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I found sauce at Walmart. That will give us the 18 cans needed to cover this and next year's spaghetti and I can replace them.
My issue is that the diced tomatoes are still hard to find in #10 cans. We used 8-12 per year.
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My issue is that the diced tomatoes are still hard to find in #10 cans. We used 8-12 per year.
SouthernBreeze
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It's a beautiful day, today. High temp in the mid 80's and not a cloud in the sky. Low humidity.
Cary has the yard mowed, weed eated, and sprayed weed killer all along our property fence line. He needs to add to his stock of the weed killer when we go to town. When he uses up a jug, he replaces it. Weed killer and termite treatment for the house are 2 things he tries to keep a good stock of.
I've been doing laundry and tidying up the house a bit, getting ready to start cooking later. We're looking forward to going to our DS's house this afternoon for a big family event and BBQ. Perfect weather for it. He'll be grilling hot dogs, hamburgers, and frying catfish. Everyone else will be bringing everything else. Gonna be lots of food! I got chosen to bring my famous potato salad (as the family calls it), LOL.
Since tomorrow is the 4th, our home fellowship/bible study has been canceled. We'll actually get a day of rest! DS and DDIL have a trip planned.
Cary has the yard mowed, weed eated, and sprayed weed killer all along our property fence line. He needs to add to his stock of the weed killer when we go to town. When he uses up a jug, he replaces it. Weed killer and termite treatment for the house are 2 things he tries to keep a good stock of.
I've been doing laundry and tidying up the house a bit, getting ready to start cooking later. We're looking forward to going to our DS's house this afternoon for a big family event and BBQ. Perfect weather for it. He'll be grilling hot dogs, hamburgers, and frying catfish. Everyone else will be bringing everything else. Gonna be lots of food! I got chosen to bring my famous potato salad (as the family calls it), LOL.
Since tomorrow is the 4th, our home fellowship/bible study has been canceled. We'll actually get a day of rest! DS and DDIL have a trip planned.
John Deere Girl
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I was just going to ask this.
SouthernBreeze
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Well, my recipe isn't that big of a deal. It's just that the family loves it.
Potato Salad
I use 4 large russet potatoes, peeled and chunked, adjust the number of potatoes depending on how much you want to make.
3 hard boiled eggs, chopped
1 small onion, chopped, use more if you like
mustard
mayo
1 Tlbs salt
black pepper
lots of bacon bits, use home made crumbled bacon or store bought. I think it's the bacon that makes it so yummy.
I don't really measure anything, so you can adjust the ingredients to suit your own taste.
Boil potatoes with the salt til fork tender. Drain. Place in a large bowl, add chopped onions, eggs, and bacon bits. Add mustard and pepper. I mix it all up with enough mayo to make it creamy.
That's it. Nothing really special.
Potato Salad
I use 4 large russet potatoes, peeled and chunked, adjust the number of potatoes depending on how much you want to make.
3 hard boiled eggs, chopped
1 small onion, chopped, use more if you like
mustard
mayo
1 Tlbs salt
black pepper
lots of bacon bits, use home made crumbled bacon or store bought. I think it's the bacon that makes it so yummy.
I don't really measure anything, so you can adjust the ingredients to suit your own taste.
Boil potatoes with the salt til fork tender. Drain. Place in a large bowl, add chopped onions, eggs, and bacon bits. Add mustard and pepper. I mix it all up with enough mayo to make it creamy.
That's it. Nothing really special.
John Deere Girl
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Thank you!
Meemur
Voice on the Prairie / FJB!
Yummy!
I use whatever potatoes are available, along with the freshest eggs I can get. To season it, I use white pepper, fresh chives, and then look at my calorie count for the week. If it's good, I use Miracle Whip. If it's not so good, I use Greek Yogurt. Lastly, I sprinkle smokey paprika over the top.
I don't add salt. Guests can add salt if they wish, but Miracle Whip is salty, and I've got to watch my salt.
When it's really hot (90+), I might add some bacon to this potato salad and have it for dinner over a a bed of greens.
I use whatever potatoes are available, along with the freshest eggs I can get. To season it, I use white pepper, fresh chives, and then look at my calorie count for the week. If it's good, I use Miracle Whip. If it's not so good, I use Greek Yogurt. Lastly, I sprinkle smokey paprika over the top.
I don't add salt. Guests can add salt if they wish, but Miracle Whip is salty, and I've got to watch my salt.
When it's really hot (90+), I might add some bacon to this potato salad and have it for dinner over a a bed of greens.
nomifyle
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God willing and the creek don't rise I'm back to organizing in my pantry room. After one of the shelving units broke and collapsed I didn't do much. I did get the unit back together less one shelf and I'm being careful how much weight I'm putting on the shelves. I just got extra canned food and it has to be organized.
When ever shipments or bags of groceries come in the house they often times stop in the front room, which is DH's designated room and it also houses our only table to eat on. DH is pretty patient about it landing in his room, but at some point he is relentless about complaining and its to that point. so I'm clearing all of that out of there.
We also have a decent size coat rack in there and it needs to be thinned out. I've got coats and jackets on there the I haven't worn in two or three years.
God is good all the time
Judy
When ever shipments or bags of groceries come in the house they often times stop in the front room, which is DH's designated room and it also houses our only table to eat on. DH is pretty patient about it landing in his room, but at some point he is relentless about complaining and its to that point. so I'm clearing all of that out of there.
We also have a decent size coat rack in there and it needs to be thinned out. I've got coats and jackets on there the I haven't worn in two or three years.
God is good all the time
Judy
SouthernBreeze
Has No Life - Lives on TB
When I get the P salad all mixed up, and put in the serving bowl, I do sprinkle paprika and parsely flakes over the top.
We just got back home, and I'm almost in a food coma. We all had a great time, and none of the potato salad was left, LOL! There was one good sized spoonful left, and Mom took it home with her along with some of the left over fish.
We just got back home, and I'm almost in a food coma. We all had a great time, and none of the potato salad was left, LOL! There was one good sized spoonful left, and Mom took it home with her along with some of the left over fish.
aviax2
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I’ve only ever made potato salad with red potatoes, that’s what my family always used. I’ll have to give your recipe a try SB, it sounds similar to what an ex-sister in law made.
I made a crap ton of potato salad today, I don’t know what I was thinking since only DH and I, oldest DD and son in law (but he’s watching his cholesterol so may not indulge) eat it LOL! I don’t have a recipe per say, just a simple version that I was taught growing up that I’ve added to through the years. I chop onion, ripened bell pepper, some sweet pickle finely, then chopped hard boiled eggs, a good sprinkle of fresh or dried chives and celery seed, a few good grindings of black pepper and salt. Then I mix in some mustard and lots of Miracle Whip into the veggie-egg mixture so it’s nice and gloppy and add my cooked drained potatoes while they are still hot. Mix as gently as possible and let it sit and soak up the dressing then add more MW if needed. Once cooled put in the fridge. DH had leftover chicken with some of it for supper tonight, I just had potato salad!
I made a crap ton of potato salad today, I don’t know what I was thinking since only DH and I, oldest DD and son in law (but he’s watching his cholesterol so may not indulge) eat it LOL! I don’t have a recipe per say, just a simple version that I was taught growing up that I’ve added to through the years. I chop onion, ripened bell pepper, some sweet pickle finely, then chopped hard boiled eggs, a good sprinkle of fresh or dried chives and celery seed, a few good grindings of black pepper and salt. Then I mix in some mustard and lots of Miracle Whip into the veggie-egg mixture so it’s nice and gloppy and add my cooked drained potatoes while they are still hot. Mix as gently as possible and let it sit and soak up the dressing then add more MW if needed. Once cooled put in the fridge. DH had leftover chicken with some of it for supper tonight, I just had potato salad!
aviax2
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I certainly didn’t mean to offend you.
nomifyle
TB Fanatic
I'm sorry, you did not offend me, I thought I was being funny, guess not.
God is good all the time
Judy
aviax2
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I actually wasn’t sure how to take it. No harm done on my end. I kind of feel that way about Mayo LOL, that goes back to a friends mother making us eat liver cheese sandwiches with lots of Mayo, the kind that had lemon added, when she found out we had way to much Boones Farm strawberry wine. We got so sick and had lost all our nice supper she had cooked for us earlier that night and she made us eat those sandwiches before sending us to bed! The life of a 16 year old. I learned a lot that night.
nomifyle
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LOL, I was never much of a mayo eater at all. Now I like a little bit, preferably Blue Plate. My ex would pile mayo about 1/2 inch thick on a sandwich. I do love liver cheese though, sans the mayo. And I also drank Boones Farm Strawberry wine too.
The first Mardi Gras I was in New Orleans I stayed drunk. I was sitting on the sidewalk at a street corner in New Orleans with my wine bottle and I looked up and saw a couple I knew from where I had moved and I was so embarrased, but I laughed and laughed. They were nice people but I was in nervana.
God is good all the time
Judy
aviax2
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You know the oddest thing was I liked liver cheese before and after but that lemon flavored Mayo just did me in. I think about that one particular night and oh my stars God was watching out for us. My friends boyfriend was old enough to buy the Boones Farm (which is another thing that gags me to think about) for the two of us plus another friend and took us to his family’s house. His room was upstairs and the only way to access it was up a ladder, across the roof and through the window. There was a hole in the floor up there that you could use one of the pull down/fold up ladder but alas no ladder, just a hole. Well I’m terrified of heights but I managed the trip up the first time okay. Then all three of us needed the bathroom. Uh no, we can’t jump through that hole, we’ll break a leg, arm , neck or all three. So out the window, across the roof and down the ladder we went. We got inside and went to the bathroom where their was no tp, the toilet didn’t flush and thank you to this day there was no light to see what was in there. Back up the ladder… we were feeling a little tipsy at that point but to this day I think that creep and his brother put something in the wine because I for one got really sick. I pulled a folding chair over to the window and hung my head out and was sick as I’ve ever been (which I believe was a good thing because again, I really think they put something in our bottles). Fortunately it started to rain, hard, so all the sick was being washed off the roof. My friends were joining me at the window from time to time by then. It was getting time to take us home since it was a school night after all. How we made off that slick roof and ladder in that rain being drunk and probably high with an unknown drug plus the 3 of them were smoking weed, without falling, I’ll never know.The boyfriend took us to another friends house hoping her mother would make us coffee to sober us up, we just all ended up sick in the bathroom. He then got us back in the car to drive us back to his girlfriend house and stopped in the road where there was a huge puddle of water and splashed himself really well so it would look like he had indeed had a flat tire that he had to change in the pouring rain because that’s the lie he told her mother for us being a little late. Well mom was so understanding and I thought we had gotten off pretty easy but mom was way smarter than me. She sent her daughter off to the shower and came and asked me where we had the flat, omg, we hadn’t discussed that. I gave her an answer and about a few minutes later I heard her ask the boyfriend on the phone (she told him to call and let her know he was safely home) and I knew the chances of us giving the same answer was mighty slim LOL, and I was right. I don’t know why we were so stupid to think she wouldn’t smell the booze, weed and vomit on us as soon as we walked in the door. Well she gave us a good talking to in a very kind, loving way, made us eat the damn sandwiches and go to bed where she came and talked to us some more. The best part about all of this was all three of girls repeatedly threw up in his car, filled his floor boards full and it cost him a lot of money to get it cleaned up!!! We girls could hold a little strawberry wine but not when someone added something to it. I got to talk to my friends mother about 6 years ago and though she didn’t remember too much about by then, I wanted her to know how much it meant to me that she cared enough to help me, I did not have that at home. I’ve only ever to told this to a few people in real life, so I hope no one minded my “confession” in the prep post.
SouthernBreeze
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LOL, you gals! My potato salad recipe is my Americanized version of Cary's German mom's German potato salad recipe. She didn't use mayo or miracle whip, but made a light gravy to mix her potatoes in. The gravy was made from the bacon drippings she used to crumble into the salad along with a bit of white vinegar. Lots of bacon!
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WanderLore
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Plenty of us have similar stories SB!
That was a riot.
Summer how is your eye?
I made a cake, 4 loaves bread, Cole slaw, potato salad and macaroni salad. Taking jar of Levi's pickled beets.
Family party at oldest stepson today. Just be lots of fun.
The guys took the boys to the little Christian school and had the best ever ball game yesterday.
Pizza and s'mores while we watched fireworks from our yard.
Dog tore up the couch. Meds didn't help lol but I plan to replace it anyway.
Transplanted about 40 Roma's I started in an ice cream bucket.
Gonna be a scorcher today, everyone stay hydrated!
That was a riot.
Summer how is your eye?
I made a cake, 4 loaves bread, Cole slaw, potato salad and macaroni salad. Taking jar of Levi's pickled beets.
Family party at oldest stepson today. Just be lots of fun.
The guys took the boys to the little Christian school and had the best ever ball game yesterday.
Pizza and s'mores while we watched fireworks from our yard.
Dog tore up the couch. Meds didn't help lol but I plan to replace it anyway.
Transplanted about 40 Roma's I started in an ice cream bucket.
Gonna be a scorcher today, everyone stay hydrated!
WanderLore
Veteran Member
Correction, I counted, 78 Roma starts. Will see if anyone wants some.
Youngest daughter Summer had birthday yesterday. 32 wow hard to believe
Youngest daughter Summer had birthday yesterday. 32 wow hard to believe
Marseydoats
Veteran Member
My grandmother just made a huge pot of mashed potatoes, added diced tomato, onion, green pepper, and salt, and mixed it together.
I do really like German potato salad, used to get it at a Bavarian restaurant we went to.
I'm not a fan of mayo or condiments in general. Always enjoy reading everybody's recipes.
And the drunk stories were funny. Some of the things I did as a teenager, I wonder how I'm still here.
I do really like German potato salad, used to get it at a Bavarian restaurant we went to.
I'm not a fan of mayo or condiments in general. Always enjoy reading everybody's recipes.
And the drunk stories were funny. Some of the things I did as a teenager, I wonder how I'm still here.
nomifyle
TB Fanatic
That sounds good sans the green pepper. I just may try that when I make instant mashed potatoes.
God is good all the time
Judy