Think I'll sit down here for a bit...

[cubanito]

For your neck: get yourself a neck pillow, and never sleep sitting up. Additionally, inquire about neck traction, preferably intermittent.

Traction dosen't work for the rest of the spine, but it is great for the neck.

Just woke up after a 14 hour sleep. It's how I get over minor throat aches and colds.

JR

 

[seajoy]

Ok...I'll try the kitchen....................anybody home???

 

[C.F.W. Walther]

We usually have ham for Easter as well.

Does anyone ever go out to an Easter buffet instead of staying at home? We haven't done it in years and I asked my husband if we could this year and he didn't feel like it (his wallet said no).

Yea, Holiday Inn serves a pretty nice spread for Easter and a place called Bevo Mill. I've taken the family to both. Pricey but worth it. Excellent fair.

 

[Flipper]

I've had Bevo for Thanksgiving once, but not Easter. That's a great idea. We've been looking for a new place to go for brunch. Thanks!

We do brunch with my family, and a ham dinner with his.

 

[Flipper]

Ok...I'll try the kitchen....................anybody home???

Spent most of my evening in a kitchen. We do Meal Makers, which is a place where you go to prepare a bunch of entrees at once, and then bring them home and freeze them to have for dinner over the next month or two. It's been a lifesaver for us. I can have dinner ready in 20 minutes and it's tasty and healthy. It also keeps us out of the restaurants, so in the long run we save money (even though the upfront is rather high). I just take something out of the freezer and put it in the fridge the night before, and it's ready to cook when I get home from work.

 

[dinkime]

we eat easter breakfast at church -- good stuff there! i am all signed up to bring jell-o

 

[seajoy]

Spent most of my evening in a kitchen. We do Meal Makers, which is a place where you go to prepare a bunch of entrees at once, and then bring them home and freeze them to have for dinner over the next month or two. It's been a lifesaver for us. I can have dinner ready in 20 minutes and it's tasty and healthy. It also keeps us out of the restaurants, so in the long run we save money (even though the upfront is rather high). I just take something out of the freezer and put it in the fridge the night before, and it's ready to cook when I get home from work.

That's cool Flipper!

Way to go with the jello Dinki!

 

[LilLamb219]

Yea, Holiday Inn serves a pretty nice spread for Easter and a place called Bevo Mill. I've taken the family to both. Pricey but worth it. Excellent fair.

Oh wow! I never thought about the Holiday Inn!

We've gone to a few halls that have had brunches and also a fancy schmancy place for the arts that was exquisite!

 

[dinkime]

usually i do jell-o eggs, but they have not been working right lately, so it will be a bowl or 2 -- probably 2 so one can be sugar free

 

[seajoy]

Good idea, Dinki.

I made fish for my hubby tonight...he said it tasted "fishy".............what the world does that mean?

 

[dinkime]

hmmmmmmm

fishy tasting fish.....who knows?!?!

 

[C.F.W. Walther]

that sounds fishy to me

 

[seajoy]

that sounds fishy to me

that's what I thought

 

[DaRev]

I never made it to the Bevo Mill. I drove past it numerous times... but never stopped.

Kind of a neat looking place, though. And it's only open at certain times if I remember right.

Did you know it is exactly half way between the brewery and Grant's Farm?

 

[C.F.W. Walther]

I never made it to the Bevo Mill. I drove past it numerous times... but never stopped.

Kind of a neat looking place, though. And it's only open at certain times if I remember right.

Did you know it is exactly half way between the brewery and Grant's Farm?

That's supposed to be the story. I thnk it was August A Busch Sr that built it for that reason.

 

[synger]

Spent most of my evening in a kitchen. We do Meal Makers, which is a place where you go to prepare a bunch of entrees at once, and then bring them home and freeze them to have for dinner over the next month or two. It's been a lifesaver for us. I can have dinner ready in 20 minutes and it's tasty and healthy. It also keeps us out of the restaurants, so in the long run we save money (even though the upfront is rather high). I just take something out of the freezer and put it in the fridge the night before, and it's ready to cook when I get home from work.

I do a modified form of this. Not Meal Makers, but so-called "investment cooking". It's like once-a-month cooking but not so involved. I make an extra chicken when I roast chicken, or I make a crockpot full of chili one weekned, and a crockpot full of pork and kraut the next, and freeze them in one-serving containers. That way we always have about four-six different types of meals in our freezer, for when Hunter comes home late from school, or I'm rushing to get dinner between coming home at 5:30 and going to church at 7.

Since it's only the three of us (and Gem won't eat anything but PB&J or chicken nuggets anyway), it's easy for me to do.

 

[dinkime]

i have never eaten at bevo mill -- but i want to!!

they were closed for awhile, but recently reopened

 

[Flipper]

I do a modified form of this. Not Meal Makers, but so-called "investment cooking". It's like once-a-month cooking but not so involved. I make an extra chicken when I roast chicken, or I make a crockpot full of chili one weekned, and a crockpot full of pork and kraut the next, and freeze them in one-serving containers. That way we always have about four-six different types of meals in our freezer, for when Hunter comes home late from school, or I'm rushing to get dinner between coming home at 5:30 and going to church at 7.

Since it's only the three of us (and Gem won't eat anything but PB&J or chicken nuggets anyway), it's easy for me to do.

I'll do that too - like if I see boneless chicken on sale, for example, I'll buy a bunch, cook a bunch of it up, and freeze it - then I can just thaw out what I need and throw it in something. Same with lean ground beef. Every Fall I keep saying I'm going to cook up a bunch of stock and freeze it, but it never happens.

With MealMakers, I can get 12 half sized meat entrees (usually three pieces of meat in each entree, unless it's shrimp or scallops, then it's a bunch) for about $160.00. That runs about $13.00 for each entree, and I'll keep the sides simple, like frozen veggies (easier to control the salt) that get warmed up, and minute brown rice (that I cook in low sodium broth or stock to give it more flavor). The meat is fresh and good sized and good quality. I am very comfortable fixing it for company. When we look at dinner out costing an average of $30-$35+ for the two of us, and the added calories in what we usually eat when we go out, this is a steal - and a lot of the time, the food is just as good, and definitely better for us.

I enjoy it because I like going to the different stations with the ingredients already laid out, and you can put it together the way you like. My husband likes going with me to help because it reminds him of chemistry lab with all the measuring devices. We have it down to an art, when it's the two of us, we are in and out in 45 minutes.

If I has more imagination and time to plan it myself, I'd try to do more of it at home. There's also something on Food Network that shows you how to make three separate meals out of one that you put together on a Saturday, or something like that.

 

[synger]

... There's also something on Food Network that shows you how to make three separate meals out of one that you put together on a Saturday, or something like that.

I saw the commercials for that. I have a cookbook like that, called the Monday to Friday cookbook, where you cook enough meat for three meals.

I'm just not that organized during the week. Our schedules don't allow us to sit down as a family for dinner very often. So by the time I get around to making the second meal, the meat's gone bad. So now I just do the freezer thing.

 

[LilLamb219]

If I try pre-cooking my meals ahead and freezing them, they usually don't taste as good as when I freshly cooked them (and I have expensive Tupperware containers!).