Dee

I've always made my own pizza dough.  I cook one and put 3 bags in the freezer for another time.  My question is, do any of you put the whole pizza with the toppings on it in the freezer?  If so, do you partially cook the crust before adding the toppings, or do you keep the dough raw.  Are they good made up ahead and frozen or better to add the topping after thawing the dough like I've always done.

Thanks ladies.

Happy Birthday Becca.  Hope you have a great day!!!  

As a 77-year-old woman and one who dated and knew many Marines, this book really brought back memories.  

It was exceptional.  It brought tears and joy both.  I can't remember when I cried reading a book, but I cried more than once reading this one.  Reading the Author's Note at the end brought on more tears.

Was it because of growing up where I did?  Southern California in the 60's with all the riots, love children, the Manson's?  There were many assignations, protests and just so much strife throughout the whole country.  

The book was real and brought so much of it back.  The joys of being a teenager, the war, anger, hate, Hippies, drugs, etc.  I don't know but I couldn't put it down.

If anyone else reads it, please give me your thoughts.

Keep reading.... 

I hadn't bought a cake mix for probably 30 years.  One day Betty Crocker had cake mixes for $.39 each.  I bought 6.  I made a cinnamon coffee cake for breakfast one morning when I wasn't in the mood to start from scratch.  Hey, that was good.  I've also made them swirling jam or jelly through them.  Hey, they're good too. When some cousins called saying they thought they'd stop as they were going by, I made another.  Yellow cake, swirled in some raspberry jam, made a pot of coffee and we were good to go.

Now, I always have cake mixes in the freezer.  I'm old, it's easy and I love it!!! 

Happy Birthday Snowy.  Hope your day is going beautifully and that you didn't get the 10" of snow we got. 

Thank you, Snowy.  Yours is coming up soon, if I remember correctly. 

Welcome back old friend!!!

I don't know if they do or not Mother.  DH eats them, not me, but he never complains and gobbles them up.

I have tons of stuff in my freezer in single servings.  DH loves meat.  Now that I'm older I don't eat much of it.  Just last week I cooked 5 lbs. Italian sausage and 5 dozen eggs, making sausage and scrambled eggs.  I put 1 cup of the mix in sandwich bags, flattened them out and froze.  I used to make burritos, but he now just wants the sausage/eggs.  I ended up with 23 bags, plus what he ate for breakfast.

I also made a 9x13 pan of lasagna.  I fed him two meals from it before cutting the rest in nice sized pieces and putting them in sandwich bags in the freezer.

Later this week I'll make a couple dozen enchiladas to freeze 2 to a package.

I also found a box of pancake/waffle mix that was dated 8/23.  Whoops!  I cooked up the whole box making waffles.  We ate some for breakfast and the rest went into the freezer with 2 waffles per bag.                         

It took some time and work but it's awfully nice to have in the freezer and ready to just warm up.  I also have a lot of things I've done earlier.  Chili, Tator Tot casserole, escalloped potatoes/ham, chunks of leftover cooked chicken and roast beef to make into soups, and I can't think right off the bat what else.  

It makes life easy to cook one whole day and have individual meals for weeks.  I have 3 freezers and they are all full.

Thank you ladies. I am having a nice day.  Out to lunch with the family and home for a nap this afternoon.  

My DH is that way Littlesister.  He'll eat almost anything, and he'll even eat it for days.  Me, not so much. 

Here's what I did yesterday.....It's interesting the things you can do and the money you can save if......

Thanks everyone and back at you.  We're home from our day with family.  I'm already in my pajamas and bathrobe and sitting in my recliner.  Exactly where I want to be. 

Have a great evening everyone.

Yum, Necie.  I would be sick all night if I ate that but take away 20 years and I would enjoy every single bite.  Makes me think of Long John Silver's fish where I slathered it in malt vinegar.  It does look delicious!!!  

Mignightmom, I had to laugh at you looking up lefse.  I grew up in the L.A. area and knew everything about Mexican and Chinese food but nope, never heard of lefse until 50 years ago when, I married a Norwegian/Swedish boy and moved to Iowa.  Lefse, kringla, krumkake and rosettes were/are staples for the holidays.  No lutefisk.  This family doesn't make or eat it and from all I've heard that's a good thing!   

Anyway, the lefse is spread with butter and suger sprinkled on it.  Folded into a triangle and eaten as part of the meal.  It's very good.

She and Jimmy were amazing people!

Today I made the 1st batch of instant hot chocolate for the winter.  It's easy, tastes so good and you just add water.  On a cold winter day or night, it just hits the spot.  Today was 61 degrees but even so it was delicious.

We're having ham and smoked turkey, Littlesister.  I'm taking a relish tray, salad and lefse. For 30 years I did both Thanksgiving and Christmas.  I'm so glad I now just get to go and eat.  With age comes a few benefits. 

Today I cooked up a pork roast I'd put in the freezer dated 6/2022.  Yikes, I'd lost it until I defrosted the freezer.  I put it in the crockpot with cream of celery soup, onion, garlic, pepper, etc.  I was surprised at how delicious it was.  No taste of freezer burn and moist as could be.  

I hate to admit there's another in the same bag, but I'll cook it too in a couple weeks and hopefully have another great meal.  It's amazing what meat cooked in a crockpot can do.

I've not had any of the above and unless life gets a lot tougher than it is I'll stick with turkey., thank you!   

Isn't this big equipment amazing???  DH likes to watch You Tube videos on equipment and it's just fascinating.

Somedays I really miss animals.  Other days, like when it's -20 degrees out, I'm glad they're gone.  Anyway, of all the animals we had I think the turkeys were my favorite.

These purple slate turkeys were always happy to see me and gathered around to gobble and chat whenever I was outside.  When I wasn't outside, they liked to see what I was up to inside.  They were so very nosy!  

Oh, Pixie from so long ago.  Happy Birthday to you.  We'd love to hear how you're doing.  

Littlesister, we used to have livestock we fed some of it to and we also used in a corn stove at the old house. Now though, this corn will go in the grain elevator in town to be dried and stored until we sell it.  Our small harvest, compared to most, will be about 25,000 bushels.   

It's been a while since I posted but with summer and gardening, I've been doing other things.  I've decided I'm too old, tired, or lazy to do the gardening and canning I've been doing for years.  Next year I think I'll cut way back or may not do anything but put in a tomato plant of two.  Of course, when spring arrives who knows what I'll do.

Now that the weather is changing, and harvest has begun it's time to begin getting ready for another winter. From the feel of the weather today, winter is right around the corner.  I don't like winter and on those long cold winter days I wonder why I ever left the sun and warmth of California.  Not often though!