There will not be a traditional Thanksgiving post this year, because I’m not hosting a Thanksgiving. Instead, Kid 1 will be stepping in and hosting at her house, because her boyfriend’s family will be joining us, and their house is a convenient midway point for everyone.
This is, however, your reminder that if you want Popeyes Cajun Turkey, you should get it on Monday, because it takes a while to thaw. Most Popeyes restaurants might still have it if you ask.
BDH asked some questions regarding cooking.
What’s in your weekly rotation?
We are boring. We do a lot of Tex-Mex. Chicken soft tacos. Tex-Mex tacos. Breakfast tacos. Besides that, there is a lot of salad. We have pasta once in a while, usually some kind of filled kind, like mushroom or cheese with Rao tomato sauce. Rao tastes homemade and conveniently offers small jar sizes.
We do some baked chicken, usually either marinated or coated with something. Gordon really likes beef or pork marinated in a soy sauce, mirin, brown sugar, and vinegar and cooked in our enormous air fryer. I serve it with rice.
Now that Texas finally decided to move toward cooler weather, Instant Pot pot roast and my beer stew will make an appearance. My husband also loves cubed steak so we have that once in a while.
For dessert, we usually have melon, or apples or grapes. Sometimes I throw together a quick apple crumble. We do try to eat on the healthier side. To be honest, occasionally I just cut up some tomatoes, cucumbers, and whatever other vegetables I have and throw them together with chickpeas into a bowl. I will eat that while Gordon leans toward baked beans with leftover meat for a quick meal.
What is the cheapest meal you’ve ever had in rotation?
I don’t like to talk about it, because that wasn’t a fun time. But since you’ve asked.
Beef, Rice, and White gravy.
Cook 2 cups of white rice.
Brown a pound of ground beef. At the time, I would buy the cheapest kind I could find. I remember when Gordon finally got stationed at his permanent duty post, the commissary on base had $0.99 ground beef. Add some powdered onion, garlic, salt and pepper.
Spoon as much grease as you can out of the pan. Add about 2-3 tablespoons of flour. Mix. Start adding milk a little at a time, stirring constantly, so there are no lumps. Keep adding and stirring until there is enough white gravy to be level with the meat. Serve with rice.
There are cheaper meals. Mac and cheese, beans, etc. And there is very little nutritional value in this, but in terms of volume to calories, this is the cheapest meal. It will keep you full for a long time.
For many people, from the South especially, this is a comfort meal. It’s been years since I’ve made it.
What is the most labor intensive thing you’ve made?
The Napoleon cake. 50 million layers of homemade puff pastry. My grandmother was particular about her puff pastry. Thankfully, I can just buy cake at HEB now, hehe.
What is the last strange ingredient you bought?
I bought Adjika for Grace Draven. Grace tries to feed me every chance she gets. Last time she brought over Parmesan crisps that were to die for. In retaliation, I sent her both hot and mild adjika, because we both read Milk Street cooking magazine, and they were on a Republic of Georgia cuisine kick for a bit.
Recipe for fall soup?
I don’t do a lot of soups, but since I’ve mentioned adjika, I will send you to Natasha for kharcho. My grandfather used to spoon adjika into his.
First?Instapot soup girlie here.
Fully-cooked first 😀
Congratulations on not having to host Thanksgiving dinner this year! I hope you and your family have a wonderful holiday week.
I second that as well😉
Cooking posts are some of my favorites
Happy Thanksgiving to people that have brought me hours of joy. May you and your family have a wonderful week
Hope you guys have a wonderful Thanksgiving! Good luck to Kid 1 and her hosting duties. It can be scary even if you love/like all the people involved.
Have a happy and peaceful and delicious holiday.
My Dad made hamburger gravy over toast! My brother loved it and I hated it. It was gray and greasy. On a happier note, I just made hard cider pork loin in the crock pot. Brown the meat, saute a chopped onion in the pan and put veggies of your choice in the bottom of the crock pot with a cup or so of boiling water. I use carrots,celery and tomatillos cut into pieces. Add the browned meat and onions to the crock pot and pour over a bottle of hard cider. Make a few cups of broth with Better Than Broth and water and add. Season to taste and cook on high until done. This time I also added mushrooms and potatoes. The leftovers get frozen under the broth in small containers for lunches. If you want extra broth for soup just increase the amount of broth you add! Happy Thanks-giving everyone!
Here’s to a lovely week! Thankful for all the fun you add to our lives through your writing- including blog posts!
Your comment about 99 cent ground beef brought back a memory from 1968 when my husband was stationed at Nellis AFB in North Las Vegas.
There was a meat market down on Industrial Road that sold 5 pounds of ground beef for 99 cents, every Wednesday. I’d buy 100 pounds. It was really fatty, so you had to drain it well, but I knew hundreds of recipes using ground beef. We ate it pretty much every day.
A warm and fuzzy memory, thank you.
Happy Thanksgiving! After I graduated and was waiting for my first paycheck a pot of popcorn was a great meal.
So nice when the kids start to take over hosting, and you can relax and enjoy the day! Wishing you, your family, ModR, and the BDH a happy celebration of food and family.
🤤 thanks for sharing
I love soup in the winter. Throw it all together in the crock pot and eat when youre hungry. But I live in a much colder climate than you.
My mom had a wood stove for heating her house. She nearly always had a pot of soup going on it. Beef rice and tomato, or minestrone, or chicken noodle. After she passed last year a lot of people who went to school with my sisters told me how they’d come and shovel the driveway or porch because my mom would give them some of that amazing soup.
Love that your mom had such a warm, caring group of neighbors
Interesting post. I had creamed chipped beef on toast this morning (SOS🤣). It’s comfort food, as you said. I hadn’t heard of adjika, but I love both green and red Thai chili pastes. Wonder how the flavors compare. I do, however, cook a lot of soups when “winter” finally arrives. Most are both filling and full of various veg, forget those puréed things. They always seem to require grilled cheese heheheh
If celebrating, happy Thanksgiving!
My dad would use to tell stories about SOS, and I don’t mean “save our ship”. He was in the Air Force. 🤣
My dad was a Marine, and I grew up on the stuff. I have a jar of chipped beef in the pantry – SOS sounds good for dinner tonight!
My dad used to love SOS, so mom would make it for dinner sometimes. I was not a fan. He idea of a snack was a raw potato with salt (he was a Great Depression baby) or canned sardines on crackers.
🤣 I know what everyone is euphemising
🤣🤣🤣🤣
When I was young, I had to ask what it meant. When my dad told me, I asked if it was that bad. He just looked at me.
Hadn’t realized it was a euphemism thought it was a brand 😂
Link: https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/shit-on-a-shingle-chipped-beef
lol Navy brat here. While I knew what SOS meant even at a young age, we always called it Daddy’s Stuff. Early years it was on toast cut into little tiles, sometimes mom would make drop biscuits. I have a jar of the corned beef in my cabinet always. It’s awesome when we used to go skiing, and now on a very cold day that requires work outside or if we go snowshoeing.
Navy checking in! 😂 SOS: One of my father’s favorite meals–and he was a *picky* eater… Apparently it’s a military thing?
I need to track down a good butcher for the beef and learn to make it myself, because I like it, too. 😉
(Finally followed Ingrid’s link–TY!)
My cheap go-to meal was creamed tuna on toast. I made this for my kids when there was extra month at the end of my money.
My youngest requested it when she came home from college.
Fall soups: chicken noodle soup, cheater started with Costco chicken or rotisserie chicken from Bjs Chicken enchilada soup, husband makes it spicy, will kick a cold right out of you. Taco soup, but have to make the shredded taco chicken first. Maybe Potato bacon corn chowder. We freeze a lot so we can have it all winter.
I always luck out that in term for having to drive over an hour each way to get to Thanksgiving dinner, I only have to bring the wine 😹
I loveeeee my InstantPot. In fact, I just made braised lamb shanks in it last night 😊
I always look forward to food and cooking related posts!
My cheapest meal from poverty years also involves rice. I was seventeen, had finally gotten completely away from my family and set up house with my first husband. I had one pot, one deep bowl, one shallow bowl, one stainless steel pie pan, one round cake pan from a set, a few spoons and one cheap plastic handled paring knife.
I would make a pot of split pea dal (we were in the Hare Krsna movement) or lentil dal with frozen vegetables. Then I poured it into the deep bowl and re-used to pot to make rice with Indian spices and sometimes tomato or frozen peas. I also made chapatis sometimes (flat bread). Of course you ladle to dal over the rice. Eventually I got baking ingredients for quick breads and oatmeal for breakfast.
The nearby supermarket had a set day of the week they put out their yogurt, cottage cheese, milk and kefir that reached it’s sell by date. They kindly put it in a clean box placed last on top of the items in the dumpster. It was perfectly good and a group of devotee friends grabbed it promptly and we shared it among several people. It was Culver City and I think the name was Balians? Something similar at any rate. I’m so grateful.
Dal recipes: https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/winner-aarti-sequeira1/mums-everyday-red-lentils-recipe-1921913
A nice overview of dal-related dishes including savory snacks: https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/photos/dal-recipes
Obviously I was a newbie and just making soup with spices and vegetables to ladle on rice. It was pretty good soup though. 😉
I did ramen with fried egg and frozen veggies for dinner in college. I would get pasta for the on-campus lunch meal with friends every day for the calories and then do the ramen at the dorm by myself. I lost weight that year even with the huge pasta lunch, but the frozen veggies and egg at least added some nutrients to my broth meal. it’s so odd to see my kid have ramen as a treat now or to get good ramen with things in it.
things are so much easier now. I dont need to have the exact amount of change in my wallet memorized. (Even if it took over a decade of financial security to break that habit!)
Hamburger gravy on biscuits, baked potatoes, rice, or broiler toasted bread. A winter favorite at our house when we were kids. Also, sausage gravy on any of the above bases. Served with a hot (canned) veggie or carrot sticks. It was fast, it was cheap, it was hearty. And yes, usually one of the meals we asked for when we were home from college!!
Thank you for the Karachi recommendation!
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who celebrate it here in the US!
I’m cooking for myself this Thanksgiving. I’m trying out a one pan turkey breast and stuffing recipe from Cook’s Country. Once I looked over the recipe and saw how it was made on TV, I decided to tweak the stuffing a little. It sounds really good and can’t wait to try it out.
I use my slow cooker when I just want to set it and forget it. In the middle of the scorching summers here, I’ll use my slow cooker for brisket, mainly the flat. Turns out so moist and yummy.
If I don’t want to set it and forget it and want to braise pork for pulled pork, I’ll use my Le Cruset chef’s pot. The pot is narrow at the bottom and wide at the top. It looks like a wok, but it’s not quite as wide on the top as a wok. I really like this pot so much I have three of them.
Are you taking sides for Thanksgiving? I was asked to make garlic cheesy mashed potatoes, which will be an adventure, as I’ve never made mashed potatoes from scratch. I did find a recipe in one of my Taste of Home cookbooks, so fingers crossed.
I make a cheesy mashed potato that I created when I had sharp cheddar cheese that I needed to make up in something.
Good luck with making them. 😊
Thanks! The recipe didn’t specify mild, medium, sharp, or extra sharp cheddar, so I went with sharp. I feel better about my choice since it’s what you use. It also calls for bacon. I’m looking forward to making that part of it. 😁
Sharp cheddar gives the potatoes a really nice taste and will stand up to the bacon and garlic.
Beer Stew… What’s the secret to making beer stew so the beer doesn’t turn bitter? I’ve tried Guinness beef stews and Ale beef stews and they’ve never tasted good.
I’m curious about the recipe, too.
I would say the answer is picking the right beer, I never liked the results I got with Guinness myself! Pick a beer that isn’t too hoppy, so not one of the modern IPAs which are usually double or even tripple hopped. If you find the beer too bitter to drink don’t use it in a stew. However you can salvage an over bitter stew to an extent by adding port or other fortified sweet alcohol or at a pinch sugar.
This won’t be much help to anyone who wasn’t in the UK last year, but the Co-op did a lovely spiced porter that made the best beer stew I’ve ever made, with venison and port. I’m crossing my fingers they make it again this year.
If you’re in the US, use a mild beer such as Budweiser. If you’re outside the US, use whichever mild beer that tastes good to the palate.
I don’t cook with alcohol. However, I watch a lot of cooking shows. 😁🍗
Also, really good beef stock or broth makes a really good stew. Let the liquid thicken a little.
Use a lighter color beer and don’t use a lot of it. When I use beer in soups (such as posole or broccoli cheese) I use about a half a 12 ounce bottle for soup for four people (bowls, not cups of soup). When I make beef stew, I actually tend to put in shittake mushrooms for flavor instead of beer, and then either chop them small after they have simmered in there or take them out. But if I were using beer, I’d probably use a quarter of a beer with the stock to start and again, just a regular beer works fine. I’ve used Samuel Adams and Heineken with good results in soups. The beer for me serves to make a more complex broth; I don’t want to TASTE the beer or anything! LOL.
I use Belgian ale and eight cups of onions along with beef. Either Cook’s Illustrated or Cook’s Country has the recipe. I have a cast iron dutch oven devoted to this recipe because the flavor seeps into the pores!
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
My Mom used to make the ground beef/white sauce over rice all the time — like you said, inexpensive especially in light of we 4 growing kids. We called it (maybe not the nicest name!!) SOS ( s**t on a shingle).
I thought it had to be on a slice of bread/toast (the shingle) for it to count 😀
The SOS known to most was chipped beef, not ground, and yes it was on toast. However families have their own terms for things, and some may have used SOS for other dishes. My mother’s SOS mostly tasted like salt. It was not my favorite meal, but not the worst either.
Happy Thanksgiving and thank you for all the books, the side stories, the blog, and ModR. Enjoy your holidays!
Always had a kitchen garden. Mom was a school teacher so 10 months of salary made summer slim. Sliced tomato and onion sandwiches on paper thin bread with butter or mayo was common dinner. Or she’d make big vat of vinegary potato salad to make two hard boiled egg and something green stretch. In hot weather I still sometimes have an onion sandwich, but I’m more generous with the bread and mayo.
Happy Thanksgiving. I am glad you two will be there for Kid 1. Hosting a holiday meal for the in laws can be stressful, even when they are great, so having your supporting presence should help. Lord knows the 1st time I did I could have used a calmer head to remind me not to sweat the small stuff lol
First time I ever attempted to make gravy was Thanksgiving with the future in laws. It was watery on the stove and I added too much starch. By the time we went to eat it was the consistency of toffee pudding. 🤣
I had forgotten all about SOS. We had it growing up and I loved it. My dad talked about having it in the Army during WWII, a favorite of his. We also had creamed tuna on toast, which I loved.
As an adult I did Ramen, with sautéed green onions and sunflower seeds and sometimes with scrambled eggs.
Our two go to easy meals are:
“tortillas” which consists of tortillas cooked in a dry pan with some cheese melted on them and then throw on any leftover veggies or meat we have in the frig (warmed up in the microwave first!) with whatever toppings you want on it. Sometimes I’ll fry up a bit of chicken if we have some in the frig, and saute any uncooked veggies or steam frozen veggies.
Our other go to is stir fry. Cook up some rice in the rice cooker or cook quinoa on the stove, then saute whatever meat (usually chicken) we have, stir fry veggies ( usually onions, garlic, ginger, carrots, broccoli, peppers, mushrooms, maybe asparagus, frozen peas or corn). Spices are salt, pepper, garlic, cayenne or chili powder, fish sauce, umami black garlic sauce and sometimes cashews or sunflower seeds.
I hope you have a grand Thanksgiving and can just relax!
Love the cooking posts!
I hope you and your families have a fabulous Thanksgiving!
As for your recipe…my Grandmother did this with fried chicken almost every Sunday for my cousins, my brother and I. No rice, but mashed potatoes, and yes, it’s now comfort food for me.
I’ve never heard of adjika. Is it hot/spicy ( peppers,etc.) or cold/ spicy ( garlic, tumeric,etc.)?
I’m just learning my NA Indigenous heritage cooking other than frybread ( another comfort food!), the Three Sisters (beans, squash and corn) and bison and am looking also for spices other early cultures might’ve used.
I’ve already done tons of medieval feasts for my SCA (Society for Creative Anachronisms) group, and learned about early spices they’d used, and now I’m branching out in my cooking education.
Pilámaya( Thank you in Lakota) for all the joy you bring to us, your respectful BDH.
Food posts always make me use google sooo much, even the comments, and today I feel like the Atlantic divide is wider than ever!
I checked out cubed steak, assuming it was going to be diced beef but nope. Then various iterations of gravy which all seem to involve cream or milk in the recipes; a budget bresaola and finally my personal nightmare, tuna infused white sauce *shudders*
Just no. No, no, no.
I don’t like gravy – which is heresy as an English woman – I really dislike creamy sauces, even with pasta (except in lasagne of course, as long as it’s not a sloppy one) and I loathe fish.
On the other hand it sounds like the price of mince is ridiculously cheap in the US and I am bitterly jealous °side eyes ASDA°
Have a fantastic Thanksgiving to all those who celebrate (:
Wishing you and your family a wonderful time together
chocolate babka is always good
I don’t think I’m going to do Thanksgiving this year, even just crossing the parking lot to my daughter’s sounds like too much. I had heartburn for a couple of weeks, which is gone now since the fix is simple – don’t eat after about 6:30 PM (and why I don’t do this consistently is a good question I can’t answer) – but the mucus piled in my chest as a result is really kicking my ass. I hate coughing, and even though it’s getting better, it probably won’t end for another week.
I do hope you folks have a great holiday. And, Ilona, I hope your eyes are all well again.
Hope you feel better soon
Thanks. I’ll most likely be fine in a week.
Hope your chest clears soon. I have the same issue, and I can manage at home by eating early, but going to other people’s for meals often means I have to stay up late to allow the food to settle.
One year I stayed home alone and had a single serving, ground turkey and sweet potato shepherd’s pie from the frozen food case. For Christmas that year I cooked turkey thighs and sweet potatoes in the crockpot. They actually come out really well that way. If you’re not up for cooking, maybe your daughter can bring you a plate?
She’ll send one of the kids. They’ve already promised. I have great offspring, have I mentioned this?
<3
In my bi weekly rotation I make a homemade version of Salisbury steak;
2lbs angus ground meat mixed w finely chopped mushrooms…etc. I have men that eat dinner for breakfast so leftovers Disappear pretty quickly.
My hardest meal was, is and will always be freaking Lasagna! My husband’s family are Italian, they taught me the meaning of fresh red sauce, showed how to cut fresh handmade pasta! I could make from scratch Manicotti. I just cannot comprehend how to master Lasagna 🤨
Cheapest meal; grew up poor, so cup of noodles. Take out the pasta from the saved boiled water, mix that with butter, the hot water mixed with the powder was the drink. Taa- daa, dinner.
I am very grateful for my family; very happy to have a great group of friends, and value reading the hijinks of the BDH!
Happy Thanksgiving you turkeys!
Changes in tradition can be fun. Hope you all have a great time at Kid 1’s.
Cheapest meal I used to make was ramen noodles with shredded cheese and chopped spinach. Sometimes ground beef or chopped hot dogs added if available.
I don’t do labor-intensive. Anything more involved than roasting a bird is not happening.
Weirdness of ingredients is in the eye of the beholder. I bought some pickled carrots at a farm market recently. They were delicious. And some tomato jam which was flat-out sublime.
My current weekly rotation is unbelievably boring, but starting to improve as I add foods back in. Today I spotted a new Mexican bakery near the CVS, and couldn’t resist a churro. So far so good.
Have a great holiday everyone! Even if it’s not your own holiday, gratitude usually helps.
I like onion jam. I’ll have to see if I can find some tomato jam.
OMG, the best! Also got a “Scarborough Faire” loaf – parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme – and they were fabulous together.
My Moms cheap meal was tuna fish and spaghetti, she fed a family of 6 on a pound of spaghetti, a can of tuna and a can of tomato sauce. I call it a poor man’s version of spaghetti and clam sauce. Its one of my sisters and my favorite comfort foods 💕
I am getting a Popeyes chicken this year. I actually picked it up Sunday. I’m so excited!
I just want to say that I usually don’t have tex mex in the rotation until I was brainwashed by House Baylor. Especially that mango salad debate.
Pancakes joined the rotation because, I think it was Hugh, folded his pancake with bacon and I wanted to see if that legitamate.
Feel free to add more food in the series because it had widen my horizons of pasta bakes, mash and steamed vege.
also want to ask, will be get the zoom video of the Inheritance QandA
The Inheritance zoom video was already available the week after the release and archived 🙂
Thanks Mod ar 😊 Sadnesssss, I was waiting for the audiobook before I watch the Q and A. I guess I’ll live in the grey zone of w*iting…..
a good dressing for cut up fresh fruit is one cup yogurt, a tablespoon of lemon or lime juice, a tablespoon of honey. Adjust for how thin, thick, sweet, sour you like it
A Happy Thanksgiving to all. My to go quick cheap filling meal: elbow Mac, frozen mixed veggies, a pasta sauce or stick of butter and any spices you want. Make the Mac and drain, heat the veg in the microwave while making the Mac then combine. Add the sauce or butter. This will last me several days, unless my hubby is eating it too.
I had to look up adjika, which sounded very interesting. Unfortunately, I am allergic to capsicum and severely allergic to capsaicin. (Sad face)
I hope you all have a marvelous Thanksgiving.
My mom used to make that, we called it hamburger gravy, she made it like sausage gravy so a couple of tablespoons of the grease were left in for the base. We had it over mashed potatoes or rice. It was delicious we all loved it, it’s not just a southern dish though, I’m in the Midwest.
I hope everyone at House Andrew and fellow members of the BDH a happy and safe Thanksgiving.
Oh god…. reading this at work and now i’m HANGRY!
Well, relax and enjoy your Thanksgiving with the family. Hosting is a big job, and I hope your Kid 1 learns what you have been doing for years is not an easy job. When it comes to hosting Thanksgiving for everyone, it is major, and you hope everyone enjoys your cooking.
I made glop. One of the boy’s favorite meals.
It’s rice, a can of condensed cream of mushroom soup, and bits of leftovers.
Have a thankful time with your closest this Thursday!
We just made a batch of soup at our house too! Love Central Texas FINALLY remembering it’s supposed to be soup season. Mine was a venison link sausage and gnocchi soup my husbeast absolutely loves. I stumbled on a very basic recipe, then made additions and edits until it had the things we liked AND had the easiest steps (canned veggies and the microwave bacon saves so much effort lolsob)
1 package of link sausage (we use venison but any will work)
1 package gnocchi
1/2 of a 40 count package of precooked bacon
1/2 diced red onion
3-5 cloves diced onion (Measure with your heart here – the original recipe said 1-2 which… LOL)
1 can kidney beans
1 can diced tomatoes (fire roasted is best!)
1 can green beans
2-3 boxes chicken stock
Grated parmesan
Your preferred seasonings
Yellow mustard
Saute the sausage, onion, and garlic until the sausage edges are crispy and the onions are turning clear. Microwave the bacon until crispy then dice. Add the sausage, bacon, onion, and garlic to a soup pot with the canned veggies, then add stock until all items are covered – then add more stock until there will be room for gnocchi later. Add preferred seasonings/spices – we usually use salt, pepper, bay leaves, and a little chili powder. Our “secret” ingredient is a couple squeezes of yellow mustard to add that little bit of vinegar to really bring it all together. Bring to a boil, then lower the heat to simmer for anywhere from an hour on – it can cook all day if you really want the flavors to meld. Roughly 10-15 minutes before you plan to eat, bring it back to a boil and add the gnocchi. The gnocchi is done when it floats back to the top. Then just dish it up and add a little grated parmesan on top! It’s also AWESOME with toast or garlic bread. The husbeast’s favorite is the HEB “bake at home” foil packages of garlic bread.
I make something very similar to your ground meat, white gravy, and rice, except I make brown gravy and sometimes serve it over mashed potatoes. We call it SOS and my Dad, who was in the military, loved me to make it. I still make it on occasion if we need quick meal but I use ground venison or ground wild pig since my husband hunts.
My dad made chipped beef and gravy on toast. We used to eat a lot of economy meals when I was young. I remember mom buying day old French bread 6 loaves for 25 cents at a local bakery when dad went back to college to get his degree.
OMG. We just discovered Georgian (the country) food during a trip to Portugal. My brother-in-law took us to a restaurant in Lisbon (Karater Georgian Bistro if you are visiting) and it is so good. We had some in Philly this past weekend in Reading Terminal and that was good too. Going to check out the 2-3 places near DC that serve it as well.
Mom always went for deals at the nearby commissary if we weren’t living on base. She’d get a giant roast of the cheapest grade, brown it up in a huge pan, put it in an oven bag with carrots, onions, potato and a bay leaf, then slow bake it until it fell apart. She’d make gravy out of the drippings, sometimes get cheap rolls or make blueberry muffins. My favorite meal when I was a kid and a good thing too, because it lasted all week. lol
Leek and potato soup I just use instapot I use this recipe
https://www.simplyhappyfoodie.com/instant-pot-potato-leek-soup/
Once cooked I use my blender to make it smooth and pour back in and add cream. Use your favorite sourdough and do mini bread bowls or one big one and top with cheddar and bacon bits. My kids love this! I’m hosting turkey day and I just made all my stuffing breadcrumbs yesterday since Martins discontinued the bagged potato stuffing cubes so we made our own out of 4 loaves of Martin potato bread. I did apple and pumpkin pies today tomorrow is deviled eggs and choc chip cookies and cooking the stuffing for the bird and a separate dish as well. Potted and green beans and corn casserole get done while turkey is cooking. I’m over the holiday already because I can’t seem to keep up with the everyday mess plus guests are coming ahhh!!!
We have some sort of ground meat on a weekly rotation. Recipe’s similar, but without the flour. Instead, I add tomato sauce, a can of peas, frozen corn kernels, and diced carrots. Then serve with white rice. Yum!
What a great food post. It’s always interesting to see what you like to eat. A cultural exchange. I love comfort food recipes from around the globe. Love Milk Street. Pot roast is my jam.
Can you tell what shows you’re watching lately? In the past you gave us great cdrama and kdrama reccs, but I havent seen any from you in awhile.
In my family, ground beef with white gravy was called “Larson’s Special” and it was served with potatoes. My great-great-grandmother on the Larson side ran a boarding house and her daughter taught her DIL (my maternal grandmother) to cook, so simple, hearty meals were standard fare during my childhood.
It’s quick and tasty, warm and filling. Ooh, and I have some ground beef in the freezer…