meat and potatoes

"She got the diet just right for Middle England - meat and potatoes, all the greens in the right place. And sponge pudding to follow. It's comfortable and regular. Sometimes you'll even enjoy it."

I’d like to move on to a few questions about sort of the meat and potatoes issues that you touched on earlier.

Surely Lee, who had previously described himself as a “meat and potatoes” guy, liked Kobe beef?

And this winter, the organization decided to refocus his defensive work primarily at catcher, with general manager Brandon Gomes saying the position has to be “his meat and potatoes.”

How is writing for “Matlock,” a meat and potatoes procedural, the same or different as writing for “Jane the Virgin,” which leaned on magical surrealism?