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Flying trip to up the Hudson Valley for my FIL's 85 birthday dinner. Great family time ... OK restaurant food. Back to reality today. John is off to climb rock today. He will have had a lot of protein for breakfast and lunch and I had nothing thawed out. OK time to run some ideas by HIMSELF......... He agreed to something vegetarian (just not too much fiber .....hey, baby steps). Roasted butternut squash, shallots and carrots, capers, olives, artichoke hearts with some homemade unconventional pesto I liberated from the freezer - walnuts, avocado oil, home grown basil and flat-leaf pasta) and his gluten free penne.

oh...... you missed Food for Fines month?

A bowl of all the vegetables from the beef stew....

YEAH!!!! Bear season begins again on Monday for a week around here... First they have to bring the pheasant home..... interested in what you are going to do with the tinned bun bo Hue

This is going to be John's dinner tonight....I'll have another sloppy joe and salad.

We had sloppy joes made with bison on whole wheat buns and a green salad last night....

better have some cheddar cheese with that apple pie!!!!!

WHERE is the thumbs up for this!!!!

Uh....was that a Wednesday? If so it was time for church El Paso... San Antonio.....same view different place..... ever see how you know a native Texan driver as he gets into the left lane with his truck and kinda herds the slower "cattle"(car) on?

There are only SO many clothes you CAN take off.......but you can always put more on.

forget the later stuff..... give me more potatoes, dressing, peas and gravy! and cranberry sauce......

Thank you so much, Nancy. Sorry I missed you a few years ago ...... Have you checked out Stillwater, OK; Ft. Huachuca, AZ; Texarkana, TX/AK; Corpus Christi, TX; Lake Havasu, AZ; Pawhuska, OK................ Next year HMANA opens our headquarters in Detroit ...... anyone in MI send me ideas ....... can't wait to get back to the Midwest area.

I identify totally but unfortunately Johnnybird isn't happy unless it is 80F + and humid. I hide in the basement with both dehumidifiers on.

Crazy? Masochistic?

YEAH!!!!! Hope you have a wonderful season of travel with the animals and each other. Can't wait ot her what you are doing. Course MY idea is heading to Duluth for the hawk migration in September then down to Corpus Christi. Unfortunately Veracruz has kinda been taken off our tour. Any new places? Anything you are going to look for?

yeah....the one I missed while the power was out

Every year the Sunday before Thanksgiving CBS's Sunday morning show from 9-1030 am is dedicated to food and drink. It is now hosted by Jane Pauley....earlier by Charles Osgood and Edward Newman.

Can't figure out how to do it but today's (19 November 2017) comic Pickles by Brian Crane was snort out loud funny......... His wife wore the dress she cooked bacon in to church and he loved it when she smelled like a pig.

more on the hunting season blog I hope?

Now my power has come back on watching this annual show. Gonna have to watch Snoop and Martha and see if I can find last years shows.

Just saw a link for a book that MIGHT be interesting though there is no "taking-my-kitchen-toys-to-work" part in it.... Made in the Office: Tasty & Hasty Meals with just a Kettle, Toaster & Microwave by Rachel Maylor.

Right now I have The Gourmands' Way: Six Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New Gastronomy by Justin Spring in the living room . Give a Girl a Knife by Amy Theilen in the bedroom. I'm really enjoying The Gourmands' Way quite a bit. I had never heard of Alexis Lichine and didn't realize how hard Alice Toklas' life was so hard after Gertrude Stein died.

Tonight a turkey sandwich with cranberry honey mustard while finishing a beef stew for tomorrow IF himself makes it home. It's cool, wet and raining so it felt like the right time to make a beef stew.

NOOOOOOOOOO It isn't even freaking Thanksgiving!!!!!!

definitely agree with Jacob's Cattle beans which we used to grow out on the East end when I was young. We would eat some when they were young but most we let dry and used to make soups with over the winter with some ham.........