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Meatloaf!
Roasted Chicken (just read the post "A Million ways to Roast a CHicken)
Fruit Salad (always refreshing).
I make a kale dish that wilts the kale in bacon grease (barely a tablespoon), after wilted add stewed tomatoes and crumbled bacon -can also add shallots and garlic.
creamed spinach, creamed peas (add shredded swiss cheese)

Saw a show on PBS this weekend, Cooks Illustrated?, anyway, they were making a porkloin roast in the crock. First try was a soupy mess and no taste, Second try was a should roast roll tied and then browned. After that, saute onions, garlic 1Tab tomato paste, a can of tomatoes well drained and 1/2c white wine. Cook all that down and pour over roasts in pot. Then they used carrots and parsnips cut into chunks. After 9 hrs on low or 4.5 on High, it came out lokking mighty fine and not soupy but did have a gravy.

My fiance drinks coffee 24/7 so when he has meals with me, coffee is served during the meal. I normally don't drink coffee with a meal unless we're dinning out or it's breakfast. When having a dinner party (which is rare due to my teeny tiny apt) coffee is always available but most will have it during dessert or afterward. My mother served coffee during meals if wanted as well.

My mother's favorite "company dinner" dish was beef stroganoff. We had it whenever we had company over. Since she would accompany it with dessert of homemade apple pie, I always thought it was made from scratch through and through. She didn't like my then husband and I had to wait for 10 yrs after we were married for the receipe. Imagine my surprise and disappointment when I found out all it was was a combination of cream of tomato, cream of mushroom, round steak and green pepper with sour cream thrown in at the end over egg noddles. Come to find out she got it from her MIL back in the '50s.

How many died from cancer with all that smoking?

Two meatloaves (one for dinner and one for samwiches), cabbage, mashed turnips, hamburgers (sandwiches again) and cooked a ham( samwiches and way cheaper than deli meat) I hate eating the same thing for lunch everyday.

While I absolutely love these posts- all those who have left over hotel shampoo etc. Don't toss them. Shelters would LOVE them!!! We have a program here in Richmond where the working homeless come for a week at a time to various churches for meals and overnight stays. They really would adore all those travel products for their guests. It might be a pain ( & Obivously if the product is dried up then toss) but really needed.

I made these and because of a fluke, my oven baked them at 400 degrees and I normally have a hot oven!. I don't care for how they came out- too dry but I have to try again as the temp was off. I did notice when I added the oats it was very hard to mix. I added canraisns as I didn't have date. Funny thing my finance LOVED them.

can anyone name the items in the picture. I get the eggs, bread and ham (?) and beans and sausages. What is that little brown lump?

As we all know beer and wine were once served at all meals even for children as the water supply was horrible and serving milk to children wasn't done. I'm not sure I could take it as I'm a diabetic but the rest of the breakfast looks good if not a bit much.

anywhere in Virginia is local enough for me. Nothing from North Carolina or anything outside the state