My Daily Plate

We practically never fry in this family. Every now and then, though, we pull out all the stops and have a fry night. Since today was Friday, seemed only natural we would have a FRYday night daily plate. For this meal we had steak fingers made from thinly sliced round steak pounded even thinner, jalitos (deep fried jalapeno pepper slices), hush puppies and french fries. I'm pretty sure I've had my fry fix for a good long time. It was delicious, though.

I took a bit of a shortcut for supper tonight. The spaghetti sauce came from a jar. There, I've confessed, and now on to the rest of the supper. Tonight's daily plate features whole wheat linguine topped with jarred spicy tomato sauce and 96/4 lean ground beef. This supper was super quick to make. I fried up the ground beef with onions, garlic and other seasonings a couple of days ago, when I made the Swedish meatballs. So, all that had to be done tonight was cook the linguine, warm up the meat and tomato sauce and combine them together. Oh, and I put on homemade 1/2 whole wheat French bread in the bread machine and let it rise this afternoon. I baked it while preparing the remainder of the meal so it came out of the oven piping hot just when the linguine was done. It was a quick and satisfying supper!

Wednesday nights are church nights so supper takes the form of some type of skillet meal. Tonight's daily plate is Orange Broccoli Chicken and Baked Sesame Potatoes. For the main dish, broccoli, carrots, onions and chicken are stir fried and then finished in a sauce of orange juice, chicken broth, soy sauce and molasses thickened with corn starch. The potatoes are cut in half, scored with a knife, brushed with sesame oil and sprinkled with salt, black pepper, garlic salt, and black sesame seeds.