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Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone!
It's been such a busy week here...
I have not been painting or creating, or even re-arranging anything...
I have been elbow-deep in stuff.
Stuff and more stuff.
I could probably write a Dr. Suess-ish rhyme about it...if I had the energy!
Mr. B. is finally giving up his one-time-leather-shop-turned-storage-space in downtown Sikeston.
Huge space; a building from the turn of the (20th) century...
Way past time to sort through all the stuff and move on.
More stuff than you can imagine...the kind of stuff American Pickers like to dig through.
(Love that show!)
Guy stuff, mostly.
The kind I have no problem tossing, which is probably why most of the sorting is being
done by Mr. B. and the boys, Jonathan and Neil.
So, for the most part, I've been sweeping and picking up (known) trash, and watching.
We're opening the doors Friday for a sale...
Black Friday.
Do you like having garage/rummage/yard sales?
Before I was married, I had never had, been a part of, or even attended a garage sale.
I don't think I'd even heard of them.
My family had never gotten rid of anything, hence a lot of the stuff
I still have...(which is a good thing, in a lot of ways, being that it is mostly Girl Stuff ~ ;^)
But my Mother-in-Law at the time, Grandma Dorothy
(whose birthday was yesterday, in Heaven), loved them.
She called them rummage sales, though.
I think she mainly liked all her daughters-in-law getting together,
and visiting with the people who came to the sale.
I was always amazed at what people bought, and the seemingly-required
haggling that went with it...
Grandma Dorothy loved getting right in the middle of it, bless her.
I, for one, will be glad when Friday is over!
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Dorothy Ziegenhorn Pratt, my "Big Kids'" Grandma...
and a very dear lady...
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In the meantime, we are having Thanksgiving Dinner at our house as well.
Good thing Mr. B. likes to cook...
I'm sharing my favorite thing that he makes...
Pink Stuff.
My Grandma Launius used to make it, too, and we called it Pink Stuff then, as well.
I think it actually has a pretty name,
Paradise Salad, or Ambrosia, or something divine-sounding.
But "Pink Stuff" it has always been, around here.
I could eat the whole batch, honestly.
It is that good.
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MR. B.'s PINK STUFF
Ingredients:
1 (20 ounce) can no-sugar-added cherry pie filling
1 (20 ounce) can chunk pineapple, drained
16 ounces whipped topping
1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
Directions:
Combine all the ingredients in a bowl, cover and chill for at least 30 minutes.
Place in a pretty bowl (garnish with a few maraschino cherries if desired) and enjoy!
Serves 8-10
Or one.
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And, I just found this clipping of my Mom's...look at the date!
I have never tried either of them,
so I don't know if it really is the "Throwed Rolls" recipe or the
Pasta House Salad...they both sound really good right now, though!
(Lambert's Cafe, "Home of the Throwed Roll" has been in Sikeston for 70 years, since 1942 ~
http://www.throwedrolls.com/ )
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Wishing you all a safe and happy Thanksgiving!
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