Sorry, I miss this thread when it's not around. I enjoy and learn so much from hearing about what everyone is cooking. So, anyone committed to anything new for the new year? Diets, learning, techniques, aids, resolutions?
I am just ongoing with my quest to (1) reduce waste, utilize leftovers, and try to serve the best possible meals for our money; and (2) work harder on eliminating processed grocery items (i.e. cream of mushroom soup etc. ) and more of making meals from more "real" foods.
Sunday was homemade biscuits and gravy (I've switched from Crisco to lard for my biscuits), with orange juice as a nod to nutrition. Monday was steaks (getting old in the freezer), baked 'tators, and a wondermous hot-bacon-spinach salad. I've finally found a way to serve DH spinach that he will eat! He was very iffy and suspicious when I set it in front of him.....and then went on to have a second big bowl for desert! The recipe is a keeper (but hey, it's called hot bacon dressing - I mean, how could it not be good?), and I am a happy woman.
Today was ham-n-pinto-beans, using the freezer hambone from our Christmas ham, along with corn muffins. Tomorrow is crockpot-roasted whole chicken (getting old in the freezer), with Stovetop dressing (I just don't have enough leftover bread items in the freezer to go to the trouble of making homemade) and some sort of salad utilizing the rest of the spinach and a cucumber. I'll eat the spinach, and will make DH a salad from this-n-that-and-cucumber. And Thursday we'll just have the ham and beans again. It'll be new again by then.
I should get a meal's-worth of extra meat from the chicken to save for later, and will boil the carcass for broth for something this weekend. Frugal.
Chime in.