Meal Planning with Connie

Sausage Pizza with Pizza Hut Copy-Cat Sauce and a side salad Tuesday night at our house has been Pizza Night for some time. I think it began with us being in Tupelo late on Tuesday afternoons for music lessons. We got in the habit of going by Little Caesar's and picking up one of their $5 one-topping pizzas. I think they're maybe $5.55 now. It's still a great deal, since it feeds our family of four! When we weren't in Tupelo on Tuesday afternoons, I'd just make one. Somewhere along the way, we all just started liking the ones at home better. So, that's what we do now. In the winter, we often have a couple of baked, frozen mozzarella stick each along with the pizza. In the summer, we sometimes add a side salad if we have lettuce that needs eating. Most of the time, we just have the pizza by itself! We all really liked the pizza tonight! Larry said the sauce tasted more like Pizza Hut's marinara sauce than their pizza sauce to him. He and the k...

Long John Silver's Baja Fish Taco Aunt Jean and Logan spent the morning working at the Food Pantry. They said there were a good many families who came by for assistance. If you haven't dontated to your local food pantry lately, please consider doing so. Because we all get so scattered and busy during the summer, many ministries, like food banks, see a decrease in giving during the middle months of the year. After they finished at the Food Pantry, they came by the house and picked up M.C. Aunt Jean took them to our Kentucky Fried Chicken/Long John Silver's and treated them to lunch. They brought me back the free Baja Fish Taco. I really liked it! It's basically a small piece of LJS's battered and fried fish in a tortilla, with lettuce and a spicy sauce. The sauce was a bit spicy for me. In the future, I will order it with tartar sauce instead of the spicy sauce. You might ask for the spicy sauce on the side to see which you prefer! Let me know if you give ...

When I was growing up, there was never really the question of whether our supper would include legumes. The only question was as to which legume we'd have that night. Peas, or butter beans? Well, it wasn't really quite that simple. Once we had decided between the two bean families, we then had to decide on the variety. For peas, there were the choices of crowders, English, black-eyed or purple hull. Then, the next choice was - did we want some we'd prepared for the freezer, or a jar Momma had canned. The freezing verses the canning of the same vegetable can truly result in almost a separate variety of the same bean. There is a difference! Both are delicious! Butter beans were a bit simpler choice. We usually only preserved two varieties, and both in the freezer. Everyone else in my family preferred white lima beans, but I preferred the speckled variety. We usually had two or three rows of the white limas in our garden, but my sweet momma always planted a row of speckled b...