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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 22:53:57 +0000
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On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 21:16:53 +0000, Dave Smith wrote:

> On 2025-03-12 4:19 p.m., ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote:
>>
>> What is being served up at your house this evening?
>> Damn, I hope it's not leftovers as Buffoon Bryan
>> will shit his pants.
>>
>> Here it will be country-fried steak and gravy along
>> with mashed potatoes and maybe some baby lima beans.
>> There will be enough for one extra meal to be consumed
>> Thursday evening.  Damn!  I hope ol' greasy thumb won't
>> have an apoplexy over this prospect.
>>
>
>
> I can stir the pot here a little and say I am eating leftovers. It's not
> just leftovers. It is leftover leftovers. On Sunday my wife roasted a
> boneless leg of lamb. We love roast lamb and you need to get a nice big
> piece of meat for a roast, so there are always going to be leftovers.
> The best way we know of to use up the lamb is to make a curry. Since it
> was a larger than usual chunk of lamb we had enough left for two nights.
>
> My mother used to cook a roast almost every Sunday and it was most often
> roast beef. She always bought a large enough roast that would be
> leftovers. There would be enough for roast beef sandwiches, some would
> be sliced and heated in gravy and she often put it through a grinder,
> added the gravy and some vegetables for a shepherd's pie. She planned
> well enough that there would be extra mashed potatoes.  Bwyan whines
> that that is lazy.  To saner people it looks more like home economics
> and good planning.
>
>
Oh hell!!  You've done it now!  Maybe nurse Kuthe can stop by
and take his temperature.  Anally of course.

My mother, being a young bride at the beginning of the Depression
and being a farm girl, knew how add to and stretch a meal.  Nothing
was ever wasted or thrown out because "we've already eaten this in
another dish a few days ago."
>
>
>  > Here it will be country-fried steak and gravy along
>  > with mashed potatoes and maybe some baby lima beans.
>  > There will be enough for one extra meal to be consumed
>  > Thursday evening.  Damn!  I hope ol' greasy thumb won't
>  > have an apoplexy over this prospect.
>
> Substitute those lima beans with some good vegetable and that would be
> an excellent meal.
>
>
I must admit I'm not as fond of the canned baby limas as I
am the frozen ones.  But that's all I have in stock at the
moment.

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