We're busy, like everybody else in the world. We are not going to sit
down together to eat every weekend.

But I don't want to feed my family a lot of processed junk like fast food,
lunchmeat, frozen dinners, canned soup etc. (At least not all the time!)

So, last night I roasted a 7-lb Perdue Oven Stuffer (79 cents a pound, and
fresh!) and browned up a pound of fresh hot Italian sausage. (Lot of fat but
no nitrites or preservatives as ham would have ...)

Diced some baby carrots and celery, put a bag of presoaked "15-bean"
soupbeans on, and when they boiled, simmered for 40 minutes, tossing the
carrots, celery, and sausage, diced, in for the last 20 minutes. I used a
little salsa for the touch of tomato that this dish always seems to need, to
me, and sprinkled in some of my own Cajun seasoning. (These bags of beans
come with a packet of "ham flavoring" {shudder} or "Cajun seasoning," but
they were out of the Cajun so I bought the ham and tossed the packet. If
they had Cajun, I would have used maybe half the packet due to the spices in
the hot Italian Sausage.) The sausage gives this soup a really nice
collective consistency, and the sweetness of the carrots complement the heat
well.

We had roasted chicken and rice and squash and green vegetables (frozen) for
dinner, then I chopped and sliced the rest of the meat for sandwiches and
chicken salad.

Now all weekend we can dip in to the soup and nuke it, or make sandwiches on
good wheat bread witn the chicken. Cheap and healthy, pretty short prep time
too.

What does everyone else keep around over the weekend for "grab it" food?



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On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 18:21:12 -0500, "Sandy" >
wrote:

>What does everyone else keep around over the weekend for "grab it" food?

The weekends are when I'm not busy, and have time to cook. Tonight's
dinner is Indian food, inspired by threads here and elsewhere. Masoor
dal (pink lentil curry), green split peas, a cabbage/potato stew,
rice, couscous with raisins and pine nuts, and some peach/ginger
chutney a friend picked up for me in Oregon.

serene

On Sat 11 Mar 2006 05:42:25p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it serene?

> On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 18:21:12 -0500, "Sandy" >
> wrote:
>
>>What does everyone else keep around over the weekend for "grab it" food?
>
> The weekends are when I'm not busy, and have time to cook. Tonight's
> dinner is Indian food, inspired by threads here and elsewhere. Masoor
> dal (pink lentil curry), green split peas, a cabbage/potato stew,
> rice, couscous with raisins and pine nuts, and some peach/ginger
> chutney a friend picked up for me in Oregon.

That sounds yummy, Serene!

--
Wayne Boatwright o¿o
____________________

BIOYA

serene wrote:
>>
> The weekends are when I'm not ass humping.

PIG!

>
> Now all weekend we can dip in to the soup and nuke it, or make sandwiches on
> good wheat bread witn the chicken. Cheap and healthy, pretty short prep time
> too.
>
> What does everyone else keep around over the weekend for "grab it" food?
>

Weekends we usually finish up the leftovers that didn't make it into the
lunches during the week. But the "big" meals that I make for planned
leftovers include corned beef (all year round), or pot roast, or pulled
pork, beef stew, or lentils with sausage. All stuff that can go in the
oven or on the back of the stove while I'm doing something else. If I
really make too much it all freezes nicely and can be thawed on one of
those nights when we have absolutely *nothing* in the house and I just
want to microwave something.



Dawn

OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
>
> Weekends are when I usually go out of my way to cook nice meals..... ;-)
> [snip]
> I often make up large batches of stir fry. Those always nuke well.
> --

Well, that's different. I got into stir fry cooking when I worked
because it's so fast. I'd come home from work, start a pot of rice,
and by the time the rice was done so was the stir fry. True 30-minute
meals. This was also when my knife skills improved a lot. Weekends
were for things that cooked slowly or for more complicated menus.
-aem