Friday Friend Recipes #244 and 245 - Company Taters and Quiche Stuffed Mushrooms

Come with me as I continue to countdown my Friday Friend Cookbook!

What is it, you may ask?

In a nutshell....

About 20 years ago, 50 of my closest friends and family, who had been on an

  e-mail forum with me, sent in recipes in different categories and we compiled a cookbook.

I decided to count those down!

Why?

Because one night I was looking thru the cookbook and I said, "I should make every recipe in  here for my blog."

The Handyman, who thinks he knows me better than I know myself, said "you'll never EVER do that."

Well, maybe I will!  Maybe I'll show him!

Which brings us to Recipes #244 and 245, Barb's Company Taters and Quiche Stuffed Mushrooms!

The potato's are good, but you can't really go wrong with a potato.

Notice how the editor of the original Friday Friend cookbook gives herself privilege?

(she shared a ton of recipes!)

I always thought I made a pretty good stuffed mushroom, but these are extra good.

That's cheese there in the bottom of the pan---good, creamy cheese.  Spilling out of these great, tasty mushrooms.

Privilege AND the Best of the Best?

She gave herself a lot of pages!

That's okay tho, as she originally typed up the whole thing.

Great mushrooms!

My tracking system for the countdown.  the #3 means there are 3 recipes on this page and the star (and later the highlighter) means I've made them all on that page. (I have a lot of pages without stars and highlights)

This is Barb's 54th or 55th appearance in the countdown.

If you want to know exactly what number it is,  you can find all of Barb's previous recipes here.  (click it)

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Happy New Year! 

My first cookbook countdown recipe of 2020.  

I begin with a recipe or two from Barb, the editor and typist of the original Friday Friend Cookbook (the one in the blue notebook.)

Now....I am trying to figure out if this is an optical illusion or not as I really didn't think Barb was this short.

Barb is on the right hand side with her son-in-law, Garrett.  On the left, we have Barb's sister Carol and Garrett.

Is it an optical illusion?

Do pictures tell a thousand words?

What is this one saying?

Short?  Tall? 

Why do I have to stand with my mother-in-law and then with her sister to prove how short they are?

That's only 24 words.

But you get the picture.

(again---the puns... LOL )

Photos can be distorted and edited to be made to look a certain way, but....

Let me see...  I think if Kim were not bending a bit to hug her mother and Barb's hair wasn't poofy at all, Kim is about a head taller than Barb.

And if Garrett is a head and neck taller than Kim... then

...It's NOT an optical illusion!

Barb's son-in-law, Garrett is just really, really tall!

My friends I bring to you recipes #244 and #245

Only 122 left to go!

Friday Friend Countdown -- #112 -- Happy Hour Mushrooms

All ready to go in the oven!

My Friday Friend Cookbook Countdown #112!

(#willreallyfinishthissomeday)

Theda's Happy Hour Mushrooms

and you know all the whys and wherefores of this countdown, right? Homemade cookbook, friends contributed, Handyman said I couldn't/wouldn't do it, I'll show him, yadda yadda yadda....

...and the rest is cookbook history!

Very good!

This is not Theda--It's her granddaughter Zoey.  Theda is there behind Zoey, on the left.

When I first saw this photo, I was wondering what in the world are they doing letting Zoey sit by herself in a restaurant in New York City?!

Then it dawned on me---it's a mirror.

Theda is of course, my oldest friend.

I mean time-wise, not age-wise.

Sheesh I can start naming older ones if you want....

My old friend Theda just took a trip to New York with her husband, John, daughter Sarah and granddaughter Zoey.

I have been to New York, but not with Theda.

These are the places Theda and I have traveled to together:

Wallow Lake, Oregon.  (a few times when we were 17, 18 and then again when we were 48ish and 50ish)

Othello, Washington (we skipped school when we were in high school and drove up to Othello, about 40 miles away. To look for boys)

The Pot Holes, Washington (this is some obscure fishing place.  Theda drove her little green pinto and it was dark out when we got there. I don't remember why we went there or who we met there.  It probably had something to do with  boys.  I'm just saying.  I do remember driving home and Theda had her left leg tucked up under here while she drove.  We were 17.   We can't tuck our legs like that anymore)

Sacajawea State Park, Washington (  we skipped work for this trip!  We both worked at Kentucky  Fried Chicken and we called in and Theda gave this excuse--her mom dropped us off and then took her uncle to go pick up his false teeth and she isn't back yet.  HOW CAN YOU ARGUE with a good excuse like that one?  We were meeting, um, BOYS.  But---our boss drove out to get us. sigh.  )

Reno, Nevada  ( 11 years ago we met in Reno for a girls weekend.  We took a cooking class and went to an author lecture.  So much fun! why haven't we done it again?)

We might have taken a trip to Spokane, Washington.

But never to New York together.

The closest we come to being "together" in New York is

1)  she ate at Juniors

2) I have a Juniors cookbook and made their original cheesecake. 

I really hope Theda had the cheesecake while she was there.

My cheesecake looked like this:

(it was perfect!  Just like Juniors!)

And my blog post was this one!

This is  Theda's 13th appearance in the FF Cookbook.

I think she and I need another travel adventure!

In the next one, we won't be calling in sick to work or skipping school, NOR will we be looking for boys.

Because we already have these two...

Such discussion going on about the grill!

Food artisans at work perhaps?

Whatever they are doing---they are keepers.

That's my Theda story.