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Kat!

Nice! Glad that you enjoyed the visit.
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CW, best laid plans. Grrr!

I recommend frozen fruit and making a chunky (smooshed blueberries) pureed (frozen) fruit sauce to use on the cake or do this and buy a frozen cheesecake to use it on.
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Aaaand there are no strawberries in the store. There will "probably" be some on the truck when it arrives at some unknown time, but "they go fast". I was able to grab the last pint of blueberries though 🙄🙄🙄
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NHWM, a lot of ‘firsts’ on our trip to Nola in ‘81 to see the Eagles in the Super Bowl. Lunched at Brennan’s and enjoyed, of course, their world famous bananas foster 😍

No flambé at home in using the crockpot, but delicious nonetheless! And zero heat from my oven - which I love!
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I remember mom making that back in the day ITRR and we all thought it was fantastic.
My friend just emailed me she was asked to bring cake, so I guess a bowl of berries to go with will be perfect (and easy).
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Riverdale: the stuffed peppers from Costco are awesome. When I make it I transfer them to a larger pan and pour an entire jar of Rao's tomato sauce (any one) over the peppers then cook per the instructions. I grew up with my parents making stuffed peppers and they are a lot of work. The Costco ones are tasty but dry, and taste just as good as homemade. Plus, way cheaper if you had to purchase the ingredients to make from scratch.
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CW, I know you said you don't want to bake but, a jello cake is a cool summer dessert, with some fresh fruit.

Look it up and see.

My sister always made a strawberry one with some fresh strawberries on top, never a piece left.
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cw,

I am sure that whatever you make it will be enjoyed by all!

My thin husband always checks out deserts first!! 😊
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Kat,

New Orleans gal, here! Now, you’re speaking my language!
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Our family makes a fruit bowl salad of watermelon, cantaloupe, canned pineapple chucks, apple chunks, raisins, blueberries and strawberries if available. We make a dressing with plain yogurt, vanilla, and a little powder sugar (or use the pineapple juice). If you make it ahead of time and let it get very cold, it doesn't warm up very fast at a summer party (assuming its in the shade). Here it's not that expensive but you do spend some time cutting all that fruit into bite sized pieces.

My grandfather liked to add orange slices too; canned mandarins if fresh wasn't available. Some years we used grapes off the vines or peaches or cherries; one year the trees yielded enough pears to include them too. I remember making a couple of quarts of this for my great-great-aunts one year at Christmas (they were in their 90s) and them being delighted. I made some every month after that and my mother would take it to them when she took their clean laundry.

Don't know where this recipe came from; I just remember it always being around. We did change it to use yogurt instead of mayonnaise because some people in the community got ill from a mayonnaise based poisoning.
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cw, do you have a crockpot? I made bananas foster in mine recently. Wonderful on top of vanilla ice cream!
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cw,

That works!

Chocolate syrup, whipped cream and nuts would work too.

You don’t have to get the most expensive ice cream.
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You haven't seen the cost of fruit at my store, a half decent fruit tray could easily run over $50 😒.
I'm considering a bowl of strawberries & blueberries with ice cream, the strawberries are "on sale" this week for $5 and the blueberries for $3, but the pint of premium ice cream is gonna set me back $7 (but only $5.50 each if I buy two 🙄).
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Way, yes! Delicious and easy!
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Need, I was thinking the same thing
Luau bowl
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What about a fruit tray, cw? No cooking at all! Or set up an ice cream bar! Make your own sundae.
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I've been tasked with bringing some kind of dessert to a potluck and am coming up blank, I have no desire to bake something and all that's available in town is the grocery store and I resent like h3ll paying their inflated prices for mediocre products.
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I made pastrami and cream cheese pinwheels. Just a snack type of dinner.
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Stuffed peppers from Costco. I realize it may seem lately that I never cook from scratch. I do but not after a revolving door of family visiting and being on the verge of heading to babysit in Utah while middle daughter and husband celebrate her 40th with a trip to Amsterdam and we watch the 5 and 3 year old. At least we won't be in near 100 degree temperatures yet it takes us awhile to adapt to altitude/elevation which gives one a sensation of grasping for breath.
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I’m going to see what I have in the freezer for dinner. I am running low on groceries so I am either going to make breakfast for dinner or take something out of the freezer.

Have to start writing out a grocery list.
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Evamar: Kidney stones are VERY painful and even moreso for a man. I've had 5 of them. The last one came on fast when I was in an ER bed for a separate issue so I was able to get Toradol posthaste. Prayers to your DH.
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Evamar,

I am glad that his back pain has eased up.

My husband and oldest daughter get kidney stones. They are painful.
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NHWM,
Thanks for asking.
He is OK.
Excellent care, tests and so on and not even close to solving mystery of it all. All they can say maybe he had kidney stone and passed it after hospital admission, make a little sense as some symptoms were there and then lately his back pain got better.
So total of 5 minutes of OT/ PT and now they say instead of going to rehab facility he is ready to go home tomorrow.
He is good and all that is due to PD as they say now, which for two weeks they were sure it was not.
I am sure I am going to return to my whine with more news!
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Evamar,

How is your husband doing?
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Cashew,
Happy Birthday!
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cw,

When my daughters were in college they used their crockpot to make meals.

They still use the crockpot for some dishes but now the air fryer has become the thing for them!
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I do all that in my counter top convection oven and I can use it for baking too. I've probably only used my full sized oven a half dozen times since I bought it.
I use my microwave a lot too to jump start things I'll finish in the little oven - things like baked potatoes for example, or apple crisp.
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cw,

My daughter cooks chicken, salmon, veggies, reheats pizza, and lots more. She loves her air fryer. I have not bought one but she keeps telling me that I should get one.

She also said that restaurants use them to crisp up certain dishes at the end of cooking. Her friend who is a cook at a nearby restaurant told her that.

I think it’s like a microwave, they are handy to have but in no way can take the place of a stove or oven. It’s a complementary item that may be nice but isn’t necessary.

I do use my microwave often but not necessarily to cook anything.

I wonder if air fryers cook faster than an oven does. Do they? Is the flavor any different? Or just a convenience thing?
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I have a hard time seeing how an air fryer would get enough use to make it worth the money or space, what are you all cooking?
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Burnt,

Oh gosh, yes everyone was cooking at home during Covid.

You’re a great cook so I am sure that you put it to good use!
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