Oh yes! I don't remember all of them but there are a few I can think of to lay blame to! Gwen for the crumbs, Toolgranny Linda for Homespun Stars, Caroline for all those tablerunners and her tute on lattice, Teresa for the Shooting Star and getting me started on scrappy quilts, Mary_c for getting me started making tops for QOV, LindaOH for that thread on Wonky Pinwheels, Rosa is a troublemaker with all the neat things she makes, Vicky's Carpenter's Square and of course the D9P and jars. These are not all of them by far! Ya'll are a bunch of enablers! @:) And I love it!!!! lol SharonG/FL

Rho, I have seen those really expensive machines, and I know that ,beyond a doubt, there are not enough garments or anything else that I could produce in one lifetime to warrant the price of those machines. Just to buy the thread for the embroidery function can be prohibitive. And, I really don't believe that there is any more pleasure to be gotten from them, either. Also, many times, the machines that offer fewer functions are really the best. I wish that I had, maybe, just bought a new sewing machine instead of a serger. Now I sew with my old mechanical Bernina with a backup of an old Singer 401 from the 50s the was my moms and that I learned to sew on. All I want is old school. So much of modern life suffers from what I call "style over substance, and, the style sucks". So, where does that leave the substance? The form is not pleasing and the function is even worse. Much of it is a lose/lose affair, in my opinion. It has become difficult to find just a well made somethingortheother. So many things come loaded with functions that you never knew you needed or wanted and still don't need or want. It is all about upsellling things that are really of little value.

LOL! PM, the closest I have to the grange is the black family reunion cookbook, as in not at all like the grange. But there could be a recipe in there. i didn't think to look. Recently, I got a compilation reprint the suffragist's cookbook, maybe a bit like the grange but urban, which might also have one. I think all my community cookbooks are Jewish, which would have plenty of eggs, but no béchamel with turkey because the great rabbis had a vote a couple thousand years ago (I forget the year) and by one vote decided that milk and birds had to be at separate meals even though birds don't have mother's milk, and the whole reasoning for separating them at all is that it would be cruel to kill mama cow's calf and then cook it in her milk. (The original prohibition was actually referring to a pagan thing where they did just that, and was really about not doing pagan things, but continued on the kindness to cows (goats, sheep, etc.) policy.)

The chicken and ricotta meatballs were really good and DH heartily approved. I did make a couple of changes (of course I did, you know me :-D). Here's the recipe for those interested: https://www.taste.com.au/recipes/17-minute-chicken-ricotta-meatballs-recipe/w8chqy08?r=recipes/dtivoxmz The changes- I used pork mince instead of chicken- I've made a similar recipe in the past which uses pork mince. Shops where I live don't carry chicken mince and the pork mince was cheaper than mincing my own chicken by about 2/3 the price as well. I also added half as much again risoni as the amount in the recipe seemed not very much, and added half as much again broth (I used vegetable broth as that's what was in the cupboard waiting to be used up).