Sunday Dinner Thread - December 22, 2024

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Steve Kroll

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I've mentioned this before, but I subscribe to a seafood CSA out of Alaska. I love fish, but sometimes it starts overwhelming my freezer space. So every few months I make a batch of this Brazilian fish stew called Moqueca. In addition to fish, shrimp, or whatever else I'm trying to use up, it also has peppers, tomatoes, and coconut milk. It's delicious.

Anyone else eating tonight?

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No photos, because we snarfed it down so dang fast, but I made Seafood Pasta.
Sunday is Pasta day in this household with an American-Italian gentleman ...
I make a Olive Oil-Butter-Garlic-Red Pepper flake 'sauce' for both bowls.
New Zealand Green Lip Mussels for my DH and chopped (canned) Clams for Moi ... delicious!
A little bread on the side and we're good for a few hours ... "What's for dessert?"
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Sunday dinner is something none of you have probably ever heard of because it is exclusive to Western New York, even more exclusive than Buffalo chicken wings. Roast beef on kummelweck rolls (a.k.a. beef on weck), with mashed potatoes and gravy and whole kernel corn, or maybe sweet peas. The roast beef will be au jus and a kummelweck roll is a kaiser roll with a poppy seed and coarse salt topping.

The only place I have ever seen it offered other than Western New York is at Johnny Mac's restaurant and bar in Henderson Nevada, because there are so many people living in the Las Vegas area that are originally from Western New York that they have a reunion picnic every year.
 
Sunday dinner is something none of you have probably ever heard of because it is exclusive to Western New York, even more exclusive than Buffalo chicken wings. Roast beef on kummelweck rolls (a.k.a. beef on weck), with mashed potatoes and gravy and whole kernel corn, or maybe sweet peas. The roast beef will be au jus and a kummelweck roll is a kaiser roll with a poppy seed and coarse salt topping.

The only place I have ever seen it offered other than Western New York is at Johnny Mac's restaurant and bar in Henderson Nevada, because there are so many people living in the Las Vegas area that are originally from Western New York that they have a reunion picnic every year.
. . . and is that what you had for dinner?
 
Found a small Pork Loin Roast in the freezer. Done with along with some Russet Potato wedges, frozen corn and green beans.
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I'll either slice up what's left super thin for sandwiches or perhaps make a gravy to go with a sweet potato I'll perhaps bake.
This was the Pork Loin I purchased, cut several chops off and kept this larger piece for a roast. Still have one more chop around somewhere in the freezer.
 
Did you read the opening sentence?

"Sunday dinner is something none of you have probably ever heard of ..."
It took me a couple of readings of that post to understand that sentence the way you meant it. I thought you were saying "Sunday dinner" was something specific, something I have definitely heard of, so why did you write that? Hmm, is "Sunday dinner" something specific that I haven't heard of, like "Sunday gravy" or "boiled dinner" were?
 
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Hmmmm, I wonder what that was that my family ate together every Sunday evening. :unsure:
Yeah, I didn't understand it either. But I guess it's a thing. Google AI spat this out at me when I asked:

"In Western New York, Sunday dinner is a large, elaborate meal that is often described as a less formal version of a Christmas dinner. It is also known as a Sunday roast, Sunday lunch, roast dinner, or full roast. Sunday dinner is a tradition that has its roots in medieval times when certain faiths, like Roman Catholics and Aglicans, would abstain from eating meat on certain days. Sunday was a day of celebration, so a roast was a fine meal to have."

When I was a kid, we sometimes had "Sunday Dinner" at my grandma's house. It was usually in the middle of the day, at a time when most people have a meal called lunch.

My mom used to call the evening meal supper, but that phrase never stuck with me. I've always called it dinner.
 
Sunday dinner was a thing with us too. Mid to late afternoon after church, either my parents, or Grandma and sometimes my Uncle. Later, my own family usually had dinner at my in-laws, again after church.
Was one time we all got together and caught up with each others lives. Was nice.
 
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