what's for dinner - sunday, april 5
it's revenge brisket tonight. a power outage ruined my jewmas brisket, so we're using passover for an excuse to redo it. garlic mashers and roasted asparagus on the side.
i hope you all have a lovely sunday 
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I'm doing something out of the ordinary (for me!) tonight. I bought some crab stuffed shells (I think they're shells) and I'll bake them. Also a baked potato and fresh spinach.
Don't tell my husband! It's going to be a surprise! He loves crab.
i'm sure he'll be thrilled
He really does appreciate the fact that I take care of the meals.
with a (rather HUGE) yam. I just got back from the grocery store, and totally forgot to buy fresh broccoli. *DOH!*
So, looks like steamed green beans with the chix today.
Hot cross buns came out of the oven 20 minutes ago - I'm trying a low gluten recipe for the 1st time since I found out I'm gluten sensitive. I bought my 1st stand mixer to help me with the yeast bread recipe - got one on sale! Because I'm making all my own breads now because of the gluten thing.
Scalloped potatoes for dinner in the oven as we speak (I'm in Europe) and simple sliced ham and salad with home-made vinaigrette dressing with fresh raw blue goat's milk cheese on the side.
Have a lovely Sunday and a Happy Easter for those who celebrate it! 
I'm making a big lasagna. I made the sauce yesterday, and I have no-boil noodles, so it should be pretty easy.
I went to the wine store to buy a bottle of white and a bottle of red for later. However, when I was at the wine store, there was a terrible amount of smoke. Apparently there is a huge fire nearby, and they even shut off a major thoroughfare. It is somewhat windy here today, so that cannot be helping matters. When I arrived at home, there was no smell of smoke in this neighborhood. Feel terrible for anyone whose house burned down, especially on Easter.
Yes, fizzggig, I remember the brisket. I'm sure this one will turn out way better!
Cher
edited to add that I just learned the fire is at our recycling center. The mulch piles are on fire!
Not my usual recipe sauce recipe, and even a sort of half-assed version of my Sunday gravy, since I don't have everything I need for it.
Got a really good deal on a family pack of pork country ribs at the grocery yesterday. Just finished cutting them all up in small chunks and threw them into the slow cooker with a large can of crushed tomatoes, salt and some wine (box of cheap white zin that's been lingering in the fridge for about 3 months.) It won't add the depth of flavor a nice dago red would, but thinking it will add some and also help keep the meat tender.
Giving the pork a chance to cook in the thinner liquid so it will be nice and tender, before I add the tomato paste and other seasonings. My Italian gran used to make hers with pork and pork neck bones sometimes, and it was always my favorite version of hers, so hoping it comes out at least somewhat close.
Sometimes ya just gotta punt and hope for the best. 
ETA: Turned out pretty good. Not as good as my Sunday gravy or had the wine been a robust red, but very good nonetheless.
But I know what you mean. My mom always made biscuits and gravy on Sunday mornings with bacon grease, flour and milk, for biscuits. My dad called it wallpaper paste, but he ate it. I didn't much like it then, but I love it now. I only make it very rarely as after we're done eating it, all the husband and I want to do is go back to bed and sleep it off. But I love it with either grape jelly, black raspberry jam or peach preserves on the biscuits for a sweet salty kick (a childhood carry-over, it was how I managed to make it edible as a kid.)
For Italians though, Sunday Gravy is a particularly rich, delicious, long cooking tomato sauce. I've always made the family's long time recipe for pasta sauce, which usually uses stew beef cubes as a start, sometimes with Italian sausage and even slices of stick pepperoni, too. I still make it sometimes and still love it. Some nights, when I need to make something quick and inexpensive, I also do a really quick sauce on the stove top with mushrooms that I had started making when husband decided to be a vegetarian for a few years.
But what I call Sunday Gravy is a recipe for pasta sauce that I started making about five years ago (I think, near as I can figure anyway) and is based on this recipe as the start:
http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/italian_pot_roast/
I leave out the sage and celery, and sub sweet basil and crush some fennel seed in the mortar and pestle to add, as well.
I follow all the directions up to and including only the first sentence in instruction #3. From that point, I transfer it all into the slow cooker and let it simmer on low for several hours, 6-8 depending on which slow cooker I use, if I start it in the morning, overnight if I start it late. Then I remove the meat and cut it up into small pieces, return it to the slow cooker with tomato paste (the number of cans depends on how much liquid is left after cooking the meat, can be anywhere from 2-4.) Then I make my meatballs and drop them into the sauce raw to cook and further flavor the sauce, usually takes about a half hour from there before it's done.
A very deep, rich tasting pasta sauce, well worth the time and effort. 
(Stinky is also Italian and makes his own Sunday Gravy, too. I haven't seen either him or Lucinda since I returned. Am hoping to see them soon, and if not will be sending them PMs to check up on them.)
Hope you do end up with a good pantry full of delicious results.
That recipe will work for the stove top, even the modifications I made, as one of the my mods was transferring it to cooking in the slow cooker. My problem with doing it that way, and why I transferred it, was not wanting to stand over and fuss with it all day long.
I strongly recommend finding a thrift store slow cooker. It makes some things so much easier, and is great for summer cooking as it keeps the temperature in the kitchen down. 
Russian red potatoes, steamed asparagus spears, cucumber and tomato slices, homemade strawberry shortcake.
But your dinner sounds lovely and I've no doubt it was, and the company that was present, as well.
And make your dad so happy. I imagine everyone loved the stories, those hearing them again and for the first time. Do you have a favorite that's shareable with us?
