In Case of Emergency, Break Glass and Crack a Few Eggs
Comfort Dinner at its Finest
I frantically attempted to wrap up my Christmas shopping today. I wanted to be able to move on to other holiday activities like baking cookies (!) and writing Christmas cards. But because of an impending major snowstorm, so much earlier in the season than normal, the stores and the roads were completely jammed. Everyone else had the same plan as I did to finish everything today before it would be impossible to get to the stores tomorrow, and difficult over the next week with projected snow mounds in the parking lots. Later in the day I went back out again in a vain attempt to find snow boots for Louisa. I was a little late to that party.
By the time we were done with our fruitless search for boots it was already 7:00 and I mentioned that dinner would be very late. Luckily my resourceful daughters suggested a brilliant fallback dinner, eggs and toast. What a perfect idea for a quick, satisfying meal on a cold night for a weary mom. I needed to add something to the eggs to make them feel more like dinner, so I picked up some sopressata to chop and toss into the fry pan. I would have used diced potatoes to make my favorite childhood egg meal, potatoes and eggs, but I didn’t have the patience to wait for the potatoes to cook. Nobody complained about dinner as we hungrily woofed it down. It was calming, comforting, and the perfect emergency dinner solution.
What’s you favorite emergency dinner?
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My favorite emergency dinner depends on the situation. How much time do I have and what I have available are imortant consideration. Usually I can cook rice in about a half hour and that’s a good emergancy base for me. I can go a few different ways. I can mix left over meat with the rice along with some salsa and I have a filling balanced dinner. Sometimes rice mixed with butter and grated cheese will do the trick. Maybe I can cut up some vegetables and do a fried rice.
Sounds like a great plan, except that I couldn’t wait for rice to cook tonight! Never tried rice with butter and cheese, but it sounds really good.
What a coincidence! My favorite emergency dinner is potatoes and eggs too!!