Category: General Life


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 the saddest things about my parents splitting up and then remarrying is that the new marriages ended up with new babies added to the families, and when my father died his first set of kids got absolutely nothing from his inheritance. Everything he owned was given to his new family – even his left handed Martin guitar that he had promised my left handed sister. As usual, the original family suffers. Sometimes I get angry at how unfair life can be!

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!

Over the past couple of years I have been noticing that our gutters and down spouts are deteriorating. I’ve been looking at decorating magazines and seen some articles and photographs of something called rain chains that I think I’d like to consider buying and using when my hubby finally declares that it is time to replace the down spouts.

Nobody that I know has ever told me that they have any experience with chains rain, so I’m a little bit anxious about trying something that nobody else that I know has used. Funny how I depend so much on the experiences of my friends and family!

I’ve fallen in love with the beauty of a copper rain chain that looks like lotus flowers, and I’ve bookmarked the website for future reference. My biggest worry right now about copper rain chains is whether or not some one would be bold enough to come up to the house and steal them just for the melt down value of the copper. Maybe I should consider aluminum instead, but I DO love the warm look of copper!

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.