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[gallantwarrior]

I just empty the storage unit so that is going to save us $55 a month and now all that we own is in mrg's truck. It's kind of sad and I got rid of a bunch more stuff that I really don't need but I sure did hate doing that. But at least everything we own is parked next to it in the truck and we are still in the RV until probably sometime in the beginning of January. Once we decide where we're going at least everything is alright here and we could just get in our vehicles and go.

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Seems that you are coming to a tipping point and making positive plans, Gracie. At least you're not sleeping in a car over the holidays!

 

[Foxfyre]

I want a dish that I can feed to 9 people though--8 of them non vegans. I found a recipe that combines mashed sweet potatoes with mashed russet potatoes, sweetened with a bit of honey--a little bit shouldn't spike blood sugar--and mixed with olive oil, salt and pepper. It actually sounds good to me and looks good in the photo.

That does appear to be a tasty dish, and not too sweet, either.
Have you ever tried colcannon? It's an Irish recipe using mashed potatoes and kale, or cabbage. It's right tasty, too!

I have had colcannon. But all my cabbage goes into the beef stew for tonight and I don't believe I've ever bought kale.

Beef stew with cabbage? I don't recall having tried that before. I do make chicken soup using cabbage, mushrooms, carrots, and celery. I leave out noodles because of the carbs and they tend to get really mushy.

Yes, I cook the meat - stew meat or hamburger until fairly well done, drain if hamburger is used, add beef broth, chopped up cabbage, potatoes, onion, celery, tomatoes (or a can of stewed tomatoes), carrots or any other appropriate veggies I might have in the fridge, with garlic, salt, and pepper and simmer until the veggies are tender. Served with corn bread or just saltines, it is a house specialty comfort food. Never found anybody who didn't like it. I do season the meat with salt and pepper while cooking it too.

Depending how much onion you use, and whether or not I can avoid the tomatoes, I might not like it. I don't like tomatoes at all and while I can tolerate onions, I don't like much of them. Cabbage isn't great but I'll eat it. I don't care for corn bread, either, for that matter.

Wow Montro. You would starve at our house. Except on Thanskgiving when I try to accommodate everybody's likes an dislikes.

 

[Foxfyre]

Mmmm. The home baked pies don't arrive here until tomorrow. But I might toss a Sara Lee in the oven for the family to enjoy tonight. Son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter are on the way.

That's what I'm doing also.
I do the yams, cornbread and pumkin pie plus the giblets for my dressing tomorrow.

How are you fixing your yams? I need to do a non dairy and mostly sugar free version for one of my guests tomorrow who is allergic to all dairy and is diabetic.

I suggest you just bake one up, like a regular potato. I love mine that way and you can offer any kind of non-dairy salad dressing. I like mine with butter and pepper, but that's out for non-dairy. Everyone else can indulge in the super sweet, yucky (IMHO) traditional method of preparation.

I boil them and mash them and serve them with salt, pepper and lots of REAL butter. That's my favorite way to eat them. I don't think they need anything else.

Also totally yummy. I use butter for everything, margarine tastes...well, yucky.

Yes we have been using real butter for a long time now. And not only does the food taste better but I just feel better about it from a health standpoint too.

 

[Montrovant]

That does appear to be a tasty dish, and not too sweet, either.
Have you ever tried colcannon? It's an Irish recipe using mashed potatoes and kale, or cabbage. It's right tasty, too!

I have had colcannon. But all my cabbage goes into the beef stew for tonight and I don't believe I've ever bought kale.

Beef stew with cabbage? I don't recall having tried that before. I do make chicken soup using cabbage, mushrooms, carrots, and celery. I leave out noodles because of the carbs and they tend to get really mushy.

Yes, I cook the meat - stew meat or hamburger until fairly well done, drain if hamburger is used, add beef broth, chopped up cabbage, potatoes, onion, celery, tomatoes (or a can of stewed tomatoes), carrots or any other appropriate veggies I might have in the fridge, with garlic, salt, and pepper and simmer until the veggies are tender. Served with corn bread or just saltines, it is a house specialty comfort food. Never found anybody who didn't like it. I do season the meat with salt and pepper while cooking it too.

Depending how much onion you use, and whether or not I can avoid the tomatoes, I might not like it. I don't like tomatoes at all and while I can tolerate onions, I don't like much of them. Cabbage isn't great but I'll eat it. I don't care for corn bread, either, for that matter.

Wow Montro. You would starve at our house. Except on Thanskgiving when I try to accommodate everybody's likes an dislikes.

I'm home alone and just finished dinner. I had leftover mashed potatoes, spaghetti, and ground beef. I like having ground beef on plain noodles. I don't like spaghetti sauce. Can you tell my Italian ancestry?

 

[peach174]

I just empty the storage unit so that is going to save us $55 a month and now all that we own is in mrg's truck. It's kind of sad and I got rid of a bunch more stuff that I really don't need but I sure did hate doing that. But at least everything we own is parked next to it in the truck and we are still in the RV until probably sometime in the beginning of January. Once we decide where we're going at least everything is alright here and we could just get in our vehicles and go.

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I'm doing some research for around our area, Gracie
I'll p m you with the information when I get it completed.

 

[peach174]

That's what I'm doing also.
I do the yams, cornbread and pumkin pie plus the giblets for my dressing tomorrow.

How are you fixing your yams? I need to do a non dairy and mostly sugar free version for one of my guests tomorrow who is allergic to all dairy and is diabetic.

I suggest you just bake one up, like a regular potato. I love mine that way and you can offer any kind of non-dairy salad dressing. I like mine with butter and pepper, but that's out for non-dairy. Everyone else can indulge in the super sweet, yucky (IMHO) traditional method of preparation.

I boil them and mash them and serve them with salt, pepper and lots of REAL butter. That's my favorite way to eat them. I don't think they need anything else.

Also totally yummy. I use butter for everything, margarine tastes...well, yucky.

Yes we have been using real butter for a long time now. And not only does the food taste better but I just feel better about it from a health standpoint too.

We also use real butter and think that's healthier ourselves.

 

[Gracie]

I'm kinda all down in the dumps again. Maybe I am bi polar.
Four months ago....I was sitting in my garden..surrounded with the things I loved. Now everything is gone, one dog is dead and I call a borrowed RV my home when not calling my van home. Such a short space of time for so much to happen. I should be prepping for the holiday...feeding the menagerie of birds and critters that called my garden THEIR home...and I'm not. I am in a small RV, on a cell phone, wondering what's going to happen next.

I snuck over to the house last night, just to see familiar surroundings in the garden. I shouldn't have done that. It's all gone. The bird feeders, the sheds, the Hummer feeders, most of the trees. It's all been butchered to nothingness. Thirteen years (this week) of my life erased. To be honest it made me cry.

I guess today's dumping more of parts of me combined with the shock of last night hit me all at once.

What is left? What is even worth of tomorrow? I have been erased.



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[peach174]

I'm kinda all down in the dumps again. Maybe I am bi polar.
Four months ago....I was sitting in my garden..surrounded with the things I loved. Now everything is gone, one dog is dead and I call a borrowed RV my home when not calling my van home. Such a short space of time for so much to happen. I should be prepping for the holiday...feeding the menagerie of birds and critters that called my garden THEIR home...and I'm not. I am in a small RV, on a cell phone, wondering what's going to happen next.

I snuck over to the house last night, just to see familiar surroundings in the garden. I shouldn't have done that. It's all gone. The bird feeders, the sheds, the Hummer feeders, most of the trees. It's all been butchered to nothingness. Thirteen years (this week) of my life erased. To be honest it made me cry.

I guess today's dumping more of parts of me combined with the shock of last night hit me all at once.

What is left? What is even worth of tomorrow? I have been erased.



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No it hasn't, you will always have the memories of those years.
You now are on a new adventure and another path in your life Gracie, with more new memories to come.

 

[ChrisL]

That does appear to be a tasty dish, and not too sweet, either.
Have you ever tried colcannon? It's an Irish recipe using mashed potatoes and kale, or cabbage. It's right tasty, too!

I have had colcannon. But all my cabbage goes into the beef stew for tonight and I don't believe I've ever bought kale.

Beef stew with cabbage? I don't recall having tried that before. I do make chicken soup using cabbage, mushrooms, carrots, and celery. I leave out noodles because of the carbs and they tend to get really mushy.

Yes, I cook the meat - stew meat or hamburger until fairly well done, drain if hamburger is used, add beef broth, chopped up cabbage, potatoes, onion, celery, tomatoes (or a can of stewed tomatoes), carrots or any other appropriate veggies I might have in the fridge, with garlic, salt, and pepper and simmer until the veggies are tender. Served with corn bread or just saltines, it is a house specialty comfort food. Never found anybody who didn't like it. I do season the meat with salt and pepper while cooking it too.

I usually make mine with sweet onions, potatoes (of course - I love potatoes), carrots and sometimes I might throw some corn in there, that's about it. Oh, and dumplings! Can't have beef stew without the dumplings!

I usually don't add corn and we aren't really a dumpling kind of family which is wierd since we are all southerners.

You can't even taste it anyway. Lol.

 

[ChrisL]

I suggest you just bake one up, like a regular potato. I love mine that way and you can offer any kind of non-dairy salad dressing. I like mine with butter and pepper, but that's out for non-dairy. Everyone else can indulge in the super sweet, yucky (IMHO) traditional method of preparation.

I want a dish that I can feed to 9 people though--8 of them non vegans. I found a recipe that combines mashed sweet potatoes with mashed russet potatoes, sweetened with a bit of honey--a little bit shouldn't spike blood sugar--and mixed with olive oil, salt and pepper. It actually sounds good to me and looks good in the photo.

That sounds delicious! I made a dish once out of fennel and celery root. Unfortunately, I don't like fennel much.

I'm not fond of fennel either and I agree it does sound good. So I'm going to try it. If it's awful at least we'll have lots of other stuff to eat.

Fennel is gross, IMO. It tastes like black licorice, and I've never liked black licorice either.

Don't you hate getting the black licorice jelly beans? Why did someone decide that a bag of jelly beans should have 4 or 5 fruit flavors.....and black licorice?!

Who decided black licorice tasted like candy? It does not.

 

[ChrisL]

I want a dish that I can feed to 9 people though--8 of them non vegans. I found a recipe that combines mashed sweet potatoes with mashed russet potatoes, sweetened with a bit of honey--a little bit shouldn't spike blood sugar--and mixed with olive oil, salt and pepper. It actually sounds good to me and looks good in the photo.

That does appear to be a tasty dish, and not too sweet, either.
Have you ever tried colcannon? It's an Irish recipe using mashed potatoes and kale, or cabbage. It's right tasty, too!

I have had colcannon. But all my cabbage goes into the beef stew for tonight and I don't believe I've ever bought kale.

Beef stew with cabbage? I don't recall having tried that before. I do make chicken soup using cabbage, mushrooms, carrots, and celery. I leave out noodles because of the carbs and they tend to get really mushy.

Yes, I cook the meat - stew meat or hamburger until fairly well done, drain if hamburger is used, add beef broth, chopped up cabbage, potatoes, onion, celery, tomatoes (or a can of stewed tomatoes), carrots or any other appropriate veggies I might have in the fridge, with garlic, salt, and pepper and simmer until the veggies are tender. Served with corn bread or just saltines, it is a house specialty comfort food. Never found anybody who didn't like it. I do season the meat with salt and pepper while cooking it too.

Depending how much onion you use, and whether or not I can avoid the tomatoes, I might not like it. I don't like tomatoes at all and while I can tolerate onions, I don't like much of them. Cabbage isn't great but I'll eat it. I don't care for corn bread, either, for that matter.

You are such a picky pants. You must have drove your parents crazy.

 

[ChrisL]

I'm kinda all down in the dumps again. Maybe I am bi polar.
Four months ago....I was sitting in my garden..surrounded with the things I loved. Now everything is gone, one dog is dead and I call a borrowed RV my home when not calling my van home. Such a short space of time for so much to happen. I should be prepping for the holiday...feeding the menagerie of birds and critters that called my garden THEIR home...and I'm not. I am in a small RV, on a cell phone, wondering what's going to happen next.

I snuck over to the house last night, just to see familiar surroundings in the garden. I shouldn't have done that. It's all gone. The bird feeders, the sheds, the Hummer feeders, most of the trees. It's all been butchered to nothingness. Thirteen years (this week) of my life erased. To be honest it made me cry.

I guess today's dumping more of parts of me combined with the shock of last night hit me all at once.

What is left? What is even worth of tomorrow? I have been erased.



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You know, life is like a roller coaster with ups and downs. I know things must seem pretty awful right now, but things will be looking up for you soon. Keep your chin up, girlfriend. You can just come here and vent to us any time.

 

[ChrisL]

 

[ChrisL]

 

[blackhawk]

 

[Sherry]

WQ left it up once when I didn't turn on the light in the middle of the night...he never wants to traumatize me like that again.

 

[Sherry]

 

[Montrovant]

WQ left it up once when I didn't turn on the light in the middle of the night...he never wants to traumatize me like that again.

Everyone should just put the lid down, that's the only fair solution.

 

[Montrovant]

That does appear to be a tasty dish, and not too sweet, either.
Have you ever tried colcannon? It's an Irish recipe using mashed potatoes and kale, or cabbage. It's right tasty, too!

I have had colcannon. But all my cabbage goes into the beef stew for tonight and I don't believe I've ever bought kale.

Beef stew with cabbage? I don't recall having tried that before. I do make chicken soup using cabbage, mushrooms, carrots, and celery. I leave out noodles because of the carbs and they tend to get really mushy.

Yes, I cook the meat - stew meat or hamburger until fairly well done, drain if hamburger is used, add beef broth, chopped up cabbage, potatoes, onion, celery, tomatoes (or a can of stewed tomatoes), carrots or any other appropriate veggies I might have in the fridge, with garlic, salt, and pepper and simmer until the veggies are tender. Served with corn bread or just saltines, it is a house specialty comfort food. Never found anybody who didn't like it. I do season the meat with salt and pepper while cooking it too.

Depending how much onion you use, and whether or not I can avoid the tomatoes, I might not like it. I don't like tomatoes at all and while I can tolerate onions, I don't like much of them. Cabbage isn't great but I'll eat it. I don't care for corn bread, either, for that matter.

You are such a picky pants. You must have drove your parents crazy.

My pickiness actually comes from my mom.

Plus I wasn't as picky when I was very young.

 

[Montrovant]

Ugh, I wanted to buy something that went on sale today, so I went to the website at midnight.....and it's already sold out. I loaded the page as soon as the sale was supposed to begin!