I've wanted for over a month and I had seen the recipe a while back before that too, but we never have enough taters or cheese or sour cream etc. all at once.
Argh!
Maybe tomorrow.
Then I go and make a big vegetarian shepherds pie the other night, that totally came about simply from wanting something quick and protein packed then deciding lentils would be a good choice.
but I couldn't just have them plain, oh no... it needed something, how bout a couple of potatoes.
I chose taters cuz I thought rice would take too long, and I'm not as big of a rice eater. I'm a pasta addict instead... yeah ya know, who has gluten issues.
Sigh.
Meanwhile my hubby is the total opposite, and never really likes to eat pasta, doesn't know how to cook it cuz he believes it takes longer and is more complicated than rice.
You would think he was Asian and I was Italian or something.
But no, you would be so very wrong.
You say TA-MA-TOE and I say tomato.
He says rice, I say pasta.
Anyhoo.
While those taters were a cooking it kept growing "if i get some corn out to go with them, maybe more veggies, there's extra broth, I can cook some TVP in it, make a sauce, mash the potatoes, might as well top with cheese... I'll just nuke a little bowl of it for tonight BUT tomorrow I can put the rest of it together and actually bake it."
UGH I totally got carried away, and there were SOOOO many dishes!!!
Yeeek.
Usually when I get like this in the kitchen, I'm stressing a lot. Just like when he was in the hospital. I kept cooking extra stuff and freezing it. lots of soup, a few recipes, I wanted to bake so much. It was just being stuck in the house all alone for days too, right? Hmmmn.
Well maybe I am having anxieties again. Duh, I've finally come back to writing. All these signs sure point to a road other than my bed, when it's HOLY FUDGE ALREADY THE MORNING!