Tuesday Temptations? Our Daily Dinner

Tuesday Temptations?

notyourmomma 14 years ago

Think I may just bake a frozen pizza and make a salad for supper.

Although, I have a bunch of chicken that I poached with onions and garlic last night, if I get ambitious when I get home today, I'll cobble together a chicken filling for tortillas and make us enchiladas. I was more in the mood for chicken salad but I got an objection from the resident critic. Figures. "I don't like chicken salad." It's spring, honey, let's lighten up!!

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pleclare 14 years ago said:

How much lighter can you get than chicken salad! Enchiladas sound good too.

We have either leftover pork chops and the fixins or leftover roast beef and the fixins. Haven't decide which yet!

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sparow64 14 years ago said:

I could go for enchiladas or chicken salad...yum!

Didn't do the salmon last night, I was tired and we just had sandwiches. Gonna do some killer roasted potatoes tonight and re-vamp the bbq from Sunday. It turned out really well, so will be easy to do and not so late in the kitchen. I'm having a really hard time getting back on his day shift schedule for supper! He doesn't get home til 7:35, so that makes for a late night in the kitchen by the time you get the clean up done.

LOL Donna...your butcher lesson for the day:
CHOPPED STEAK is basically hamburger steak, a little different, but that's the best way to explain it. It's on the menu of every steakhouse in the country, I think! lol
CHIPPED BEEF is just roast beef that is shaved as thin as possible. I learned that the hard way. My first job was in the Deli of the A & P Grocery Store. The first time my manager was off and I had the deli to myself a customer came to the counter and requested "Chipped Beef", I very politely informed him that we did not have Chipped Beef. We had roast beef, corned beef, and a peppered roast beef. He gave me a big "harumph" and disgusted look (kind of a crochety old man) and came back with the STORE MANAGER who explained to me that chipped beef was just roast beef shaved very thin!!! Talk about being mortified! lol I think there is a dish "Creamed Chipped Beef" which is shaved roast beef in a cream sauce of some kind on toast.

OK...Class dismissed! lol

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mrtnzangel8 14 years ago said:

Still have 3 pounds of this 'chub' left. Don't ask me why he felt he had to shop for an army while we were there! We only cooked at the house once, but had enough food for an entire week. Had the rest of the chicken from the 2 huge packs he had bought on Sunday.

I am wanting to do a recipe I haven't done for a while. Honey Chicken over Snow Pea Rice (posted). I think all I need for it is the chicken and snow peas...might make a run to the store.

It is a very pretty day/week coming up. I think we are supposed to hit 80 by Thursday!

Possibly will pick up some charcoal and grill some burgers....haven't decided yet.

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mrtnzangel8 14 years ago said:

Wait...cooked there twice. One dinner and then a breakfast.

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pleclare 14 years ago said:

That always seems to happen when you go away. We come back with more food than we started with!

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valinkenmore 14 years ago said:

Great lesson Lori. I always thought chipped beef was that stuff from Hormel in the glass jars in the grocery store. My Dad used to make Creamed Chipped Beef on Toast when we were young. Glad to know there is a chipped beef that doesn't have that strange taste the Hormel gives theirs.
Rain, rain, and more rain. Going to start building me an ark! We even had lightning and hail yesterday.
Not sure what's for dinner. Maybe Chinese take out.
Have a great day everyone.

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sparow64 14 years ago said:

LOL Val...that was what I thought too...Creamed Chipped Beef, I think it is. ICK!

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pleclare 14 years ago said:

Val,think we will have up to 7" in some places by the time it ends.

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laurieg 14 years ago said:

I have a lake in my front yard. I was gonna get the kids rubber duckys and put them in and take a picture. thought it would be cute but cant find the duckies. not sure if they gave them away or not but they used to have a bunch.
turkey stock is on the stove right now, turkey soup tonight, perfect weather for it even if hubby wasn't happy about it.

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valinkenmore 14 years ago said:

Geez Pat - you better get a boat!!! 7" it must be pouring. It doesn't do that here - it just rains continously for days on end! It was 33 degrees here this morning - so not only rain but cold.
Take care and be careful if you go out. There always seems to be a fool that thinks he had to get there faster in the middle of a storm......

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pleclare 14 years ago said:

We have a canoe in the backyard. Maybe an ark would be good!

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justjakesmom 14 years ago said:

LOL - to all of you!

Thanks Lori, great lesson. I never knew!

I'm jealous Val, we didn't get the thunder storm here, just rain, rain, rain. It's actually sunny for the moment here. Half clouds, half blue sky. It does feel icy out though!

Pat, Tina, either one of those dishes sound good to me! LOL canoe, our rain just seems to soak in....

Ang, why don't you freeze some of the chub.... I love that word btw. LOL 80º - that's great!

Laurie, now you have me wanting turkey again. . .

Well, he's getting the ham tonight (he ate one of the leftover hamburgers for lunch- FINALLY) gonna have it with these butternut squash and fontina cheese stuffed raviolis (Costco) in this neat sounding sauce on the package calling for walnuts, brown sugar and butter - How can you go wrong!? Gives us our veggie and starch in one neat little package.

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mrtnzangel8 14 years ago said:

It's already been frozen...before we left the villa we froze it for the trip home and it partially thawed on the drive. I don't think you are supposed to refreeze meat are you?

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pleclare 14 years ago said:

Donna,that sounds good to me.

O.K.,what is a chub??

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justjakesmom 14 years ago said:

No! You can't refreeze meat! Not ground meat especially. LOL Pat, a chub is those tubes filled with the ground beef, come in 1 lb or up to 5 lb. 'chubs'. Hey Ang, you could brown it all up and freeze it for stuff like tacos, spaghetti, fried rice, etc. or it'll keep for a few days just in the fridge that way. Then you don't have to make yourself sick on ground beef! LOL

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pleclare 14 years ago said:

That sounds like a good idea!

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notyourmomma 14 years ago said:

Cook it first, just like Donna said.....don't refreeze it raw...too much of a risk.

Okay, I'll admit that I like chipped beef on toast. Yep, the same stuff my daddy used to complain about in the army was the stuff he wanted when he was "under the weather" and I grew to like it too. Sharing a plate sitting on the back porch...good times.

Donna, you are going to make me want a Costco card, you always get such wonderful things. That ravioli sounds wonderful.

Fred vetoed chicken salad vehemently. Poached chicken is becoming a pot pie. No enchiladas either...too spicy for his royalpickiness. Oh well. There is my stash of tabasco to sprinkle on the chicken.

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notyourmomma 14 years ago said:

At our old house, we lived a bit of a dip.....4 houses each side of the street were lower than the rest of the neighborhood and when we got torrential rain....our 8 houses were in a lake. We did canoe from house to house. I don't advise drinking and paddling, you will get wet. It was fun. We'd sit at the edge of the lake with big signs "Lake St. Paul's ahead" and a thermos of "something" alcoholic to keep us entertained. We would warn people deep water ahead and if they ignored us and tried to drive through our lake we would pray the wake wouldn't lap into the houses. I carried Tyler slung over my shoulder like a sack of potatoes many times from down the street to get to the front door...he'd be hanging upside down laughing all the way while I sloshed to the steps of the house.

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justjakesmom 14 years ago said:

LOL Tina, what a great story! I love stuff like that... And what would we do without Tabasco!? Speaking of Costco, I buy the big 2-pack of Tabasco - Brad goes through it like milk!

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mrtnzangel8 14 years ago said:

Ended up doing Pioneer Woman's BBQ Meatballs. Doubled the recipe and have a good size leftover for sandwiches and such....I've been thinking about pre-cooking my ground beef. We get the 10 lb 'meat logs' usually (that's what I call them anyway, lol) Good price and really good meat, not much fat. He will pick up 2-4 at a time and then we food saver them in 2.5 pound bags. In hindsight we should have grabbed one of those for the trip.

Obviously there are a lot of people here to eat usually. Even without extras I am cooking for 5. Wait, make that 6. Steve can eat enough for 2. LOL

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justjakesmom 14 years ago said:

LOL Ang, I don't think I've even seen a 10 lb. log! That's a lot of beef! The meatballs sound good.

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