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We love spaghetti around here, Carol, but are very fussy about it. I just did a typo and typed "fuzzy" instead of "fussy". If I'd have left that alone, you wouldda thought I'd lost my mind!

When I get very thin cut pork chops, I make a giant casserole in my big roasting pan. Line the bottom with chops. Add a layer of thinly sliced potatoes, onions, mushrooms and cheese. Another layer of chops. Another layer of the vegetables. Slam the lid on it and let 'er bake.

Maxi got a very cool book for Christmas from my sister and her husband. They gave him "The Boy's Book of Knots" and it teaches all about rope and knotting for various uses. I am going to get him some smooth macrame cord for him to practice with because rope can burn beginner's too easily.

I think I will like learning more about knots, too.


Merme

that casserole sounds good merme--I'll have to get a bigger pkg of chops & try it some time--writting it down after I get done here--

again, Thanks

That book sounds like a great present for Maxi; He should get hours of entertainment from it--and learn a lot along the way as well.

Knot tying has always interested Maxi, and he learned how to crochet last year and can do a chain. This book also makes recommendations about which knots to use in various applications, so it is handy.

If you try that casserole, Carol, let me know what you thought of it. My guests adore it.

Merme

I need to figure out dinner--we just went shopping yesterday but I have no clue what to make. Hmmmm.....I might just deep fry some chicken tenders and have chicken sandwiches with tomato, lettuce, cheese, and ranch. And then deep fry some fries to go with it! Healthy eater that I am!

I should've bought some chops, I totally forget about pork chops because I rarely make them. I buy a lot of hamburg and chicken, and Mark buys a lot of steaks. He is the steak cooker so I let him pick them out.

Dinner tonight is easy. I am making hamburgers and fried taters. Lot's of cholesterol. Salads to tone it down a bit.

That sounds good to me Tina! One of my fav. things is a big hamburger grilled on the BBQ. If I lived close I'd be inviting myself to dinner at a lot of your homes!

I'm not cranking up the BBQ. To much wind out there. But I am making giant burgers. With mushrooms for mine.

OOOOOOO, I LOVE mushrooms! :ding: them!!!!!! YUM, you are making me half starving right about now!

Half the time I go out to eat I end up with a cheeseburger....even at the nicer places. I could so go for a Fungus Amongus Burger from Bubbas.

Hi Lynne ~ I didn't see you come in when I was typing. I dislike nights such as you describe... it seems a LOT of effort to cook basically for oneself when others aren't up to much. Maxi and I end up doing a lot of soup that way.

Loz ~ I'm with you on the burgers, especially if there are mushrooms involved!

I can never get enough mushrooms to eat and Maxi hates the things. But then again, he is allergic to mushroom spores one encounters around mushroom houses, so maybe his taste is just telling him to keep away?

Merme

Lynne, that's a good night that I'd tell everyone it was an MYO night. Make your own!

Ummmm, nothing better than mushrooms. Half of my family loves them, half hate them! Thankfully Mark loves them or we'd have issues as I tend to throw them in a lot of things I make. Now if only I could make him like peas!

I started buying myself the tiny cans so I can make some more myself now and then.

I am also the only pea eater here. Unless they are straight off the bush. They are nature's candy then.

This pea-eater is going to sneak in a little nap.

Mark is so picky with them, he picks them out of anything they are in! I just don't understand how a person can dislike peas! I mean he eats everything else, brussels sprouts, corn, just about everything.

I'm weird though, I put ketchup on my peas. I know, strange right?

Sleep well!

Ketchup on your peas, loz? I haven't heard of that, but um, it would probably be similar to eating them with tomatoes, and that is a good combination. Something else to try, I see! I love peas.

Merme

Well we have these Englishy type meals....Eggs, chips, and peas....And I eat ketchup with my eggs and chips and I guess one day it got on my peas and I liked it! A stand in for peas is beans. If Mark is eating with us at moms it's Eggs, chips, and beans. Baked beans are pretty traditional to have with breakfast.

Well... I was wondering if I was invisible again there for a while...

I, too, like mushrooms, but do NOT like portobello or the fancy Chinese types.

Amy will not go near them - won't even look at them - spazzes out!!!
And my father is allergic to them - for the longest time I just thought he didn't like them, and a few years ago my mom told me he's allergic!

I've got 1 more part of this knitting project to do, and then it will be ready for the recipient.

Dinner is ready. Gotta go serve it up. See you all later!

Merme

Cooking dinner here myself!

Sorry to leave you Lynne but I've got to get back out to the kitchen!

hi everyone, taking a break from homework

Hi, Kenny. Homework is the pits. I hope they don't overload you with it.

hi and bye, i'm not here long particularly tired tonight.

merme--could you give me time frame & cooking temp on that caserole--AND waht kind of cheese & mushrooms---

Boy can I ask questions or what

I had a good dinner tonight Deep fried catfish nuggets,, baked sweet potato,and cold pea salad ( Finally ate the last of that Pea salad from the other day),, but it went perfect with the fish,, I season the fish and the corn bread batter with lots of cajun seasoning so it's pretty spicy and the cold pea salad was just what it needed,, so from now on when I fry fish CPsalad will be my side dish,, I will post the cold pea salad in reciepes in a few minutes..

OHHHH Loz BTW I like Peas with ketchup on them too if some happened to get on them when I use ketchup for something else on my plate,, anddd I like to mix peas up with my mashed potato's when I have them both on my plate too I have no idea when it that started But I've always done that..

No way, another one of us that likes ketchup on peas! That's too funny, I thought I was the only one out there!

I can't do Catfish.....to make a long story short we bought some once and it smelled like the sewer--it was horrible....I know something is bad when Mark even refuses it because that man eats ANYTHING...I'm the one saying something is bad and he's the one eating it saying, nah--this tastes fine to me.

So that turned me off it forever. Yours sounds like it was good though!

I guess I should hit the basement one more time before bed.....I think I'm on my 12th load of laundry in 3 days.

Just thought I would drop in to say goodnight to you all--se ya in the morning G'night

Good Night to you too, Cindy--

Good night friends. I hope everyone sleeps well. I plan on it.

Morning all, I've got two days of catching up to do in here, back in a few.

All caught up...I think. We are in the middle of another nasty snowstorm, about a foot in total. You can't see a thing out there. They cancelled school again.

DD had a doctor's appointment at 4:40~don't think that will happen today.

Good Morning Tamara--I just finishd catching up too---

I am not here for long today---got a lot to do--this AM I am going to my ceramics class () & this afternoon after I come home & take care of Dante---I am going to the dr. with my friend--she has a check-up due and it is a long drive. I am going with her so she does not have to go alone--

DH thinks it will be good for me to get out once.

Good for you, it'll be nice to get out for the day. I'm stormstuck~but what else is new

I should probably bake some bread today anyway.

well since you are dealing with a storm--the best place is in the house--and yes, I like to bake bread if it is snowing heavily--I think it makes the house all the more inviting---

I've been so tired lately....I should also get caught up in here. I only mopped the floors twice this week, DH said, "You're really not feeling well~the mop has been dry for three days"

Perhpas you should give yourself a rest.
It will be good NOT to go into surgery all wore out---
Your DH sounds like a good guy---

But you know perhpas it is the weather--I too have been so very tired---and I have not been doing much at all--so you would thnk I would be rested for sure.

perhpas we need some sunshine & some dirt to work in

I think it's the weather, being sick and the stress of a wedding and graduation all in one~I've got too much on my plate at the moment. I just need to let some of the little things go...a hard thing to do when your a control freak like me

yea it sounds like you are trying to be super tamara--and yes leave the little things go--after a bit I bet you do not even notice you have let them go--

I saqy take care of tamara---you don't want to be sick come April 4th---

...just hoping it doesn't snow that day either.

Well the further into the spring we get the less likely it is to happen-

and even if it does snow that day, hopefully there is a better chance it will not be the type that will cause you problems.

Rain is supposed to be good luck on a wedding day--so if it snowsa a bit --there is yur rain--it wil just be frozen a bit--

going to go now & get ready to leave for the day---catch you all later---

Good morning. First cup.