Need dinner ideas - taking dinner to a friend

Ravioli is a dairy product if they are cheese...

One of the yummiest meals someone brought us was like a make your own taco set. She had tortillas, grilled chicken, avocado, salsa, chips, chopped tomato and lettuce, black beans, sour cream, cheese, lime wedges, and rice. We could each make our own and add in what we wanted and could do a salad or tacos.

Also:

Also soup and nice bread rolls.

Chicken pot pie

It is very nice of you!

When my neighbor had preemie twins, I brought over a roast chicken from the grocery store, salad in a bag and separate dressing and cut up fruit.

If anyone has ideas for a single serving vegetarian meal, let me know! A friend of mine from HS passed away recently and another friend is organizing meals for her husband who is a vegetarian. I don't want to just do a salad.

Anything that's kind of rice and bean based. I often make New Mexican rice and refried beans, and it's really easy to switch them to vegetarian when needed.

Also, I'm sure there's some kind of soy-based "sausage" you can buy to use in red beans and rice, or pasta with spaghetti sauce.

The Butte Pasty

Pastry:

3 cups flour
1/2 -1 tsp. salt
1 1/4 cups lard or shortening
3/4 cup very cold water

Measure flour and salt. Cut in lard until dough resembles small peas. Add water and divide into 6 equal parts.

Filling:

5 or 6 medium potatoes
3 medium or 2 large yellow onions ( dice)

2 pounds of meat ( London broil works well for this)
salt and pepper
Cut meat and potatoes in same size small cubes.
Sometimes I add a bit of garlic
Mix all together in large bowl. What you want is a good mix so each bite is a mix of beef, tater, onion.


Roll dough out in a circle. I think it is about a quarter inch thick. You can tell when it looks right. You want the circle to be dessert plate size
Fill one side with mix
Fold dough over, so you have a turnover shape.

Bake at 350*for about one hour. Brush a little milk on top while baking. Or before or you can use egg wash


Now all the fat/ gristle trimmings you should have boiling for gravy.

You serve the pasties with beef gravy. Never ever ketchup.

Some people break open the pasty and pour it in or dip each bite.

These can be froze, then defrosted and reheated. They must be defrosted before reheating. And the oven is better for reheating.

They can be eaten cold. Yum.

I love to take Inside Out Stuffed Pepper Casserole. It's topped with cheese, but my DD doesn't eat cheese, so I leave it off hers when I make it and she still LOVES this dish, as has everyone I've ever taken it to. Let me know if this sounds good and I'll share the recipe.

Tomatoes are quite acidic, so if she needs to avoid that I wouldn't bring anything with tomatoes or tomato sauces. My go to is chicken pot pie. It's filling comfort food with no dairy and nothing acidic.

Shepherds pie would be nice or chicken pot pie. Non-acidic and no cheese. You could make mashed potatoes with chicken stock if she can't have milk in the potatoes.