"sf" wrote in message ...

On Fri, 05 Feb 2016 14:27:01 -0500, Gary > wrote:

> jmcquown wrote:
> >
> > A couple of braised lamb shanks. I've had them in the freezer for a
> > while so it's time. I'll likely go to the farm stand to see what
> > ("winter") vegetables are available this time of year to cook along with
> > them.
> >
> > Any thoughts about dinner?
>
> I saw the funniest commercial in a long time last night.
> It was for the frozen "Banquet" dinners. They're the cheapest ones.
> Showed a mom heating up 4 frozen meals, then showed
> the family of 4 sitting at the table smiling and enjoying them.
>
> LOL! :-D

We had a Swanson's frozen dinner once a week when I was growing up.
Hated them.

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sf

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Since we had them so seldom, we loved them as kids and considered them a special
treat. Same with boxed cereal.

Cheri

On Fri, 5 Feb 2016 12:16:58 -0800, "Cheri" >
wrote:

> Since we had them so seldom, we loved them as kids and considered them a special
> treat. Same with boxed cereal.
>
> Cheri

You have to snip the delineation markers above sf because a decent
news reader will strip all replies after - so I just copied what you
said and that's why there's no other context here.

In any case, I liked the one with fried chicken and mashed potato,
hated the carrot & pea mixture that came with it. Hate that combo to
this day. The desserts were okay. Don't even remember what they
were, so they weren't memorable either way - but they were the best
part of most of those dinners.

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sf

On 2/5/2016 3:16 PM, Cheri wrote:
> "sf" wrote in message ...
>
> On Fri, 05 Feb 2016 14:27:01 -0500, Gary > wrote:
>
>> I saw the funniest commercial in a long time last night.
>> It was for the frozen "Banquet" dinners. They're the cheapest ones.
>> Showed a mom heating up 4 frozen meals, then showed
>> the family of 4 sitting at the table smiling and enjoying them.
>>
>> LOL! :-D
>
> We had a Swanson's frozen dinner once a week when I was growing up.
> Hated them.
>
My parents only gave us TV dinners (don't recall the brand) when they
were going out. It was fairly rare so we thought it was something
special. That was back in the days when they were covered in foil and
heated in the oven. 1960's.

Jill

On Fri, 5 Feb 2016 20:35:23 -0500, jmcquown >
wrote:

> On 2/5/2016 3:16 PM, Cheri wrote:
> > "sf" wrote in message ...
> >
> > On Fri, 05 Feb 2016 14:27:01 -0500, Gary > wrote:
> >
> >> I saw the funniest commercial in a long time last night.
> >> It was for the frozen "Banquet" dinners. They're the cheapest ones.
> >> Showed a mom heating up 4 frozen meals, then showed
> >> the family of 4 sitting at the table smiling and enjoying them.
> >>
> >> LOL! :-D
> >
> > We had a Swanson's frozen dinner once a week when I was growing up.
> > Hated them.
> >
> My parents only gave us TV dinners (don't recall the brand) when they
> were going out. It was fairly rare so we thought it was something
> special. That was back in the days when they were covered in foil and
> heated in the oven. 1960's.
>

Lucky you. Yuck.


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sf

On 2/6/2016 1:12 AM, sf wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Feb 2016 20:35:23 -0500, jmcquown >
> wrote:
>
>> On 2/5/2016 3:16 PM, Cheri wrote:
>>> "sf" wrote in message ...
>>>
>>> On Fri, 05 Feb 2016 14:27:01 -0500, Gary > wrote:
>>>
>>>> I saw the funniest commercial in a long time last night.
>>>> It was for the frozen "Banquet" dinners. They're the cheapest ones.
>>>> Showed a mom heating up 4 frozen meals, then showed
>>>> the family of 4 sitting at the table smiling and enjoying them.
>>>>
>>>> LOL! :-D
>>>
>>> We had a Swanson's frozen dinner once a week when I was growing up.
>>> Hated them.
>>>
>> My parents only gave us TV dinners (don't recall the brand) when they
>> were going out. It was fairly rare so we thought it was something
>> special. That was back in the days when they were covered in foil and
>> heated in the oven. 1960's.
>>
>
> Lucky you. Yuck.
>
>
I know, right? What the heck, I was about 7 or 8 years old at the time,
my brothers just a few years older. What did we know? I seem to recall
fried chicken with mashed potatoes and peas and baked apples for "dessert".

Jill

On Sat, 6 Feb 2016 09:23:00 -0500, jmcquown >
wrote:

> I seem to recall
> fried chicken with mashed potatoes and peas and baked apples for "dessert".

That was the only one I liked.

Hey, getting back to dinner. We ate out last night and I ordered
mushroom cassoulet. Never heard of it before, but it was tasty. Came
home and Googled for recipes... seems to be that everyone who posts it
on the internet does it differently. I think what I had was basically
a white bean stew with mushrooms in it - if there were any tomatoes,
they were hiding somewhere. In any case, I'm going to try making my
own version one of these days. Hubby ordered the bavette au poivre
(fancy flap meat) and our meals went very well together. At home, I'd
serve those two + a nice tossed salad made with fancy greens and be
happy to call it dinner.

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sf

sf wrote:
>
>Hey, getting back to dinner. We ate out last night and I ordered
>mushroom cassoulet. Never heard of it before, but it was tasty. Came
>home and Googled for recipes... seems to be that everyone who posts it
>on the internet does it differently. I think what I had was basically
>a white bean stew with mushrooms in it.

Mushrooms & Beans... a new entry for my TIAD Encyclopedia.
I can see mushrooms and greenbeans but mushrooms and white beans has
to be hideous, would look hideously disgusting, like giant maggots
writhing on decaying roadkill.

>Hubby ordered the bavette au poivre
>(fancy flap meat).

*Fancy* flap meat, that would be labia minora I presume?

Dinner tonight is a stew of Hillshire Farms kielbasa and Bush's baked
beans. First I cut each of th ethree sausages into four links, then I
slooowly simmer the sausages covered with plain water in a covered pot
for about an hour, not really a simmer, more like poaching so the
sausages don't split open. Then drain the water, gets rid of a lot of
the salts and fat. Next cover the sausages with beans and slooowly
simmer another two hours. I use those 3 pound packages of sausages
and a 55 ounce can of Original Bush's baked beans... will be more than
enough to feed two 3 times... very easy to prepare, not really
cooking, just opening and heating. Just use the lowest heat your top
burner can furnish, then you can keep it on the stove top all day,
from early morning until dinner time, without paying it much
attention, don't even need to stir.
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