June 27, 2020

WEEKLY MENU 06.28.20

We’re testing out the limits of the grill with the Weekly Menu 06.28.20 – a Sunday roast beef will be lightly smoked and gently slow cooked to be the star of the show. My mouth is already watering in anticipation.

The dessert of the week is a throwback to the good old days. When we were growing up, Mom would clean out the freezer by taking all the bits and bobs in the various ice cream containers and make it into a fabulous pie. She’d start with a homemade, super buttery graham cracker crust and load in the ice cream. Once it was a huge mound, she’d drizzle on chocolate sauce and a maraschino cherry topper. The tough part of this dessert was always waiting the 10 or 15 minutes it had to sit out before we could cut into it.

Why did we have so much ice cream?

DOLD was an ice cream hound. He loved soft serve almost as much as hard packed. Gourmet ice cream was wonderful, but Perry’s worked too. Dad loved a road trip, and was able to locate an ice cream stand no matter where we were.

Dad was concerned that I wasn’t getting enough calcium when I was pregnant with our oldest, so he appointed himself the driver for the ice cream run that I needed for medicinal reasons. Some days we had soft serve, some days we had Baskin-Robbins. Occasionally we had both. I gained 50 pounds that pregnancy.

DOLD gained 25.

So I’ve some by my love naturally. I adore homemade ice cream too – we don’t have (or need) an ice cream maker, so no-churn Cinnamon Heath Crunch Ice Cream and Toasted Coconut Ice Cream are both favorites. A little goes a long way~ leaving more for the Ice Cream Pie!

On to the Weekly Menu 06.28.20!

Our appetizer on Sunday does double duty – we’ll serve Horseradish Dip with pretzels and some raw veggies to start, and drizzled over the roast beef as part of our main course. I love multi-tasking. I’m just not very good at it.

Bert got a grilling/smoking kit for Father’s Day so we’re going to incorporate some delicious looking ideas from that for the rest of Sunday dinner. The onion rings are super simple: vidalia onion rings wrapped with thick cut bacon and grilled until crispy (bacon) and creamy (onion). Pictures if it works.

The creamy chicken marinara is fast becoming a staple on our menu – it combines marinara sauce and Alfredo sauce for a dreamy skillet dinner. More on that later.

The crock pot is getting a workout again this week – the BBQ Mini Meatloaf gets some much needed meatloaf into the menu without heating up the kitchen. And the Chicken Fiesta Soup is a full on dump meal – opening cans is the toughest part of this recipe. Perfect way to wrap up the week.