Shelby

I just spent waaaaay too long reading all of these Challenge threads. Good stuff. I would never be able to do what those folks did. I am kind of disappointed, though, that someone didn't tag you, Kerry

I like to read through the food blogs. The early ones don't have many pictures and/or the pictures don't load, but interesting all the same.

Trust me. Your fridge looks immaculate compared to mine.

More ravioli and a pea shoot salad Last night was ribs, fries, brussels sprouts and disappointing corn fritters

Oh those look so good!

Mine did too. I know I didn't soak them, though, and that was probably part of it.

Chicken wings , broccoli salad, peas and mac and cheese last night

I do this all the time because, like Anna said, I often don't know what I want to eat until close to time to eat.

I don't think you would hate it. It's easy to make. It's one of my comfort foods. You might find it a bit salty....we like it, but we are salt junkies. This looks heavenly. Your meals always always speak to me. I wish I could find bread rolls like this somewhere---or make them. I want this right now. I decided to try making ravioli using wonton wrappers. I think @Ann_T did this a while back. I am thrilled to have tried this and to learn that they are awesome! Just like pasta! I was amazed. I used these that I got at the Asian market I made two different kinds Venison--cooked with onion, garlic, basil etc. mixed with an egg, cottage cheese and parm. cheese Spinach mixed with egg, cottage cheese and parm. cheese Thawed out the last batch of my sauce from last summer ( hurry up tomatoes in the garden, please grow big and strong)

Gee. Thanks. Sigh.

Nah, I don't feel judged....just thought I could sneak the rice past you guys. You're too on the ball. And, also, I've had the damn jingle from the commercial stuck in my head all day.

Well. The butter sure is a pretty shape.

Dammit. Yes. It's like my need for StoveTop Stuffing. And probably the closest I'll ever get to San Francisco.

I kimchi-ckened out

(ps--you do not look like a bean) (pps--and I am not sucking up in order to get a spot in the bean club)

In the interest of keeping us all up on the neat places to eat up there, I suggest that you guys have two lunches a day. Thanks in advance.

I was baffled by soupy too--thanks for looking it up BD I think I would like it, too. Looks kind of pepperoni-ish?

After digging around in the freezer I found some salmon. A very welcome change from the usual. I sv'd it and made a mustard cream sauce to go with.

I some RG's stashed too....but one can never have too many

I just read your post and then read my newsletter and found they are sold out again. I wasn't fast enough.

Interesting. So (if I'm reading the map correctly) they are native to Oklahoma.....I'd think they would be found here in Kansas too.

Can't wait to see Good luck and be safe!

So, after I say* this out loud, it's going to sound utterly ridiculous and not possible, but I swear it's true. I had the flu in January --it hit me on the 8th. That's how bad the flu was, because I can barely remember my own birthdate much less any other date. Anyway, it knocked me for a loop to say the least. After the first week it had moved from my chest up into my ears and throat. Thus, the only things I could taste were salt and hot peppers...everything else was like a 9 times less version of it's real taste. Anyway to sum up my long story, before this flu, I had become a big heat weenie. The tiniest jalapeño sent my eyes to watering and heartburn like you wouldn't believe. So, during the flu, the one good thing was that I could eat everything hot. 700 jalapeños plus all the seeds went into the chili and so on. I really took advantage of it because I knew that once I got rid of all of the junk in my nose, head and throat that I would go back to weenie-ness. I haven't gone back. I can eat everything hot. The hotter the better. I've googled to see if this phenomenon is a thing and I can't find that it is. Now DURING a cold or flu, yeah, but not after it's all gone. I cannot get enough hot. Thus the following meals--I'm still afraid I'm going to lose my tolerance lol: Hotdogs boiled in the cajun seasoning that I do crawdads in Lo mein and Asian sticky wings (lots of chile added) Steak quesadillas I cannot wait for jalapeños from the garden. *write

Welcome! I hope Patty shapes up and stops being naughty

It was a seasoned flour breading--soaked the strips in buttermilk and egg first and then dredged. I think the lighting made it look like a tempura.