What's for Dinner Tonight?

Sherri · #1 06-08-2007, 06:47 PM

I had five big boys to cook for (ages 18-21) besides me and Eddie. Whew!! They can put away the food. I cooked ravioli and also cheese tortellini, with meat sauce. They ate both huge bowls down to the very bottom!! I also made Chocolate Majesty, or Four Layer Delight as we always called it.

If I had to cook for this many every night, I would be worn out! How in the world did women do this two or three times a day, without modern appliances? I filled the dishwasher twice!

TalkLady · #2 06-08-2007, 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Sherri

I had five big boys to cook for (ages 18-21) besides me and Eddie. Whew!! They can put away the food. I cooked ravioli and also cheese tortellini, with meat sauce. They ate both huge bowls down to the very bottom!! I also made Chocolate Majesty, or Four Layer Delight as we always called it.

If I had to cook for this many every night, I would be worn out! How in the world did women do this two or three times a day, without modern appliances? I filled the dishwasher twice!

I made homemade vegetable soup...I know that may seem strange this time of year, but it was almost as good as it was in the winter!!

Sherri · #3 06-08-2007, 06:49 PM

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I made homemade vegetable soup...I know that may seem strange this time of year, but it was almost as good as it was in the winter!!

I make that all year long. Anytime I have a roast, I have homemade soup the next day, made with the leftovers.

Scott Hutchinson · #4 06-08-2007, 06:50 PM

I had Lima Beans and Cornbread.

Sherri · #5 06-08-2007, 07:04 PM

Actually, I would have been happy with lima beans and cornbread, but no one else in my house will touch lima beans, including Eddie.

TalkLady · #6 06-08-2007, 07:08 PM

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Actually, I would have been happy with lima beans and cornbread, but no one else in my house will touch lima beans, including Eddie.

I love lima beans and cornbread, too....We have a garden this year (but husband didn't plant lima beans)....Hubby can eat lima beans but not his favorite type of legume...I can make cornbread and so can my husband. He used to make it with sweet milk, until I taught him to use buttermilk.

Sherri · #7 06-08-2007, 07:11 PM

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I love lima beans and cornbread, too....We have a garden this year (but husband didn't plant lima beans)....Hubby can eat lima beans but not his favorite type of legume...I can make cornbread and so can my husband. He used to make it with sweet milk, until I taught him to use buttermilk.

Well, I didn't grow up with cornbread in Illinois, so I didn't learn how to make it at all. I finally found a Martha White buttermilk cornbread mix that you just add milk to and Eddie likes it better than homemade. The only cornbread I had ever had before we were married was sweet, so the first time I made it for him, I made that sweet Jiffy mix from the box. He was gagging because he said it was like eating dessert with your meal! I learned that night that southern people do not eat sweet cornbread, but they do eat lots of sugar in everything else, including all their veggies and their icea tea.

Scott Hutchinson · #8 06-08-2007, 07:12 PM

Just stay away from Jiffy Muffin Mix that stuff is nasty.

TalkLady · #9 06-08-2007, 07:14 PM

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Well, I didn't grow up with cornbread in Illinois, so I didn't learn how to make it at all. I finally found a Martha White buttermilk cornbread mix that you just add milk to and Eddie likes it better than homemade. The only cornbread I had ever had before we were married was sweet, so the first time I made it for him, I made that sweet Jiffy mix from the box. He was gagging because he said it was like eating dessert with your meal! I learned that night that southern people do not eat sweet cornbread, but they do eat lots of sugar in everything else, including all their veggies and their icea tea.

NO sugar for me in veggies and iced tea, Sherri. Southerners have to have their sweetened iced tea, I suppose.

Sherri · #10 06-08-2007, 07:16 PM

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NO sugar for me in veggies and iced tea, Sherry. Southerners have to have their sweetened iced tea, I suppose.

I had never had a glass of iced tea in my life until Eddie and I were dating and his mom poured me some, just assuming that everyone loves it. I drank it to be nice, and found out that I actually liked it! I make a gallon of it now about every other day or so. My kids have always loved it too. Now that I have three big boys living here all the time, it's a lot cheaper than buying Dr. Peppers.