Hey Grandpa, What's for Supper? Part 2

[pennyJo1960]

I get dinner at local Nacho's Mexican. Bought groceries today so get dinner in tonight.

 

[BReeder!]

Chicken thighs pan fried in a bit of olive oil with homemade tater tots (made another batch because they are so delicious) and sautéed carrots with onions that I let go until the carrots charred a bit on the edges. Delicious!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Sausage gravy and baking powder biscuits

 

[sourland]

Leftover ham and mac and cheese, mashed butternut squash and a salad.

 

[Blooie]

Pork roast, gravy, sauerkraut (I can have just a smidge, not the heaping mound I usually have), baked taters, homemade bread. Ken’s getting applesauce and sweet slaw as the sides with his. He’s not a sauerkraut fan like I am.

 

[BReeder!]

Sausage gravy and baking powder biscuits

I just had that for breakfast last week one day. I love biscuits and gravy!

 

[BReeder!]

DW made some turkey and vegetable soup. She dumped in some beef stock too. I'm about to go eat now. Be back on later.

 

[pennyJo1960]

They love my gravy

 

[STACEYH]

I made chuck roast with onions, carrots, potatoes , and parsnips. turn broth into gravy.

 

[Blooie]

I just had that for breakfast last week one day. I love biscuits and gravy!

Have you ever watched Brenda Gantt make biscuits? I did, and I leaned to do it too. I was a couple of days shy of my 70th birthday when I saw her video and tried her way for the first time. I’m embarrassed to admit that until that day, I’d never made a biscuit in my life. Didn’t grow up eating them because Dad hated biscuits so Ma never made them. Later on the only kind of biscuits I ever made were what Miss Brenda calls “whomp” biscuits….the kind in a can that you whomp against the counter to open. These take about the same amount of time than dinking around with the stupid cans, and taste a thousand times better!!

I taught Katie to make Miss Brenda’s biscuits. Katie is still big into learning to cook, and she’s reached the age where she often makes the whole meal at home. For her 15th birthday all she wanted was a biscuit bowl and her own cast iron biscuit skillet so she didn’t have to use her dad’s regular cast iron skillets. So I got her both, plus a flour sifter, an apron, a set of biscuit cutters, a can of Crisco and a bag of self-rising flour. We also threw in a butter churn because she and I often make our own butter. The first few times Katie tried to make the biscuits at home on her own, they tasted good but didn’t rise much. But typical of Katie, she kept at it. Then one day I got this text from her: