Car Museum, 6000 16th Avenue SW, Seattle, WA (2025)

18/02/2025

I woke to a light dusting of snow this morning, and a memory came back to me so plainly I decided to share another simple dish that was enjoyed when we were kids in the 40's.
Mom would tell me to go next door and borrow the black bottom kettle. It was black because it was set down into the fire of the wood cookstove. She filled it with water, got it boiling and added macaroni. When It was done she added a can of evaporated milk, salt and pepper and a blob of butter, served it up in bowls. We had macaroni and milk often and loved it. Still do😂

18/02/2025

Not a recipe, but popped into Sam's real quick and grabbed a couple of items that I feel help stretch our household dollars. Bought 1 package of uncured ham($7.82 for 1.5lbs), 1 package of sliced mild cheddar($7.98 for 2lbs.), and 2 packages of 88% lean ground beef($3.98lb.). I divided the 4 items into 6 packages of ground beef, 4 packages of cheese, and 3 portions of ham. Most of it will go to the freezer to be used over time. I try to buy a few bulk groceries every few weeks and add them to my freezer. Sometimes it's veggies and fruits, other times meat or bread.

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This is an inexpensive meal in 1 pan . Just thought I’d show you how much it makes !
1.5 lbs of cabbage very small head
1small diced onion
1 tbsp sugar
Salt and pepper to taste
2 slices of bacon
1 link of smoked sausage
We do not like boiled cabbage so we fry it ! It’s simple and delicious and doesn’t smell the house up 😁
Slice the bacon in small pieces and sauté it . Leave the oil and bacon in the pan add diced cabbage , onion and seasonings ! When almost tender and finished add smoked sausage until it’s warm . Feeds 4-5 in this house .
I use a carbon steel wok for this !plenty of room

18/02/2025

When I was a little girl my grammy always made me french toast every night before I went to bed.

She wanted to be sure I wasn’t hungry in the middle of the night.

Having raised my dad and his brothers during the depression era, she always had a fear I’d be hungry.

I still have to eat some thing (even just a small something) before I go to bed, lol, old habits die hard!

Any way here’s how she made them, mine were made from home made bread made in my pullman bread pan I posted earlier this week.

Take eggs and beat them with a fork, add a bit of vanilla, sugar (not much, about 1/2 teaspoon), pinch of salt and milk.. mix well.

Place butter and melt in the pan, soak bread on both sides in the egg mixture and fry in the pan. Turning over, cooking both sides.

Top with more butter and syrup, or what ever you like for toppings.

I did manage to sneak a pic before they were all gone, lol..

18/02/2025

Dinner tonight. Don't know what to call it.
Flour tortilla, grated cheese, diced green chilies sliced peppered ham grated cheese, tortilla.
Put in microwave for 3 minutes. Slice and cool a few minutes. Enjoy

18/02/2025

Husband browned a ring of sausage and made potatoes. I buttered and toasted a few thick slices of croissant bread and made over easy eggs. Some ate as a plate. I made and open face breakfast sandwich with sliced avocado, sausage, and eggs.

18/02/2025

Slow cooker rice pudding smells so yummy! Xx340g pudding rice
340g caster sugar
2 litres of semi skimmed milk
1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

Put all ingredients into the slow cooker apart from the vanilla extract mix well and cook on high for around 2 hours about half hour before its ready add the vanilla extract. Make sure you stir it regulary so that the rice doesnt clump together xx

18/02/2025

Homemade chocolate meringue pie.... mom's recipe!

18/02/2025

Tuition was due this week and we have 3 college kids, so definitely trying to be intentional about using all food and leftovers before buying more groceries. Everyone made their own lunch today, which ranged from eggs to English muffin sandwiches. I opted for a grilled ham and cheese sandwich. We had 1 kraft single and shredded mozzarella, so that's what I used.

I recently took inventory of our freezers and pantry and discovered we had lots of frozen fruit, so we've been having lots of smoothies. Crepes will also be on the menu soon.
When I buy in bulk, I often split it up and store the extras. Going through the extras, I was able to replenish our pantry with cereal, instant breakfast powder, Goldfish, and mandarin oranges. Perfect for our 18, 19, and 20 year olds.
From the freezer, I pulled clearance bread, sliced ham and turkey, cooked bacon, shredded chicken, and parmesan cheese. This helped cut down my grocery list this week to only eggs, milk, and a few veggies.

18/02/2025

Breakfast scramble with whatever was in the fridge.

We had a pretty good thunder/hail storm yesterday evening and I decided to go to the grocery store after it passed. The store was completely empty and I found some really good deals, one of them being a large container of baby portobello mushrooms for $1. I strictly shopped the mark downs and clearance and ended up with a full shopping cart for $40.

I sauteed mushrooms, onion, spinach, and diced Treet, then scrambled in eggs(whisked with heavy cream, salt, and pepper). Topped with shredded cheese and toast on the side.

18/02/2025

I didn't get to do a corned beef brisket on St Paddy day, I do love it, and to have Reuben sandwiches with the left overs. Some of the grocery stores around here used to sell pastrami, and I'd use that, but they all quit selling it. Yesterday I call a store in a city about 20+ miles away, since I was heading that way, and they had pastrami, so I went by there and got some, and seen they had corned beef also, got them to slice that also along with some baby swiss cheese. Today I made a Reuben sandwich with the corned beef, Swiss cheese, homemade sauerkraut, with cayenne pepper and thousand island dressing, on rye bread it was so good,I'm a happy camper..

18/02/2025

Here's something my mother used to make us, usually at suppertime. Bread and gravy is simply a slice of bread on a plate, with what we call milk gravy over top. We liked it and it was an inexpensive fast meal to fill our belly's.
For the gravy she used about a third cup of bacon fat, or any kind she had. She melted it down in the cast iron frying pan, added an equal amount of flour and slow cooked it while stirring until it was a nice toasty brown. Then stirring rapidly, she added milk and kept adding milk and stirring until it was gravy consistency. then she added salt and a little pepper.
Sometimes she made this gravy after dredging side pork in flour and frying it, using the drippings to make the gravy.
Mom was born in 1919 and learned to cook during the depression and WWII. Most folk didn't have fancy food. But We were sure thankful for whatever we had.

18/02/2025

Closed oven method rib roast (5 minutes per pound at 500 degrees, then cut off the heat and don’t open the oven 2 hours carryover/rest time $4.88/lb)

Smoked Gouda macaroni and cheese, simmer noodles in salted water, add splash of heavy cream to resting/drained pasta, in saucepan a butter/flour roux 3 tbl each, pinch of mustard powder, 2 cups milk, 2-3 cups grated smoked Gouda, generous splash of heavy cream. Combine sauce just before service, reserve extra sauce for leftovers.

Bacon and feta Brussels
Render bacon, sear Brussels in grease with a splash of water to steam, crumble feta over top…add balsamic if you care for it.

This is one of the simplest holiday meals to pull together! Very passive, I’ve even made my sauce ahead and combined at service to heat through in a double boiler!

Can be vegetarian friendly to omit the bacon, add another veggie, and use Mac n cheese as the veg main. My in laws didn’t stay for dinner tonight, but if they had I’d have added glazed carrots, and possibly roasted garlic quinoa

I skipped the cheesecake or pies this year…for the simplicity of an easy meal and a cleaned kitchen 😂

EDIT: Remrmber e share a community that is meant to be a digital/virtual seat at Sherr’s Grandma’s dining table…we remember our manners, we behave kindly, we don’t fuss or fight or call names…there are rules to follow. Let’s please don’t make pukey faces, they aren’t allowed in the group and then I have to remove comments, issue warnings and moderate my own post. You’re welcome to share your preference, I know Blue Rare isn’t for everyone, but it’s EXACTLY how my husband likes it, and I love giving him the pleasures in life…happy spouse, happy house so they say❤️❤️
To achieve Blue Rare, I pull a 5 bone roast 5/6 minutes early and serve the center most cut, the roast goes to either end rare to medium rare, the way my family enjoys it. If you need to accommodate a higher temp (or you panic that your own roast is undercooked to YOUR liking!) a searing hot cast iron skillet basted in Au jus will give you the higher temp, browner color, and still tender and moist slice of rib roast.

18/02/2025

My Ma made this for us a lot growin up and I always loved it …..fried potatoes with from scratch hamburger flour gravy and cream style corn …simple but always delicious..fried the potatoes in rendered fat from a brisket ..

18/02/2025

We've found ourselves on an increasingly tight budget , so I've come up with a few ways to feed the 5 us as cheap as possible. So I went to my local dollar tree and got a few things to get through for a while . Here's what I came up with for tonight's dinner. One box of hamburger helper $1.25, two microwave hamburgers @ $1.25 =$2.50, one carton of liquid plain coffee creamer. I used the two hamburger patties crumbled up in the hamburger helper, coffee creamer for milk. Turned out great. I already plenty of canned vegetables so we had a can of green beans with it, the I toasted the hamburger buns so they could have a piece of toast.

18/02/2025

We love pizza but at somewhere between $80.00 and $100.00 a month just to get papa murphy’s once a week or so, I had to pivot (think new roof last summer). Our local Winco sells pizza dough for $1.98. I buy mozzarella on sale or at Costco and freeze. I buy odd end items like olives, 2 mushrooms, pepperoni, Canadian bacon, pineapple, bell peppers, onions etc. so much of this we have on hand already. I made and canned pints of sauce from our garden but really not enough. We’re now using the quarts of sauce so we may have lasagne, spaghetti with butternut squash for another meal. We bake on our grill or in the oven at 500f for about 12 minutes. The first is pepperoni, mushroom, red bell and olives with two pieces of Canadian bacon leftover from the Hawaiian pizza. I used about 1/2 c. of jarred sauce, 2 c. of mozzarella and a sprinkle of cheddar. Cost is about $6.00 per pizza.

18/02/2025

Last night I made chipped beef (some call it dried beef gravy) gravy on toast.
There was some left over, just not quite enough for every one..
So I boiled sone cut up potatoes and mixed the left over gravy in them, added can drained peas, and we had supper!
Pic 1 left over gravy
Pic 2 gravy, potatoes and peas
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Gravy, you can make as much as you need, this is just the amount I made.
First I softened 4 tablespoons butter, added 4 tablespoons flour and mixed well, setting it aside.
Then I chopped up a jar beef and 5 eggs (hard boiled and peeled), put some butter in a pan, melted, pepper to taste (I wait on salt till after done, beef can be salty) added the beef, eggs and a quart of milk.
Turned stove on low and heated the milk till it was hot (not boiling), added the flour and butter mixture and stirred till thicken to my liking.
Served on buttered toast.
Pic 3 jar of beef

18/02/2025

Tonight's dinner was country fried steak & gravy, mashed potatoes and gravy, corn, English peas, glazed carrots, and homemade biscuits. This is Jeremy's plate. It never ceases to amaze me how much the little guy can eat.

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