Maw's Proper "Minner Cheese" Sandwiches

The recipe as transcripted by my husband from his mother:

1 Lg. Jar Pour Minner (Ho Thang)
1/3 block Velveeta
1 1/2 cup med cheddar
2 tea sugar
2 tea mustard
2-3 glops mayonardle

Stirr it up and slather a glop on one piece of white bread. Very important that it is only on one piece since you must fold it up like a taco.

Eat up Ya'll

(p.s. more than 3 will just about kill you :)

Rendezvous Style Ribs

Tonight was my first try at ribs. Actually the first time I ever had to use the charcoal chimney to heat up the grill half way through.

I got the rack of baby back ribs at a local store and have been looking for a good time to fry them up. What better time than the night before the first day back to 'work'?

The only prep required for the ribs was to remove the membrane from the back. We have had the Rendezvous seasoning mix for a while using it in hamburgers. For the basting mop I mixed about a 1/4 cup of the mix with a cup of water and a cup of vinegar. With the ribs and mop ready I checked on the grill. When the coals were ready, about 300 degrees, the ribs were ready for the grill. With the coals at the lowest, I put the ribs up on the top rack.

For the next hour or so..... About every 5-10 min I basted the ribs with the mop mix.

After the ribs had been on the grill for about thirty min and they were golden brown I turned the ribs so that they were now bones side down.

In the 2nd half of cooking I didn't baste quite as often. 1. Because I had to renew the charcoal and 2. The bone side of the ribs did not absorb the sauce as as readily. After about a total time of about an hour 15 I called them done and brought them in. Letting them rest about 10 min I put the bread in the oven and made a quick salad..........

Leftovers are still on the table.............mmmmmmm it was nummy!

Crispy tofu with broccoli and peanut sauce.

Tonights dinner mashup (since I never exactly follow a recipe) is starting here:

Theirs is on the bottom mine is on the top.

The most troublesome 15 min meal I've whipped up lately......... ;)

No red sauce.... no linguini noodles to go with the 4 cheese tomato sauce we had open.. but he wanted spaghetti.... so we go to the store to get spaghetti sauce. While there we pick up some bowtie pasta, 2 6-packs of non-diet peachy Snapple Tea (I had only found Diet at Kroger earler in the day) and also some Gatoraide ..... no the itty bity ones that were in the house already.

The one thing I did already have.. the french bread ($0.75 on the 'We baked too much" rack)

Dinnah................

(I had my leftover chicken spinach pizza mmmmmmmmm :)

Dinner Last Night: Chicken Mole with Spanish Rice and a Simple Cabbage Salad

The Spanish rice was made with brown rice, a jalapeño pepper, green bell pepper, a large handful of cherry tomatoes chopped, chicken stock (instead of water), about a 1/4 can of whole kernel corn and salt and pepper.

I cheated on the mole sauce using the dehydrated paste found in ethnic foods section. For the chicken: it came from the freezer so I boiled it for about 45 min. When the rice was almost done I sautéed some mushrooms in butter and then threw in the sliced chicken just long enough to rewarm and put a little crisp on the edges.