Cow

Christa...Have you heard about the cow we are getting?

Bobby and Debbie ordered a whole cow for us the other day. We are splitting it 4 ways with other couples. It's pretty exciting. It is grass fed beef. So it's a good thing we have a deep freezer. I can't wait. We should have it by the end of the month. Beef for like a whole year!

Joe's

Crab Shack that is....

A few weeks ago we went there with a few other couples. There were 8 of us. You may have heard from Bobby, If not, he would be glad to tell you about his disappointment in the one guy who pretty much didn't eat anything. And he ordered a complete meal! Meanwhile, Tim & I and Bobby & Debbie each got appetizers and then a meal each. I think Bobby and Tim finished that guys meal and everything else on the table. It was pretty good. I should have gotten something else probably but I wanted to try what I got. Most of it was really good but some was crab cakes and crab stuffed shrimp. It was all kinda too sweet or something for me. Well just the crab part was. Everything else was delicious.

I made them!

I made those cinnamon rolls I talked about a few blogs back! They were delicious. We ate them for breakfast all week and I also threw some uncooked in the freezer for another time.

Schmorgasborg!

2 Saturdays ago we had our friends come up from washington, pa. They have 3 little girls, ages 3, 2 and 1 and we offered to keep them overnight. So the 5 of them came up for dinner and the parents stayed til about 10 and left the girls here for the night. We also had mom, Dre, Emoni and Micha over for dinner and to play for a while. I made a deeeeeeelicious dinner. I had made these mashed potatoes a few days prior and they were so good I had to make more. I used red potatoes and mashed them, but not completely. We enjoy some clumpiness left in there. I added a bit of garlic, butter and salt and everyone loved them! I made a salad with all kinds of veggies on the side. The most boring part was the canned corn. Then the best part was shared by the veggie lasagna and meatloaf!

The meatloaf was the best meatloaf ever and I am not the biggest meatloaf person cause it usually involves more ketchup than I like. This had some ketchup but it was mixed in and not just squirted on top. I am not a fan of that at all. It also had some cheese, onion soup mix and steak sauce in it. This meatloaf was so juicy and delicious. Dre had as much as he could eat of it until he was full and then we had to wrap some up for him to take home.

The lasagna I kinda just added whatever to it. I made homemade noodles a few days prior! I used some canned tomatoes and tomato sauce with a bit of jarred spaghetti sauce. I used ricotta cheese. If I can remember....the veggies were....spinach, asparagus, green pepper, onion, mushrooms, garlic, zuchini and I think there may have been more but maybe not. I'm not sure. I have a tendency of making stuff and forgetting how I did it. I need to start writing everything down for the next time I do it. I did that with this chili that Tim loved and he wants more but I don't remember all the seasonings I used.