Sunday Dinner, February 8, 2009 & Yet More Rambling

Wonder of wonders, I decided earlier in the week what I was cooking for Sunday Dinner so I didn't have to spend most of the day trying to make up my mind what to cook.

I got some beef sirloin steak the other day when I got groceries. It was marked down for quick sale so I could afford it or I wouldn't have gotten it. It's usually too pricey for me.

I'm going to make one of my favorite childhood (and adult) dishes that my Mama used to make, homemade beef and gravy. I'll dredge the steak in flour and brown it, then pour off any remaining fat and cover with water to cook. I'll put a lid on it and simmer it until tender, then remove the steak to a plate and make the gravy.

I usually add some beef bouillon granules and salt and pepper to taste, then thicken the cooking liquid with a little cornstarch or flour dissolved in a little cold water. Since I'll be cooking the beef tonight I'll wait to make the gravy when I get home from church Sunday afternoon.

I'm also going to make some white rice and some green beans cooked with some bacon and quartered potatoes to round out the meal. I think that's going to be it for my Sunday Dinner.

What's on the menu at your place for Sunday Dinner? Just share your plans/menu in the comments if you'd like. I and my other readers always enjoy reading about your plans for Sunday Dinner.Before it completely slips my mind, MARY@MARY'S WRITING NOOK tagged me for a photo meme a couple of weeks ago, then the ice storm hit and my power was off and so on and so forth, so now I'm finally getting around to the meme.

The object of the meme is to go to your photo folder and open the 5th folder and upload the 5th photo, then explain the photo's significance if necessary.

Well MARY, I just recently burned all my photos to CD's to free up some memory space on my computer, so I only have 3 folders right now. I'll have to use the 3rd folder and 5th photo, so I hope that's okay.

And here it is:This is my 16 year old kitty, Candy. She's an old lady now and doesn't get around as well as she used to and doesn't have many teeth left, but she's my baby and I'm her world. She tolerates Lamar and my other family, but she's a one person cat, and I'm her person.

Whenever I'm gone overnight or even for a long day, Candy drives Lamar crazy, prowling through the apartment, yowling for me. If I'm sitting in my recliner she's usually lying half on my lap and half on the chair arm.

There you are, Mary!

I won't tag anyone for this but if you'd like to do this meme feel free.It's 65F as I type this and my windows are all open to air out the apartment and let in some fresh air. Of course the wind is gusting over 30 mph so my living room curtains are standing straight out most of the time but hey, it's warm enough that the wind feels pretty good, though a bit brisk at times.

I don't know if it was the bright sunshine, the brisk breeze or a combination of the two, but something flung a cleaning frenzy on me and I've been cleaning, decluttering and tossing in my spare bedroom today. Not that it needed cleaning or anything like that. (!)

So far Lamar has carried out 3 empty boxes and 3 big garbage bags of stuff and I'm nowhere near finished cleaning and sorting in there. I'm not even kidding. A lot of it was just papers that I've put off sorting through and some of it was just stuff I had to leave setting around gathering dust and cat hair for a year or so before I could admit that I could live without it.

I stripped the twin bed in there and have the bedclothes washed and dried and I'll remake the bed after supper. Sometime lately Candy had hacked up a hairball on the bed so that was lovely to find behind a pillow. Candy considers the twin bed in the spare room her personal boudoir and if she's not on my lap or on my bed she's usually on the bed in the spare room.

Anyway, the bed clothes are washed and clean now so I have that much done.

However, my Christmas tree and decorations along with my wrapping paper and various other holiday accoutrements are still piled in front of my dresser, along with a selection of other stuff of the "toss in there and worry about later" variety.

Of course that pile of stuff makes it terribly inconvenient to access my dresser which houses my socks and underwear and other non-hanging type clothing, so I guess I reached my limit today, which led to the impromptu cleaning session. Hopefully over the next day or so I can make a big dent in what needs to be done or maybe even finish the job.

In between loads of laundry I have to cook supper tonight so I'm going to get this posted and get to it. I'm a little afraid that if I pause too long I'll lose my head of steam and won't get the task done.Note to Tam, no blog: I'm pondering about that post you mentioned about frugality in these hard times. I hope to post about that next week.

Also, high fives to all my new readers! It's always nice to make new blogging friends, and I love it when readers delurk and leave me a comment. I always try to visit your blog and comment back, assuming you have a blog. I know several of my readers, like Tam and Vi in Northern Idaho don't have blogs so leaving a note here on my blog is the only way I can communicate with you unless you email me.

Feel free to email me at lenadianejennings at yahoo dot com.

Y'all have a blessed Sunday. May God meet all your needs and may you have enough to share.