Sirloin tip roast from the freezer beef going in the crockpot with baby carrots and pearl onions and a bit of garlic. Thinking garlic mashed potatoes w/this and rolls. Cool and breezy today so it sounds good.

dede

Not exactly dinner, but the only thing homemade today!  We had a birthday here (not mine), but I've been under the weather so it looked like there would be no cake today.  Got to feeling almost decent around noon, so opted to make a pan of chocolate chip bar cookies, a family favorite.  With walnuts for the birthday boy, since he really likes them.

Got them into the oven without much fanfare (they are soooo easy, and soooo good!), then got the wondering if some ice cream wouldn't be pretty good with them while they were still warm.  Had loaded up the coffee pot for the birthday boy to start when he got up from his nap and got the ice cream maker going, with the cookes cooling on the sideboard.

He was a happy boy when he got a good whiff, and saw what was in the ice cream maker!

OK, so it's not exactly wholesome eating – but you can do this sort of thing occasionally, right?  He left a bit ago to visit one of the nieghbors.  I suggested that he take some cookies with.  His response?  Nope!  He isn't sharing!!  How rude!!!  

Just a little pot luck at the neighbors!  We had two hams prepared differently, mashed potatoes, English peas, green beans, baked beans, corn, pineapple casserole, pasta salad, deviled eggs, the best store-bought rolls I've ever eaten, strawberry filled cupcakes, and rice crispie treats.  Mostly home grown and home canned goodies.

And all we contributed was the pineapple casserole and the crispie treats!  (And we had to insist to get to bring those!)  Three huge containers of left overs – which we will be eating for several days, of course…   

Yum!