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| a spicy apple crisp for the first day of September |
I thought it was just going to be the 4 of us for a Labor Day cook-out. Then last night my son and daughter-in-law let us know that they'd be able to make it after all. A cook-out with just the 4 of us was going to be low-key, using up some foods from the fridge, cutting up apples, slicing some tomatoes and roasting hot dogs. With 6, not only would the meager leftovers not stretch for all, but we wanted to make this more special than the low-key plans. It's been a couple of months since we'd had our son and daughter-in-law over.
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| I used garden tomatoes (yellow and red), basil, celery, and oregano in the pasta salad |
Anyways, we've been scrambling to clean up the kitchen, deck and patio. I haven't spent much time on housekeeping during this deck rail painting project. I also needed to come up with a game plan for our cook-out dinner. I made a run to Grocery Outlet this morning. Grocery Outlet has the best prices on bacon and a good selection of different varieties of hot dogs and sausages. I bought a package of bacon for bacon bits, a rope of kielbasa, and one bottle of mineral water. At home I had ingredients for the buns, 1 package of beef hot dogs, rotini pasta, pepperoni slices, and garden vegetables to make a pasta salad, kale and dried cranberries for a salad with bacon bits, cooked pinto beans to make a dish of baked beans, apples and baking ingredients to make an apple crisp, garden fruit for a fruit salad, cans of flavored sparkling water, and ingredients to make s'mores.
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| kale, cranberry and bacon salad |
My daughters and husband have been helping me all day. Everything is looking delicious and clean. I'm now resting for a bit before putting on the final touches in 2 hours. And we'll all enjoy time catching up while sitting around the fire this evening.
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| hot dog buns just came out of the oven |
Did you or will you do anything special today? Do you go to more effort to prepare a meal when family outside your household is coming than just you and the at-home loved ones?
Wishing you a lovely Labor Day.
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