Hey Grandpa, What's for Supper? Part 2

[Pork Pie]

Steaks on the grill, mac and cheese, fresh sweet corn - green beans if the Princess returns from shopping with some. It is brutally hot and humid here.

The Princess came home with Romaine lettuce so we will drop the green beans and add a Caesar salad.

You could just put the beans in the fridge - dropping ‘em seems a bit anti-legumish

 

[Blooie]

Ruffle tater chips and French Onion chip dip.

 

[BReeder!]

Ruffle tater chips and French Onion chip dip.

I just cannot like this. It isn't a meal...

 

[BReeder!]

Yesterday was grilled chicken thighs, "poor man's potatoes" (stewed potatoes with salt and pepper that is amazing when done right. A child memory of mine that DW has fell in love with too.) and a fresh salad with lettuce from our garden.

 

[sourland]

I just cannot like this. It isn't a meal...

It is to Blooie.

@BReeder! , how do you make stewed potatoes ?

Tomorrow I will make meatloaf , leftover mac and cheese, and sweet corn cut off the cob.

 

[BReeder!]

It is to Blooie.

@BReeder! , how do you make stewed potatoes ?

Tomorrow I will make meatloaf , leftover mac and cheese, and sweet corn cut off the cob.

I 10" skillet full of potatoes peeled sliced to 1/4"-1/2" half circles, 1-2 large onions, salt, heavy hand of black pepper, fill eighth water to cover potatoes. Cook on burner over medium to low heat. Turn over the potatoes gently every so often to prevent burning. After about an hour the potatoes should begin to fall apart. The result is a lumpy porridge textured potfull of deliciousness.
I grew up eating this, especially when my dad was laid off or beaten jobs and money was tight, hence tge name "poor man's potatoes". Add some sliced sausage and it's a meal. Just as good on its own as a side dish.

 

[Blooie]

I just cannot like this. It isn't a meal...

Maybe not, but it’s what I had! I’m planning a huge, 4 day bash for 200+ people in a couple of weeks, and it has to be perfect. Table decorations for three banquets, gift bags for the ladies, welcome bags for each Mason and visiting dignitary, and all Grand Lodge Officers, activities for the ladies while the guys are in meetings, silent auction items cataloged and numbered, and hospitality room goodies arranged for. All this, and the venue is 2 hours from our house over the Big Horn Mountains. Multiple trips will be needed to deliver everything, as well as a couple of more meetings with the hotel and Convention Center. And in between times I’m sandwiching a 4 day trip to Cheyenne, home for 3 days, then back down south to Denver for 4 days. So I think I was doing pretty darned good to get any “supper” at all, and I DID like it!

 

[Blooie]

It is to Blooie.

Yep. And my buddies here know that I’m as happy with a full meal as I am with a bowl of cereal or a paper plate of Chislic and a cold beer! But my favorite hands down meal is pig cheeks, mashed taters, milk gravy and corn!

 

[sourland]

Tonight I am grilling bacon/cheddar sliders to go with fried cauliflower, potato salad, and a little bit of leftover sweet corn.

 

[Pork Pie]

Tonight I am grilling bacon/cheddar sliders to go with fried cauliflower, potato salad, and a little bit of leftover sweet corn.

Very nice

I’m going for a lazy pastry overload: farm shop bought quiche n salad and then custard tart for dessert. It’s all part of my healthy eating programme