Sorry to say, but this site has been so depressing for a few days. I thought I'd ask an average, everyday question....to make us all feel a little more normal today.
I made Eggplant Lasagna, and my BIL and SIL are coming for dinner. They leave for Cali tomorrow to see their beautiful grand daughter.
Sorry, sometimes we just need some REGULAR conversation.......or at least THIS caregiver does.
Well, Send I guess she did just eat 2. :) Maybe because of the sides.
Green salsa on the side
Ahhhh
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
For me, burritos today
I practically live on Mexican food, and sandwiches.
It was BBQ pork back ribs, mac and cheese and coleslaw last night.
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.
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.
Ham, green bean casserole, cottage cheese salad, deviled eggs (enough to last me a week!) and baked beans. Yum!
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.
Thanks Golden I will look for a recipe.
Great day tomorrow, hope you all enjoy.
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.
Dinner was beans and rice, a salad
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.
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.
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