Sunday, November 22, 2009

Sunday but not a confession.

Oh boy. I went to 2 stores today looking for French style frozen green beans for the green bean dish that I'm to make for Thanksgiving. I will try another store tomorrow and see if they have them. My twin sister says that you have to use the French style beans. I can find them canned? But that goes way past of what I am willing to use in the dish. ( Note, this is not the dish that has can of mushroom soup in it)

Other then that I got all my Thanksgiving dinner shopping done. Last year I waited till the Wednesday eve to do my shopping and the stores closed at 6pm and I was a the Wal-Green drug store looking for canned pineapple, which they had.

It was a good day in Church today. But I did nod off. They keep it way, way to warm for me. I have started drinking ice tea before the service in hopes that that will help. I think I need to drink 2 ice teas. I was invited by folks to come to their house for Thanksgiving dinner, which was very nice of them.

I have been lax in bringing food for the potluck we have every Sunday. Today was going to be the same but I thought about what I had in house and cut up about 5 lbs of potatoes and roasted them in the Church oven with garlic and other stuff. All gone but the dirty pan. It's hard to think about what to bring each week that wont over tax your budget too much but will be filling and tasty.

10 comments:

  1. Krissy, if you want to buy frozen whole green beans, we have an old french cut tool that works really slick for frenching green beans. It's time consuming, but it works well....just ask bike man! He french cut green beans several years ago and froze them for stir fry. Just an option to think about if you get despirate for making your green bean casserole dish.

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  2. I had a little trouble finding them too but ended up with 2 bags. Tim is worried there won't be enough left for us to take home so I have to make 2 batches, one for Alicia's house and one for us. Roasted potatos sounds delicious. You could make yummy potato skins one time too, and twice-baked potatos. All cheap.

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  3. Ok, what is the difference between using regular green beans and french cut? Is it a texture difference? Not taste right?

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  4. Well this sounds like a recipe that I need. Anybody sharing greenbean recipes?

    S.

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  5. How about good ole pinto beans and cornbread for your Church potluck (just be sure and don't hang around long afterwards!!!)

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  6. Aunt Krissy, I have a recipe for a chicken enchilada pasta casserole that is yummy and relatively inexpensive to make. Let me know if you want it...

    I haven't seen frenched frozen green beans in months now that you mention it. I used to avoid getting them that way if I could help it, but haven't been having to for quite some time. Have they gone out of style, you think?

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  7. Regular green beans are just icky! They gotta be the french cut, I tell ya. I wonder if you did cut them with the french cutter thing, if that would make them tasty....
    And I would definately not use canned. Canned would be twice as icky!

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  8. I agree that canned are icky! However, my in-laws only eat canned. YUCK! They absolutely want canned green beans for Thx, so I have to make them. I'd rather serve steamed broccoli than that salty, over-processed mush! I wouldn't even feed them to my chickens!

    Aunt Krissy, I'll email you in a bit! You're the best adopted Aunty in the world!

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  9. I am so Thankful to find out we are getting Green Beans for our dinner. Sandy, I know you have had the "GreenBean Casserole" Mom has made for as long as I can remember (and now I can say thats a real long time). I tried making it with canned frenched and it tasted all right but the texture was like twice mashed potatoes. Gotta have crunch and cheese and water chestnuts and almonds Rats I'm getting hungry thinking about it can't wait for dinner......yum The "Baneberry" cranberry pudding is all ready and yeah!!!!! JT got the day off from work so will be with me wooooooho!

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  10. Don't drink too much iced tea or you'll have to go during the service.

    French cut green beans and slivered almonds. Om Nom Nom.

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