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Techie,

I would eat that! What’s not to like? Sounds great.

Way,

Let us know if you make an ironed grilled cheese!
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TNtechie.

Sounds yummy !
There is an oldish movie called Benny and Joon . In the movie they make grilled cheese on an ironing board and hold the iron on the sandwich , flip it over and hold the iron on the other side . My daughter and I have always wanted to try that. Lol
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New (at least to me) way to do a grilled cheese quick and easy. Take a tortilla, place your cheese in it (and other goodies like some spinach and tomato slice), fold the sides toward the middle and then fold it in half the other way. Put it in the toaster and you have a good toasted cheese.
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My daughters are the same. They have stuff that they leave here as well.

We are always looking for phone chargers! When we can’t find them we know that they snatched them up and they are in their rooms.
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Need,

I’ll take it !! My kids know they are always welcome . I feel fortunate that they still call our house “ going home” . They leave pajamas here still and other random things . They never totally moved out .

They do tend to steal my phone chargers when they leave though .
They think they are taking their own chargers when they pack . Lol
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Way,

My daughters invited themselves over to our house too! We are doing a ham with baked sweet potatoes and roasted green beans. Keeping it simple, buying the dessert this year.
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Bundle , very funny , Lol.

Actually my kids invited themselves over for the weekend. Tonight is Lasagna with salad and garlic bread . Tomorrow is ham with veggies .
The kids don’t know it yet , but they are making the chocolate chip cookies . Haha.
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grilled cheese from Way2tired.
well, she doesn't know it yet.
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Evamar,

I agree that as long as everything is in moderation it isn’t a big deal.
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Thanks NHWM,
Taking a break until we attack cheese platter. Hubby loves cheese, especially brie, as per PD recommendation cheese is not to good for him, but, on occasion everything is good.
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Evamar,

Sounds delicious!
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We just had delicious challah bread and leftover crepes with ricotta cheese and blueberry sauce.
Dinner with friends, roast, veggies and potatoes. Made some appetizers and of course cheese platter as it is almost expected in this house and cake for dessert.
Too much food for one day. Have a great Easter!
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Ana -thx for the reminder. I used to make that years ago. The family liked it. I also did pork riblets in sweet and sour pineapple sauce with green peppers. and served on rice.

Tonight was a version of chicken crack slaw.
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Not as yummy as Greek, but I have pot of pineapple, peppers and chicken in the oven. Now to cook the rice. A family favourite.
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River,

I absolutely adore Greek cuisine! I wonder if I would like it prepared that way.

I attend a Greek festival every year but I have never seen beets being served. I go straight for the lamb dishes! Of course, I get pastries too!

I do go to Greek restaurants too. Never thought about eating beets at them.
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Need,my husband hated beets until my Greek father made them. Now he loves them. As a last ditch effort if you have a good Greek restaurant in your city you might give them a chance if they are on the menu.

Otherwise I certainly understand to each his own.
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Pam,

No offense but just the thought of beets and eggs pickled together would make me vomit 🤮! LOL 😝 I gross out seeing eggs floating in a jar. It’s weird!

I hate beets with a passion! I have tried them numerous ways from numerous restaurants and home cooks trying to like them because they are loaded with vitamins. No thanks! I will get my vitamins elsewhere.

I do think the color of beets is beautiful!

My craziest egg story is when I was walking with my boyfriend. He had a beautiful German shepherd that we walked daily.

It was around this time of year. The Easter season. He didn’t celebrate Easter though. He was Jewish.

I love Easter candy and would share my candy with him. Well, one day we were walking his dog and he spotted a blue egg on the ground. He picked it up and took a big bite! Hahaha 🤣, it was a beautiful blue robin’s egg. He made a horrible face!

He screamed, “Sh*t! That was a real egg and not a candy egg!” I started laughing hysterically and asked him why on earth would he even eat something off of the ground? I still think of him whenever I see a robin and smile. He was a sweet guy who always made me laugh.
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Need yes she did but we were preteens at the time! The teenagers at the bowling alley all changed into "regular" clothes , and some had hot cars.
Had to laugh about the Lutheran minister..we are called the liberal ones.. LOL
Pickled beets and eggs are a Lancaster Co thing I love,, we just hard boil eggs, dump beets all over them and add vinegar and maybe some sugar and pickling spices. They are wonderful after they sit a day or so!
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cw,

I can’t imagine how pickled eggs would taste. It just sounds weird to me.

Maybe I am missing out on something good though. I should try them before saying that they are gross. I don’t like the way they look.

It grosses me out to see eggs floating in jars! LOL 😆
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Oh I've done cheater pickled eggs too, I just toss my boiled eggs into the brine left over from pickled beets (or your favourite pickles). They are great as is or you can use them for egg salad.
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I don’t do canning but may try it someday.

I buy mason jars because I love them for storing individual portions. Plus, I am not crazy about using plastic containers. I always lose the lids to storage containers!
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The woman at our farmers market frequently sells out of her products. She makes a killer pepper jelly! I always buy it from her. Sometimes, I will buy it to glaze a pork loin. It’s delicious!
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cw,

Look at the article in allrecipes.com at, 40 Foods You Can Pickle.

I would never in a million years have thought of pickling avocados! People have pickled all kinds of things.
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@cwiilie

I do lots of canning too. Fruit preserves, dessert sauces, marinara, vodka sauce... all kinds of things.
I do the old-fashioned hot water bath right on the stove top to seal the jars.
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cw,

That’s how my grandma did it too. She didn’t have a pressure cooker either.

Every now and then I have seen a large jar of pickled eggs. The sight of those gross me out. I must admit that I have never tried them, nor do I feel that I ever will! They look disgusting 🤮 to me!
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NHWM - Since I am now alone I mostly I just buy what I need, but have made chili sauce and salsa to use up extra tomatoes and canned a few jars of peaches because the ones you buy are awful.
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My mom canned a lot too, but it was pretty much all fruit (lots of peaches and plums and cherries) or things like chili sauce and relish or pickled cucumbers and beets. Beans were pickled too to make salad. She did do tomatoes but always added a tbsp or so of vinegar to make sure. Nobody I know had a pressure canner it was all open kettle or hot water bath.
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TN and cw,

My grandparents had a fig tree in their backyard. Grandma would spend the day making fig preserves. They were delicious.

Grandpa would eat her preserved figs on her delicious homemade biscuits. I have never been able to make biscuits as well as my grandma did.

I would eat the figs raw as a snack when I would visit them.

The neighbors had a pecan tree and they would swap each other. Grandma would give the neighbors her preserves and they would give her pecans so grandpa could make his pralines. He made delicious pralines.
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Cwillie, tomatoes are one of the most acidic foods you can can; that's why so little pressure and so little time to can them. I have known of botulism cases from green beans, beets, and soups but the causes were stated as not properly sealed jars. My family canned extensively in my grandmother's and my mother's generation (and there has always been some canning in my rural community) with no problems. My mother taught canning the food, we didn't add salt or anything unless we were making pickles or pickled beets or okra. I think the primary reason was it was quicker to not add anything during canning. We canned hundreds of jars from the garden and occasional purchases from farms (for example, at least 100 quarts of tomatoes and green beans, 50 quarts of greens, 12 half gallons of blackberry juice, 24 half gallons of apple sauce, 24 quarts of sliced apples, etc.). Mother canned more with her family since she was one of eight during the depression. In the summer, taking care of the garden and canning the produce were very time consuming. Because Mama broke beans and sliced corn off the cob so much faster than I, Mama started the canning after breakfast and I did all the housework before joining her to pack the jars and watch the stove and pressure cooker. I can still remember sitting in a chair in front of the pressure cooker and checking the pressure after each page as I read a book and then carrying the jars to the basement storage room...
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I cook with them the same as I would use canned tomatoes. The neat thing is that as they start to thaw the skins slip right off, plus you can grab just one or a dozen according to your needs.
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