Happy Sunday
What a great string of days for the last holiday that school kids will enjoy before the start of winter.
After we had had a great day yesterday in pollen and dust . . . we left the clothes basket overflowing after showers last night. Our clothes are not grimy dirty, but need freshening nonetheless.
With the mild temps out today, I decided to put together an oven meal. When we had had temps in the high nineties, the last thing we needed was to heat up the house with an oven meal. I had started out last night before I went to bed by taking out a pound of ground beef from the freezer. This afternoon, our little round blue speckled roaster got a good spraying of Pam and then it was set aside. Two cups of Penne pasta right out of the box was set to be boiled until tender. Using the same kettle after the boiled tender penne was drained and then tossed into the roaster, onto the next step. I have always had a small jar of chopped garlic in the refrigerator. I used the saucepan with a bit of oil to brown the garlic. The pound of ground beef was then added to the saucepan. Dennis manned the saucepan, breaking up the ground beef.
A jar of Claussen’s refrigerated sauerkraut took some doing to get it open. The sound of the pop and the aroma of the kraut caught the senses. Dennis stirred at the stove and I forked in half of the large jar of kraut into the roaster with the penne. In the roaster the browned ground beef went. Dennis folded the three ingredients together, while I washed up the dishes I had used. The last step was for Dennis to fold a jar of Alfredo over the mixture in the roaster. It only takes a small amount of milk to swirl around the empty jar to get the very last of the goodness out. Using our pepper grinder, a covering of pepper goes to the top of it all.
The kraut will be in the refrig for the next oven meal. I am quite sure it will be the chicken Reuben dish.
Dennis just popped the roaster into the 350 degree oven. It is a bit after four and supper should be ready at five to enjoy.
I appreciate the strength of Dennis’ arms for stirring and folding ingredients together.
Whatever plans have been hatched out for tomorrow’s Labor Day . . . enjoy. I know we will be right here on Stauffer Avenue.
With that I take my leave. ♥