What's for dinner tonight?
- Thread starter Brent S
- Start date
Help Support Homesteading & Country Living Forum:
Mac n cheese with ham
- Joined
- Dec 29, 2012
- Messages
- 18,445
We had Granny over so yes it has to be a traditional New Year's dinner. . . Ham, mustard greens, black eyed peas, cabbage, and because my hunny doesn't eat a couple of those green veggies I did him sour cream & chive scallop potatoes. Cornbread along with yeast rolls. I didn't feel like making a dessert and since I was making yeast rolls made enough for two and did a lemon cream cheese braid with an icing. That was dessert. Had the two youngest kids over with one of their gals. DIL stayed home because she has a sinus infection and didn't want to get anyone else sick and we also had our neighbor and BI L came with Granny. It was a nice day to spend with family this evening.
I used the Christmas ham bone and made a pot of bean soup. I used the fifteen bean mix vs the navy beans I normally use. Nothing is more satisfying than homemade soup on chilly and dreary day.
- Joined
- Mar 29, 2013
- Messages
- 17,297
Yesterday I went to my parents for dinner. Mom fixed me a couple pork chops and her and dad had their traditional sour krout and cabbage.
This was a really easy lunch that will be for dinner as well. I learned something about spaghetti sauce that really helps. My home canned tomatoes have great flavor but are really watery and need to cook down for a long time to thicken up enough for how I like sauce. I used two jars of my tomatoes and one small can of store bought tomato paste. It absorbed most of the excess liquid and the sauce was done in thirty minutes or less. I am stuffed and content with the world at the moment.
Am trying out the instapot for the first time. Not crazy about the directions that came with it as they aren’t really clear with programming and stuff, but just put in a seasoned slab of ribs. I will let you know if this thing is worth it or not in about an hour.
Last edited:
Ok, still don’t like the lack of good directions, but it’s pretty simple to use and you just need to learn the cook times for different foods in the instapot. The ribs turned out great. It was 30mins cook time, with a warm up and cool down period, so really 45mins. Still pretty good for really tender ribs. Clean up was really easy, just one stainless steel pot or bowl in it and a little grate to keep food raised off the bottom. I did wash the inside of the lid too. Still pretty easy. I will definitely use it some more to learn it’s settings and cook times. I did see online there are tons of people that posted recipes for everything you can imagine. That’s good as I still think the people that wrote the instructions and tiny recipe book that came with it should be fired. Overall though, I like it and feel with the much faster cook times it was worth the price.
Last night Wife made homemade pimiento cheese and I made a pot of chili . The pimiento cheese recipe came from Steve Doocy's cook book from the FOX and Friends Staff and Guest . This one was from Paula Dean and was a old Georgia recipe that included red pepper flakes .
Also if Your like Me and like bacon for breakfast but refuse to pay $6 a pack . look for a brand called Country Farmhouse . Its around $3 and You get a full pound and not just 12 oz . Its Country style bacon and does not cook away .
Also if Your like Me and like bacon for breakfast but refuse to pay $6 a pack . look for a brand called Country Farmhouse . Its around $3 and You get a full pound and not just 12 oz . Its Country style bacon and does not cook away .
Last edited:
- Joined
- Mar 29, 2013
- Messages
- 17,297
Last night I found some chicken in the freezer. I cooked it in the oven then covered it with chilli sauce.
For lunch today I have a pot of tomato basil soup on the wood stove heating up. Hot soup really hits the spot on a cold foggy day like today.
For lunch today I have a pot of tomato basil soup on the wood stove heating up. Hot soup really hits the spot on a cold foggy day like today.
Decided on making Lasagna, ceasar salad and garlic bread
That looks good!
A slice of Costco pizza.
That’s kind of sad.... although I had a Wendy’s taco salad tonight about a hundred miles from home....
I don't consider pizza sad, whatever unholy form it may take.
There is pizza a LOT worse than Costco pizza....
710 calories a slice, it is filling. We were there shopping so it just made sense. Dinner for 2 for a total of $4
- Joined
- Mar 29, 2013
- Messages
- 17,297
Went down south today to pick up some building materials. It's was an 8 hour round trip. On the way down I stopped and had cheese steak sandwich for lunch at a small general store. Got home to a cold cabin and didn't feel like waiting for the wood stove to heat up enough to cook anything. So I opened a bag of Ceser salad. It was just eatable.
Left over spaghetti and frsh garlic toast for tonight
Spaghetti here tonight . Leftovers tomorrow .
Garlic toast sounds grand.
I'm on venison stew with green beans, carrots, brussels sprouts and spinach.
Kale, Brussels sprouts, grilled chicken
That looks really good, but you lost me on the kale. Really don’t like the stuff!
I had the last two ribs I cooked in the instapot, some spinach (from a can) a roll, some leftover Chinese take out chicken, and a slice of coconut cream pie from Walmart. That pie was awesome! (Marie calanders)
I love kale. My son hates it and beans too. I question if we are biologically related
Yeah, no one in my family has much in common either! The only kale I can handle is the very young leaves mixed in with other salad stuff.I love kale. My son hates it and beans too. I question if we are biologically related
