This week I decided to make a big old batch of rice and a variety of goodies to go on top.
Kung Pao “Chicken”
“Beef” Chow Mein
General Tso’s Tofu
And for lunches some Lentil Soup.
I also went on a bit of a pie crazy. I thought it was time to use of some of the pumpkin in the freezer (that I grew) so it didn’t languish there until I got the new batch of pumpkins for this year. I also made (since I got some whipped topping for the pumpkin pie) some Easy Lemon Pie.
Easy Lemon Pie really is.
The official recipe is:
1 – 6 ounce can frozen lemonade
1 – 13 ounce can evaporated milk
1 – 9 ounce container of whipped topping
juice of 1/2 lemon
6 drops of yellow food coloring
Mix everything together and place into a graham cracker crust. Chill overnight.
Now the funny thing about this recipe I have (yes, it’s that old) is that I can no longer find 6 ounce cans of lemonade and the evaporated milk is now 12 ounces and the whipped topping is 8 ounces. So the adapted recipe would be:
a little less than half a 12 ounce can frozen lemonade
1 – 12 ounce can evaporated milk
1 – 8 ounce container whipped topping
And then I tend to forget to get a lemon so I skip that and I also skip the food coloring. The thing that can not be skipped is the graham cracker crust. The secret to this pie is that it becomes pie like because the extra juice gets soaked into the crust. I highly recommend it, gentle lemon flavor and tastes like Summertime.
(By the way, you can use this basic recipe and fill in other frozen concentrate juices for variety – lime and orange are good, too.)
My main occupation this May, aside from painting painting painting has been getting in a raised bed garden. I am pretty pleased with the start of things and it is still a work in progress. Some warmer weather veggies are stumbling with the ups and downs in the temperature, but I have high hopes that Summer will indeed come.
My peas have done very well.
The raised beds keep things containerized <grin>. Here’s my strawberry bed.
The big piles in the background are from cleaning out the bottom of the garage for some additional, temporary storage space.
Can you see the toy tractor in background? I found that under the garage and decided it would fun to have it as a garden ornament.
That’s it for this week. What’s on your menu?
Sandra
P.S. If you just come to read the blog, get ready for the end of school with some Graduation Clip Art at Bry-Back Manor!