Friday, May 13, 2022

Friday Food: Short and Sweet

I do not appear to have felt very chatty this week. How unusual.

Friday 

Short version: Beef stir-fry, rice

Long version: A package of tenderized top round steaks cut into strips and marinated, then combined with onion, carrots, mushrooms, green beans, and bell peppers from the freezer. Tasty stir-fry. Slicing all the fresh vegetables is definitely more effort, but it's also better stir-fry than using frozen. True of so much.

Saturday

Short version: T-bone steaks, garlic bread, carrot sticks, random roasted things

Long version: While I was baking bread, I shoved many things into the oven, including thinly sliced onions, a pan of potato chunks, another pan of carrots and sweet potatoes, and the garlic bread. After the garlic bread was gone, some people started in on the potatoes, so I guess it was a good thing I made them.

Sunday

Short version: Bunless cheeseburgers, potato salad, raw cabbage, leftover carrots/sweet potato, chocolate pudding

Long version: Yes, I cook my own Mother's Day dinner. But I made it easy on myself by mostly including things that could be prepared ahead of time.

I made this potato salad (except with Russet potatoes, apple cider vinegar, onion powder, and half the amount of sugar) because A. does not enjoy mayonnaise-based potato salads, and I love every kind of potato salad. This is a good one for the mayonnaise-averse.


Also a good one for anyone who has a lot of dill in their garden. Which is everyone who has ever grown dill. It is a prolific self-seeder.

And then I made the pudding because I had a lot of milk that needed to be used soon, I could make it ahead of time, and I really love chocolate pudding.

Monday

Short version: Leftovers

Long version: Hamburgers, steak, potato salad, the very last of the ram/rooster stew for A. You know, workday food.


Potato salad is also good leftover.

Tuesday

Short version: Ground beef and bean tacos

Long version: I added another two-pound package of ground beef to the pound or so left from making hamburgers, along with half a can of black beans that was languishing in the refrigerator, to make the taco meat. 

We had both tomatoes and lettuce for a topping, so it was tacos deeeeluxe.

Or something.

Wednesday

Short version: Tuna salad sandwiches, fruit shakes

Long version: A. took Cubby to the sports banquet at school. I was tired after working, and it was 90 degrees out, so I took the easiest and coolest way out.

In our house, smoothies=fruit shakes. I had a couple of bananas that really needed to be used up, so that worked out.

Thursday

Short version: Tacos

Long version: Leftover meat and beans in tortillas. And it wasn't even a work day!

Okay, your turn! What'd you eat this week?

10 comments:

  1. Friday-beef and barley soup, muffins
    Saturday-two pot roasts, one venison and one chuck, both small so I cooked them together, rotini, broccoli, lime cream cake because it was my husband's birthday. The 7 year old had rotini and cake.
    Sunday-yes, I make dinner on Mother's Day too. Mexican meatloaf, baked potatoes, and coleslaw. The 7 year old had toast and apple slices.
    Monday-last of the beef and barley soup and muffins
    Tuesday-liver and bacon, baked potatoes, coleslaw
    Wednesday-enchiladas, peas
    Thursday-leftover meatloaf stirfried with frozen vegetables, salad with radishes and swiss chard from the garden (first of the year, yay!) sourdough biscuits

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  2. Fri- maybe tacos?
    Sat- no clue
    Sun- boring baked chicken, rice, vegetables. Popsicles for dessert.
    Mon- husband out of town so tortilla chips and cheese or cereal for dinner.
    Tues - heat wave begins. Burgers,, Hot dogs and chips. Popsicles and ice cream bars.
    Wed- leftover.
    Thurs- leftovers and cereal.
    Tonight will be grilled meats and picnic foods as we have guests. I'll cut up some fruit and get more chips. Husband wants a pasta salad, but it depends I'd it's cool enough to cook pasta.
    So with my underachieving week!

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    1. Apologies for typos - trying to write comments with my kids thundering through.

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  3. Kit: I suspect there are more of us mothers who cook on Mother's Day than the advertising would like anyone to know.

    me: Yeah, we had unseasonable heat this week too, and that always saps my energy, in the kitchen and elsewhere. I'm blaming that on my boring food week.

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  4. I had Italian sausage with various vegetables most nights, except when I had pork stir fry. I did make one good thing on Wednesday, which was leek, potatoes, broccoli with cheese. I started the leeks boiling, and then I added some sliced potatoes, and then the peeled sliced broccoli stems, and finally the broccoli florets. Meanwhile, I made a white sauce with milk and with some of the vegetable cooking liquid. When everything was done, I combines the vegetables and sauce in an 8 x 8 pyrex, covered the whole with cheese, and baked for about a half hour. It worked out well--and last night, I had roasted asparagus, a couple of little red potatoes with cheese, and an egg. The asparagus was a gift of wild asparagus and was excellent. So very different from asparagus from a store.

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    1. That sounds so good. Do you follow recipes for these meals or just get creative?

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  5. take out
    chicken chili, salad
    spaghetti w/meatballs, salad
    same
    chicken BLT salad, bagels
    shrimp roll sandwich, asparagus
    And for tonight, hot dogs, asparagus.
    Linda

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  6. mbmom11: If that question is for me, I very rarely follow recipes. I've been cooking long enough (and have little enough patience for referencing a recipe that slows me down in the kitchen) that I just wing it.

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  7. I always wanted to ask, and finally am: what’s with the always bunless burgers? Just not convenient to buy or keep buns? Decreasing carbs? Long-time family bun aversion, due to a previous bun-related trauma?

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  8. Jenny: It started because we had family members who didn't do well with store-bought bread, only homemade sourdough. And now, yes, A. and I do avoid excess carbohydrates. I do sometimes make sourdough rolls for a sandwich if I'm already making bread and think of it, but I don't ever buy store buns because they're kind of a nothing, nutritionally speaking. My kids are so used to not having the buns that they think it's a big treat when they do. Low standards again. :-)

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