sunday dinner

i've got the day off sunday and have an itch to cook somethin really tasty. a big sunday supper that'll make us drowsy and stuffed to the gills after we've eaten. i want to make something from scratch. i'm not opposed to spending a few hours in the kitchen (i find it therapeutic actually and would prefer to). i don't have a food processor or stand mixer. dear bf is not a fan of things which are very spicy. i'm only cooking for two, so i'd like to make something that is good as leftovers the next day, and the day after that...

someone, please...make a suggestion. i'm fresh out of ideas.

Chicken and dumplings. Great left overs, easy won't take you all day and is the ultimate comfort food.

Jessie, i wasnt here to see your initial post. I would have suggested pork chops and gravy, with real mashed potatoes, and homemade mac and cheese. Or stuffed chicken breasts with mashed potatoes and green beans. and you could have topped both of them off with homemade apple pie!!!! or..... a cobbler...

what did you end up going with?

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i'm glad someone is interested, becky. i'd love to share. i wound up buying two huge bone-in ribeye steaks from kroger. we have been eating these steaks all summer and they are the bomb! i made a big pot of mashed potatoes. i have another day off tomorrow so the leftover mashed will accompany chicken marsala for monday's supper (along with roasted carrots). i made some green beans with some bacon fat and lots of black pepper and mixed in some yellow corn. my mom always used to mix gb's and corn, anyone else familiar with this? bf gets home from work around 11 and so i was too lazy to fire up my charcoal grill (plus my back porchlight is busted and i didn't have a bulb). i googled "pan ribeye" and the first recipe in the results was this one, from alton brown.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alto ... index.html

i have what you might call an obsession ( ) with alton so i didn't bother reading the other recipes. bf and i are purists when it comes to our steak so we loved the simple seasoning of just salt and pepper. dinner was fab and we are both kicked back on the sofa as i type this, fit to bust.

That sounds like it was sooooo good. I make my green beans the same way, bacon grease, pepper, and a couple of handfuls of frozen corn. I have to take it easy on the black pepper cause of the kids, but i like them with corn, sometimes i saute some onions in there as well. When i serve them on the table i always add some butter right on top to melt all around them.

Mashed potatoes always a good stand-by huh.... i am making some tonight as well. But i think i am going to make like a baked potato mashed potato.... i am thinking of adding in some crumbled bacon, sour cream, butter, a bit of shredded cheese...i want to leave them chunky....

that steak recipe sounds interesting. Did you follow the cooking method exactly? i would like to know how it worked out...... i am with you on the seasoning, i like to keep it simple and just taste the great steak......

i did follow the method except for the times in the oven. i seared both sides for 30 seconds but my steaks weren't quite 1 1/2" thick (which the recipe called for), so i only did a minute for each turn in the oven. i did rest the steaks and they came out a perfect medium. we obsessively loooove the bone-in ribeyes! we sort through all the ones in the case for the thickest, prettiest looking ribeye, and each of us picks out our steak. when they are on sale, even the very large ones are only around 5-6 bucks. i went to kingsley's one day intending to try out their bone-ins, figuring if the ones at kroger were that good, kingsley's would send us into steak nirvana. but they were priced at 18.99 a pound. so, we passed on them. maybe next year when i get my tax refund! lol

oh and i almost forgot. here is a potato dish alternative i have been meaning to try. i thought you might like it, too.

http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2008 ... -potatoes/

this is a really fun food blog. try reading some of her other recipes, too.

Those potatoes look fantastic!! As you said I bookmarked that to go back and read some more.

Yumm!! I just picked up some of those small red potatoes today and was wondering what I could do when the in-laws come in later this week...guess I have my answer!

like i said, i haven't tried making these myself yet, but i have had success with many other PW recipes. i just thought they looked interesting, and it was cool to find a new way to prepare potatoes. ladies, let me know how your crash hots turn out. also, PW provides a link to a friends blog. his name is pastor ryan and his recipes all sound great. i've made his chicken tikka masala and it was very easy to make and delicious, too.