Shelby

Have you done that many at the same time before?

I didn't make it, so I'm no help at all with a recipe, but for Thanksgiving I bought Sweet Potato Pecan Praline ice cream. It needed....something....maybe more cinnamon.

Sorry yes, I'm sure your method is super great!

NO But you all know I'm a tomato skin-a-phobe

It's an absolutely gorgeous morning. Everything is blooming. First sprigs of asparagus are up. I finally received my Yukon gold potatoes yesterday so they went in to the ground this morning along with 13 tomato plants that couldn't wait any longer in the green house. They are so big and needed to get in the dirt. I've never planted tomatoes and potatoes on the same day lol. Ronnie's been working hard plowing and fertilizing the garden areas. Onions are looking good. I got them weeded this morning too.

Ohhhhhh what a brilliant idea! Then you can just throw the baggie away and not have to clean the filling holder.

Yes, I poured it in a bowl and we both had some with our chicken. Good stuff.

Our Easter meal

@KennethTIt's a good thing I don't live with you guys...I'd make you stop and get that sushi at least once a day. @Norm MatthewsBeautiful deviled eggs. I have a thingy to make the yolks pretty like that, but I lack the patience. @DuvelLovely Easter weekend meals. Your mom is very talented with the bunny ears! Breakfast for dinner. Not very appetizing looking. Did the eggs in the IP--exactly like I did the last time-- but somehow these were over done sigh. Boudin and hash browns. I'm having a major asparagus craving and all I had was a can of white asparagus. I actually like canned asparagus. It's nothing like the "real" fresh asparagus, but I keep that in mind lol. Heated this up in a skillet and put some fresh parm on top. Ronnie even liked it. Next night...spicy, olive/caper/pasta thing, roasted chicken and livers. Thawed out a chicken and halved it. Shockingly there were several livers in the cavity. Just like the good 'ole days. So I did them up with some caramelized onions, mushrooms and sherry. Really good. I was rummaging around in the basement when I came across our panini maker. It's been a long time since I made those. Cleaned it up and made some bread. Turkey/ham/swiss/mayo mixed with little green dress/mustard/sliced cherry tomatoes. And for Easter I've been terrible and don't have any spring decor or anything up--Christmas got put away and all is still very bare. But, can't have Easter without Grammy's egg holder Roasted mushroom salad Brussels sprouts/bacon/maple syrup Scalloped potatoes SV'd lamb chops Boughten carrot cake banana pudding. I'll make it myself next time...it needed more bananas lol.

Fried Spam and egg sandwich. The dogs shared one half--I forgot how filling Spam is lol.

I'm glad I'm not the only non-rosemary fan, but it does always smell good.

Well, you had excellent sides and you can make the meat into something better tomorrow. It's all good. The important thing is hanging out with your kid How great!!!!! Now if she'd only deliver down here lol.

I do! I haven't seen that flavor though. I have a caramel sea salt one in the cabinet as we speak

Cool. I think they did this in the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding

That's a new and exciting feature

I use BL almost exclusively when I make beer batter--it's usually the only beer in the garage lol.

Yep. I always do it this way.

I never knew that 😳totally makes sense.

Wow that triggered a memory. I LOVED Long John Silver's hush puppies. A looooong time ago--probably pre-EG--I tried to make them myself. They were not good.

You should be able to switch your plan to an al carte plan under your account settings. That's what I have and I don't get anything added to my cart until I add it.

Yikes. Easter snuck up on me this year. I have a ham in the freezer. I also have some lamb chops. I'm betting Ronnie will opt for lamb.... So, I'm thinking I will SV that. Deviled eggs (if I have enough in the fridge outside otherwise it will be deviled potatoes lol). I don't know what else yet. Too early for my asparagus to be up unfortunately. I doubt I'll make it into the store this week so what ever is here will have to do.

We have a heater in the greenhouse that keeps it quite toasty so I think the temperature is good. Thanks to you and @FauxPasfor the suggestions. I'm going to ask him, but I think he's tried the soaking. I bet he hasn't tried tried the sandpaper trick.

I put fried chicken and fried shrimp on a paper plate and leave it uncovered in the fridge....that seems to help it stay crispy.

I finally got my seeds ordered--Burpee was out of the kind of radishes I wanted. Ronnie had some seeds squirreled away though so phew. I had thoughts of whittling down and having a smaller garden but, it's like making soup, I can't make a small batch of soup and I can't seem to make a small garden lol. So, this year: Pumpkins Radishes Collard greens--new kind that says it makes giant, but tender, leaves. We will see. Red, yellow and white onions Tomatoes. Lots of tomatoes hopefully. Nirvana corn Potatoes--Yukon and russet Green beans Squash Peppers-jalapeno, shishito Lettuce Basil Cilantro Dill Okra Sunflowers We are having the usual wild Kansas spring weather. Today we are under a red flag warning --"extreme to catastrophic grassland fire danger" is forecast. Humidity is less than 9% and the wind is blowing 25-35 mph with gusts to 55. Then the lows dip into the high 20's so we had to move all of the plants back in to the greenhouse this morning. I took some pictures. Ronnie has been doing some excellent work growing tomatoes. I planted the onions a couple of weeks ago--200-300 of them I lost count lol. They are all up and looking good. Finally got my order of russet potatoes from Burpee yesterday so we planted those this morning. Still waiting for the Yukons. We usually plant potatoes around St Patrick's Day so it's late. I don't know why they wait so long to send them. Ronnie planted the collards and radishes yesterday so we are in pretty good shape. Only issue is the pepper plants that Ronnie is trying to start. We have the worst time getting pepper seeds to germinate. Does anyone have any tips? He uses the usual potting soil--it's a new bag so it hasn't been depleted of any nutrients by reusing or anything.

I continue to love Misfits. More and more they have new and different items--more like Imperfect used to be for me. I've been bad about taking pictures--I seem to always be in a rush to get things unpacked and put away--but I couldn't resist showing these beautiful poblanos. They had them again this week so I bought more. Annnnnd, sunchokes! My mom bought some a couple weeks ago and liked them. She said they remind her of turnips when cooked--she roasted some and then boiled and mashed the rest. I don't know what I'm going to do yet--google here I come.