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  • parityanimal
    parityanimal Posts: 21,578 Member
    Ah...dinner tonight (no picture) was some home made chili, con carne y frijoles. Served over crushed tortilla strips and a generous sprinkle of Mexican style shredded cheese, all of which was then stirred up into the chili and consumed. And Eduardo made enough for another bowl tomorrow.

    He COULD have made enough for three or four more bowls but saved half the ground beef for some other dish. Not sure what Eduardo has in mind for it, but I'm sure it will be tasty. I'm pretty sure that when I go to brown it and get it ready for some dish, a meal plan will magically pop up in my head because that's just the way Eduardo works! LOL.

  • GardenKatGardens
    GardenKatGardens Posts: 2,496 Member
    I love Eduardo's brain! Wish mine worked that way. I have to go to a lot more 'trouble' like cookbooks, web sites, etc for inspiration. :(
    Your dinner sounds good. Happy to say my dinner was one of Amy's frozen Black Bean tamales with Spanish Rice, and salsa verde on top of a healthy helping of left over spinach/peas/corn/&rice. It's more than I typically eat at night, but I wasn't in the mood to cook anything 'original' AND I really like Amy's frozen tamales!
    Fitbit let me know I met my step goal, and Tom E. has been fed, kitchen is in good shape, so I'm going to turn the A/C down to 76 degrees, and grab my iPad hope to end this Scrabble game with Ted tonite, and unless he is holding something really high in points...I've won!!! Dark clothes are ready to put into the dryer, and tomorrow I'll repeat today...just change the date. Mexico vs Sweden tomorrow at 10 a.m. and I intend to be on 'my' TM, right in front of the TV's! LOL! Should be a good game. Was glad to see Argentina and #70 Messi win this afternoon. This is (if the news folks know what they're talking about) his last year to play soccer. I know he was sure happy this afternoon!!

    See ya sometime tomorrow
  • RogerToo
    RogerToo Posts: 16,157 Member
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  • RogerToo
    RogerToo Posts: 16,157 Member
    Hi
    I'm back from walking and no cents. The Temperature out the door was 65 degrees. it was comfortable to slightly cool outdoors while walking since there was a breeze. There is still a heat wave in the forecast starting on Friday with humidity moving in Friday :(

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    Have a Great Wednesday
    Roger
  • RogerToo
    RogerToo Posts: 16,157 Member
    Howdy y'all. It's typical Tuesday! 77 with an expected high of 93 and 40% chance of rain. We got quite an afternoon shower yesterday.

    Might need to get out to the store today but can probably wait until tomorrow. We'll see. Dishwasher is running now and using the last dishwasher tab, but I won't need to run it again today, so tomorrow may be fine or even the next day for the store.

    Lilo has had her shot and we've all had breakfast.

    Not much on the agenda.
    Hi Ed
    Please do me a favor and do not forward the heat and humidity north to New Jersey.
    Emmy tries an emergency 24 hour ration!
    I have a water filter straw and a package of Emergency Food Rations bar that has 3 days of long life food just in case :wink:
    Ah...dinner tonight (no picture) was some home made chili, con carne y frijoles. Served over crushed tortilla strips and a generous sprinkle of Mexican style shredded cheese, all of which was then stirred up into the chili and consumed. And Eduardo made enough for another bowl tomorrow.

    He COULD have made enough for three or four more bowls but saved half the ground beef for some other dish. Not sure what Eduardo has in mind for it, but I'm sure it will be tasty. I'm pretty sure that when I go to brown it and get it ready for some dish, a meal plan will magically pop up in my head because that's just the way Eduardo works! LOL.
    What I do is a soon as possible I cook up Hamburger as it is my opinion that the grinding process introduces surface things throughout the meat speeding up spoilage. Sometimes I loose fry and sometimes I make hamburger patties depending on my mood.
    I was curious about Your Chili, IMO Kidney beans and a tomato based sauce with chili powder, whereas my Brother feels that anything beyond the meat in the sauce is wrong. It is strange as we both grew up eating moms which is as I described it :wink: FWIW I prefer Shredded Cheddar on it.

    Have a Good Day
    Roger
  • RogerToo
    RogerToo Posts: 16,157 Member
    Hi...quick hello!
    Soccer game comes on Fox shortly...I watched soccer at the gym this morning...what a trip! The bank of TV's have Fox next to a Spanish station...so I watched Peru win on the Spanish TV, while watching Denmark on English speaking Fox. That took a lot of concentration! Wonder I didn't fall off the TM!! I think I'll watch Nigeria vs Argentina this after, at home! Tomorrow I will be at the gym and watch Mexico...on Spanish speaking channel. Its more exciting in Spanish, trust me!!

    Solved my problem of why I was going to WalMart by just not going! I do keep a running list for most things Roger, but my phone is not always handy, or I'm in a hurry and 'whatever' doesn't make the list!

    Ed, had a big storm here too. Fortunately the trees stayed firmly planted...no so much in ATL!
    Not sure what day I'll manage to get to Kroger...couple of things I really need from there that's not available in any of my other stores..:( So for sure I will be shopping one day this week.

    Ok, game time.

    Later...
    Hi Valerie
    I use a small lined pad, If I had a smart phone which I do not have I do not think I would adapt to using it to keep a list being somewhat set in my ways :smiley: What I have are two flip phones, on for each number. The One that I ported my land line to is on Consumer Cellular and costs me a whopping $15+ a month and the phone was really cheap to buy, OTOH the cheap phone does not have the battery life of the Samsung on the Verizon Service and has less features. It works and does what a phone should do IMO, That is let me make calls and receive phone calls :smiley:

    Are You indication that You also speak Spanish ? A second language is something I never managed :(

    I thought I saw bad weather on last nights News broadcast.
    I love Eduardo's brain! Wish mine worked that way. I have to go to a lot more 'trouble' like cookbooks, web sites, etc for inspiration. :(
    Your dinner sounds good. Happy to say my dinner was one of Amy's frozen Black Bean tamales with Spanish Rice, and salsa verde on top of a healthy helping of left over spinach/peas/corn/&rice. It's more than I typically eat at night, but I wasn't in the mood to cook anything 'original' AND I really like Amy's frozen tamales!
    Fitbit let me know I met my step goal, and Tom E. has been fed, kitchen is in good shape, so I'm going to turn the A/C down to 76 degrees, and grab my iPad hope to end this Scrabble game with Ted tonite, and unless he is holding something really high in points...I've won!!! Dark clothes are ready to put into the dryer, and tomorrow I'll repeat today...just change the date. Mexico vs Sweden tomorrow at 10 a.m. and I intend to be on 'my' TM, right in front of the TV's! LOL! Should be a good game. Was glad to see Argentina and #70 Messi win this afternoon. This is (if the news folks know what they're talking about) his last year to play soccer. I know he was sure happy this afternoon!!

    See ya sometime tomorrow
    I leave cooking to my brother for the most part, I can follow recipes and they do work of course. I need to get in touch with my sister and have her send me the recipe she uses for Pistachio Cake, They were delicious before she moved to the other coast. Now we are on the east coast and the west coast :(

    Thinking about it, maybe I can pick up white rice from the Chinese Take Out and Pull a pound of lean and therefore less tasty Organic Hamburger out of the freezer to loose fry and make Spanish Rice. I know my brother can do it so with a little help....

    Amy's are from the freezer section of the Grocery Store ?

    Were You running the AC warmer than 76 degrees? I had ours set to 72 yesterday as I was feeling the results of something my brother picked up for me. I had asked for a partial spoonful of Mac & Cheese from the Hot food Bar, I think I got a heaping spoonful rather than just enough to have the taste. The Carbs made me feel hot ans sweaty, Thus now that I am back from walking it will shortly be shower time.

    Have a Nice Day, Enjoy the Football
    Roger
  • parityanimal
    parityanimal Posts: 21,578 Member
    Howdy y'all. It's wonderful Wednesday!

    70 out there now with an expected high of 89 and 50% chance of precipitation. Speaking of which, boy, howdy, did we get some last night! Thunder, lightning, wind, the works! Haven't been outside yet this morning but didn't hear anything crashing down on the house, though some of the lightning seemed awfully close, based on how quickly the thunder boomed.

    I've finished off the chili for breakfast, and must say it makes a delicious breakfast. Need to clean cat bowls from yesterday, feed the cats, do some laundry and maybe get out to Publix for a couple of things.

    Happy to say my dinner was one of Amy's frozen Black Bean tamales with Spanish Rice, and salsa verde on top of a healthy helping of left over spinach/peas/corn/&rice. It's more than I typically eat at night, but I wasn't in the mood to cook anything 'original' AND I really like Amy's frozen tamales!


    J loves most of the Amy's things that I sometimes buy for him, including that specific Black Bean tamale one! Another good frozen brand is Cedar Hill. He likes most of their frozen stuff too.

    RogerToo wrote: »

    What I do is a soon as possible I cook up Hamburger as it is my opinion that the grinding process introduces surface things throughout the meat speeding up spoilage. Sometimes I loose fry and sometimes I make hamburger patties depending on my mood.

    I was curious about Your Chili, IMO Kidney beans and a tomato based sauce with chili powder, whereas my Brother feels that anything beyond the meat in the sauce is wrong. It is strange as we both grew up eating moms which is as I described it :wink: FWIW I prefer Shredded Cheddar on it.

    I usually freeze my ground beef shortly after arrival home, and after thawing make sure to brown it thoroughly and then simmer the food for a while to ensure that it's well cooked.

    My mother's chili, when I was growing up, was very soupy and I would now call that chili bean soup I think. She added cut/broken spaghetti to it, but not a lot. Just enough to make it somewhat like a bean soup with spaghetti noodles. It seems that many people in that area of western Kentucky made chili in a similar fashion, though one family we were friendly with had it with small diced potato bits instead of spaghetti. At the time we children thought the potatoes were a weird thing to put in it, but we ate it anyway when it was put in front of us, and it was good. We always ate what was put in front of us because that was the rule!

    Mom would use red kidney beans or small red beans, whichever was available, and that generally depended on what had been on sale at the grocery when she was shopping. The cheaper bean always won.

    I personally prefer to have beans in the chili, along with my ground beef, and like it very thick and meaty, with not TOO many beans. And I prefer the canned chili beans, which are generally not kidney beans. If not those, then small red beans or even black beans.

    I can eat red kidney beans but find that they have somewhat tougher skins than the canned chili beans, which are made from a different bean, and that gives the kidney beans a texture that I'm not as fond of, so I don't generally use them though I'll certainly use them in a pinch.

    Update: Cats have now been fed (while I was still entering this message) and I'm about to get the laundry going, and maybe step out to see how many blueberries need picking. I already got this morning's handful of blackberries.

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    A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

    Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)

    :)

    All mushrooms are edible. Some, only once...
  • parityanimal
    parityanimal Posts: 21,578 Member
  • RogerToo
    RogerToo Posts: 16,157 Member
    Howdy y'all. It's wonderful Wednesday!

    70 out there now with an expected high of 89 and 50% chance of precipitation. Speaking of which, boy, howdy, did we get some last night! Thunder, lightning, wind, the works! Haven't been outside yet this morning but didn't hear anything crashing down on the house, though some of the lightning seemed awfully close, based on how quickly the thunder boomed.

    I've finished off the chili for breakfast, and must say it makes a delicious breakfast. Need to clean cat bowls from yesterday, feed the cats, do some laundry and maybe get out to Publix for a couple of things.

    Snipped (Valerie)

    J loves most of the Amy's things that I sometimes buy for him, including that specific Black Bean tamale one! Another good frozen brand is Cedar Hill. He likes most of their frozen stuff too.
    Hi Again
    It sounds like time to look and see if any small branches broke off ? I hate loud Thunder, When it happens after dark while trying to watch TV the Flashes through the Living Room Window are distracting.
    Snipped (Me)

    I usually freeze my ground beef shortly after arrival home, and after thawing make sure to brown it thoroughly and then simmer the food for a while to ensure that it's well cooked.

    My mother's chili, when I was growing up, was very soupy and I would now call that chili bean soup I think. She added cut/broken spaghetti to it, but not a lot. Just enough to make it somewhat like a bean soup with spaghetti noodles. It seems that many people in that area of western Kentucky made chili in a similar fashion, though one family we were friendly with had it with small diced potato bits instead of spaghetti. At the time we children thought the potatoes were a weird thing to put in it, but we ate it anyway when it was put in front of us, and it was good. We always ate what was put in front of us because that was the rule!
    That sounds like what I do with whatever I do not cook right away. I like my Chili Hearty too. That was the practice here when growing up too. If it was put on the plate, You ate it :smiley:
    Mom would use red kidney beans or small red beans, whichever was available, and that generally depended on what had been on sale at the grocery when she was shopping. The cheaper bean always won.

    I personally prefer to have beans in the chili, along with my ground beef, and like it very thick and meaty, with not TOO many beans. And I prefer the canned chili beans, which are generally not kidney beans. If not those, then small red beans or even black beans.

    I can eat red kidney beans but find that they have somewhat tougher skins than the canned chili beans, which are made from a different bean, and that gives the kidney beans a texture that I'm not as fond of, so I don't generally use them though I'll certainly use them in a pinch.

    Update: Cats have now been fed (while I was still entering this message) and I'm about to get the laundry going, and maybe step out to see how many blueberries need picking. I already got this morning's handful of blackberries.
    I think that is why I prefer Kidney beans, that they have more texture...

    Blueberries reminds me that I am waiting on the Blackberries and Raspberries to ripen, there is a bumper crop, just not ready to eat yet :( The Raspberries are prolific plants in that they send runners underground all over the place near them. Just as well that they Border the Concrete Patio for much of the bed. It seems that the spring pruning I did was done right since they are growing an producing real well.

    Laundry, Maybe Tomorrow :wink:
    They called this soup?
    It looked like a Rice dish, just not a soup.

    Have a Good Day
    Roger
  • GardenKatGardens
    GardenKatGardens Posts: 2,496 Member
    Hi hot but beautiful outside. Rain cleared the air nicely last night.

    Chili...I vote for with beans and finely diced onion, thin, lots of black pepper, and a sleeve of saltine crackers!!
    I haven't watched the video's yet..but its a mighty thick 'soup' that will hold up a spoon! There is a rice soup, but I don't think that picture of rice soup is it! LOL!

    I will have to look for the Cedar Hill fz vegan entree's. Always nice to have a choice in the freezer when I'm not feeling like even turning on the kitchen stove!

    No Roger I don't speak Spanish. But just the sound and cadence of the language makes the soccer game a lot more exciting!
    And speaking of soccer. It has not been a good day for the teams I would have like to see win....Sweden beat Mexico and Korea beat Germany. Not at all what I wanted to see. Maybe the afternoon games will be better...but first a good nap! Tired for some reason.

    Later...
  • GardenKatGardens
    GardenKatGardens Posts: 2,496 Member
    Another of our afternoon thunder storms....just 10,000 homes with no power. Dinner out! LOL!!! (no, not for me, I still have electricity!)
    Dinner looks a lot like a frozen vegan burger, a baked potato, and a big helping of broccoli. Not exciting, but will be good!
    Cat's in house being a cry baby. Turned his nose up at his dinner AND his treat...If I pet him, scratch his head, rub his chin much more my fingers will be numb. LOL!!

    Hope all is well for Ed over on his side of the county.

    Later...
  • parityanimal
    parityanimal Posts: 21,578 Member
    We had our typical evening thunder shower, as expected. Eduardo went fairly simple for dinner.

    Tonight (and for three more meals) was cottage pie. Browned ground beef, with onions, garlic, peas and carrots, in a rich tomato and beef gravy, spread in a baking dish and topped with a thin layer of garlic mashed potatoes, and sprinkled with a little sharp Cheddar near the end of baking, when the top of the potatoes had started browning nicely.

    Very filling, and very tasty!

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  • RogerToo
    RogerToo Posts: 16,157 Member

    06/27/2018 100%

    Hi
    I'm back from walking and no cents. The Temperature out the door was 72 degrees. it was not real comfortable outdoors while walking there was a Light breeze. There is a heat wave in the forecast starting tomorrow with humidity moving in Friday :(
    overnight I heard a little rain around 1:30 and 3:30 and some thunder inbetween. While waslking I could see lightning flashes in the distance and delayed thunder.

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    Have a Great Thursday
    Roger
  • RogerToo
    RogerToo Posts: 16,157 Member
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  • RogerToo
    RogerToo Posts: 16,157 Member
    Hi hot but beautiful outside. Rain cleared the air nicely last night.

    Chili...I vote for with beans and finely diced onion, thin, lots of black pepper, and a sleeve of saltine crackers!!
    I haven't watched the video's yet..but its a mighty thick 'soup' that will hold up a spoon! There is a rice soup, but I don't think that picture of rice soup is it! LOL!

    I will have to look for the Cedar Hill fz vegan entree's. Always nice to have a choice in the freezer when I'm not feeling like even turning on the kitchen stove!

    No Roger I don't speak Spanish. But just the sound and cadence of the language makes the soccer game a lot more exciting!
    And speaking of soccer. It has not been a good day for the teams I would have like to see win....Sweden beat Mexico and Korea beat Germany. Not at all what I wanted to see. Maybe the afternoon games will be better...but first a good nap! Tired for some reason.

    Later...
    Hi Valerie
    Nothing better than saltines or maybe Oyster Crackers with Chili.

    That is why they play the game, nothing is set in concrete. Maybe next year.
    Another of our afternoon thunder storms....just 10,000 homes with no power. Dinner out! LOL!!! (no, not for me, I still have electricity!)
    Dinner looks a lot like a frozen vegan burger, a baked potato, and a big helping of broccoli. Not exciting, but will be good!
    Cat's in house being a cry baby. Turned his nose up at his dinner AND his treat...If I pet him, scratch his head, rub his chin much more my fingers will be numb. LOL!!

    Hope all is well for Ed over on his side of the county.

    Later...
    I can hear the thunder creeping closer and louder as I type this. It is somewhat unusual to have thunder & Lightning before sunrise IMO. Afternoon thunderstorms are much more common in hot weather.

    Oh, I don't know a baked Potato with Broccoli and Cheese sounds good to me. And yes I know You did not mention any vegan cheese :wink:

    Sounds like a Lonely cat ?

    Since Ed has posted after You I am guessing all is well for him.

    Have a Nice Day
    Roger
  • RogerToo
    RogerToo Posts: 16,157 Member
    We had our typical evening thunder shower, as expected. Eduardo went fairly simple for dinner.

    Tonight (and for three more meals) was cottage pie. Browned ground beef, with onions, garlic, peas and carrots, in a rich tomato and beef gravy, spread in a baking dish and topped with a thin layer of garlic mashed potatoes, and sprinkled with a little sharp Cheddar near the end of baking, when the top of the potatoes had started browning nicely.

    Very filling, and very tasty!
    Hi Ed
    Looks good to me, Actually it sounds tastier than it looks and it looks delicious.

    Have a Good Day
    Roger
  • parityanimal
    parityanimal Posts: 21,578 Member
    Howdy y'all. It's thrilling Thursday! 70 with an expected high of 89 and 80% chance of precipitation.

    Dark and gloomy out there now with intermittent thunder so I believe the forecast may change to 100% soon.

    Need to fold the laundry that's sitting in the laundry room, clean yesterday's cat bowls, feed the cats, and ... take a nap? Didn't sleep as well as I would have liked and the evil cats got me up too early, as usual.

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    A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

    Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)

    :)

    All mushrooms are edible. Some, only once...
  • parityanimal
    parityanimal Posts: 21,578 Member
    What is Larry eating today?

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    parityanimal Posts: 21,578 Member
  • GardenKatGardens
    GardenKatGardens Posts: 2,496 Member
    About the time you think the sky is all cried out....the rumbles begin again and here comes the rain! My rain gauge is full. There was room for an inch and a half more rain yesterday...today it over flows!

    That Romesco sauce looks and sounds delicious. I will have to have a go at making some. Would be a welcomed addition to my veggies!

    I did not make it to the gym today..and I seriously doubt I"ll make it yet tonite! I never could work up enough steam to even consider it. Dark, gray, rainy, good day for staying home. It will mess with my FitBit stats, but who cares???

    Toys R Us closing. Sad for kids. I used to take Nate there in the fall, He'd ride in the cart, and I'd pay attention to what he was looking at. Made Christmas shopping for Nate quite easy!!!

    Ok, I'm hungry...OH..BEFORE THAT I made some killer French Fries today. I keep seeing people singing the praises of baking fries using cooked potatoes! Sounds weird, right. Except it really is good. I make 'steak fries' with an Idaho baked potato that I nuked yesterday. Cut it in wedges, put it in the toaster oven on broil and they were great. Crispy on the outside, and soft and hot on the inside. Next time I'll make MORE! I only had half a largish potato. Need to do a whole potato. :)

    Now, still hungry...need to go find food! I do have a salad already made, but I want a hot dinner.

    Later...
  • RogerToo
    RogerToo Posts: 16,157 Member
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  • RogerToo
    RogerToo Posts: 16,157 Member
    Hi
    I'm back from walking and 1 cent. The Temperature out the door was 68 degrees. it was not real comfortable outdoors while walking there was a Light breeze that went away. There is a heat wave in the forecast starting today with humidity moving in during the day :(

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    Have a Great Friday
    Roger
  • RogerToo
    RogerToo Posts: 16,157 Member
    edited June 2018
    Howdy y'all. It's thrilling Thursday! 70 with an expected high of 89 and 80% chance of precipitation.

    Dark and gloomy out there now with intermittent thunder so I believe the forecast may change to 100% soon.

    Need to fold the laundry that's sitting in the laundry room, clean yesterday's cat bowls, feed the cats, and ... take a nap? Didn't sleep as well as I would have liked and the evil cats got me up too early, as usual.
    Hi Ed
    Thursday was off and on rainy :(
    There was no real thunder, just off and on rain, some of the time only a spritz, other times the sky opened up.

    Laundry, Today or tomorrow here.

    Before anything else later on today, a Run to CostCo for Kleenex, Frozen Vegetables and some sort of fruit to be determined based on price and what looks really good.

    By the way, I looked at a Whole Foods receipt, I had taken one of their bags with me and the receipt shows "Bag Refund" BYO Bag NE on the next line -$0.10

    Have a Nice Day
    Roger
  • RogerToo
    RogerToo Posts: 16,157 Member
    About the time you think the sky is all cried out....the rumbles begin again and here comes the rain! My rain gauge is full. There was room for an inch and a half more rain yesterday...today it over flows!
    Hi Valerie
    Sounds like our weather, The brook I walked past today was higher than usual.
    That Romesco sauce looks and sounds delicious. I will have to have a go at making some. Would be a welcomed addition to my veggies!

    I did not make it to the gym today..and I seriously doubt I"ll make it yet tonite! I never could work up enough steam to even consider it. Dark, gray, rainy, good day for staying home. It will mess with my FitBit stats, but who cares???

    Toys R Us closing. Sad for kids. I used to take Nate there in the fall, He'd ride in the cart, and I'd pay attention to what he was looking at. Made Christmas shopping for Nate quite easy!!!

    Ok, I'm hungry...OH..BEFORE THAT I made some killer French Fries today. I keep seeing people singing the praises of baking fries using cooked potatoes! Sounds weird, right. Except it really is good. I make 'steak fries' with an Idaho baked potato that I nuked yesterday. Cut it in wedges, put it in the toaster oven on broil and they were great. Crispy on the outside, and soft and hot on the inside. Next time I'll make MORE! I only had half a largish potato. Need to do a whole potato. :)

    Now, still hungry...need to go find food! I do have a salad already made, but I want a hot dinner.

    Later...
    Sometimes You just can not do it. I have looked at the weather forecast for the next few days and overnight lows in the mid + 70s with high humidity do not make for good walking. I may only get as far as picking up coffee and boomeranging back home as a result.

    The changing buying habits are causing many businesses to rethink or go under sadly.

    Just curious, Have You ever considered taking those Steak Fries and Battering them before cooking. The way You cooked Your wedges is more or less how my brother does them, cooked in the oven on a lightly oiled pan covered with Aluminum Foil.

    Have a Good Day
    Roger
  • parityanimal
    parityanimal Posts: 21,578 Member
    Howdy y'all. It's fantastic Friday! 68 with an expected high of 91 and 20% chance of precipitation.

    Need to put the rest of the folded laundry away, clean yesterday's cat bowls, feed the cats, and then maybe putter around with a little light house cleaning.

    Hopefully a nap too. Totally clueless what dinner tonight might be. I finished off the cottage pie for dinner last night.

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