lindag

One of the joys of living in the boonies is that most everything is trucked in from somewhere state, usually Washington. Went to my nearby grocery the other day wanting Yakisoba Noodles here. Well the store gets their deliveries every other week and none were in the shipment, according to the meat manager. So I had to make my stir fry with sticky rice even though I REALLY wanted those Yakisoba noodles (they're very, very good.) I'm told there should be some in the next shipment arriving this coming Thursday night. So I will try again. The rice was good but not as good as the noodles.

After seeing TV ads for Just Crack an Egg for months, the product finally arrived at my nearby store. I love scrambled eggs for breakfast but don’t usually have any add-ins pre-prepared. This item has solved my problem. I made the All American Scramble variety this morning and it was really good, I’ve no complaints at all. I mixed the ingredients plus two eggs in my Corningware microwave skillet and cooked, sired and cooked and stirred for a total of about two minutes total and the result was a very tasty breakfast. So easy and quick! My apologies if this item is not available in Canada.

I really love homemade soups. I don't, however, remember my Mom, who was a very good cook, ever making soup. I think it must have been because my Dad was strictly a meat and potatoes man. Nothing gives me more pleasure than putting together a great pot of soup except making my own bread.

I’ve done the same with the refrigerated garlic cloves . Doens't have the full flavor of fresh and when I’ve frozen it it turned into one big clump.

Have you seen this model? It's lightweight but only 8 qt.

I grew up on Cambpbell's soups and to this day I still keep Tomato Bisque and Bean with Bacon in my pantry. Some days (like when I was sick recently) it's exactly what I want.

I see Amazon US has the Mini Instant Pot on sale today for $55.99 with free shipping.

I've been sick for three days with some sort of intestinal bug and finally, today, I felt like eating something The only thing that sounded good was a tuna salad sandwich. I had all the ingredients including a long past it’s prime celery rib which in a different situation I'd have thrown out...it was really not good looking at all. Sandwich was good however, made with some excellent Harvest Grains Honey Whole Wheat toasted bread. I seem to be on the mend.

April 13 has come and gone and still no Bisto. I sent an email to the retailer (UK) asking that they re-send. Hopefully it'll come in less than another month.

I stopped buying tomato juice years ago because the canned juices tasted of the can. Maybe they've fixed that now, I know some canned food are in tins that are lined. I would think any tomato juice in glass would be good. I use Clamato and sometimes add Mr. and Mrs. T Bloody Mary Mix (in a plastic bottle).

I was a teen in Upper Michigan and the heady aroma of Mom's fresh baked bread hit me as I came home from school. It was so intoxicating! She didn't make it often so it was a very special treat when she did. It was the first thing I really ever wanted to learn to make. I wasn't able to start learning until I married and got my first 4-½ qt. KA mixer. I tried and tried but couldn't get the knack of kneading properly and for the right length of time; I had no one to teach me. Only when I got my bigger KA mixer with a dough hook was I able to finally produce a loaf to be proud of. I still get a rush when I have bread baking in my oven; it is just about the most satisfying thing I make. And I still have that mixer.

Leave it to SNL......

The Bloody Maryis my beverage of choice. I prefer Clamato.

I buy frozen fillets from Schwan's and, unless I missed it, there's no mention of that.

This Fall I bought some Wild Turkey Rye to use in my hot drinks. When I went back for more the clerk at the liquor store informed me that they're no longer stocking it. I really liked it andwonder what I should get instead. Suggestions?

I've been bingeing on Wild Wild Country on Netflix. At that time, 1981, I had been an Oregonian for more than a decade and was fascinated by the Bhagwan Rajneesh and all the followers. This documentary is not to be missed!

On tonight's menu is Ina Garten's Grown Up Mac and Cheese. If you've never tried her recipe, it is amazingly good. I do omit the bacon.

Amazon

I placed my order for beef Bisto on Amazon on March 12. Still waiting for it to arrive. The new ‘expected by’ datei is April 13. wow.

YUM!

What comes to mind for me is the McDonald's Sausage Biscuit. We'd often stop by on the way to Mt. Bachelor or Mt. Hood Meadows for skiing. This is not the sausage biscuit with egg, however, it's not as good.

I haven't tried their wild rice but I have gotten some of their freeze dried veg. mix as well as their soup mix. What I have tried from there was really excellent. Their customer ratings are very, very good.

Yesterday, while rooting in the inside upright freezer looking for some hamburger, I finally found the meatloaf mix!!! I'd been looking in the freezer that's in the garage. I had already made my meatloaf, though, since when I was searching for that package I came across packages of gr. beef, gr. pork, and gr. veal so I thawed those and made my meatloaf from that. The package of veal was a little big so the meatloaf isn't the best; it would've been better with more beef. But it's good enough and makes quite good sandwiches with my homemade sourdough bread. No one would ever think of me as a hoarder.....unless they looked in my freezers.

Yeah, I'm jealous.

My ( very plebeian) dinner is unstuffed cabbage. I've little success with removing the leaves intact to roll up the cabbage. My recipe makes it into a sort of skillet or casserole dish with chopped up cabbage leaves.