Happy Father's day to all the guys!No real cooking here today only grilled bologna and cheese sandwich and pork-n-beans.

Tonight we had cubed steak,garden peas and a baked sweet potato.

Tonight we had meatloaf,sour cream mashed potatoes and seasoned green beans.

A man who works for me and his wife have some health issues. I'm taking them an easy meal for dinner. Easy for me. I'm buying a quarter ham & their dessert. I made Paula Deen's Garden Pea Salad this morning for them. It's such a delicious recipe that I'm enclosing the link:
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/garden-pea-salad-recipe-1914547
I always use the Lesueur brand peas Paula suggests. They're pricey, but the end result is worth the money.
When Paula made these on her show, she used a serving/soup tablespoon to measure out the mayonnaise, not a measuring spoon, and that always works for me. Finally, I highly recommend using the diced pimentos, which she says are optional. They add pleasant color, and I only use enough to give some red color throughout. Otherwise, the pimento is too strong a taste and detracts from the peas, in my opinion.

Recipe says it takes 5 minutes. Surely that's after ingredients are prepped. Still, it comes together quickly.

This afternoon, I'm going to make Garlic-Herb Butter Drop Biscuits from Allrecipes, for their meal. The reason I made drop biscuits for the first time a few days ago was to test whether I wanted to make drop biscuits for their meal. I still think dinner rolls are better, but I just don't want to spend 2 or 3 hours making good rolls. I'm also giving them mashed potatoes.

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Last night was a pizza with veggie chicken soup. Tonight will be pizza with a salad. That closes out the pizzas for this week.

Today I was using up left overs,made chicken & rice with garden peas and carrots and made carrot and raisin salad.The chicken & rice wasn't good but we got filled.

Joan, I love carrot and raisin salad. Hmmm, the thought just crossed my mind about whether I could freeze this. The recipe I uses calls for vinegar and oil, as I recall. So my guess is that this will freeze. I have some carrots to use up, so I may experiment. In a few months, when I thaw and try to eat it, I'll let you know how it worked. My guess is that the carrots will have lost their crispness.

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