It’s Friday What’s For Dinner 05-23-24
Anyone that makes a homemade dinner is welcome to type the name of one recipe that you prepared, in the comments, then we can all scroll through the comments for recipe ideas. This will be a weekly Friday post and only recipes on the Friday posts will be allowed.
If someone wants your recipe and asks, there will be no pressure to share it, it’s up to you. I will accept links, but only to the recipe and NO VIDEO. It may take me a day to approve it so I can make sure the link is legitimate and not spam.
NO SPAM OR VIDEOS WILL BE ALLOWED, ONLY RECIPES OR YOU WILL BE BLOCKED.
I find the hardest part of making dinner isn’t the process, but figuring out what to make. So go ahead and post ONE RECIPE ONLY EACH FRIDAY in the comments or feel free to just read what others have made. Either way, I hope we all get some great ideas to make our meal planning easier.
To see my step by step directions with pictures and a printable recipe card for NO BAKE CHICKEN THIGHS WITH SAUCE click below.
http://www.InDianesKitchen.com
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Looks a very tasty dish Diane
Thank you Sheree!
How about these for afters? https://viewfromtheback.com/2023/05/20/the-musette-pecan-pie-bars/
Perfect Sheree, thank you for sharing!
My pleasure as always
Thank you for the recipe!
You are so welcome!
Looks tasty Diane and you don’t have to turn the oven on.
Thank you! We had to turn off the air conditioner because he removed part of the ceiling and most of the drywall. The heat from the attic was keeping the A/C running nonstop. 😩
Wow – this heat is too much, too soon. I bought a couple of tower fans this past week. My years-old oscillating fan bit the dust just at the completion of the bathroom flooding. I should have put them together as we are getting possible severe weather tonight, twice – ugh. I just shut off the A/C as it is starting to rumble out there.
We had about a 15 minute storm and that was it. You will be glad you bought the fans before everybody else does Linda. Terry and I stapled heavy plastic over the wall and ceiling openings, problem solved!
We had a lot of torrential rain and a couple more rounds of torrential rain this morning. Good thing it was a short storm for you Diane. You and Terry were thinking smart – three days of dealing with that heat would have driven you crazy. That’s what I thought about the fans too. If they went on sale, I’d never get one and wait ’til the heat settles in for the Summer, forget about it then!
Terry and I had to laugh, what if we get hit with a tornado after all this kitchen remodeling! 😳
Double misery – OMG! Funny you said that as I’ve been immersed in decluttering the last three days as we’ve had so much rain and stormy weather. As I lugged out 11 bags of stuff for garbage day and they predicted severe weather later I thought the same thing “if I go through all this effort and it looks worse than when I started ….” My parents did a lot of remodeling through the years and because it is a small house, everything was in disarray. Another blogger is having a bathroom remodel and I told her we had our entire house painted and papered and the woman took a month to get it done. I had given my bedroom suite to our neighbor Marge before she began and asked her to do my room first. She ignored that and we had to reschedule the delivery of the new bedroom suite several times as she took her sweet time. I had packed my clothes in boxes and slept with my mom … we were not happy campers!
Good for you for getting rid of so much stuff. Doesn’t it feel good? We will have to continue cleaning out our basement once this remodeling is done. It is exhausting, physically and mentally. Today the contractor installed the electric and drywall. Terry and I picked up seven solid doors for the bedrooms, bathroom etc. We are done tearing things out and finally headed the other way of installing. Dust is everywhere, so much so that I stopped fighting it, I even have everything covered with heavy plastic. Hopefully he starts the floors tomorrow. One more month!
Yes, it is great Diane, but I still have a long way to go. I see we are having three days of rain again next week and maybe next weekend if the long-range forecast is to be believed. My goal, (f I had retired the end of last year as planned), was to decorate the house for Christmas this year, something I have not done since I have lived alone. I was not sure I would decorate as much, but at least put up a tree and other decorations. So, I may just put up the tree in the kitchen where I’ll see it. We had a tree in the living room and den before, but I spend most of my time in the kitchen, so it makes sense. Well you and Terry are industrious. My doors are the ones that came with the house and they are cheap looking. I wish we would have replaced them when we painted/papered the house. Poor you with the dust and still another month to go … by 4th of July, you’ll be in good shape and previewing your new kitchen to everyone including us here at WP!
You will get there, one bag at a time and you have no time limit now that you’re retire. How exciting to look forward to decorating for Christmas Linda! This is a late reply but now with the damaged cabinets I doubt the kitchen will be done by the 4th.
You know I tell myself I’ll return home from walking and get to it … but I stop and have something to eat and coffee as I last ate around 5:00-5:30 a.m. Then I want to sit down a little, then will get to it. I feel like the hours in a day go by in leaps and bounds where they dragged on forever when I was working. I will put up my Boyd’s Bear Ceramic tree this year and will be doing a post about how I collected bears for years. My mom bought me the tree and also a tapestry jacket which has the design of the tree in it, so I’m going to get a photo of that as well. Next year, 2025 Christmas, I hope to do a little more decorating – maybe the house will be totally decluttered by then – as you say, no time limit now since I am retired!
Get used to the days flying by and not getting much done. Welcome to retirement! You have talked about that tree before and I can’t wait to see it this year!
Isn’t it amazing about the time flying? I thought it was just me! I still get up the same time every day, but the pace is not so hectic, especially in Summer to get myself up, out the door, walk, home again and to work. The tree is so cute Diane. Boyd’s Bears were really popular at one time and I have many of their plush bears, some of the resin bears, some of the resin bears are pins. I hope the tree and jacket photograph well. It lights up too.
I remember the Boyd’s Bears, they were very popular back in the day. I’m sure the tree has a lot of memories too!
Yes, they were so popular and I don’t know why they stopped making them. They had the cutest, whimsical expressions and clothes and they always came with a name, usually an unusual name. Yes, it does. I have pictures of when I used to decorate the whole house and they were not with the albums. I think they are under my bed … under my bed are puzzles and years of Readers Digest books in plastic shoe boxes, one for each year. My mom loved jigsaw puzzles so I made sure she didn’t run out – she didn’t get to do a lot of them the last year of her life, so they are under the bed, plus there are some Rubbermaid totes downstairs with more that she did, that I liked. So there is a shoebox of photos and I did not have the photo pages as they discontinued them. So I never got around to putting them in an album and I never thought to scan them – I scanned photos from albums and scrapbooks the entire Thanksgiving weekend 2017. So I they are either in that box or downstairs in one of the Rubbermaid totes of decorations … we did go all out for such a small house, but the house is done in country and some of the ornaments we got at country craft shows. I have a lot more decluttering to do before I can think of doing all the ornaments. Some of the totes have not been moved or opened since 2008, the last year I decorated.
The bears are like the beanie babies, everyone went crazy for them so they made more and more and people got tired of them. I donatesd well over a hundred beanie babies to a place that gave out free Christmas gifts to children in need. I still have the McDonalds Happy Meal ones, I have no idea why. As for pictures, I had a plastic bag full and stored them on a shelf in the basement. Most of them stuck together. Now I put all my pictures on the iPad and then make photo books by uploading them to the site. Best thing I ever did. I can caption them, decorate the page etc. It’s so easy to pull out a book of every vacation, each one of the kids etc. Plus it is really fun to make the books, almost like scrapbooking on the computer.
That’s too bad about the pictures … but this vacation or special event book sound like fun and you always have it and the photo storage sites are always there, so you can hop on there to look at photos or the “project” any time. I made one of those books on Shutterfly for my neighbor Marge. She and I were Facebook friends and she got a scanner and scanned in some of her pictures of her grandchildren through the years, so she would post them from time to time on FB. So I took all her grandchildren’s pictures she had posted and made a book. She really liked it and it was simple and fun to make.
That was so nice of you! My daughter had a blanket made with the pictures from my FB page too. It is white with multiple pictures, I am using it now.
She really liked it. I didn’t know you could make a blanket from photos – that was very thoughtful of your daughter. What a wonderful way to relive Kodak moments! My boss used to collect teeshirts over the years. Some were from places he visited (he took a trip around the world backpacking back in the 70s), plus every time we finalized a contract with a union (we always represented the company), he asked them for teeshirts and pocket protectors for him/me. So he used a company called Campus Quilt and had several quilted comforters made with the various teeshirts. Very cool idea and you pick the backing and trim color or fabric style and they fold/cut the teeshirt with the logo in front. He used the union ones as wall hangings in the office.
That is so clever!
I meant to add that at least you know the kitchen will be done by Labor Day (trying to inject some positivity here).
Yes! Thursday he painted all the molding over at our pole barn, which was a lot of molding. Today, two days later he brought them to the garage and piled them on saw horses and they were dry to the touch. The paint said it dried in an hour so two days should be fine. He and Terry took all 7 doors over to the pole barn to be painted today. When he finished, he was going to install some of the molding. He went to grab a piece and they were all stuck together. Makes NO sense at all. So he felt bad and said he will take them to his barn, sand them and repaint them. I felt so sorry for him after all that work the first time. He said he’s not touching the doors for a week! Lol
Oh no! All these little hiccups in this entire project are so frustrating … I’d have felt confident they were okay to stack if they felt dry to the touch too. Years ago I painted the front and back steel doors that we had installed after my father left. They were just primed (light gray), so over a long weekend, Memorial Day or 4th of July, I painted them. It was a gel paint we bought to match the siding. So, I planned two coats, hopefully not three unless it didn’t cover. The first day it dried fairly quickly, so early the next day, I put on the second coat. It was not drying and I could not close either the front nor back door. Even back then, we were not comfortable leaving the doors open to completely dry, but didn’t want issues, so I slept on the floor in the kitchen, so I’d be alert to anyone breaking in … we were worried doing this and the second night it was still a bit “tacky” but my mom said “we’ll put wax paper and it won’t stick” so that’s what we did. I never painted a third coat and there are a few places I missed. Never painted with a gel-type paint and will never do it again. I think I painted too thick on the second coat to be honest.
Oh no! I have never used a gel paint.
That was a very anxious weekend sleeping with both doors open … now it’s funny, but people always use the expression to describe something boring as “waiting around for the paint to dry.” 🙂