{"id":748,"date":"2014-12-12T07:58:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T13:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=748"},"modified":"2014-12-12T07:59:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T13:59:36","slug":"my-go-to-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=748","title":{"rendered":"My Go-To Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t anybody tell my hub (who is usually my total audience for dinner), but my go-to dinner just barely counts as cooking. One advantage of buying those big old six-pound packages of ground beef at Costco and making <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodiewithfamily.com\/?s=meatballs\" target=\"_blank\">meatballs<\/a> from them is that I end up with, literally, hundreds of meatballs in the freezer.<\/p>\n<p>Swedish meatballs. Meatballs in barbecue sauce. And spaghetti and\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>On nights like tonight, I take 33 (yes, really, because Rich has a\u2026let&#8217;s call it <em>hearty<\/em>\u2026appetite) meatballs out and let them thaw. I open a jar of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Classico-Pasta-Sauce-Tomato-Basil\/dp\/B001UB0SPU\" target=\"_blank\">Classico Tomato &amp; Basil sauce<\/a> (purchased three-at-a-time at Costco), throw in a can of mushrooms and some black olives, and the browned meatballs. I cook some spaghetti and drain a can of pear halves while it&#8217;s cooking. Put the pear halves on a plate, put a small dab of mayonnaise in the depression in each half, then grate Cheddar cheese over the whole thing (I grew up eating &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.food.com\/recipe\/pear-and-cheese-salad-235729\" target=\"_blank\">Pear Salad<\/a>&#8221; with spaghetti). Slice some French bread, which you <em>did<\/em> remember to take from the freezer in time, slather some garlic butter on it and stick it in the oven while the spaghetti cooks.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-753\" src=\"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Pear-salad-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Pear salad\" width=\"209\" height=\"141\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s dinner.\u00a0 \u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-754\" src=\"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Spaghetti-sauce-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Spaghetti sauce\" width=\"210\" height=\"126\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;m starting to be a little alarmed at how many of my dinner menus don&#8217;t seem to involve that much cooking at all.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t anybody tell my hub (who is usually my total audience for dinner), but my go-to dinner just barely counts as cooking. One advantage of buying those big old six-pound packages of ground beef at Costco and making meatballs from them is that I end up with, literally, hundreds of meatballs in the freezer. Swedish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions\/756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}