Until my next post is ready, here's some food

I hope everyone (who celebrates it) had a nice Easter.  I wasn't going to post these pics of my Easter weekend dinners, I am actually close to finishing up a new blog-post about my neighbors.  But I couldn't resist.

Forgive my boasting, but this was a delicious meal.  Just because you live alone doesn't mean you have to go without!  These were the best scalloped potatoes I've ever made (the secret is to drop a quartered onion into the pot and let them slow cook forever) and also the creamiest devilled eggs I've ever made.  I always get the mayo-mustard ratio wrong.  They'll never be this good again.

Finally--I'm in serious love with this ham.  It used to be sold only twice a year for Christmas & Easter, but you can now get it year-round at Kuhn's.  It's a spiral cut, roasted red pepper pineapple juiced ham.  I love it on a buttered roll with a little bit of ketchup.  

Oh darn it, nothing for dessert but some chocolate cookies but I'm stuffed anyway.

As long as I'm here, I wanted to show you what I had for dinner Saturday night while watching The Ten Commandments.

Last week my friend and former classmate Pen (we grew up on neighboring farms) told me she was making sloppy joes to take to a church dinner but had to make them from scratch as she had no Del Grosso sauce in her cupboard.  

She also made them with deer meat instead of ground beef, which she assured me were quite tasty.  Well, we both grew up with venison in our diets, so this wasn't surprising.  I told her I was glad her sloppy deer joes were a big hit.

It did inspire me to make them this weekend (but beef for me, not deer).  I think Gia Russa makes the BEST Sloppy Joe sauce.  I add a tablespoon of brown sugar and a tablespoon of minced green pepper.  Perfect, every time.

This is what real friendship is--I sent Pen this pic of my Sloppy Cow Joe, and said "What's wrong with this picture?"   She answered "Well, that isn't Squirt soda in that glass, but that doesn't make this wrong."

She was absolutely right--Kuhn's was out and I had to settle for cranberry ginger ale instead. 😊

Okay, that's it!  A new post is coming in a couple days, thanks for letting me share.  Happy Easter everybody.