In article >, Jeanne Burton
> wrote:
(snip)

> Jeanne who, so far today, has made homemade pancakes for breakfast,
> finger sandwiches (the children think they're cool)

Hmmm. What kind of filling? PB?

> for lunch, hamburger steaks with garlic sauce,

What's a hamburger steak? Salisbury steak?

> salad, and au gratin potatoes for dinner, a
> batch of chili for tomorrow, and is working on "magic soup", which
> wasn't supposed to be soup, just some chicken broth because I was
> packaging up a big pack of chicken and figured I'd boil some for
> stock, and the 3 year old woke up and insisted that it turn into her
> favorite (magic soup is just rich homemade chicken soup with ABC
> noodles, but the kids named it that after I made it the first time
> when they both had colds, and it "fixed them up like magic")

I love it!

> Why do I do this when we get 10 inches of snow? Do I subconsciously
> think we'll starve in the cold???

It could happen! :-) I've got a mess of chicken leg quarters in the
fridge that I don't feel like packaging up and freezing. I may make
some chicken soup/broth and make some gumbo. Seems like the weather for
it. Gotta check ingredients first; I think it's going to take a trip to
the grocery store first.

I've got about half a pound of ground beef to use up, too. Could be
hotdish -- the kind that makes some of the snooties around here puke at
the thought. I'm always happy to provide a good purgative. :-)
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-Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> Trip Report and pics added 1-13-05
"I read recipes the way I read science fiction: I get to the end and
say,'Well, that's not going to happen.'" - Comedian Rita Rudner,
performance at New York, New York, January 10, 2005.