We Forgot the Green Beans!

We had talked about what we were going to add to the pan the night before when I chopped up the bell peppers and onions but forgot while actually putting stuff into the pan. Don't you just love when that happens?

@DaddyEvil Yeah, oh well. Last night I made overnight oats, and didn't have the chia seeds it called or or any other seeds..so I just went without...it was perfectly fine. I have had chia seeds before they don't last a long time. Hey so that thing you made, does it have a name? I might look it up and try it sometime.

@DaddyEvil Oatmeal you make in a mason jar and keep in the fridge ovenight see my AM discussion.

That's not quite what I meant.

@TheHorse It's okay as long as they don't sprout after you do your laundry.

@DaddyEvil I forget repeatedly.

@DaddyEvil - I am not a fan of green beans, for sure I would have not missed them.

@LadyDuck Green beans are the only kind of beans I like. Pretty likes several different kinds but puts them into foods she knows I won't eat anyway.

Yeah, Pretty told me the green beans weren't that important and she was right. It tasted delicious without them.

Thank you. When Pretty was small and I got full custody, we were always busy so I tried to find ways to make good food that wouldn't take too much time to set up or clean up after making and eating it. This is one of the dishes we both love. When she was 5, I started putting together recipes that we both liked and were fairly easy to make. I wrote them into a notebook that we still use now. (Some of the recipes we got from friends and relatives were good, too. I wrote those into the notebook, too.)

@Marilynda1225 I understand. When I cook homemade bread, I use a recipe that mom taught me when I took over the cooking at home. It's written into my notebook, too. There's a really good recipe that an Amish lady taught me when Pretty was little that you might like. Brown a lb of ground beef and drain off the liquid. Pour that into a baking dish. (You want the ground beef to completely cover the bottom of the pan.) Add a can of diced tomatoes spooned evenly over the ground beef. Then put cheese slices, I like American cheese, over the tomatoes. On top of that add mashed potatoes. (It's easiest to spread them while they're still hot.) And then another layer of cheese slices or a handful of shredded cheese. Put that into the oven and bake it for 30 minutes at 350F. It makes more dishes to wash than the other recipes I use but it's well worth the effort. When I pull the baking pan out of the oven, I use a spatula to cut it into even slices and serve it. The baking dish I use makes about six slices. And it freezes well, too.

@DaddyEvil I love dishes like yours that only require a baking dish. I hate having a lot of cleanup from a dinner meal. Thats a great idea to have all your recipes in a notebook. I have some tried and true recipes from my mom (in her handwriting) that I treasure. When I take them out it's like she's still here in a way.

Thanks. Yes, we did. I had some of it for my supper tonight. I've actually done that before, too. Both in the oven and in the microwave. (Pretty was laughing one day and called for me to see something in the kitchen. She showed me a sausage, egg and cheese biscuit I'd put into the microwave the day before... I had told her I'd eaten but still felt like I was starving. )

@DaddyEvil That is hilarious! You are so funny. Hubs just asked me why I'm laughing.

@DaddyEvil Of course I told him! I'm a blabber mouth! lol I love this place! I find something to laugh about multiple times a day - when I'm here, that is

We don't very often but it makes me upset when I forget something.

@DaddyEvil I know what you mean...

@DaddyEvil my husband has said a time or two that the meal was okay but not to make it again.

@ElusiveButterfly There have been times when Pretty or I don't like a meal so won't make it again. One meal we both love but I hated trying to clean my glass baking dishes after making it is Shawarma. (I wrote about making a huge pan of it at Christmas last year.) The Greek yogurt bakes onto the pan and makes it really hard to clean. I started buying one use aluminum pans to make it in.

I've had to do that before, too. As long as it's edible, then I didn't "forget" anything. I just invented a new recipe. Pretty and I have both managed to create some failures... We laugh about them, feed the trash can and try something else.

@DaddyEvil Eat it while it's hot! Now you have green beans for something else . A hockey puck would have tasted better .

@much2say We can always re-heat it in the microwave. Even a hockey puck might taste okay with enough icing on it.

No, by the time we took it out of the oven, we were both starving. (Maybe not really starving, but when Pretty offered to cook green beans to go with the dish, I told her never mind. ) Did you taste the hockey puck and see if it was still edible if you spread lots of icing on it?

@DaddyEvil hmm ya i forgot about the canned food everything is readymade there what is the orange soup ? is it sweet or sour or mixed taste ? is the dish spicy or tangy or sweet

@DaddyEvil ahhh i don't know food ..new to me ..nice one

@prashu228 Most ingredients are ready here, yes. You can buy complete dinners ready-made, you just heat them up. But some of us still do a lot of the prep work ourselves. The orange soup is Nacho Cheese Soup. It's ready made but you can add stuff to it or use it as an ingredient in other foods. It's none of those. It's... I don't know... food.

@moffittjc Uh huh... You're a "special" kind of dad, Jeff...

Pretty made fried green beans for lunch the next day. YUM! You're so mean! How is she supposed to know something like that if you didn't tell her?

@DaddyEvil I did tell her…after the fact.

Pretty fried the green beans today as part of our lunch. (She boiled them first and then drained the water off and fried them with bits of bacon and onions. Yum!)

@lovebuglena If you like mushrooms, you could cut them up and add them instead. Pretty just won't eat mushrooms.

@DaddyEvil Oh. That's delicious! I'd try some, just without the bacon bits.

Yeah, it just didn't taste like we expected. But it was still delicious.

@arunima25 True, but we'll probably remember the green beans next time. Pretty fried the green beans for lunch today with bacon bits and onions. YUM!

@DaddyEvil So, you have another delicious version without the green beans.

Hmm... that sounds interesting. But I don't make cakes from scratch. I always use a box mix. Have you ever made a cake and after you take it out of the oven, poke holes in it and then add icing? The icing soaks down into the cake. YUM!

@Babino I know how to make icing but normally buy icing in a container. Of course it uses sugar. Only whipped cream frosting doesn't use sugar and it tastes terrible. Cake mixes cost about $1.50 here and the icing costs about $2.00. One container of icing covers one cake.

@DaddyEvil no I've never even made an icing. Does it involve sugar ? Yeah I heard about those box mixes on TikTok. A very popular baker said that his secret to delicious cakes are the boxes, and they cost only 1$. I went to the market to look for similar ones but I found they cost 36 dh ( ~ 3.6 $) so buying the ingredients would be cheaper than the box.

@MarieCoyle Yes, that's exactly what it is. The label here says Season All... I'm almost sure of that.

@DaddyEvil Sounds good. I tend to stay away from prepared mixes and make my own most of the time, is Season All like seasoned salt? Just curious. Never heard it called that before.

@DaddyEvil I like seasoned salt, but I don't use it often. My kids like it when I make Goulash like their great grandma did. She used seasoned salt in it among other things, and yes, it's good in that. I just can't make it without the seasoned salt, I don't think anyone would even eat it and I love it that way, too.

@DaddyEvil I never made it again

@allknowing Some accidental recipes aren't worth repeating.

How did it taste? If it tasted good, then you created a new recipe, not made a mistake.

@DaddyEvil My husband says that.

@LeaPea2417 He's a smart man.

As long as the food still tastes good, you didn't make a mistake. You just made your own changes to the recipe. (I've always been told that there are no mistakes in cooking unless whatever you're cooking is inedible.)

Thank you. I had some of it for my supper tonight, too. Pretty fried the green beans for lunch today with onions and pieces of bacon. Yumm!

@cacay1 I like young peas in the pod but don't want them after they've matured. Fried green beans are good. (You boil them first and then fry them after they're softer.)

@DaddyEvil , I also like sweet peas. I haven't tried to fry green beans.

We use canned green beans. Pretty fried them the next day with crumbled bacon and onions for our lunch. YUM!

@FayeHazel I have a bag of those but didn't think of that. I bet they would have been really good like that.

@DaddyEvil That was a smart way to re-heat them yum! I bet you could put french fried onions on there too

It's just something I made up years ago when Pretty was still little. I had full custody but didn't have a lot of time to spare for making big dinners. We get six meals out of that. (I usually freeze some of it so I don't have to cook as often.)

@porwest Yes, that's true. Somewhere in this discussion I told someone about a dish an Amish lady told me how to make. It's delicious and fairly easy, too.

@DaddyEvil That's a good idea. I like made up dishes too. So long as one knows the basics and has an imagination... Pretty much anything goes.

It happens when you don't make something very often but are too lazy to pull out the recipe. This is something I made up when Pretty was 5 years old. We make it every few weeks and have four or five meals from it.

@Neil43 No. I'd say broccoli is what I eat most often. With carrots and cauliflower. We eat a lot of meats, too.

@DaddyEvil OMG! Carbo loading so to speak. Potatoes are your staple food right?