What's for dinner?

[NH Homesteader]

Tonight was pork meatloaf and squash from my parents' garden.

 

[Mini Horses]

Tonight I had a cold chicken breast & cole slaw...leftovers.

I'm a good cook and like to do it but, as I am alone here it is just a PITA to cook every night. Like to eat healthy. So I generally devote a rainy day or two to cooking BIG meals, then freezing in smaller portions that I can MW, etc. Often do big pots of soups, chilis, etc. for that purpose. That way, I can have great cooked meals, ready in short order. Makes it nice to eat a meal that only took a few minutes after a long day of work.

I'm certain most of you do the same -- maybe for different reasons. Takes a whole new look at "leftovers" because we often don't think to cook a good amount extra just to be able to have meals made up. I do.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I like to cook BIG too. Maybe cooked too big this weekend...HUGE brisket. We've eaten two days on it and I need to skip a day now. Need to freeze some of it and pull it out again in a week or so.

 

[Britesea]

Baked potatoes, broccoli, bacon, cheese and sour cream.

We call that "Irish Sundaes"

Making a taco salad tonight.

 

[Hinotori]

We were out running errands on Sunday and stopped at a small local smoked meat deli.

Got a salmon dip. Smoked salmon and cream cheese on a toasted, buttered hoagie roll. Came with fish au jus.

So very good. I'm going to have to try that for myself at home next time I smoke a salmon.

It was made with the Pacific Northwest style hot smoked salmon, not the cold smoked type they have elsewhere.

You have to thoroughly cook our local salmon. They eat a local snail that harbors a parasite that will make you, and your animals, sick with what we call salmon fever. Usually you see it in dogs more often than people

 

[Country homesteader]

Last night my dinner was a single serve deep dish supreme pizza and 2 pork egg rolls.

 

[sumi]

I'm certain most of you do the same -- maybe for different reasons. Takes a whole new look at "leftovers" because we often don't think to cook a good amount extra just to be able to have meals made up. I do.

When I had the freezer space I often made pies and soup in large quantities for this reason. To freeze and reheat on days I didn't have the will and energy to cook dinner. It saves time and electricity too

 

[CrealCritter]

Grand daughter's aged 1 1/2 and almost 3 are spending the night. While Son works a double and DIL is in Japan for work. They chose beany weenies & mac cheese. So that's g ma made and that's what paw paw eat.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Umyum... I remember the days that my son wouldn't eat much of anything else... Some days ya just gotta give 'em what they want!

 

[NH Homesteader]

My daughter loves hot dogs. She eats them very rarely, but she loves them.

We had french toast and maple breakfast sausage.