Saturday

KaeEll · Original Soap Dish Diva

Saturday

Sundancer · Soap Dish Diva/Divo

I did my grocery shopping on Thursday. I am making a ham dinner including scalloped potatos, grean beans, and pineapple cheesecake for dessert. My cousin, his wife and their adult son will be coming to our house. I am glad I have some relatives here in Houston. It makes it nice for holidays.

shellyinphx · Long Lost DiMera Daughter

Today is an April showers kind of day. We went out in it and picked up another box of bottles. So now, aside from the pad for our changing table we are completely set for these babies.

Anyways, for Easter we are being a bit non-traditional. I wasn't about to make a big meal for just the 3 of us. So we are going to a friends house. They are moving Saturday and need to get rid of food. So we are throwing ribs on the grill. I am going to bring some deviled eggs and some potato salad. Nice and simple and it gives Jolene a chance to play with her little buddy before they leave in a week. Hopefully the rain goes away long enough for us to enjoy our Easter just a little bit.

Kae, as always your dinner sounds great. And good for you for ordering cooked potatoes instead of slaving away so much yourself.

Pineapple cheesecake sounds great

KaeEll · Original Soap Dish Diva

Linda, do you use a mandolin to slice up the potatoes or do you do it all by hand? It's SO time consuming!

My friend, Marilyn, is trying out a new recipe for scalloped potatoes using a crock pot. If it turns out well, I'll post the directions. It saves on oven space when cooking a large meal for a crowd. It's always been a challenge for me now that we only have the one oven rather than the 3 we had. (We had a kitchen downstairs in the big house and I had an old Moffat vintage thing from the 1940's in my upstairs kitchen that had 2 ovens. I loved that stove!)

Hey, Shelly! We posted at the same time! Have fun tomorrow at friend's house!

Are you planning to breast feed at all?

-- Edited by KaeEll on Saturday 11th of April 2009 01:49:34 PM

shellyinphx · Long Lost DiMera Daughter

I plan on pumping. I am even bringing the machine in my hospital bag. That way the babies get the good stuff and I won't be as stressed. Jolene didn't want anything to do with it.

Moore ideas · Moore Ideas Not More Ideas!

Oh, Lord -- you guys know how much I love talking about food!!

KaeEll, I'm so glad you found the Honey Baked Ham place. I love their hams, as you know...

Sundancer -- pineapple cheesecake?? YUM!! Need the recipe. And I also need KaeEll's/Marilyn's recipe for crockpot scalloped potatoes.

We're having lamb, fingerling potatoes, asparagus, deviled eggs, and rolls. I'm not making dessert because it's just Jim, me, and our son.

Happy Easter to everyone!!

Sundancer · Soap Dish Diva/Divo

KaeEll wrote:

Linda, do you use a mandolin to slice up the potatoes or do you do it all by hand? It's SO time consuming!
-- Edited by KaeEll on Saturday 11th of April 2009 01:49:34 PM

I usually slice the peeled potatos on a hand-held slicer. That tool is in Ohio in my other house. So, I will slice them just with a knife. I never had a mandolin.

KaeEll · Original Soap Dish Diva

I've never had a mandolin either but my gadget-freak friend does and is scared of the thing as it's so sharp. I haven't talked to her yet since she made the crock pot scalloped potatoes, but surely will later on today. The au gratin ones I got frozen from the ham place were fantastic! I'll never make my own again!!! YAY!!

Shelly, so glad to hear that you're not planning to make yourself a basket case feeding the babies. Smart choice!!

Moore, what are fingerling potatoes?

So how were the Easter dinners? Chaos reigned at ours thanks to 2 overtired kidlies, but the food was good. Maya (the Kiwi girl originally from Germany) was a clean-up whirlwind and had the place whipped into shape in a flash! Never seen anything like it before. The dining room table was clean as a whistle before we'd even finished our desserts that we took into the living room. We let Chloe out of the bedroom afterwards so she could lick up all the food on the floor under the table (kids) and that was it! Ta da! (We have to keep Chloe in the bedroom when Tony brings the kids, not for the kids' safety, but for the poodle's. She is big enough to ride...)

shellyinphx · Long Lost DiMera Daughter

We had a good afternoon, like I had said we didn't go the traditional route. We had bbq ribs and chicken instead. And now when Dave and Misty leave this weekend they will have less stuff to bring. They begin their trek down to Texas Saturday morning before the sun comes up. I don't envy their drive, they have a 2 year old and a 4 year old. I can't decide which one would make for an easier traveling companion. Since they are each driving rather then tow a car they are each going to take a kid. So blech, headache central.

Anyways, the only traditional thing we had yesterday was the deviled eggs. I made 20 of them because that is all my rubbermaid container held...They were all gone, so that is good.

And the kids had a great time hunting for the plastic eggs in the back yard.

Oh, and Kae...even the doctor suggested me not actually breast feeding. I figure if I pump they still get the good nutrients but I won't have to worry about trying to feed 2 babies at 2 in the morning. Vinnie will get to help. Haha

-- Edited by shellyinphx on Monday 13th of April 2009 09:52:08 AM

Moore ideas · Moore Ideas Not More Ideas!

KaeEll, I've come close to buying myself a mandolin dozens of times, but want one that isn't going to slip. I have just about every other kitchen gadget known to mankind, so I suppose I should risk my fingers for this basic tool. I'll keep the bandages nearby!

Fingerling potatoes are baby new potatoes, but are about the size of a thumb, and are long rather than round. We actually ended up with more of the tiny round potatoes, though, than the fingerlings because that's what the store had. I just cook them in boiling salted water until they're nearly cooked through, drain them really well, then brown them (and finish cooking them) in melted butter, and sprinkle with a little salt just before serving. Couldn't be easier, and because they're so small, they cook quickly. No cutting necessary!!

I want the crockpot potato recipe...

KaeEll, I'm so glad you found the Honey Ham place. I know I said that before, but they're SO good, and make life easy. I haven't tried their potatoes, but will have to look for them the next time.

PS -- I forgot to mention that I love Brussels sprouts, but haven't been able to eat them since my little clotting episode in 1991, and because I'm on coumadin. They're outrageously high in vitamin K, and would undo all of my medication. It took me YEARS to get over missing them, but I finally managed to get past it. I actually made them as a side dish for Thanksgiving a year ago, and it wasn't even painful to see others eating them. I felt like a recovered drug addict!!

-- Edited by Moore ideas on Monday 13th of April 2009 10:47:58 AM

KaeEll · Original Soap Dish Diva

Moore, I usually get a call or make one to Marilyn over my glass of sherry at 6, so I'll ask her about her potatoes then.

Aha, little spring baby potatoes are delicious. I cook them the same way but usually salt them with coarse sea salt before sticking them in the oven. I like the coarse sea salt because it melts in little bursts of saltiness and you can use so much less - good for the blood pressure thing.

Brussels sprouts make people toot. Mourn not, Moore. :)

Moore ideas · Moore Ideas Not More Ideas!

KaeEll, I use fine sea salt, in most cases (which is more coarse than regular table salt, so you get those "bursts", but sometimes use coarse salt -- depending!