Shelby

Right now I want nothing more than to have a slice of this with butter...or plain...it looks fantastic.

I can't even begin to hit the like button on this because their mistake only prolongs your stay in that hellspital...I mean hospital..

When I was young my Grammy and I would have either nachos or just salsa and chips for dinner while watching movies.....my stand out memory of that is the first time I watched Gone With The Wind.....nachos with salsa and extra green chilis from a can with tons of cheese. Heavenly and still one of my favorite movies.

Your meal looks lovely. You and your father are in my prayers and best wishes.

For the first time in my life, I think the heat of summer is affecting my appetite. My air conditioner is all fixed and running like a champ so I don't know why I'm feeling this way, but I am. And it's not even that hot here yet. Anyway, I wasn't hungry for anything yesterday except I craved cold shrimp cocktail. So, my wonderful husband trekked to the big city and got me some nice shrimp. So, cold dinner last night--except for the cheesy toasts

UGH LIUZHOU!!! I'm so sorry!!! Hurry up and get the hell out of there!!! The chairs next to the tv look far more comfortable than the hard plastic ones that I've had to sit in. After a couple of hours my backside falls asleep and I walk like I'm 120 years old. If you feel well enough, I'm sure you're bored silly. Can someone bring you a few books? Can you download ebooks on your phone? Hospitals....I can barely make myself go visit someone...they scare the crap out of me for some reason. But, when my father in law and mother in law were/are in there I have to. For meal times they are given a menu of choices--one for people with diabetes and a regular menu. I've seen decent meals --a surprisingly good looking chef salad--and horrible meals--a totally inedible plate of what they called beef stroganoff (I took a tour down the hall that day and all the stroganoff meals were being reloaded on to the carts to be dumped). Your pork buns look very good, actually. I'm surprised they don't offer some kind of juice to drink or tea? And, yeah, like Lisa said, if I were there I'd bring you ice. Big hugs from over here in Kansas and I'll be checking on here regularly for your updates.

I do that a lot and I'm still breathing

Ann T's lemon pepper garlic wings

Venison burgers last night

Oh how I love Hot Springs. I think I probably have been to the Italian place.....I can't remember the name but the food was amazing. I had house made ravioli that I can still taste it was so good. Sorry that it was disappointing I definitely know the breakfast place and they do make a damn good one. We went there before the races a lot to eat. The German will awesome I bet. I never made it over to eat there and I wish we had.

Welcome!!!

Venison steaks

Ronnie wanted venison steaks last night. 125F for a couple of hours and then seared.

Is the meat ground up? Like a hamburger steak?

Thai ground pork lettuce wraps, egg rolls and noodles last night. Nice on a super hot evening. Lettuce, cilantro and basil from my garden.

What would I do without you?? Thank you so much!!! Well, I know what I would do...I'd be scrubbing the hell out of that heavy canning pot with no results happening lol.

It is aluminum!!! Thank you!!!! This was driving me crazy. So, if I do that next time will it take the black away? Edited to add that unless I missed it in the instruction book--and I could have--I didn't see anything telling me to do this. They should at least warn a person that the pot will turn black lol.

I used my pressure canner for the first time yesterday. I hope it gets easier as I get more used to it. I had a hard time adjusting the heat just right....the instructions that came with it said that the thingy should only jiggle 1 to 4 times per minute but when I would adjust it down the pressure would go down--I needed it to stay at 15 lbs. Anyway, it was exciting and I'm thrilled to have some beans from my garden done However, I screwed up and I don't really know what I did wrong. I rinsed the pot and the lid with warm water and a bit of soap before I used it. I didn't scrub it hard, just washed it with a sponge. After I was all done I looked inside and it has turned completely black up to where the water line was! It isn't greasy and it doesn't smell. It's just black. I tried to scrub it and I can't make a dent. It's not burned. Just black. I don't mind it I guess as long as it's not leaching some weird chemical into my canning lol.

Green beans from the garden! Along with other stuff.

Seems very complicated---just give me a glass of wine

I wouldn't even begin to know how to drink this. I don't get out much.

Laziness?

I spent forever last night trying to find it and YAY I finally did

@ElainaA and @Okanagancook I have been remiss in telling you both how MUCH I LOVE the recipe that you shared with me a couple of summers ago--the one that uses the whole cherry tomatoes and tons of garlic that you bake in the oven for a long time. I've been out of my homemade sauce for a couple of months now. I was digging through the freezer the other day and found a container of the cherry tomato sauce. I was SO excited. I've used it on pizza--which was delicious. Biting into a whole cherry and getting that burst of flavor on the pizza is amazing. Last night I was on my own for dinner. It's very hot here and my air conditioner is broken so I wanted something easy. I waiting until about 8:30 pm to start cooking so that the sun was off of the kitchen. Anyway, I heated up the sauce and made a squash from the garden. Heavenly. I hope I have a glut of cherry 'maters this year so I can make some more of this stuff!