Redneck Thanksgiving – Redneck cooking
Next Thursday is Thanksgiving. And despite all of the advertisement, it’s not a day off from work to go shopping for so-so deals on so-so electronic gizmos to give away for Christmas. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for all that is right and good in your life. A day to spend with family and to show them how much you care about them and how much they mean to you by spending the whole day slaving in a hot kitchen to give them a feast to eat that they will probably complain about anyways.
The traditional Turkey dinner with stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, corn, cranberry sauce, and a vast variety of cakes, pies, puddings and other sweet desserts takes a couple of days to prepare and minutes to plunder. By the end of the day, it looks like the Food Network has exploded all over the kitchen. There are plates, bowls, and pie tins everywhere with varying amounts of leftover food in them. The ritual of putting all of those leftovers in the fridge has become an art form of crafty stacking of plates, bowls, and tins that were never meant to be stacked together empty, let alone with food still in them.
This year for Thanksgiving I plan to stay away from the family and have a quick non-traditional dinner.
Can I have a home cooked meal for $5.00?
With the cost of everything shooting up I have been looking a lot closer at what I am spending and trying to find ways to cut the costs. As I sat thinking about this while the TV droned in the background, a commercial for a national chain of sandwich shops came on. they were touting their $5.00 dollar foot long sandwiches and I decided to see what I could come up with for $5.00 dollars. I went shopping at the local grocery store in town and went to Wal-mart as well. I came up with a couple of different simple dishes that I think are more satisfying than a foot long sandwich and will feed 2 to 4 people.
Sour chicken casserole – Redneck Cooking
My Idea of something different for dinner is adding some onion or bacon to my burger instead of having them plain. My wife, on the other hand, thinks cheeseburgers once a week is too often. She likes to try different things and likes a variety in the weekly menu. This chicken casserole is a good change of pace.
Kalua Pig – Redneck Cooking
Every Friday at work we have a treat day: a different person each week brings in food for the group. This is voluntary and we do have some people that do not participate. For those of us that do, we get something tasty each Friday morning. Sometimes this treat is doughnuts from the grocery store and sometimes it’s homemade cookies or brownies or some other dish. A few weeks ago Jeff Lim brought in a Hawaiian dish that was really good. I asked him for the recipe and thought I would try making Kalua Pig myself.
I am not one that tries new foods all that often. I know what I like and pretty much stick to that. Hell, I never even tried Chinese food until my wife and I got together. Chinese food is a favorite of hers so I agreed to take her to a Chinese restaurant. I don’t mind Chinese food, but I still prefer a cheeseburger.
I have tried different styles of BBQ pulled pork before and have never really been all that impressed, so as I looked at the pot of pulled pork I was not sure I’d really like it. When I tried it I realized that it was not at all like the pulled pork I had tried before.
It’s so easy to be cheesy – Redneck Cooking
Happy Halloween everyone. I hope you all are having a good Halloween. I thought about writing a piece about some cool spooky Halloween kind of dish. I came up with the idea of making a meatloaf into the shape of a hand or a foot or something. Then I came across the Not Martha website. This is a cool looking meatloaf and my wife and I thought it would be fun to make one of these the next time we get the whole family together so I am now on the hunt for a hand shaped mold. So now that the meatloaf body part has already been perfected by someone else I decided to go with my original idea and give you my lasagna recipe instead.
Bean and Ham soup: A Redneck treat – Redneck cooking
I have always liked beans. They are cheap, easy to store, and will last a long time if stored properly. There are many varieties of dry beans available. With so many different beans to choose from you can change the flavor of any dish just by changing the type of bean used. Whether pinto, lima, garbanzo, or great northern, they each have a distinct and unique texture and flavor. When made into soup they all provide a tasty and filling meal that will warm you up on a cold winter day and give you plenty of energy to get you through the toughest of days.
Disaster eating – Redneck Cooking
In past posts I have joked about the Zombie Apocalypse. It is a fun topic and is easy to write about as there are so many movies out with various scenarios of how this could come about. Today I want to take a more serious look at disaster preparedness. No matter where you live in this country the possibility of a natural disaster hitting and forcing all of us to hunker down in our homes for a time that could range from a few hours to a few days without power is always there. Do you have enough food, non perishable food, to feed yourselves for those few days? Can you heat that food or will you be eating cold chili straight from the can?
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