What? No AK cole slaw?

Been craving a chili cheese burger, and that's what I had. Open faced on rye with extra pickles, no onions at Johnny Rockets.

Too windy to do anything else, so headed right back in after lunch.

Yes, Glenda--I just came back to add that since I forgot. LOL! We're going to have that wind tomorrow along with cold weather! Ick!!

Beef commercials here tonight.
I put my roast in the slow cooker this morning not knowing for sure if I would do the roast beef with carrots, tators, cabbage, onions etc. or commercials.

I went out to lunch today with the ladies (I'm getting like Glenda with the lunch thing). We just started our winter schedule of lunch and movie. I have a roast chicken in the fridge and will probably have some roasted cauliflower with it.

Cheryl, what are beef commercials? I've never heard that term before.

Georgysmom, you rock, girl! I cleaned my kitchen really good yesterday and now I hate to mess it up!!

We went out to eat with one of Lauren's friends to a Mexican restaurant, which is fairly new to town. There's one in Frankfort that I've been to before. I ordered a chile relleno, which was too spicy for me to eat but the kids liked their food, or most of it anyway. When we got there it was snowing, blowing snow so as we were leaving Lauren wanted ice cream for dessert so we went to Sonic. Sola and I shared part of a small (more like a large) sundae...the rest is in the freezer. Lauren and her friend got icy drinks.

Now I'm making vegetable beef soup for tomorrow. I may eat a little bowl when it's done since I didn't eat a whole lot for dinner.

We are having fresh steamed brussel sprouts, dirty rice and tasso. Tasso is a smoked seasoned pork steak very flavorful.

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Beef commercials? Huh?

Kathleen, Harry always orders chili rellenos when we have Mexican food. Have to love kids--only they would think about a cold dessert when it's snowing. Vegetable soup sounds like a good snowy food. Hope you don't get too much of the white stuff!

Ravencajun, that meat looks so good. Great picture, by the way. Does it come precooked or is that just in a marinade? Is it hot/spicy? I've never seen it around here, but it's probably ordinary where you live. That's why I like to go to grocery stores when we travel. Just to see what they have locally that we don't have.

Same old,same old. I am in a rut as far as cooking.
DH is so fussy.
We had a ham from the crock pot, american fries,broccoli and a loaf bread I baked last night.

Much like a fully smoked ham you basically have to heat it up. It can be very spicy some soak it to wash off some of the red pepper. We use it a lot in beans and gumbo, to add seasoning and flavor. I always add diced pieces to my jambalaya.

I can find it here but the really good stuff I pick up down south Louisiana, great local smokehouses.

We're to get a snow storm tonight so errands that we would usually run tomorrow night we ran tonight. Canned cat food was on sale so we went to pick up 90 cans, we'll go at least once more, maybe twice. We go thru 4-5 cans per day so we stock up when we can.

Anyway, that's a long way of saying we went out yet again, had breakfast!

Friend's DH brought me some just caught fish, so I fried them and had that with corn muffins. Very tasty.

We went out to Olive Garden. I told Mike to remember that meal since we won't be going back again. I can cook better tasting food at home and for less money.

The salad was okay and the bread sticks aren't like I remember them being before. I had chicken Parmengana (your basic frozen breaded chicken with spaghetti sauce over it. The spaghetti was so so with very little sauce on it. Mike had lasagna and said it was so so.

Beef commercials are, I THINK, open faced roast beef sandwiches, covered with gravy.

Don't ask me how I know that, nor why they are called that.

Beef Commercials...guess it is a Minnesota thing! LOL
It is close to rhizo description but not open faced. It is a roast beef sandwich cut in half, a big scoop of delicious mashed potatoes in betwwen the cut sandwich and then beef gravy poured over it all. It was great as usual.

Oh, I haven't had a roast beef sandwich with mashed potatoes covered with gravy for years. It used to be the "blue plate special" in some restaurants. Sure used to taste good.

Phyllis, was your fish walleye by any chance? I just love it and I've only had it in Minnesota.

Nita, I'm with you on Olive Garden. We only go for lunch for the soup/salad/breadstick deal. Don't even know if they still have it. I look around while we're there to see what their other foods look like saw very little presentation and some unappetizing food. And it isn't cheap, either.

Lynn, are you snowed in? Glad you could get out for the cat food. You sure go through a lot, but then you have multiple fur babies.

Ravencajun, thanks for explaining what Tasso is. I bet it makes awesome bean soup. But I'm such a wuss I'd have to soak it a LOT!

Nodakgal, I'm with you. I asked Harry today for menu ideas and he didn't have any, so I told him I guess if we couldn't think of anything to eat, then I didn't need to cook. (Think that'll fly come dinner time?)