I have several sisters and a few of us routinely e-mail each other asking, “What’s for supper at your house tonight?” It is both helpful and interesting to get their responses. One day’s answer from Chris was: “Nothing good for supper tonight here. It’s too hot and we are saladed out. I think we have had salad every night since June. What do I do now? No clue. It is just too hot. We could all be dead by tonight so I don’t think I will plan ahead.” Marcia’s response was: “Leftovers. My left-over recipe:
Open fridge, pull ‘it’ out.
Add potatoes.
Fry ‘it’.
Melt cheese on top.
This works 4 nights out of 7.”
The quandary “What’s For Supper?” inspired this page. Each month a new menu with recipes will be posted. These menus are good enough for company, but easy enough for family.
This meal is chock-full of springtime fruits and is ever so good. Our daughter, Cali, served the salad with quick breadsticks on the side. She added chocolate-dipped strawberries for dessert. It was a dinner the whole family loved!
Springtime Salad
Green leaf lettuce
Red Grapes
Sliced Strawberries
Craisins
Cashews
Cubed, cooked chicken
Raspberry vinaigrette salad dressing
Fill each salad bowl with torn lettuce greens. Garnish with red grapes, strawberries, craisins, cashews and cubed chicken. Serve with a raspberry vinaigrette salad dressing. Ummm-mmm!
Butter Dips
1/4 cup butter
1 1/4 cup flour
2 tsp sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt (or less)
2/3 cup milk
Put butter on cookie sheet and melt in oven, watch carefully so it doesn’t burn. Whip together flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, milk. Roll out. Slice in long strips. Dip in butter that is melted on cookie sheet and then fold strip 1/3 over so it's doubled at one end. Bake at 450 degrees for 15-20 minutes.
Chocolate-Dipped Strawberries
Chocolate chips
Fresh, plump, ripe strawberries
Melt chocolate chips in microwave until just melted. Holding onto the stem, dip ¾ of the strawberry in the chocolate. Place on waxed paper until chocolate is firm.
