Sunday Dinner, March 22, 2009

Before I get into the menu for this Sunday's Dinner, I have a confession to make about last Sunday's Dinner.

Due to unforeseen circumstances, it didn't happen. Not on Sunday anyway.

My sister CECIL and her hubby Brian treated me, Lamar and our sister Ducky to Sunday lunch at Colton*s Steakhouse. Cecil and I got steaks, Ducky had the country fried steak, and Lamar had the grilled salmon. We all shared a bloomin' onion as an appetizer.

And may I say, it was all wonderful! And it was great not to have to spend a big part of Sunday afternoon in the kitchen.

However - the potato salad and butter beans that I prepared for Sunday Dinner didn't go to waste. I took them to my church ladies' meeting on Monday night as my contribution to the food for the evening.

Now for this Sunday Dinner it's going to be back to my usual standard Southern cooking, unless somebody wants to treat us to dinner out again, which would be fine with me.

As you probably gathered by my Sunday Dinner graphic this week, I'm going to cook a pot of pinto beans. I have some potatoes that I'll probably slice and fry, and I'll make either some of my CORNBREAD or some PANBREAD, possibly a skillet of each.

I managed to save one quart-sized freezer bag of garden tomatoes from my freezer when the ice storm happened back in January. I may fix a pot of macaroni and tomatoes with the tomatoes. I'm craving fresh veggies and those are rare as hen's teeth right now.

Every time I think about all the garden veggies I had to throw out of my freezer during the power outage from the ice storm it just makes me sick all over again. *Sigh..........*

So, pinto beans, fried potatoes, macaroni and the last of the garden tomatoes from the freezer, and some homemade cornbread and/or panbread. That's the menu here at Diane's Place.

Now, what's on the menu at YOUR place for this Sunday Dinner? Share your plans/menu in the comments if you'd like to participate this week.And before I take off rambling and forget, a big THANK YOU to all of you who comment here on the blog and by email. I appreciate all my readers, and I love it when a lurker who never or rarely comments delurks to comment or email me.

Readers and commentors, y'all are the reason I write this drivel week after week, year after year.

My 3 year blogiversary passed without mention back in January because of the ice storm and power outage. When I started this blog journey over 3 years ago, I honestly had no idea that I'd still be blogging this far down the road and that I'd make so many good friends, most of whom I've never met in real life, but who've become dear and beloved friends to me nonetheless.

Blogging buddies, Y'ALL ROCK!!!In other news, the story of the defective wireless router has proceeded this week. I called the Indian tech guru on Thursday and had it out with him. I let him talk me into trying one last time to get the frazzlin' thing to reset, so I was on the phone with him for 45 minutes before I finally told him, NO MORE! I'M DONE!

So he transferred me to the guy who was in charge of sending out replacement routers, who tried to talk me into trying to reset it again, just one more time.

Not the thing to do with a frustrated, done with it, tired of fooling with it, Christian, Southern fat girl. I thought I showed remarkable restraint by not cussin' or yellin' or name callin', but apparently the hapless techie finally got it through his foreign skull that I'd reached my limit, because he kept telling me "please to not be so upset, please to be calm...."

Yeah, right. TOO LATE, BUSTER!

So anyway, the defective router was mailed off Friday and they're supposed to send me another one back. We'll see how that goes.

The Lord be my helper, I'll never buy another product from a company whose name rhymes with Jetgear.Moving on.....Poor Emmy is sick, bless her little heart. Jessica is feeling a little better and back at work, but just as she started feeling better, Emmy got sick. She's got a runny nose, congestion, fever, and just generally feels icky. Her ears are stopped up and she's pulling at them, but not crying with them so far. She's not her normal, sunny self at all.

Jessica called Emmy's doctor but he wouldn't call in antibiotics for her. More and more these days they're not giving little ones antibiotics for ear infections and such.

I kept Emmy for a couple of hours Friday afternoon so Jessica could do some grocery shopping and Jason could sleep. Emmy kept him up all night Thursday night. She was so miserable and congested that she couldn't sleep, so Jason didn't get any rest either.

While Emmy was here she just wasn't herself. She played a little, but mostly she just laid on me and then slept in her playpen for almost 2 hours. Jessica had to wake her up when it was time to go home, and that's unusual for Emmy.

I just talked to Jessica for a few minutes and she said Emmy's still puny. Hopefully she'll be better in a few days.I've still got our supper to cook tonight as well as cooking the beans for Sunday Dinner, so I'm going to get this posted at a reasonable hour and get busy cooking.

Y'all have a great Sunday. May God meet all your needs and may you have enough to share is my prayer for all my family and friends.