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I’ve been working on making ahead meals for when we have
wedding company and also for when I’m having my surgery. Tonight I did up a big chub of bratwurst sausage
into patties. I cooked them all and also
carmelized a ton of onions. We had
sandwiches with it for supper tonight and then I packed up the leftovers. I took two patties for each guest and put
them in a container and smothered them with onions. When it comes time to cook them for a meal
all I’ll need to do is grab out the bowl, dump it in a casserole dish, sprinkle
it with water and put it in the oven to warm up.
I also have stuffed peppers ready for the crockpot as well
as cabbage rolls. I’ll just pop them in,
sauce them, and voila! A meal in a
jiffy. Well a slow cooked jiffy.
I cooked a turkey last week and only used a little of the
meat. I kept the breasts as one piece to
heat and slice for a turkey dinner. The
juices are also frozen and ready to make my sister noodles. Her favorite.
I kept one package of meat off the bones for a casserole. Possibly a turkey pot pie. When I did it, I cooked up the bones and made
some good turkey soup for a meal for us.
You can’t smell a turkey baking all afternoon and not eat some. At least I can’t. I’m not strong enough to do that. I will probably do one more turkey and handle
it much the same way. I have several
frozen turkeys and won’t want to deal with them from about the last week of
April until I’ve healed from my May 14th knee surgery.
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We had Emmi today while the kids went and added things to
their gift registry. It seems to be the
same for nearly every young couple I’ve talked to about their registry that
they don’t want to really register for much.
They found out why when they got nearly everything on the first list for
their shower Saturday. Now it looks
pretty good. Lots of choices in lots of
price ranges. Of course people don’t
always shop off a registry and that’s fine.
Surprises! And it’s always good
to give money instead. I’m one who likes
to give gifts instead of money. Unless I
know that the couple is in real NEED of money, I’d rather go have some fun
shopping for something fun, useful and unique.
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Poor Baby. That’s
Corry’s dog. She won’t quit eating
carpet. Again. We thought when she moved out of here that
the problem was probably solved. She
didn’t do it at their place. Now she’s
doing it again. She was all bound up
this evening. Corry took her out to run
even though the temperature was in the mid 20’s. When she comes in the door here she generally
chows down Nelly’s food as fast as she can.
She didn’t even want to touch it tonight. All she wanted was the water. Lots of water. And her poor belly is all bruisy again. No one ever figured out why. It just does it now and then. I thought it could mean cancer, but she’s
still alive and it’s been a long time since that discoloration started.
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We ran out to Acme for a few things tonight. Just some things to get by. Milk was on sale, 4 half gallons for $5. The sell by date is a ways away so we bought
more than what we’ll be using in the next few days. They’re having a super meat sale too. I can’t take big advantage of it but I did
get some boneless skinless chicken for 1.89 a pound. I’m thinking chicken parm sounds good for one
day real soon.
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Saved myself having to get a nice purse for the
wedding. I had a beautiful one my mom
got that was made in Amish country. The
handle on it broke. I tried fixing it
and even my very old Singer couldn’t handle the thickness. Corry took it to an alterations shop close by
that he thought might do it. For $3 I
have a “new” purse. YES!
~~~~~
Well time to wrap it up for tonight. I’m hoping to get back to regularity but
every time I say that, life gets in the way.
Instead of promising to be back tomorrow, I’ll just promise to be here
whenever I can.
Hugs to all
Until we meet again…
~~Mama Sage
I'm so sorry about Baby. From what you say, it sounds like his condition escalated to the point that it could not be fixed even if he did have surgery. That bruising can only be explained by internal bleeding. Such a sad thing to have happened. (((hugs)))
ReplyDeleteThe bruising was actually a staff infection she got from constantly licking the area on the insides of her legs. Looked like horrible bleeding bruise.
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