Hey Grandpa, What's For Supper?

[Yogiman]

Tutter wrote:
I love growing yellow crook necks, and patty pans,

I grow the patty pans as well and love them. My dad's cousin used to cook them down into a custard and then put them in a pie shell and top them with meringue topping. Talk about good. That thing would make your tongue slap your brains out trying to eat it.
I'm trying to get the recipe from her grand daughter. She is the only one left in the family that knows how to make them.​

 

[Parson's Wife]

Squash? Oh, please....someone have pity on me! I'm so hungry for garden fresh veggies!

No squash here yet! Tomatoes are coming along nicely!

Supper is easy tonight...steak & potatoes...with a salad, and german choc. cake. sweet tea for the drinks...uh, guess that's just standard on my table along with milk and water...I like to serve these in iced pitchers! uhmmm good!
Does anyone else collect pewter dishes? These are wonderful with cold dishes....great conductors!

 

[purr]

well i am making an old family recipe my grandmother used to make during the depresion when canned meat was all you could find. Thats right the old standby
corned beef hash .
1 can of corned beef
a mess of mashed and buttered potatos

lavishly covered in ketchup
i know it can't be great for me and dh's cholesterol but its a comfort food and i miss my grandma. And with grandchildren of my own i want them to experience some of my favorites

 

[Backyard Buddies]

Like Purr, it's going to be comfort food at this house. We're having:

Sloppy Joes
Buttered corn
Salad

I enjoy cooking and serving the fancy stuff, but sometimes you've just got to have the plain ol' regular stuff.

 

[Tutter]

The best laid plans.....

Well, being it's 105 here; 94 in the shade, you couldn't pay me to cook. These are record breaking temperatures, and when I bought groceries at the beginning of the month, I had no idea we'd have this type of heat in May!!!

Therefore we're having the leftover fish, cold, as sandwiches, with tartar sauce. It's really very good. We'll have coleslaw with it, and French fries. (I can set the small oven outside to cook those. I like to dip my fries in the tartar sauce, too.

Dessert? Ice cream! lol! Sheesh it's hot out!

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I grow the patty pans as well and love them. My dad's cousin used to cook them down into a custard and then put them in a pie shell and top them with meringue topping. Talk about good. That thing would make your tongue slap your brains out trying to eat it.
I'm trying to get the recipe from her grand daughter. She is the only one left in the family that knows how to make them.

That sounds so interesting! If you are successful in getting the recipe, I'd love to hear it. That's something that shouldn't be lost!

Parsonswife, I don't collect pewter, but remember drinking from pewter glasses at someone's house a long time ago. Talk about good for cold drinks. I'm glad that they make safe pewter nowdays.

Backyard Buddies, That sounds really good! I haven't made Sloppy Joes in months. I'll have to put it on the menu next month; thanks!

Correction I just looked at the thermometer, and it's 110! Ack!

 

[Backyard Buddies]

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Ack, is right! I certainly don't blame you for not wanting to cook today.

Have you ever eaten Belgian fries? They dip those in various mayonnaise based sauces, so tartar sauce is right in line with that.

I think you got our heat. It was supposed to be 81 today, but it never got above 75. Historical average for this time of the year is 66, with an all-time high of 80 (over 50 years ago). Because we're so close to the coast, it rarely gets all that hot. They say it'll be in the upper 80s tomorrow, so we should be breaking a few records as well. With that, Souplantation sounds about right for dinner tomorrow night!

Hope it cools down for you!

 

[lizardz]

Tutter, where in N. CA are you? I'm in the foothills above Sacramento and it's a balmy 96 here.
So, not much cooking tonight here, either. Have some leftover chicken, so I think I'll do chicken burritos and a salad and ice cream or popscicles for dessert. Too busy getting ready for a fundraiser we're doing for work this weekend - an Endurance Bike Ride (feel sorry for the guys riding as it's still supposed to be hot), but lots to do so I'm doing the last-minute organizing tonight from home. Let's hope it cools down soon!
Liz

 

[Yogiman]

After the rain here early this morning it warmed up some but near as hot as Tutter did, thank goodness. Wow, that's hot. So we cooked supper and had:

Pork Jambalaya
Mustard Greens
Fresh Yellow Squash
Buttered Corn
Cornbread

Now you want to talk about some comfort food, that is it. And we did that right in the midst of a hatch. Go figure.

 

[Yogiman]

amystours wrote:
Yogi, guess y'all came through all that mess last night/this morning okay, huh? Got pretty scary here.

Yeah, we made it alright. Sounds like it was a lot worse on your end than down here. I caught 1 1/2 inch rain in my rain gauge but we needed that.

Tutter is the one that's got it bad out where they live. Can you believe 110 degrees today? Now that right there is hot and I don't care what the humidity is. That's just to dang hot for us old fat boys.

 

[Tutter]

We'll be having egg salad with green salad, and angelfood cake with berry sauce topping.

I knew I wouldn't be able to cook tomorrow, so once it cooled a bit, (middle of the night.) I boiled the eggs, made a pitcher of lemonade for tomorrow, made my 15 white angelfood cake (We seem to have a lot of eggs currently.) and cooked some berries into a topping.

I'm having green salad because I thought to rescue the lettuce from the garden early yesterday, and good thing. All the plants, including native ones, pretty much fried in the early, and unexpected heat.

Backyard Buddies, no, I never had. But I do like them with the tartar sauce!

I'm glad that it didn't get too hot there, after all. It stays even cooler at the beaches up here, than down there, but they were in the 70's today, also.

What's souplantation?

Lizardz, I'm north-west of you, north coast. Supposedly we're in for another day of the same, then a slow cooling trend. We're looking at triple digits here until Sunday. We need a fanning smilie!

Yogi, I'm glad that the rain was not too much there, and that you needed it. That does sound good....I need to make a pan of cornbread, and build a meal around it, once it cools off some!

Amystours, I'm sorry that you had bad weather there, and hope it clears up for you!