Greek stuffed beef tenderloin
Beef second courses
Sunday suppers are a staple in most families around the world. In my family growing up, we would spend Sunday dinners either at my Grandfather’s (my mom’s dad) or at my Grandma’s (my dad’s mom). Sunday’s at my Dziadzia’s (Polish for Grandfather, pronounced “jah-jah”) consisted of buttery chicken legs with crispy skin, smashed boiled potatoes with salt and pepper, and his famous cucumber and sour cream salad. For dessert we had mini Hershey’s chocolate bars andSalernobutter cookies with a small Mott’s apple juice in a can. To the outsider looking in, it may not seem like much. But, as you can probably gather from some of the stories I have told about me and my brothers, we were loud and sometimes unruly troublemakers. However, sitting around my Dziadzia’s dinner table, we were all silent. We all loved his cooking and held it in such high regard that we wouldn’t dare take the attention away from the delicious product of his labor of love. Sundays with my Grandma were usually spent out at a Greek or family style restaurant. My brothers and I would order either the beef and mashed potatoes or the roast turkey and mashed potatoes. Both plates were …
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