My parents-in-law are going to visit us..?!
My parents-in-law are going to visit us..?
I need some ideas for dinner.
They don't eat anything hot and spicy, no seafood.
2 months ago
I don't really need any advice how clean should be my house and I don't want to kill them, I like them. My mother-in-law, she knows I am good at cooking. I need just recipes, nothing more, please:))
Answers:
2 months ago
I don't really need any advice how clean should be my house and I don't want to kill them, I like them. My mother-in-law, she knows I am good at cooking. I need just recipes, nothing more, please:))
Dinner with the In-Laws! Is this the first one you're hosting? Nerve-wracking at best, but something that you can get thru easily enough. Here are some ideas for an easy, but elegant dinner that they will enjoy:
1. Pork Roast: 3 -4 lb. pork roast. Rub with a mixture of 1 T kosher salt, 1 tsp fresh ground pepper, and 1 T rubbed sage. Place in a 350 degree oven and do not cover. As pan gets dry, add some white wine and/or chicken broth. After 40 minutes, baste the roast with what's in the pan. Continue roasting for a total of 1 1/2 hours or until a meat thermometer reaches 160 degrees. Let rest for 20 minutes before carving.
Add 1cup wine to drippings and deglaze. Add 1 tsp thyme and simmer until liquid has thickend and reduced. Pour over slices of pork at serving time.
2 Glazed carrots: 1 - 2 bags peeled baby carrots, steamed fork tender. Toss with 2 T butter, 3 T brown sugar, 1 /2 tsp powdered ginger, 1/8 tsp cloves, 1/8 tsp nutmeg. Toss just before serving and add 1 T chopped parsley.
3. Sour Cream Mashed potatoes: Approximately 2 Yukon potatoes per person, partially peeled, and chopped. Put in sauce pan and cover with a mixture of chicken broth and water. Add salt and simmer until fork tender. Drain and add 2 -4 T butter, 1 tsp kosher salt, 1/2 tsp ground pepper, 1/2 tsp garlic powder, 1/2 - 1 cup sour cream. Mash and season to taste. If mixture is too thick, then add sour cream or milk to thin. Season with plenty of salt!
4. Fresh green beans with bacon and onion: 1 lb fresh green beans, picked and trimmed, steamed crisp tender in chicken broth. Saute 5 slices of chopped platter bacon and 1/2 yellow onion, diced. When translucent and slightly browned, toss the mixture with the green beans and season with salt and pepper.
5. Rustic apple pie: 1 sheet puff pastry, defrosted and rolled to 15 inch diameter. 2 cans apple pie filling, 1 jar caramel ice cream topping, 3 T brown sugar, 1 tsp cinnamon, 1 /2 cube butter. Place puff pastry in pie pan. Mix apple pie filling with brown sugar and cinnamon. Pour into center of pastry and gently fold up the sides and crease. Drizzle caramel sauce over the apples and brush pastry with mixture of 1 egg in 1/2 cup water. Bake at 350 degrees until pastry is golden and slightly puffed.
I have made this menu and have gotten rave reviews. Good luck!
Ask your mother-in-law to bring some of your husband's/wife's favorite recipes, or ask you husband/wife what were some of his favorite childhood meals and ask her to bring those.. And ask her to teach you how to make them. This way you know they will like the food.
But, more importantly you will get to spend constructive time together. More than like likely you will learn something about your spouse you would have never found out about otherwise.
It also goes a long way for the bonding between her.
Just take them to KFC, and to a bar. And hopely that will keep their mouth shut for the rest of the night. The next day, tell them to go home or just throw them out.
The day before their visit, have hubby help you scrub bathrooms, kitchen and dust, vacuum living room. If windows need washing, tell in-laws the window washers are due next week, lol
Dinner: Keep it simple
Roast chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, or stuffing, a couple veggies, like glazed carrots or fresh or fozen whole green beans, or something similar, and a wonderful dessert from a local bakery. OR
Beef stroganoff....over wide egg noodes, roasted asparagus (in season now) a great salad of mixed greens and some extras like sliced mushrooms, grated carrot, toasted sunflower seeds and croutons, with a variety of dressings or your own homemade signature dressing if you have one.
Again, a wonderful dessert with coffee. Rely on your bakery, or if you are a great baker, make your own.
They will love you.
Also.......if you have pretty dishes, cutlery and glasses, set your table as elegantly as you can. Low little bowls of flowers are nice. If you don't have a nice table cloth, use your prettiest sheet, or go buy a cheap flat sheet or table cloth.
Don't knock yourself out too much. Their child loves you, so that should be enough. Just be your sweet self and all will go well.
Keep things simple, no matter what you do you will never top a mothers cooking. Have a cookout. Make whatever your good at. Meatloaf? Chicken? Don't try something you have never made before. If theres something your mother-in-law makes you really like, or that your spouse does. Ask her to show you how to make it. Mothers like to show off, she will enjoy teaching you and sharing some recipes.
How about a nice lasagna or a baked chicken with broccoli and rice.
make them a pot of red peas soup with salt beef and pig tail