jmcquown wrote:


> Happy Thursday, everyone!
>

Happy Thursday.

I started at 10am with the crab cake mix. Since it's only 2 of us, I got
smaller cans of crab (no such thng as fresh here in Kansas) and boy was
that a disappointment. It had no smell or taste. Half of one can ended
up on the floor when I went to dump it in the bowl and even the cats
wouldn't touch it. Hopefully there's enough other stuff in there the
crab cakes will taste ok.

Put the eggs on for devilled eggs.

Decided I needed to do the blueberry pie next but, oops, out of sugar.
So I started the bread dough for the dinner rolls. Left that to rise,
pulled the eggs out to cool and went out and got sugar and milk.

Came home and made bacon and eggs for lunch. Got to eat something to get
us through the rest of the day.

Got ingredients out for pie crust and couldn't find the recipe. Searched
the whole kitchen. I just had it out a week ago, and now I can't find it
anywhere. Grr! Gave up and just decided to use the one on the back of
the can of shortening. Good thing it's a double crust pie. Whipped up
the pie crust and put it in the fridge to sit for a while.

Made the devilled eggs. Got out three casserole dishes and started on
the vegetables. Put the cut up potatoes, sweet potato and squash in to
bake, along with the other half of the butternut (the smallest one I
could find was nearly a foot long). I'll pull the butternut out of the
freezer sometime next week and reheat it.

Pulled out the green beans. Bleah. We have such lousy quality produce
around here. They'd started to mold already. Luckily I didn't have to
throw much of the bag out. Partially steamed the beans and dunked them
into ice water to preserve the color before adding the cream of mushroom
soup I made yesterday. Put that into the oven.

Made the cheesy corn. Not sure what the waxy white lump in the bag of
corn was. It might be some kind of butter sauce, but there's no mention
of such on the bag. I'm planning to write the producer tomorrow and ask.
Tried the recipe with fresh garlic this time instead of powdered like
the recipe says. Much improvement in flavor, I think.

Got the pie crust out and tried rolling the bottom crust. It was both
crumbly and sticky. I think pie crust hates me. Managed to patch
together enough for the bottom crust, put the blueberries in and started
on the top crust. That one rolled out beautifully. Go figure.

While waiting for the oven to come up to temp I made the tartar sauce
for the crab cakes. I think they're going to need it.

That was six hours of cooking. The pie is done now. Dear Husband has got
his turkey going. We're just waiting on the temperature. In a little bit
I'm going to shape the dinner rolls and get them ready to bake, and cook
the giblets for gravy. Then while the bird rests I'll make gravy, brown
the rolls, fry the crab cakes, and pop all the vegetables in to reheat.

Wishing you all a good evening,



Dawn