Category: Food


Usually my hubby cooks dinner for the family. You might think that is awesome, and in a way it IS awesome. But the way it came about was not so awesome. You see, I got really tired of spending hours in the kitchen and then sitting down to a wonderful dinner alone.  I KNOW that my cooking is super-yummy, so my feelings are not hurt with the thought that I’m a horrible cook. But usually when I cook dinner my hubby declares he is too tired to eat, and my son claims that he can’t wait that extra ten minutes for dinner and grabs a bowl of cereal instead. So then I end up dining alone and having lots of leftovers. If I had known that I would have been dining alone I would have just made myself a peanut butter and honey sandwich.

So that is what I started to do. Simply make myself a sandwich and be done with it. Not long after that my hubby was complaining that there was nothing for him to eat for supper. Not long after that he started cooking supper himself. If he hadn’t cooked supper by 8pm I’d just make myself a sandwich.

One of my favorite comfort food meals is grilled cheese sandwiches with tomato soup and bread and butter pickles. Oh, and rippled potato chips, and a cold glass of milk. I don’t know why I consider that a comfort food; I don’t think I’ve ever noticed that in a cook book about comfort food. A couple of months ago my son’s girlfriend came over to spend the day and they were cooking up some grilled cheese sandwiches with apple slices in the sandwich. I’d never heard of that before, but I tried one and it was awesome! I’ll be adding that to my mental assortment of recipes to do again the in the near future!

Tonight I decided to warm up the ham that we bought for Easter that didn’t get used on Easter, and cook up some Potatoes AuGratin (thank you Betty Crocker) and serve up some peas and fresh baked french bread. For dessert I fixed a cake that I only fix once in a rare while – it is called the easiest cake ever.

To make it you take one box of angel food cake and open it up and dump it into a 13 x 9 pan. Then you open a large can of crushed pineapple, open it, and dump it into the pan. You stir the two ingredients together (it gets foamy which is kinda cool) and then bake it for 25 minutes in a 350 degree oven. It is wonderful hot or cold, and I like to serve it with whipped cream or ice cream and with some strawberry flavored ice cream topping drizzled over the top.

The supper was yummy! There are enough leftovers of the ham and the cake for another meal, I think I’ve make noodles for that meal.

When I have the day off of work, I like to use my crock pot and bread machine to cook supper while I’m hanging out around the house. The smell of the bread baking is pure heaven!  So today I am cooking a chicken in the crock pot and french bread in the bread machine. I’m hoping that my hubby will prepare the potatoes and the veggies when it is closer to time to eat.

As I sit here typing this I’m wondering if I should have just dug out my second crock pot and cooked the potatoes in that. I’ve never done that before, but I’m thinking if I washed the potatoes, rubbed them with oil, wrapped them in foil and then just dumped them into the crock pot on low and let them cook the same amount of time as the chicken, that would probably work out just fine! I’ll have to try to remember to do that next time!

Seems as if fire pits are all the rage lately. My sister was telling me that she was looking at some patio fire pits at FirePits.com to get some ideas about decorating her little garden oasis in the back yard.

I think that the fire pits are cute, and when I think of the memories of my own childhood of roasting marshmallows around a camp fire, I think about how cool it would be to have a fire pit to roast marshmallows on again. But then reality hits me and I realize that as awesome as it would look, my “real” family would probably never use it; my “real” family is a bunch of technogeeks that don’t like going outside for any reason at all. I love my family, truly I do, but I sometimes wish that we could have some “old fashioned” family fun together.