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Nuggets, Mashed Potatoes, Red Beans |No Rice, No Noodle Dinner | Creative Kitchen


Ready-to-Cook Nuggets

We found really affordable ready-to-cook nuggets from a grocery store nearby (a new one we've not tried visiting before) and decided 'Yeah, why not? One night of rice-less and noodle-less dinner sounds good). Most nights, we make simple stews and soups and partner them up with rice. 

Tonight, we just wanted home-made fast-food. We've laid off KFC, McDonalds, and Burger King for months on end. 

These nuggets just needed to be pan-fried each side about a minute or two and you're about done. Cooking dinner was a little tedious but I'll explain that later because of the other stuff that needed our consistent attention. 


Creamy Mashed Potatoes

The mashed potatoes we usually get from restaurants are often layered with some sort of mushroom sauce. We've making this at home a few times and we figured out that we don't need the sauce. We like the buttery and creamy version of The Mash. 

The potatoes we had in the kitchen silently exploded and expired so, after lunch, we got cheap ones from a local fruit shop, and also cooking cream from a 24/7 mart. 
  1. Boil and break down the potatoes +/- 8 to 12 minutes depending on the kind of potatoes you're using and stove temperature
  2. Just make sure to check tenderness time and time again
  3. Drain potatoes and cool off (nothing fancy, just leave them for a while)
  4. I have a MASHER so we mashed the cooked potatoes with that with a few push, twist, tilt, repeat motion for about 10 minutes
  5. Add Cooking Cream and seasonings = salt, pepper, garlic powder, paprika, pepper
  6. Mash some more to your preferred consistency....then YOU'RE DONE. 
  7. ENJOY

Personal Notes on Cooking and Recipes

When the boys were little, I made my own nuggets, burger patties, pizza...the likes of which moms want to work on because they can't go wrong with the little ones. 

That was over 20 years ago. 

The 'little ones' are now the ones carrying the groceries for me these days, how times have turned, for the good.

TONIGHT was a long one because we're only using one stove, the IFR one. So, we had to plan ahead a lot. THE MASH took a long time; RED BEANS was the easy one; NUGGETS needs to be watched and it took us 20  to 25 minutes in total. 

I feel proud of us, really, because we made home-cooked happen while people are out there working. Home-cooked food is for the world.
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