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Along with some Bisto beef gravy??????

I wish I COULD eat it but causes a bit of a heart arythmia in me.....totally Abbey Normal ("I put an abnormal brain in a 7' monster!!!! - sorry my favorite line from one of my favorite movies). Was introduced to pimento cheese by a dear friend who came to NJ by way of Ohio and lives in NC. I make it every few years and enjoy it mightily but since Johnnybird can't really partake it has to be pared down. I prefer to use Cain's mayonnaise and a few shakes of Cholula chili lime and Worchestershire along with shredded pepper jack and aged cheddar. Just me......

@Norm Matthews check out Adriana Trigiani's cookbook .... after a disaster she and her family regularly poached their meatballs in the sauce and since I read it I have, too. My friend, Joyce's mom, also cooked her gravy - beef, sausages and meatballs - in the sauce in the oven.

Ask for it without the cheese.... Whenever I do my once - in -a -while Whopper Jr. I always ask for heavy on the pickles since they have to make them to order. I don't want cheese on my fish.......just saying.

John is off to Aruba with a former co-worker. Made some ham salad with some leftover ham slices and gave him two sandwiches on gluten-free bread for the plane ride. I ate mine with a nice green salad. Between the slices, salad and split pea soup I am pretty much hammed out!

Friday we celebrated my brother in laws birthday with a spiral ham that he had requested. Also had cooked a turkey breast (as Johhnybird will not eat ham). Added a simple green salad, baked mashed sweet potatoes, store bought potato salad and some Mr. Ron's coleslaw(a regional thing up here in PA/NJ Acmes and for me the best coleslaw I have ever eaten). Not bad since I only have 2 of 4 burners of the stove and a microwave to use at this point. The next day BIL's girlfriend had made a couple of pans of sausage, peppers and onions for a function and she was kind enough to give me a small container. Incredibly good!!! I love FINALLY having another person who actually is a good home cook to talk to and work with.

Brother-in-law whose actual birthday is today requested spiral sliced ham for his birthday dinner we did last Friday. I was smart enough to keep the bone and enough of the unsliced ham to get a pot of split pea soup with ham on the stove right now. Came up to add the chopped carrots to cook down and prep the red potatoes that will go in in about 30 minutes. As we have snow showers and it is around 40 F it seemed like a good idea.

Don't rush back toooooooo early. The weather hasn't quite decided if it is spring yet.

First dinner for John was gluten free pasta I mixed with a sauce of avocado and pesto then topped with some chopped shrimp. Second dinner was a western sandwich. Planning fried rice with sweet and sour meatballs and smashed cucumbers for dinner.... Second dinner will probably be more of the pasta.

both..... husband is getting in first and would love to free range but doesn't want to be far if the friend gets in from the states a little early friend is getting in later in the day and they have a few hours before getting picked up any suggestions are appreciated.

they are coming in around 11 December........ any recommendations for the airport ? They are meeting someone there for a week of travel.

Funny...I don't remember a lot of bones in the walleye. Maybe because I was eating filets not steaks.

Is there time enough to call or shoot an email to ask if there is anything you can bring to enhance the cocktail hour? I have asked and if they say no I honor it .... Conversely I have been asked as well and will answer honestly........ A)Whatever you want to drink... B)Here is what I am making for dinner and appetizers .....how about something for dessert(we are NOT really dessert folks)

Love halibut but when at school also found walleye which I adore.

I have a heavy coalport teapot......

I have started to drink Constant Comment again. I forgot how much I liked it growing up. We are in that shoulder season and hot tea with local honey just seemed to be the thing to have.

Do they actually drink wine? Bringing a bottle is not a diss on them but when we were invited to visit some new folks I didn't know I brought some flowers and local fruit and vegetables they could use later. Got a note from the wife that she loved the heads up to find some good local produce and appreciated that we didn't bring alcohol.........turns out she is allergic to it.

Thank you all...... looks like we will be ferrying over to Newfoundland and then up the west coast then down to St. John's and the Avalon peninsula then home. We have already decided we are going to do another trip in a few years so I can get to PEI and Nova Scotia.

leftover bucatini with some reheated taco filling doctored with some barbeque sauce. I know...I know........

OHHHHH my few crocuses that weren't traumatized by being shoveled over are looking like yours but I LOVE your Johnny-jump-up as I don't have any here!! The garden centers are advertising pansies but when we moved up here we were told to NOT plant anything until mid May as we could have a freeze until that time. Now they are predicting a "healthy coating of snow on the ground" for Monday morning.

Shoot! If we were out for the Prairie chicken festival again I would have loved to check this out. Are they going to post the info from the symposium?

OHHH great ANOTHER book to add to the notebook!!!! Just kidding @heidih. I so do appreciate the suggestion and I had never heard of the book before. suzi

Gumbo z'herbes

want me to send ya some?

Got them up here in the north at the local green grocer......