Last supper and beyond – Darren and Jen

Sunday is typically a busy day for me.  Aside from putting out a Monday newspaper, I do work from home that day, and chores beckon.

Lawn-mowing, flower bed weeding, dog-walking and the like – and I wanted to come up with a creative concoction for my final Week in Their Kitchen meal.

It made use of a number of the different ingredients I had in my hamper – and nothing that many of us wouldn’t find in our own kitchens on a regular basis. I called it – Potato Tuna Florentine cakes (it’s a rip-off from Leah… I think).  Here’s the recipe:

• 6 Potatoes diced up
• 1 can of tuna
• 1 packet of chicken noodle soup mix
• 2 TBSP of butter
• Leftover pasta sauce (in this case it was Spinach and cheese florentine)
• A couple of shakes of Montreal Steak Spice

Quite a simple recipe.  Boil up the potatoes in the chicken noodle soup mix (rather than water) until they are relatively soft. Then, mash them up with a little butter and add the steak spice.  Mash until desired consistency is achieved.

Use either oil or butter to grease up a muffin tin and preheat the oven to 400 F. Fill tins about 3/4 full and then use a teaspoon to spread out the mashed potato, just enough to put a dollop of leftover pasta sauce. Put in the oven when it dings…

They’ll have to cook about 35 minute in order for the bottoms to firm up (wish that happened when I cook… but I digress).  Watch the tops to make sure they don’t blacken too much.  And you should end up with this:

I thought they tasted awesome, and I had a hard time not licking the bowl of mashed potatoes clean.  This recipe makes about a dozen cakes, and I’d say that three of them are reasonable-sized meal, with a couple of other vegetables or a meat.

Jen returned from her gymnastics meet and took it for lunch today – and we’ll see how they go over with her. Thanks Jen, for sticking with the program when you got back home!

I brought them for lunch again today, too.  Even though I am holding a photo seminar for reporters and ordering pizza for them.  I am committed… But it ends after lunch.

Lots to reflect on and lots of questions to ask before I have a final post.  But, I’ll have something later tonight or tomorrow.

Until then.

D..

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