Spirited and Lively Older Women Thread

I want to see the chef outfit!  Sounds like my kinda get-up Marybe

Marybe.....my imagination is running wild at the vision you're projecting whilst cooking !!!!!!!!!!!

Isabella.

Marybe - I am trying to lose weight and you keep putting up these wonderful things.

Never thought to cook the lasagna in a spring form tin, must try that. I am not sure why but several things - lasagna, casserole and some pies are so much better twice cooked,  Did makre a lovely prawn and pasta with mascapone yesterday for lunch. It is a summery dish and very yummy served with a salad.

Must go and see what DH is up to, he has to get some lunch before he goes out to open up an historic house for the afternoon. My sciatica is still killing me so I am going to go and watch some Time Team programmes I have recorded.

Marybe: you have the same pj 's i have (sorta) now, tell the truth, ladies, dont at least 50% of us throw on a top, and run around in their undies? or are we the only ones.. haha i have shorts, and a shirt by thre front door for the ups man.. in case...

  i wanna peice of that cake!!!!looks wonderful, sounds even better.. can't wait to see the pictures of your fangs, girl...

  Isabella; thanks for the pm about Nickki. i will really miss her, her sense of humor and wit was like mine.. im so sorry we have  lost her (chemosabi, or palomino rides again for those who didn't know her... sad. i will answer you later.. gotta run right now.......3jays

Marybe:

I was ROTFLing reading your cooking story (until the part about the burn)!  You should post a picture of the get up because we all have an image of it in our minds!  Glad the burn wasn't bad. I do the same thing with my lasagna. If I serve it on the same day I cooked it the first time, it is very loose and would fall apart, but if I cool it and put it in the fridge overnight and then cook again the next day, it is very nice and firm.  Quite often what I do is put it all together ahead of time and put it in the frig covered in foil.  I leave instructions for my daughter (age 15) to get it in the oven so it is already when I get home from work.  We always have left overs, so I cut it into pieces and put each piece in a individual microwave container (with no BPA's of course) and freeze them and then those are available for work, after school, etc.

Phyllis

Phyllis, I am so glad you were laughing....you need to laugh more, but Oh, no I would never post a picture like that....maybe 30 yrs ago...or even 20...15?...but not today.  It would be good for a laugh, but not a pretty sight.  I had gotten chocolate all over my blouse so took that off to soak and then I was chilly so grabbed my sweater and the pants came off when I had crawled into bed and was watching tv between baking and that was out the outfit came to be.....it is not my kitchen uniform or anything.  The dessert was a huge success and I will post a pic of it cut later....but the plates she had did not make for a good presentation.....she said they were Twilight plates....red with black....could also have been used for a UC bearcats party, but I did not point that out.

Barbe,   I don't know why it holds it's shape, but it does....of course you don't immediately pop the sides off....have to let it stand at least 10 or more mins before cutting into.   Do you let your lasagna cool off a bit before cutting a slice out?....maybe that is why it slides.   I love it with eggplant.....also love eggplant parmesan.   My mother used to always fix french fried eggplant...would cut it into cubes and dip it in batter.....we loved it.

Lyn, Some things that come out of a box are really good.....last night at that Twilight Party the mushroom ravoli she had was the best thing there (next to my dessert of course) and she said she got it in the frozen food section of Mejier. I ate a lot of it. I think Stouffer's makes good things and although I like to make homemade chicken pot pie, I love Marie Calendar's.

BUT, my pic was taken the lst day.   I did notice that a lot of the juice had cooked out of it so maybe that had something to do with it also....sort of ran out of the pan when I flipped the sides open.   Anyway, try it and let me know how it comes out.  It will serve at least 10 if you used a 9 in springform. 

Me in vampire drag....I used lipliner on my eyes.  The other pic is with Tammy the receptionist at our office.  Kelly had this sign at the end of her driveway.  She had the backyard decorated and the food was really good.  She is "ate up" with Twilight. . 

I hope this isn't huge.  

OOps, it was.  But the pie was good.  Back to the drawing board.

Oh wow....you did it!! That is a beautiful pie!! 

That's it for now; obviously still too big, but you can all share in the yum of summer vicariously...

The pie looks yummy!  I love to do lattice tops.

Marybe, love the fangs.

Oh the pie! The pie! Yum, the pie!  

It looks delicious, do not reduce the size of the photo it is perfect as it is. 

Thank you for posting this luscious photo! 

Ginger

I think once she finally sized-down the pic, all the past pics were sized-down automatically.

Glad I stopped in here tonight to see that pic of Marybe in her Twilight fangs, and her decadent chocolate cake.  Y.U.M.M.Y.  Who would pick blood over that cake?  Stupid vampires!

BarbA is on another cruise?   What a total Love Boat lifestyle she has...Lucky her!  Will have to hear about it when she returns and I know there are always some pictures too.