Meatloaf, corn on the cob, Zatarain’s rice. Not a very balanced dinner but screw it.
It’s gonna be chicken! I don’t know what I’m intending to do with it yet - either chop it up and fry it or spice-rub it and roast it - but in either case I’ll make a pan of chips and…ooh…yes, there it is, I feel a coleslaw coming on.
Roast probably, so there’ll be a tin of juices for making gravy.
Parsley dipped in salt water
Matzah
Horseradish slices
Charoset
Hard boiled eggs
Gefilte fish on Boston lettuce
Matzah ball soup
Indian roast lamb
Potatoes with onions and spices
Salad
Lemon angel pie
Easter bunnies
Pork schnitzel, green beans with toasted almonds, pear sauce.
Ham, cabbage, 'n taters. Nobody’s ever excited to hear that one but they sure tear it up when it hits the table.
Everyone’s excited to hear that in my house! The ham gets boiled with carrots, celery, onions, pepper and bay leaves, and the resultant stock is used for the following evening’s pea soup. The spuds are cubed, steamed above the ham, then stirred vigorously into a pan of butter-fried spring onions.
Important: do too much ham and too much potato, mash the leftovers into patties, fry them up and top them with fried eggs for breakfast.
sausage dogs, nachos, and beer for Working Woman’s Opening Day. (2:30 start on a Thursday? Please.)
Oh yeah, that sounds good. Plus it uses up eggs…I estimate I have 5 dozen on hand right now.
Brilliant. I take the skin off the ham - if it has one - and crackle it up in a big frying pan. Quality beer snacks. The fat that renders out is mostly poured off into the big jar of piggy fat in the fridge, but the pan is not washed: it’s used for frying the ham-hash and eggs.
Last night was a chicken stir fry, tonight we’re having tortilla soup.
Hmm, I decided I feel like fish tonight.
Option A. Be healthy: stay home and poach some frozen snapper with maybe a side of Rice.
Option B. Go unhealthy: Go out for Deep fried fish and Chips, washed down with a couple-or-three porters.
It’s Good Friday so eating is limited. I had the last of a tuna/egg/spinach/cheddar jack casserole thing I made last weekend for lunch, so “dinner” will be cottage cheese and applesauce.
Today it was some tuna salad and “lazy person’s” clam-corn chowder: 1 can each of Campbell’s: New England Clam Chowder, Cream of Celery, Cream of Potato, a can of clams, frozen corn, and some fresh ingredients added (onions, celery, potatoes, milk & water.) And a bit of fish sauce for extra briney-ness. My dad used to make this all the time growing up, and it was one of my favorite soups. There should be bacon in there, too, but being Friday and my wife a practicing Catholic, I kept it out.
Trader Joe’s soy chorizo with lettuce and tomato in a low-carb tortilla. (Corn tortillas for Mrs. L.A.) Unless Mrs. L.A. wants something else.
The oft-mentioned and debated Sunday Gravy. Over schpagootz, with a simple green salad.
Little Banjo is home from college for a visit, and requested it. It’s been simmering for four hours so far, and the aroma is delightful.
We’re going to the pita place for falafel and hummus.
Take out tonight. My daughter is having a cheeseburger, my husband is having stuffed shells, and I’m having a pizza steak with fried onions. We haven’t ordered from this place in ages, it’s further than our old regulars, but it’s always been good, so I hope that hasn’t changed.
Translate for one who’s not entirely conversant with your local takeaway conventions, if you would? Stuffed shells? Pizza steak?
Made a sack of burgers and brioche buns a while back; thawed a few out, crisped up some smoked streaky bacon (yes there are other varieties!) and topped the whole shebang with smoked cheddar. Pile of triple-cooked chips (which is how I routinely cook chips, but it seems to be a thing).