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Nah....if I had bison(or venison) I would make Frito Pie......

I have all the makings of the ever present Texas dip - Velveeta, Rotel and hot sauce(Cholula chili lime in my case) and bought me some corn chips. I eat this maybe once a year.

House and cat sitting for friends who are in Italy. Went to the local farm stand and picked up some of the soup they make - ham and split pea. Made a small BLT with some of their lettuces and tomatoes my friend had grown; threw a few fresh basil leaves on as well. The first of their Brussels sprouts are coming in so thinking of a saute or roast of them this weekend. They also had some of their own small red potatoes so bought a bag. Half for potato salad - peas, minded onion, hard boiled eggs with celery salt and Miracle whip and the other half for home fries.

What about either a Catalina, Green Goddess or tomato vinaigrette? Put in the bottom, layer your salad ingredients(I would add some rinsed and drained beans and olives) then when ready to eat shake it up.

woo-hooo!!!!!! gotta try to do those cranberry pancakes. Thank you so much for the info

Oh @mgaretz..I so covet that meatloaf. I can picture it with some creamy mashed potatoes or on some rye bread with Miracle Whip and ketchup. Sent Johnnybird up to Poughkeepsie with smooch, shrimp shumai, potato salad made with a dressing of pesto, mayo and a touch of cooked dressing, cold cuts, guac and hummus. I roasted a couple of sweet Italian sausages then sliced them and put them into a red pepper, onion and tomato sauce and ate it over capellini with a scattering of cheeses. Finished with a salad of local lettuce and heirloom tomatoes.

I have used oven toasted oats that I wiz up in a food pro for my meatballs and have used them in meatloaf in the past(ignore my recent meatloaf disaster). I just saw someone at a farmers market demo using baked sweet potatoes or pumpkin with grated onions in their meatballs and it really worked. I may do that as Johnnybird does love him some sweet potatoes.

I'd really love to see what you get at the local fish guys and any farmer's markets to cook at home mixed up with any time you can get out for a meal. Having grown up in a tourist area I KNOW how miserable that is....kinda like going out on holidays for the rest of the world but it is every day.

can some of you come cook for me? and maybe help me find the freaking thread about losing your cooking mojo? - I tried about every iteration I could think of but couldn't find it. today I managed to freaking ruin a meatloaf!!!! MEATLOAF??!!! I can make that in my sleep but I managed to mess it up and had to dump the whole freaking thing.... It is times like this that I ALMOST wish I could drink again.....

I was picturing @JoNorvelleWalker's problems and it just struck me as hilarious!

GUYS.... I am laughing so hard I am crying. Thank you so much for the visuals that are funny and disturbing at the same time.

Oh, how beautiful!!!

"Oooh that smell Can"t you smell that smell"* * I have been hanging around the Reeds waaayyy too long. They have lyrics for all occasions.

A tuna salad sandwich from a Panera sandwich box that a family friend brought yesterday. I was thinking about making some but this was one of the best tuna salads I have ever had. I had another for dinner.....

Yeah...we saw those all over Newfoundland too. Fascinating

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the song reference. When we were going to Newfoundland a friend of mine whose family came from there kept urging me to have poutine. WHY? I live in the land of disco fries - fries, brown gravy and shredded mozzarella. I hate gloppy, soft fries and mozzarella or cheese curds with gloppy fries and gravy have no interest for me. Sorry all

Oh, yeah..... juve osprey for sure. I remember the Hog Island incident and then there was the adult red tailed hawk that got too close to the eagle nest at Duke Farms here in NJ. He became lunch and a snack for the young eaglets. Actually the owls are almost worse that the eagles in predating young birds.....and that included an entire pen of pheasants on the Arsenal up here. I also, in 20 years of hawkgawking, twice had Bald Eagle pirate fish from osprey - including one that FINALLY caught the dropped fish about 30 above our head. The guy who had stopped to ask what was going on was swearing up a blue streak and couldn't believe WHAT he was seeing.

It was skate wing. You can tell the difference by which way the muscle fibers run.

WELL...….I guess that's one way to get rid of excess alcohol?!😞

NEVER EVER pick up any mouse droppings when dry. ALWAYS spritz with a bleach solution just for this reason. My brother-in-law is currently in the hospital with babesiosis, a type of lyme like disease spread by ticks. I suspect he has had it for a while and it is just now presenting as it isn't common in the Hudson valley but is where I came from and where he used to vacation(Fire Island).

heck, a young guy died where I came from(east end of long island - shelter island) that he had contracted at his dad's warehouse in queens, ny. unfortunately several of the rodents on the island had the virus as well....

Hey, dude... where are your moose enclosures like we saw up north of you? loved those small tended plots all along the highways..... me? I have a black thumb.....

A friend of mine who had a double lung transplant has to wash all fruits and vegetables in acidulated water then rinse in distilled water. For me - I rinse everything including melons ….. they are my big bug a boo!

Since John had his dental work … and traveling … I have had to change up his usual sandwich - chicken - by making chicken salad. I whiz up chopped chicken breast and shallots in my mini food processor. Into a bowl with some celery salt, a bit of mayo and a bit of cooked dressing. I have also been adding a few shakes of a product I had a coupon for: Marzetti's lemon vinaigrette. Since it is summer I've always got a bowl of Italian potato salad in the fridge. My friend, Joyce's mom showed me how to make it probably 40 years ago. Potatoes that are steamed until soft, green beans that are steamed as well, chopped olives and scallions in a vinaigrette that has oregano and basil in it. And who can forget that staple of funerals in the 1960's and 70's where I grew up - lime jello salad with cottage cheese and pineapple. @MetsFan5, I can always make this and give you a small dish to try. Meet ya at Wegman's😉.