It's been a little while since I made a meatloaf and Today felt like the right day to make one.
Here it is right after I put it on the Keg for grilling.
It was a beautiful afternoon but as I always say, you must stay properly hydrated when cooking outdooors and indoors as well.
While the...
Today the School Cafeteria Pizza was requested but I did it MY way and it was well enjoyed.
I did do something a little different by adding some beer to the bread dough which I believe made it rise a little more.
Here it is before baking.....
Annnnd... after baking.
This is what I had and...
Today we took some smothered cabbage from the freezer for dinner.
To go with that I was going to make a pan of cornbread but went with corn sticks instead.
I have a couple of cast iron corn pans but I hate cleaning them. I remembered I have a couple of silicone molds and went with those.
I...
I had been thinking about making this and yesterday was the day I decided to do it.
Earlier in the day I browned some seasoned ground beef and uncased Italian sausage. Then as it got later toward dinnertime I made the dough for the crust and spread that in the pans. Yes, pans. I made two half...
Earlier this afternoon before going to mass I whipped up a ricotta cheese manicotti with marinara sauce and Italian sausage. Grabbed a loaf of Italian twist bread from Dorignac's and the wife threw a salad together.
Before baking.
After baking.
Time to eat!
The manicotti.
Simple...
Kept it simple this evening with breakfast sandwiches.
Canadian bacon , egg and cheese on warm croissants.
I had two, one with a lil grape jelly and one without. Mmmmm......
It was a perfect and beautiful evening for cooking outdoors!
Tonight we enjoyed smashburgers with fries and onion rings on buttered griddles buns.
I had two myself, one with onion rings and one with thin sliced red onions.
I really don't think i could've gotten a better burger in a...
Tonight we had spaghetti and meat sauce red gravy from the freezer leftovers from a week or two ago.
To add a little something different I made Brenda Gantt's Fried Eggplant from a video online. This came out fantastic although I did alter the recipe slightly. I used Zatarain's Wonderful...
Some of you MIGHT remember about a week and a half ago I made a post about Busy Prep Work... https://bayoushooter.com/threads/busy-prep-work.219986/
This past Saturday I put that piece of beef on the Keg to smoke for a few hours.
Because of Good Friday and something else being cooked on...
I know a lot of people were boiling crawfish today being Good Friday but I decided to fry some good Des Allemands catfish this evening.
This morning I sliced up some potatoes 1/4" for fries. let them soak in vinegar and water until I was ready to cook this evening.
Time to eat!
I also...
We had a great meal here this evening. Made rice and gravy, with meat of course, my mom's Zydeco green beans and sliced beets.
This is one of those simple but delicious meals that everyone here loves.
The only thing that would've made it better is if we had some homemade rolls to go with it.
I had some white beans and rice for dinner with homemade biscuits.(No picture)
My dessert was a couple of those biscuits with butter and drizzled with some homemade syrup a super nice guy sent me.
This syrup is some super delicious liquid sweetness!!!
These biscuits were some of a...
I put some chicken thighs to marinate yesterday for Shawarma today.
I cooked the chicken on the Keg about noon today and after cooling into the fridge it went. After getting home from mass this afternoon I cooked the rice pilaf, threw the salad together and made the humus platter then sliced...
Still Lent so I made Bang Bang Shrimp Tacos for dinner on this glorious Friday.
I thought we had smaller soft flour tortillas at home so I didn't get any when I was at the grocery. Turns out they were 8" tortillas. Oh well, They still worked out for the tacos.
The shrimp on the griddle.
The...
After getting home with the wife from the eye Dr I began the prep work for this evening's dinner.
Got some chicken thighs marinating for Chicken Shawarma tomorrow evening, a slaw and a sauce made for tonight's shrimp tacos and got a brine simmering for a corned beef to make Pastrami with.
I didn't feel like cooking much for dinner tonight so I made homemade waffles and pan griddled Jalapeno/Pineapple sausage with a side of strawberries.
Not too bad for a midweek evening meal!
I am NOT perfect! Close, but not exactly there.
That said, in TRYING to keep with being a good Catholic(I'm sure a lot of people would/could argue this).
But, in trying to stay within the boundary's of a Lenten Friday I decided to make an Eggplant Parmesan and Garlic Parmesan Angel hair pasta...
This evening I made some homemade biscuits for a breakfast dinner.
While the biscuits were baking I went outside and cooked sausage patties, corned beef hash and home fries on the Weber griddle.
That's it. Only a couple of pictures taken tonight as this cooking was hot and quick.