We had deer chili, deer stroganoff, refrigerator soup (everything leftover put into a pot and called "soup"), beans and rice, chicken tacos, and spinach pizza. We don't particularly love any of those meals... but we are willing to eat them especially when we are desperate for anything other than oven baked chicken (which is a classic cheap meal for us).
We've been eating tons of leftovers and meals that just don't make you excited to eat for at least a week. I decided last night to do something special that would be more costly than our $2-$3 dinners we've been having lately. I made a pork marsala with mushroom tetrazzini. The tetrazinni was something I saw on Rachel Ray and it turned out alright... not as great as hoped.... but the pork marsala was FABULOUS! Seriously easy to make, and incredibly amazing to taste. It reminded us that food can be something to look forward to for reasons other than hunger. I will definitely be making it again and soon (seeing as now I have a bottle of marsala wine to get rid of fast).
For the recipe, go to allrecipes.com and look up pork marsala, or follow this link:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Pork-Marsala/Detail.aspx
For those of you watching the dollars like we are, you can often get mushrooms on the discount rack at Brookshires (we bought ours discounted for $1). The recipe calls for mostly dry spices which you probably already have. It also calls for pork loin chops that are pounded thin- this can be extra work and a bit expensive- I bought the thin breakfast chops (less that $2 for 4 thin chops which was enough for 2). I didn't have to pound them and they were much cheaper to buy. What drives up the price of the meal is the wine- we went to a large liquor store that usually has great prices and the cheapest bottle of marsala we could find was $9. You could substitute a cheaper red wine- a dry sherry or even a cabernet would probably do just fine and those could be bought for about half the price (if you don't already have some on hand).
Thursday, January 13, 2011
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