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This is such a godsend - my own garden is growing gangbusters down here in Macon and my parents have been plying me with vegetables from their giant country garden too. I've literally had so much squash that we've been eating it three meals a day! It'll be nice to have something to do with it that doesn't involve having to turn on the stove or grill.

Made this last night, minus the romaine. We roasted some asparagus and green onions instead. It was fabulous.

Friday - Homemade pizza and a big salad
Saturday - Lightly fried shrimp, boiled potatoes and baked beans, also a giant chocolate cake.
Sunday - Risi e bisi and a big salad.

Making lots of the homemade balsamic salad dressing posted here a few days back. It's delicious!

I'll second Katlian on the "messy husband" bit. Our table is not particularly nice so we always have a tablecloth on there, but when it's just the fam at home, then we'll put placemats down on top. Then if people decide to pop over for dinner I can wisk off the placemats and have a nice clean tablecloth.

Also, I grew up with them so my mom and Mimi are forever giving them to me for holidays.

I couldn't live without my small wisk and my small, handheld grater. I think I use both of those tools every single day.

The recipe for sweet potato grits they had in House Beautiful from this magazine was enough to convince me to ask for a copy!

I may have about 10 lbs of butter in my freezer, 15 lbs of sugar and 4 bags of white lily flour in my pantry. /shifty eyes

It's just so cheap right now that you can't justify not buying it. My German-Yankee grandma goes to the commisary this time of year and buys enough baking supplies to keep us in apple pies for the rest of the year.

Total bust. Spent 3 days ahead of time preparing everything, 2 days cleaning house and decorating and my husband's family came, ate, and left in under an hour and a half. Never again.

There's been a big to do around here in Middle Georgia because a lot of the pecan orchards have been foreclosed on and the trees, which are full of nuts, are sitting fallow in the fields, but the banks don't want people to come and get them. How silly!

jmorri26 - Glad I'm not the only one.