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.
Then I noticed a bag of blueberry muffin mix...So, I made some blueberry muffin cookies and had some as a dessert with a hot chocolate.
We appreciate them all.
Yes, very interesting about seasons Beatty & Margaret.
Does tadpole season ever lead to a frog plague?
Your seasons are different!
I found this...
In Australia, the seasons are defined by grouping the calendar months in the following way: Spring - the three transition months September, October and November. Summer - the three hottest months December, January and February. Autumn - the transition months March, April and May.
Unbelievable, looking for some hot chocolate today.
There is none in the house, none stored, nothing, no where, nada, zip.
Totally unprepared for any season!
I may need to make some cocoa out of peanut M&M's and canned milk.
Usually warm & sunny by now. Some spring rain & a little wind usual too.
Is this spring? Can't recognise you! Some beautiful flowers coming out at least... Warm? Hardly. Sunny? Nope. Rain? Buckets. Wind? Roaring all night & full of pollen - heyfever sinus headache is my new normal.
Feel like climbing back under the covers. With a big bowl of pasta & choc chip biscuits.
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I always use Italian sausage in tomato sauce and I always have homemade sauce in the freezer. You can take it out of the casings and it will still hold together and keep its shape.
Just slit the casing with a knife and peel it off. Then cook the sausages on a baking pan with a little water in the oven until they're done. They also get nicely browned. Then put them in the sauce.
I found putting a little olive oil on the tortilla softens it right up when heating it. Then your taco doesn't split.
Don Juan's is the store that makes them and they are still warm when I get them. Just can't beat it and they make awesome flour tortillas daily. Kinda spoiled me honestly.
All of the additives are horrifying. I have food sensitivity and I can taste the chemicals, I haven't figured out if this is a blessing or a curse but, it is disgusting.
I'm glad to hear some tortilla makers are still making them the old fashion way. I learned to make mine at home using a tortilla presser I bought online. It's pretty easy and quick now that I get the hang of it.
I am so happy that another company in town started making corn tortillas with only corn, water and salt. They are so much better when they have simple ingredients.
Becky, butterscotch pie with pecans is my favorite pie.
I had some of my broccoli soup. I need something else though, not sure what it will be.
Dh breaks the fettucini in half 😡 before I could catch him.
I was cooking this!
Thanks for the idea CWillie.
I don't like a "hot" chili but a well seasoned one is yummy.
Learned last week to not cut into the italian sausages because the casings get tough and stringy. It was not a faster way to cook them.
Wanting a spaghetti-type meal, so maybe fettucini as pasta.
"What do you want for dinner?" has never worked.
"Do you want "suggest this or that" has never brought a response.
"Do you want "this?", because it is what I am cooking, meh!
Today, I laid out a sandwich brunch platter:
Mashed avocado on Sourdough toast, cut up in toddler slices.
Sliced beef on sourdough toast, with a tomato and mayonnaise, 2" slices.
Cream cheese with strawberry jam on sourdough toast, hors d'oeuvre sizes.
Took mine in another room, and left the platter full for dH.
Where did it go? All gone, yeah!
Or take some broccoli and dip it into the soup, and eat.
Add some butter.
Cheese melts when it has a high enough fat content. It makes zero difference whether it is processed or not.
Found this:
What does it mean if cheese doesn't melt?
The acidity of a cheese will also have an impact on how well it melts. Cheeses with a neutral acidity, meaning 7.0 on the pH scale or a little lower, don't tend to melt. "It's the same thing with a really, really low pH cheese, so very high acid," explains Montgomery, giving feta cheese and cottage cheese as examples.
And now I'm finding lumps of unmelted cheese - what the heck are the dairies selling to us?!
red pepper flakes?