Julie Bove wrote in rec.food.cooking:

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> >>"Julie Bove" > wrote:

(snips of block party)

> > My neighborhood has been doing this since long before i moved here.
> > This house was the center of it with the first owner and i carried
> > it on. It faltered when I was in Japan but it's back in full swing
> > now.
>
> We just filled our new chest freezer. Lots of boneless, skinless
> chicken breasts for daughter. Some frozen veggies I haven't tried
> and a lot of gluten free stuff. Really most of what I got is for my
> daughter. She'll be needing lunches this summer. She didn't really
> eat lunch at school because they made her take lunch at 10 a.m. this
> past year. She just wasn't hungry then. So she just brought either
> a pack of apple slices, a hummus cup and carrots or one of her
> coconut bars.

humm. My kid adapts to lunchtime no matter when it is.


> Tomorrow we're doing a wee bit of shopping. Really don't need very
> much but do need to fill the van with gas since we've been out
> somewhere every day this week. Mostly just cottage cheese, cheddar
> and the gas at Costco and a couple of things at Target that I have
> coupons for. Pizza for dinner because I have a jar of sauce that is
> soon to expire. We are rather sick of pizza though so I doubt we
> will have much of it during the summer.

Eating leftovers here after the block party.

I used in the end 12 x 2 machines for 24 batches of dough. Some were
hotdog shaped, some burger shaped. Most all white, some mixed wheat or
whole wheat 100%, some with part rye.

It's a big event here and everyone adds what they can. LOL, Serina
with her six kids (husband died in the gulf recently) made the optiomy
of 'white trash cooking' that was so good, we ate it all up before most
even got here!

Noodle pie (boiled noodles- drained, spices, butter, evaporated milk,
something vague added that she grins but wont tell us).

2 restraunt sized cans of creamed corn. She added onions (carmelized)
and velveeta plus lots of black pepper and some sort of hot sauce or
maybe it was blendered jalapenos in juice? Heated to a melty perfect
in a crockpot, we ran out of chips going after this one until more
chips arrived from newcomers who missed out.

John brought in 125 live bluecrabs which we steamed on my stove 10 at a
time and tossed in a big pot. (man, I am crabbed out now!)

Don smoked the large pork hunk and we ended up slivering cooked bits
off to buns as the rest finished through the afternoon.

Susan brought an orgasmically good coleslaw and 2 versions of potato
salad.

John2 who doesnt cook brought paperplates, forks and such. Shaun
brought napkins and 5 watermelons.

The list goes on. Most folks brought a pack of hot dogs or some other
grillable meat plus a side dish to show off.

I had all 19 dual outlets in use at once on my back porch. Hehe
actually had Don shut all not essential things inside just incase.
That included the computer used for email/newsgroups.





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