What did you have for dinner? -Part dois

Mr Person said:

Pizza.

I was lazy.

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One should never feel shameful having pizza, regardless of circumstance.

grillers prime cheeseburger with light mayo, veggies, and pickles
roasted red pepper Tostitos

Bologna sandwich and banana split ice cream.

Apple slices with a warm brie dip, some crackers. Too lazy for cooking once again.

Lovebug said:

Apple slices with a warm brie dip, some crackers. Too lazy for cooking once again.

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I have been bad the last few days. I just didn't want to cook. Tonight it was Marie Calendar turkey pot pies. Yesterday I went to a baby shower and they fed us real well. Fruit platter, veggie platter, broccoli salad, homemade mac and cheese and barbecued sandwiches. The cake was divine. So were the mints and sugar cookies, and they passed out Godiva chocolates.
I didn't want to cook dinner when I got home so I fried hubby some eggs.

Day before I didn't want to cook either and we got a mushroom pizza. I had company on Friday from out of town here for the shower and we wanted to get together with my sis in law that evening so pizza was dinner.

I didn't cook Thursday either because I was busy getting the house company ready so we got Chinese takeout.

Wednesday we ate leftovers of a pasta dish I fixed on Tuesday? I know there were three long days getting rid of the giant chicken. I haven't cooked a substantial dinner tomorrow will be a week. I need to find my way back into the kitchen. I have everything to make Chicken Marsala. It's a favorite around here.

Chicken Marsala sounds great. Good some nice mushrooms sitting around, and all other ingredients are at hand. Dinner plans...check, no thinking involved. Thanks

Boiled veal bratwurst with English mustard. Mashed potatoes, tomato salad, and Hershey's Kisses for dessert.

I know, I know, sauerkraut is supposed to be the traditional side dish for this, but I hate sauerkraut.

We had roast beef, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans and rolls. We will have dessert a little later (cherry pie). Tomorrow's dinner will be easy-peasy. I love leftovers.

BBQ chicken with Green Peas.

Wife did cod w/ panko crumbs.

Who has tried baking cake in a jar? I want to make some gifts, and thought it would be a good idea, but am scared to mess it up.

PoS said:

One should never feel shameful having pizza, regardless of circumstance.

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Oh, of course not, of course not.



It's just that if I'm feeling too lazy too cook, I usually end up ordering from that pizza place or this local Sichuan place that is surprisingly unAmericanized.

veggie burger at Burger King
some fries
onion ring or two
couple cheesy tots

Lovebug said:

Who has tried baking cake in a jar? I want to make some gifts, and thought it would be a good idea, but am scared to mess it up.

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Try a couple of small ones. Experiment. We learn from our failures and mistakes.

Bake in a water bath. Mason jars are meant to be used in hot water baths or pressure canners and can't be placed in a dry oven without a water bath. Place Mason jars in a tall-sided roasting pan or baking dish and fill pan or dish with hot water. First, buy some half-pint (8 oz) canning jars. You can choose whatever type of cake you like (homemade or boxed works a-okay) and fill the mason jars with the batter so they're just over half full. This helps the cakes cook evenly and also will ensure your mason jars won't crack from the heat.

One of my aunts did this for each of her daughter's weddings. Each guest went home with a cake in a jar, after eating the wedding cake. She always made cinnamon chocolate with homemade fruit preserves on top. Kept her busy and stopped her from driving her daughters nuts. Three daughters, and her two sons got bupkis. (How dare they leave her for another woman! )

So I have the wedding, so today in comes my moms last husband and my aunt who is my dads brothers wife but both my dad and her husband are dead of somewhat mysterious causes early in life, she blames their dad the printer, but their dad the printer lived to an ornery 76 so I dont know what sense this makes. She is also VERY old school liberal, but not so much that she did not make it clear before she came that we just cant talk about Trump.

Made meatloaf the army recipe which has green pepper and celery if you can imagine that, and spices, mushroom gravy, fried cabbage (Yes of course in butter) with some stuff to include granny smith apple, mashed potato the old way where you boil whole potatoes in salt water, peal them hot, mash them some (I use an electric beater here in these modern times), and then start mixing in whole cream and butter in two doses, then salt pepper and whatever...I use nutmeg, an old Army trick, rolls and butter.

Served with a 2010 Washington wine red blend where the profits go to give women University scholarship, because she loved it my Aunt the liberal, ans she knows damn well that I am a Trump living member of the rebellion but we are family God Damn It...we manage our ways between disagreements.

It was a hit to these Midwestern folk, gettin ready for a swanky very upscale Seattle wedding of two very successful and VERY smart gay girls.



EDIT: sorry if I am too political, I am all emotional at the moment, and this goes back a long ways in my family..... my uncle was a campus radical leader, my dad was pretty conservative (He HATED unions for example), and his dad way way more conservative....who was not at all happy about how his kids turned out and not that happy about how his life turned out but we could manage a day together, we were surely at least that good.

OldFatGuy said:

Try a couple of small ones. Experiment. We learn from our failures and mistakes.

Bake in a water bath. Mason jars are meant to be used in hot water baths or pressure canners and can't be placed in a dry oven without a water bath. Place Mason jars in a tall-sided roasting pan or baking dish and fill pan or dish with hot water. First, buy some half-pint (8 oz) canning jars. You can choose whatever type of cake you like (homemade or boxed works a-okay) and fill the mason jars with the batter so they're just over half full. This helps the cakes cook evenly and also will ensure your mason jars won't crack from the heat.

One of my aunts did this for each of her daughter's weddings. Each guest went home with a cake in a jar, after eating the wedding cake. She always made cinnamon chocolate with homemade fruit preserves on top. Kept her busy and stopped her from driving her daughters nuts. Three daughters, and her two sons got bupkis. (How dare they leave her for another woman! )

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Thanks for the advice. We'll be having a lot of cake.
Btw, box cakes? Never.
Lol @ typical JM.

Lovebug said:

Thanks for the advice. We'll be having a lot of cake.
Btw, box cakes? Never.
Lol @ typical JM.

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Some of the box cakes can be very surprising. Especially if you hack them. Use milk and butter, or buttermilk and butter, instead of water and oil, add eggs, make frostings from cream cheese or puddings, whatever. Betty Crocker's orange cake made with OJ instead of water and much less sugar, with instant lemon pudding in the center and on top, yummy. The kids make it disappear.

OldFatGuy said:

Some of the box cakes can be very surprising. Especially if you hack them. Use milk and butter, or buttermilk and butter, instead of water and oil, add eggs, make frostings from cream cheese or puddings, whatever. Betty Crocker's orange cake made with OJ instead of water and much less sugar, with instant lemon pudding in the center and on top, yummy. The kids make it disappear.

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I use box mixes and doctor them up. I don't bother with cooking the cakes in mason jars but they are a cute way to serve decadent desserts at a gathering. Bake cupcakes. Slice the cupcakes in half to create two mini layers. The filling ideas between the layers are endless. For example do a take on a cannoli. Bake white cake with mini chocolate chips cupcakes and fill with cannoli filling between the layers and top with whipping cream that had unflavored gelatin (that was allowed to bloom) drizzled into the whipping cream during the beating process. This keeps the whipped cream in a more firm state. Sprinkle some mini chocolate chips or shaved chocolate on top. Do a take on Strawberry Shortcake. Yellow cupcakes, layered with sliced strawberries mixed with Marzetti's strawberry glaze topped with the same whipped cream mentioned above. Lemon cupcakes and blueberries are another good combo. For the chocolate lover, triple chocolate cake mix, chocolate mousse pudding filling topped with whipped cream and chocolate shavings. The combos are endless. They look really pretty in the jars. Screw the lids on and store in the fridge.

Tonight I fixed meatloaf with the special sauce on top (ketchup). I had some fresh green beans and I cooked them in chicken broth along with potatoes as the side. Hubby thought it was tasty. But I waited for the meatloaf to cool down to eat. I wanted a meatloaf sandwich. Two thin slices of meatloaf on bread with pickles and yellow mustard. It rocked.
I'll eat the green beans and potatoes for lunch tomorrow. Usually when I cook it's enough for two days but not this meatloaf. Hubby has already hit it again and by lunch tomorrow it will be gone. So what to fix for dinner Friday that will feed us Saturday too. hmmm. Sunday we are visiting with our grandkids and their parents can feed us.

wife has activities tonight, so we only had a minute to eat. i made us grilled cheese sandwiches and salads.

Yesterday, yet again a glorious rump roast, nice and rare in the center. No sides. Wouldn't want to take up room needed for beef.

(Coating: oil and smashed garlic mixed, paprika/chili/onion/thyme/rosemary)

Once finished, we mixed the blood on the plate with the unconsumed cooked juices and took shots of it, mixed with salt.







Today, leftovers.

Had my first attempt at making a Monte Cristo. Used Gruyere for the cheese and country ham.




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Mr Person said:

Yesterday, yet again a glorious rump roast, nice and rare in the center. No sides. Wouldn't want to take up room needed for beef.

(Coating: oil and smashed garlic mixed, paprika/chili/onion/thyme/rosemary)

Once finished, we mixed the blood on the plate with the unconsumed cooked juices and took shots of it, mixed with salt.







Today, leftovers.

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That wasn't blood on your plate. Just water with a bit of broken down muscle tissue, some lipids. Beef in America is fully bled before butchering.

We made pho yesterday, and will have it again today.

In celebration of the NFL, I ordered Pizza Hut (theyre a bargain here at one medium pie for $4, used to be only $3 last year)

Lovebug said:

We made pho yesterday, and will have it again today.

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After eating pho in Vietnam, I cant eat it anywhere else now lol