a short weekend trip

Hello again

We drove down to Shawnee Oklahoma to an event one of our sons was involved with. 

Bobby works full time and has a family but he’s also a competitive barbecue cook and has own line of seasonings.

  

very tasty Spare Ribs all perfect to turn in for judging.  

The cooking is all done outside in the parking lot.  They all have trailers or tents,  an assortment of cookers,  lots of lawn chairs and lots of friendship.  They cooks are competing against each other but they also seem to have deep friendships.  

There was an indoor banquet after this cooking event to give awards for the 2024 cooking season.  

This big arena was full of cooks and their friends and families.

Bobby did very well.  

Bobby’s awards from last night 

We stayed in a hotel because we didn’t want to be driving home late at night.  

that’s our room and our stuff already unpacked.  It was good room,  clean and quiet and not crowded 

The complementary breakfast was great!  I started with oatmeal and then had some tiny scones that were fresh and delicious.  My husband had little omelets, smoked sausage, and toast.  

This was the Hampton Inn in Shawnee.  

The first day we ate at a Cracker Barrel.  The food was Ok- nothing spectacular though.  

But if you want to shop,  there were so many cute things in the Cracker Barrel gift shop.  

I enjoyed looking but didn’t buy a thing.  I’m trying to have less stuff in our home,  not more.  

The weather was cool on Saturday when we were outdoor.

But today it’s bitter cold with high winds.  

We even have a dusting of snow.  

I plan on staying home until it warms up some.  

I don’t like being in cold wind.  

Supper was a homemade pizza.  

I made the dough in the bread machine but it could also be done by hand or in a mixer with a dough hook 

when I cook with an actual recipe,  I will try to include it but sometimes I just mix up ingredients that we have and sound good 

I made the 1 pound amount of dough for our 1 pizza 

sausage, mild jalapeño, onion, homemade sauce from the freezer and green olives on part for my husband 

This was a great supper on a cold evening.  

That’s the highlights of our weekend

Thank you for reading 

❤️ Rhonda 

thank you for the warm welcome back ❤️

hello everyone 

Y’all sure surprised me,  I wasn’t expecting any comments but thank you all for reading and writing such nice things.  

I do hope to blog more so———

I’ll just tell you about last night and today.  

3 grands spent the night and it was slightly last minute.  It’s just easier to serve kid-friendly meals so we had pancakes with bacon and sausage for Friday night supper. 

They jumped right in.  Our granddaughter and her oldest brother made the pancake batter and she cooked all the pancakes.  

They wanted to play restaurant so they made a menu and took orders.  

we don’t always have this many choices but we had chocolate chips in the pantry,  blueberries and pecans in the freezer, so why not offer options? 

Supper was delicous and the kiddos had fun.  

Kroger delivered this morning.  

below totaled to about $60.  

Before they left this morning,  the boys took everything out of the lower kitchen cabinets for me.  

that corner cabinet has lots of storage space but it’s hard to get the stuff back out.  I’m thankful they could help today.  

I organized all the lower cabinets and got rid of a few things.  

I’m trying to have less stuff and I am making some headway.  

below is Inside some of the newly organized lower cabinets 

I really like cooking several main dishes at one time.  

I cooked 2 chicken breasts in the crockpot and shredded them. 

I removed half of the meat to use in fried rice, with the rice being left from New Year’s day’s traditional meal of black eyed peas with rice and cabbage.  

Then I added red beans, corn, onions, bell pepper, green chilies, canned tomatoes and chicken broth to make a Mexican-ish soup.  

we ate fried rice tonight and have the rest of it and soup later.  

I’ll blog again soon

❤️ Rhonda