Today we had a super fast, super easy lunch - Hot Roast Beef Sandwiches. These are one of my all time favorite "comfort foods". I had it in my head that I wanted to make these this weekend, so when we went to Sam's Friday night I picked up a package of sliced roast beef. (Which by the way was Angus beef and it was wonderfully tender and tasty.) The only real preparation to be done was making the mashed potatoes and gravy. And to simplify the gravy I used Williams gravy mix. (I use many of the Williams seasoning mixes for chili, white gravy, etc. - all are quite tasty.)
So here is the rundown of what I did:
1) Make mashed potatoes
2) Make gravy
3) Heated sliced roast beef (in the microwave using low power - you don't want to "cook" it, just warm it)
4) Cook side vegetable
5) Put roast beef sandwich together. Slice in half and spread out on plate.
6) Put mashed potatoes in between sandwich slices
7) Pour gravy over the top of everything
8) Put vegetables on plate
9) ENJOY!!!
This meal will be enjoyed at least twice more for lunches this next week. It won't take any time at all to warm it up.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Sunday, January 23, 2011
What's up with you? Here is what is up with me!!!
Okay, I've been very lax in blogging lately. The last one was in November, but things have been crazy busy - with the holidays and all. I'll bring you up to date with what has been going on at our house.
We had our Custom Hose party the first weekend of December and that meant LOTS of cookies had to be baked! Each employee has to make 24 dozen cookies which then go into the cookie buckets that we send out to our out-of-town customers. Those took pretty much a whole weekend.
Another weekend went into baking my sweet breads. I made some as gifts (for our pastor and neighbors) and then made LOTS of mini-loaves to be given away to the guests at our open house. We had our semi-annual Christmas Open House the weekend before Christmas. Suffice it to say that there are lots of preps that go with that. I should mention that we call it "semi-annual", although we hadn't had one since 2007. We were supposed to have it in 2009 but with Jim's cancer diagnosis we opted out last year. We had lots to be thankful for and to celebrate this Christmas so it was all done with great joy in our hearts! We had a great turnout and all went well. (Thanks Vicki, Cathy and Becca for all your help that day!)
Jim had his follow-up visit with Dr. Nabi the day before our Christmas Open House. Everything looked good and he doesn't go back till April. On April 13th he has a CT scan and then on April 15th he sees the doctor. He feels great and is stronger then he has ever been! He is working out doing cardio and strength exercises at least 5 days a week.
We are really busy at work so we have had lots of long days there, occasionally going in on the weekends to play "catch up". We are thankful to have good jobs so we are not complaining.
The Christian women's group I belong too has me busy also. We have our annual seminar coming up on April 16th and due to the Crowne Plaza closing up for remodeling we had to find a new venue for this year. It was finally decided to use The Hotel at Kirkwood. This facility is new and just opened in 2010. Seating will be limited to 500 so we will have to limit our ticket sales for the first time ever. We have Angela Thomas as our speaker and Bebo Norman as our musician. Check out our website (thanks to Rachelle): www.hiswomenseminar.org
Speaking of Rachelle, she has been staying with us the last couple weeks while doing some software work at Custom Hose. The other day we were talking about the many "quick" lunches that I put together each work day. (Jim & I come home for lunch every day.) She suggested that I share some of my quick meal ideas on the blog. I am thinking I may do something on a weekly basis. You'll need to check back to see how this comes along!
Well this enough for tonight. I'll try to be better about getting my posts up. I have been taking lots of pictures of the various foods I've made over the last couple months, I just haven't sat down to type up the recipes. I guess I need to get busy! LOL
We had our Custom Hose party the first weekend of December and that meant LOTS of cookies had to be baked! Each employee has to make 24 dozen cookies which then go into the cookie buckets that we send out to our out-of-town customers. Those took pretty much a whole weekend.
Another weekend went into baking my sweet breads. I made some as gifts (for our pastor and neighbors) and then made LOTS of mini-loaves to be given away to the guests at our open house. We had our semi-annual Christmas Open House the weekend before Christmas. Suffice it to say that there are lots of preps that go with that. I should mention that we call it "semi-annual", although we hadn't had one since 2007. We were supposed to have it in 2009 but with Jim's cancer diagnosis we opted out last year. We had lots to be thankful for and to celebrate this Christmas so it was all done with great joy in our hearts! We had a great turnout and all went well. (Thanks Vicki, Cathy and Becca for all your help that day!)
Jim had his follow-up visit with Dr. Nabi the day before our Christmas Open House. Everything looked good and he doesn't go back till April. On April 13th he has a CT scan and then on April 15th he sees the doctor. He feels great and is stronger then he has ever been! He is working out doing cardio and strength exercises at least 5 days a week.
We are really busy at work so we have had lots of long days there, occasionally going in on the weekends to play "catch up". We are thankful to have good jobs so we are not complaining.
The Christian women's group I belong too has me busy also. We have our annual seminar coming up on April 16th and due to the Crowne Plaza closing up for remodeling we had to find a new venue for this year. It was finally decided to use The Hotel at Kirkwood. This facility is new and just opened in 2010. Seating will be limited to 500 so we will have to limit our ticket sales for the first time ever. We have Angela Thomas as our speaker and Bebo Norman as our musician. Check out our website (thanks to Rachelle): www.hiswomenseminar.org
Speaking of Rachelle, she has been staying with us the last couple weeks while doing some software work at Custom Hose. The other day we were talking about the many "quick" lunches that I put together each work day. (Jim & I come home for lunch every day.) She suggested that I share some of my quick meal ideas on the blog. I am thinking I may do something on a weekly basis. You'll need to check back to see how this comes along!
Well this enough for tonight. I'll try to be better about getting my posts up. I have been taking lots of pictures of the various foods I've made over the last couple months, I just haven't sat down to type up the recipes. I guess I need to get busy! LOL
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