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.
Needing to enjoy lighter meals after over indulging on 2#s of shrimp Sunday :-)
Lefse is a Norwegian tortilla. After Browning in the skillet, spread with softened butter, sprinkle with sugar, or serve with gjetost! The perfect accompaniment to a Norwegian holiday meal!
For dinner on my birthday shall I tell you what I chose:
Hot noodles made from poodles on a slice of garden hose-
And a rather smelly jelly
Made of armadillo’s toes.
(The jelly is delicious, but you have to hold your nose.)
Yum!
I've made a skillet sized potato cake. Did it much like Willie said. Used a round pizza pan.
I make potato cake two different ways. My family's favorite is with leftover mashed potatoes; add an egg, a little flour and a tablespoon or so of milk. I also use grated raw potato mixed with egg, flour, little milk. I brown both sides in a little butter and then lowest heat until done. only problem I have is big family with big appetites and it takes so many.
Whatever it is try flipping it out onto a big plate and then sliding it back into the pan rather than attempting to flip the whole thing. Or maybe just pop the whole pan under the broiler.
I make blackberry jelly in small batches indoor during the winter, a tradition handed down from my great-grandmother. Grandma and Mom always canned juice and rarely the fruit during the summers and made the actual jelly, jam, and pies during the winter and spring when they wasn't canning and there weren't goodies from the garden and orchard. We didn't do jam very often because we used the fruit for cobblers instead. Cherries, strawberries, and apples are about the only fruit canned without separating out some juice for later jellies. Toast and biscuits with jelly or apple butter are breakfast items with the "leftover" biscuits (and sausage) frequently left in a pan on the stove for "snacks" during the day. Mom didn't cook sausage often and I always had a sausage biscuit whenever we visited grandma. I've wondered about leaving the sausage out for several hours (noone every got sick) and finally decided the heat from cooking must kill all the bacteria and it doesn't restart in the 3-6 hours the sausages could last. I cook several sausage patties at once and store the leftovers in the fridge until we reheat in the microwave. My youngest grand-nephew likes scrambled eggs with sausage and toast as breakfast or an after school meal and comes down whenever his mom isn't cooking at the moment he wants something to eat.
The grand-nephews enjoyed some limited blackberry picking this past summer with most of the fruit consumed in cobblers. We going to make a run of jelly for Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations. Walmart markets a good blackberry jelly too.
I have my grandmothers big 20-gallon copper kettle for making apple butter, jellies and jams outdoors. Have the big, long handled hickory stirrer made by my great great grandfather. I used to always do over a fire outside but haven't done that for about 4 years. It's a long hard days work and takes 3 or 4 people. I did make blackberry jam last year outside.
TNtechie: You, too - delicious sounding.
I made some last winter using splenda to reduce the sugar. For a half gallon of sauce, I added 1/2 cup of sugar, 2 cups of splenda and about 1 and a half teaspoons of cinnamon oil and cooked it down until thick. Made a little more than 4 12 ounce jars of apple butter for my brother and I.
I've still got 8 gallons of apple sauce canned so I will be making more this winter. I have made it from gallons I purchased at walmart (they don't need as much sugar because the store brought sauce is already sweetened).
The apple trees I started from my parents small orchard aren't big enough to bear much fruit yet; neither are the trees I puchased so I hope when they have fruit my hands will still let me core the apples... or maybe I will have a couple of boys who like apple butter enough to core some apples.
I had a dental appointment on Friday, and stopped in at Red Lobster. I ordered a fish meal with lobster topping. I didn't like the recipe.
I won't be eating until next weekend :-) well, that's the way I feel now anyway.
Now, we are eating a California Kitchen BBQ chicken pizza.
Tomorrow! All you can eat shrimp. Looking forward to making a little piggy of myself. Hoping they have coconut shrimp.
do you think he could eat some cottage pie?
There is a woman on YT called Sherri Smith (that's her channel name) who made some videos about soft meals.
I'm not sure about pine nuts. They are ok but I think I like a simple basil pesto much better.