GeorgiaZ said:

Thanks to the new recipe forum (and Bee) there is a whole host of new stuff to try. I need a computer in the kitchen!

A computer in the kitchen, now thats an idea I could live with.

I can't wait till our bathroom remodeling is done and I can get moved back home and try some of these new recipes but for tonight its 2 for Tuesday pizza from Ginos!

hubby cooked breakfast for dinner tonite so I could pack.  Sausage, eggs, and hashbrowns!  Yummy!

:J

Tonight we're having Burrito Pie and the fixin's.  I'm trying that pumpkin bundt cake recipe I posted under “Just Recipes” - so I'll have to report after if it's fit to eat.  I'm sticking pecans in mine.  Chocolate and Mexican would go together better, but I'm trying that recipe!  Besides, after Burrito Pie, you don't eat dessert right away…

How many of you eat dessert right after a meal?  (Please post tonight's dinner after! - I need ideas!)

Suzanne said:

As much as I make desserts, I don't usually eat it after dinner (though I do sometimes).  I tend to eat it as an afternoon snack, or even breakfast, LOL.  I try to have a dessert around as often as possible so the kids have something to snack on (and me, too!).  Right now, we have a pan of cracker candy (or part of a pan….).  I love cracker candy because it's so easy and fast and GOOD! 

My recipe is here:

http://suzannemcminn.com/blog/2008/01/03/cracker-candy/

What I made this time was the toffee cracker candy, and I made it with those swirled chocolate/peanut butter chips, so they kinda have a Reeses flavor to them!  (I didn't put nuts on it this time.  You can leave the nuts off if your people don't like them, and you can use any flavor chocolate chips.)

I tried this - it's amazing how something so easy can be so GOOD!  Thanks for the recipe!

I can't eat dessert right after a meal - it tastes so much better to me the next morning!

In my medical opinion, which is worth much more than this walmart keyboard I am typing on, I am sure it must be PMS! Those foods you name are all major food groups, there for all very good for you. Much better for you than the pickle, mayo and cheeto sandwich I just had! Burp…

GeorgiaZ said:

In my medical opinion, which is worth much more than this walmart keyboard I am typing on, I am sure it must be PMS! Those foods you name are all major food groups, there for all very good for you. Much better for you than the pickle, mayo and cheeto sandwich I just had! Burp…

OMG…now THAT's a sandwhich Georgiaz!!! LOL

I am doing much better today! Still have PMS…had a few cheese/Jalepeno NACHOS  for breakfast wtih ONE little Debbie yellow/chocolate cake and two pieces of  buttered toast with hot tea - had I remembered the new strawberry jam I have, I would have had jam on that buttered toast.

Then, for lunch, I had a small Taco salad and mac and cheese. LOL

beeyourself said:

Jayne said:

hubby cooked breakfast for dinner tonite so I could pack.  Sausage, eggs, and hashbrowns!  Yummy!

:J

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Jayne - where are you going/where are you?  I missed the post about where - but can tell you're somewhere!

I'm in Clearwater Florida.  I had to come down here for some meetings for school.  OMG! I had the best omelet for breakfast this morning and lunch was a wood grilled cheeseburger!  OMY!  I don't know what dinner will bring.  Not going to be my decision, I'm going with the flow.

I'll be back home Sunday. 

Jayne said:

As far as desserts go, we don't eat them til later in the evening on Thanksgiving.  Our dessert with the meal is Jello cubes.  It's crazy, but we sit around the table talking and eating them.  It always kept the kids at the table when they were little, so we could just talk, now they still want to do that!

:J

I think those Jello cubes are an excellent idea!  I wonder if they'd entertain my mother?

After preparing and eating a huge meal, she jumps up like she is electrocuted and clears the table (and then, feeling like a stuffed animal, I must get up and help) and then she starts cutting pies and cakes and passing them out immediately!  I've NEVER been able to enjoy (and I really like to enjoy it) dessert directly after a meal.  I have learned, however, that if I'm going to get dessert - that I need to take my helping and hide it before it's gone.  So I do.  I'm 49 years old and hiding my dessert.  What does that say about me?

When I have any meal at my house - dessert (if there is dessert) is served a long while after a meal with coffee.  I like to enjoy my food and my guests - and dishes can wait until I'm ready.  The only thing I do after a meal is put the food away.

Speaking of which - my Grannie would cover her leftovers with a “spread.”  I still have her spread - it is made out of a red and white feed sack.  She fringed the edges.  This food would sit out all afternoon - in a very hot and humid environment - and we'd eat it later that day.  We didn't get sick.  While I wouldn't do that now, I really think we've de-germed ourselves to death.  We've made it so we cannot handle any bacteria.

Back to my main reason for writing this - really, those Jello cubes are a great idea!

When I was young we would come to WV to visit in the summer. All the relatives wanted to see the cousins from California, so at least once they would all get together and have a potluck at the farm. After we finished eating the aunts would spread a white tablecloth over all the dishes still on the table. Nothing was taken off the table and put into the refrigerator. Several hours later, after dinner had settled, you would find people going back to the table and peeking under the tablecloth to nibble. Soon the tablecloth would come off, and everyone would come back to the table for seconds. No one ever got sick from leaving the food out in 90 degree heat. I suppose in past years there really wasn't a choice about refrigerating leftovers. There was no refrigerator. Things could be kept cool in the root cellar or the spring house, but nothing went to waste. Actually quite a bit went to 'waist' and when we couldn't hold another bite the leftovers went to the chickens or the pigs.