Sunday Dinner, September 7, 2008

I finalized my menu for Sunday Dinner this week as I sat down to type up this post. I've hemmed and hawed all day about what to cook but I think I've finally made up my mind.

After I get this posted I'm going to go make a big meatloaf and put it in the fridge. I'll put it in the oven as soon as I get home from church tomorrow and while it's baking I'll prepare the rest of our dinner.

I have some fresh garden green beans already cooked. They're in the fridge now so all I'll have to do is reheat them and season them with a little salt and bacon grease or oil.

I'm going to boil some potatoes but I won't cook them until I get home from church tomorrow. I can't stand reheated potatoes. I haven't decided if I'm going to mash them or just put a little butter, salt and pepper in them and make stewed potatoes. I'll take a poll tomorrow while they're cooking and ask if everyone would rather have mashed taters or stewed. Majority rules.

When I get my meatloaf made and installed in the fridge I'm going to make MARY@OWLHAVEN'S recipe for APPLE CRISP. The recipe makes 2 9x13 baking pans full so I'll bake one tonight and freeze one for later. I love that kind of recipe!

I'm also going to post it on MY RECIPE BLOG for future reference, both mine and yours.

So, to recap my menu: Homemade meatloaf, fresh garden green beans, either stewed or mashed potatoes, and apple crisp for dessert.

What are your plans for Sunday Dinner this week? Share your menu/plans in the comments if you'd like.My sisters Cecil and Sue came by early this afternoon and asked if Lamar and I would like to go eat lunch with them and just piddle the afternoon away. There was some mention of stopping at Kohl*s, a chain store that sells clothing and housewares, etc. after lunch, and also maybe going to the mall for a bit.

Asking me and Lamar if we'd like to go eat is akin to asking if we'd like to keep breathing, so of course we accepted. We went to Sho*guns again, a local Japanese/Thai restaurant. It's the kind of place where a chef cooks your food on a grill in front of you, in between setting the oil on fire and juggling cleavers, spatulas and raw eggs in the shell.

The show is fine, but I go there for the food, and it did not disappoint. I got a combination of steak, shrimp and chicken, which is served with fried rice and vegetables prepared on the grill in front of you. It was really good, and I couldn't eat all my food. I think that's the first time that's ever happened there. Either I wasn't as hungry as usual or the portions were more generous than usual. Maybe it was a combination of the two.

You also get a complimentary salad and soup with your meal. I don't know exactly what they put in their salad dressing but I really like it.

But the so-called "soup"...well that's a generous term for the clear hot liquid they bring you. It has dried mushrooms and a few chopped green chives or onion floating in it and it's pretty much flavorless.

I don't know if it's supposed to be chicken broth or what, but if it is they just wave a chicken over it and say a prayer. Or maybe a chicken ran through the hot water. There's sure not any evidence that a chicken was ever injured in the making of that soup.

After we left the restaurant we stopped at Kohl*s for a while. I stayed in the car and enjoyed the pleasant breeze and sunny, 73F afternoon while looking through a magazine. It's been a gorgeous day, and there's a definite feeling of Fall in the air.

From Kohl*s we went to the mall and I did my usual: got a book I've been reading every time I go there and sat in Barnes&Noble sipping a cup of Star*bucks coffee while I read. Another visit or 2 and I'll have that book read! It's a new hardback book and they want $26.99 for it or I'd just go ahead and buy it. I'll just wait until it comes out in paperback and get it for a fourth the price of the hardback.It's 8:30 pm and I need to go make a meatloaf and some apple crisps.

I hope everyone has a great remainder of your weekend. May God richly bless you by meeting all your needs, and may you have enough to share.