Welcome to our newcomers! So wonderful to have a full table!
Our weather is improving again - rain is gone and temps will break 70* today and keep moving up the ladder through the next week. When it was chilly and wet, we were thinking comfort food and invited two couples for spaghetti supper on Sunday. Now it's going to be 75* here, purrfect BBQ weather, but we already promised them spaghetti, so spaghetti it will be. But we may still have campfire outside for pre-supper happy hour so that still means a bit of yard work to be done today. And some house uglies. Grocery shopping. And I think I'll make actual meatballs so I may get those made today, too. Busy, busy, busy. I have patriotic dishes (service for 4 only) that I plan to use. I'll use a red and blue plate for Bill and me. (as an aside, Eleanor has the same dishes and has used them in one of her books and her greeting cards. I asked her.
). Well, we got quite a response when I slacked off on Supper Club, so it's back and here to stay! And if I'm gone, sick, late or asleep, you don't have to wait supper on me! You go ahead and start without me and I'll catch up.
LOIS - welcome to the table! The thing here is our table has an unlimited number of leaves! Did you find the little outfit for your gr-nephew? I didn't realize beans were off a kidney-safe diet. All beans?
JANA - no squished toes here! Just appreciation! And sorry, but we are a Miracle Whip household. We like the extra little tang that MW has. To us, mayo is bland. And we LOVE pickles of all kinds. But I will be careful to keep all those yummies on my side of the table! My DD's is a house divided on the issue so she buys both and mixes them.
LORI - I've never heard of Tamarisk honey. Do you think it's smokey flavor is because of the fires that CA always seems plagued with? I know, smoke can flavor wine. It's amazing how different everyone's potato salad is. I go heavy on the eggs and add in diced dill pickles and sliced black olives. My SIL uses sweet pickles. Many years ago (I was 18) I was at a ceramics class with my mom and younger sis and our teacher, Inga, who had escaped from East Germany, offered us some of her special potato salad. Since it's one of my favorite foods I immediately heaped up my dish and dug in. She'd put FISH in it!! UGH!! I almost vomited on our work table! My sister, who loves anything from water, scarfed hers down and when Inga wasn't looking, we swapped dishes. She ate it all for me, but I had to pay later for that favor!
SHARONA - welcome! So happy you think that recipe is worth trying. It's from Taste of Home magazine, I think. I tried another new recipe yesterday from my old Betty Crocker cookbook - Taco Casserole Bread. Though it tasted more like cheesy enchiladas to me. Or maybe my chili relleno torte. It wasn't spicy but just mildly flavorful.
BECCA - the chilies I used on the soup were very mild. They were canned Hatch chilies. The Rotel tomatoes gave it some heat though. We like medium heat so the tomatoes were just right for us. But the recipe calls for regular diced tomatoes. We don't have a Walmart in GH. They tried to build here but the community banded together and kept them out. Their business practices drive smaller local businesses out and we didn't want that. But we do go to WM occasionally when we're traveling. They have everything, including ample parking for an RV. We don't have any Dollar Stores here either. The closest one is in Port Orchard, 20 miles away. So I never go there, either.
Well, it turns out I lied about our supper last night. We ended up with burgers and baked beans. And I think tonite will be chef's salad with grilled chicken. I plan to clean out the fridge today, so who knows what will be going into this salad. Everything I find and then some.
What's the menu plan at your house?
