06 Friday Dec 2024
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went to take out the last sleeve of crackers and thought it had already been opened because it was so low in the box…
it wasn’t, and I was shocked when I measured the sleeve alongside the box…
it was way shorter…
maybe the price hasn’t changed much, but there are way less crackers in it…
07 Wednesday Jun 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, crackers, dill pickle soup, family, food, friends, fun, memories, moments, Premium Plus Salt Topped Crackers, remembering, Taverna Rodos, treat, widow
today, as I was enjoying the dill pickle soup that I didn’t eat when we were at Taverna Rodos on Monday, I remembered a lovely story shared by a friend…
with the soup, they included some Premium Plus Salted Top Cracker look-alikes… because the box is pretty big I haven’t had them in a very long time, so it was a nice treat… my favourite way to eat them is as a little sandwich, with butter or margarine…
my friend and their family really enjoy food, so they had quite a variety of crackers in their home…
one day one of the kids came home and advised that they had just had the most delicious crackers and that the family should get some…
it took a while, but eventually they were able to name them as Premium Plus Crackers…
so funny that with all the fancy crackers they had, the kids had never had the Premium ones…
such a chuckle, particularly as in my home that was the only type of cracker we ever had;-)…
25 Thursday Mar 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, crackers, eggs, food, Instant Pot, moments, new, Oh She Glows, shopping, steamer, widow
been busy in the kitchen…
I finally used the new steamer basket that I ordered from IKEA… it worked beautifully in the Instant Pot to hard boil some eggs…
it is an easy way to cook them and they always turn out great…
also made crackers from the Oh She Glows app on my phone… they are very tasty and do not have any flour in them…
this is the second time I’ve made them and they came out crisper as I thinned them out more than the first time…
04 Thursday Jan 2018
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big girl pants, crackers, family, fun, lobster, moments, new year, purple, squeeze, table, widow
spent a bit of time on New Year’s Eve prepping for our traditional New Year’s Day dinner…
while the kids were out, I began setting the table, and finished it early on New Year’s Day… decided on a silver and purple theme and had some fun finding decorations and napkins that would go well together…
there were just enough leftover Christmas crackers for everyone to get one and we read jokes, but did not put on any paper hats, lol… we can just squeeze around the table when there are eight of us and I have to push it up to the window so that everyone can get in… the table can expand further, the problem is that the dining room can’t…
while the steak and lobster tails finished thawing I prepped the potatoes for baking, cut up the Brussels sprouts, sliced the mushrooms and prepared the sauce for the escargot stuffed mushrooms…
once the kids arrived the sons-in-law looked after barbecuing the steaks and lobster… finished up a Caesar salad and the melted butter pots…
everyone had a taste of champagne or sparkling cider and we enjoyed a delicious dinner… we aren’t going to talk about the slightly overcooked Brussels sprouts, sigh…
we were all worn out so we ended the evening with a short visit and the Winnipeg kids headed home…
a bit of reading and visiting and we all headed to bed…
lovely start to the new year…
herbiggirlpants 