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Costco makes very good quiche.  Jim buys them and the stuffed peppers when he goes for easy meal.  

We had left over pork tenderloin.  I know it is winter with 9” of snow on the ground in Nashville but salad for dinner it was.  I cut up the pork tenderloin and cubed some cheddar for the salad.  I once again tried to make good garlic butter for Italian bread and failed.  Publics should be ashamed of themselves for letting their garlic butter person go.  

Does anyone have a good idea how.  I have over 400 cookbooks and have yet to find a good recipe.  

Next dinner was spaghetti and meatballs.  This is a how easy as that dinner.  I use 6 oz. or 1/2 box of spaghetti for the 2 of us.  We used Paul Newman’s marinara sauce and pre cooked Italian meatballs.  Because of my Iron deficiency that helped land me in the hospital, a nurse practitioner said to use my iron skillet as much as possible.  She said you get iron from the skillet.  So I warmed the sauce and meatballs in the skillet and added the pasta after it was cooked.  

This morning I made a great breakfast.  I found it on the internet last night by some random site that popped up.  The internet recipe forgot things like oven temperature and time.  I improvised and it worked.  Forgot to take a photo but definitely company quality.  

Ingredients:   

1# breakfast sausage

8 eggs + 1 egg for a wash

8 oz. block of cream cheese (room temperature) 

2 pkg Pillsbury crescent dough  

2 C shredded cheese

Directions:   

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Fry up the sausage breaking it into small crumbles.
3. Spray a 9” X 12” baking dish
4. Lay one sheet of crescent dough in the bottom of the dish.  pinch the perforations together.
5. Spread the cooked sausage evenly on top of the dough.
6. With a mixer mix the 8 eggs and the cream cheese in a bowl.  Be sure to thoroughly combine into a creamy mixture.  
7. Pour this mixture over the sausage evenly.  
8. Sprinkle the cheese over the whole area. 
9. Lay the second roll of crescent dough out on a sheet of parchment paper.  Again pinch the perforations together and stretch to the size of the dish.  Pick up and lay on top of the sausage egg mixture.  
10. Make an egg wash with the remaining egg and 1 T water.  Use the wash to brush the top layer of dough.     
11. Bake for 35 minutes.  Leave a few minutes after removing from the oven.
12. Cut into squares and serve.  It serves 8. 

We packaged the remaining for 3 breakfasts each.  It was delicious.  Lucy was disappointed there was no bacon, but we put some in her breakfast and the kibble disappeared.  

I found a pork tenderloin recipe on line by Ina Garten.  I just used it for timing and oven temperature.  I usually grille my tenderloins outside, but Jim did not want to grille in 9” of snow.  Having been in the hospital, I had to look in the refrigerator to see what I could find to marinate the tenderloin in.  I found many herbs, rosemary, thyme, and others and put them in a bag with a product I had bought somewhere that had a marinade type of name.  Used that also.  

Ingredients:

See above.  

Directions:

1. Warm oven to 450 degrees F.  Roast for 20-25 minutes.  I used 20 minutes and cover with aluminum foil for 10 minutes.   It was a perfect 140 degrees F.  That is my pork temperature.  
2. I roasted the potatoes for 45 minutes, so started oven early to accommodate the difference in timing.