Mystery, thanks for happy birthday wishes for my dmom. She will be 78 tomorrow. She's the youngest of all my friends' parents, but the last few years have been hard on her. She certainly doesn't seem as young as she did at one time. OTOH, she still does look younger than most of her classmates, when she's "got her pride up," as her aunt used to say, LOL. She wouldn't let me take any pictures tonight. She hardly ever wears makeup anymore; she has a tremor and she says it's just impossible for her to do her eye makeup anymore. She brought a check for me to write to the plumber, who's been doing some work at my grandparents' house, which she rents to another widow. She does still drive and buys 99.99% of her groceries, goes to church
most of the time, gets her hair done every Saturday -- she's really doing well in a lot of ways -- and SOOO much better than she was a few years ago, when most of you will remember, our doctor had her hospitalized to get her off her Ativan dependency.
LadyM, I don’t know that I have a pot big enough to brown 15 lb of ground meat.
I can’t even imagine!
I've been thinking about that, too.
LadyM, how many pots
did it take?
I used my big Duncan Hines cookware pot (Dutch oven?) for the spaghetti. It's a one-pot recipe; the spaghetti cooks
in the sauce.
I had 2.25 lbs ground beef,16 oz. spaghetti noodles, and it takes 4 cups of tomato juice and 6 cups water. I do not think I could have added one more bit of meat or liquid. (It also has 12 oz. tomato paste and a variety of dry ingredients/spices.) That is the biggest pot/pan I have.
I doubled the original recipe which I think came from the old Better Homes and Gardens cookbook, the one with the red plaid cover. (Do any of you remember that one?)
I've had this cookware since we married; it was a gift from my parents.
I have everything done except putting away the clean dishes. I still love my good china, after 43 years, but I am afraid to put it in the dishwasher, and of course, getting everything back in the china cabinet is a pain, too. But at least it's all clean.
I also need to put the stuff back on the dining room table -- table runner & flower arrangement -- and bring two chairs back in here to the computer room.
OH!!! Another BIG sign of dgs' growing up -- aside from being in men's shoe sizes now.
DDIL told us tonight that he admitted to them that he has known for a while that Santa, the Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, etc, are all pretend.
She said he wasn't upset though; he doesn't think we're lying about Jesus just because we lied about those things. (We always had Santa here with ds, and I've never actually known anyone who expressed that viewpoint, but lots of people caution Christian parents about it, so of course it was something I worried about.)
Time marches on...
