I hope these don't bore everyone, but many have e-mailed that they enjoy getting the ideas, so here goes...

Around here tonight we are having, home-made crab cakes *crab-meat, bread crumbs, beaten egg, spices, mustard and worchestershire sauce* (a miracle if that is spelled right) I bake mine on a lightly oiled pan until brown, also baked potatoes, salad with home-grown lettuce, broccoli and carrots, and some lemon pudding for dessert. Cost is about $2.50 including dessert and tea or milk to drink.

-- Melissa (me@home.net), December 07, 2001

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Tonight we're having a pork roast in the crockpot. I am going to mix a can of cream of celery soup, an envelope of dry onion soup mix and a can of regular Pepsi( never diet) and pour that over the roast. It gets very tender and DH loves pork this way. I'm planning on some mashed potatoes and sliced cucumbers too. Maybe some other veggies too but, right now, I'm uninspired. We rarely have desserts here.

-- Ardie /WI (ardie54965@hotmail.com), December 07, 2001.

I have been very ill for the last 5 days. I have lost 21 pounds and haven't eaten anything solid since Sunday night. Tonight I hope to change all that. I am so hungery!! I am fixing porkchops with homemade peach preserve glaze, mashed potatoes, homegrown peas with hot poppyseed rolls(actually more like bagels, just look like rolls).Then for dessert I am fixing homemade vanilla icecream. I can not wait until tonight. I did have oatmeal this morning but it tasted like the floor!God Bless

-- Micheale from SE Kansas (mbfrye@totelcsi.net), December 07, 2001.

Hubby is out of town so I'm going to a friend's for dinner. She is fixing for the kids--Hamburgers plus whatever she has on hand. I'm providing the dinner for the adults. I call it Peirera Pasta (last name of the lady who gave me the recipe, she just called it pasta) It is orzo pasta with chicken breast, spinach, red bell pepper, onion, and green olive. Top with Parmesan Cheese. Friend's husband only eats plain food, so I'm taking chicken breast, baked potato, corn and green beans for him. For dessert is Brickle Bites ( sorta like Heath bars).

-- Jo (mamamia2kids@msn.com), December 07, 2001.

Dinner here is almost the same as the pork roast above....beef pot roast in the crockpot with a can of cream of mushroom soup and a packet of onion soup mix. Will add potatoes, sliced onions and carrots, and of course it makes it's own gravy. I made brownies this morning while I was fixing breakfast for dh, so dessert is taken care of.

-- Lenette (kigervixen@webtv.net), December 07, 2001.

I am sorry you have been so sick Micheale, I am glad you are feeling better. I noticed you weren't on as much, but figured you were busy.

-- Melissa (me@home.net), December 07, 2001.

Leftovers... leftovers... leftovers....

leftover pork stew, leftover cornbread, leftover veggies, leftover risotto, salad, fruit...

We're having one of those "cleaning out the fridge" buffets! :-)

-- Cheryl in KS (cherylmccoy@rocketmail.com), December 07, 2001.

I don't have any idea;-[

-- Cindy (SE. IN) (atilrthehony@hotmail.com), December 07, 2001.

We are going to a church Christmas party....we are having ham ( I am cooking one right now for tonight) and scalloped potatoes...I have that cooking too, and green bean casserole, salads and rolls and different desserts. It is always a good dinner!! And a fun program watching the kids do a nativity thing too.

-- Jenny (auntjenny6@aol.com), December 07, 2001.

Barbecued pork chops, mashed potatoes, peas, layered salad, rolls and cowboy cookies for dessert.

Home grown potatoes, lettuce. Home made cookies. Broke down and bought the dinner rolls --$.69 for 16. Pork loin bought at a steal (think $1.60) cut into chops, pan fried with onions. Put in baking dish with ketchup, sugar, molasses, lemon juice, salt and pepper (ran out of brown sugar).

BTW: I just love these posts because it gives me ideas and some folks are so clever and witty. And I can ask about recipes that are not offered. Thanks.

-- Ann Markson (tngreenacres@hotmail.com), December 07, 2001.

Michaele:

Sorry to hear you were ill. I was planning to email you because you have been so quiet... Get well soon! Hope that hearty meal fills your tummy and brightens your spirits.

-- Ann Markson (tngreenacres@hotmail.com), December 07, 2001.

Hi guys, I have to change mine!! The kids stayed at Grandma's house and Cale took me out to dinner! We went to West Texas Roadhouse and had an incredible meal of chicken/ribs/ baked potatoes, salad. Oh I am so full!! Just thought I would check in here for a bit. I will have what I said for tonight, tomorrow night instead!!

-- Melissa (me@home.net), December 07, 2001.

Change mine too--spent so much time typing what we were having for dinner that I burned it! Ha! Well, only the potatoes (luckily I had leftover rice in the frig to replace it--was wonderful anyway.

-- Ann Markson (tngreenacres@hotmail.com), December 07, 2001.

Okay, supper's over, but...tonight was the fire department Christmas party, and they supply the barbecue - ribs, brisket and smoked turkey, along with potato salad, baked beans and coleslaw. Tea or Lemonade to drink. Everyone brings a dessert - next year I start at the dessert table and eat barbecue if I have any room left!

They always have a program after dinner, with a little fun poked at the retirees, and an award named after a fallen firefighter from several years back in our dept., then SANTA for the kids. We all bring a wrapped present for our own, and some of them are up into college I think and still getting them. It is always nice to see everyone there, a few of them this is the only time of the year I see them.

One thing, though, I thought I must be at the wrong party - our department is getting so big especially when you figure in retirees and families, there must have been at least 250 people there tonight!

I'd better start thinking about tomorrow's supper, unless we end up going to the farm to pick up some pecans before the pickers come next week! Fresh pecans - yum!

-- Christine in OK (cljford@aol.com), December 07, 2001.

Ham, baked beans, deviled eggs and sourdough rolls. Dessert is Oreo cookies, a splurge for us.

-- Barb Fischer (bfischer42@hotmail.com), December 07, 2001.

I got lucky tonight. A gal friend took me out to a new local restaurant for dinner as a token of her gratitude for some assistance I was able to offer with her PC. I had a nice, home-style Beef Manhattan dinner with a warm apple dumpling a' la mode for dessert. A nice meal and better company... it doesn't get much better than that. ;o)

-- Gary in Indiana (gk6854@aol.com), December 07, 2001.