Southern NY, Dutchess county and below

[irischick]

Hi Marianne I am from Ridge and new to this! I am so happy to find some locals here.

 

[JerseyHen]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]welcome to the thread. Lots of great people on here. [/FONT]

 

[stoopid]

Hi Marianne I am from Ridge and new to this! I am so happy to find some locals here.

ANother Ridge peep. Welcome!
I am in Ridge. and

 

[Carolyn252]

Here we go again... Passover is Monday night and 16 relatives will be here. Some for a week; some for the night, some others for three or four days. One of my daughters volunteered for the first time ever to do all the cooking for the Monday night Seder meal. That's huge for me folks!! Usually takes me four days just to cook for that one meal. There are SO many courses for that supper. I am feeling incredibly free and so lucky. She's playing it very close to her vest and hasn't revealed the menu, but I'm sure it will include soup, gefilte fish and some matzah casseroles and a main course meat, probably lamb or brisket.

So for the rest of the dinners for the week, I spent today and yesterday cooking: I roasted about eight big meaty turkey wings in orange marmalade; made about a gallon of Chicken Fricassee of wingettes, stomachs, chicken meatballs and boneless thighs and onions and lots of garlic, a gallon of a tomato-sauced potted chicken, and about a half gallon of chicken stew in a creamy white sauce and I froze it all. Also cooked up 18 hardboiled eggs. And roasted one egg for the ceremonial platter. The freezer is full of porterhouse steaks that I'll broil with a coating of yellow French mustard and lots of worstershire sauce. Freezer also has lots of fish fillets ready for sauteeing: Swai, Flounder, and Tilapia.

For breakfasts and lunches for the week there will be matzah brei, salami and eggs, borscht with potatoes and sour cream, gefilte fish, and for the constant snacking there's lots of cheeses, both hard and soft. Also charoses spread on matzah (chopped apples and walnuts flavored with cinnamon, brown sugar and sweet red wine. My FAVORITE !) Yams, boiled white baby potatoes, steamed parsnips, boiled celery, steamed zucchini, lots of green salad.

Chocolate covered matzah and chocolate and nut macaroons for desserts. Canned red sweet cherries in syrup too.

And last but not least , real egg creams made with Fox's Ubet chocolate syrup, whole milk and icy cold club soda. Maybe if I have time, I'll try to find and buy a genuine bottle of seltzer for shpritzing into the eggcreams. Yay. That would be wonderful.

I spent about two hours today darning my big white tablecloth. After using it on Thanksgiving, I brought it to a hand laundry. Opened it yesterday, spread it on the dining room table and found FIVE quarter and nickel sized holes torn out. *&#@!**!!

But the darning worked out well and blended into the cloth nicely. Three holes darned today. Will do the other two tomorrow.

Wishing you all Sweet and Delicious Passover Seders, and/ or Happy Sumptuous Easter Dinners; whatever your pleasure. And all of you surrounded by loving family and friends.
-Carolyn252 (as soon as the temperatures climb out of the forties, I'm gonna scrub the ChickArena, shovel out the year's worth of Deep Litter, and add my two little Easter Eggers to the flock. Roberta/Chicken Fairy Godmother has been fostering them for me for the past four months!! I am SO tired of this endless winter!)

 

[smkchick]

Hi Marianne I am from Ridge and new to this! I am so happy to find some locals here.

This is the BEST bunch of chicken folk ever!!

 

[Carolyn252]

Hi Marianne I am from Ridge and new to this! I am so happy to find some locals here.

Hello, hello. Happy chickenkeeping!!

Whole new chapter in our lives. Who knew it was gonna be this interesting!!??
-Carolyn252

 

[stoopid]

I don't know how you do it, Carolyn.
I would just call up for a pizza

 

[queenchick16]

Welcome new Peep, you're going to love us.
Carolyn I'm hungry just reading the post.
Hi Al I've missed you, and you to Roberta
Go some work done in the gardens yesterday. There are holes in them from the girls that are just ridiculous. I bought 12 bags of top soil at HomeDepot and that didn't take care of all of them.they look at me as if to say,"Mom we're just helping" gonna try and get the peas in before the snow/ rain.
Stay warm..

 

[Carolyn252]

I don't know how you do it, Carolyn.
I would just call up for a pizza

That's so funny. Made me laugh out loud.

 

[lichick28]

Welcome Irischick & enjoy chatting on BYC