Apparently, two weeks ago was my one hundredth Friday Food post. Let us all applaud the utter absurdity of my writing down every single dinner I make. With excessive commentary.
Done applauding? Okay! On to 103!
Friday
Short version: Scrambled eggs, oven fries, leftover pinto beans, steamed or roasted broccoli
Long version: I still had eight dozen or so eggs in the refrigerator, along with three egg whites left from when I made the custard. Scrambled eggs took care of the whites and at least some of the eggs.
I was going to make tortillas, but I figured it would be a better idea to keep chipping away at the sprouting potatoes. Nobody complained about the fries.
Saturday
Short version: Breakfast sausage patties with cream gravy, mashed potatoes, sauteed mushrooms, green salad
Long version: I had about half the tube of breakfast sausage left A. had bought, so I fried it in patties and made cream gravy in the pan with cornstarch and milk.
There wasn't really enough sausage, so I had a salad with some leftover carnitas pork and roasted vegetables, to which I added some dandelion greens I dug up when I was preparing more ground for planting cabbages. A spring tonic. With pork.
Sunday
Short version: Green chili beef stew, cornbread
Long version: I had a few cups of beef stock in the refrigerator I needed to use, and also a few cups of chicken stock I had made with the chicken bones left from dinner a couple of nights previously. So I took out a package of beef stew meat and used it, the stock, carrots, potatoes, and some of the roasted green chili we froze in the fall. It was quite good.
I made the cornbread to finally finish the last half cup of stone-ground cornmeal that's been sitting in the freezer for months. I needed a cup for the recipe I use for all-cornmeal cornbread, so I just used half a cup of masa, too. This actually made a very good cornbread. With honey, it was a good dessert.
Monday
Short version: Scrambled eggs, leftover stew, pinto beans, tortillas and cheese, carrot sticks
Long version: So many combinations possible with these foods, and as a family, we covered them all.
I cooked some dried pinto beans just to have on hand, and then added those to the leftover stew for me and Cubby. Jack ate a tortilla with cheese and pinto beans. Charlie ate his eggs in a tortilla and cheese as a taco. A. ate his eggs on top of tortillas and cheese.
Poppy ate everything, because that's what a two-year-old wants at all times: everything.
Tuesday
Short version: A very-not-Irish St. Patrick's Day feast.
Long version: We were supposed to go to a St. Patrick's Day dinner fundraiser at the village restaurant for the local EMS company, but that, along with everything else, has been postponed.
Plan B: Pasta with the last of the pesto still in the freezer from last summer. If not exactly Irish (or, uh, at all Irish) it's at least green. But then I remembered I was out of Parmesan cheese.
Plan C: Pesto pizza.
I was already making bread, so I just used some of the dough to make a pizza. Half had pesto, half had a bit of leftover pizza sauce from the last time I made pizza, all of it had asadero cheese.
I should have left a strip of white dough in the middle and then pretended I meant for it to look like the Irish flag.
St. Patrick's Day never tasted so good.
As a nod to Irish cuisine, the children ate some raw cabbage as their vegetable. An odd assortment for a meal, but delicious nonetheless.
Wednesday
Short version: Carnitas tacos with homemade corn tortillas, refried beans, green salad
Long version: The last time A. went to the store, he returned with two ENORMOUS packages of pork butt. Seriously. They were obscene. Like almost twenty pounds each.
I've never seen such large packages of meat at that store, but then I remembered it's branding season on some ranches. This means the ranch wives are buying large quantities of food to feed the gathered branding crews.
Funny story: Last time I was at that same store, I was talking with the guy bagging up my groceries, and, obviously taking note of my very large quantity of food, he asked me if we were branding. Nope, just feeding my own crew of not-at-all useful junior cowboys.
Anyway. I cut the butts (heh) up into about eight large chunks. The carnitas were made from one chunk. There are many carnitas in our future.
Oh! And a good discovery this time. When I made tortillas, the seasoning on my cast iron griddle pan takes a hit, because the tortillas have no fat in them. But! If I use some of the rendered lard from cooking the pork to fry the pork pieces in, that re-seasons the cast iron right away.
Then I can use the rest of the lard to make the refried beans. It's all very efficient and pleasing. And, of course, delicious.
Thursday
Short version: Elk bites, oven fries, green salad
Long version: Marinated elk chunks fried with paprika and served with ketchup. And oven fries. There are never enough oven fries.
The day is coming soon when "green salad" here will mean MY LETTUCE, HOORAY! Soon.
And maybe "oven fries" will mean OUR POTATOES, HOORAY!
However, given that we just planted the potatoes two days ago, that will not be soon.
Okay, your turn! What'd you eat this week? And, more importantly, how are you doing during this bizarre moment in history?
5 comments:
One day (who knows?): fish shepherd's pie with mashed blue potato topping (haddock, mushrooms, peas, onions, cream sauce).
After that was gone, gluten free pasta with meat sauce: last time I got a pig, I had the pork ground but not made into sausage. I seasoned the sausage with Italian Herb mixture from the Shur-Fine and garlic and fennel (also from the Shur-fine)with a bit of cayenne and dried pepper flakes. I think you could probably make bulk sausage in a pinch with your food processor and pork butt, nicely chunked up.
After that was gone, I had some green dried vegetable rotini with garlic, mushrooms, feta cheese and some Greek olives I found in the back of the fridge.
I stopped at TOPS yesterday to get some fruit: no paper products, almost no bread on the shelves. Fresh foods seemed to be in good supply--so broccoli, milk, pears, etc. No buttermilk! I was irritated.
I've actually been cooking since we're teleworking and 1) I don't have to commute, and 2) I'm not swimming for exercise after work. We had porcupine meatballs* a couple of nights, guacamole another night, quesadillas with leftover guacamole, hot dogs, and tonight I'm making chicken curry. I enjoy cooking and mostly don't have time to make what I like, so I'm liking this aspect of social distancing.
*Meatballs with rice made in the pressure cooker so the rice sproings out. From a recipe that came with the pressure cooker.
Apparently, my jobs are "essential" or "life sustaining." How could I be so lucky... I never have much time off. I'm a caregiver to elderly folks & an assistant director at a local senior center. Home delivered meals & pickup meals are a hot item right now. I do however, get my temp taken at every caregiver spot that I go to. And, I'm still safe!!
Wow! Only one night with Elk meat?!?
casserole with chicken, spaghetti, peas, mushrooms, garlic bread & spinach on the side
tilapia fillets, broccoli & cheese casserole, garlic bread
husband purchased turkey subs from a co-workers' childs' fundraiser & chips
meatloaf, potatoes, carrots in crockpot
takeout sandwiches & fries
mac n' cheese with chicken added, green beans on the side
vegetable lasagna, salad tonight
Linda
Hello everyone!
Still doing the daughter/mom vegetarian thing here
Monday - Shrimp, red peppers and avocado over soba noodles with lime garlic butter sauce, raw cucumbers, pineapple (I think next time Ill toss the pineapple right alongside the shrimp)
Tuesday - Had some nice Italian sausages so I made husband some with mashed potatoes and sautéed snap peas (daughter and I repeated Mondays dinner with the addition of peas)
Wednesday - Made a huge macaroni garbage salad (this is basically noodles with whatever vegetable I can get my paws on in this case: peppers (lots), onion, celery, cucumber, jalapenos, pickles and cheese, blended together with sour cream mixed with ranch...excellent for using up odds and ends) anyway, daughter and I ate ours on top of spinach and husband ate his with leftover sausages, finished up the bananas also
Thursday - lemony garbanzo bean and kale soup, flat bread topped with melted Havarti and caramelized onion, brownies for dessert
Friday - Have some garbage salad left so we'll have that for sure...as for what else well, I need to go peer into my fridge and see what needs to be used up...maybe a Italian sausage and potato hash of some sort for husband as well as leftover soup
As for what were doing..well..looking out for our elderly neighbors (because of all the people hoarding and the fact that they are on a fixed income they weren't able to afford to stock up or find much of what they needed so I hooked them up from my pantry and freezer ( I have a tendency to be like you Kirsten, I stock up about once a month and stay out of the stores if I can) we check on them every few days to make sure they're ok..been also spring cleaning and finding new vegetarian dishes to try.
Everyone stay safe and healthy and look out for people who might be in need.
Farmer & I are essential employees at our jobs. His off-the-farm is at a factory where they make electrical pole parts and I work for an HVAC/Plumbing company. We are both working at our jobs and keeping up with the farm and checking on our kids and older neighbors.
Sat & Sun: I made cinnamon rolls Sat. And we ate "stuff" also, but I cannot remember what.
Monday: Farmer brought home pizza. Trying to help out local restaurants who are hurting these days.
Tuesday: Tacos. I made him some from gr beef and I had some trout that needed to be cooked, so coated mine in almond flour and fried in butter. Homemade pico.
Wednesday: Sausage patties, eggs with spinach & mushrooms for me and french toast for him.
Thursday: He had chef salad & rolls and I ate up a leftover chicken thigh, mashed potatoes and peas/carrots.
Friday: Tonight we had Cast Iron Cheeseburgers, oven fries, oven onion rings, he had pork & beans. I ate mine over steamed spinach and added a salad of cherry tomatoes & cucumbers.
This afternoon I went to the local Wmart. So many people. Not much meat. No frozen potatoes or pizza. I didn't check bread. No flour at all. No eggs. Depleted dairy and pasta. I didn't look for toilet paper. Crazy times.
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