Monday, June 25, 2018

This Week on the Dining Table

The "Daughter Cooked!" Edition--



The daughter decided she wanted to make paella this weekend.  Barring having a paella pan she opted to use my Dutch oven.
It came out quite good.  She used chicken, shrimp, chorizo and mussels for proteins.  And I ate it even though it was choke full of peas.  I was just grateful somebody here besides me had to make diner. ;-)

Moving On....

Onward to the meal planning!

This is what was planned--

1. Sunday--Fend For Yourself
2. Monday--BLTs
3. Tuesday--Fish, Cole Slaw, Veg TBD
4. Wednesday--Breakfast for Dinner
5. Thursday--Chicken Parm, Salad
6. Friday--Brats on Rolls w/Onions, Baked Beans, Veg TBD
7. Saturday--Leftovers

And this is what actually happened--

1. Sunday--Fend For Yourself
2. Monday--BLTs
3. Tuesday--Fish, Cole Slaw, can't remember the Veggie
4. Wednesday--Breakfast for Dinner
5. Thursday--Chicken Parm, Sugar Snap Peas
6. Friday--Brats on Rolls w/Onions, Baked Beans
7. Saturday--Leftovers

Everything planned was served.
Last week saw lots of cooking.
I also picked up two rotisserie chickens on special at the Shursave market so those will be sliced/diced up and become Chicken Salad and Chicken pieces on Salads this coming week.

Last week saw 5 nights of home cooked dinners, 2 night of leftovers/fend for yourself, 0 nights of Take-Out or Eating Out.  

A trip to Weis, and 2 trips to Shursave market brought the weekly food spending to $85.21 and the monthly total to $400.84.  I am now officially over my $400 budget for food.

I've got $0 left in the food budget for June and 5 days left in my shopping month.  

My savings percentages last week was 48.20%(without Rite-Aid trips)and June's monthly savings total so far is at 53.46%.

Leftovers going into this week......Cabbage, 2 slices of Corned Beef, 2 helpings of baked Flounder for Daughter, and 7 pieces of Chicken Parm(I made enough for planned-overs),

Here is this week's "food plan".....

1. Sunday--Paella
2. Monday--Chicken Parm(leftover), Pear Gorgonzola Salad
3. Tuesday--Caesar Salad w/Grilled Chicken
4. Wednesday--Seafood Enchiladas, Rice, Beans
5. Thursday--Pork Tenderloin Sandwiches, Cuke Salad
6. Friday--Assorted Things(Stuffed Peppers, Salad, Etc.)
7. Saturday--Leftovers

This week will see 6 new meals cooked, 1 night of leftovers/FFY and 0 nights of Take-Out/Eating Out.
Daughter used what I had in the pantry/freezer or paid for ingredients herself for the paella so that didn't add to my food spending in June.
I've got some items to make but don't have enough for everyone....leftover ground beef and 2 peppers for stuffed peppers(I don't care for green pepper so I'll have the last bag of Pear Gorgonzola Salad, plus a couple other things here that need to be used).

I've been Jonesing for seafood Enchiladas so I'm going to make some this week.  I've already got the shrimp, fake crab, cheese, spices and tortillas so why not?

What needs buying for this menu? Romaine lettuce and a cuke.  We also need milk, OJ, sour cream, almond milk, Cool Whip(for pies for July 4th cook-out and it's on sale now so I'll buy it ahead).  I'm hoping to get through the rest of June on $20 or less.

What is getting fixed and served at your house this week?

Was last week's plan successful, did you go off plan or did you not even plan what was going to be eaten last week?

Any great deals on food at your stores this week?


Sluggy
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Saturday, June 23, 2018

April Trip to Fredericksburg VA....Part Two

The next stop on our museum tour was The Rising Sun Tavern.



This museum is touted as having been owned by George Washington's younger brother, Charles Washington(also my 11th cousin 8 x removed).

Charles had this house built in 1760 but sold it and had moved away long before it became a tavern/lodging house in 1792.
Intersting tidbit--Charles Town, West Virginia was named by and for Geo. little brother Charles Washington.  That was in 1787 so it was Charles Town, Virginia, not West Virginia.

Interesting information given by the docents here about traveling in the Colonial era but no photos were allowed to be taken inside.  Let's just say that travel, even short distances, was arduous and uncomfortable and you had to be careful which lodging house you frequented.

When we left the building I spied this A. Smith Bowman whiskey barrel.......


We toured the nearby A. Smith Bowman distillery a couple of times(once with Hubs in August 2015 and once with the two oldest kids in July 2016).


A Bowman visiting a Bowman's distillery.
My direct line of Bowman's are in America by way of Ireland(and before that, England).
The distillery Bowmans line was orginally from Germany.


But it turns out as I dig deeper into my genealogy I am related to Abraham Smith Bowman Jr.(pictured above with his father, A Smith Bowman Sr.).

Abraham Smith Bowman Jr. married Mary Walker Lee, who it turns out is my 10th cousin 4 x removed, through my mother's FOSTER line(I also have a paternal Foster line but that one is Irish/English.)


And yes, this LEE family is That  FFV or "First Families of Virginia" Lee family.

 It's funny that my brother remembers that our father had fantasized out loud about being of German descent when we were younger and he was still alive.  This was long before any of us were into genealogy or DNA testing and had done any research.
But I digress.......


So it was off to our third stop of the day........

George's mom's house.
Mary Ball Washington(the wife of my 10th cousin 9 x removed)lived at "Ferry Farm"(called this after the fact)across the Rappahannock River from F'burg, which was only accessible to town at that time by a ferry.
After her husband Augustine Washington died in 1743, George tried to get Mary to move into town but she refused until the winter of 1771 when she became seriously ill and her daughter, Betty Washington Lewis, who lived in town had just given birth and couldn't travel to the farm to nurse her mother.  Mary moved into the town home George bought her the Spring of 1772.


"Bettie" Washington,Mary Ball Washington's daughter, married Fielding Lewis(of the Warner Hall Plantation Lewis')and he is also my 11th cousin 8 x removed


 Mary Ball Washington was, as Little Edie Beale would say a "staunch character".............


Mary Ball Washington died 25 Aug 1789 in her bed in Fredericksburg Virginia after a long battle with breast cancer.


Hubs and I pose in Mary's garden which she dearly loved, by her sundial.  Mary brought the sundial over from Ferry Farm when she moved into town.


There is one surviving outbuilding at Mary Washington's house, that of the kitchen.



In most Southern homes the kitchen was a separate building next to the main house.  Cooking back then was dirty and hot work and the last place you'd want to have a kitchen was in your main living area, especially in the Summer.


Even in areas of the country where it wasn't so hot for a good piece of the year, homes would often have a "Summer" kitchen.  These were either in a basement of a home or a separate building on the property.  My in-laws had a "Summer" kitchen of sorts in the lower level of their split level home in NJ.

We checked out the gift shop in the back of Mary Ball Washington's home and I did buy a couple of postcards.....

Eldest was getting hungry and tired of waiting on us out in the car(he had already toured these little museums)so we didn't get to "Kenmore"(Bettie Washington and Fldieing Lewis' home 2 blocks away)this trip.  Perhaps another time.


We passed this monument over on the next street across from "Kenmore" and darned if it's not Hugh Mercer again!  I had to get a photo.


This was a nice looking house near the monument with a mansard roof feature.  Notice the horse tie off and the stone block for stepping down from your mount or from a carriage on the street.


We grabbed a cheap and quick lunch at Hardee's then it was a stop at the nearby Ollie's and a grocery store to pick up a birthday cake since it was Hubs' birthday and then back to the apartment to hang out for awhile.

As soon as Eldest's GF arrived from work and changed we were off for a late dinner.......

Of course, to a brew pub, Spencer Devon Brewing.

A round of drinks and then the trivia started..
We had to decide on a team name and went with "The Carpetbaggers".
It should have been "1 Scalawag and 3 Carpetbaggers" since the 3 of my dining/drinking companion are all Yankees. ;-)

So we ate a bit(the Red Goat burger was great!)and drank a big(well Eldest and Hubs did most of the drinking)and we played some bar trivia.  Between our varied interests, sexes and ages we pretty much covered every category of trivia and we ended up coming in second place for the night!


Then it was back to the apartment and time for cake..........
But Eldest didn't have any candles to blow out so we improvized using the Candle app on the GF's phone........lol........



Hubs and I left the next morning to come home.  It was a quick but fun little trip to see our son and soak in some local history.


Sluggy
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Friday, June 22, 2018

Frugal Friday.....June 22nd Edition

Let's take a look around and see what frugal wins we had this past week.........

*   Basically free after BC mouth wash at R-A this week....


*  I sold some diapers locally this week.....




$65.50 back in my pocket.

*  Hubs picked up the Weis Friday Freebie last Friday.......


Free Weis "Pop-Tarts".  Somebody around here will eat these(not me). 8-P

                                     
*  More free items at Rite-Aid last Friday.  The toothpaste was totally free and didn't use any of my Bonus Cash even!

*  Remember that Aleve I also bought at Rite-Aid last week?
There is an offer for a free movie ticket this Summer when you buy qualifying Aleve products.  $5 off a ticket for 1 bottle, $13 off two tickets for 2 bottles(when purchased on the same receipt).
Details on the offer HERE.
I received my movie ticket code on Wednesday.
I'll use this the day Hubs decides to do his beer brewing since the smell is overpowering to me and I'll want to be somewhere other than the house.  I'll do a little grocery shopping after the movie since I'll be near a few food stores down there.

* I earned .25¢ back on Ibotta. whoopee! lolz

*  Hubs and I had a yearning for some Chinese food so we had a lunch date out at our local Asian restaurant. Lunch prices and lunch sized portions are good for our wallet and our waistlines.  8-)

*  I picked the first greens from our garden this week......


4 ounces of leaf lettuce.  Ok let's call it a quarter pound because that sounds like more. lol

*  I bought 2 pair of shoes on Thursday online.  Easy Spirit was having a one day sale on the Summer Solstice. (I know how Belinda loves these things at the grocery store!) 
I found something I could use that was on sale plus purchasing them on the Solstice gave me a code for an additional 30% off.....AND free shipping too! 8-)

*  In conjunction with buying the shoes I went through a cash back site to make the purchase and earned back $1.10 cash, so an additional discount on the footwear.

So what frugal-ness did you experience this past week?
Tell us all about your wins.....




Sluggy
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Thursday, June 21, 2018

And the Winner Is.........

There were 34 valid entries on the Giveaway this time.  Not allowing multiple or daily entries sure cut down on the number of submissions AND the time it takes me to go through them all. lolz

All were numbered in the order in which they arrived and then fed into the Random Generator at random(dot)org so without further adieu..........


Barbara P!

Count me in! This is Barbara P.
Email barbarapack1241@gmail.com

Congratulations Barbara P.
Please email me from the address you provided with your complete name and mailing address and I'll get your goodies out to you asap.

Thanks to everyone for entering the contest.
I new Giveaway will be coming up next month so keep your eyes peeled.  8-)))

Sluggy
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Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Last Day to Enter!

If  you didn't already be sure and go HERE and enter the Giveaway before 11:59 pm ET.



Winner picked and announced on Thursday.

That is all.  8-)

Sluggy
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