Re: Wednesday's Evening Vittles? 3/12/2025

On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 21:16:53 +0000, Dave Smith wrote:

On 2025-03-12 4:19 p.m., ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote:

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What is being served up at your house this evening?
Damn, I hope it's not leftovers as Buffoon Bryan
will shit his pants.
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Here it will be country-fried steak and gravy along
with mashed potatoes and maybe some baby lima beans.
There will be enough for one extra meal to be consumed
Thursday evening.  Damn!  I hope ol' greasy thumb won't
have an apoplexy over this prospect.
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I can stir the pot here a little and say I am eating leftovers. It's not
just leftovers. It is leftover leftovers. On Sunday my wife roasted a
boneless leg of lamb. We love roast lamb and you need to get a nice big
piece of meat for a roast, so there are always going to be leftovers.
The best way we know of to use up the lamb is to make a curry. Since it
was a larger than usual chunk of lamb we had enough left for two nights.
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My mother used to cook a roast almost every Sunday and it was most often
roast beef. She always bought a large enough roast that would be
leftovers. There would be enough for roast beef sandwiches, some would
be sliced and heated in gravy and she often put it through a grinder,
added the gravy and some vegetables for a shepherd's pie. She planned
well enough that there would be extra mashed potatoes.  Bwyan whines
that that is lazy.  To saner people it looks more like home economics
and good planning.
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Oh hell!!  You've done it now!  Maybe nurse Kuthe can stop by
and take his temperature.  Anally of course.
My mother, being a young bride at the beginning of the Depression
and being a farm girl, knew how add to and stretch a meal.  Nothing
was ever wasted or thrown out because "we've already eaten this in
another dish a few days ago."

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 > Here it will be country-fried steak and gravy along
 > with mashed potatoes and maybe some baby lima beans.
 > There will be enough for one extra meal to be consumed
 > Thursday evening.  Damn!  I hope ol' greasy thumb won't
 > have an apoplexy over this prospect.
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Substitute those lima beans with some good vegetable and that would be
an excellent meal.
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I must admit I'm not as fond of the canned baby limas as I
am the frozen ones.  But that's all I have in stock at the
moment.
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