Cooking HELP needed......please
Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 7:34 pm
OK I need some help.......please 
It is our wedding anniversary on Thursday and unfortunately Les had to make an emergency trip to the States and now will be flying home on Thursday so our planned ZoZo's dinner will have to wait until Saturday. As he is flying home and will have left Kansas City at 6am and been up since 4am I would like to have a meal ready for him when he gets home - nothing tooooo fancy just something that I can do (that's stretching it in itself
) either the day before and reheat (I know, I know but I don't really cook) or prepare earlier in the day and set it in the oven when I leave to pick him up. It doesn't have to be fancy any type of casserole even would be OK as long as it's a step up from a hamburger casserole or pasta casserole.
Please keep in mind what is available on STJ - I have a fantastic standing rib roast receipe but ha no chance of finding a standing rib roast here. Also I don't want to have to buy a whole bunch of unusial spices (I have the "normal" ones) just to use a 1/8 of a t-spoon here and there. I also cook a fantastic (if I do say so myself) brown butter mushroom sauce that is to die for that we top steaks with but he is the steak expert and I don’t want him to have to be grilling when he gets home – also it doesn’t need to be too much food (not to heavy) as it will be late when he gets home and I have champagne and cake already (we always have our wedding cake remade in a single level from Baked In The Sun)
Any help you might offer is greatly appreciated – and remember Becky and MB you have to “dumb it down for me”
Thanks everyone
Pia

It is our wedding anniversary on Thursday and unfortunately Les had to make an emergency trip to the States and now will be flying home on Thursday so our planned ZoZo's dinner will have to wait until Saturday. As he is flying home and will have left Kansas City at 6am and been up since 4am I would like to have a meal ready for him when he gets home - nothing tooooo fancy just something that I can do (that's stretching it in itself

Please keep in mind what is available on STJ - I have a fantastic standing rib roast receipe but ha no chance of finding a standing rib roast here. Also I don't want to have to buy a whole bunch of unusial spices (I have the "normal" ones) just to use a 1/8 of a t-spoon here and there. I also cook a fantastic (if I do say so myself) brown butter mushroom sauce that is to die for that we top steaks with but he is the steak expert and I don’t want him to have to be grilling when he gets home – also it doesn’t need to be too much food (not to heavy) as it will be late when he gets home and I have champagne and cake already (we always have our wedding cake remade in a single level from Baked In The Sun)
Any help you might offer is greatly appreciated – and remember Becky and MB you have to “dumb it down for me”
Thanks everyone
Pia