When my mother visited lately…
..she and Anton whipped up a scrumptious dinner: Ina Garten’s parmesan hen. You principally coat hen breasts with flour, eggs, bread crumbs, and parmesan cheese; then sauté them and canopy with lemon-y salad greens.
The hen was scrumptious and straightforward sufficient for the boys and me to make once more a number of nights after my mother headed again to Michigan. (We served it right here with mashed potatoes and inexperienced beans, however the hen and salad could be sufficient by itself, for those who wished to maintain it easy.)
A couple of days later, Anton, Toby and I made rice and beans, plus a bunch of toppings: pink peppers, tomatoes, lettuce, onions, corn, rotisserie hen, crushed taco shells, cheddar cheese, bitter cream, and sizzling sauce. We piled all the pieces into bowls and ate collectively on the couch. “Mother, you must pat your self on the again for this dinner,” Toby mentioned, as Anton loaded up his third serving to. All in all, a crowdpleaser!
I’ve all the time teased myself for being a nasty cook dinner — and it’s true that I’m not nice — however I can make a number of issues reliably. Listed here are 5 issues in our rotation:
Coconut hen and rice (we pass over the hen broth to make it extra like curry and fewer like soup)
Bonus: something — say, a frozen pizza, rotisserie hen, or spaghetti with tomato sauce — together with a caesar salad (my boys wolf this).
So, I’d love to listen to: what are 5 recipes you could have in your arsenal? That all the time prove nicely? That you just even know by coronary heart? Please share under…
P.S. Dangerous cook dinner, nice mother; and 9 household meals we’ve cherished to demise.
