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Comments (12)Yup, I just get the sevin premixed spray. The trick is to be careful when and how you use it. Luckily in my experience the stuff that really likes to eat my plants don't come out at the same time as the things that like to pollinate my plants. If your peppers are anywhere close to having flowers (as in, they already have the little hanging lantern flower buds starting to form), then I try whatever else I can first. Don't want broad spectrum insecticides on your plants at the same time as flowers, or you're just going to kill your bees and other pollinators. Luckily though, by the time the pollinators are active, so are the ladybugs and parasitic wasps and all the other natural controllers, so you don't have to spray except in rare cases. Heh, I probably have a reputation for all my plants having a permanent white glaze on them from how fast I am to say to hit the sevin, but I really don't use that much of it. Its just that usually by the time people make a thread its already reached panic time....See MoreMeal in a dish or 'hot dish'
Comments (21)There's always TTHD. TATER TOT HOTDISH -Ground meat (I like to mix Jimmy Dean hot pork sausage with hamburger) -Onion & celery (optional) -Vegetables (Whatever you like. Green beans are sort of "traditional" but I like corn or mixed veg) -Cream soup mixed with milk (Cream of mushroom is "traditional" but I like cream of chicken, broccoli or potato.) -Tater Tots -Cheese (optional) This is so flexible. Use amounts to make the size of dish you want. Use any kind of meat. Roast beef, turkey, chicken... I like to mix them occasionally. It's best to brown the meat and I usually cook the onion and sometimes the celery with it. Depends if I want the onion and celery with a bit of a crunch. Season as you like. I use Louisiana Hot Sauce, garlic, lemon pepper and Italian seasoning usually. Put the meat, onion & celery in the bottom of a baking dish, either in layers or mixed up, top with the veggies, top that with the cream soup and on top go the tater tots. Some like to bake the tots first for extra crunch or they'll be crunchy on top and soft on the bottom. Whatever you prefer. Cheese is optional in it or on it in the last 15 min or so. Bake it until the tots are as brown as you like. The good part is everything is cooked so you don't have that as a problem. Substitute mashed potatoes for tots and you'll have a Shepherd's Pie. You can even use fresh potatoes if you like. Like I said, it's so flexible you really don't need a recipe. Hot rolls, biscuits, toast, etc., all go well with this. Even garlic bread. Another easy option is Scalloped potatoes & ham (or other meat, or go meatless). When I make a macaroni hotdish I don't use a real recipe either. Again, you can add any kind(s) of meat or go without. Similar to baked ziti. Macaroni Hotdish -Meat of your choice -Macaroni or other pasta of your choice. I like the jumbo elbows -Sauce. Can be spaghetti sauce, pizza sauce, with or without some diced or stewed tomatoes, or you can use cream soup(s) or you can use a can of gravy, again, it's flexible. -I like to add some kidney beans and sometimes mixed veg or corn Amounts depend on servings desired and the ratio of meat to pasta you like. A starting point would be 1#-2# of meat, 1-2 cups of macaroni, small to large jar/can of sauce and add the amount of other things you like. I also like to add some pepperoni for a bit of spice. Again, season as you like. Garlic bread goes great with it. Veggies can be served on the side or mixed into these. A crisp green salad is a good accompaniment to thse too....See MoreFoodies: Dishes/meals in books you just had to try?
Comments (22)Recipes For Easy Living by Curtiss Ann Matlock has several recipes in it, two that interested me quite a bit, so I tried them. the Raisin pie is ok, it's a good recipe but you'd better have a LOT of people to eat it, as one person can only stand so many raisins at a time lol. The cornbread was beyond horrid. When you pour two cups of boiling water over cornmeal you get gruel. Baking it doesn't help. Luckily, the donkey's liked it just fine. BTW, I thoroughly enjoyed that book, the third of a trio she wrote about the same bunch of people in Valentine, Oklahoma--an hour from Lawton. Which is darned near home territory for me, near enough to be neighborly at least. First on is "cold tea on a hot day', can't remember the second title & my neighbor has the set right now. I always meant to try some of the recipes from the Covington books, but never got around to it. j...See Moresimple time old favorite 3 dish meal!
Comments (22)Meatloaf, mashed potatoes (both with some gravy) and green beans (or peas). Dad had it last night as his hospital meal and raved about it. Ours is sauteed chicken breast with some kind of pan sauce, brown rice and steamed broccoli....See Moreartemis_ma
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