Not sure about dessert yet.

doctor-ed up a frozen one.

There's cookies if we go looking for dessert.

Pasta with zukes, garlic, mushrooms, parmesan. Lancaster Co. fresh tomatoes with basil and olive oil. Dessert, Hersheys chocolate mix (son went to Hershey Park yesterday, we dog sat).

We were talking at work this week about things our parents made while growing up that we forgot about, or never made after leaving home. I haven't had it since I was about 14 or so. Don't know why I forgot about it, I actually liked it.

I'm making it with dried beef and whole-wheat "shingles"

My dad, born 1919, always used to talk about that particular meal. Lol.

I never ate it. Nor did I eat the cracker soup that my mom fondly talked about, and made from time to time!

or that name for it when I was a kid. My mom just said we were having "dried beef and gravy". I made it the same way, I think, and added some extra seasoning along with some chopped onion and minced garlic. It was actually pretty good and fast.

I found this list of 23 variations https://cookpad.com/us/search/shit%20on%20a%20shingle

I may try some others sometime

That's why my dad would talk about it. He had shit on a shingle when he was in the service.

After I responded to your original post, it hit me that the only time I ever heard my dad say the word 'shit,' was when he was talking about shit on a shingle. I never heard him say a four letter word in his life! Other than that.

He did use another phrase he learned in the military. It wasn't food-related. If we were complaining, he would tell us he would punch our 'TS cards' for us.

I guess if one spends three years in the Pacific during World War II, hearing a kid complain about anything just doesn't measure up.

Vodka. Ice. A two course meal!

Warmed up apple pie, and cold vanilla ice cream on top.

😋

Spouse pulled out impossibles, lightlife, and morningstar farms from the freezer. Grilled them. I woke up to make some potatoes.

Did we really need ALL of them?

Did they NEED to be grilled?