BEDA #21

Hello everyone 

The cold weather did no damage to our plants, as far as I can tell 

Lots of promising buds on the strawberry plants 

And on the blackberry bushes 

And on the peonies 

The worst part was folding up all the assorted sheets and dropcloths that we use to cover plants from cold weather 

 (because my husband seems to plant too early every year) 

No, we didn’t steal these milk crates.   Way back when I cooked at a fraternity house, the milk was delivered and left in these crates.  

The 100 or so frat boys went through a lot of milk and the milkman delivered the milk but he refused to pick up the empty crates.  

The milk crates stacked up so I eventually told the boys to take crates as they wanted and I brought some crates  home.  

Crazy I know but it’s a true story.  

I baked the cookie dough from yesterday and bagged them up for Physical Therapists.

  Because of Covid,  I bagged them all individually and then into another bag.  

With the rest of the dough,  I made cookie balls and froze them on a tray so they won’t stick together when I put them in a storage bag.

Now I can easily bake some cookies - my grandchildren love fresh cookies 🍪❤️

I’m reading a funny book - 

The Mystery Sisters Volume 1

It’s a cozy mystery about 4 senior citizen sisters.   It’s not deep or fine literature but it is entertaining.  


Good evening everyone 

❤️Rhonda 

BEDA #20 Freeze warning, Nashville Hot chicken and etc

Hello everyone

Crazy weather has us expecting a freeze tonight but thankfully it won’t be a long hard freeze. 

We have garden plants in the grown,  flowers about to bloom and our strawberry plants and berry bushes are loaded with blooms 

So,  we’ve covered everything with old sheets and such- and are hoping for the

I tried the Nashville Hot chicken bites from the Emily Bites blog 

I made a few changes 

I decreased the red pepper to 1/2 t and it was plenty hot. 

I omitted the salt and subbed onion powder for the garlic.  

This is a recipe I will keep.  They tasted great and cooked up fast.  

We had oven roasted veggies with the chicken - and I guess I was really hungry for veggies 😳

My husband goes to physical therapy and has 3 therapists. 2 are expecting and he says they talks about cookies all the time.  

He asked me to make them some so I mixed up a batch of chocolate chip oatmeal cookie dough.  I will bake them just before he goes to therapy next. 

I used mini chocolate chips is why the dough looks so loaded.  

More Parsimony asked which salad shooter I recommend.  

Well. It just depends. 

The smaller one takes up almost no room so if you’re short on storage space,  it is ideal. 

However the smaller salad shooter has a smaller feed tube than the bigger one.  So if your doing potatoes or cabbage,  they have to be cut small to get them to fit in the tube. 

If you know how  big a 8 ounce  stick of Cracker Barrel cheese - then that will tell you how big the feed tube is on the small one.  

Potatos and wedges of cabbage would be much easier in the bigger one but they will still work in the small one, as long as they are cut to fit.  

Both Salad Shooters slice and shred food quickly and easily. 

I think I said yesterday that I wish I had a bigger one and will be looking for a bigger one at a good price.   I do cook a lot and people who cook less may prefer the smaller one.  

My daughter has a small salad shooter and I think she uses it only to grate carrots for carrot cake.  

Hope all info helps! 

About celebrity cookbooks,  my son has a Chrissy Tiegan book and he said her biscuit recipe was really good.  

I’ve made 3 recipes from the Joanna Gaines book and they’ve all been good.  I do think she knows how to cook.  Her recipes are just not the type of recipes I prefer to cook.  

❤️ Rhonda