Let's start with a blessing from James 1:5-6
“Father, grant me wisdom generously as I seek Your
guidance. Help me to ask in faith, without doubting, believing in Your
perfect plan.”
It's shop for Sunday Dinner recipes. This Sunday dinner recipe is a fall-off-the-bone tender main event in a modest 3-course meal with Ham with garlic and sweet duck sauce from from Sunsweet, Butter Lettuce with Pomegranates salad, Carrot Cake and suggestions for wines. You can certainly add more courses.
A well planned menu starts with a nicely decorated table with centerpiece, beautiful placemats or ironed tablecloth, polished silverware and gorgeous glassware, doesn't it? The most important ingredient is you, a welcoming host.
Here's how to set the table. Whether or not, you are a person who cultivates good food and wine, these dinner recipes are a whole lot of elegant. Put candles on the table, put on some soft music and relax at home with food and family.
9 pounds cooked and smoked ham
8 cloves garlic sliced
2 carrots chopped
4 potatoes chopped
1/2 large onion chopped
1/2 table spoon parsley
1/4 table spoon salt
1/3 cup red wine
2 table spoons olive oil
1/2 cup sour sweet duck sauce
2 table spoons Best Foods Mayonnaise
6 Sunsweet pitted prunes
1 oven bag (8-24 pounds)
Wash meat and make several 1-2 inches deep cuts in the meat. Place sliced garlic in these pockets. Spread mixture of mayonnaise and sour sweet duck sauce all over the meat.
Mix potato, carrots, onion, pitted prunes, parsley, salt, olive oil and red wine in the glass bowl. Sprinkle oven bag with flour as directed on the package. Place meat and vegetables inside the bag. Cook 20-25 min per pound at 350°F. Serve with a leafy green salad and dessert.
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Dinner Wine, Red, Tempranillo
Dessert Wine, White, Muscat Canelli
Dessert wines are typically chilled and served in a lovely wine glass. Keep the serving size at about half the usual pour, two to three ounces. Serve chilled.
The Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) is proud to play a role in the continuing success of the Texas wine industry. Find these Texas wines at Kroger, HEB, Randall’s, Fiesta, Whole Foods Market and Central Market.
In recent studies, the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) assigns a number of health benefits to regular, moderate wine consumption. The most widely reported benefit is The French Paradox, a theory that credits the drinking of red wine for the low incidence of heart disease in France – despite a famously high-fat, high-cholesterol diet.
Scientists note wine contains antioxidants and resveratrol, elements believed to be helpful in the prevention of certain diseases. Red wine consumption (and to a lesser degree, white wine) is linked to a number of health benefits, including: heart disease prevention; reduced risk of certain cancers; lowering bad cholesterol; weight loss; improved brain function; controlling glucose and insulin levels; and lowering blood pressure.
Most studies cited here recommend consumption of one or two glasses of wine a day with meals, noting the detrimental effects of over-consumption.