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I'm glad you got home safely...I know the trip went way too fast for you and you're counting the days to the next one.

Ugh, I had a friend that RELIGIOUSLY threw stuff away on or before exp. dates. Drove me crazy lol. On the other hand, maybe the other guests there used some of your condiments etc. and they ended up in someones luggage.

This is my favorite cornbread recipe---it's different from any I have had. It's good, not traditional, though. Do not skip cubing the cheese. It melts into pockets of extreme gooey deliciousness. http://cakewalkr.com/kicked-up-cornbread/

What would I do without you guys and Egullet??? I'd be lost, that's what!

Ohhhhhh, ok that makes sense. I will have to buy a 6 pack of something that has glass bottles. Thank you!!!

Ok, so this is going to earn me the "dumb question of the year" award. No laughing at me. I put parchment paper on the bottom of my pan (bad move?) The cake came out of the pan perfectly....but the flip side of that is I promise that if I had turned the pan upside down, the cake would have fallen right out. What am I missing?

Ooooh, using bacon grease is really good, though. I urge you to try it.

Well, it's a pretty common recipe, but my Grammy always made it, thus, to me, it's Grammy's Here it is--written at least 20 years ago in a spiral notebook by me. Very first recipe I ever wrote down in it. 1 box chicken Rice-A-Roni cooked as directed and cooled Add 3-4 sliced green onions, 8-10 sliced stuffed green olives, 1/4 cup chopped green peppers, 1/2 cup chopped celery, 6 oz. jar of marinated artichoke hearts***** 1/3 - 1/2 cup mayo (NOT Miracle Whip--and homemade mayo is best, but I didn't know that back then ) and 1/4 t. curry. Mix and refrigerate over night. ******I always use a can of plain art. hearts. I don't care for the marinated ones.

4th of July dessert http://forums.egullet.org/topic/143108-4th-of-july/?p=1976194

4th of July dinner http://forums.egullet.org/topic/143108-4th-of-july/?p=1976193

Don't make fun of my angel food cake. Ok, you can make fun --we certainly did It tasted good, though! Things I did wrong: I didn't cool it upside down. I didn't have cake flour so I used regular. Maybe I over-beat the white a bit??? We were going to have champagne, but after all of this, we were just toooooo full.

I hope everyone had a great day yesterday and it continues on throughout the weekend! Here's what we had: Cukes and the first (tiny) tomato (that tasted like crap as the first tomato usually does) from the garden Deviled eggs ( skipped the salmon roe and used tobikko ) Cheesy hash browns --not fancy but definitely American comfort food at its best Grammy's rice salad Spicy wings done on the grill Annnnnd, I was stuffed.

Rotuts, that looks sooooooo delicious. I'm glad you shared your award winning tater salad!!! I can't wait to try it. My husband loves that stuff.

Yeah....heh....I wondered what those tab/feet looking things were for. Sigh. Well, it feels "springy" and I've eaten some the crust that was stuck to the side and it tastes good. It's still about 4-5 inches tall, so it isn't tooooo bad.

No...ooops. That was the one part of the recipe I didn't understand. I'm baking challenged lol.

So. I took my angel food cake out of the oven about 20 mins. ago. It looked beautiful. But now, um.....it's the incredible shrinking cake.....is that normal? I think I screwed up...

I have never been to a Whole Foods. The produce looks lovely.

'Nother crawfish boil last night Happy 4th everyone!

I have a ton of frozen rhubarb. I always make my mom pick it in Colorado where she lives. I take it, put it in the freezer, and forget about it lol. I need to see if it's still decent enough to eat.

I hope I'm not talking to myself the whole rest of this thread I just peeled some hardboiled eggs that I did yesterday. OH they were too fresh. Quite difficult to shell. They are filled and in the fridge. I'll put toppings on tomorrow--half with sliced green olives and half with salmon roe (husband doesn't care for roe so they are alllll mine). I'm going to make a rice salad next.....I call it Grammy's Rice Salad, but it's definitely not her recipe because it's all over the internet. She introduced me to it, though, so, to me it's Grammy's It uses chicken rice-a-roni, green olives, celery, green peppers, artichoke hearts, mayo and a touch of curry. Then, I'm making angel food cake. First time. I'm using a recipe I found on Kim Shook's site.....her recipes never steer me wrong. Wish me luck. I'm not a good cake baker. At. All. Not good. lol. Here is the recipe I'm going to use http://www.recipecircus.com/recipes/Kimberlyn/CAKESandPIES/Ruhlmans_Angel_Food_Cake_.html I'm just making the cake as I have fresh strawberries and whipped cream to serve with it.

BUMP! I didn't want to start a new thread...... What'cha cooking for tomorrow in the U. S. A. ? I haven't decided yet. It will be a 4 day marathon of good food though, beginning with a crawdad boil for tonight.

My gosh, those tomatoes are so perfectly aligned they almost look fake!

I'm, perhaps, the only person alive that doesn't really care for specialty beers. Give this Kansas/Colorado girl a Coors Light and she's a happy camper.