Sunday Dinner, February 14, 2010

I be TARD tonight, but I'm going to get this posted before I head for bed, Lord willing. Of course it may turn out to be one of those "the spirit is willing but the body is weak" things, but we'll hope for the best, shall we?

Once again this week, I'm not cooking Sunday Dinner. Several things factor into this, not the least being that my sister Ducky is in the hospital with pneumonia and, I suspect, pancreatitis. The pneumonia has been confirmed but the pancreatitis hasn't, though I suspect it will be soon.

Since Ducky's in the hospital, more than likely as soon as church is over at noon I'll go eat somewhere with my sister Cecil (Lisa) and then we'll go to the hospital to visit with Ducky until church time Sunday evening.

Also, we have a good chance of snow showers for Sunday. Now the weather geeks are saying we won't have any accumulation, but you and I both know what that means: not a thing. So there's a possibility that the roads may be bad and I won't be going anywhere, and nobody will be coming here.

And another thing, we had our Valentine's banquet at church tonight (Saturday) and I didn't get home until after 9 pm. I'm not about to start cooking at that time of night, so taking that and all the other factors into account, I decided that the best course of action was to just let it ride and deal with Sunday Dinner as it all unfolds.

Now, what's for Sunday Dinner at your place this week? No doubt many of you will be eating out with your Valentines, so please share your plans in the comments if you'd like.Although I didn't cook Sunday Dinner this week, I have been cooking some new recipes lately. Not that my old standards aren't good, but we all need to shake things up occasionally and try some new dishes every once in a while to keep things interesting.

I made some homemade enchiladas the other night that were really good. I'll definitely be making those again. I combined several different recipes and then kind of did my own thing with them, so I don't have a recipe, so I hope I can remember how I made them so I can duplicate them next time I want to make them.

And Wednesday night I made some green split pea soup cooked with a ham bone I've been saving in the freezer. I used a new recipe for that too, and was really pleased with how it turned out. Lamar wasn't overly impressed with it though. I don't think it was hearty and manly enough for him. ;o)

Friday night I made some homemade eggrolls for the first time ever. They turned out great and I even had enough to freeze some for later. Emmy ate 2 of them! And Lamar pronounced them "really good", high praise indeed.I mentioned in my last post that we were supposed to get more snow on Monday, and that Lamar was coming home on Amtrak in the wee hours of Tuesday morning. Well, the snow did indeed fall and Lamar also arrived, so Jessica borrowed her Papaw's 4 wheel drive pickup and retrieved Lamar from the train station.

We got over 6 inches of new snow, although there was also rain falling with it at times, so that kept the total accumulation down. The temp hovered just below freezing all day Monday, so most of the snow accumulated on houses, yards and fields, and not so much on the roads, hallelujah!

This latest snow was light and fluffy and made excellent snow cream, and was more a nuisance for most people than a real hazard. We still have snow lingering from our 12-inch snow 2 weeks ago, and now more from Monday's snow, but it's slowly melting away as our temps have been above freezing for the last several days.

I have a feeling we still haven't seen the last of snow this Winter, and I'm sure we'll still have more cold weather. It just doesn't feel like Spring is imminent just yet. Time will tell, I suppose.Time to get this posted and get myself in the bed. I wish you all a very Happy Valentine's day. May God meet all your needs and may you have enough to share is my prayer for each of you, dear family and friends.

And if you're a praying person, I would appreciate very much your prayers for my sister Ducky (Martha). Thank you in advance, because I know I can depend on your prayers for her.