Ok, about the Deer Roast! Everybody LOVED it. It smelled sooo good cooking. Bobby said it tasted just like my beef roast. Sarah said she liked it as long as she didn't think about what it was because it made her sad! Robert said it didn't have that "deer" taste. Bobby's friend told him he had soaked it his Uncle's secret way. Mom said it was the best deer she'd ever eaten (gross!) She took some home for Dad but wasn't gonna tell him it was deer. Dad reads this blog, so guess what Dad? And me, well I tasted one little strand of meat, but I just couldn't do it. I couldn't eat Bambi. I have no problem with cows and chickens because I've eaten them all my life, but I can't do deer. So I had a Veggie (fake) chicken sandwich while everbody else enjoyed my delicious dinner.
A couple of the blogs I follow list their dinner menus for the week. I think that's cool. They must be very organized! I think it would help to think out what I'm going to fix for the week, and then ACTUALLY do it. I've tried this lots of times in the past. It lasts a few weeks, then I'm right back to running in the kitchen at 4:00 trying to decide what I can throw together before Rob walks in the door at 5!
Anyway, it got me to thinking...these other blogs have great healthy meals listed, and if I were to list my meals, I would have to call them Crystal's Crappy dinners because if I try to make healthy, nobody will eat it. If I go for seafood, Bobby has a fit. If I make anything Chicken, he cries "Fowl", (haha I crack me up!!) You get the picture. If it were just me and the Big Man, we'd eat Chicken and Brown Rice or Beef and Brown Rice 3 times a week, you can do lots with those two basic ingredients and veggies, and we love it! The only thing I make that everybody will eat WITHOUT complaining is Lasagne, and even Sarah said she didn't want anything garlicy last time I made that. Oh yea, and hamburgers.
Speaking of which, I tried out a new way to make up hamburger patties, since I buy 10 pounds of hamburger at a time. I mixed the meat with bread crumbs and water, and rolled (smooshed) it out into a rectangle, then used a cup to make the patties. It worked ok, better than making all those patties by hand! I think I'll keep this little trick up my sleeve.
My mother in law gave me that chopper for Christmas year before last as a gag gift. She said that because I have almost every gadget there is, she thought she would get me this since it was all over TV at the time. Well, little did she know that it would become the most used piece of equipment in my kitchen. I used that sucker so much I finally broke it. I don't know what I'm gonna do. I'm so lost without it. I even bought a brand new one last year at a yard sale to use at the River. I sure wish I could go get it right now. Wal-mart had them, but I can't find it now that I need it, boohoo!!
Anyway, back to my original thought. I might try to list my Crappy Dinners for the week on this blog. It will probably be embarrassing, but whatever. It might help me to try to cook better. I'm a great cook (make them stop laughing, that's not funny), but I'm a fattening cook. Just ask my Mommy. She's loves to eat here, especially when we have steak subs & Mexican (no not at the same time)!!
Anyway, it was just a thought. And I've already decided I just can't do it. I can't think that far ahead. For now anyway!
Is this normal? Do most families have this much cereal? It's normal for us, but people seem to think we hoard cereal. The only other person I've ever seen with lots of cereal is Robert's Aunt Sheila. I think it's her fault we have so much. When we visited them in Pennsylvania one year she opened her cabinet to ask what kind of cereal we wanted for breakfast and I was shocked and in awe of her wide selection. I think we've had lots of cereal ever since. Thanks Aunt Sheila!!Ok, what about this? Is this normal? My Dining Room table can look like this and I don't have a problem with it.
But let one little can get out of place in my cabinet and it'll send me into a fit of panic. Every label better be turned to where I can see it. Don't just stick something in there without making sure it's perfectly positioned. I WILL hunt you down and beat you!
My mother says I have OCD, because I'm the same way with my towels. Now, that closet doesn't have to be perfect, because Sarah gets in it the best she can, and sometimes she can't reach stuff, and stuff falls out on her head, and she shoves it back in. I'm ok with that. But DON'T fold my towels wrong. I'll take every one of them back out and redo them. And who in their right mind would fold a towel inside out, then have the nerve to put it in the closet that way? MY HUSBAND, that's who. I love you honey, but BACK AWAY FROM THE TOWELS!!!
One Last thing. Here's what I'll be doing today. I don't have a clue what's in this freezer cause I can't get to anything. The one in the garage is even worse. So if it's not TOO cold, I'm gonna clean both of them, well okay, just rearrange them, then maybe I can start to plan a meal or two. God knows I have enough crap in there to make a months worth of crappy dinners!!
Have a Crappy (I mean Great) Day!
I almost forgot, today is my Mommy-In-Law's B-day. HAPPY BIRTHDAY SANDY!!
No comments:
Post a Comment