Shrimp salad for garden club meeting
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Comments (12)I know after those meetings I do not want to be associated with any large garden club, not state or national. I guess I'll have to keep trying to find a small club that is having fun. This is a neighborhood group, associated with a large club which I won't mention the name of, but so far, they haven't really done anything of much fun, just fretted about meeting the requirements of the larger club and doing things for them and it's taking all the fun out of it. After a few meetings, I can't figure out why the leader is getting away with this competitive behavior when the rest of the club has verbally stated time and time again they don't want to go that route. It's not really a club. It's run as a dictatorship. I've been to enough meetings now to see that. It's as if she wants to prove something to others and impress this large club because she is insecure. I am sensing competition and anxiety and I left the corporate world to get away from that. Who needs it in their favorite hobby? I've only been to a few meetings, so it's not too much of a waste. Had to try. I imagine the rest of the people will flee as well to create their own club. You should have seen the looks on the newbies faces! They looked like they wanted to run right out of there! Disappointing experience but I'm not suprised. I'll keep looking and I'm not going to settle for anything but the right group because who has time for that in their precious free time? Anyways, I needed to vent and was wondering if anyone has experienced this? Is this par for the course in garden clubs? After this experience, I am turned off to garden clubs!...See MoreWedge Salad?
Comments (62)Sharon, my small school had 3 rooms, Kindergarten though 8th grade. We didn't have a cafeteria, or a gym, and the PTA moms brought hot plates in on Wednesdays and that was "hot dog day". For 25 cents we could buy a hot dog and a cookie, homemade by someone's Mom. Milk was delivered to the school, it was 3 cents for chocolate, 2 cents for white milk. I didn't learn about school lunches until high school. When my girls started school, we lived two blocks from the schools, the Elementary, Middle School and High School are all in the same "complex". Closed campus and no one was allowed to leave school grounds, they'd get in trouble for walking home for lunch! Yes, I remember the pineapple ring with a maraschino cherry in the middle. Grandma used to cut a banana into 3 sections, use a toothpick to put the maraschino cherry one top and stick it in a pineapple ring. Voila! A candle. On a leaf of iceburg. LOL Didn't make me like bananas either. She also made some kind of a bunny out of a pear half, raisin eyes, something for ears and a marshmallow tail. Interestingly enough, I remember the lettuce leaf as being more for presentation, we were never encouraged to actually eat the stuff. Living on a farm we ate vegetables and we ate a lot of them. I like nearly all vegetables, but I've never learned to like lettuce, I merely tolerate it. That is probably why I like Woodie's 7 layer salad, there's so much other "stuff"! Well, that and I put the lettuce on the bottom, so I can avoid it. (grin) annie...See MoreSoup Club - help with details
Comments (25)There are a lot of containers that look like that soup container, so make sure to read the details carefully. The plastic one you posted is polypropylene which is the same thing that the supermarket containers are made of, and is the most food safe plastic we know of, especially for hot and cold. New Rubbermaid brand is probably fine (#5=PP=polypropylene), but just don't do soup in any other kind of plastic. Any other maker with the #5/PP mark should be fine, but dollar stores often get goods that are mislabelled, which is why they're cheap, so make sure you trust the bona fides. The deli style ones are fine if your ladies don't have hand issues. The ones with the good seals can be a bear to open. The part you just lifted reseals! And they're very flexible, so if you have a good grip on a full container, the soup can slosh out. The ones with the less good seals leak and can be a real mess. They also don't stack really well until frozen, though probably fine against a wall. I don't know how they do when dropped frozen, however. That was the issue wasn't it? The price is great, but the only ones I have experience with freezing soup in and dropping. The price is the best part, however. It's much easier to ladle soup into a shorter, wider container, as well as easier to stack and store, and rectangles taking less space than rounds. If you're not using specific for freezing containers, you could just use the regular disposable ones. Even the discount house brand ones are polypropylene, at least that I've seen, though some of the cheapies are thinner and might crack more easily. Others are the exact same quality as the name brand ones. I'm not sure how comfortable I'd be freezing something like a brothy soup in the paper ones. I've used them for other things. They're worthy but can leak. The paper's rigidity breaks down, as well. If thin soup is chilled before it's put in the paper, it might hold up better. They'll probably work if people don't mind taking extra care, and making sure they don't fall over. At least they'll be frozen during transport. Perhaps set in a pot to defrost....See MoreBook Club finger food dinner ideas??
Comments (15)Terriks, I'm also hosting book club next week, also 9 ladies and me. Book club is fun but I do relate to not having a lot of space inside! I used to be self conscious because the other members all have houses that can handle bigger crowds but as I've gotten older I don't worry so much. I try to keep in mind that for a dinner party, as long as there is good food, good wine and good conversation everyone's happy right?! My dining room table will seat 10 with the leaf although that then takes up my entire dining nook ;), but I don't have 10 DR chairs, so I'm using my folding IKEA chairs 4 to a side with 'real' DR chairs at each end. Book club informal rule is that the hostess prepares the main dish and the members bring the rest: wine, salad, appetizers, dessert, vegetable sides etc. I'm probably going to serve chicken marsala and the Pioneer Woman make ahead mashed potatoes since I can do both in advance. I don't like fussing around in the kitchen, it's lots more fun to be able to sit down, have some wine and talk about the book. For the December meeting we also do a gift exchange. I'm doing a combination gift of the tea package suggested in another thread along with this mug. Seems to be a fitting theme for book club, at least I hope it is. I also bought a package of bookmarks so I'm giving each of the members a few of those tied with a pretty ribbon as a little holiday extra. (Those might make good stocking stuffers too for some of the readers in my family)....See More- 7 years ago
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