So...whats for dinner?

Our drive tonight was easy, I was finished with my treatment about the time I was scheduled to begin, then we headed over to the Hilltop.  So two decades ago, this restaurant was the #3 volume steakhouse in the country.  Imagine our surprise when the parking lot was less than 1/4 full and half the restaurant was closed off.  Inside, nothing had changed except for the lack of people. Our steaks were pretty good but the rest of the food was mediocre at best, except for the baked onion soup which was quite delicious.  Bottom line - we won't be going back.  Anyone watch "Restaurant Impossible"?  This is one of those restaurants that Chef Robert Irvine needs to "fix" as time has not been kind to it.  And they have not kept up with the latest food trends.  So it was easy to see why there were so few customers.

Carrie - glad your mom is improving and your family can help.  So what are you studying???

I always do finger foods on New Year's Day.  Between football games and parades, who has time for a sit down meal?  We are going to my DD's for Christmas, actually spending the night Christmas Eve so we can watch the grandkids tear into their presents!  We've been with them every year since the first one was born! 

Laurie - enjoy your night out tomorrow! 

8 down, 22 to go!

I'm new here, really lime the ideas. Tonight we had homemade cream of mushroom soup, and grilled cheese. I just baked some cookies, sure I got the dough from a package. Gave the kittens some nip and pounce treats. Everyones happy.

The steakhouse sounds good. I have enough weekend work to do just cleaning up. Should let the cooking be done out.

Welcome Liz- I ditto what Seaside said. I lived in paducah, ky for a couple of yeras, I met some of the best people there then any place i have ever been. 

Went out tonight with our friends and we were the last to leave of our friends, my husbands jeep would not start, I could hear a clicking sound, I told my DH that it was the alarm, but noooooo he would not listen to me and went in the lounge and 3 guys came out to help, they all thought it was the battery, while they were all trying to get it started i went around to all the doors and put the key in and then went tryed the ignition and guess what it started. I'm not a mechanic but i knew what it was, why don't our men listen to us when we are right?

All the soups sound good, i'm thinking of making a Zucchini soup Sunday.

Everyone have a great week-end !!!

Good Morning everyone,  The stories are hilarious...Men!  I like to keep all the times I was "right" in the back of my head for future reference.

Today is a friends christmas party for us to attend.... I am taking stuffed mushrooms for an appetizer, whatever is at the party will be our dinner.

I am keeping with my background in the medical field and learning billing and coding.  Looked for a stable field that is a desk job.  We have to learn anatomy and physiology  which is basically a review for me, but the insurance stuff is dry and boring and complicated!  All my classes are online, so its all done in my pajamas on my own time. This field now requires you to have an assoc degree and a state test certificate.  I like the challenge of learning new things. I just couldnt return to nursing, with all the lifting and running non-stop and the double shifts...it was killing me. and the stress probably didnt help my health any.

Happy weekend everyone.  I think some Liquid Wisdom wine is in order for tonight.

Apple you are just toooo funny!!!!!!!!!!!   Enjoy your party tonight!

Picked up a Cheese Steak Sub and small Pizza for suppa, to busy to cook tonight.

Made butter cookies today (my grandmother's recipe). I made a double batch, shouldn't have. I am exhausted, first time in 20 years that I did it. My DD helped, but she got tired of it. I think the part that makes it hard is you have to use a cookie press. Tomorrow maybe toll house cookies. They will seem so easy compared to the butter cookies. Just having a veggie burger and salad for dinner. I can't handle any more cooking today.

You all sound so good! And you crack me up.  I went bizzerk oh where is spell check and had huge chunks of swiss cheese. OJ, mudpie ice cream and ginger ale. I think that's it.  I know all bad. Oh and a snickers bar and coffee. I was hungry and studying all day for 2 job interviews so I deserved it.

You won't need the recipes

Debbie Did you know you can get a veggie burger for your parents at Burger King but not McDonalds?  Probably not healthy though. I'm vegetarian your soy sounds good! I eat soy, not a lot, but you're right it picks up the flavor of anything.

I have a million cookies left to make and not a lot of energy.  about those butter cookies..

the press is tiring and the decorating takes a long time. They are just as yummy and impressive if you color the doughs (white, red and green for me).. roll them into tubes.  .. put them together in a big 1 and 1/2inch wide rolls.. and cut it into cookie slices.  i then flatten them like peanut butter cookies with a criss cross fork.  They hold the decorations, can be made 40 to a pan and whip out like lightening.    you know. .. you do what you have to do.

My party was a bit tiring last nite. I had gotten up at 4 that morning to volunteer at a wrestling tournament.  Wrestling is absolutely the grossest sport.. all that grappling. Ick.  unfortunately, son #2 is the super champ of the universe .. he is freshman and can pin the senior heavy weights.  I need to support him in this because it gives him incentive to keep his grades above failling.  I about puked tho when i saw all those near naked skinny boys groping at each other and twisting their arms about.  like frogs writhing in mire.    I guess I am going to have my husband go to the meets.  My son is properly squeezable and nicely chubby... not worried in the least about moving up a weight class... "mom - remember, i am a strong as an ox and smart as a fox".... i have always told him this.

the horsdooveers were pretty ok.. lots of cream cheese, and lots of farts this morning... just a little wine and pumpkin cake masquerading as povatica.. plus I was not in the best of moods because i ran into this mother volunteer from hell that morning at the high school .. She just started running around starting arguments with everyone trying to establish her dominance.  She came up to me and said WE DO NOT NOT NOT WASH THE FRUIT... !!!! and repeated it for good measure.   I actually said.. "My... aren't we the pugnacious ignoramus this morning".. She didn't mess with me any more during the morning, but seeing her yell at everyone else was a bit disheartening.. I think her hubby is a coach.. I wonder what her dinner table is like.  Sigh.. we could have gotten along just fine because she directs a choir and we could have had a lot to talk about. 

I used to be the big chefola (and never let people know that) but had spent a fair amount of time trouble shooting electrical issues.. I figured out that one plug couldn't supply adequate voltage for the six heaters, coffee maker and crock pots (what a way to cook).  So I am telling the cafeteria manageer this info and she took off and ran with that... WE DON'T WANT THESE ISSUES NEXT TIME... ETC ETC. ETC.. yelling at whomever.

Apple who is so grateful that our family members really enjoy each other's company. Our kids are awesome. funny, kind and and did i say funny?  and pretty much get along all the time.    I miss them when they are gone.

and btw Debbie196... my secret indulgence is a McDonald's dollar doubleburger - no cheese.  I just love them.. for a buck! 

Hi Ladies.................not sure what kind of a press your using, but I find the "butter cookies" t;he easiest ones to make....................I have a press that you just fill, and it has a handle on it, and you crank it one right after the other...........everytime you do , and cookie comes right out on the the cookie sheet.

Now if your using the one you have to turn with the know..............oh my God, that one is awful, and yes I can understand how you would get tired...........................I love my cookie press, and would not part with it...............doing cookies next Saturday with m;y daughter and grandaughter..................I did it for many, many, years, and the first 5 batches were for my 6 kids, and then I put the "kabash" on them eating the rest......................................they were for company, but of course they ate those too.

Now they are are all grown....................I miss those days, they were the busiest, but at least I had something to occupy me...................never had time to think.......like now................oh well....time does move on doesn't it........................hugs girls

I keep dense, whole-grain bread with seeds and stuff on hand. I make grilled cheese with that, cooked in olive oil. Then I mash an avocado with a little salt and lime or lemon and pile it on top of the crispy cheese sandwich. It is perfect comfort food.

Kay..........oh I too have had to take a cookie or 5 off the sheet because it came out of the press "goofy", or did not come out at all.................trust me I'm no expert...............I worked for a school district in Delaware county for 8 years...............I did the baking for 8 schools and the administrative office..........we did everything from scratch back then..........today its open a can of fruit, or a box of cookies that come in by the dozens ................we did it all, cakes, pies, puddings, cookies everything from scratch......we got all our supplies from the government, so it was cheaper to do it that way.

I retired after 8 years of that, and went to work in the marketing research dept. of a major Pharma. Co. in Philly.............stayed there for 15 years, and then took care of my daughters son while she continued to work for the same Pharma company...............I took care of him for 2 years, and then his sister was born, and took care of the 2 of them till just a short time ago................both in school all day, and their father is home when they come in, so no need for me to get them off the bus anymore.................that is why I am so frigging bored now...................

Another daughter says "volunteer"...........I said, "no thanks"................the only job I would do would be feeding the babies in the nursery at a NICU, but,  CHOP, is too far away.............my grandaughter works the NICU there, and says they can use a lot of help feeding the sick babies........................just not going to go all the the way to Philly to do it.............getting too old for that..............76, and counting.........

Have a great day Kay , and don't eat too many cookies............................oh they are tempting...............I will probably put back on the 10 lbs I lost at WW once I start making cookies..................hugs.

Apple- You carack me up- so funny you descrbing the wrestling stuff...LOL! I love cheeseburgers from mcdonalds too but im a cheese addict, gotta have my cheese.

Good tips apple and ducky on the cookes, much, much easier.

Momine- My kind of sandwich.

Carole- Your pork rib and saurkraut recipe was delishious,  will be having leftovers tonight and cant wait, i will make again and again. the carraway really gives it the added flavor i love, Thanks!

Kay- I love spicy flavors too, as most people know i even put franks hot sauce mixed with melted butter over my popcorn yUMMMM!- Oh and sorry for the post the other day on FB that was suppose to go to my grandaughter LOL! You must of thoughts i was "NUTS' haha!