This is a quick version of spaghetti and meatballs. The Rosina brand of meatballs and a little red wine increased the flavor of Rao’s vodka sauce. All we had to do was cook the spaghetti combine it with the sauce and we were done. We also had acquired a piece of focaccia from a bargain table at a local grocer’s to serve alongside. It was a yummy dinner!
Wednesday night John cooked a luscious piece of salmon for 13 minutes in a 400F oven. He also made some rice. I cooked the carrots in a little butter and water and seasoned them with salt and sugar. I also made the parsley sauce out of parsley growing in our back patio, garlic, olive oil, lemon, and capers. Since we had some of the hollandaise sauce left over from last night, I added that to our parsley sauce as well. This delicious dinner took very little time to make with John and me happily working together in the kitchen.
Today we celebrated my birthday twin’s birthday. We are twins in so far as my birthday is 12/8 and his is 12/9 and he is five years older than I. We have been doing some sort of celebration since I was 29 and he was 34. (Except for the years when they moved away to California ☹️ and it took John and me about 12 years to make the move.) We are 77 and 82 now so that is a lot of yearly celebrations.
George is homebound these days so we ordered pizza and I brought a salad to our luncheon party. We had so much left over that John and I decided to ax the planned chicken wings and just go with sharing a piece of pizza and finishing up the salad for dinner. Happy birthday, George!
Happy birthday to me! John roasted the fish in a 400F oven for 13 minutes and made the hollandaise sauce (from a Knorr packet) while I steamed the potatoes and sauteed asparagus. I think we should have made a beurre blanc instead of using the Knorr packet or at least squeezed some lemon into the sauce because it was missing an acidic zing. But mostly my birthday dinner was lovely.
I am back from my trip! John got the ingredients together for a comfort food dinner. I have a bad case of jet lag and we ended up eating this cozy dinner mid-day on Sunday. Since I am typing this up at 3 AM Monday I have not made much progress adjusting to Pacific time yet!
John went out between rain coming from an atmospheric river to grill our dinner. I made the salad and it was Sarah’s idea to add the chips.
I saw this recipe from NYTCooking and thought it looked good for a chilly Tuesday night. So we made it. And it was.
It has been our tradition to have breakfast for dinner on Sundays. While John has been content with his omelet every week I have grown weary of the same-old same-old egg routine. I am branching out in a new direction and will be eating a vegetarian pasta dish! I love pasta and the variations seem endless. Maybe I will even serve it with an egg!
Sarah and I are leaving for a cruise together in the Mediterranean Sea on Thursday. No doubt that we will have many delicious food experiences during our two weeks on the ship and at many different locations. In the meantime John will be cooking on his own. If I have time and reasonable internet I will try to publish some food experiences along the way and maybe some things that John will make for himself.
This is our chicken comfort meal. I wish I could say it is what I ate in my childhood but my mother would have just thrown a chicken in the pressure cooker and the result would be over-cooked chicken with awful flabby skin, and a thin, watery, chicken broth. I shudder to even think about it.
This is a fine use for a rotisserie chicken breast, some jarred or packet chicken gravy, fresh broccoli, and your favorite mashed potatoes. It is chilly and rainy tonight and this is a dinner that warms and fills us up.
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