I saw this recipe for Bacon Cheeseburger Sloppy Joes on Kevin’s “Closet Cooking” blog and decided it would work well for our Friday get-together. I especially like that it is a one pan meal and know that I always like Kevin’s recipes. Since the recipe only made four servings, I tripled it to get the recipe below.
If you have been reading this blog much at all, you know that we are not “Spring Chickens” here in this family so I’ll let you do the ciphering for yourself and not disclose any numbers but SIL, Pat W, just had a very major milestone birthday (which I’ll hopefully be here to have next year). Since we didn’t want to go out for lunch on the crowded Labor Day (her actual birthday), we waited until this day to go to her requested restaurant for lunch – Tapoco Lodge. Since I posted about the lodge a few years ago , I won’t do that again and will confine this post to this visit. Our neighbors Pat L and Steve joined Pat W, Bev, and I for the always adventurous drive up the 11 miles and 318 curves of The Dragon (US-129).
Our ole friend, Kathy, has long enjoyed exchanging Christmas gifts with us and not knowing what to get her and not being a shopper, but knowing she likes to eat out, I came up with a solution. For the past two years, I have been giving her five free lunches at the restaurants of her choice, which she almost never wants to pick, and I get a twofer as I’ve committed to Bev to take her out more often as well. So, for this meal, we went to Windy City Grille where Kathy and I have both been but Bev had not. For a variety of reasons we have been having trouble getting together with Kathy this year and I believe this was only lunch number three of five clear up here in late August.
Over the years, I’ve gone on several campaigns to clean out our longer term freezer but I’ve never been as successful as this time and it’s partly due to a new philosophy for freezer use. This is about as empty as it will get as all of the old items are now out and I was amazed at the stuff that I discovered over the last few months - it’s organized by shelf such as pork and chicken on a shelf or beef and precooked items on a shelf.
These next two pics are from the web but they look just like Teddy Bear & Bodie's normal look.
On Friday Morning we again ate breakfast in the main dining room as our final meal at the Greenbrier and again we ordered from the menu (link above). This is a shot about 2/3 of the room, the drapes and a chandelier.
Since we are now harvesting plenty of cherry tomatoes, I’m on the lookout for ways to use them and this recipe for Marinated Tomatoes from the Two Peas And Their Pod blog seemed to fit the bill perfectly. Since Cindy just got home from her knee replacement surgery, I thought I would treat her to salmon as she is a fish lover and I served the marinated tomatoes as bruschetta.
