I love pot pies, especially chicken ones, but unfortunately mr. romans does not, so I do not get one often. One of our local cafes sometimes has hassenpfeffer pies in the spring, but for reasons that have nothing to do with the deliciousness of those pies, I no longer frequent that establishment. I have to content myself with the occasional Stouffer’s chicken ones.
Over here, we had our old standby racetrack casserole tonight and there’s enough chicken left over to do a basic chicken, mashed potato and greens dinner later in the week. Simple stuff is really satisfying sometimes.
I made a porkbutt sous vide for pulled pork. My gf is in Florida with her mom for a mother/daughter vacation. She doesn’t want to eat pig because of humane reasons. I love pulled pork.
So, I had some for dinner last night, put some in an omelet this morning, will have some for lunches today and tomorrow.
My gf is back from her mother/daughter trip, so I made a nice dinner.
Shredded turkey in gravy served over homemade biscuits. A side I made up: cranberry sauce (from the turkey store) mixed together with Greek yogurt. I will do this again.
Cheesecake for dessert with canned cherries overtop.
Pad thai with shrimp tonight - I arranged a dinner with a couple of old friends tonight and one of them suggested a Thai place we’d never been to before. The food is just as good as the much busier/noisier place we’d been to before, so I’m sure we’ll go there again sometime.
I was feeling exceptionally lazy and pitiful after doing my taxes, and had a large baked Yukon Gold potato. Perfectly creamy and buttery, even before I added butter. I have some leftover chili for later if I want a followup snack.
Also, funny you should mention it because another one of my new discoveries is President’s Choice brand frozen Thai basil shrimp spring rolls. They’re long, narrow cigar-shaped things that are ready in the air fryer in about 8 minutes, and are delicious! The wrap is so thin it’s translucent and you can see a big green leaf inside – as a sushi fan, I thought it might be seaweed, but it’s Thai basil.
I made tacos couple of nights ago because the Grandson was here. After reading a recipe here for Tamale Pie (which I’d never heard of before) I sort of made that tonight.
Rehydrated the leftover taco mince with some hot beef stock and let it sit for a bit, made some cornbread batter, put the meat into a couple of ramekins, topped with the batter and put them into the air fryer for 20 minutes.
Turned out perfect, bloody loved it, some steamed veg on the side as it’s a cool night but would love to have it with a garden salad.
Yesterday was a beautiful day, so my gf went out and picked up two marinated porterhouse steaks. They were freaking huge. I grilled them rare, made baked potatoes in the oven and a small side salad.
Chicken Piccata (the turf) and Crab Raviolis (the surf). For the sauce over the raviolis, I simmered leftover cream of asparagus soup for awhile until it had thickened.
Dinner out last night for my husband’s birthday. Went to a Greek place we both like. He got shrimp and scallops with orzo in a tomato cream sauce. I got chicken souvlaki with a tomato and cucumber salad and lemon potatoes. Had saganaki as an appetizer - my favorite thing there.
We brought a piece of their cheesecake home to split later - it’s made with manouri cheese and it’s excellent - lighter than the typical cream cheese kind and just lightly sweet.
Had a little brainstorm yesterday and made homemade cream of tomato soup and cheese sandwiches. Super simple–big can of Muir Glen tomatoes, sauteed onion, basil, cream, salt, pepper and a little stock, blend with a stick blender. We left it a little chunky. Talk about different from Campbell’s!!! Good sourdough with cheddar, gruyere and bacon, fried with ghee. We have a winner!
