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Wow, sounds yummy Becky! We are grilling steaks on the charcoal bbq and a big green salad with everything in it.
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Wow Becky, you've gone the extra mile again - not just roast chicken but stuffing too, homemade yeast biscuits not ones out of a package and real whipped cream fresh from the dairy (I don't think I've ever had a whole quart of heavy cream in my house)!! 🤤
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Home from work this afternoon and cooking. Roast chicken with cornbread stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, steamed broccoli, yeast biscuits, blueberry cobbler, homemade whipped cream (friend gave me a quart of fresh cream from her dairy).
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Sounds delicious Ms Madge. Minus the beef.

Well, Send I guess she did just eat 2. :) Maybe because of the sides.
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I had the two shredded beef taco plate with rice, beans, and guacamole
Green salsa on the side
Ahhhh
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Bet you can't eat just two tacos. Have some more!
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You should get you some tacos Ms Madge.
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Ha ha
I was just thinking I'd get a couple of tacos 🌮 on my way home from hoca

I had a roast beef sandwich last night
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Anyone been eating anything good?

For me, burritos today
I practically live on Mexican food, and sandwiches.
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Happy to hear about all these delicious meals!

It was BBQ pork back ribs, mac and cheese and coleslaw last night.
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Stir fry with chicken, shrimp, bay scallops red and green peppers, onion, garlic, carrot, egg, salt, pepper, sesame oil, soy.
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Luckylu,
I know you can make your own scalloped potatoes from your reputation as a good cook.
Sometimes, we just don't want to!

I don't even want to cook tonight, or make sandwiches. I am hungry.
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That sounds SO good BlackHole~
I wish we had some Easter leftovers Susan.We had the best dinner at my Aunt and Uncle's yesterday.My Uncle made a spiral ham and his wonderful homemade rolls and my Aunt made her Coffee Toffee pie.Every bite was So good.And now were back to soup and sandwiches tonight.
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Chicken marsala and scalloped potatoes.
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After the huge crowd yesterday and my brother’s drama, PJ and I are going out this evening.
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Easter leftovers! Always great the next day. Mom's cottage cheese salad always has to be eaten up within 24 hours or it starts to break down (the ingredients cause that), so that usually gets split up and sent home with various guests so it doesn't get wasted.

Ham, green bean casserole, cottage cheese salad, deviled eggs (enough to last me a week!) and baked beans. Yum!
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Leftover chicken soup from yesterday. Still, yummmm! I felt bad because oldest sis was passing by and I was eating that soup savoring each taste. Sis asked me what do I think SIL seasoned the soup with. I shrugged (not a cook at all). Sis said that her soup doesn't taste like that. She showed a face and then said hers tastes like Campbell soup. Ahem.... {I think sis soup tastes worse than Campbell...}
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Sounds yummy Book! We too are having ribs, baked beans, Brussels sprouts with bacon, potatoes au gratin. Enjoy the day everyone!
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We just had a simple BBQ for lunch. Rice, BBQ spareribs, spiced up BBQ short ribs, potato salad and old fashion local chicken soup. It was great to eat for lunch plain simple local food, nothing fancy like throwing in pickles or relish into the potato salad. I was able to enjoy the taste of all the individual food per spoonful into my mouth.

I put aside a small pot of the chicken soup with potatoes. SIL, fave sis and oldest sis tend to jazz up the soup by adding other spices. I just love our plain native chicken soup with no fancy spices. I had the chicken soup for dinner. It was the old fashion way!!! I ate it like I was starving. If I wasn't still full from late lunch (3:30pm) I would have eaten seconds. I texted SIL with compliments on the soup. I told her it was Perfect.
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Just finished Easter baking and putting together baskets for little kids.
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Bean tacos, and homemade caramel corn

Thanks Golden I will look for a recipe.
Great day tomorrow, hope you all enjoy.
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I almost forgot to boil my "bunny eggs" for tomorrow. My grandmother always made a few eggs that were dyed using the onion skins that had been collected through the winter, a nod to the times when commercial food colours were hard to get, and I've kept up the tradition. This year it is just me so I'm only doing 1/2 dozen onion skin eggs, no other colours.
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Hard to believe its already Easter weekend. Good Friday it was baked pork chops. Tonight we are going out for Japanese food. See what we can try on the menu.
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smeshque - yes, I make my own. You can google Harvard beets and find recipes. I don't use one anymore. I add stuff till it tastes right. It is just cornstarch, beet juice from the can, or from boiling the beets, a little sugar, a little vinegar and a splash of lemon juice, and bring to the boil, and cook till thickened, add a dab of butter, and salt and pepper to taste, add the beets and warm them. It is very easy and tasty.

Forgot to add I had fresh raspberries for dessert last night. Blackberries and raspberries are on sale and they are a good deal, so I froze some and today, may go get some more for freezing. I wash them, then lay them out to dry on paper towels, then refrigerate in their containers. or place on cookie sheets and freeze. That way even the unfrozen ones keep well. Strawberries keep a week or more. I have tried rinsing in peroxide, but this system works better and no chemicals.
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Golden-I never heard of sweet and sour beets. You make your own? Maybe I could get your recipe, My Mom would probably love them also.

Dinner was beans and rice, a salad
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smeshque - love pickled beets. I also make harvard beets (sweet and sour) which family likes. Roasted beets are great too, or just plain boiled.

susan -sounds like fun and a lot of work :)

Bought a cooked turkey breast and had some for supper with broccoli, and cranberries with orange peel in them.  Makes for a nice flavour.
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Good Friday fish fry at church. Fried cod and halibut, coleslaw, French fries, bread and pie.
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Hi Susan,

Thank you for sharing your experiences creating all that food for the Easter buffet.

It's a quiet Good Friday so far. Last night it was prime rib, mashed potatoes and mixed veggies.

I'm not sure what to have tonight maybe some clear broth.
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I'm remembering the days of working in the restaurant kitchen for Easter. We worked all afternoon and evening for our regular shifts, then worked all night prepping foods for the big Easter buffet the next day. I think we worked a total of about 12-14 hours that night/day.

Red beet eggs, as they're called in the south, were made by the 5-gallon bucket, and to avoid damaging the eggs with utensils, we slipped long plastic bags over our hands and arms to reach into the buckets to stir them up. One slip of the bag and you had a purple arm/hand. Hams were sliced and prepped in buffet pans and put in the coolers for the next day. Potatoes were peeled and chopped for REAL mashed potatoes, cooked and put into the cooler to be heated and mashed the next day. Massive trays of green bean casserole, potato salad, cole slaw, jello salads, glazed carrots, dinner rolls - all prepped the night before.

By about 2am we were getting pretty tired and punchy, and we were making the final item - the dreaded handmade buttercream chocolate covered eggs. This meant making the buttercream filling, cooling it, hand-shaping dozens and dozens of blobs of filling into egg shapes, dipping in chocolate and then drizzling with bright-colored icing to decorate them. About half-way through the process, one of us - I don't remember who - just kind of lost it and started flinging chocolate. It was an all out food fight! Chocolate, icing and buttercream flying everywhere.
Fun, but then we had to clean it up and finish making the dang buttercream eggs. LOL
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I like pickled beets too. I make them from regular canned beets, you just need to drain them and put them in a jar, add your pickling juice and leave them in the fridge for a week or two. Yum.
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