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Mom's visiting and for tonight we will just grill some steaks and serve pupu style with dipping sauce (horseradish, homemade steak sauce, truffle sauce), lobster bisque (costco), and maybe a salad.
Enjoy your company! Your meal is going to make your mum very happy!
Lobster bisque is one of my fave things, which I indulge in occasionally (if I can find a Whole Foods around... haven't had any other), even though allergic to milk. I eat it with 1-lb of cooked shrimp & use the shrimp as a scoop with the soup. It's a pricey lunch from WF, but so worth it a couple of times/yr.
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I actually also love a good meatloaf! Somehow, meatloaf is like the Rodney Dangerfield of entrees - it doesn't get much respect, but it's not too much work, and you can make a ton of food at once, and it tastes very nice - great comfort food! Sounds like your wife makes it a little fancier than mine with the lamb incorporated, but I use a lean ground beef to keep it from getting too greasy.
Until you both wrote this, I hadn't realized that I think my fave meal is meatloaf with mashed/gravy & corn & green beans. My mum didn't like to cook & wasn't very good at it, but it's one of the 2-3 things she made that was a joy to eat. Hamburg was cheap back then, so we ate a weekly meatloaf.
I don't follow a recipe & make it a different way each time... different spices/herbs, meat blend. I had a friend who was the most wonderful cook & sometimes catered functions... she said the secret was to mix the meats, whichever ones you choose.
I also learned to stretch it by not altering flavor by adding TVP (texturized veg protein, which has no flavor), a bit of rice, barley, bread & oats (all, a few or one... depends on what I've got), all of which are not really discernable in the finished product when mixed together. Growing up with 7 kids, 4 of which were athletic boys with appetites as big as basketballs, stretching meals was important.
It's also one of the few things I like leftover or eaten cold out of the fridge.
For me, I'm not hungry at all after a late b'kfast, so I'll probably have a lettuce-tomato salad late tonight, with Meyer lemon-oil dressing, sprinkled with nutritional yeast for a Cheddary flavor.
As an aside, I'm really going to miss these Meyer lemons (even though they're often $1.25/ea) once they're unavailable. They taste a bit orangy, so make lemons enjoyable to eat. They're only available Dec-May, so my joy is soon coming to a close. I splurge on 2 bags every time I'm at the market, but I've noticed the quality is failing of late.
Escarole & Beans with Chicken sausage spinach stuffed, Garlic Bread with an Italian Red❗️
I'm still thinking you have a professional photog, who comes in at mealtime to take pics of your table. Everything I try to photograph looks like I'm 2-mi away & if food, a bowl of sand.
I live on the canal in the Tampa area & try to get pics of the many small boats & ski mobiles tearing up & down the water each day... every single pic looks like I live in the next town & tried to photograph it through a telescope... ah, I'm 10' away. Dang you, Android... dang you.
Storebought Italian: Rana artichoke ravioli, Bertolli tomato and basil sauce, Al Fresco all-natural chicken sausage. Quick and easy, like most of my meals...
No, we had to buy. I don't think they will grow wild in South Florida. I got enough to use in another meal, though haven't decided what yet.
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I splurge on 2 bags every time I'm at the market, but I've noticed the quality is failing of late.
