Flashback Friday

This week Linda has asked us about meals from our childhood. What a great topic!

My Flashback:

We ate together as a family for supper for as long as I can remember. Mom would typically cook the meals. And she was a great cook. She always made wonderful meals for us as well as for church fellowships.

My favorite meal was goulash. I still ask for it when we go to visit. My Mom made some wonderful dishes also with squash from our garden---fried, boiled, mashed, and a casserole. I remember when she made a certain kind of Hamburger Helper and I'd eat it on bread with creamed corn mixed with it. I'm not sure why that was so good to me but I liked it! My least favorite was hamburger gravy. I make a face when she tells me in an email that she made that for supper.

We ate at our kitchen table and I remember when I was older we sat in the living room with tray tables.

We went out to eat some. At different times I remember going out for Sunday lunch after church or in the evenings on Sunday nights we'd often go with a group from church to Dairy Queen or Taco Bell. When my Dad worked shift work, Mom and I often ordered a pizza when he was working evenings. Or we would pick something up and take it to him.

I don't feel I am anywhere near as good a cook as my Mom. She is so good at "just knowing" recipes or making them up. I always call her to ask how to prepare certain dishes. I was proud the first time I fixed a roast in the crock pot without getting directions from her. haha She taught me a lot of things in the kitchen when I was making sweets for 4-H our county fair or the food show. In the summers we also did some canning with things from the garden. She always told me it was so easy, just cut it up and add water. This makes me laugh because it was never that easy to me!

Have a day of blessings!

Farmer's Market is open

When we got back to town, I read in one of our newspapers that the Farmer's Market was opening this week. Before that I hadn't decided if Caleb and I were going to go to town, but when I read it was the first week, I knew I wanted to go! We stopped at the bank first for a couple of deposits and to get cash. Then we went downtown to the farmer's market. It is right by the train station so we got to see and hear the trains too. We got some fresh onions, tomatoes, and new potatoes. Caleb wanted a watermelon but I didn't want to pay $6 for a small one. We had one of the tomatoes with our supper tonight as well as some of the new potatoes. They were so yummy and fresh! I always look forward to going and getting fresh veggies for our supper! We finished up our morning at HEB getting a few things that were on sale.

Meat Market and Crops

We bought some meat from the meat market today. JMP had taken me there for lunch one day during the summer. I'd been intending to go back and buy some meat but just had not until now. I bought one of the freezer packs so we could try a variety of meats. It came with bacon, two kinds of sausage, three pounds ground beef, and two pounds pork steak for $25. I also got a roast in addition to the freezer pack. I used one of the ground beefs for supper tonight. It was very lean.

This morning I hung out some clothes before we left. I heard Caleb on the porch and asked what he was doing. He said I GOT MY CROPS. I did not have a clue what he meant. Then he came farther out onto the porch and realized he was referring to his shoes. We call them Crocs. You've probably seen them or have a pair yourself.We all have a pair now (not the name brand though, we just call them that). Later in the day he told me they were called cricks. Then he said cricks, crops, cracks.

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