We are an Italian/Irish family so it goes without saying that Sunday consists of shopping, cooking, drinking and eating. Since Chip and I have two little ones, our house seems to have become the Sunday Family Dinner place to be. I'm great with this except that since the move to Regent St. we have no stove or dishwasher. You read that correctly - no stove/no dishwasher. To add insult to injury we also don't have countertops or a working sink. Hubby easily corrected the "no countertops" issue with some heavy duty plywood and with our granite/sink installation right around the corner (next Wednesday to be exact) I'm coping. And by coping I mean we are using mostly plastic/paper products and washing dishes in the UPSTAIRS bathroom. It's amazing how much you actually miss the convenience of running water in a kitchen. Even to make coffee in the morning we have to drag ass up the stairs just to get water. You don't know what you miss until it's not there anymore!
SFD proved to be quite the culinary challenge. While shopping at Price Chopper Sunday morning I decided at the last minute to grab a Rotisserie Chicken. They are a godsend for busy families and usually a staple on a random Tuesday after dance class at our house. But for SFD?? My Grandma Cel would be rolling in her grave. Hell no - SFD is home cooked (usually Italian) comfort food. Think ooey gooey lasagna or delish Chicken Parm with homemade sauce (never called it gravy in this family.) Time for some improvisation. Sunday's menu at Regent St.; Rotisserie Chicken, Not-so-Roasted Red Potatoes, leftover Vodka Rigatoni with sausage and a green salad. Here's how we did it. Not-so-Roasted Red Potatoes; Mom and I quartered the potatoes and put them in two separate bowls (all my big bowls are still at the old house - more on that in another post.) Oddly I had some basil and garlic powder - the only spices in the new spice rack cabinet. I say oddly because I did not have salt and pepper. No olive oil so we used butter, covered with a damp papertowel and did the Microwave Rotation dance. Edible. That is all they were. Vodka Rigatoni; We were "gifted" with some delicious Vodka Rigatoni from our friends the Haskell's We had been there the night before for a birthday party and they knew of our Kitchen Situation and sent us home packed with food! Love them! Green Salad; pre-packaged greens and cut up some veggies on a paper plate. Dinner is served!
And that's how we rolled out our first SFD at Regent St. Down and dirty baby, down and dirty!!
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