Nancy Young wrote:


> I'm lucky to live near places that make pie professionally every
> day of the year, of course including the crust. I'm pretty happy
> with Mrs. Smith rather than making my own pumpkin pie. If I want
> quiche, I buy the red box crust. Not everyone is a baker.
>


I'm a decent baker but frankly I just don't have the patience anymore to do
much of it...I make quick breads, biscuits, and stuff like fruit crisps, but
that's about it.

Luckily there are good and cheap bakeries around, I figger let them do the
work...

Cornbread dressing is one of my specialties. I used to make homemade
cornbread from scratch, then I realized that the Jiffy mix stuff would do...

Then this year for our annual corner tavern T-day "do" I offered to make the
dressing, but the owner kindly said, "Oh Greg, relax, it's taken care of -
this year I got a lot of the stuff, including sides at Costco...jeez this
summer you made so much stuff for our cookouts I actually thought you were
running a commissary over at your house...".

Actually the Costco dressing wasn't too bad, lol...though I WILL make that
cornbread dressing for our Christmas feast (she's ordered a Virginia ham for
that).


> Now, if someone talks about buying premade meatballs, we'll be
> having a different conversation.


Oh, you mean the ones with GRAPE JELLY...???

;---)

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Best
Greg