So, this post will be about what I served for the Winter family. I started Saturday night and ended meal preparations by Sunday afternoon. Anyone who cooks a meal for a large family knows that it takes a lot of time and planning. Nothing is done for you. My husband cannot understand why it takes me so long to get a meal going, but I like to do more than just cook a meal. I plan for appetitizers, salads, the meal itself, and dessert. Also, while I'm getting the meal ready, I'm also cleaning up after my husband and kids. It takes a lot of time!
Anyways, here is what I served for Sunday's meal. For appetitizer, I decided to make a Spinach Dip. I love Spinach Dip because it's colorful, tasty, and it is great with anything!
Spinach Dip Recipe:
1 cup of sour cream
1 cup of whipped salad dressing (Miracle Whip)
1 package of thawed frozen cut spinach
3 green onions cut
1 package of Knorr's Vegetable Soup Mix
Pumpernickel Bread
Squeeze excess water from spinach and place in a large bowl. Add sour cream, salad dressing, green onions, and Knorr's Vegetable Soup Mix. Blend everything together and place in fridge overnight.
Cut a large circle on the top of the pumpernickel bread and scoop out the insides and place around the bread. Once the bread is hollowed, pour the spinach dip inside the bread bowl. Add any veggies or crackers to the dip and serve!
I decided to make two salads with supper. A garden salad and a Black Bean and Corn Salad. I'm loving black bean and corn salad. Unfortunately, I was the only person that ate it. Actually I think my inlaws had some. I think a successful dish is when people come back for seconds. No one came back for seconds of the Black Bean and Corn Salad. Oh well, their loss because that means more for me!
Black Bean and Corn Salad:
1 can of black beans (washed and drained)
1 can of corn (washed and drained)
1 small red onion chopped
2 tbsp of chopped cilantro
1 tbsp of cumin
2 tbsp of olive oil
juice of a lime
Combine all ingrediants in a bowl. Mix and refridgerate for an hour before serving.
Now that I have the appy and the salads, you're probably thinking what did I make to go along with the wonderous foods! Well in my previous posts, I mentioned that we purchased a side of beef. The side of beef that we got had a lot of roasts (sirloin, round, rump, etc.) Last night was the first night that I made a roast from the side of beef. I pulled out a round roast from our freezer. Popped it in oven at 275 degrees and cooked it for seven hours. I usually add a pouch of Lipton Onion Soup Mix and mushrooms to the roast. It makes a fabulous gravy!
When we were at Costco the other day, I seen a brownie mix on sale. Costco has had this mix for awhile and I always eyed it and wondered if it was any good. Well, the mix was on sale when we went and I picked it up.
It was a pretty easy mix. All I had to do was add water, cooking oil and a couple of eggs. Mix it and put it in the oven for fifty minutes.
Here's the finished product:
The brownies turned out pretty good! It was moist and chocolatety. Everyone got a thick piece with vanilla ice cream. I was going to take more pictures of my Sunday meal and have a better presentation, but I was timid doing it in front of the family. They were giving me weird looks when I was taking my camera and postioning my food. I quickly put a stop to it because I don't want to be looked at as the black sheep of the family! LOL
Anyways, that's it for now. I have children to tend to and it's almost their bedtime which means "mommy time" in front of the tv...
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