Beer!

Beef or Chicken chili is always good on a cold day.

We had way more food than we needed for the Superbowl party so I have left over wings and browned Italian sausage. I'll be having wings for lunch a few times this week and am planning a big batch of spaghetti with the sausage for dinner tonight with plenty left over. I'm set for meals this week.

Bean soup

since I am alone ... the bean soup WILL win ... if you don't catch my 'drift'

Beef stew. It just gets better as it ages (properly stored). You can vary each bowl by doctoring it up with different herbs and condiments.

You could use some of that pork shoulder for enchiladas or chicken enchiladas.

Are you freezing some stuff? Soups, chilis, tortelini soup/stew, the enchiladas above freeze well, stews.

And sometimes you just have to get a pizza!

no pizza, but there will be ground beef/pepper gravy and biscuits.

Monday: take out Chinese

Tuesday: GB and rice. rice cooked in the instant pot. rice was perfectly cooked cooked. 1:1 [cups rice/water] for 18 minutes with natural release.

Definitely a yes on the bean soup, it's always good rewarmed and if you start with a big pot, some of the drained beans can be bean dip.

If it's me by myself I tend to not cook, I'll just eat Raisin Bran for a week and fill in with some eggs, although I might make a chocolate cake and eat it for breakfast every single day, LOL.

Elery, though, he cooks. He'd be making nachos at least a couple of times, and if it were warmer, he'd be putting things in the smoker. As cold as it is, though, the pork shoulder would be much more of a possibility, and Cuban style panini sandwiches with the leftovers. Corn bread, probably, to go with the beans and definitely biscuits for breakfast. Both keep for a couple of days, so could be breakfast/lunch/dinner, your choice. Spicy things that I won't eat, like jalapeno poppers or really spicy chili. Baked potatoes are always good, either with a meal or as a meal, topped with leftover chili or as American Fries for breakfast.

You can make a burrito/taco/wrap out of anything, if you get some tortillas.

And be sure to remind your DW how much you're going to miss her!

Annie

I have been "batchin' it" since Covid began.....no company and I don't go out. I have a tendency to go on binges. currently it's an avocado binge. I have either half or a whole avocado ( depending on size) every evening. Earlier when the weather was nice it was burgers on the grill.....and for a while it was chicken, white meat, hind quarter, thigh whatever...grilled, stove top with vegetables and maybe pasta or rice.
And things like a pot of bean soup for days....then Vegetable beef. In asparagus season I ate asparagus daily for a while. Steamed, with Hollandaise and with cheese sauce on toast....a favorite meal served in the college dorm in the spring.
You are alone....pig out....binge on something.....eat pie for breakfast and cookies for lunch. We won't tell!!

I love breakfast for dinner!

Spanish omelette, pancakes and sausage, sausage, eggs and potatoes, anything goes.

Beef chili freezes really well and always tastes good!

Yep, chili! Or Alton Brown's macaroni and cheese.

Jasdip, I made a recipe I found online for the egg roll in a bowl. We loved it! So quick to pit together and so satifying! I am going to pass it on to my daughter for her vusy family. Thank you, I had never thought of it.