The spaghetti was pretty good. I think I could have done a better job but any meal I don’t have to cook myself is a good meal. I thought the spaghetti came out a little on the dry side. I prefer mine with lots of rich red sauce. There were plenty of onions and mushrooms but hubby cut the onions a bit on the large side and a tad al dente. I don’t like onions in my spaghetti that I can crunch down on. Well, they weren’t crunchy but I like mine cooked soft. The meatballs were okay but they weren’t spicy enough to suit me, especially when I drink beer.

Speaking of beer, after all my griping and complaining I didn’t even finish my second beer. After I ate my spaghetti and meatballs and garlic bread I still had one quarter beer left. Bleh. I poured myself a glass of Minute Maid lemonade instead. I gave the rest of my beer to the guzzler who was happy to get it. Next time he had better buy two six packs to keep the peace around here though. You never know, one day I might really drink three.

Later we’ll have Breyers chocolate ice cream while we watch TV. And that’s the way we have a big party at our house! hehe

What the heck??? So hubby gets a wild hair and decides to cook spaghetti and meatballs. While the 2 pounds of ground chuck is defrosting in the microwave he comes into the computer room and says “ya know, I think I’ll go to to the Stop and Rob and get some beer, bread for garlic bread and ice cream”. So I said okay, sounds good to me and we’ll have a party.

Now, we seldom drink beer or any other alcoholic beverage but today for some reason I guess we both just felt like it. So my question is this – why in the heck did he only buy one six pack???. I mean come on, he knows he drinks more than three beers, and while I normally only drink two myself I do like the option of knowing I can drink three if I want to.

So he waltzed in a few minutes ago and asked me “do you mind if I drink 4 beers instead of 3″? I’m like, what the??? Why didn’t you buy 2 six-packs? He said he didn’t know, he was in a hurry to come home and make me a nice spaghetti dinner. LOL I really buy that excuse. I just don’t know where his head was.

So I’m on my second beer and of course I let him have one of mine. Arrgh… I seldom drink but I figure if I’m going to do it I might as well do it. I told him if he ever came home again with only one six-pack I was going to make him turn around and go get another one. dang. So now I’d like another beer but neither of us will drive to get more since we’ve already had a few. Oh well, I’ll get over it and I’m sure it is for the best anyway.

I didn’t like it.

I’ve used the same recipe before using round steak so I don’t know what went wrong this time. I used the half cup of water but the gravy looked like a globby mess. I added another half cup of water and it looked more like gravy so I put the lid on it and let it simmer.

Another thing I did wrong was to put garlic salt on the meat before dredging it in flour. I do this out of habit but I forgot that the onion soup mix was very salty to begin with. oops!

I think my problem was that I cooked it too long. My husband visited his mother after work yesterday evening so I just let everything simmer until he got home. It still ended up as a globby mess in my opinion.

I might try this again sometime and hope I can remember the mistakes I made this time.

Hubby said he really liked it so I guess all’s well that ends well.

It has been awhile since I wrote about the fine dining here in the trailer park so I thought I’d share with you what I had for lunch today.

Todays menu consisted of a few slices of cheese cut from a block of sharp cheddar (Publix brand) and some pepperoni that I stole from my husband’s stash of pizza fixings and some Premium Saltine crackers on the side. My beverage was Seven-up on ice. Yum yum.

I never did finish telling about Old Lady day last week. All in all we didn’t have a bad day. I think she has finally figured out that I don’t like to listen to gossip (unless it is something *I* am interested in!) so she kept her gossip to a minimum that day.

I told her before we ever left her house that I didn’t want to make any extra stops. I only wanted to go to the doctor and come straight home. I caved after the doctor’s office visit though. I was hungry. I asked her if she wanted to go to Bob Evans and boy, oh boy, did that make her happy! So we went.

I wonder what the manager would have done if I had taken pictures with my cell phone. I bet he would have come over and asked me if something was wrong. I didn’t take pictures though so I’ll just have to describe our meals.

I had the Continue reading Bob Evans – Fine Trailer Park Dining

Quick and Easy Key Lime Cream Pie Recipe

There’s the pic of the Key Lime Pie recipe I posted the other day. It came out pretty good if I do say so myself.

John Chow writes about “Fine Dining” and that’s cool, but not everyone is making a living with their blog (yet!) and not everyone can afford to spend thousands of dollars a month just eating out. That’s why I’m starting a series titled “Fine Trailer Park Dining”. Let’s see how the poor people live! haha