My First Supper Alone After 60 Years Married — 4 Foil Packets, One Fork to Wash

🥘 Foil-packet suppers, pages 40 to 43: salmon, chicken fajita, hamburger hobo and sausage and potato, and 36 more small suppers for one, one page each, for less than one restaurant plate 👉 https://lorettaschurch.com/one?src=of... Supper, and the only thing I wash is one fork. I'm Loretta, 81, from Story County, Iowa. For sixty years I cooked for a hundred people at a time in the basement kitchen of our church. Then Harold passed, and the hardest supper I ever made was the first one for just me. In this video I show you four foil-packet suppers from my cookbook, Supper for One, plus the same idea on a sheet pan, with the temperature, the minutes and the reason behind each step. FOIL-PACKET SUPPERS (from Supper for One, pages 40-43) 1. SALMON, POTATOES AND GREEN BEANS (page 40) · costs $3.80 · makes 1 plate · takes 30 minutes You'll need: 1 salmon fillet; 4 baby potatoes, sliced thin; a handful of green beans; 1 tablespoon butter, lemon slices, dill, salt, pepper; heavy foil, 14 inches long. 1. Heat the oven to 400°F. Lay potatoes in the middle of the foil, beans on them, salmon on top. 2. Butter, lemon, dill, salt and pepper on the fish. 3. Fold the foil over and crimp the edges twice. Bake 25 minutes. Open carefully: steam. Loretta's trick: slice the potatoes thin or they won't be done when the fish is. Keep it safe: fish to 145°F. Open the packet away from your face. 2. CHICKEN FAJITA PACKET (page 41) · costs $2.30 · makes 1 plate · takes 30 minutes You'll need: 1 chicken breast or 2 tenders, in strips; 1/2 bell pepper and 1/4 onion, in strips; 1 teaspoon oil, 1 teaspoon taco seasoning; 2 small tortillas. 1. Heat the oven to 400°F. Toss everything but the tortillas together and put it in the foil. 2. Seal tightly and bake 22 to 25 minutes. 3. Warm the tortillas on top of the packet the last 2 minutes. Keep it safe: chicken to 165°F. 3. HAMBURGER HOBO PACKET (page 42) · costs $2.00 · makes 1 plate · takes 45 minutes You'll need: 1 hamburger patty; 1 potato and 1 carrot, sliced thin; 1/4 onion, sliced; 1 tablespoon butter, salt, pepper. 1. Heat the oven to 400°F. Layer potato, carrot and onion on the foil, patty on top, butter on that. Season. 2. Seal tight. 3. Bake 40 minutes. Loretta's trick: a spoon of cream of mushroom soup on the patty makes its own gravy. Keep it safe: beef to 160°F. 4. SAUSAGE AND POTATO PACKET (page 43) · costs $1.80 · makes 1 plate · takes 30 minutes You'll need: 3 inches smoked sausage, sliced; 5 baby potatoes, quartered; 1/2 cup green beans or corn; 1 teaspoon oil, salt, pepper, paprika. 1. Heat the oven to 400°F. Toss everything and put it in the foil. 2. Seal and bake 25 to 30 minutes. 3. (From the book) Make three packets on Sunday and keep them in the fridge, ready to bake. Keep assembled raw packets in the fridge no more than a day. ON A SHEET PAN, LINED WITH FOIL CHICKEN THIGH AND LITTLE POTATOES (page 7) · costs $2.10 · makes 1 plate · takes 40 minutes You'll need: 1 bone-in chicken thigh; 5 or 6 baby potatoes, halved; 1/2 small onion, in wedges; 1 tablespoon oil; salt, pepper, 1/4 teaspoon paprika, 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder. 1. Heat the oven to 425°F. Line the pan with foil. 2. Toss the potatoes and onion with half the oil, salt and pepper, and spread them out. 3. Rub the chicken with the rest of the oil and the spices, and set it skin up in the middle. 4. Bake 35 to 40 minutes, until the skin is crisp and the potatoes are golden. Loretta's trick: pat the chicken skin dry with a paper towel first. Keep it safe: chicken is done at 165°F at the thickest part, next to the bone. SAUSAGE, PEPPERS AND ONIONS (page 8) · costs $2.40 · makes 1 plate · takes 30 minutes Heat the oven to 425°F. Toss peppers and onions with oil, salt, pepper and a pinch of Italian seasoning on the lined pan. Lay the sausages on top. Bake 25 to 30 minutes, turning the sausages once. Raw sausage must reach 160°F. CHAPTERS 0:00 Hook 0:13 Last video and today 1:00 What people get wrong, and the promise 1:33 Harold, the church basement, and the first supper for one 2:23 Before you start: foil, pan, fork 2:57 Safety: open away from your face, and the temperatures 3:32 Packet 1: salmon, potatoes and green beans 6:17 Packet 2: chicken fajita 8:15 Packet 3: hamburger hobo 9:53 Packet 4: sausage and potato 11:33 The sheet pan: chicken thigh and sausage 13:56 A church supper is about who sits down 14:54 Tips from the front of the book 16:16 Recap 16:50 Link to the book 17:24 Your question 17:39 Blessing MORE FROM LORETTA Last video: 10 One-Pan Suppers for Seniors Living Alone (Nothing to Scrub) Next video: my grocery haul for one Also from my kitchen: The Best Way to Clean Your Oven Before Thanksgiving (The Church Lady Way) REAL ARCHIVE MATERIAL "Table Manners" (1947) and "Dinner Party" (1945), Prelinger Archives, public domain. Photographs and ot