Pies Are Cooling and Dryer is Heating
Here it is one in the morning and I am still up waiting for clothes in the dryer to get dry. If it were just my clothes then I would leave them and go on to bed but there is a shirt in there that Scott bought tonight and wants to wear tomorrow. So, good old mom is waiting for that shirt to get dry. :O)
Scott arrived home about five this afternoon and then a few minutes before seven we drove to Ruston to meet Brian for dinner at Applebee’s. It is always fun to have dinner with my sons even though most of the time they are talking computers and I usually have no idea what they are talking about. Once in a great while I can ask an intelligent question. They are typical sons and think that their mom is completely computer illiterate. I told Scott on the way home that I had thought about taking a computer course since seniors can go to the university free. But then I said that they would probably start out with, “this is a keyboard and this is a mouse.” There are just certain things that I would like to know how to do so what I really need is a tutor. Oh well, I don’t have time right now to go back to school anyway. And I think deep inside I really do not want to go back.
It was almost nine when we got back home and I still had to make two sweet potato pies, two pecan pies, and cranberry orange relish. Fifteen minutes past midnight I took the sweet potato pies out of the oven. Tomorrow morning I have to put three little balls of frozen roll dough in the huge muffin tins for a total or twenty-four very large cloverleaf rolls. Then we will leave for Brian’s and the rolls will rise and be cooked at his house.
Years ago I always make homemade dinner rolls but one Thanksgiving a few years back we were in Kansas City at Joyce’s for dinner. Kathi was to bring her homemade rolls. When she arrived with a very large pan of rising rolls everyone was commenting about how nice they looked. After we sat down for dinner and the rolls were passed around the table, everyone was complimenting Kathi on her delicious rolls. Finally with a big grin on her face she confessed that she did not make them but that they were Rhodes brand of frozen rolls. If she had not told us we all would have thought that they were homemade. Since then I have served Rhodes brand too and accepted compliments. Why go to all the work and time to make homemade rolls when the Rhodes brand is just as good? I can also make a very good piecrust but I don’t anymore for the same reason. Pillsbury makes a great one so why go to all the trouble when the little doughboy has already done the work and all I have to do is put the crust in the pie plate. I used to always cook everything from scratch but these days there are other things that I would rather do. However, I still cannot stand frozen dinners.
The dryer just buzzed at me so the clothes are dry and I can go to bed. I am really looking forward to dinner tomorrow at Brian’s for I will get to meet his girlfriend’s family.
Happy Thanksgiving!!!
