What's for Dinner, Sun., Nov. 27, 2022

[NJCher]

I made two cauliflower pizzas and they were so good I'm going to have more.

The toppings were eggplant, roasted tomatoes, caramelized onion, and chorizo pork sausage crumbles. Fresh basil over the top.

[Callalily]

1. Stepping away from turkey leftovers,

we're having grill brats and potato salad. Picnic food!

[Marthe48]

2. A blend of lefovers and fresh

I went to my far daughter and s-i-l for a few days. They gave me some of the leftover turkey. Today, I made some stuffing, and mixed the turkey in, baked it in the oven. I cooked some the scraps in some water, and made gravy, roasted brussels sprouts, and a sweet potato.

Pizza sounds good. Maybe tomorrow

[phoenix75]

3. baked potato

topped with butter, hemp hearts, shredded cheese, garlic hummus and chunky tomato salsa

iced green tea

[hippywife]

4. Heating leftovers for husband.

Angel hair pasta, meatballs and Italian sausage with homemade tomato sauce.

Had some granny smith apples around, so made an apple crisp pie earlier today, with raisins added. Haven't cut it yet. Followed the recipe for the most part except added raisins, also a little salt to both the filling and the topping, and 1/2 c. melted butter as some reviewers had suggested and was glad I did. Used a premade, rolled up refrigerated crust.

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/255719/perfect-apple-crisp-pie/

I'm a terrible crust crimper. Just don't have the patience, I guess.

[MissMillie]

5. pasta with tomato & ground beef sauce

specifically, elbow macaroni

In my neck of the woods, this is called American Chop Suey, though from what I understand it it referred to as "goulash" elsewhere.


leftover pumpkin pie for dessert

[hippywife]

6. When I was growing up in OH

it was called Johnny Marzetti.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Johnny+Marzetti

[MissMillie]

7. I've never heard that one.

Thanks for teaching me something new!

[hippywife]

8. I think it comes from having

a fair size Italian population. I make it once in a while when I don't feel up to making a pot of sauce and add pepperoni slices to it, as well.

[Backseat Driver]

9. History of the origin of "Johnny Marzetti"

https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Johnny_Marzetti

That's what we call it still. When I didn't use tomato sauce; perhaps left-over gravy or used rice, we called it "dog food,"

Always enjoyed!

[hippywife]

11. Yes, exactly!

My dad's family is Italian and I was born in one of the Italian neighborhoods of Columbus in the late 50s. In my 20s, I had friends who lived near and worked at the Marzetti plant on Indianola Ave, and one of my sisters worked at Lancaster Colony HQ.

What I was getting at in my prior post, and didn't go into great detail on, was that these names such as Johnny Marzetti, chop suey or goulash for this dish (like so many other regional food everywhere) are passed down and tend to stick bc of the historic populations of certain areas. Central and NE OH, as well as Western PA, had large numbers of Italian immigrants, including both sets of my paternal great grandparents who arrived in Columbus not long after the turn of the 20th century.

Hence, we always knew it as JM bc of both its origin history and ours.

[elleng]

10. The T. Marzetti Company is the Specialty Food Group of the Lancaster Colony Corporation.

T. Marzetti produces numerous salad dressings, fruit and vegetable dips, frozen baked goods and specialty brand items. It is the largest food and beverage company headquartered in Central Ohio. Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Marzetti_Company