Prep Genrl Weekly prep thread: November 24 - November 30, 2024
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SouthernBreeze
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Good morning to All.
I'm not doing well at all this morning, and our coffee maker went out first thing. Thank God we had a new one in storage, so we got our coffee, anyway. Will have to buy another one to replace the one we took out of storage.
Home fellowship this morning, and that's it for me. I feel the need to just lay around, today. If no better tomorrow, I'll call my rheumatologist.
I'm not doing well at all this morning, and our coffee maker went out first thing. Thank God we had a new one in storage, so we got our coffee, anyway. Will have to buy another one to replace the one we took out of storage.
Home fellowship this morning, and that's it for me. I feel the need to just lay around, today. If no better tomorrow, I'll call my rheumatologist.
sssarawolf
Has No Life - Lives on TB
The day started at 4:30 am.
I'll have more cooking to do this week now as we have a son and maybe grandson if he comes with his dad, this grand is 26 and still lives at home.
I will make chicken soup today from a chicken I deboned last week and have frozen everything earlier in the week. Was going to can it up but company staying a few days changes things.
We still have pumpkins to can up, lots of pumpkins lol. Good thing they last. That will happen some more after Thanksgiving.
I'll have more cooking to do this week now as we have a son and maybe grandson if he comes with his dad, this grand is 26 and still lives at home.
I will make chicken soup today from a chicken I deboned last week and have frozen everything earlier in the week. Was going to can it up but company staying a few days changes things.
We still have pumpkins to can up, lots of pumpkins lol. Good thing they last. That will happen some more after Thanksgiving.
nomifyle
TB Fanatic
I'm sorry you are still feeling bad SB. Praying for you.
I have a funny story about the 26th and the 30th. My ex and I had not been married very long and I was getting new auto insurance. I told them our BD's and our address. They called me back and said they could not find ex at the address I'd given them nor with the BD I'd given them. I got Ex's bd and my dad's bd mixed up and ex had registered his vehicle in a different parish. It was pretty funny then and still gives me a chuckle.
I'll be glad when rutting season is over, our two billy goats have lost their minds and fight each other, so we have to keep them in different pastures. The females lay down when the boys are around and they are all filthy.
I have a funny story about the 26th and the 30th. My ex and I had not been married very long and I was getting new auto insurance. I told them our BD's and our address. They called me back and said they could not find ex at the address I'd given them nor with the BD I'd given them. I got Ex's bd and my dad's bd mixed up and ex had registered his vehicle in a different parish. It was pretty funny then and still gives me a chuckle.
I'll be glad when rutting season is over, our two billy goats have lost their minds and fight each other, so we have to keep them in different pastures. The females lay down when the boys are around and they are all filthy.
Meemur
Voice on the Prairie
Stopping in for a quick bite of lunch. It's in the upper 50s here. I'm trying to finish the last of the outside work, including new car wipers and applying more of the headlight restore solution -- I have older plastic headlights that are turning yellow. New ones are several hundred dollars. Not going to happen! This car is over 25 years old.
Temps will be back in the 20s tomorrow. Ugh! I like it cooler but I wish it would stay in the 40s and 50s for awhile longer. I'm still not mentally ready for winter. Yes, increased vitamin D3 and a little time under a sun lamp is in my future. I generally enjoy November and December, but not this year. I can't shake the feeling we're on the edge of WW III and that's no way to live.
Temps will be back in the 20s tomorrow. Ugh! I like it cooler but I wish it would stay in the 40s and 50s for awhile longer. I'm still not mentally ready for winter. Yes, increased vitamin D3 and a little time under a sun lamp is in my future. I generally enjoy November and December, but not this year. I can't shake the feeling we're on the edge of WW III and that's no way to live.
WanderLore
Veteran Member
In a pinch you can spray wd40 on them. It doesn't last but a few days but it's good in emergency
Meemur
Voice on the Prairie
Yes! I've done that. I have the time, and it's warm enough, so I'll do the no-tool sanding and polishing. It won't take long -- about ten minutes on each side -- and that will last longer than the WD40 treatment, about ten months.
My last batch of cooked pumpkin is in the freeze dryer. When it's done, I'll powder it and store in jars. Keeps great that way. Then I'll start cooking up the roosters we butchered a couple months ago. That will be a bit bigger project, but it also needs to get done.
Have everything ready for my class tomorrow. It's about how to use up leftovers. I try to take something most people around here don't eat a lot of, so they can try it out without having to budget for it. This week is quinoa (one dish with roasted vegetables, and another chicken quinoa salad) and chia seeds (chocolate and vanilla chia pudding). all my paperwork is ready and I think I have everything else ready.
Still trying to organize and clean. I have 2 large boxes of books to go to the used bookstore (I donate them to help out a small business) and a tote to go to Goodwill. Welp - back to work.
Have everything ready for my class tomorrow. It's about how to use up leftovers. I try to take something most people around here don't eat a lot of, so they can try it out without having to budget for it. This week is quinoa (one dish with roasted vegetables, and another chicken quinoa salad) and chia seeds (chocolate and vanilla chia pudding). all my paperwork is ready and I think I have everything else ready.
Still trying to organize and clean. I have 2 large boxes of books to go to the used bookstore (I donate them to help out a small business) and a tote to go to Goodwill. Welp - back to work.
This city girl never understood what an insult it was to call someone an old goat until I went to the Atlanta Zoo and saw a goat in rut. Disgusting! LOL
nomifyle
TB Fanatic
We went to church yesterday and to the holiday meal after. We were so tired afterwards we skipped the pedicures and went home to rest. I started to cancel my grocery pickup, but we were rested enough to go do it. They were out of a few things so I went in the store to see if I could find them. I did manage to either find what I wanted or a decent substitute. When we got home I got everything out that needed to be refrigerated and DH got the rest out.
The one thing I could not find a substitute for was the beef and cheese sticks that I like to keep on hand. The did have turkey and cheese sticks but I didn't want them. I guess the would have been okay, but I passed on them.
I use to be able to go to two or three grocery stores in on trip and now I can barely make it to one.
We are good for at least a month on the cheeses I eat, although not a lot but I do eat some.
The one thing I could not find a substitute for was the beef and cheese sticks that I like to keep on hand. The did have turkey and cheese sticks but I didn't want them. I guess the would have been okay, but I passed on them.
I use to be able to go to two or three grocery stores in on trip and now I can barely make it to one.
We are good for at least a month on the cheeses I eat, although not a lot but I do eat some.
SouthernBreeze
Has No Life - Lives on TB
I got up feeling much better. Swelling in my fingers is gone and only a few pinges of pain from time to time in my bladder. I think the infusion is finally kicking in and doing its job. Now, if I can just get back in and stay in remission.
Warm, today with rain. A cold front moving in this afternoon that will drop our temps. 75 degrees, today, though. Highs only in the 40's starting on Friday. 20's at night. High of 52 and rain for Thanksgiving Day. Cary was hoping to get back to cutting on the "pile", but not if it's raining. Looks like it could start any minute.
Since nobody at our Thanksgiving meal will eat chicken and cornbread dressing (not stuffing), I'm making a big batch for supper for me and Cary tonight. We'll have buttered steamed potatoes and green beans with it. I hope my energy holds out to do it. Nothing else planned for today, just mostly rest giving my body more time to finish healing.
Warm, today with rain. A cold front moving in this afternoon that will drop our temps. 75 degrees, today, though. Highs only in the 40's starting on Friday. 20's at night. High of 52 and rain for Thanksgiving Day. Cary was hoping to get back to cutting on the "pile", but not if it's raining. Looks like it could start any minute.
Since nobody at our Thanksgiving meal will eat chicken and cornbread dressing (not stuffing), I'm making a big batch for supper for me and Cary tonight. We'll have buttered steamed potatoes and green beans with it. I hope my energy holds out to do it. Nothing else planned for today, just mostly rest giving my body more time to finish healing.
We spent yesterday butchering 2 turkeys. I got out my parents old cast iron wash pot to scald them in. I had never used it in all these years. I usually use a Turkey fryer to scald my chickens. I put the pot on some rocks, added water, and built a fire under it. When the water was hot enough,I got the first Tom out of the pen. Dang, he is heavy. Hubby helped. I could not dip the bird by myself he was so big. I got the first one dressed. He dressed out at 45 pounds. 
I cut it in half using my pruning shears. Then Hubby put it on the smoker. I took a short break and we did the second. It dressed out at 40 pounds. It is in the shop refrigerator. We will smoke it in a day or 2. We both need to recover. Lesson learned: start your turkeys later or butcher earlier. I can freeze the smoked meat for meals later. I have room for vacuum sealed bags, but not a whole monster bird. The bird we pulled off the smoker was so delicious. And it was very juicy. Hubby even said that the meat was different from the store bought turkeys. He was looking at the turkeys in our local grocery store and the package said up to 22% solution added. That's just crazy.
I have one Tom and 4 hens to keep. I am hoping to sell some Turkey poults next spring.
Today I will freeze some of this Turkey. I have to start getting the house ready for Thanksgiving. And I need to sew the snaps on grand girls dress. I am not sure my hand is going to work well on the hand sewing. It may require a lot of breaks.
We are both stove up. Yesterday was a bit much. But the second one needed to be done before the weather turned cold which is supposed to start today.
The stray dog is still with us. His only real issue is he will chase my chickens if he is out with them. I may get a shock collar to try. Has anyone on here had any luck with that working to break a dog from killing chickens?
Have a blessed week everyone.
I cut it in half using my pruning shears. Then Hubby put it on the smoker. I took a short break and we did the second. It dressed out at 40 pounds. It is in the shop refrigerator. We will smoke it in a day or 2. We both need to recover. Lesson learned: start your turkeys later or butcher earlier. I can freeze the smoked meat for meals later. I have room for vacuum sealed bags, but not a whole monster bird. The bird we pulled off the smoker was so delicious. And it was very juicy. Hubby even said that the meat was different from the store bought turkeys. He was looking at the turkeys in our local grocery store and the package said up to 22% solution added. That's just crazy. I have one Tom and 4 hens to keep. I am hoping to sell some Turkey poults next spring.
Today I will freeze some of this Turkey. I have to start getting the house ready for Thanksgiving. And I need to sew the snaps on grand girls dress. I am not sure my hand is going to work well on the hand sewing. It may require a lot of breaks.
We are both stove up. Yesterday was a bit much. But the second one needed to be done before the weather turned cold which is supposed to start today.
The stray dog is still with us. His only real issue is he will chase my chickens if he is out with them. I may get a shock collar to try. Has anyone on here had any luck with that working to break a dog from killing chickens?
Have a blessed week everyone.
nomifyle
TB Fanatic
DH ground up two pounds of bacon, thawed one pound of pork sausage and three pounds of venison for me to make meat loaf with. Now a days that just too much meat to deal with at once. I have two nice size meat loafs in oven. I used egg, and panko pork rinds and salt. I have bacon on top of them. The remainder of the meat is in a big skillet cooking. I told him no more large amounts of meat at one time anymore, too much to deal with. Its my fault because I've done large amounts in the past, but no more, maybe.
DH and I both are dragging around. My problem is I've been eating off my diet too much, so my pain has come back. His problem is he's grieving about the cancer coming back, which they lazered off. He's gone outside, so maybe he will feel better.
It has warmed back up a little bit today, I need to get a shower while its warmer in the house.
I'd slacked off my water consumption the last few days but today I'm in good shape with it.
DH and I both are dragging around. My problem is I've been eating off my diet too much, so my pain has come back. His problem is he's grieving about the cancer coming back, which they lazered off. He's gone outside, so maybe he will feel better.
It has warmed back up a little bit today, I need to get a shower while its warmer in the house.
I'd slacked off my water consumption the last few days but today I'm in good shape with it.
SouthernBreeze
Has No Life - Lives on TB
I've got my chicken and dressing made and ready to go in the oven, later. Cary helped me wash up the dishes and clean the kitchen, too. I've still got energy to spare, so I'm on a roll, LOL. I'm going to try to tackle the floors, once Cary finishes bringing in more firewood this afternoon. They really do need mopping, but I'm definitely going to pass on that for the time being.
I've started my new shopping list for the first of the month. I've got several items on it for making all of our holiday treats. Too much sugar, I know, but it's only Christmas once a year. I love the smells of pies, cookies, and candy filling the house all through the Christmas season. It's almost time to break out the egg nog!
I've started my new shopping list for the first of the month. I've got several items on it for making all of our holiday treats. Too much sugar, I know, but it's only Christmas once a year. I love the smells of pies, cookies, and candy filling the house all through the Christmas season. It's almost time to break out the egg nog!
SouthernBreeze
Has No Life - Lives on TB
My chicken/dressing was so good last night. I made giblet gravy to go with it. I only make it twice a year for us. I'll make it again at Christmas. I had a huge pan with lots of gravy left, so we'll have that again tonight with other veggies. There may be enough left after tonight for a meal to go in the freezer. I also pulled a smoked boneless carving ham out of the freezer to cook the day after Thanksgiving for us. None of those at our Thanksgiving meal will eat ham, either, so it's just for us.
We got lots of rain last night. Now, it's turned cold. We still need all the rain we can get. It's past time for us to have more winter like temps. too. All of my roses and azaleas are still in full bloom!
I'm feeling really well this morning. This flare up has passed, and I hope it's a very long time, before I have another one. Thank God for His mercy, healing power, and drugs that were used.
I have 2 lbs. of sausage patties and 3 lbs. of bacon I'm cooking out to go back in the freezer for quick meals, today.
We got lots of rain last night. Now, it's turned cold. We still need all the rain we can get. It's past time for us to have more winter like temps. too. All of my roses and azaleas are still in full bloom!
I'm feeling really well this morning. This flare up has passed, and I hope it's a very long time, before I have another one. Thank God for His mercy, healing power, and drugs that were used.
I have 2 lbs. of sausage patties and 3 lbs. of bacon I'm cooking out to go back in the freezer for quick meals, today.
nomifyle
TB Fanatic
We are both feeling better today, praise the Lord.
I got the meat loaf made yesterday, DH liked it, I wasn't crazy about it. I did have a few bites later and it tasted better. Now I have to clean up the mess from dealing with all that meat. I made two loaves in my new non stick cake baking pan. I've drastically cut back on using plastic containers for food, but I did use two yesterday, didn't have any glass large enough to hold the loaves or the extra meat that I cooked.
DH Is going to help me clean out the fridg tomorrow and wash the shelves and all the inside out. Its long past due to do that.
Even though I'm feeling better is still have to make myself get up to do stuff.
SB your dressing and giblet gravy sounds like what my mother use to cook. I never mastered either but it was good. so glad you are feeling better.
I got the meat loaf made yesterday, DH liked it, I wasn't crazy about it. I did have a few bites later and it tasted better. Now I have to clean up the mess from dealing with all that meat. I made two loaves in my new non stick cake baking pan. I've drastically cut back on using plastic containers for food, but I did use two yesterday, didn't have any glass large enough to hold the loaves or the extra meat that I cooked.
DH Is going to help me clean out the fridg tomorrow and wash the shelves and all the inside out. Its long past due to do that.
Even though I'm feeling better is still have to make myself get up to do stuff.
SB your dressing and giblet gravy sounds like what my mother use to cook. I never mastered either but it was good. so glad you are feeling better.
nomifyle
TB Fanatic
I buy most of my food at walmart. I use their online site to build my grocery list. I was just looking at the history of what I've ordered in the past. Several things have gone up in price in the last year, no joke. Looking at this list I was wondering if any of those prices would actually go down. Even with PDJT, I'm not sure. I've started a new list of the things I usually buy, but after that big pick up we did Sunday afternoon, there is nothing we need, but I put things of the list of what we usually buy.
Butter is inching up, even walmart butter, Kerrygold is about the same as it has been for awhile, I buy both. Usually two pounds of each, I use a lot of butter.
Coconut oil, even the cheap stuff has really gone up in the last couple or so years, but about the same as a year ago.
Our electric bill was nice and low last month, but I hate to see what it will be for this month. The wood stove really helps, but when it gets cold in the back of the house I do turn the furnace on. Its 66 outside right now, 75 tomorrow and in the 50's for 8 days or so. It has been colder than this in November, but also I've worn shorts on Thanksgiving day. Its called life in Louisiana. I'm glad to live in this state, I've lived in other states in the past but his one is home.
Looks like I will only be cooking a late breakfast on Thanksgiving day, Morgan is bringing over plates for us, so sweet. I was going to cook ribs and we would have been fine with that, but the plates will be nice.
Butter is inching up, even walmart butter, Kerrygold is about the same as it has been for awhile, I buy both. Usually two pounds of each, I use a lot of butter.
Coconut oil, even the cheap stuff has really gone up in the last couple or so years, but about the same as a year ago.
Our electric bill was nice and low last month, but I hate to see what it will be for this month. The wood stove really helps, but when it gets cold in the back of the house I do turn the furnace on. Its 66 outside right now, 75 tomorrow and in the 50's for 8 days or so. It has been colder than this in November, but also I've worn shorts on Thanksgiving day. Its called life in Louisiana. I'm glad to live in this state, I've lived in other states in the past but his one is home.
Looks like I will only be cooking a late breakfast on Thanksgiving day, Morgan is bringing over plates for us, so sweet. I was going to cook ribs and we would have been fine with that, but the plates will be nice.
SouthernBreeze
Has No Life - Lives on TB
A lot of people have no clue as to what exactly chicken and dressing with giblet gravy is. I use the old Southern recipe that has been in my family for generations. It must be a Southern thing. DDIL and her family are from Idaho and Montana. They had never heard of it. All they know is "stuffing" that is eaten alongside roasted chicken or turkey. They call what I make a chicken and cornbread casserole, and don't like it.
Illini Warrior
Illini Warrior
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I've mentioned that I'm purging my house, or trying to. I've dreaded the lower cabinets in my laundry room but I desperately need the room to store small appliances in if I have any hope of finishing the kitchen purge.
Those cabinets are deep and a general pain...I started them this morning. I had most of the linens that were passed down to me stored in one section and started with pulling it allout. Both my grandmothers and one of DH's gave me things they made by hand, My MIL gave me lots of vintage things she bought plus I bought a fair amount back in the day. The problem is, I haven't drug them out in a decade or two and now I'm having a problem with remembering exactly which family member gave me what, on about a fourth of it. The other problem is nobody wants this stuff. My DIL's aren't like I was...I obediently took everything offered, promising to see to it that the next generations would receive it. We have two grandchildren and that is all we'll ever have. I'm pretty sure they won't want to be saddled with all that stuff so I'm considering selling all the vintage items not handed down and a few things that I just can't remember where they came from. There is guilt but I'm sick of the clutter.
I guess I'm looking for permission to do that. This is why I'm overwhelmed...I stupidly let my mother and MIL get rid of all their family or vintage items when they were in the purging stage. There is nobody to give this stuff to...they are all smarter than me lol. Plus, I'm keeping the really sentimental things and things I'm positive the grandmother's made.
Those cabinets are deep and a general pain...I started them this morning. I had most of the linens that were passed down to me stored in one section and started with pulling it allout. Both my grandmothers and one of DH's gave me things they made by hand, My MIL gave me lots of vintage things she bought plus I bought a fair amount back in the day. The problem is, I haven't drug them out in a decade or two and now I'm having a problem with remembering exactly which family member gave me what, on about a fourth of it. The other problem is nobody wants this stuff. My DIL's aren't like I was...I obediently took everything offered, promising to see to it that the next generations would receive it. We have two grandchildren and that is all we'll ever have. I'm pretty sure they won't want to be saddled with all that stuff so I'm considering selling all the vintage items not handed down and a few things that I just can't remember where they came from. There is guilt but I'm sick of the clutter.
I guess I'm looking for permission to do that. This is why I'm overwhelmed...I stupidly let my mother and MIL get rid of all their family or vintage items when they were in the purging stage. There is nobody to give this stuff to...they are all smarter than me lol. Plus, I'm keeping the really sentimental things and things I'm positive the grandmother's made.
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I do the old southern style dressing and the giblet gravy even when I don't have giblets lol.
My MIL and mother both made dressing but their techniques were worlds apart. Neither actually used a recipe. MIL's was actually a little sweet, like it was made with jiffy cornbread mix, and had sausage in it instead of sage. It tasted good but not what I would call traditional southern dressing. Mama's was to die and I've spent years trying to duplicate it. Her giblet gravy was made with corn starch instead of flour and had the best flavor. MIL did something with her gravy I really liked. She crumbled a small amount of her dressing in it so I do the same when I can remember but use mama's recipe as close as I can.
SouthernBreeze
Has No Life - Lives on TB
I'm in a similar situation with things taking up room in my house that are sentimental to Cary that he won't let me get rid of. When Cary and his parents moved back from Germany, his mom brought everything with her. All German. Inside their American home was decorated as if you had taken a step back into Germany. Now, all that has passed on to Cary, and my house is filled with everything from linens, table scarves, handkerchiefs, furniture, and wall hangings, dishes, serving platters, etc. I even still have a suit of clothing that Cary wore as a child in Germany. Leather pants and the whole works, even shoes. Plus, a traditional German dress that his mom bought for herself on a visit back over there (I'm sure you all have seen them in photos, usually worn by women at German festivals). If I could get rid of just half of these things my house it wouldn't be so stuffed.
DS and DDIL don't want any of it. They will never have any children, so no grandchildren to keep it for. I'm sure that when me and Cary are gone, they will go through our house and dump everything.
SouthernBreeze
Has No Life - Lives on TB
I don't have any giblets, either. We both hate liver, gizzards, and hearts. I always use some of my chicken pinched up really small in my gravy. No sweet cornbread here. I make my cornbread from scratch the way I always make it, except I add lots of chopped onions to the batter. All the other spices are added when I mix everything together with the shredded chicken in a big bowl. I always do a taste test to make sure I have the right amount of sage and black pepper. Pour it all out in a huge casserole dish and bake. I use a lot of chicken broth to mix everything up with. It's a bit soupy when it goes in the oven, but it comes out really moist and not dry when it's done. I have eaten dressing that is like concrete, because it's too dry.
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That is pretty close to my recipe. I mix some biscuits in with the cornbread and an egg or two plus a can of cream of chicken soup. I've found I like the poultry seasoning better than sage...I had to get it when I found I was out of sage at the last minute a couple years ago. That's all they had at WM.
My mother added celery to hers until my sister found out she was extremely allergic to it. She boiled her onions and celery in the broth for a few minutes to soften them up. I grate my onions because DH isn't a big fan so I don't have to soften them up first. I taste mine so much to adjust everything that I'm half full when I get it in the oven lol. I like your idea of putting the onions in the corn bread batter...clever. They're already soft when you mix your dressing.
Meemur
Voice on the Prairie
For deep cabinets . . .
These can get pricey if you buy them, but they really aren't that hard to make. They've given me back two of the bottom cabinets. I just can't crawl on the floor to get to stuff in the back anymore.
Meemur
Voice on the Prairie
I'm happy. I'm grateful to be off the rest of the week. I slept in this morning and made a full breakfast.
This afternoon, I'm cleaning out the fridge and gathering stuff for Thursday. I've got the steak. I just don't know what I'm fixing with it. I'll decide at the store. I might get a single serving carton of wine, too.
I don't dislike turkey! I just want a really easy, no-fuss dinner this year. Something good, yes, but I don't want to spend hours in the kitchen making it.
This afternoon, I'm cleaning out the fridge and gathering stuff for Thursday. I've got the steak. I just don't know what I'm fixing with it. I'll decide at the store. I might get a single serving carton of wine, too.
I don't dislike turkey! I just want a really easy, no-fuss dinner this year. Something good, yes, but I don't want to spend hours in the kitchen making it.
SouthernBreeze
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Turkey isn't one of mine and Cary's favorites. At all of our large family gatherings growing up, we had both a huge roasted turkey and a nice whole smoked ham. I miss all of those big family gatherings I'm used to. Everyone has separated and gone their own ways now with their own families. Only 3 aunts left.
We're spending Christmas with Mom this year. 2 of her sisters and their families (1st cousins) will be there, plus several family friends, and Cary and myself. We'll have turkey and ham, both, and it will be like the family gatherings I'm used to. I can hardly wait! We would do the same for Thanksgiving if Mom was hosting it this year. She's been invited to her best friend's home for the day. I'd rather be spending the holidays with Mom than with DDIL's weird family. They are all nice, but there is a cultural divide there that no one seems to be able to overcome. Not many holidays left for Mom at 84 yrs, old.
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Meemur
Voice on the Prairie
Some years I cook a turkey, take off all the meat, and make many freezer meals from it.
I'm just not into that this year. Among other things, I have a small freezer, and it's already filled with frozen hamburger, containers of beef stew, and various cuts of pork. I could do a turkey breast, but I like the steak idea and then I'll also make a batch of homemade hamburger helper for later reheating.
I might go all out and get a box of Texas garlic toast. Talk about lazy . . . ! But it would go with the steak and hamburger helper, and it just takes a few minutes in the toaster oven. I'll do that for sure if I don't find any single slices of pie. That's my line in the sand: I'm not buying a whole pie.
Like last year, my goal is to eat well but not gain any weight. One slice of pie is fine. More, no.
I'm just not into that this year. Among other things, I have a small freezer, and it's already filled with frozen hamburger, containers of beef stew, and various cuts of pork. I could do a turkey breast, but I like the steak idea and then I'll also make a batch of homemade hamburger helper for later reheating.
I might go all out and get a box of Texas garlic toast. Talk about lazy . . . ! But it would go with the steak and hamburger helper, and it just takes a few minutes in the toaster oven. I'll do that for sure if I don't find any single slices of pie. That's my line in the sand: I'm not buying a whole pie.
Like last year, my goal is to eat well but not gain any weight. One slice of pie is fine. More, no.
wvstuck
Only worry about what you can control!
This year it’s just Tracey and I and her parents next door.. the kids are all in the middle of something and spread across the country. We’ll do the turkey cause Tracey wants her leftovers, but we’ll also manage a smaller affair.
Everything except the turkey is our own home grown food… it will be good.
Everything except the turkey is our own home grown food… it will be good.
wvstuck
Only worry about what you can control!
Yippee… Amazon pulls through again and it came early. We’ve worked out ways to source most of our meat locally. We just don’t feel like raising cattle and pigs again, so we’ll support our local neighbors. With this jewel we can have sandwiches and other stuff just the way we like it.. if you can’t tell… I’m excited!
I'd really love some of those but these cabinets won't be in much longer...maybe a year or so and what I'm putting back in them right now is mostly countertop appliances that I rarely use like my electric canner, food processors, bread maker, a stack of iron skillets...my favorites are in my kitchen cabinets, etc.. This is a small laundry room right off my kitchen. The plan is to enlarge it by taking in part of the back porch and the exterior walls are up so we've got to knock out the interior wall and gut the existing room. I keep my home canned food on the top shelves above those cabinets...they are seven large mouth quart jars deep. I want to replace those cabinets with open shelves
On the orher hand, I'm tired of waiting on new kitchen cabinets so I'm thinking I will paint the ones I have that are original to this seventy year old house and get some of those slide outs for them. I love those...thanks for sharing! It would be so much easier to keep the cabinets clean with those.
I know I should nag DH to finish the new room and get the new cabinets made for the kitchen but he works so hard and he's also trying to rebuild his shop. I just can't do it so I'm going to bloom where I am planted. It's hard though when he spends his days making other women's houses look pretty. I did finally tell him to stop showing me the pictures. A girl can only take so much.
I'd love to have one of those so we could slice our own lunch meat. I'm sick of the processed stuff and would rather slice my own ham, roast beef and chicken. I just don't know where I'd put it.
Edited to add...please let us know how you like it.
wvstuck
Only worry about what you can control!
I will let you know for sure, this is our second one.. we seemed to have lost one when we moved
Illini Warrior
Illini Warrior
those meat slicers are like breadmakers and some of the other "good intention" stuff that people buy >>> if you check on Facebook Marketplace or Craigslist they show up regularly - all kinds of meat processing gear .....
I appreciate it. I have room now that I've cleaned out and cleared out those cabinets today. Our whole family could use it...DS and his wife are just right down the road.
It's funny how things get lost in moves. DS and his wife were just right next door at my father's house until we sold it. They only moved two miles down the road and there are things they never found again, like both of her incubators. They have the turners. We tried to buy new incubators without the turners but they were nowhere to be found. She ended being gifted three and she still has mine lol...little stinker.
My mother lost her old box cheese grater last time she moved and never got over it til the day she died. I think she still suspected one of her daughters ended up with it even though none of us were in the state when she moved lol.
kyrsyan
Has No Life - Lives on TB
I got a surprise today. Dad sent me a link to an old black and white Candid Camera episode. The last person recorded for the episode is one of my great grandfathers.
He passed not long before I was born due to a venomous snake bite. I never got to meet him but I've heard about him.
I wonder what he would think if he could know that one of his great grand children got to see and hear him for the first time, almost half a century after his death, due to the ability to record video. (And knowing Dad, my brothers have likely seen it as well.)
He was a smart guy. He caught on to the CC stunt and who they were really quickly.
And in watching that episode, I was reminded that regardless of how much things have changed, they have also stayed the same.
He passed not long before I was born due to a venomous snake bite. I never got to meet him but I've heard about him.
I wonder what he would think if he could know that one of his great grand children got to see and hear him for the first time, almost half a century after his death, due to the ability to record video. (And knowing Dad, my brothers have likely seen it as well.)
He was a smart guy. He caught on to the CC stunt and who they were really quickly.
And in watching that episode, I was reminded that regardless of how much things have changed, they have also stayed the same.
Not so much here...there's a ton of living off the land folks in my neck of the woods and they use that stuff up and wear it out. There was not one thing on Craig's list and what Facebook has was an hour away, worn out and priced as new. The exception is folks on hard times pawning their stuff because they are in a bind and thinking they can get it back which sometimes doesn't happen. Several folks around here have enough meat processing equipment to open their own business and it gets passed down...lots of hunting.
I managed to score a cheap meat grinder at a yard sale once and bought it for my son. That was years ago and they are still using that thing. The good news is, if I buy one and don't like it, I'll have no trouble selling it.
I buy and sell antiques but most of what trickles down here to resell is from up north. The reason for that is these poor folks around here wore their stuff plum out. Anything passed down here, through the generations, was in "well loved" condition as we say in the business and treasured, not for beauty, but because grandma's hands wore it out.