BEDA #24. a little food prep for the coming week

Hello everyone,  no weather excitement today 🙂

We did a bit of planning for meals for the next few days.  

For supper, I made big pan of fried rice.  My fried rice has very little oil and lots of vegetables.

Son in law John made teriyaki chicken thighs

I also made a fruit tray.

We have leftovers from last night’s meal (ribs, Mac and cheese, salad, rolls and link sausage)and lots of leftovers from tonight’s meal.

The employed adults made work lunches and we will still have enough leftovers for supper the next 2 nights.  

I like cooking but I’m looking forward to a couple of days off 

We didn’t forget about breakfast.  

I made a double batch of this recipe- except I didn’t double the sausage.  

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/241105/sausage-hash-brown-breakfast-casserole/

I’m obviously not a skilled food photographer but this casserole looks better in person and tastes really good too.  

Hope you all have had a nice weekend 

❤️ Rhonda 

BEDA #23 supper and after supper sheltering 😳😵😱

Hello 

Supper was ribs cooked by son in law John, mac and cheese made by daughter Nina, rolls made by me and a salad. 

Then we had some exciting weather and went to our storm shelter.  

So far no big tornados have touched down and we have got some very needed rain. 

We will stay aware but don’t worry about us.  Our shelter is very safe and Oklahoma has the best meteorologists in the world.  

❤️ Rhonda 

BEDA #22 supper and replies

For supper, we had a new to us recipe

Pepperoni Rolls - the state food  of West Virginia 

They were delicious!

I used Heidi’s recipe from her YouTube channel 

We also had a big salad. 

https://youtu.be/BmhCxkISFUQ

Pleasant temperatures and breezes meant we had our windows most of today

I wish everyday was like today 

Terri  this is the recipe I used for inspiration for the dipping sauce.  I didn’t cook the ham like this at all 

but for a sauce 

 I did heat up

1/2 C honey

1/4 C balsamic Vinegar 

1/4 Cup Dijon mustard 

Good pinch of red pepper flakes 

That’s all I used and it was delicious on sliced ham and grilled chicken 

Also Terri,  I’m not positive how long it blooms,  I’ll keep track of the bleeding heart but it doesn’t last long.  It is gorgeous while it’s blooms

Tammy- Jackson wears Zenni glasses too and his eye doctor approves

About the Easter buttercream eggs- I don’t have a recipe and but I think this recipe is very close to the eggs we were gifted.  

https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/easter-egg-buttercream-candies/

Ours were definitely dipped in semisweet chocolate and were also decorated so pretty.  

❤️ Rhonda 

BEDA #21

Breakfast was a Dutch Baby - recipe is HERE

It’s one of my favorite breakfasts- very simple ingredients but it does require 25 minutes to bake 

My big job today was weeding 2 flower beds.  One was no big deal but this one in the front took several hours 

before 

And after 

It had lots weeds! It hasn’t got much care in a year and I knew it would take some effort but I’m so glad it’s looking better. 

I plan to sow a bunch of zinnia seeds to fill in all the empty spots.  

This bleeding heart looks so pretty for about a week while it’s blooming 

Terri- I’ll post a picture tomorrow of the sauce recipe.  It called for whole grain mustard but I didn’t put it in, only because we didn’t have any 

❤️ Rhonda 

BEDA #19 & 20 a Remarkable, a tasty sauce and I was just tired

Hello 

Sorry about missing BEDA yesterday.  

After a very fun family Easter,  I could really relate to the post by Kim 

http://outmywindowtoday.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2022-04-19T13:37:00-07:00&max-results=1&start=1&by-date=false

Some days I do go back to bed or just sit.  

Even though I wanted to on Monday and Tuesday, didn’t go back to bed and I did push through getting our home cleaned back up.  Because it was a mess! 

 I’m glad I did but I didn’t really feel like it.  

I’m sure most all my readers can relate, right?  

My son in law came home with a new device yesterday, a Remarkable.  

It looks like a very thin iPad.  It does use the internet but it’s doesn’t go to websites or play games.

It’s for taking notes as you can write on it like you do on paper. Then if you want,  it can convert your handwriting into text.

 It is also a way to keep copies of documents. And it probably does other stuff but that’s just what I learned yesterday.

John is employed by our university and does lots of paper stuff so I’m sure he will use this device a lot. I’m guessing it could be very useful for anyone that writes a lot. I looked them up on Amazon and they are very expensive but he says he got his with some sort of a benefit thing at work or something like that, I didn’t really pay attention much.  In fact he was shocked when I showed him how much they cost on Amazon. They cost as much as an iPad. I certainly don’t need one but I can see where they could be very beneficial for some people, you could keep many things on a Remarkable without having stacks and stacks of papers and notebooks.

For Easter we had a ham. I made a simple dipping sauce out of a half a cup of honey, a quarter cup balsamic vinegar and a quarter cup Dijon mustard, and a few red pepper flakes.  The recipe also called for whole-grain mustard but we didn’t have any.

The sauce was really good!

We did not have mountains of leftover ham like  

Jane at Hope and Thrift

So when my husband grilled chicken this week, He used the last of the dipping sauce to glaze the chicken at the end of cooking. That sauce was really good on chicken just like it was on ham. 

 Today has been an easy day. 

Husband and I will just have leftovers for supper and daughter’s family is eating at church.  

❤️ Rhonda