Food for spring

pork steak tonight with mushroom ricw and fresh broccoli and cauliflower (left over from the veggie plate from yesterday)

Have some ham left over & veggy soup.....

Bean n ham soup and turkey sandwiches. Egg salad sandwich for brkfst.

Making bean and ham soup also.

beef stew in the crockpot today. It was yummy!

Jambalaya

our neighbors invited Randy and I over for dinner.. Darlene's Dad just passed away the other day... and they wanted to thank us for being good neighbors and being so concerned with them this past week .. made them dinner a few nights and dropped off the health aid at the train station for them.. I didn't think it was a big deal.. but Chris almost made me cry saying he wanted to let us know how much he appreciated what we did for them .. I tell you.. I really love this neighborhood

Yay for great neighborhoods!!

That was very kind of both of you, Allison.......went to Ruby Tuesday's, had soup & salad bar.....

we had Darlene & Chris over last night.. they are such great people.. had a ton of leftovers from Michele we cleaned up

Today is the last of my leftovers which means cooking.....oh, dear.

We did great with our 9 pound spiral cut ham, no nitrites. Until the kids were gone back to college, I just rebaked it for an easter dinner for each one. By the third time, the pinapples and clove glaze really seeped in! Now, tough decision. Do I make a lentil soup with the ham bone, or just give the juicy treat to our dog? I think we all need the benefits of the marrow.

I would make yellow split pea......

Pasta, meatballs, salad and Italian bread. Also made an eggless choc cake for DDIL's birthday. Grandie is allergic to eggs and peanuts.

Sounds yummy, Jan. I'm coughing myself sick......just making soup for today.

feel better!!

Thanks, Allison....I've done nothing for 2 days....itching to do some yardwork, but really hit hard by this cough & fever.....

Sorry to hear, RD. Being thankful I haven't gotten sick since being home for over a week now. The grandies around the corner have had a hard winter.

Hope you are feeling chipper and up and at em again soon, Marilyn. I did use a variety of dried beans including yellow split peas in the soup. We're trying to get our energy going at our house, too. So discouraging when you're itching to get that old grass off in order for the little green shoots to peak through.

DW made roasted salmon, I made fried rice (with veggies) from NYTimes magazine recipe (last week).

ooohhhh we were so bad tonight.. bought some ice cream at Denville Dairy last week.. but I made homemade hot fudge & peanut butter sauce.. holy cow it was good.. but soooo bad I am sure

YUM! Don't feel bad, I did the same thing. Bought waffle bowls, homemade raspberry, strawberry & orange pineapple ice cream. Toppings were the same..razz., pieapple and strawberry. We put bananas in first then top!!

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BROWNIE YUM ~YUM
Make a pan of THICK brownies. Place a square of brownie in a bowl, scoop vanilla ice cream (any flavor you like really) then melt approx. 1/8 of a cup of peanut butter in the microwave for 15 seconds or until pourable. Drizzle warm over the ice cream and brownie!!
Our local dairy makes these and charges an arm and a leg...I came home and made them and it only cost me a finger nail. :)

:-)

must be ice cream season.. LOL.. same at denville dairy.. costs much more for a sundae .. than a tub of ice cream already packed to take home.. it's a pull a ticket and wait to be called place.. when the lines are huge we just grab tubs and go.. no line there

Yum ...those ice cream flavors sound soooo good! I baked chicken-spinach meatballs for Mom....put in 2 Tbls. of pesto...really perked them up.

Made Portuguese Kale/Sausage Soup. Good for chilly evenings. Used most of the kale that overwintered in the garden, discarding the outer leaves.

you guys are killing me! Ice cream is my down fall!!!

Had grilled bratwurst and pierogis

Same here, Jen. Jeff loves brownies and ice-cream.

Thinking I'll make something with pork tenderloin tonight.

I'm thinking ribs & sauerkraut......

going out with a friend for Cajun food, have a groupon I need to use before it expires

I made a Tuna/Mushroom/Pappardelle melange for lunch. DW made a Herb/Mushroom/Pepper Quiche using her home-made rye bread as crust.

Both sound wonderful, Don....I'm making chicken escarole soup for dinner.....

DH cooked rib-eye steak on the grill with sauteed mushrooms. ended with cake for my birthday.

had to have that chicken piccata.. was in the mood.. added some asparagus .. yum yum!!

Linguini and clam sauce
was supposed to be meet a friend at a restaurant missed a message from her on fb, previously she said she may be a few minutes late, texted her when I got there but didn't hear from her, I waited for her for 45mins, then I texted her again, she didn't answer so then I got worried, texted a mutual friend who tried calling her and she didn't answer, then she got worried and called her mother....sheesh all this panic because a missed message, she ended up canceling because she wanted to spend time with a friend who is dying from cancer(breast cancer that spread), she was home under hospice care and morphine isn't even taking care of the pain

oh how horrible.. sorry to hear that

and she's only 40

Horrible......

Made meatloaf today, baked sweet potatoes, green bean casserole.....