Picky husband packed meals....need ideas?!
Picky husband packed meals....need ideas?
My husband is tired of salads, subs, and everyday sandwich stuff. He works where there is no microwave too....so the food has to be things that are not needing warmed up. HELP!! I need ideas!!
Answers:
This one takes a bit of work to prepare, but well worth it. The recipe makes about 8.
Patties
Make a pie crust 2 cups flours
1/2 cup of shortening
1/2 teaspoon of salt
mix well/ the pea size thing you do for crust.
smash it all together and add water till it is a good piece of dough. Unlike pie crust where you aren't spposed to use much water this is ok.. about a 1/2 cup or less should do it.
Make a big ball chill.
While that is chilling....look and see what left over meat you have. pork, chicken, what ever.. I use tuna and canned corn beef sometimes also. If you have left over mashed potatoes.. use those with the meat. You can also add very very small diced raw potato. I use the potatoes so that the filling goes further.
Take your meat, chop it very fine, add 1 onion it can be a big one, several cloves of garlic, thyme, oragano, a couple shakes of westershire sauce, a hot pepper (preferable NOT a japaleno) if you have one, if not use red pepper. You are mixing and adding to this meat until it is very tasty and very finely chopped. I like mine pretty spicy, but you dont have to. If you have curry you can add a big Tablespoon of it too. Make it to your taste.
Divide the dough, you want balls about the size of a golf ball.
roll them out one at a time, its ok to use flour to keep them from sticking. Not too thin but a good pie crust thin.
Fill them with the meat mixture, fold them over , like a turn over.
bake at 400 until golden brown. about 25 minutes. You can wash them in egg if you like, it makes the dough a bit crispier or bake them straight.
All these are very approximate measures as if been making them long enough I dont use a recipe anymore.
They are very good, they last long enough with out having to need kept cooled. If I make them the day before I put them in the fridge then heat them in the toaster oven and wrap them in foil for lunches.
They are kind of addictive so you may have to pack extras but 2-3 should be enough for lunch.
Hope you like them, my family loves them for all occasions. and oonce you've made them a couple times they are a real cinch to make.
Get one of those wide thermos bottles, then he can have hot food like stews, ravioli, soups and chili, keeps stuff hot for hours, like the beverage ones do for coffee.
Keep making the same stuff. Just give him a BJ every morning... that'll keep him from complaining.
But yeah, not much to work with on the food thing w/o any heating aparatus.
pack him a 10 dollar bill and tell him to get his own damn lunch.
Pasta salad with garlic, tomatoes, olives, tossed in olive oil and herbs. The best thing is that the longer it sits the better it tastes!
Beer He'll be very Happy.
These can be eaten hot or cold and are yummy with tomato sauce. They freeze well, so wrap the extras up and he can help himself in the morning.
Just hope they thaw by lunch time.
Sausage and Egg Slab (Pie).
Open a 400gm tube of sausage meat and place in a mixing bowl.
Add a diced onion, 1t curry powder, 1t turmeric, 1 clove garlic, 1T Worcestershire sauce, 2T tomato paste. Thoroughly mix together.(a wet hand is best)
Grease a rectangular oven dish and line with flaky pastry. (I use ready rolled)
Add sausage mix and using a soup ladle make wells, to drop 4 eggs in. Pierce the yolks and cover with another sheet of pastry. Pierce the pastry several times with a knife for steam vents. Brush with milk.
Bake in a 180C oven for 35-45 minutes until the pastry is golden.
Turn out and allow to cool a little then cut in 75mm squares.