Hi Nancy,

 NB>  NB>>> Up at the Pond, RJ does sausages and meat (and sometimes even
 NB>  NB>>> veggies) over a fire outside... Did steaks and sausages both
 NB>  NB>>> for a couple of meals this last time up at there... He does a
 NB>  NB>>> nice job of it... 
 NB>  RH>> Sounds like he enjoys it too.
 NB>  NB>> He apparently does....   He's quick to tell how he seasoned
 NB>  NB>> things, etc...  

 RH> You trained him well. (G)

 NB> Actually, I think he mostly trained himself on that... I've tended to
 NB> be more utilitarian, at least in his formative years... and he's much
 NB> more so now than I, besides...  

So he did pretty well on his own then. Reading labels, playing with
combinations helps. My youngest sister tried some rather ghastly
combinations of seasonings before we taught her to read the lables for
suggestions. It didn't take long for her to catch on the seriousness of
our teachings.

 NB>  NB>>> and a couple boiled eggs, and added with both dill and sweet
 NB>  NB>>> pickle relish and mayo to shredded Krab... The relish was
 NB> nicely  NB>>> understated but helped the overall mix...  
 NB>  RH>> That sounds good, nice hot weather meal.
 NB>  NB>> It was.... 

 RH> We've been doing a lot of that. Last night Steve grilled some chicken
 RH> breasts, had them with leftover mashed potatoes topped with wilted
 RH> lettuce (hot bacon dressing on the lettuce). Followed up with frozen
 RH> custard for dessert after church.

 NB> Sounds pretty good.... 

 NB>  NB>> tasty as I'd hoped, somewhat flat, actually... But I had a
 NB>  NB>> bacon/tomato/mayo sandwich one day, and twice had a tomato/
 NB>  NB>> cheese/mayo sandwich...  One day, I cut a tomato half into
 NB>  NB>> wedges to eat with a canned salmon/egg salad and a mess of
 NB>  NB>> mushrooms and onion cooked in my leftover bacon fat... 

 RH> Sounds like you made good use of them.

 NB> Yup....   Didn't waste a bit of them, either...  

That's the best way to use them.


 NB>  NB>> I needed the mushrooms to take care of some fluid retention
 NB>  NB>> swelling in my foot...  

 RH> Not fun.

 NB> Probably just too much heat/humidity coupled with on the feet too
 NB> much, and sitting on benches (which makes the circulation more
 NB> sluggish)...

 RH> My knee is still bigger than the other one--don't know if it
 RH> just takes time for things to settle down or what.

 NB> It might be the extra hardware partly, but also possibly just from the
 NB> surgery, and needing to settle down... maybe someone that's had it
 NB> done previously (like Gail) would have some idea of which.... 

Time will tell. Still not even 6 months since surgery.


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