Shopping at Sam's
Mar. 4th, 2023 11:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperSo early this afternoon, I went over to Sam's Club to pick up various things that we needed, which I then brought back to the house. It was somewhat later that I realized that I had forgotten to pick up the frozen hamburger patties, which are extremely handy when we need a quick meal.
Gretchen, meanwhile, was sitting on the couch next to me inspecting her Walmart shopping list and hunting for Smokey Links, which she wanted to use to make a long delayed fresh attempt at beanie weenies for some future dinner. I suggested that I could go back to Sam's Club, pick up the hamburger patties along with a package of "Lil Smokies" which are properly sized for beanie weenies and then we could have that for dinner and push the planned smoked sausage to tomorrow. She agreed, so I went back to Sam's Club, acquired the two missing items (and some rice pudding) and we made beanie weenies for dinner, combining some of the short smokey links with a big can of Bush's baked beans that had been sitting in the pantry longer than we intended, and then adding a bit of Chicago Fire seasoning from The Spice House that we had available. It was pretty good, although Gretchen wants to add some more tomato to the mix, which the tomato powder on the spice shelf should do nicely. We'll try that next time.
Meanwhile, as I continue to try to get things out of the pantry -- the smoked sausage dinner was intended to use up one of the *three* cans of sauerkraut that we've accumulated -- I noticed that we had an extra box of Trader Joe's Cornbread Stuffing Mix taking up a lot of space. I suggested that we could make that on Monday with a couple of the frozen pork steaks in the freezer, because the cornbread stuffing should go well with the pork.
Gretchen said that would probably work, except that there is only one pork steak left, so we would have to get more. Of course, we get the pork steaks at Sam's Club.
Maybe we'll eat something else.
Gretchen, meanwhile, was sitting on the couch next to me inspecting her Walmart shopping list and hunting for Smokey Links, which she wanted to use to make a long delayed fresh attempt at beanie weenies for some future dinner. I suggested that I could go back to Sam's Club, pick up the hamburger patties along with a package of "Lil Smokies" which are properly sized for beanie weenies and then we could have that for dinner and push the planned smoked sausage to tomorrow. She agreed, so I went back to Sam's Club, acquired the two missing items (and some rice pudding) and we made beanie weenies for dinner, combining some of the short smokey links with a big can of Bush's baked beans that had been sitting in the pantry longer than we intended, and then adding a bit of Chicago Fire seasoning from The Spice House that we had available. It was pretty good, although Gretchen wants to add some more tomato to the mix, which the tomato powder on the spice shelf should do nicely. We'll try that next time.
Meanwhile, as I continue to try to get things out of the pantry -- the smoked sausage dinner was intended to use up one of the *three* cans of sauerkraut that we've accumulated -- I noticed that we had an extra box of Trader Joe's Cornbread Stuffing Mix taking up a lot of space. I suggested that we could make that on Monday with a couple of the frozen pork steaks in the freezer, because the cornbread stuffing should go well with the pork.
Gretchen said that would probably work, except that there is only one pork steak left, so we would have to get more. Of course, we get the pork steaks at Sam's Club.
Maybe we'll eat something else.