[Miss Marple]

Copying both of those recipes. I need stuff I can cook and freeze. DO these freeze well?

Geee, the hard part for me is that I am the oldest in my family, and I take seriously that our family remain close. This is not always easy, with the varieties of political opinions and various degrees of religious faith. (For example, this same sister is the one who is in charge of Easter breakfast, and she seems to schedule it so that we have to go to very early mass or the vigil mass. She does not attend church.)

There are days when I think about selling out and moving to Colorado with my husband. It's my son's family with the grandkids that keep me here...that and the fact we have always wanted to keep this house.

I don't remember that I spent a lot of time telling my democrat family members how wonderful Bush was. I kept quiet at family gatherings. I have often said that this dissension always is started by democrat family members.

[Neets]

Yes, mine freezes very well.

The past few weeks I seem to have been freezing quite a few leftovers for second meals.

This chili, a beef stroganoff, sausage and peppers. And of course my homemade spaghetti sauce.

[Geee]

My sister is the same way about not keeping things to herself. I had to talk my 2 brothers in to attending my nieces wedding a few weeks back because she had to get in to a political argument with both of them over the phone a few weeks before. She is as far left as it gets and thinks the rest of us are just uninformed.(typical lib right). I didn’t think my niece should suffer for it, even though her mother is wacko.

Since there are only two of us now, I freeze often. I still make the regular amount on many things that can be frozen and freeze half. Stuffed peppers, meatloaf, meatballs, spaghetti sauce, chop suey,chili, soups. We eat brown rice and it takes about 45 minutes to cook. I usually make about 8 cups when I make something that calls for rice, and split the remaining in ziplock bags and freeze them. I nuke them in the bags. I haven’t had much luck in freezing pasta. It may because I use the Barilla plus, which is low in carbs and not made completely of wheat.

[Geee]

Chicken Spaghetti

4-5 # hen
salt to taste
1 cup celery, chopped
1 cup onion, chopped
½ cup green pepper, chopped
2 buds garlic, chopped
1 can tomatoes
1 small can mushrooms
1 tbsp. prepared mustard
dash or two tabasco
1 # grated cheese
2 cans cream of mushroom soup
cooked spaghetti

Cook hen until tender with salt to taste. When cold, take off bone and cut in bite size pieces. Saute celery, onion, green pepper and garlic until tender, but not brown. Add can tomatoes and can mushrooms. simmer until tomatoes are well cooked and all to pieces. Add prepared mustard and tabasco. Put in boiler and melt together cheese and soup. When melted, add to the tomato mixture and a layer of cooked spaghetti until all is used. Grate enough cheese over the top to cover. Cook just till bubbly. This makes 2 casseroles and 1 can be frozen for later use. Can give it extra flavor by cooking the spaghetti in the water in which the chicken was cooked.

[Geee]

Chicken Tetrazzini

6 servings

1 chicken (or 3-4 whole breasts), stewed, skinned and boned and kept in generous pieces
1 large(11 oz) pkg frozen noodles, cooked, drained
2 cans cream of mushroom soup
¼ soup can dry white wine
¼ cup butter
¾ cup parmesan cheese
garlic powder to taste
1 or 2 cans button mushrooms

Save out 1/4 cup parmesan cheese. Mix all the rest of ingredients together and pour into greased casserole, approximately 13x7x2 inches. Sprinkle rest of cheese over and add a few dashes of paprika for color. Bake in 350 oven for 30 minutes or until hot and bubbly.

This can be frozen most successfully. If frozen, put in cold oven and heat about 1 hour.

This makes a great company meal with green beans, green salad, garlic bread and some little thing for dessert.

[Geee]

Corn Chowder

½ # bacon, diced
6-8 cups potatoes, diced
1 can creamed corn
1 tsp. sugar
2-4 cups milk , (depends on desired thickness)
¼ to ½ stick butter
1 medium onion, diced
1 can whole kernel corn
16 oz half&half
pepper to taste

Saute bacon until golden. (Do not drain). Add onion, potatoes and 2 cups of water. Bring to a boil and simmer until tender but not mushy. Combine this with corn, half and half, sugar, peppper(to taste) and 2-4 cups of milk depending on the size of the pot or how thick you want the chowder to be. Add 1/4 to 1/2 stick of butter, depending on how fattening you want the chowder to be. Heat until hot but not boiling. This chowder can be frozen.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK WITH MR M!!!!!!

[Guenevere]

So do I.....we've always tried to keep peace in the family...

..but as Beck points out, that pretty much describes what the Republicans and conservatives have tried to do for years-(keep peace/stay quiet)

.....and they get run over and smashed into the tarmac!