A Fine Meal that Provided Great Leftovers!

What else can I blog about?  Food seems to be the Number 1 topic for me during this pandemic, although it’s fair to say that it usually is during ‘normal’ times as well.  Usually though, 65% of my food related posts are restaurant related…and not just what we’re eating at home! 

So back to what we’ve been eating at home.  Still recovering from knee replacement…these things do take a while…and ‘enjoying’ Day #206 of our home isolation in the face of Covid-19.

Prior to Dawn Marie’s departure and her long drive from East Tennessee back to Miami, she and Laurie worked together to prepare a nice big dinner.  We’d purchased some nice medium size red potatoes at our local Food Lion.  Dawn sliced them up and layered them in a casserole with 2 small blocks of Gruyere cheese (shredded), cream, garlic and pepper.  (I did a fine job of supervising!) 

While the recipe for the cheesy potatoes was simple, the result was over the top! The Gruyere cheese with the cream and garlic took the finished product to a whole different level!  They were indeed excellent…

Although we had a salad too, those potatoes were the primary side dish for our oven baked brisket.  A couple of months ago, on a whim I had purchased a small 3.5 lb. beef brisket from our local Ingles supermarket.  We had never prepared a brisket…so what was I thinking?!

All we did was rub down the brisket with some Penzeys Brisket Rub we happened to have on hand…then put the meat on a low rack and cook it low and slow until tender.  The first photo shows the brisket right out of the oven and the second photo shows the brisket plated with some of those potatoes.  Great meal!

Great news for me!  There were lots of leftovers… For breakfast a couple of days later, I heated up a mess of cheesy potatoes and brisket in a frying pan…and then stirred in a couple of nice farm fresh eggs.  I sided this nice little wake-up meal with a slice of toasted rye bread.

Happily, there were even more of those potatoes!  On a subsequent morning, I just put the remaining potatoes in a frying pan with some butter and got a bit of ‘crispy cheesy’ crust going.  The second photo shows just how nice and brown the cheese was when I was done…

Then of course, I topped those terrific potatoes with 2 over-easy eggs.  Another great start to one more day!

I also made a brisket scramble one morning.  In addition, Laurie and I both had brisket sandwiches.  FYI…there was a lot of ‘au jus’ in the bottom of the pan that the brisket was baked in, but as you will see in another upcoming food related post, even the au jus was put to good use!

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Thanks for stopping by for a visit!

Stay Safe and Take Care, Big Daddy Dave